Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from December 2002

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from December 2002

Guest editorial: copyright: the current issue for academic libraries?(Friends of the UNTL Project, National University of East Timor)(Editorial)
December 1, 2002... The enactment and implementation of the Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act has profoundly affected academic libraries through its introduction of the fight of communication and its harmonisation of legislation across media. In this...

The ideal copyright framework for academic authors? A bounty to genius and learning.(analyzing copyright law with respect to academic publishing)
December 1, 2002... Recently a small research grant application came before the school research committee. An academic requested a modest mount to hire a research assistant to negotiate copyright clearances for extracts that were to be reproduced in her textbook,...

Copyright: the ideal framework for editors of scholarly journals.
December 1, 2002... Copyright is a challenging issue for both the editors and the contributors of papers to academic journals--and a feeling of becoming Janus descends as thoughts are marshalled for this paper, since editors are frequently also authors themselves....

The making of copyright law: notes from an Australian perspective.
December 1, 2002... Understanding and dealing with the law of copyright is not a popular pastime. It has this in common with other aspects of commercial property and trade law, but it is, of course, a matter of greatly increasing interest in the library...

Digital agenda report card: how are libraries and the digital copyright amendments getting on one year after commencement?(discussion of Australian copyright law)
December 1, 2002... The Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act 2000 commenced on 4 March 2001. It was the culmination of a legislative development process that seemed excruciatingly long and was peppered with angry exchanges between industries that normally...

From faith to certainty: the changing face of managing copyright compliance in an Australian university.
December 1, 2002... Libraries within educational institutions hold substantial collections of copyright material in the form of books, journals and audiovisual items, amongst other works. Increasingly, libraries provide electronic access to information resources...

Copyright vs contract: are they mutually exclusive?
December 1, 2002... Copyright law in Australia has been developed over many years, with the government's stated intention to promote creative endeavour by balancing the rights of copyright owners with access to information and the rights of copyright users....

The sounds of silence: copyright and human rights.
December 1, 2002... Which Part did You Nick? Some would say that I have breached copyright by appropriating the title of Simon and Garfunkel's well known song as the title for this paper. There is a view abroad that all copying of passages from other works...

Obituaries.(deaths of Ali Sharr and Margraet Trask)(National Library of Australia has selected Endeavor's Voyager integrated library management systems)(Obituary)
December 1, 2002... Francis Aubie (Ali) Sharr OBE BA FLA FLAA ARPS Hon D Litt (Curtin) CF 5 October 1914-16 November 2002 It is with much sadness that members of the Western Australian library community note the passing of Francis Aubie (Ali) Sharr who left...

National Resource Sharing Forum, National Library of Australia, November 11, 2002. (Conference Reports).
December 1, 2002... Nearly 150 participants assembled at the National Library on November 11 and 12 to bring themselves up-to-date with matters relating to resource sharing and document delivery. The two-day program was divided into two distinct parts: the first...

Winds of change: libraries in the 21st century. (Conference Reports).(Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) annual conference)
December 1, 2002... Winds there most certainly were in Wellington in November for the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) annual conference. One speaker observed that he now knew the meaning of the acronym WWW: Wet Windy...

IFLA Internet Manifesto Workshop. (Conference Reports).
December 1, 2002... The IFLA Internet Manifesto Workshop will be held on 23-24 January 2003 at the University of Technology, Sydney, Building 10. Presenters: Susanne Seidelin, Director IFLA/FAIFE committee, and Alex Byrne, Chair IFLA/FAIFE committee. On 1 May...

Technological Advances in Reference: a Paradigm Shift? A theme issue of Library Trends.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... edited by Evelyn L Curry. Urbana Ill University of Illinois Press 2001. US$25 incl shipping (order form online http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/pdf/orderform.pdf). Review copy supplied by publisher. Has technology changed the way we view...