Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from March 2000

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from March 2000

Internet Training: Implications of an International Study.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... Internet use continues to grow rapidly.(1) In Australia, between 1996 and 1998 there was a fourfold increase in the number of people accessing the Internet from home,(2) while a little over 95% of academics had access to the Internet in their...

From Vision to Reality: The Evolution of a Library Model.
March 1, 2000... Located on the Gold Coast in Queensland, one of the fastest growing urban regions in Australia, Bond University commenced undergraduate Queensland Parliament in 1987. The university was a joint venture between an Australian company, Bond...

Library Provided Information and Clinical Decision Making: A Study of Two Hospitals in Canberra.
March 1, 2000... There was no period in history that did not depend on information as a basic element in all aspects of society. Since the mid 1980s a transformation took place in which information itself became a commonly traded commodity. This paper looks...

Alison Crook to go to Monash.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Alison Crook has just taken up the post of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Resources) at Monash University. Until then she was Executive Director (Operations) of Serco Asia, and was formerly State Librarian and subsequently Director General of State...

Defining the Media for Information Delivery in the 21st Century.
March 1, 2000... Few would argue that the online information revolution is now clearly somewhat less about access than it is about management. The fallacious and short sighted statements regarding the demise of the information profession indicated that many...

Concept, Challenge, Conundrum: From Library Skills to Information Literacy.
March 1, 2000... Adelaide, December 1999 One hundred and fifty six delegates from Australia and New Zealand attended the fourth Information Literacy conference in Adelaide in December 1999. Organised by the University of South Australia Library with the...

ALIA Vouchers and the GST.
March 1, 2000... For many years, the Australian Library and Information Association has operated an inter-library loan voucher system which has been universally accepted within the Australian library community (and which has also proved a useful source of...

For Australia and Labor: Prime Minister John Curtin.(Review)
March 1, 2000... For Australia and Labor: Prime Minister John Curtin by Geoffrey Serle. Perth John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library 1998 66p ISBN 1863426668 $10 + $4 postage This is an unusual pamphlet--part hagiography and part compilation of interesting...

Information Design.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Information Design edited by Robert Jacobson. Cambridge Massachusetts MIT Press 1999 357p ISBN 026210069X US$35.00 Designing web pages to inform and teach library users is much more complex than calling up a word processing template and...

Research Misconduct: Issues, Implications and Strategies.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Research Misconduct: Issues, Implications and Strategies edited by Ellen Altman and Peter Hernon. Greenwich Ct Ablex 1997 xiv + 206p ISBN 1567503403 Should research misconduct be of concern to our profession? And if it should, as this work...

A Sporting Nation: Celebrating Australia's Sporting Life.(Review)
March 1, 2000... A Sporting Nation: Celebrating Australia's Sporting Life compiled and edited by Paul Cliff. Canberra National Library of Australia 1999 136p ISBN 0642107041 $US34.95 This book is undoubtedly a timely and valuable contribution to our vast...

Untold Stories: Civil Rights, Libraries, and Black Scholarship.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Untold Stories: Civil Rights, Libraries, and Black Scholarship edited by John Mark Tucker. Champaign Ill University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science 1998 210p ISBN 0878451048 US27.00 A timely tome for both...

Publications Received.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Caliber-99: Academic Libraries in Internet Era. Papers Presented at the Sixth National Convention for Automation of Libraries in Education and Research, Nagpur 18-20 February 1999 edited by PSG Kumar and CP Vashishth. Ahmedabad Information and...

Errata: The Chinese Advertiser.(Review)(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2000... Due to editorial oversight the Chinese characters were omitted from Wang and Ryder An "Eccentric" Paper Edited for the Unwelcome Aliens. A study of the earliest Australian Chinese newspaper, The Chinese Advertiser? These appear below. p301...