Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from March 1999

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from March 1999

Requiem for the National Bibliography? The Implications of Internet Access to National Library Catalogues.(Review)
March 1, 1999... ABSTRACT This paper begins with a brief survey of the nature and use of the printed current national bibliography. It then provides an overview of the national library catalogues which are at present freely accessible via the Internet. The...

The South Pacific Bibliography: Elegy or Unfinished Symphony?
March 1, 1999... ABSTRACT Outlines the circumstances that led to the establishment of the Pacific Information Centre within the University of the South Pacific Library, and the development of the Centre's premier publication, the South Pacific Bibliography. The...

To Fill, or How to Fill -- That is the Question Succession Planning and Leadership Development in Academic Libraries.
March 1, 1999... ABSTRACT Succession planning and leadership development is discussed as a part of human resource management planning in academic libraries. In times of rapid change, libraries rely more than ever before on their strength in planning as a means...

An Empirical Study of the Impact of Electronic Market Places.
March 1, 1999... ABSTRACT The spread of the Internet is leading to irreversible changes in the existing structures of the economy, management and society. The aim of this long term empirical study is to document and interpret structural changes resulting from...

Pursuing Library Visions or Chimeras in Berlin? A Review of The Future of the State Library in Berlin(1).
March 1, 1999... ABSTRACT This article reviews the 1997 report prepared by three German library experts on the future organisation and role of the reunited State Libraries of the two former German states. The new entity, Die Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (SBB),...

Information Online and On Disc 99.
March 1, 1999... The last Online and Ondisc for the millennium was up to its usual high standard of organisation, with features we have come to expect like the Internet lounge and well laid out exhibitions. However, the papers as delivered at this erstwhile...

Fiji Library Association 13th Biennial Convention, 1998.
March 1, 1999... Saturday, 28 November 1998, was predictably hot and humid in Suva, with weather alternating through the day between bright sunshine and the decidedly vigorous tropical downpours known locally as `showers'. On that day 52 people assembled at the...

Key Issues for the Millenium.
March 1, 1999... Data useability, lifelong learning and the gap between the information rich and poor are the top three issues facing a networked and increasingly information overloaded world according to delegates attending the `Through the Looking Glass'...

Arcadian Quest: William Westall's Australian Sketches.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Arcadian Quest: William Westall's Australian Sketches edited by Elisabeth Findlay. Canberra National Library of Australia 1998 84p ISBN 064210798X $34.95 (copy supplied by the publisher) William Westall was one of a number of artists who...

Collection Development: Access in the Virtual Library.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Collection Development: Access in the Virtual Library edited by Maureen Pastine. New York/London Haworth Press 1997 225p ISBN 0789003856 $US49.95 (Barnes and Noble) A$84.60 (DA Information Services) Now that we are in the age of the virtual...

Library and Information Studies: Research and Professional Practice: Proceedings of the 2nd British-Nordic Conference on Library and Information Studies Queen Margaret College Edinburgh 1997.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Library and Information Studies: Research and Professional Practice: Proceedings of the 2nd British-Nordic Conference on Library and Information Studies Queen Margaret College Edinburgh 1997 edited by Micheline Beaulieu, Elisabeth Davenport and...

Malaguna Road: The Papua and New Guinea Diaries of Sarah Chinnery.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Malaguna Road: The Papua and New Guinea Diaries of Sarah Chinnery edited and introduced by Kate Fortune. Canberra National Library of Australia 1998 246p ISBN 064210687 8 $24.95 At the intersection of colonial history and gender studies...

Management of Library and Archival Security: From the Outside Looking In.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Management of Library and Archival Security: From the Outside Looking In edited by Robert K O'Neill. New York Haworth Press 1998 120p ISBN 0789005190 Co-published as the Journal of Library Administration vol 25 no 1 1998, this is a mixed...

Promoting Reading to Adults in UK Public Libraries.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Promoting Reading to Adults in UK Public Libraries by Margaret Kinnell and Jennifer Shepherd. British Library Research and Innovation Report 72 London Taylor Graham 1998 126p ISSN 1366-8218 In his plenary address at the October 1998 ALIA...

Transforming Libraries and Educating Librarians: Essays in Memory of Peter Havard-Williams.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Transforming Libraries and Educating Librarians: Essays in Memory of Peter Havard-Williams edited by John Feather. London Taylor Graham 1997 155p ISBN 0947568727 (copy supplied by publisher) Having known Peter Havard Williams and been a...

Publications Received.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Acquired Tastes: Celebrating Australia's Culinary History by Colin Bannerman with contributions by Gay Bilson, Jackie French, Marion Halligan and Eric Rolls. Canberra National Library of Australia 1998. ISBN 0642106932 96p $29.95 American...