Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from June 1997

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from June 1997

In the national interest: the National Library of Australia in a changing world.
June 1, 1997... ABSTRACT: A reply to J W Keany's article (AARL vol 28 no 1 pp 1-15), defending the National Library of Australia against his criticisms. The Director-General sets out the objectives of the library's Strategic Plan, and documents its changing...

Icons, symbolism and recordkeeping: the Lindy Chamberlain adn Eddie Mabo papers in the National Library of Australia.
June 1, 1997... One of the more striking traits of popular history is its tendency to divide history up into arbitrary chunks of time such as decades, and to repetitively associate those chunks of time with human archetypes or actual individuals who are seen...

Sir Harold White: Australia's first national librarian.
June 1, 1997... ABSTRACT Sir Harold White (1905-1992) was joint Commonwealth National Librarian and Commonwealth Parliamentary Librarian between 1947 and 1960, and National Librarian from 1960 until 1970. The only Australian librarian to receive a knighthood,...

Benchmarking academic libraries: an Australian case study.
June 1, 1997... ABSTRACT Using a process improvement concept of benchmarking, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Library compared its acquisitions and cataloguing, document delivery and research support services with those of the University of New...

A comparison of the retrieval performance of multi-disciplinary table-of-contents databases with conventional specialised databases.
June 1, 1997... ABSTRACT In an endeavour to compare retrieval performance and journal overlap in a biological field, the same topic was searched on five Table-of-Contents (TOC) databases and three specialised biological databases. Performance was assessed in...

Electronic Resources: Implications for Collection Management.
June 1, 1997... According to the editor, `this volume provides a wide-ranging look at the ways in which electronic information affects the business of building and maintaining library collections' (p1). The seven contributions thus cover budgeting for...

Information Development and Social Intelligence.
June 1, 1997... In spite of its recent publication date, this collection of useful, if somewhat inconsistent papers is representative of an early nineties' view of what in the late nineties appears to be developing into a cause celebre: the management of...

Internationalism and Science.
June 1, 1997... This book contains papers from a symposium on Modes of Internationalism in Science' held in Goteborg, 15-17 October 1993. It is the ninth in a series dealing with science, technology, ideology and culture, focusing particularly on the periods...

Publishing on the Internet: A New Medium for a New Millennium.
June 1, 1997... It is a widely held view that the Internet has potential to offer a paradigm shift in communication, publishing and human interaction. The title of this somewhat unassuming looking volume hints that internetworking is the new medium for...

The Value to Clinical Decision Making of Information Supplied by NHS Library and Information Services.
June 1, 1997... The first of these books is the full report of the research project entitled The Value to Clinical Decision Making of Information Supplied by NHS Library and Information Services. The project, funded mainly by the British Library Research and...

The Value of Information Services to Clinicians: A Toolkit for Measurement.
June 1, 1997... The first of these books is the full report of the research project entitled The Value to Clinical Decision Making of Information Supplied by NHS Library and Information Services. The project, funded mainly by the British Library Research and...

World Librarianship: Its International and Comparative Dimension, An annotated Bibliography.
June 1, 1997... This compilation continues Professor Huq's earlier bibliography, Librarianship and the Third World: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Literature on Developing nations, 1960-1975 (Garland 1977). Libraries holding this bibliography may wish...