Archived highlights from the press
Updated 18 December, 1997
- The Ovid Observer Vol 1 No 1 (US) Summer 1995
- p.1 Ovid Becomes Heart of Australia's First Nationwide Unix-based
Information Network - 34 Research Libraries Now Using Ovid to
Search Current Contents, ABI/INFORM
Graduate Contact (UQ) Winter 1995
- p.14 Dr Ian Reinecke, new Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Services)
- responsible for the University's Library, Prentice Centre, Tertiary
Education Institute, TESOL Programs, Continuing Education, Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, Careers and Counselling,
Health Services and Chaplaincy Centre.
The Ovid Observer, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 1995
- p. 3 UTS grows with Ovid ("University of Technology Sydney
(UTS) has become Ovid's biggest fixed fee customer").
InCite v.16 July 1995
- p.5 Advert. ALDIS ("CAUL has chosen SilverPlatter's.....)
- p.7 Diane Costello appointed as Executive Officer of CAUL
(with photo of President with Exec. Off.)
- p.15 Advert. Ray Choate Biennial Travelling Scholarship. Information
from Alison Burden on 08 379 6979 (Applications close 11 August)
- p.19 Advert. ALIA Election of Vice-President 1996 (President-elect
1997) Nominations close 1 September.
Canberra Times 31 July 1995
- p.1 Horton begins new chapter in library's evolution
- p.15 Life for new IT group (Indigenous Information Industry
Group)
Adelaidean 31 July 1995
- p.5 Internet access at the Barr Smith (eight dedicated terminals
installed, connected to printer with Copy Card; menu option to
Electronic Reserve pilot project)
Campus Review v.5 no.29 27 July - 2 August 1995
- p.1 Open learning expands abroad.
- p.3 Advert. The University of Sydney. Vice-Chancellor. Applications
close 15 September 1995
- p.12 To market to market; selling a conference idea (ideas
from Elliott's "71 practical ideas to boost your attendance
and maximise your bottom line")
- p.19 Tax deductions for conferences clarified.
- p.24 Career moves. (Prof Michael Ramsden retiring from RMIT
after 24 years)
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 26 July 1995
- p.23 OLA nets worldwide web of students (six international
agreements as part of drive to be self-funding by 1996)
- p.23 Review sidesteps State's Vcs (...bid to overhaul [South
Australia's] three universities...chaired by Mr Alan McGregor,
the chairman of Fauldings)
- p.26 advert. University of Western Sydney. Submissions invited.
...review the structure of the Federated Network of the University.
Chaired by Hon Andrew Rogers QC. Submissions close 11 August,
1995.
- p.31 Book now for tomorrow's libraries. (Associate Professor
Karen Markey Drabenstott)
University News (UQ) 26 July 1995
- p.2 Effects of reform. (AV-CC releases "Redefining a
working life: age and performance in higher education" includes
implications of legislation prohibiting employers from terminating
jobs on the basis of specified grounds, including age. For copies,
contact the AV-CC on 06 285 8200)
Staff News (ANU) 26 July 1995
- p.1 University House receives architectural design award (of
design which has stood the test of time)
- p.1 ANU on the road with ACTION buses (bus sporting the ANU
logo and colours, with a panel on one side which is changed every
two months to promote different areas of ANU)
Library Staff Bulletin, ANU Library, 21 July 1995
- p.1 Mark Nearhos in top twenty Australian private web pages.
(http://libmac21.anu.edu.au/mark.html)
Syslibs list, 21 July 1995
- Standards seminar. "Managing the Electronic Library"
Sydney - 16 August, Melbourne - 17 August. Committee IT/19 of
Standards Australia.
Campus Review v.5 no.28, 20-26 July 1995
- p.1 Law libraries lagging: Deans move to ensure book stocks
bolstered ("No Australian law library has a world-class research
collection.....)
- p.5 Advert. SilverPlatter ALDIS This month your campus library
took a quantum leap in information access....Talk to your librarian
- talk to ALDIS.
- p.8, 25 The morality of property rights, by Christopher Honnor.
("Academics' intellectual and industrial property rights
are under pressure...."
- p.10 Meetings across the ether. (Conferences on the web eg
http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb95 and ....ausweb96, Teleteaching
'96 at http:/www.acs.org.au/ifip96/ifip96br.html)
- p.13-16 Murdoch University: a profile
- p.27 Advert. Central Queensland University. Faculty Liaison
Librarians (2 positions) HEW 7
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 19 July 1995
- p.25 Higher Education Management Review. Call for submissions.
Due 15 August, 1995. Terms of reference http://www.deet.gov.au/hed/review.htm
(already circulated to CAUL)
- p. 25 Advert. University of Sydney, Faculty of Health Sciences,
College Librarian, Cumberland Campus, HEW 9
- p.28 Melbourne changes tack on copyright (intellectual property
statute)
Network (Deakin University Newsletter) 14 July 1995
- p.1 Deakin - 1995 university of the year (Mr Keating said
"...that it is an illustration of the success of the Government's
higher education reforms that the Australian University of the
Year in 1995 doesn't have a single block of sandstone to its name."
- p.2 National consortium launched (The Consortium of Australian
management Schools (CAMS International) made up of the graduate
schools of management and business of Deakin, the University of
Adelaide, the University of Sydney, the University of Queensland,
the University of Tasmania and the University of Western Australia)
- p.5 Intercampus loan trial (...sending intercampus books direct
to University staff)
- p.5 Search guide - nursing (http://www.deakin.edu.au/library/SearchNursing.html)
- p.7 Call for papers (Centre for Australian Studies in Wales,
University of Wales, invites papers for "Australian studies
and the shrinking periphery: surfing the Net for Australia"
to be held next year)
Campus Review v.5 no.27 July 13-19 1995
- p.3 Deakin's distance prowess rewarded (University of the
Year)
- p.11 Database program to give on-line access to information
(Datasets trials press release, truncated after descriptions of
two trials)
- p.15 Digital libraries canvassed (Madeleine McPherson to deliver
paper at state conference of ALIA)
- p.15 Librarians: implications of IT (Education for the Future
conference at the University of Canberra)
- p.15 Conference to deal with Internet issues (Datalaw 95,
Sydney, 28 July 1995, organised by DataLegal Publications, ACS
and Griffith University)
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 12th July 1995
- p.23 Deakin nets No 1 for technology use (University of the
Year)
- p.25 Libraries try the Net (CAUL datasets trials)
University News (University of Queensland) 12th July 1995
- p.14 News from the Senate. Library Multimedia facility opening.
The Australian Tuesday, 11th July 1995
- This issue has a range of articles on the Web, mostly reprinted
from the Economist, and aimed at the non-user.
- p.32 Internet Society could ease gridlocks pressure (AARNet
service pricing, general)
Library Staff Bulletin (ANU) 7 July 1995
- p.1 Antiquarian booksellers on the Internet (demonstration
by Colin Steele and Rosalind Goodwin)
Adelaidean 3 July 1995
- p.5 Best practice resource centre takes shape.
Scitech July 1995
- p.? Library service trial (CAUL datasets trials)
Library Newsletter (Flinders University of South Australia)
no.3 July 1995
- p.1 Internet access for all! (...using public Macintosh workstations
provided in each library)
- p.7 ABS time series on AARNET
- p.9 Trial access to ABI/Inform full-text
CAVAL newsletter no.48 July 1995
- ...Australian and New Zealand library statistics....will be
included with the September edition of AARL.
News (University of South Australia) no.12 July 1995
- p.3 Allocation of round two 'quality money'
- $95,000 for electronic information training facility
- $50,000 for cdrom workstations
- $50,000 for access to global information resources
- $250,000 for purchase of books in priority areas
- p.7 Restricting access to AARNet (high AARNet bill causes
restriction on use for recreational purposes)
- p.9 AITEA conference "The impact of commercialism on
tertiary education" 19th July 1995, 8.30am-5.00pm, $80.00
Contact Margaret Heslop, ext 23954.
Canberra Times Monday 10th July 1995
- p.16 Advert. DSS request for information, National Community
Information Network (...seeking the views of industry and other
interested parties on strategies for providing communications
and other services for a National Community Information Network)
Campus Review v.5 no.26
- p.1 Unis risk losing autonomy (inquiry into the relationship
between professional associations and universities; consultant
to report by October)
- p.2 VCs welcome end to quality ranking
- p.3 On-line service (ABS time series service)
- p.3 Uni public funding slumps in five years
- p.6 TAFE should adopt 'peak body': report (The Workforce of
the Future, report of Reps standing committee on long term strategies
tabled in Parliament last week)
- p.8+ Universities or reform schools? Peter Coaldrake outlines
why the education sector can not expect to escape to escape reform.
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 5 July 1995
- p.28 Advert. Southern Cross University, User Services Manager,
HEW 8
- p.29 Advert. UNSW, Senior Librarian, Biomedical Library, HEW
8
- p.31 Advert. University of Waikato, [University] Librarian,
closes 31 August.
- p.34 Advert. La Trobe University, Deputy Vice-Chancellor,
responsible for Academic Affairs (including the Faculties), Regional
Operations, Information Technology and the University Library,
closes 28 July.
- p.34 Advert. USQ, Reference Services Librarian, HEW 7
The Australian, Tuesday, 4 July 1995
- p.23 Telstra on brink of e-mail listing first
- p.25 Lawyer takes helm of multimedia flagship (Mr Martin Cooper....
will take on the mantle of chief executive of the Australian Multimedia
Enterprise (AME)
- p.28 a $5.6m information bridge for 'poor' (launch of the
Community Information Network)
- p.32 Advert. Internet World Conference, August 22-24, 1995,
Sydney Hilton Hotel, http://www.mecklerweb.com/iwaap
- p.39 Multimedia playground (RMIT has begun a project to involve
Australian children in the development of interactive multimedia.
Project team from RMIT, Open Learning Technology, the National
Library of Australia (photo of Eric Wainwright, chairman of project
team), the State Library of Victoria and the ABC)
- p.55 Roadworks on the superhighway ("....The road maps
are appalling....")
- p.56 Diary Information Managing, dinner forum with Karen Drabbestott,
organised by the Records Management Association of Australia and
the Optical Technology Special Interest Group, Canberra, 12th
July.
Campus Crosstalk (Deakin University Library) June/July 1995
- p.4 Electronic reserve and course update project.
- p.9 ABS time series
- p.9 CAUL datasets trials.
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University of Sydney Library. Newsletter. no.23 June 1995
- p.1 University signs contract for new automated library system
(III)
- p.2 Continous improvement program.
- p.2. Research Express (site licence for UnCover Reveal purchased)
Shelf life. (Dixson Library, UNE) June 1995
- p.1 Electronic publishing
- p.3 Free trial of ABI/Inform.
Campus Review v.5 no.25
- p.1 Quality funding at risk
- p.4 Funds timing bites into uni cash flow
- p.5 Batchelor signals intention to go for uni status
- p.5 Universities: 'blind sport' on staffing (Commissioned
by the HEC prior to the establishment of the review committee,
the paper [by Peter Coaldrake] is now being flagged as a "background
paper" that is claimed to hold no formal place in the committee's
review process)
- p.6 Monash wins Queensland distance deal (that will give the
[Monash] students access to all the electronic and physical resources
of the Queensland Open Learning Network)
- p.7 A view from the outside (profile of Prof Alan Gilbert,
Vice-Chancellor elect of the University of Melbourne)
- p.12 Electronic library brings new era to Uni of WA
- p.13 Nursing education, a special ....report
- p.19 Computer seduction an easy trap for new schools and teachers
(Rae Fankhauser, speaking at Edutech 95)
- p.20 CDs aid data access ([Informit's] association with [SilverPlatter]
means it will publish our databases using its world-renowned
- p.20 Surveillance maintains control of book stocks (3M's Express
Transaction Unit)
- p.24 .... Vicki Williamson has been appointed project manager
to develop the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library....
- p.26 Campus diary
- Access through Open Learning Conference, postponed until Sept
4,5 & 6 Sept, Ballina (email olconf@scu.edu.au)
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 22nd June, 1995
- p.21 ARC backs academics on copyright (Intellectual property)
- p.26 Superhighway robbery - Janet McCalman (IP)
The Australian, 20th June, 1995
- p.28 Government is committee to 'world best practice' copyright
law: Kerr
- p.29 Censor to make Internet fit for families (NII Task Force
recommended the establishment of a new federal agency to secure
and police the information superhighway.
- p.52 Highway more than a home shopping guide
Network (Deakin University Newsletter) 16 June 1995
- p.6 Australian Bureau of Statistics catalogue
Campus Review v.5 no.23
- p.3 AV-CC publication "Research capability and performance
in Australian universities: measures of Australian higher research."
- p.6 Industry Commission report on higher education research
management
- p.7 Profile of Dr Russell Blackford (AHEIA CEO)
- p.11-25 Nursing education special report
- p.28 Library retrieval on line......in the National University
of Singapore.
The Australian. Higher Education Supplement (HES) 14th June,
1995
- p.23, p.32 Universities management review
- p.23 Higher education research statistics - AV-CC
- p. 24 National Priority (Reserve) Funds Library Projects
- (Program 2a) Electronic Document Delivery
- Call for proposals.....
- p.25 ABS statistics service to universities
Campus Review v.5 no 22
- p.3 Universities management review
- p.6 ABS statistics service launch
- p.18 Asian Studies Library Awards
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 7th June, 1995
- p.29 Book review "Technology contracts: a handbook for
law and business in Australia." by Margaret Calvert. Butterworths.
$85
- p.30 Neville Jeffress Advertising (recruitment advertising)
http://www.nj.com.au
INFORM (Victoria University Library Newsletter) June 1995
- p.1 Full-text databases on the Internet (IAC)
- p.2 Free access to the Lexis/Nexis database
Campus Review v.5 no.21 1-7 June 1995
- p.2 EdNA
- p.6 Curtin's "PM" Library
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The Australian Higher Education Supplement 31st May, 1995
- p.2 EdNA
- p.2 DEET
- p.32 NP(R)F Library Projects Network Information Service -
GOANNA Call for proposals
University New (UQ) 31st May, 1995
- p.1 $400,000 multimedia facility opened
The Australian Tuesday 30 May 1995
- p.31 Thousands sign up in on-line rush (The Victorian Premier,
Mr Kennett, has opened the Internet-based Victorian libraries
network, Vicnet....)
- p.33 NP(R)F Library Projects Network Information Service -
GOANNA Call for proposals
Inside QUT 30th May, 1995
- p.4 QUT opens Internet to the community. (For $500 a year,
graduates can receive full Internet access, software, instructions
and 100 hours of connection time a month through Computing Services
Internet portal.... $800 for private external clients)
- p.10 Graham Dawson, Kelvin Grove librarian, back from exchange
to MIT, witness to some leading-edge developments in library technology,
in particular electronic scholarly publishing.
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 24th May, 1995
- p.23 Leak reveals AARNet concerns
- p.23 Crean to review how unis are run
- p.24 Open Net launch (and EdNA)
Australian Tuesday 23rd May 1995
- p.36 TRIPS - trade-related intellectual property rights
- p.30 [Butterworths] goes on line with first CD...Halsbury's
Laws of Australia..
- p.30 How Lycos unravels secrets of the Web (software robot)
- p.25 Adcorp Australia on-line recruitment directory http://www.employment.com.au
- Radical AARNet volume charge plan
RECENTLY RELEASED (May 1995)
- Higher Education Council Ninth report to the National Board
of Employment, Education and Training on the operation of Section
14 of the Higher Education Funding Act 1988 and the Higher Education
Contribution Scheme. AGPS ISBN 0 644 43347 7
Weekend Australian, 20-21st May, 1995
- p.5 Open Net launches the virtual university.
Canberra City News, 18th May, 1995
- p.3 Surfing the Internet cafe (at the National Library's Brindabella
Bistro) with two public access computers for free access to the
Internet, with p.3 portrait of the Director-General.
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 17th May, 1995
- p.29 Intellectual property and copyright, June 19-20, Sydney.
National Scholarly Communications Forum Roundtable series Contact:
CAL (02) 394 7600
- p.30 Vices with all the virtues of a lobby group. (AV-CC)
University News (UQ) 17th May 1995
- p.5 UQ Library holds Imaging Information Exchange
- p.6 Alumni book Fair raises $118,000
Campus Review v.5 no.18 11-17 May 1995
- p.2 AusWeb 95 conference proceedings available http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb95
- p.12 Movie archives site (CineMedia) http://www.gu.edu.au/gwis/cinemedia/CineMedia.HOME.HTML
- p.12 UQ using broadband digital transmission to carry users'
network traffic
- p.17 ...."Traditional scholarly journals will likely
disappear within 10 to 20 years"....
- p.20 Alison Crook receives a degree of doctor of letters from
Macquarie U
- p.28 ...for education specific details of the Budget, http://www.deet.gov.au/pubs/budget95
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SCONUL Newsletter, 5/6, Summer/Autumn 1995
- p. 45 Benchmarking for Quality: including a brief report on
the RMCS Library Project
- p. 63 Left-handed Library Users: an Internet-based mini-survey.
Library News (La Trobe University) April, 1995
- p.1 Hypertext electronic library project (HELP), with assistance
of Quality Assurance funds, nine public access information stations
provided for linking to the Internet via Netscape.
- p.2 Image database project. $92,500 from the National Priority
(Reserve) Fund to develop an image database for health sciences.
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