Higher Education and Communications News in the Press
Updated 18 December, 1997
June 1996
Source: GEAC Global Information, Winter 1996
- p. 1 ERL Database-Servers to simplify many issues at the University
of Queensland's Library
- p. 3 Nation-wide Universities Trial by CAUL has wide Application
- p. 6 Letter from Informit ("resignation of Don Schauder
from the position of University Librarian at RMIT". "It
was Don's vision in 1989 that resulted in the university library
moving into electronic publishing").
Copyright Bulletin, Issue No. 9, June 1996
- p. 1 Managing Copyright in the Digital Library.
ACLIS News: Australian Council of Libraries and Information
Services, Vol. 8, No. 4, June 1996
- p. 2 Strong Support for Copyright Reform in ALW Oration ("The
Chairman of the National Library of Australia Council, Sir Anthony
Mason" "text of Sir Anthony's speech is available on"
http://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/mason.html
- p. 2 Honour for Derek Fielding ("AM in the Queen's Birthday
Honours List").
- p. 8 Assessing Interlending Costs ("ACLIS has recently
commissioned the Australian Bureau of Statistics to provide advice
on appropriate methodologies or survey designs for assessing the
costs to Australian libraries of providing an interlibrary loan
or document supply service").
ANU Reporter, Vol. 27, No. 10, 12 June 1996
- p. 4 Academia on the Net: forum next month ("first of
a series to be organised by the Networked Information Committee
which is convened by the Librarian, Mr Colin Steele", "address
methods of trialling the establishment of an ANU electronic publications
outlet on the Net, ranging from pre-prints to articles and books
where ANU authors hold the copyright").
AV-CC Media Release, 7 June 1996
- p. 3 Abstracts of Australian Theses ("The AVCC agreed
to support a project to be undertaken by the Australian Foundation
for Culture and the Humanities to abstract PhD and Masters theses
completed in Australia and to make them available on a national
database").
- The Weekend Australian, 29-30 June 1996
- p. 22 Letters. Culture clashes at National Library by Robert
Barnes and Dr Thomas Mautner.
ANU Reporter v.27 no. 11 26 June 1996
- p. 11 National Library decisions lack 'cultural vision'
The Australian 26 June 1996
- p. 4 Vanstone sees merit in scholarship funding ("Senator
Vanstone said problems of 'overcrowded lecture theatres, inadequate
libraries and dated research facilities' raised questions about
the 'efficiency and effectiveness of resource allocation at both
the national and institutional level")
- p. 13 On any reading, culture can't be sliced ("Cuts
to the National Library collection prompt a reflection on the
nature of knowledge and the future of the book") by Pierre
Ryckmans.
The Australian 25 June 1996
- p.29 Angry AARNet considers its Internet options.
The Australian HES, 19 June
- p. 37 Minister rejects HEC finding ("that universities
suffered severe cuts in funding under Labor").
- p. 38 Science on the cheap could cost us ("FASTS' science
policy for the 21st century" "particularly concerned
at the decline in university research infrastructure - libraries,
laboratories and equipment").
- p. 39 Vanstone gives nod to $1.7m grant ("for high performance
computing and communications facilities").
- p. 43 Tighten the slack bureaucracy ("How can it be claimed
that libraries and lecture rooms could not take more students?
It is the rigidly programmed use of them that causes problems
rather than lack of funds, surely" by David Corkindale, Professor
of marketing management, University of South Australia).
ANU Reporter, vol. 27, no. 10, 12 June 1996
- p. 4 Academia on the Net: forum next month ("A forum
on the electronic publishing of the ANU's research and teaching
output" "is the first of a series to be organised by
the Networked Information Committee which is convened by the Librarian,
Mr Colin Steele").
Campus Review v. 6 no.22 12-18 June 1996
- p.1, 2 Group of Eight upstages AVCC. (AVCC document "In
pursuit of quality, diversity and choice"; GO8 document "In
pursuit of university excellence.")
- p.13 E-publishers get together (AVCC Standing Committee on
Information Resources symposium)
- p.14 Biblio is an ideal tool for research (review of ProCite,
Biblio-link II).
The Canberra Times, 14 June 1996
- p. 3 Library policy an open book, says chief by Penelope Layland.
The Australian 8-9 June 1996
- p.35 Advert. Australian Research Council. Special adviser:
short term consultancy. Applications close 28 June 1996
Campus Review v.6 no.21 5-11 June 1996
- p.1 New sector alliance faces collapse
- p.3 Teague: promises on track (Senator Teague (Liberal) urges
his colleagues to keep election promises on higher education)
- p.6 SCU launches into electronic publishing
ANU Reporter, vol. 27, no. 10, 12 June 1996
- p. 4 Academia on the Net: forum next month ("first of
a series to be organised by the Networked Information Committee
which is convened by the Librarian, Mr Colin Steele"0
The Australian HEW, 5 June 1996
- p.26 Recognise the Net: AVCC (Working Group on Electronic
Publishing)
- p.27 VCs spell out dangers of cuts
- p.31 Advert. AVCC Manager, External Relations. Salary $61,732
Applications close 21 June 1996.
- p.32 United we stand a chance. Bob Bessant asks who should
speak for the universities.
- p.33 Advert. University of Otago. Systems Librarian. Salary
$NZ40,411-$51,750 Applications close 28 June 1996.
Library Newsletter, The Flinders University of South Australia,
no. 7, June 1996
- p. 1 Flinders University Library and South Asia Collection
Development ("national group undertaking a project to focus
on the state of the national South Asian collection, and to build
on those collections" http://www.une.edu.au/~arts/SouthAsiaNet/san.htm").
- p. 4 Advert. Researching and Writing a Teaching Development
Grant ("http://ultibase.rmit.edu.au/Articles/miltol.html").
- p. 4 Advert. Electronic Medical Journal of Australia on the
Internet ("The project is funded by the AVCC's Electronic
Publishing Working Group and will make key Australian medical
research available faster than the traditional publication. The
URL site is: http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/MJA/").
News. University of South Australia, issue no. 11, June 1996
- p. 3 National database of academic expertise ("The
Australian Directory of Academics and the Australian Directory
of Faculties" "have been combined").
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May 1996
Inside QUT, issue no. 148, 28 May - 15 July 1996
- p. 2 QUT librarian honoured (" QUT librarian Colleen
Cleary was named Library Achiever of the Year recently by the
Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)").
University of Southern Queensland Library Lines, issue 19,
May/June 1996
- p. 1 Another win for the USQ Library! ("$10,000 from
the University Continuous Improvement Initiative Fund to carry
out key performance indicators projects" "to measure
shelving turnaround time, Acquisition/Cataloguing performance
and has surveyed Serials Usage from 1995 and ILL/Off-Campus service
turnaround time")
Campus Review v. 6 no. 20, 29 May - 4 June 1996
- p.1,2 Time running out for VCs ("....questioning whether
the AVCC was the best interlocutor for discussing budget cuts.")
- p.1,3 Sector unites. (new Higher Education Alliance)
- p.8 The Higher Education Alliance: a rationale
- p.8 Strategic decisions needed to sustain university lobby.
- p.13-18 Canadian Studies in Australia & New Zealand: a
special report
Library Directions: QUT Library, May 1996
- p. 3 Electronic Reserve trial ("QUT staff" "actively
involved in negotiations with the Copyright Agency Limited")
Library Staff Bulletin, no. 459, 31 May 1996
- p. 1 Librarian's Talks ("Colin Steele gave the Molly
Thomson Lecture 'Knot one, Purl two' on 16 May, to a large audience
in the Mitchell Galleries of the State Library of NSW" and
"On Saturday, 25 May, Colin gave papers on the Virtual Library
at a Conference 'Academic Life on the Electronic Frontier").
The Australian HES, 29 May 1996
- p. 35 State access agreement binds campus libraries ("South
Australian university staff and students can now make full use
of the libraries at all three universities in Adelaide").
Campus News, vol. 8, no. 8, 29 May 1996
- p. 4 Reconciliation takes high profile ("Centre for Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Participation, Research and Development"
and ("and the Library have set up a working group to devise
recommendations on the recently published Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Protocols for Libraries, Archives and Information
Services").
The Australian 24 May 1996
- p.1, 2 Vanstone flags university overhaul
- p.12 Letters to the Editor. National Library can't avoid making
decisions on choice.
Campus Review, Vol. 6, No. 19, 22-28 May 1996
- p. 4 CAUT should improve applicant feedback: report
- p. 8 Course packs don't replace textbook purchase by Raoul
Mortley ("Australian universities paid in excess of $4 million
to the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) in 1995". "It
is not for the publishers of text books to pass judgement on the
educational value of this material".
The Australian 22 May 1996
- Letters to the Editor. Consequences of cuts to education.
(includes letter from Bill Cations)
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 22 May 1996
- p.21 VCs freeze jobs in preparation for 'record' cuts
- p.22 VCs warned not to co-operate on cuts (Professor Ken McKinnon)
- p.29 $50m quality package (Education Minister Senator Vanstone
confirmed the funding....)
University News. University of Queensland, no. 422, 22 May
1996
- p. 2 Library redesign will meet changing needs.
The Australian 21 May 1996
- p.1 Pressure builds on Vanstone over cuts.
- p.2 Ministers fail to confirm promises (of spending commitments
on higher education....)
- p.12 Letters to the editor. An upstart library (National Library
of Australia)
Adelaidean, vol. 5, no. 8, 20 May 1996
- p. 3 Libraries join forces to improve services for staff and
students ("staff and students of South Australia's three
universities can now use the resources of all the university libraries,
following an agreement signed between the University of Adelaide,
Flinders University and the University of South Australia")
The Australian 17 May 1996
- p.1,2 DEET carries heavy burden of razor gang
- p.1,2 Senate hostile to uni cuts.
The Australian 16 May 1996
- p.12 Editorial. Stocktaking at the National Library
- p.13 Coalition faces tertiary exam: our universities are preparing
to give the Government a lesson in the value of their products.
Campus Review v.6 no.18 15-21 May 1996
- p.1,4 Library confronts its critics (National Library of Australia)
- p.4 Internet leaves librarians "educational convicts"
(report of a lecture given by Colin Steele at the University of
Canberra)
The Australian 15 May 1996
- p.1,4 Staff and courses at risk as unis brace for budget axe
- p.11 The book bind: Who needs books when you can surf the
Internet? Luke Slattery reports on the debate about the fate of
our national collection.
- p.12 Letters to the editor. National Library's task, by Robert
Barnes.
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 15 May 1996
- p.23 Vanstone confirms plan to slash uni funds
- p.28 Advert. Curtin. Archivist, John Curtin Prime Ministerial
Library (HEW 8/9) Applications close 12 June 1996
The Australian 11-12 May 1996
- p.3 Library's literature cuts anger academics (National Library
of Australia)
Campus Review v.6 no.17 8-14 May 1996
- p.3 Copyright protection threatens offshore income, claims
Mason
- p.3 $50m quality cut undecided
- p.3,4 Broader ARC panel suggested
- p.8 Teaching materials: a copyright nightmare
- p.10 Consumers have different view of copyright wrangle, by
Tom Cochrane (pro-Vice Chancellor, Information Services, QUT)
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 8 May 1996
- p.35 Coalition discord rises over funding. (".... the
federal Coalition's final position would not be revealed before
the August Budget." (Vanstone))
The Australian 6 May 1996
- p.5 Tertiary alarm at $50m delay in quality pay
Canberra Times 5 May 1996
- p.3 Unis warn against research cuts (Meeting of PVCs and DVCs
Research in Canberra last week)
Campus Review v.6 no.16 1-7 May 1996
- p.5 Coalition plans cuts to recent science programs ("McGauran
repeated his assurance .... that all the promises for science
and technology in Coalition pre-election policy will be met ....
$90m more for university infrastructure .... spread over three
years.")
- p.7-8 A rolled head talks (Derek Volker, former head of DEET)
- p.12 Letters. Publishing reprieve, by Brian Wilder, Director,
Melbourne University Press (".... Statutory Licence ....
amounts to legalised theft...." " .... the unprincipled
abuse of the fair use and statutory copying provisions of the
Copyright Act (the huge growth in reading blocks ....) [places]
these provisions at risk and the universities have only themselves
to blame.")
The Canberra Times 2 May 1996
- Threats to flow of knowledge: faulty copyright laws and new
technology are blocking access to information, says Sir Anthony
Mason
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 1 May 1996
- p.40 Restructure for on-line era ("A National Strategy
for Flexible Learning" by Ian Barnard, Open Learning Institute,
CSU)
Inform (University of South Australia Library supplement to
News no.8) no.3 May 1996
- p.1 Results of the Council of Australian University Librarians
(CAUL) survey (performance indicator kits)
The Ovid Observer, vol. no. 2, Winter 1995
- p. 3 UTS grows with Ovid ("University of Technology Sydney
(UTS) has become Ovid's biggest fixed fee customer").
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April 1996
adLib: Newsletter of the University Library (James Cook University)
no. 40 April 1996
p.3 Library receives benchmarking award
Campus Review v.6 no.15 24-30 April 1996
- p.9 Awareness of electronic publishing essential. ("CAL
.... is beginning to make demands that could make access to information
a quite different scenario from the one we are all familiar with
today.")
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 24 April 1996
- p.21 Detail budget cuts or face chaos, say VCs
- p.21 Vanstone puts tertiary places in doubt
- p.21 HEC considers financial options
Library Staff Bulletin (ANU) no.456 19 April 1996
- p.1 Electronic reserve demonstration for CAL Board members
- p.1 Librarians activities. (Colin Steele to give the Molly
Thomson National Lecture at the State Library of NSW on May 16
called "Purl one, Knit two:
the organisation of knowledge on the Internet.")
The Australian 19 April 1996
- p.5 How uni's foreign ventures turned sour ("an abnormal
item in the accounts revaluing the library at $72.5 million. By
contrast, the library at the University of NSW, which services
almost twice as many as UNE's 15,000 students, is valued at $18.2
million)
The Australian, 18 April 1996
- p.3 Fahey seeks to soothe PS job fears (".... He emphasised
that the only binding decisions made to date were to implement
the Coalition's 2 per cent across-the-board running cost reduction,
a freeze on Labor's post-1995 Budget spending initiatives, and
the target for the Budget bottom line....")
Campus Review v.6 no.14 17-23 April 1996
- p.1 Coalition abandons promises
- p.3 Hill's promises thrown out at AVCC meeting
- p.3 Hambly resigns top job
- p.9 Who should speak up for the universities?
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 17 April 1996
- p.33 AVCC chief resigns (December 1996) (full story, p.1)
- p.38 Advert. Curtin University of Technology. Associate Professor/Senior
Lecturer. Information and Library Studies. Applications close
25 May 1996
Campus Review v.6 no.13 11-17 April 1996
- p.3 VCs sound alert on deficit threat to higher education.
- p.6-7 The trouble with university league tables. ("DEETYA's
latest effort to present "useful" comparative information
is in a form that is potentially misleading, easy to manipulate
and will tend to obscure genuine differences and similarities
between universities."
- p.8 Reading blocks: writing and publishing blocks must inevitably
follow, by Elizabeth Weiss, Allen & Unwin ("Few lecturers
have the time or skill to produce work at this [professional publishing]
standard for photocopied teaching materials.")
- p.10 Software landing for uni computer plans (Working Group
reviewing CASMAC to report to the AVCC board in June)
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 10 April 1996
- p.19 VCs link funding cuts to drop in places. ("will
be discussed at the next AVCC board meeting on April 16 - the
morning after the AVCC meets the federal Minister for Employment,
Education and Training, Senator Amanda Vanstone")
Library Staff Bulletin (ANU) no.455 5 April 1996
- p.1 Electronic reserve. Due to copyright reasons the Acting
Vice-Chancellor has asked that Electronic Reserve be blocked off,
until the issues are resolved. The service will therefore be unavailable
for both staff and students until further notice.
- p.2 Publications. Steele, Colin. "Stand and deliver?
Academics and the Information Superhighway", Australian
Historical Association Bulletin, vol.81, December 1995, pp.17-22.
Campus Review v.6 no.12 4-10 April 1996
- p.11 Have books by-passed their use-by date? by Joshua Dowse
(Allen & Unwin)
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 3 April 1996
- Advert. QUT. Director, Human Resources (Salary $103,000) Closes:
26 April 1996
- Advert. University of Western Sydney, Nepean. Cataloguing
Librarian (HEW 8) Closes 19 April 1996
- Advert. ANU. Executive Officer to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor
(Salary $56,410-) Closes 19 April 1996
ProACTive (the newsletter of ALIA ACT Branch) no.156, April
1996
- p.1 Mike Keller: redesigning the Stanford University Library,
from acquisition to access. (http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/diroff/ts/redesign/redesign.html)
- p.2 Professional perspectives lectures - Library and Information
Studies Program, University of Canberra (8 May, Colin Steele "Virtual
Professions and Digital Libraries"; 31 July, Warren Horton
"The Political Dimension to Library Management"; 11
Sept, Professor Don Aitkin "Operating Professionally in the
Political Arena"
- p.2 Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL)
- p.3 SunSITE is looking
for content! (seeking appropriate parties for joint ventures on
large online content projects.... help to promote Australian content
worldwide)
News (University of South Australia) no. 6, April 1996
- p.5 Library Collection Development Plan
International Review (insert in Campus Review) v.1 no.1 April
1996
- p.4 Australian book donations find home in Asia
- p.4 Lao librarian finds visit to Australian university library
valuable experience (...ANU...)
Symposium - Newsletter of the Australian Academy of the Humanities,
No. 3, April 1996
- p. 2 The Future of Academic Publishing: Report on Round Table
Four of the National Scholarly Communications Forum, Canberra,
22-23 February 1996.
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MARCH 1996
INform, Issue 4, March 1996
- p. 3 From the University Librarian ("The Library was
successful in achieving its goals in 1995." "GOAL: Improved
access to external information through marketing of electronic
search and document delivery service to staff and research students"
"and through the Council of Australian University Librarians
(CAUL) pilot projects of Lexis-Nexis, ABS and Silverplatter databases")
National Library of Australia News, March 1996
- p. 11 A Stronger Copyright: Death of the Public Domain? ("Jamie
Wodetzki examines the nature of copyright and the role of libraries
in providing access to information within the existing, complex
copyright provisions").
ProACTive (Newsletter of ALIA ACT Branch), No. 155, March 1996
- p. 3 The Australian Humanities Review "Cassandra Pybus
on the ideals and realities of establishing an online, peer-reviewed
journal in the humanities." ("aims to establish a quality,
peer-reviewed journal which offers facilities that are not found
in the print media, such as online discussion of the journal contents",
"The hype that surrounds electronic publishing suggests that
it is easy, quick and free. Cassandra was quick to demolish these
myths". "The oft-heard refrain of 'oh, it's easy, it
won't take a moment' depends very much on who is defining the
moment and who is paying for it (such as HTML mark-up at $80 an
hour)."
Campus Review, Vol. 6, No. 8, 7-13 March 1996
- p. 4 Review brings changes at AVCC
- p. 9 Publisher's imprint: symbol of quality on Net ("Without
a proper copyright regime extended to photocopied anthologies,
traditional scholarly publishers will not survive, writes managing
director of Thomas Nelson Australia, Ted Gannan"
- p. 9 Journal of discovery by pioneer of publishing in cyberspace
"by Cassandra Pybus" ("Australian Humanities Review
is a fledgling e-journal funded by the Australian Vice Chancellor's
Committee as a pilot" "The cutting edge is the bleeding
edge. The catch cry of superhighway hypesters - it's easy, it
just takes a second and it's free - could not be further from
the truth." "Do drop into my site and tell me what your
reactions are.")
- p. 14 Career Moves "University of Southern Queensland
librarian, Ms Madeleine McPherson, has been appointed as a director
on the board of Queensland's Open Learning Technology Corporation".
The Australian HES, 6 March 1996
- p. 22 AVCC takes on a leaner, strong role ("It should
find and express common ground on those areas in terms of policy
direction 'so we don't all have to react'"
- p. 22 Publishers call for tougher copyright laws by Madeleine
Coorey ("universities photocopied material 'willy-nilly'
with no regard for the 'free-dealing' [fair-dealing] with publishers
that was written into the Act").
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