Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from March 1998

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from March 1998

Electronic reserves: key issues and innovations. (reserve collections in universities libraries)
March 1, 1998... Pending the resolution of this issue Monash University Library has adopted an `interim solution' and a formula for calculating a reasonable royalty. The experience at Monash is described in detail. My first ever job in a library was at what...

'You tell us': Indigenous students talk to a tertiary library. (Queensland)
March 1, 1998... Increasingly, Australia's Indigenous population has been receiving attention from libraries. We have the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Protocols for Libraries, Archives and Information Services(1) guiding institutions in areas of...

The materials acquisition process at the University of Technology, Sydney: equitable transparent allocation of funds.
March 1, 1998... University libraries have long grappled with the issue of equitable resource allocation for the ever shrinking acquisitions dollar. The competing demands for resources from disciplines with differing need, and differing cost structures have...

New technology, traditional approaches: librarians, training and the Internet.
March 1, 1998... The need for librarianship to sell itself as a vital link in the research and learning process has become critical in light of the exponential growth of the Internet. This paper seeks to contribute to the discussion from a practical...

John Metcalfe: librarian by accident, eccentric by nature, and democratic by instinct. (New South Wales state librarian)
March 1, 1998... My only meeting with John Metcalfe was in late 1968 when I was completing a diploma of librarianship at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. lan Britain, then Senior Lecturer in Cataloguing, was giving me a few tips about my upcoming job...

Axel Lodewycks and the Baillieu Library 1959-73. (University of Melbourne)
March 1, 1998... This is an examination of the role of the university librarian at the university of Melbourne in the 1960s. These events took place during the expansion of tertiary education in Australia following the findings of the Committee of Inquiry into...

ALED 4 Australian Libraries: The Essential Directory.
March 1, 1998... The latest edition of this directory is most welcome, reflecting as it does the recent changes in telephone numbers which have afflicted Australia. Entries are more clearly set out than in previous editions, and those for libraries include more...

Classification: Options and Opportunities.
March 1, 1998... A preliminary page of this book quotes from a review: `Most American librarians, raised in a tradition of classification for "marking and parking" only, will be surprised at the variety represented in these papers'. Most Australians won't! The...

Emerging Patterns of Collection Development in Expanding Resource Sharing: Electronic Information and Network Environment.
March 1, 1998... Networked resources have become ubiquitous in the last three years or so. But, while we have all been busy providing web-based information services and locally networked databases, there has been little time to think about the implications of all...

Health Care on the Internet.
March 1, 1998... Health Care on the Internet has been published to assist users of health care information in the community by providing descriptions of electronic sources. Primarily this consists of internet resources available on a wide variety of health care...

Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery and Customer Satisfaction: Strategies for Redesigning Services.
March 1, 1998... Document delivery services in academic libraries are in the middle of profound and rapid change, typified by the emergence of commercial competitors and the development of automated systems. At the same time, demand for these services has been...

Internet Reference Services Quarterly.
March 1, 1998... Internet Reference Services Quarterly: a journal of innovative information practice, technologies & resources (IRSQ) is a new journal aimed at a broad spectrum of librarians (and other professionals) who are coming to terms with the impact of the...

Multimedia Information Resources.
March 1, 1998... The author's stated aim of providing `a practical guide for those developing, organising and managing a multimedia collection' has certainly been achieved. Whereas several publications in this area deal with the theoretical or philosophical, this...

Navigating Among the Disciplines: The Library and Interdisciplinary Inquiry.
March 1, 1998... A mixture of review articles, speculation and a little empirical research, this special issue of Library Trends looks at the implications of increasingly fuzzy boundaries between some scholarly disciplines from a library perspective. The issue...

Reference Services for the Unserved.
March 1, 1998... Reference Services for the Unserved is a guide for library and information professionals in their work with unserved populations. By `unserved populations', the author includes the mentally and physically disabled and battered women (an...

Reference Services for Archives and Manuscripts.
March 1, 1998... Archivists, particularly those of us involved in providing reference services, lament the paucity of professional literature about our speciality. The publication of Reference Services for Archives and Manuscripts should be cause for jostling to...