Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from March 1997

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from March 1997

National library of Australia: what future for the strategic plan?
March 1, 1997... ABSTRACT The collapse of WORLD 1 has caused questions to be asked about the National Library's centralised leadership of the Australian library system. This failure of key electronic aspects of the National Library's Strategic Plan (1993-98)...

Management Review of the Library of Congress: The 1996 Booz Allen & Hamilton Report.
March 1, 1997... ABSTRACT Analyses the methodology and findings of the management view of the Library of Congress (LC), completed by Booz Allen & Hamilton in May 1996, a major document in the history of LC as well as in American libraries of our time. We are...

The University Libraries and the National Information System.
March 1, 1997... ABSTRACT Ted Flowers was the foundation Librarian at the University of Newcastle and has had extensive experience as a library consultant in Australia and overseas. Throughout his professional life he has been a strong advocate for the...

The significance of gender: a history of the status of women in librarianship special interest group, 1983-1990.
March 1, 1997... ABSTRACT The author was Convenor of the Library Association of Australia Status of Women in Librarianship Special Interest Group (SOWIL-SIG) from 1983 until 1988. She describes the activities of the group through a framework of perspectives...

Reserve lending at Canterbury University: an overview of the restricted loans department.
March 1, 1997... ABSTRACT Most tertiary libraries, whether university or college, need to address the problem of meeting the needs of a large number of students all requiring the same material While the two parts to this problem, high demand and high volume,...

Medieval music on the Web: musical resources for the 21st century.
March 1, 1997... ABSTRACT The revival of Gregorian chant at the end of the 19th century and the more recent production of monumental editions of other repertoires of medieval music have revealed the richness and beauty of the earliest European musical...

Access, Ownership, and Resource Sharing.
March 1, 1997... The term `access', if broadly conceived, is practically synonymous with libraries, or could be thought of as at least coextensive with the functions libraries perform for their clients. But this is so only if those functions include not only...

Collection development Policy of the State Library of South Australia.
March 1, 1997... This work reflects 150 years of collection practice at the State Library of South Australia, and attempts to identify the policies which will govern the development of the collections during the next decade. The policy has been written for...

Australian Astronomers; Achievements at the Frontiers of Astronomy.
March 1, 1997... Ragbir Bathal must be congratulated for his enthusiasm in producing yet another publication on astronomy in Australia. It is derived from a series of 18 interviews most of which were undertaken by Bathal, on behalf of the National Library of...

Danger! Artists at Work: A Guide to Occupational Hazards and Precautions for Arts Workers and Teachers.
March 1, 1997... Although there are now many books available on this subject, to my knowledge this is the only one covering such a wide area of the arts published in Australia. This is particularly important where legislation is discussed, also with names of...

Dictionary of Alternative Defense.
March 1, 1997... The end of the Cold War has opened up European defence thinking to a host of new and recycled ideas. The Warsaw Pact is dead and NATO's future is being questioned on both sides of the Atlantic, with a myriad of alternative concepts being...

The Dynamic Library Organisations in a Changing Environment.
March 1, 1997... This is another of the Haworth publications which is co-published simultaneously as a monograph and in the Journal of Library Administration vol 20 no 2 1994. The articles in this collection are based on the discussions and work of the...

The SBS World Guide, 5th ed.
March 1, 1997... Any reference work which reaches a fifth edition after having first appeared as recently as 1992 has clearly found a market. This very reasonably priced paperback describes itself as `An international A-Z covering the geography, history,...

developing a Profession of Librarianship in Australia: Travel Diaries and other Papers of JOhn Wallace Metcalfe.
March 1, 1997... For John Metcalfe the `central mystery of librarianship' was subject cataloguing. In Rayward's collection of reports, talks and diaries from 1934 to 1964 this is a central theme -- tied closely to Metcalfe's belief that a librarian could only...

Australia: A Readers' Guide.
March 1, 1997... It is now several years since the National Library of Australia discontinued its annual publication Australian Books. Presumably this new guide, from a different source, is an attempt to fill the gap. It has been produced by the National...

Patrons of Devotion: The University of Sydney's Hours of Anne la Routye.
March 1, 1997... How does one review a reproduction of a rare Book of Hours? Does one treat it as simply as an actual Book of Hours, as an attractive picture book, or as an important study of a particular example of such a rare book? I am going to look in...

Contemporary Australian Women, 1996-1997.
March 1, 1997... `Ideal for business, statutory authorities, government and private sector boards and committees looking to appoint high calibre women', as well as a `must for any library', Contemporary Australian Women is an expanded subset of Contemporary...

Indexes in Australian Libraries: A Towards Federation 2001 Survey.
March 1, 1997... The Working Group on High Priority Cross-Sectoral Projects arose from Resolution TDI of the conference Towards Federation 2001: Linking Australians and Their Heritage, March 1992. Wisely, the first project supported was a study of inhouse...

Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists.
March 1, 1997... By the time I got my review copy of this work it was already out of date. But this says more about the exploding nature of electronic publishing than it does about the Directory. There is no way it could be current while in a paper form. Being...