Higher Education and Communications News in the Press
Updated 18 December, 1997
Graduate Contact, No. 12, Summer 1995
- p. 24 Multimedia centre boosts teaching and learning ("Undergraduate
Library, home to a $400,000 state-of-the-art multimedia facility
with more than 40 work stations accessing the latest CD-ROM technology,
the Internet and other multimedia services")
- p. 29 MBA graduate wins Alumnus of the Year award (Alison
"Crook, AO, was appointed chief executive of the Office of
Economic Development and director-general of the New South Wales
Department of State Development in January 1995")
The Australian Higher Education Supplement December 20 1995
- p.23 Media unis plan floats to finance expansion (Monash to
float Open Learning Australia; Wollongong to float PAGE, Professional
and Graduate Education consortium)
- p.23 Research direction under two reviews. (The direction
of research in the humanities and social sciences in tertiary
institutions will be the subject of two wide-ranging reviews through
the Australian Research Council)
- p.25 It's time to get organised. (The report, Australia's
Science and Engineering Base for Information and Communications
Services and Technologies, is available from AGPS)
- p.25 CMCs awarded Creative Nation funding (Ngapartji, STARLIT
Multimedia, eMERGE and QUANTM Australia awarded $1.375m a year
for 3 years to provide networking and research facilities, as
well as access to facilities)
- p.26 Advert. NBEET Counsellor (Australian Research Council)
to provide high level policy advice and support for the work of
the council. Applications close 19 January 1996
- p.26 Advert. DEET Australian Studies Offshore Program. Call
for submissions (to establish sustainable offshore Australian
studies activities) Submissions close 28 February 1996
- p.32 Letters. Publishers will not be damned (letters from
Brian Wilder and John Iremonger re university presses).
Campus Review v.5 no.49 December 14-20 1995
- p.1 Hoare report focuses on governance
- p.3 Briefing. Staff funding. "The Federal government
will provide $6m per year for the next three years for staff development
activities in the higher education sector.
- p.9 Letters. A bad press, by Ted Gannon (response to Prof
Mortley's article "The (not so) entwined future of book publishing
and technology")
- p.10 Advert. University of Western Sydney. Macarthur. Pro-Vice
Chancellor (Academic) (to which the Heads of the Library and the
Computing Centre report) Applications close 7 February 1996.
- p.21 Balancing act leads unis to virtual reality ("Maintaining
traditional patterns of teaching and learning will be inconceivable
in the face of expanding information technologies, one of Australia's
leading university librarians warned last week")
- p.25 Career moves. Linda O'Brien to director of information
technology at the University of Newcastle
INFO (University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury Staff Newsletter)
22/95 December 14 1995
- p.11 UWSH 1995 Research Infrastructure Awards. 7. Ms Liz Curach,
Library, $48,523
- p.17 The Library has obtained research funding to establish
an Electronic Research Centre at the Richmond Campus (Project
HERCULES)
The Australian December 13 1995
- p.1 (and further articles on p.4, editorial p.16, HES p.27)
Universities face radical reforms (Hoare report released)
- p.4 Institutions 'must share' (Hoare report: "Sharing
library resources deserves special attention given the potential
for sharing and the level of investment in libraries." "The
committee found that while there had been encouraging developments
in the sharing of libraries, more priority should be placed on
cooperation in research, sharing large equipment and the marketing
of international education.")
The Australian Higher Education Supplement December 13 1995
- p.27 Hoare review signals end of tenure (Report released yesterday;
deadline for responses 9 February, 1996)
- p.27 Quality report targets research
- p.28 A Net gain for design journals (UTS Library server, IORA)
- p.29 Advert. The University of Sydney Pro-Vice-Chancellor
(in the areas of Information Technology and the University Library
system) For three years from April 1996 Applications close 9 February
1996
- p.30 Advert. Submissions are invited for a review of classifications
used in DEET's higher education statistics collections. Contact:
Prof Neil Baumgart or Dr Paul Ayres
at UWS Nepean
- p.31 Advert. ASIO. Online Searcher/Research Librarian $39,459
to $45,997 Applications close 24 January 1996
- p.32-34 The 1995 Quality Review
- p.37 Election fever produces rash statements (Innovate Australia)
".... decision to fund Australian participation in a number
of international information services pilot projects established
by the G7 countries."
Staff News (ANU) no.24 13 December 1995
- p.1 (LaIT News) Charging policies for network access (From
1 January 1996 all incoming international and interstate network
traffic will be chargeable back to the originating university
by the AVCC)
ANU Reporter v.26 no.22 December 13 1995
- p.6 Copyright and creativity in the information society, by
Peter Drahos, Senior Lecturer, Law
- p.7 Copyright in a digital age: chaos in the debate
Campus Review v.5 no.48 December 7-13 1995
- p.12 One-stopping for legal education, by Christopher Roper,
Director, Centre for Legal Eduction. ("The law librarians
interest group of the Australasian Law Teachers Association has
also started to collect statistical information on law libraries
in a systematic way")
- p.12 Universities 'undervalue' law, by Stephen Parker, Convenor,
Committee of Australian Law Deans.
- p.15 Law schools move closer to electronic publishing ("Rather
than having to rely on vast law libraries, small boutique firms
will be able to do their research for free over the Internet using
UniServe Law
and Austlii....")
- p.16 The pennies add up to authors' copyright claim, by Brian
Wilder, Director, Melbourne University Press
- p.27 Advert. Auckland College of Education. College Librarian.
Applications close 26 January 1996.
The Australian Higher Education Supplement December 6 1995
- p.23 Sydney uni funds cut by $4.7m (... "Funding for
the library and information technology was also increased...")
- p.23 Student campaigner fights on in Senate (Natasha Stott
Despoja has taken the higher education portfolio for the Australian
Democrats)
- p.24 Push for urgent AARNet upgrade (AVCC)
inCite v.16 December 1995
- p.8 Protocols published (Aboriginal and Torres Strait IslanderProtocols
for libraries, archives and information services), by Alex
Byrne
Australian Academic & Research Libraries v.26 no.4 December
1995
- p.284 Council of Australian University Librarians. Summary
of [CAUL] meeting held 12-13 October 1995.
Silver Platter Exchange, vol. 8, no. 2, December 1995
- p. 6 Improved Access Provided to Australian Universities ("Through
a CAUL Trial Program that ran from July to November of this year,
searchers had access to a wide range of SilverPlatter's most popular
ad prestigious databases").
UNILINC Newsletter no.9 December 1995
- p.2 Another full-text development. (Trial of EBSCO MasterFILE
in early 1996)
Library News (University of Wollongong Library) Summer 1995
- p.2 Quality funding (".... a grant of $150,000 for the
purchase of multiple copies....")
- p.3 Library gains first teaching grant. (".... University
Teaching Development grant that will enable Library staff to develop
specialised teaching modules specifically for postgraduate students
to enhance their research and information retrieval skills.")
Access (Swinburne Information Services Group) no.8 Summer 1995/96
- p.1 Improved AARNet service in "96
- p.1 Learning Services develop information kiosk prototype
- p.3 EDUCOM conference (report by Fran Hegarty)
Graduate Contact, no. 12, Summer 1995
- p. 29 MBA graduate wins Alumnus of the Year award (Alison
"Crook, AO, was appointed chief executive of the Office of
Economic Development and director-general of the New South Wales
of State Development in January 1995").
- p.5,6 Fantastic futures: virtual and in the flesh (RAISS conference
report)
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November 1995
The Journal of Information Science and Technology Association
Vol 45 No 11 1995
- p.554 CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians)
Campus Review v.5 no.47 November 30 - December 6 1995
- p.14 Strength in diversity (Fay Gale "takes up the reins
as AVCC president next January ... views the AVCC as a forum for
sharing information and experience ... secretariat is very much
a clearing house for information from universities and from government...")
- p.11 The life cycle of uni courses: the trouble of matching
demand and supply. ("DEET is able to confirm that the total
number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses on offer in 1990
was 13,450 compared with 18,972 in 1994 ... while the proliferation
of courses within the sector is a problem, the biggest problem
is shutting down courses....")
The Australian Higher Education Supplement November 29 1995
- p.37 Conflicting reactions to Notre Dame law school (... Australia's
28th)
- p.48 Development studies hit the Net (DEET grant of $25,000
to development studies experts and computer librarians from UWA,
Murdoch, Edith Cowan and Curtin to produce a virtual library on
the WWW to stimulate development of social infrastructure in the
Indian ocean rim countries - AVCC SCIR Program 2(a) recommended
project)
- p.48 Advert. Southern Cross University Network Services Librarian
HEW 8, closing date 8 December 1995.
Campus Collage (The University of Newcastle) November 28 1995
- p.4 Staff appointments for October 1995 (Linda O'Brien, Director,
Information Technology Division)
Library Staff Bulletin (ANU) no.449 November 24 1995
- p.1 Controversy (Responses to Colin Steele's article in the
Australian ranged from "allegations of Colin wanting to abolish
entire Universities to his being asked to be a consultant (unpaid
as yet) to a Japanese and Korean funded Virtual University being
established on the Central Coast.")
- p.1 Publications. Colin Steele. Copyright: some electronic
dimensions of academic publishing. Information Management Report
November 1995 pp.11-14
Campus Review v.5 no.44 November 23-29 1995
- p.11-14 Victoria University: a profile
The Australian Higher Education Supplement November 22 1995
- p.24 AVCC negotiates infobahn roadwork
- p.25 Database improves access to grants (SPIN Australia will
include about 3000 entries for international grants and another
1000 for local grants; DEET sponsoring for the first two years)
- p.26,27 A case of homepage or perish: universities must act
collectively, and quickly, to take electronic control of their
intellectual output, by Bob Moles, Director, UniServe-Law.
Campus Review v.5 no.45 November 16-22 1995
- p.8 The (not so) entwined future of book publishing and technology,
by Professor Raoul Mortley.
HES 15 November 1995
- p.28 Web snares the market, but not the quality, by Janet
McCalman
- p.31 How a novel idea was laid to rest at UWS (.... why 10,000
books had to bite the dust....)
- p.34 Cultural cost of IT could be high (Letter by Don Schauder)
Australian Financial Review November 14 1995
Library Staff Bulletin (ANU) 10 November 1995
- p.1 Librarian addresses national DEET seminar
- p.1 Internet demonstration to ANU Council http://elisa.anu.edu.au/demo/council
- p.2 Publications. Colin Steele "The death of academic
print publishing and the scholarly electronic phoenix? Newsletter
(Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia) vol.14, no.4,
1995, pp.34-39 , Colin Steele "The empire strikes back: librarians
and antiquarian booksellers" ABC vol.67, October 1995,
pp.18-20
Campus Review v.5 no.44 November 9-15 1995
- p.3 Protests over N'castle library closure review
- p.19 Library server lifts access (University of Canterbury
purchases Horizon Computer System, first in major Australasian
university library)
- p.26 Location no barrier for library of the future (CSU provision
of Periodical Abstracts Research and ABI/Inform)
Australian Financial Review November 9 1995
The Australian Higher Education Supplement November 8 1995
- p.12. Internet users vent frustration
- p.13 Call to arms in academic publishing.
- p.15,16 The evolving virtual university, by Colin Steele
- p.15 Advert. Murdoch University. Library Systems & Information
Technology Manager HEW 8/9
- p.24 $6m boost for research infrastructure (including $40,000
for the indexing of the literary content of The Bulletin magazine
.... through the University of NSW)
University News (The University of Queensland) no.415 November
8 1995
- p.10 Architecture slides go digital.
- p.16 Friendly filing system ($1.2 million contract with ...
Innovative Interfaces Inc.)
Campus Review v.5 no .3 November 2-8 1995
- p.1 $50m for third quality round
- p.13,16 The death of academic print publishing, by Colin Steele
The Australian Higher Education Supplement November 1 1995
- p.28 Quality assurance rewards drop by $25m
- p.29 Advert. The University of Newcastle. Projects Librarian.
HEW 8 Applications close 17 November 1995
- p.29 Advert. University of New South Wales. Law Librarian
HEW 9 Applications close 17 November 1995
- p.33 Scholarly Publishing. Libraries in Australia, by Peter
Biskup, with Doreen M Goodman (Centre for Information Studies,
CSU, $95)
- p.40 AVCC backs electronic journal (projects funded under
the second round of grants by the Electronic Publishing Working
Group)
University of Sydney Library Newsletter no.25 November 1995
- p.1 Establishing the scholarly electronic text and image service
(SETIS) (to be operational in 1996)
- p.2 Impact of new courses (Academic Board changes include
provision for a formal assessment of the impact of new course
proposals on Library services)
- p.3 Partnership in electronic publishing - positioning the
library. (Partnership with the Medical Journal of Australia
has received DEET funding to investigate a model of electronic
publication.)
News (The University of Adelaide Library) November 1995
- p.3 Harmonisation of research journals.
Directions (QUT Library. Library report) November 1995
- p.1 Quality funds improve library collections.
- p.2 Library to trial electronic reserve
- p.3 Library impact statements (prepared as part of the University
course accreditation process...)
Songlines (Northern Territory University Library Newsletter)
no.1 November 1995
- p.2 Free access to major electronic databases (CAUL trials)
- p.4 Progress in improving research services (participation
in CAUL and other electronic trials, ... using the three performance
indicators developed by CAUL)
- p.4 Benchmarking and networking activities (... CAUL survey
on benchmarking...)
InCite November 1995
- Insert. Advert. National Library of Australia. Director Technical
Services Branch, Senior Professional Officer Grade A, $65,441
Applications close 1 December 1995
- p.15 USQ library continuous improvement programs
- p.16 Good... better... best: on the road to best practice
at the NT university library (See also http://www.ntu.edu.au/library/bestprac.html)
- p.17 CINAHL/Wilson databases available on the OPAC (University
of Newcastle Library)
- p.24 Chinese library on the net (ANU Library and the National
Library of China)
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