What was New 1998 Tuesday, 21 July 2009

2 December, 1998

• Australian Research Council. Grants for Commencement of Funding in 1999.  (AU)
  • Research Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities Program - 1999 [successful grants outcomes] - Australian Research Council.  (AU)

25 November, 1998

• "New Missions of Academic Libraries in the 21st Century":  Beijing Conference - Report,  by Helen Hayes, The University of Melbourne. (AU)

23 October, 1998

• Informit Online.- Informit Online provides access to over 50 of the leading research databases that have been published by RMIT Publishing in association with the National Library of Australia, government agencies, Australian universities, leading Australian libraries and selected Singapore and US libraries.  (AU)

19 October, 1998

• CAUL 70th Anniversary Dinner Address, by Alex Byrne (CAUL President 1997-98) - 12 October, 1998 (AU)

8 October, 1998

• The Impact of Publisher Mergers on Journal Prices: A Preliminary Report, by Mark J. McCabe, Assistant Professor of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology.  September, 1998  (US)

23 September, 1998

• Dumber & Dumber: The Crisis for Australia's Research Library Infrastructure by Colin Steele, University Librarian of the Australian National University (13/5/98 ) - this article was first published in Eureka Street.  (AU)
• Integrating Library and IT Services at UC: Was It Worth The Effort and What Wisdom Have We Acquired? - a paper presented to the annual CAUDIT meeting, by Lois Jennings Executive Director, Client Services Division University of Canberra, August 1998  (AU)

4 September, 1998

• PubList.com SM - directory of information about more  than 150,000 publications and more than 8000 newspapers - information comes from definitive sources such as Ulrich's™ International Periodicals Directory.  (US)

2 September, 1998

• barnesandnoble.com inc. - online bookstore (US)

26 August, 1998

• [US] President's Information Technology Advisory Committee. Interim Report to the President. [on future directions for Federal support of research and development in high performance computing, communications, information technology, and the Next Generation Internet.] August 1998  (US)
• University approaches to resource constraints:  Monash University library strategies, by Edward Lim, University Librarian, Monash University.  Paper prepared for Round Table No. 8 (May 1998) of the National Scholarly Communication Forum, Seams in the Seamless: Technology and Delivery.  (AU)
• Filling the Gaps: a National Information Infrastructure, by Alex Byrne, President, Council of Australian University Librarians.  Paper prepared for Round Table No. 8 (May 1998) of the National Scholarly Communication Forum, Seams in the Seamless: Technology and Delivery.  (AU)
• Big University Tactics, by Helen Hayes, University Librarian,University of Melbourne.  Paper prepared for Round Table No. 8 (May 1998) of the National Scholarly Communication Forum, Seams in the Seamless: Technology and Delivery.  (AU)

16 June, 1998

• Education Technology in Higher Education  (Full Report PDF 127KB) (Executive Summary HTML 12KB) David McCann, Jenny Christmass, Peter Nicholson, Jeremy Stuparich (DEETYA Higer Education Division. Occasional papers series) (Dept of Employment, Education and Youth Affairs) (AU)

20 May, 1998

• Guidelines for Developing an Information Strategy: A Report prepared by Coopers & Lybrand and the JISC's Information Strategies Steering Group. Part A explains the value of an information strategy and its relationship to institutional and other strategies. Part B presents a recommended approach to institutions for preparing its information strategy.(UK)

30 April, 1998

• Educom's Instructional Management Systems (IMS) Project - developing a set of specifications and prototype software for facilitating the growth and viability of distributed learning on the Internet. (US)
• Higher Education Budget Statement. 9 August 1996 Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (AU)
• EXPLOITING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN HIGHER EDUCATION: : AN ISSUES PAPER 9 October 1996 ISBN 0 7266 0330 9 Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (AU)
• Joint Information Systems Committee Five Year Strategy 1996 - 2001 July 1996 (UK)
• JISCStrategy 2004-2006.  Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)