Higher Education and Communications News in the Press
Updated 30 July, 1997
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March 1997
Scenario (University of Technology, Sydney - University Library)
March 1997
- p.1 IORA's 1st birthday ("...the one stop shop for the
UT's electronic information resources and a gateway to just some
of the world's resources supporting teaching, learning and research...Through
its membership in the Council of Australian University Librarians
(CAUL) the Library has participated with other university libraries
in the consortial purchase of datasets, generating tremendous
savings to the University and the Library.")
- p.3 Equity, fines and spectacular results ("In 1996 the
Equitable Sharing of resources Policy was implemented to address
the chronic problem of late return of Library materials...A comparison
with CAUL Library Fines Summary of December 1995, shows that UTS
fines are comparable to the rates of those university libraries
which impose fines.")
CAVAL Newsletter No 55 March 1997
- p.1 CAUL Members Visit CAVAL
- p.55 Library Performance Indicators ("The Performance
Indicator Kits published by the Council of Australian University
Librarians (CAUL) to facilitate data collection and benchmarking
in three key areas of library service are still available from
CAVAL.")
Shelf Life (Newsletter of the Dixson Library, University of
New England) March 1997
- p.1 Electronics Journals on the Web ("CAUL Universities
currently have access to Expanded Academic ASAP and Computer ASAP
for a period of twelve months.")
Online Currents v.12 no.2 March 1997
- p.14 CAUL Selects database providers. (Information Access
Company / DA)
Info (University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, Staff Newsletter)
3/97 13 March 1997
- p.1 UWSH library teaches regional staff to navigate the Net
Billboard (the newsletter for staff of Charles Sturt University)
v.6 no.3 27 March 1997
- p.3 Disaster recovery book launch (Disaster recovery for
archives, libraries and records management systems in Australia
and New Zealand by Judith Doig for CAVAL Disaster Management
Group, published by CSU Centre for Information Studies)
Campus Review v.7 no.11 26 March - 1 April 1997
- p.3 'Stellar' Curtin names new VC (Professor Lance Twomey,
from mid April)
- p.4 Minister targets science 'whinge' (could lead to deterioration
in relations between government and the research sector)
The Australian Higher Education March 19 1997
- p.29 Media groups shape up as cash cow for unis ("...a
$67,000 federal government project to evaluate opportunities and
threats presented by alliances between global media networks and
universities.")
The Australian 18 March 1997
- p.3 West cites uni course double-up.
Campus Review v.7 no.9 12-18 March 1997
- p.4 Students 'within immediate circle' (Senate Committee decisions
on Telecommunications Bill)
- p.4 Meet the 'online Government Council' (sic) (Minister for
Communications as chairman, higher education excluded)
- p.5 CASMAC collapse plunges unis in limbo
- p.12 A question of balance: Musings on the West review, by
Michael Osborne
- p.13, 16 Why we need a new Internet strategy
- p.16 Now for Internet 2 - the sequel
The Australian Higher Education March 19 1997
- p.29 Media groups shape up as cash cow for unis ("...a
$67,000 federal government project to evaluate opportunities and
threats presented by alliances between global media networks and
universities.")
ANU Reporter Vol 28 No 2 March 12 1997
- p.8 An information visionary for a changing world ("ANU
Librarian Colin Steele has spent his working life on a strange
voyage into a new information age.")
Campus Review v.7 No.8 5-11 March 1997
- p. 4 The future is virtual, says Melbourne VC (strategies
to integrate educational technologies)
- p.11 Watts's program for reform. (Don Watts' program for the
reform of Australian higher education)
- p.12 Let the battle for the research high ground begin (West
review likely to receive sharply differing views)
- p.12 On bookkeeping, by Robert Barnes (National Library of
Australia)
The Australian Higher Education March 5 1997
- p.29 Uni software crisis could cost millions ("Nineteen
universities are affected by the software crisis, which could
unravel eight years of work towards integrated software systems
intended to achieve massive cost savings and efficiencies...Australian
Vice-Chancellors Committee-sponsored Core Australian Specifications
for Management and Administrative Computing scheme.")
The Weekend Australian 1-2 March 1997
- p.37 Advert. Victoria. Department of Human Services. Manager,
Information Resource Centre. Salary $55,167-$77,234. Applications
close 19 March 1997.
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February 1997
Campus Review v.7 no.7 26 February-4 March 1997
- p.11 A snazzy Net pioneer 'logs off' (Tony Barry "virtually
retired")
University News (The University of Queensland)
- p.16 Learning made easy with Library's Internet package (QUIK!
- commercial version on CDROM)
Campus Review v.7 no.6 19-25 February 1997
- p.3 The whole World 1 in their hands (National Library of
Australia World 1 Search Service)
- p.3 It was 'a grand scheme at the wrong time' (National Library
of New Zealand involvement in the National Document Information
Service)
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 19 February 1997
- p.29 Push to pre-empt "trawling" (EIP project to
focus on "the strategies of big media corporations to develop
and provide education content and services via cable and satellite
television and its implications for publicly funded higher education.")
- p.29 West guidelines reveal Hilmer agenda: NTEU (Review of
Higher Education Financing and Policy) http://www.deet.gov.au/divisions/hed/hereview/default.htm
- p.30 HEC to rate performance (New federal government continuing
quality assurance program will subject universities to rigorous
performance measures, to begin next year)
- p.30 Advert. Review of Higher Education Financing and Policy.
Submissions due 24 April, 1997.
Campus Review v.7 no.5 12-18 February 1997
- p.12 Taking Stocker of Australian science priorities ([Minister]
'has directed Stocker to recommend "any gaps and overlaps
in current arrangements" and "ways of identifying national
priorities."')
- Stormy reception for AARNet Senate plea ("Having divested
itself of its 'non-core' commercial operations, the Telecommunications
Bill 1996 .... could compel [the AVCC] to take on commercial work
again.")
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 12 February 1997
- p.31 West in cautious mood after inaugural meeting.
- p.33 Clinton package gets top marks. (".... the message
for other nations at a time of global markets and increasing international
competition is that any starvation of higher education will take
its toll.")
- p.36 Advert. Committee for University Teaching and Staff Development.
National Teaching Development Grants and Staff Development Grants.
Applications close 28 April and 5 May 1997.
The Weekend Australian 8-9 February 1997
- p.3/Features. West's university challenge.
Campus Review v.7 no.4 5-11 February 1997
- p.3 Advert. Department of Industry, Science & Tourism.
International Science and Technology Program (ISTP) Applications
close 21 March 1997 (Major Grants Program) and 30 April 1997 (Bilateral
Science and Technology Collaboration Program)
- p.4 Higher ed to be spared another cut? (.... "no further
cuts to the higher education budget")
- p.5 Grant review process needs fine tuning. (ARC commissioned
report The Peer Review Process)
- p.13 Copyright's equivalent of Wik and Native Title (....
report on a meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organisation
.... attended by Jamie Wodetzki, as an observer for the International
Federation of Library Associations backed by organisations including
the Council of Australian University Librarians)
The Weekend Australian 1-2 February 1997
- p.7 Library faces next phase in computer row (National Library
of Australia)
inCite (news magazine of the Australian Library and Information
Association) v.18 no.2 February 1997
- p.15 Introducing the new General Councillors for 1997. (John
Shipp, Vice-president)
- p.18 New librarian at Deakin University (Sue McKnight)
- p.19 Congrats, Alex (Alex Byrne elected president of the Council
of Australian University Librarians)
- p.19 Library community loses a leader (Paul Evan Peters, Executive
Director of the Coalition for Networked Information)
Online Currents Vol 12 No 1 January/February 1997
- p.1 NLA Cancels WORLD 1 Project: NDIS Agreement Terminated
- p.2 NLA Drops NDIS Bombshell (Online Comments by editor)
Library Lines (University of Southern Queensland) no.23 January/February
1997
- p.2 S.C.I.R. ("Madeleine McPherson has been appointed
a member of the Standing Committee on Information Resources")
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January 1997
Campus Review January 29 - February 4 1977
- p.1 AVCC dumps Telstra in technology deal (Optus new manager
of AARNet)
- p.4 OLTC 'about to flower and bloom' says chief (EdNA will
be developed as the major element of the work of a revamped Open
Learning Technology Corporation)
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 29 January 1997
- p.21 Backlash to West processes (Review of Higher Education
Financing and Policy)
- p.22 Libraries to link with home PCs (".... newly formed
strategic alliance of peak Australian and British librarian bodies
.... Council of Australian University Librarians, Joint Information
Systems Committee")
- p.25 How to make funds perform: the West review of higher
education must rise to the market challenge, says Dennis Gibson
The Australian 28 January 1997
- p.42 Optus gets academics on side (AARNet Board .... preferred
Optus over Telstra for its data and voice requirements)
The Weekend Australian 25-26 January 1997
- p.24 What is a university? (many people argue that at least
some of the 36 universities so labelled in Australia are not worthy
of the name)
- p.26 Net Effect: Overstated. (a conference in Sydney Information
Online and Ondisc this week grappled with a central question
of the Internet age: What future the book, and more specifically
the library)
The Canberra Times 25 January 1997
- Serving the public proves a rewarding career (Dr Jan Lyall
awarded a Public Service Medal in the Australia Day Honours list)
The Australian 23 January 1997
- p.11 Vanstone may be in for a shock: there's a real task for
the university review to do - and the education minister may be
surprised by the answers, by Ken McKinnon.
Campus Review January 22-28 1997
- p.1 West aims for 'best of reports in worst of times'
- p.3 CAPA offers a lone voice of welcome to Roderick West
- p.9 'Just a humble party secretary' for the AVCC (Stuart Hamilton
newly in-place Executive Director of the Australian Vice-Chancellors'
Committee)
- p.11 Broad framework for shape of things to come (preamble
and terms of reference to Review of Higher Education Financing
and Policy)
The Australian 22 January 1997
- p.3 Business attacks uni funding inquiry
- p.3 Optus wins tertiary Net contract (AARNet 2)
The Australian Higher Education January 22 1997
- p.21 West reveals 'pressing issues' in review plan ("...Radio
National's...discussion paper in August or September...")
- p.21 Unis back high-tech administration ("...Benchmarking
- a University Experience by the director of student services
at Monash University, Mr Bob Burnet.")
- p.23 Inquiry chair urges return to teaching
- p.23 HEC still has policy role, says Stanley
- p.23 Private providers make competition an issue
- p.23 Go forth and seek alternative funding
- p.24 Reviews, we've had a few
- p.27 Britain's fixer-in-chief ("While Australia prepares
for a shake-up of its universities, Britain's higher education
review is already considering the evidence.")
- p.28 Big questions need clear guidelines ("The Government
needs to better define the parameters of the Higher Education
Review if the committee is to be effective.")
The Australian 21 January 1997
- p.1 Unis argue over selfish boofheads and windbags (training
function vs the pursuit of knowledge for the greater good)
- p.13 You can't beat unplugged knowledge (the book - not the
Internet - will prove to be the seminal invention of modern civilisation)
The Weekend Australian 18-19 January 1997
- p.1 Uni chiefs warn of rise in fees (as a result of the West
review)
- p.23 The great dilemma (The appointment of a committee this
week to review Australia's higher education system has sharpened
the debate over what we want from our universities)
The Australian 16 January 1997
- p.1,4 Review chief rejects vocational courses. (Review of
Higher Education Financing and Policy)
- p.4 Uni review chief outdated, say academics (Review of Higher
Education Financing and Policy)
Campus Review January 15-21 1997
- p.2 Former school head to lead inquiry team (Roderick West
appointed to Review of Higher Education Financing and Policy)
- p.3 Ancillary fee guidelines 'encourage charging' (e.g. institutions
are allowed to impose fees for use of Internet services)
- p.6 New DEETYA head is named (Stephen Sedgwick)
- p.7 Teaching through the global college (how universities
and academics can ensure their survival in the face of the turbulent
changes that are being wrought by new technology)
The Australian 15 January 1997
- p.1,4 'No limit' for uni funding overhaul (Review of Higher
Education Financing and Policy)
- p.4 Classicist takes helm at uni policy board (Mr Roderick
West, Review of Higher Education Financing and Policy)
- p.29 Unions wary of review reform signals (Review of Higher
Education Financing and Policy)
- p.36 Advert. Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee. Director,
National Staff Development Program ($67,903-$74,694) Applications
close 31 January 1997
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 8 January 1997
- p.29 Teaching body named. (".... full membership of the
new Committee for University Teaching and Staff Development.")
The Canberra Times 1 January 1997
- Letters to the Editor. Library is doing the best it can, by
Warren Horton, Director-General, National Library of Australia
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1996
Library Trends, Winter96, Vol. 44 Issue 3, p526 The quality
movement in Australian university libraries. By Williamson, Vicki.
Guide to Canberra and Region Antiquarian, Remainder and Secondhand
Bookshops Compiled by Colin Steele. Friends of the National
University Library, Canberra, 1996. 4th edition.
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