Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from September 2002

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from September 2002

Growing the community of the informed: information literacy--a global issue.
September 1, 2002... Of the responses to the many challenges facing the planet and humankind in the 21st century, none is more important than growing the global community of the informed as rapidly as possible. Whether these challenges are environmental, health,...

Immersion in Australia: an information literacy health spa for librarians?(Column)
September 1, 2002... Starting a paper with a confession is unusual; nevertheless my admission sets the context for this paper. Over a decade ago, when interviewed for a subject librarian position at the South Australian College of Advanced Education Library, I...

The Flower Hunter: Ellis Rowan.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... This will the next exhibition put on by the National Library. Australian born Ellis Rowan explored the world in an obsessive search for exotic flowers, plants, birds and butterflies from the 1870s to the early 1920s. Her quest took her to...

An instructional role for librarians: an overview and content analysis of job advertisements.
September 1, 2002... Around the world, library and information science schools or departments are being asked to add new courses (1) to their programs, particularly those that will make graduates more competitive in the employment market. `Higher education programs...

The Great Masters by Mortimer Menpes.
September 1, 2002... Having wowed us with some real Treasures--see Margaret Dent's article in this issue--the National Library of Australia is now presenting the Mona Lisa and other great artworks... but all are what might uncharitably be termed fakes. The...

Privacy Guidelines for electronic resources vendors.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) has announced the release of new Privacy Guidelines. The Privacy Guidelines focus on the privacy interests of member libraries' users in the interest of informing the companies with which...

Preparing to teach `The Literature Review': staff and student views of the value of a compulsory course in research education.
September 1, 2002... This paper reports on the outcome of a small research project the goal of which was both immediate and practical. It was to determine the content of the curriculum, the form of the teaching and the nature of assessment of a new course (1) on...

NZ library industry directory.(New Zealand Contacts in Libraries and Information Services (3rd edition) )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The 3rd edition of the successful library directory New Zealand Contacts in Libraries and Information Services (ISSN 1174-9954) has just been released by publishers Contacts Unlimited Ltd in association with the Library and Information...

Pleasures of Treasures, trials of Treasures.
September 1, 2002... Treasures from the World's Great Libraries was the culmination of a year of events programmed to commemorate the centenary of the National Library of Australia, in the year that also marked the centenary of the Commonwealth of Australia which...

Public libraries and the French right.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations has expressed its strong support for the investigation by the European Parliament Committee on Petitions (1) into the threat to public libraries in the south of France,...

An XML DTD for subject related resources.(Document Type Definition )
September 1, 2002... Academics from the Edith Cowan University's School of Computer and Information Science in Perth, Western Australia, have formed a body called the Information and Knowledge Management Research Group (IKMRG). (1) One of the group's objectives is...

Thoughts arising from the Research Libraries Colloquium in Sydney, May 2002. (Conference Report).
September 1, 2002... The continuing interest in Australia in research libraries, scholarly communication and national resources for research and study received a further boost when the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) organised a two-day Colloquium (16-17...

Changes in LIS education at University of South Australia.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The University of South Australia has announced the phasing out of the BA (Information Studies) program offered at the University of South Australia. This decision was made by the Library and Information Studies team with regret; staff have...

Dictionary of German Biography (DGB).(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Editors in Chief: Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus [vol 2 Bohacz-Dzondi] Munich KG Saur 2000. xxviii 727p (text in double columns) ISBN 3 598 23290 6 E229.00 This work, an English translation of the German Deutsche Biographische...

Information Literacy: The Social Action Agenda.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Proceedings of the fifth national information literacy conference conducted by the University of South Australia Library and the Australian Library and Information Association Information Literacy Forum 30 November-1 December 2001. Edited by Di...

The Poems of Charles Harpur in Manuscript in the Mitchell Library and in Publications in the Nineteenth Century. An Analytical Finding List.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Compiled and edited by Elizabeth Holt and Elizabeth Perkins. Canberra Australian Scholarly Editions 2002. Occasional Publications Series No 2 ISBN 0 7317 0371 5 Charles Harpur is the most important Australian poet to emerge in the first...

Publications received.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Collection Management: A Concise Introduction J Kennedy. Topics in Australasian Library and Information Studies no 19 Centre for Information Studies 2002 ISBN 1 876938 18 8 A$55.00 plus $6.60 p&p Current Theory in Library and Information...

CAUL Statistics 2001.(Council of Australian University Librarians)
September 1, 2002... 2001 Australian and New Zealand Academic Library (CAUL) Statistics Introduction The Australian and New Zealand academic library statistics are collected and published annually for CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians)....