Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from September 1997

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from September 1997

Which library is mine? The university library and the independent scholar.
September 1, 1997... ABSTRACT The Independent Scholars' Association of Australia met in Canberra in May 1997 to discuss the impact of the collecting policies of libraries and the access and discard policies of archives on their activities. This article is an...

Distance education research students and their library use.
September 1, 1997... ABSTRACT This paper(1) reports on the results of research on the information needs of off-campus higher degree by research students from Deakin University. The study involved surveying the total Australian-domiciled population of Deakin...

Academic library seating: a survey of usage, with implications for space utilisation.
September 1, 1997... ABSTRACT Between June and October 1996 the University of Wollongong Library conducted a survey of patron seating usage with the aims of quantifying such use; and identifying areas where seats could be removed to accommodate the growth of the...

Who are the authors? (analysis of Australian library research articles)
September 1, 1997... An analysis of the authors of Australian library research articles published in The Australian Library Journal and Australian Academic & Research Libraries over the ten-year period 1985-1994 has been made to examine their characteristics:...

The Academic Librarian's Human Resources Handbook: Employer Rights and Responsibilities.
September 1, 1997... Managing staff in a modern academic library is a demanding role, requiring high level knowledge and the application of human resource management practices. Increasingly, one also needs to be abreast of an array of legislative and statutory...

Collection Development: Past and Future.
September 1, 1997... Although this collection of papers is the monograph version of three combined issues of Collection Management, it exhibits greater integration than one might expect in such a compendium. The editor opens the collection by stating that...

Disaster Recovery for Archives, Libraries and Records Management Systems in Australia and New Zealand.
September 1, 1997... Disaster recovery is one of those areas that many people ignore until it is too late. Slowly this is beginning to change and this book provides a guide that will assist readers in preparing their institution to cope with possible disasters,...

Electronic Publishing and Libraries Planning for the Impact and Growth to 2003.
September 1, 1997... In the modern era it seems curious that books on electronic publishing are actually published rather than being made available on the Internet, particularly as a lot of the issues in relation to electronic publishing go out of date so quickly....

Gateways to Knowledge: The Role of Academic Libraries in Teaching, Learning and Research.
September 1, 1997... Lawrence Dowler is Associate Librarian of Harvard College and this collection of essays reflects both his wide knowledge of the academic library scene as well as his visionary approach to information provision generally. At the heart of...

Learning for Life: Information Literacy and the Autonomous Learner.
September 1, 1997... This is an excellent resource for anyone contemplating research in the area of information literacy. Issues in this fundamentally important area are identified by Alan Bundy who, in his introductory speech to the conference, refers to the 1992...

Pioneers, Passionate Ladies and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books and Paperbacks.
September 1, 1997... This is another Haworth compilation that was previously published in journal form (Primary Sources & Original Works, vol 4 nos 1-4 1996). The 21 papers collected here comprise the proceedings of a conference organised by the Library of...

Managing Change in Academic Libraries.
September 1, 1997... This is a collection of nine essays on managing change in academic libraries. Editor Branin is Associate University Librarian for Services and Collections at the University of Minnesota. In his introduction he mentions many changes facing...

Reading for Moral Progress: 19th Century Institutions Promoting Social Change.
September 1, 1997... This publication is silent on what the Conference on Faith and history was all about -- not primarily books or libraries, I suspect. In fact books and libraries feature surprisingly little in two of the three papers, and their titles do not...

Routes to Quality: Proceedings of the Conference held at Bournemouth University, 29-31 August
September 1, 1997... The Routes to Quality conference is described by the editor of these papers as an opportunity to come down to earth, to survey some real examples, and to set some quality exploits in the HE library world in their context' (p5). The ten papers...