Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from December 2004

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from December 2004

Australian professional library and information studies education programs: changing structure and content.
December 1, 2004... Australian Library and Information Studies (LIS) education has experienced many changes in recent years and the University of New South Wales School of Information Systems, Technology and Management has been keen to document some of them. A...

Australian digital collections: metadata standards and interoperability.
December 1, 2004... One of the main thrusts of information systems development over recent years has been towards interoperability. As Paepcke et al observe: (1) Interoperability is a central concern when building digital libraries as collections...

Partnering on virtual reference using QuestionPoint: guidelines for collaboration between academic libraries in Australia/New Zealand and the US.
December 1, 2004... Convenient and effective retrieval of desired information from digital library collections and databases is an elusive goal in academia. Web portals or gateways often do not facilitate the search for information. Academic libraries increasingly...

From planning to improvement: Monash University Library's quality review.
December 1, 2004... In 2001, Monash University developed guidelines for review of the quality of faculty and support services and conducted an institutional self-review. The report of the self-review, Still Learning: The Report of out Self-Review, (1) recommended...

The relevance of vendors' usage statistics in academic library e-resource management: a New Zealand study.
December 1, 2004... ********* Academic libraries subscribe to an increasing number of e-resources, including e-journals and indexing, abstracting and full-text databases, (1) and experience indicates that the use of e-resources is increasing. Accordingly,...

University of Newcastle chooses Scopus.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... The University of Newcastle will be the first customer to license Scopus in the Asia Pacific region. Scopus is a new navigational product from Elsevier, and is claimed to be the world's largest abstract and indexing database covering 27 million...

ALIA conference report.(Aurora Leadership Institute)
December 1, 2004... When over 700 delegates gather for a library conference at a Gold Coast venue, it is guaranteed that there will be enthusiastic professional interaction married to a raft of great social events. With the 8th Aurora Leadership Institute to...

Encoded Archival Description on the Internet.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Encoded Archival Description on the Internet editors Daniel V Pitti, Wendy M Duff. New York Haworth Information Press 2001 241p ISBN 0-7890-1398-3 (copy supplied by publisher) Libraries have had a standard format for machine-readable...

The Information Society: a Study of Continuity and Change.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Information Society: A Study of Continuity and Change John Feather 4th ed Facet Publishing 2004 220pp Paperback ISBN 1-85604-497-1 In the fourth edition of this book John Feather, head of the Department of Information Science at...

University of Melbourne Library Journal.(Brief Article)(Periodical Review)
December 1, 2004... University of Melbourne Library Journal Susan Reidy ed University of Melbourne Information Division ISSN 1320-1832 This journal is a delight to read--the 20 or so pages of the July 2004 issue (vol 9 no 1) contain articles about the 'Baker...

Publications received.
December 1, 2004... The University of Melbourne Library, Journal vol 9 no 1 July 2004 The University of Melbourne 2004 ISSN 13201832 Information Literacy for Educators: Professional Knowledge for an Information Age eds DM Shinew and S Walter Haworth...