Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from September 2006

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from September 2006

Editorial.(Editorial)
September 1, 2006... The third issue of AARL for 2006 contains four articles and two conference reports. Toby Burrows contributes a thought-provoking article that examines the role of electronic journals in making the research output of universities more readily...

Brave New World or plus ca change?: Electronic journals and the academic library.
September 1, 2006... In 1992, the Andrew W Mellon Foundation sponsored an exhaustive study of university libraries and scholarly communication. This study investigated the effects of the explosion in the quantity of published scholarly material and the rapid...

Scientific and technological information services in Australia: II. discipline formation in information management.
September 1, 2006... This is the second part of a two-part work that looks into scientific and technological information (STI) services. The first part (1) focuses on their history and development in Australia. In this second part, the services are examined through...

Internationalisation: Australian librarians and expanding roles in higher education.
September 1, 2006... To understand the need for internationalisation in higher education, there must be an acknowledgement that the pressures of globalisation are transforming national higher education systems to become effective in international education markets....

The National Library of Iran: a new building and a new future.
September 1, 2006... National libraries have a leading role in the development of the library profession. They are, by virtue of their unique position in a country, generally the only library able to fulfil nationwide functions on behalf of the government and the...

Collections Council of Australia Ltd Digital Collections Summit, Adelaide, 16-17 August 2006.(Conference news)
September 1, 2006... Held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, this summit attracted nearly 200 delegates from across the entire spectrum of collecting institutions and related organizations. The aim was to bring together those involved with the development and...

Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) Conference University of Technology Sydney, 19-21 July 2006.(Conference news)
September 1, 2006... For the first time, the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) Conference was held in Australia. This was the sixth of the ISIC biennial conferences, the first of which was held in Tampere, Finland in 1996. The Sydney ISIC program offered varied...

Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information: Definition and International Experience.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information: Definition and International Experience Arlene G Taylor and Barbara B Tillett (eds). Binghampton NY Haworth Information Press 2004 651p ISBN 078902716X US$34.95 (also published as...

Essential Thesaurus Construction.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Essential Thesaurus Construction by Vanda Broughton. London Facet Publishing 2006 296p ISBN-10 1-85604-565-X In a review for Australian Library Journal of the 4th edition of Thesaurus Construction and Use* I noted that in 2001 there was a...

Managing Academic Support Services in Universities: The Convergence Experience.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Managing Academic Support Services in Universities: the Convergence Experience Terry Hanson (ed). London Facet Publishing 2005 216p ISBN 1856045250 Sixteen case studies are included in this text on the convergence experience in the United...

Planning, Renovating, Expanding, and Constructing Library Facilities in Hospitals, Academic Medical Centers, and Health Organizations.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Planning, Renovating, Expanding, and Constructing Library Facilities in Hospitals, Academic Medical Centers, and Health Organizations Elizabeth Connor (ed). New York 2005 218p ISBN 0789025418 US$24.95 Connor's book is aimed at hospital,...

Publications received.
September 1, 2006... Bibliometrics in Social Work G Holden, G Rosenberg and K Barker (eds) New York Haworth 2006 ISBN 0789030705 Evolving Internet Reference Resources W Miller and RM Pellen (eds) New York Haworth 2006 ISBN 078903025X Handbook of Electronic...