Australian Academic & Research Libraries articles from September 2007

Australian Academic & Research Libraries archives from September 2007

Editorial.(Editorial)
September 1, 2007... Australian Academic & Research Libraries now has its own blog, which you can view at http://aarleditor.blogspot.com/. I will use it to post information about the contents of each issue, advice about when issues will be published, calls for...

Dealing with digital collections: interviews with the National Library and selected state libraries of Australia.(Report)(Survey)
September 1, 2007... In a wide-ranging report recently prepared for the Digital Preservation Coalition in the United Kingdom, organisations across all sectors were surveyed regarding their approach to preservation of their digitally created material I With a...

Twilight of the gatekeepers: crisis and innovation in a Victorian Regional Library, 1867-1880.(Author abstract)
September 1, 2007... This article deals with a particular aspect of early library services in Australia: the problems and challenges related to providing catalogue access to a library in nineteenth-century regional Victoria. Maintaining a usable catalogue presented...

More than puppets: curriculum collections in Australian universities.(Report)
September 1, 2007... Curriculum collections have operated in Australian universities since the 1970s. (1) While they vary in organisation, size, and title and may be located either within the library or the education faculty, they share a common purpose to provide...

Libraries and knowledge centres: implementing public library services in remote indigenous communities in the Northern Territory of Australia.(Report)
September 1, 2007... Public libraries across the world are reasserting their value as public institutions. Globalisation and the shift to knowledge-based economies in developed countries have produced changing economic, social, political and educational contexts....

Assessing Reference and User Services in a Digital Age Eric Novotny (ed).(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Assessing Reference and User Services in a Digital Age Eric Novotny (ed) New York Haworth Information Press 2007 236pp ISBN9780789033505 (Also published as The Reference Librarian vol 46 nos 95/96) There is no shortage of information about...

Library/Vendor Relationships Sam Brooks and David H Carlson (eds).(Periodical review)
September 1, 2007... Library/Vendor Relationships Sam Brooks and David H Carlson (eds) New York Haworth Press 2006 232pp ISBN 9780789033529 (Also published as Journal of Library Administration vol 44 nos 3/4) This publication has been claimed as 'a revealing...

Library English: Commonly Used Expressions in the Library Paul W T Poon and Chen Zhaoneng (eds).(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Library English: Commonly Used Expressions in the Library Paul W T Poon and Chen Zhaoneng (eds) Macau University of Macau Library and Shanghai Jiaotong University Library 2006 220pp and 1 CD With China pursuing a policy of openness, a...

Bibliotheks Magazin: Mitteilungen aus den Staatsbibliotheken in Berlin und Munchen. 2007-.
September 1, 2007... Bibliotheks Magazin: Mitteilungen aus den Staatsbibliotheken in Berlin und Munchen. 2007- ISSN 1861-8375 In January 2006 the Bavarian State Library in Munich and the State Library in Berlin (originally the Prussian State Library)...

Reference Assessment and Evaluation Tom Diamond and Mark Saunders (eds).(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Reference Assessment and Evaluation Tom Diamond and Mark Saunders (eds) New York Haworth Press 2006 200pp ISBN 9780789031938 (Also published as Public Services Quarterly vol 2 nos 2/3) This recent title from Haworth contributes ten papers...

Publications received.
September 1, 2007... The Academic Research Library in a Decade of Change Reg Cart Oxford Chandos 2007 ISBN 1843342456 Archives and the Digital Library W E Landis and R L Chandler (eds) New York Haworth 9006 ISBN 9780789034380 Assessing Reference and User...