Updated 30 March, 2005

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See also CAUL Occasional Bulletin [1] and [2], Media Releases, CAUL surveys and records of CAUL meetings

The major activities in which CAUL & its members are currently engaged are:

• Australian Digital Theses program;
• University Library Australia:  the national borrowing scheme for Australian university students and staff;
• cooperative provision, since 1992, of access to electronic journals & databases;
• Information literacy measurement - CAUL is piloting high quality information literacy assessment tools;
• CAUL Information Literacy Standards;
• contribution to Australia-wide projects to improve access to Australian collections, including digitisation and preservation eg. Australian Library Collections Task Force;
• determination of performance indicators for academic libraries;
• contribution to national government inquiries relevant to the future of universities and their libraries;
• collaboration in the development of new and improved services for academic library users, eg. electronic reserve collections, standardised electronic document delivery systems, etc;
• contribution to the enhancement of scholarly publishing through SPARC and the NSCF (National Scholarly Communication Forum);
• liaison with major international and national organisations, eg. CONZUL, CAUDIT, ACODE, CURL, ARL, SCONUL, CARL, Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), Council of Australian State Libraries (CASL) and the National Library of Australia.
• A CAUL 2004/2 recommendation (Madeleine McPherson / Alex Byrne) was carried, with the addition of a reference to a timeline.

Recommendation to CAUL:  that the following guidelines be applied when recommending that CAUL become a member of an organisation:
1. The CAUL strategic plan should guide the decision.
2. The benefit must be direct and relate to CAUL’s strategic plan.
3. CAUL should belong to organisations for transactional reasons or direct material benefit, not for affiliate or common goal reasons. Alliances are important, but if not of direct benefit, CAUL should offer to be an associate or affiliate with respect to communication, exchange of newsletters etc
• contribution to the direction of Australian information infrastructure planning;
• collection and publication of Australian university library statistics; and;
• current awareness services for members and associates
• publications

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This site is written, compiled and maintained by Diane Costello, Executive Officer, CAUL.