Higher Education and Communications News in the Press
Updated 18 December, 1997
Current News
December 1996
ACLIS News (Australian Council of Libraries and Information
Services) Vol 8 No 4 December 1996
- p.9 Australian Quality Council Awards to Libraries ("Two
Australian Libraries, the University of Wollongong Library and
the University of Melbourne Library, were honoured with Achievement
in Business Excellence Awards at this year's Australian Quality
Awards")
inCite v.17 December 1996
- p.7 Quality rewarded (.... the libraries of the University
of Wollongong and the University of Melbourne received Achievement
in Business Excellence Awards [at the annual Australian Quality
Awards on 12 November])
The Canberra Times 27 December 1996
- p.3 Nations join in bid to cope with information (.... "leaders
in university libraries, information technology and scholarly
communication work collaboratively in the British and Australian
higher education sectors....")
The Australian 24 December 1996
- p.12 Gaps in library's on-line service, by Paul Knobel (Letter
to the Editor) (National Library of Australia)
The Australian Higher Education December 18 1996
- p.23 DEETYA chief takes new role ("Mr David Phillips,
former head of the higher education division of the Department
of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, has established
a company to advise the tertiary sector and government. Mr Phillips
left DEETYA last Wednesday and was replaced by Mr Michael Gallagher...DEETYA
secretary Mr Sandy Hollway announced yesterday he also would leave,
to join the Sydney Organising Committee of the Olympic Games.")
- p.27 Advertisement University of Queensland (Prentice Centre)
Director HEW level 10C $72,597 - $81,573 Closing Date 20 January
1997
- p.29 Uni mergers must happen, says Hambly
- p.33 Multimedia wins top grant awards ("National Teaching
Development Grants...awarded 88 grants from a pool of 480 applications
to 33 universities at a cost of $3.8 million...announced yesterday...")
The Canberra Times December 12 1996
- p.3 Nations join in bid to cope with information ("The
Council of Australian University Librarians will fund resource
staff in Australia.")
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 11 December 1996
- p.34 Advert. Department of Employment, Education, Training
and Youth Affairs. Evaluations and Investigations Program (EIP).
Proposals are invited for 7 projects. Submissions due 7 February
1997
- p.36 Virtual competition hots up (the race to establish Australia's
first truly virtual university)
Campus Review v.6 no.48 11 December 1996
- 16-page centre liftout. Conferences & events - 1997.
Campus Review v.6 no.47 4-10 December 1996
- p.4 Academies get $1.5m grants
- p.7 From woe to go: ARC large grants (survey team surveyed
funding needs, and signpost the path to success)
The Australian 4 December 1996
- p.5 Small publisher puts authors online
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November 1996
Songlines (Northern Territory University Information Services)
No 4 November 1996
- p.5 Director Information Services elected President of CAUL
("Alex Byrne was recently elected President of the Council
of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) for a two year term")
Campus Review v.6 no.43 27 November - 3 December 1996
- p.6 Shakespeare in a keystroke. (.... new Electronic Text
Service at the University of Western Australia)
- p.10 Laurels (University of Wollongong Library achievement
in business excellence award at the 1996 Australian Quality Awards)
- p.10 Valete (Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director, Coalition
for Networked Information)
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 27 November 1996
- p.39, 47 Minister signals change. (address to the AGM of the
Business Higher Education Round Table 26 November, .... "she
again emphasised graduates, research and communications technologies
as key government priorities for the review [of higher education]")
- p.39 QUIK! fix from UQ brings Internet to novices (Internet
training kit developed by the University of Queensland Library
and computer science department) Sample QUIK
- p.40 Academies get $1.5m in grants
Campus Review Vol 6 No 45 November 20 - 26 1996
- p.20 A 'character-forming' year for deans ("...the committee
joined forces with the Council of Australian University Librarians
to negotiate discounts for consortiums and various forms of restricted
access.")
- p.24 Central support for our schools ("...a Centre for
Legal Education. Established by the Law Foundation of NSW in
1992...and the law deans' position statement on law libraries...
The centre is the secretariat of the Committee of Australian law
Deans... http://uniserve.edu.au/law/pub/edinst/cald ...Law
School Libraries: a Position Statement and Standards.")
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 20 November 1997
- Unis achieve kudos for quality. (libraries of Melbourne and
Wollongong universities win Australian Quality Awards)
The Australian 19 November 1996
- p.32 $2 million to unravel copyright maze. (Six co-operative
multimedia centres (CMCs) will share the funds to explore complex
copyright issues)
- p.37 Alarm at moves to copyright databases.
Library Staff Bulletin No 471 November 15 1996
- p.1 CAUL walking stick ("accepted on Colin Steele's
behalf the CAUL walking stick which is held by the longest serving
member.")
The Australian Higher Education November 13 1996
- p.48 Minister: unis must spell out their vision ("...on
the eve of a make or break review of the sector.")
- p.49 OLA takes control of Open Net
Campus Review v.6 no.43 6-12 November 1996
- p.4 Open Net to be merged with the OLA (".... the new
transitional chair of Open net will be David Phillips.")
- p.6 New librarian council leader ("Alex Byrne has been
elected president of the Council of Australian University Librarians.")
- p.8 The infrastructure time bomb is ticking away, by Colin
Steele ("The National Scholarly Communications Forum Conference
in Canberra, October 21-22, focused attention on the relative
lack of coordinated approaches to the intellectual infrastructure
of libraries and IT in Australia compared with overseas.... The
projected DEETYA review of higher education will have to pay particular
attention tho this area, given its future importance in delivery
of teaching and research resources and the unwillingness of the
Australian Research Council to interfere in the local autonomy
of universities by "top-slicing" as in the UK.")
- p.10 Career Moves. ("Alex Byrne has been elected president
of the Council of Australian University Librarians....")
- p.13 Website is Stanford University libraries' front door.
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October 1996
National Library of Australia News October 1996
p.9 A Passage to India ("...a co-operative will codify the
acquisition and management of South Asian materials in Australia...a
consortium of Australian universities and national institutions
were awarded a Research Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities
(RIEF) grant worth $341,000 for a project titled 'South Asia:
Renovating the National CollectionCampus Review v.6 no.42
30 October - 5 November 1996
- p.1 Directors' resignations bring open learning to crisis
point. (all three independent directors of Open Net Pty Ltd)
- p.3 AVCC names new director (of international relations, Bob
Goddard)
- p.3 Chair appointed to improve teaching (Professor Ingrid
Moses is first chair of the new Committee of University Teaching
and Staff Development (CUTSD))
- p.4 Best-practice scheme unites universities globally (Universitas
21, includes teaching and research institutions in Australian,
New Zealand, Britain and Canada - first meeting to be hosted by
Professor Alan Gilbert of the University of Melbourne)
- p.5 Open learning and new tech slide into chaos
HES 30 October 1996
- p.35 New chair for teaching body (Professor Ingrid Moses will
chair the Committee of University Teaching and Staff Development)
- p.36 Universities buckle down to budget cuts (Newcastle's
two libraries will be either merged or their staff and services
rationalised and vacancies closed)
- p.35 Let's take over the World Wide Web: VC (Professor John
Arbuthnott, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of
Strathclyde, and chair of the joint information systems committee
in the UK said "there were enough similarities between Australian
and British universities to form strategic alliances and take
over what he sees as a United States-dominated Internet."
- p.36 Advertisement. Southern Cross University. Director of
Information Services. Applications close 29 November 1996
Campus Review v.6 no.41 23-29 October 1996
- p.5 UA's 'one-hit' response to cuts causes uproar ("....
all divisions of the university will be affected - including the
library, which may be looking at a 10 per cent cut in funding....")
- p.32 Ultimate mobile library, thanks to Net (".... three
Queensland universities have combined resources to provide the
Regional Document Delivery (REDD) Program, the first electronic
document delivery system in Australia to use a combination of
e-mail and World Wide Web technology.")
- p.32 Information technology coordinating body urged. ("....
in a discussion paper this week by the Australian Vice-Chancellors'
Committee, .... Exploiting IT in Higher Education, published
in conjunction with the National Scholarly Communications Forum's
Canberra Round Table.")
- p.32 Pyne signals IT review ("Liberal backbencher Christopher
Pyne signalled to a National Scholarly Communications Forum session
in Canberra that information and communication technologies affecting
universities is to be one of the major themes of the government's
proposed review of higher education financing and policy.")
HES 23 October 1996
- p.35 Info-smart strategists a step ahead of the rest, by Ian
Reinecke. (from an address to Monday's Scholarly Communications Forum
in Canberra) The full paper is available through http://www.australian.aust.com
The Australian 22 October 1996
- p.57 Publish & Perish: the traditional role of books is
under threat even as millions are printed, do battle for shelf
and cyber space, and then are pulped.
Campus Review Vol 6 No 40 October 16 - 22 1996
- p.1 Youngest VC 'gives it a go' ("Professor Mary O'Kane...newly
appointed at University of Adelaide")
- p.20 Career Moves ("QUT pro-vice-chancellor [information
services] Tom Cochrane has been appointed to the Copyright Law
Review Committee's experts advisory group. The appointment was
announced by federal attorney- general Daryl Williams
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