Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from June 2005

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from June 2005

Foreword.(public librraies services for aboriginal australians)(Column)
June 1, 2005... In response to significant changes in the Indigenous information landscape, the State Library of New South Wales and Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology, Sydney, hosted a Colloquium, Libraries and Indigenous...

Introduction.(libraries provides services regarding indigenous knowledge )
June 1, 2005... If it is possible to guide the way readers respond to chapters in this book, then perhaps the first thing we would like readers to take away would be an appreciation and understanding of the complexities that library, archives and information...

Indigenous knowledge, the library and information service sector, and protocols.
June 1, 2005... The increasing global recognition of Indigenous knowledge as distinct, legitimate, valuable and vulnerable systems of knowledge raises a range of issues that pose challenges for the library and information services (LIS) sector. Professionals...

Exploring the Gupapuynga legacy: strategies for developing the Galiwin'ku Indigenous Knowledge Centre.(Column)
June 1, 2005... My job at the Galiwin'ku Indigenous Knowledge Centre is to search for information about old collections that represent local family histories, and to negotiate for digital copies of these materials to be made available for local access. I now...

Libraries and knowledge centres in the Northern Territory.
June 1, 2005... In June 2004, the Northern Territory Library and Information Service (NTLIS) began implementation of a new Libraries and Knowledge Centres' model in eight communities in the Northern Territory. This chapter discusses the NTLIS model for library...

Developing Indigenous Knowledge Centres.
June 1, 2005... This chapter discusses some of the State Library of Queensland's initiatives in relation to the development of library resources and services for Queensland's Indigenous peoples. (1) As the Chair of our Indigenous Advisory Committee and member...

Traditional indigenous biodiversity-related knowledge.
June 1, 2005... Each year since 1997 an Aboriginal festival is held at a place called Gulkula in northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. The traditional owners of the land, the Gumatj clan, joined with other Yolnu clans with special...

The politics of Indigenous knowledge.
June 1, 2005... Research on Indigenous knowledge over the past decade has retained a vitality of discussion and generality of interest from both specialists and general audiences in a form that must be truly gratifying to scholars of Indigenous knowledge....

Indigenous knowledge, intellectual property, libraries and archives: crises of access, control and future utility.
June 1, 2005... In Australia, as in other places around the world, Indigenous people are raising important questions about the histories that have been produced from the archive and from libraries. Indigenous people are also seeking greater access to and, in...

Managing Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous cultural and intellectual property.
June 1, 2005... Indigenous people view the world they live in as an integrated whole. Their traditional knowledge, beliefs, arts, and other forms of cultural expression have been handed down through the generations. This information has been recorded in many...

The role of information technologies in Indigenous knowledge management.
June 1, 2005... More and more communities and organisations around the world are realising the value and significance of Indigenous knowledge and the importance of preserving it for future generations. Indigenous Knowledge Centres (IKCs) are being established...

Slouching towards Australian public libraries: the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services.
June 1, 2005... The extensive reach of the liberalisation agenda of the world's primary multilateral trade institution, the World Trade Organization (hereafter WTO) combined with the rapid global proliferation of free trade agreements is contributing to the...

Protocols: meeting the challenges of Indigenous information needs.
June 1, 2005... In 1995, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Protocols for Libraries, Archives and Information Services (1) (hereafter the Protocols) were published to guide professional practice in relation to Indigenous Australian people and materials....

Indigenous archival records at risk.
June 1, 2005... It seems as a nation we have grown so used to government dishonesty and injustice that we just shrug our collective shoulders. Our government indefinitely imprisons women and children known to have committed no crime, and it continues to...

Indigenous knowledge and archives: accessing hidden history and understandings.
June 1, 2005... Over the past decade, I have been involved with numerous archival projects. All of these have had as their primary aim the uncovering of aspects of Indigenous history or culture. In each case, I had assumed that the archival knowledge I would...

Accessing state records on aboriginal people.
June 1, 2005... Over the last decade, archives and records offices in Australia have been developing initiatives to provide Indigenous Australians access to records that relate to them. These records are also of interest to researchers of Aboriginal history...

Indigenous knowledge and archives.
June 1, 2005... I have been employed at State Records New South Wales, based at the Sydney Records Centre, The Rocks, for six years. I began work as a cadet Aboriginal Archivist in early 1999 and as part of the cadetship undertook external studies to obtain a...

Libraries, indigenous Australians and a developing protocols strategy for the library and information sector.
June 1, 2005... The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Protocols for Libraries, Archives and Information Services (hereafter the Protocols) were published in 1995 (1) in conjunction with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Library and Information...

Indigenous knowledge and libraries: an afterword.
June 1, 2005... Indigenous peoples and those who create, manage and value libraries and archives share a commitment to the preservation and transmission of knowledge. This superficial generalisation belies many complexities of culture and context. But it is...