Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from December 2007

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from December 2007

Editorial.(Editorial)
December 1, 2007... This issue completes the first volume of Australian Academic & Research Libraries in its new format. Although there has been only a small amount of feedback, it has all been very positive. This positive response is a tribute to the initial...

Directors' views of the future of cataloguing in Australia and New Zealand: a survey.(Survey)
December 1, 2007... In May 2007 a survey was sent out to directors in Australian and New Zealand libraries to determine their perceptions of the future of cataloguing. A director is defined here as the manager of the library division encompassing cataloguing...

Ensuring equitable participation in a resource-sharing network: GratisNet case study.(Report)(Case study)
December 1, 2007... Special libraries are pincered between rising inter-library loan (ILL) costs and rising costs of journal subscriptions. Even the largest libraries face a dilemma in the growth in academic publishing. In 2003 libraries in Australian universities...

Lost in translation: the reality of federated searching (1).(Report)
December 1, 2007... The development of federated searching, or metasearching, systems has become one of the phenomenal growth areas in academic libraries in the last five years. But what commenced as a simple idea--allowing the end user to search across a range of...

Podcasting as an educational building block in academic libraries.(Report)
December 1, 2007... In 2004 the term podcasting entered our language. It is 'an amalgamation of two other words: iPod, the popular digital music player from Apple, and broadcasting'. (1) Podcasts, however, are not limited to being played on iPods; they can be...

Australian government publishing online a decade on: has the promise been delivered?(Report)
December 1, 2007... Access to government information, particularly through government publications, has been a fundamental component of the Australian democratic system. Government publishing in Australia commenced shortly after 1788. A printing press was brought...

Journal of Web Librarianship vol 1 no 1 2007.(Periodical review)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... New York Haworth Press ISSN 1932-2917 The Journal of Web Librarianship--what is the shelf-life of that title? Don't get me wrong: this is an interesting read, but should we be continuing to make distinctions between services online and...

An Introduction To Reference Services In Academic Libraries.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2007... Elizabeth Connor (ed) New York Haworth Press 2006 194p ISBN 0789029588 This book offers a view of practical reference services in academic libraries. Although it is aimed primarily at students of library and information studies and new...

Archives and the Digital Library.(Book review)
December 1, 2007... William E Landis and Robin L Chandler (eds) New York Haworth Information Press 2006 270pp ISBN 9780789034373 (Also published as Journal of Archival Organization vol 4 nos 1/2) The editors of this volume have chosen 'Archives and...

Describing Archives in Context: A Guide to Australasian Practice.(Book review)
December 1, 2007... Australian Society of Archivists Committee on Descriptive Standards Canberra Australian Society of Archivists Inc 2007 v+77pp ISBN 9780980335231 This slim, handsomely produced volume is the work of a nine-member committee convened by...

Knowledge Management.(Book review)
December 1, 2007... Shelda Debowski Milton Qld Wiley 2006 383pp ISBN 0470805382 Shelda Debowski is well known in the information profession but this text is aimed primarily at students of business and management, and is written largely from a leadership...

Comparative Perspectives on E-government: Serving Today and Building for Tomorrow.(Book review)
December 1, 2007... Peter Hernon, Rowena Cullen, and Harold C. Relyea (eds) Lanham Md Scarecrow Press 2006 ISBN 0810853574 (pbk), 0810857359 (hbk) Government services are critically important in a democracy. In Australia in recent years we have seen the...

Publication received.
December 1, 2007... Digital Information and Knowledge Management: New Opportunities for Research Libraries Sul H Lee (ed) New York Haworth Press 2007 ISBN 9780789035660 Libraries in the Twenty-first Century: Charting New Directions in Information Services...