What was New 2002 Tuesday, 21 July 2009

24 December, 2002

• Towards the Connected Learning Society: An International Overview of Trends in Policy for Information and Communication Technology in Education.  Peter Kearns, Global Learning Services.  June 2002. This project was funded by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training. © Commonwealth of Australia 2002 (AU)
• The Enabling Pillars, Learning, Technology, Community, Partnership: A Report on Australian Policies for Information and Communication Technologies in Education and Training.  Peter Kearns and John Grant, Global Learning Services.  May 2002. This study of policies for information and communication technologies (ICT) in education and training in Australian education systems and agencies is the initial component in a project undertaken for the Australian Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST).  (AU)

20 December, 2002

• A Framework for an Australian Research and Education Network - The Final Report of the Systemic Infrastructure Initiative Higher Education Bandwidth Advisory Committee.  Dr. Mike Sargent AM Chair (Published on Internet Only) Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• Feasibility study for the development of a National Coalition for Information Literacy Advocacy.  Compiled for the Australian Library Information Association, National Library of Australia, and the National Office for the Information Economy , by Michele Lonsdale, Marianne Fleming (ACER) and Ralph Leonard (Nereus Consulting)  Australian Council for Educational Research  March 2002 (AU)

19 December, 2002

• Research Support Libraries Group (RSLG).  The four UK higher education funding bodies, in collaboration with the British Library and the national libraries of Wales and Scotland, have established a new strategic advisory group on research support libraries, chaired by Sir Brian Follett. This group will advise on the development of a national strategy to ensure that UK researchers in all disciplines have access to world class information resources. (UK)

18 December, 2002

• A Review of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) [by] Brian K. Follett November 2000 (UK)
• Structure of the New JISC.  January 2002 [Joint Information Systems Committee] (UK)

4 December, 2002

• Ticer (Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources BV) (NL)

3 December, 2002

• The Forum for the Future of Higher Education.  EDUCAUSE and the Forum have established a partnership to broadly disseminate Forum scholarship on new learning media and technology. (US)

2 December, 2002

• Opening All Options II.  This site provides information and resources about learning disabilities (LD).  has been developed
   from funding received from the Department of Education, Science and Training(DEST) and is based on an earlier version that was developed by the Universities Disabilities Cooperative Project (NSW).  It is hosted at the University of Tasmania.  (AU)

14 November, 2002

• The Organisation of the Academic Year: Trends,  implications and issues.  Gabrielle Baldwin, Craig McInnis. Centre for the Study of Higher Education The University of Melbourne (Evaluations and Investigations Programme 02/07 May 2002) Higher Education Group, Department of Education, Science and Training © Commonwealth of Australia 2002 (AU)

8 November, 2002

• The Australian Law Librarians' Group Inc  (AU)

7 November, 2002

• D. Runner, 2001 "Electronic Reserve Developments at Deakin University" [slide presentation ] Presentation to the Academic & Research Libraries Group of the Australian Library and Information Association, 11 April 2001. Perth, Western Australia. http://www.deakin.edu.au/library//staff/publications/DonnaR/Presentation_april01/index.htm
• D. Runner, J. Whiting and K. Murfitt, 2000 "Providing Accessible Information to Students with a Print Disability" [slide presentation / full paper] Conference Presentation. The Round Table on Information Access for People with a Print Disability: Surfing for Information or Missing at Sea Conference, May 21-23, 2000. Rex Hotel, Sydney, NSW. http://www.deakin.edu.au/library/staff/publications/DonnaR/print_disability/index.htm
• "A New Model of Library Support for Off-Campus Postgraduate Research Students", by Peter Macauley and Sue McKnight, a paper presented to the Quality in Postgraduate Research - Managing the New Agenda?, National Conference, jointly presented by the University of Adelaide, Flinders University and the University of South Australia, Adelaide, 23-24 April, 1998. http://www.deakin.edu.au/library/staff/newmodelliboc.html
• 2002, Managing Cultural Change: the challenge of merging library services, curriculum development and academic professional development, a paper presented at the 68th IFLA Council and General Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, 20 August 2002 / Sue McKnight. http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla68/papers/123-106e.pdf
• E. Kartus, D. Runner, and S. Clarke, 2002 "Digitisation and Copyright Compliance for Course Materials and Library Reserve Materials at Deakin University" [full paper] Conference Presentation. ALIA Distance Education Special Interest Group [DESIG] National Conference, 4-5 February 2002. Monash University, Melbourne, VIC. http://www.deakin.edu.au/library/staff/DESIG2002.htm

5 November, 2002

• hp accessibility. ".... providing accessible products and services to meet the needs of people with disabilities."   Hewlett-Packard Company (US)
• Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies:  A Division of the American Library Association - with particular concern for people with disabilities.  (US)

24 October, 2002

• Information Research:  an international electronic journal.  ISSN 1368-1613
  • Volume 8 No 1 October 2002. Special issue on Knowledge Management - the Emperor's new clothes? Edited by Suliman Al-Hawamdeh and T.D. Wilson
• NISO Z39.7-2002 Draft Standard for Trial Use Information Services and Use: Metrics & statistics for libraries and information providers--Data Dictionary. Status: Released for trial use: July 26, 2002-July 31, 2003. National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Created by NISO Standards Committee AY: Library Statistics.

23 October, 2002

• Knowledge Management:  a Standards Australia portal.  (AU)

18 October, 2002

• Australian Flexible Learning Framework 2000-2004 (AFL Framework).  Flexible Learning Advisory Group or FLAG  (FLAG was formerly known as Education Network Australia Vocational Education and Training Advisory Group, EdNA VET Advisory Group, or EVAG) (AU)
  • Resources Directory - a guide to all the resources developed through the AFL Framework.

16 October, 2002

• Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright and Neighbouring Rights in the Digital Environment: An International Library Perspective.  Committee on Copyright and Other Legal Matters (CLM). International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (EU)

9 October, 2002

• National Survey of Research Commercialisation Year 2000.  Australian Research Council, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, National Health & Medical Research Council.  September 2002.(AU)
• University Resourcing: Australia in an International Context -  Draft Research Report. Productivity Commission - released on 1 October 2002. (AU)
  • Press release by Dr Brendan Nelson, Minister for Education, Science and Training.

16 September, 2002

• CASS - Collaborative Academic Store for Scotland. SCURL (Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries) has received funding from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland to undertake a 6 month study from November 2001 to determine the optimal model for a collaborative storage and delivery service for valuable but low-use research materials held in Scottish university libraries. (UK)
• Achieving equitable and appropriate outcomes: indigenous Australians in higher education. Ministerial discussion paper.  Minister for Education, Science and Training.  August 2002.  Submissions due 13 September, 2002  (AU)
  • CAUL Response, prepared by Ruth Quinn (NTU) 13 September, 2002.
• The Big Picture:  Opportunities for potential areas for closer collaboration among the New Zealand university libraries.  A report to CONZUL and the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors’ Committee.  Helen Renwick June 2002 (NZ)
• Seizing the Moment: Scientists' Authorship Rights in the Digital Age. Prepared by Mark S. Frankel, Ph.D. July 2002.  This report is the result of a AAAS project that examined intellectual property issues associated with electronic publishing in science. The project was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (US)

9 September, 2002

• IFLA Internet Manifesto.  International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (EU)
• Better Practice in Online Service Delivery:  Improving service delivery in Commonwealth Government agencies.  National Office of the Information Economy  (AU)
• Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA (Australian People for Health, Education and Development Abroad - the overseas humanitarian aid agency of the ACTU)  (AU)
• National University of East Timor Library Project - UNTL Library Project.  Universidade Nasional Timor Lorosae (UNTL)  A group of individuals and representatives from a variety of organisations and institutions has established the Friends of the UNTL Library Group to assist with coordinating Australian appeal and support efforts. (AU)

1 September, 2002

• Independent Scholars Association of Australia Inc (AU)

23 August, 2002

• How Academic Librarians Can Influence Students’ Web-Based Information Choices.  OCLC White Paper on the Information Habits of College Students.  June 2002.  (US)
• HERO:  Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the UK.  (UK)
• Good practice in allocating library costs for the Transparency Review.  J M Consulting for JCPSG.  Joint Costing and Pricing Steering Group.  June 2002  (UK)
• Joint Costing and Pricing Steering Group - primary objective is to assist and encourage higher education institutions to apply best practice in the costing and pricing of their activities.  (UK)

22 August, 2002

• Plagiarism.  JISC's web pages on the electronic detection of plagiarism, and other associated activities. (Joint Information Systems Committee).  (UK)
• Plagiarism Detection and Prevention.  Final Report on the JISC Electronic Plagiarism Detection Project [by] Gill Chester. August 2001.  JISC (UK)

19 August, 2002

• Inquiry into the Role of Libraries in the Online Environment.  Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts References Committee.   Submissions due 16 August 2002  (AU)
  • Response from CAUL  Council of Australian University Librarians.
  • Response from Dr Alan Bundy.
  • Response from The National Office for the Information Economy.
  • Response from National Library of Australia.

18 August, 2002

• Frankfurt Book Fair.  (DE)

14 August, 2002

•  Meeting the Challenges: the Governance and Management of Universities. Discussion paper from the Minister for Education, Science and Training.  14 August, 2002.  (AU)

13 August, 2002

• Collaborative Online Learning and Information Services (COLIS) Consortium - Macquarie University (lead institution), University of Newcastle, University of New England, University of Southern Queensland, and University of Tasmania. (AU)
• Broadband in Education: Availability, Initiatives and Issues A Discussion Paper prepared for the Broadband Advisory Group. NOIE Access Branch. August 2002 (AU)
• The Australasian Association for Institutional Research (AAIR) (AU)
• webworkforce: Building the Internet Workforce Project - To develop core teaching resources for the education of software, network, and application developers who will comprise the Internet workforce .... Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Queensland and the Basser Department of Computer Science at the University of Sydney. (AU)

9 August, 2002

• Australian e-Humanities Gateway - a reference point for those involved in or seeking information about projects and events concerned with the use of digital resources in humanities disciplines in Australia. Australian e-Humanities Network (AU)
• Distance Education Association of New Zealand (DEANZ)  (NZ)

8 August, 2002

• Review of Teaching and Teacher Education.  Minister for Education, Science & Training Media Release 8 August 2002.  (AU)

6 August, 2002

• Canada's Innovation Strategy.  Government of Canada.  Launched February, 2002.  (CA)
  • Achieving excellence:  investing in people, knowledge and opportunity.
  • Knowledge Matters: Skills and Learning for Canadians

1 August, 2002

• Varieties of Excellence: Diversity, Specialisation and Regional Engagement.  Commonwealth Department of Education, Science & Training.  July 2002.  Higher Education Review Consultation Process.  (AU)

30 July, 2002

• The law and economics of copyright, contract and mass market licences. Research Paper prepared for the Centre for Copyright Studies Ltd by David Lindsay. ISBN 1 876692 03 0 - 2002  (AU)

27 July, 2002

• Learner expectations and experiences: An examination of student views of support in online learning. by Sarojni Choy; Cathy McNickle; Berwyn Clayton The National Centre for Vocational Education Research© NCVER 2001 (AU)
• ARL Scholars Portal Working Group. Final Report. 21 May 2002.  Association of Research Libraries (US)
• Focus on Access to Institutional Resources Programme (FAIR). JISC Circular 1/02. January 2002.  Joint Information Systems Committee.  (UK)
  • FAIR Programme (Focus on Access to Institutional Assets) FAQ.

26 July, 2002

• Public Libraries Australia website, providing an overview of the project aiming to establish a body for national representation of public libraries with the goal of promoting the interests of all public libraries in Australia and advocating on their behalf. Public Libraries Australia was previously called the Australian Public Libraries Network (APLN). (AU)

25 July, 2002

• Keeping Government Publications Online: Guidelines for Commonwealth Publishers. National Library of Australia. July 2002 (AU)

23 July, 2002

• Project Archimedes seeks to promote equal access to information for individuals with disabilities by influencing the early design stages of tomorrow's computer-based technology. Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University (US)

17 July, 2002

• COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources) - multi-agency project whose objective is to develop a single, internationally accepted, extendible Code of Practice that will allow the usage of online information products and services to be measured more consistently.  (UK)
• International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC)  Privacy Guidelines for Electronic Resources Vendors.
  • Press Release (July 12, 2002)

15 July, 2002

• Project for Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (SAILS).  Kent State University  (US)

10 July, 2002

• AVCC Library Staff Development Conference, Brisbane, 4-5 July 2002.  Selected presentations & papers.
  • Helen Hayes.  Stretching budgets creatively. Paper & Presentation.
  • Janine Schmidt.  Library Buildings in Canada.  Presentation.(2.5mb - large file)
  • Diane Costello.  Cooperative mechanisms in Canada & the US. Presentation.

25 June, 2002

• The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education. The Observatory is a unique service: an environmental scanning facility owned by, and run for, higher education. The Observatory aims to be an efficient and cost-effective way for member institutions of the ACU and Universities UK to keep abreast of borderless developments globally. (UK)

20 June, 2002

• Canadian University Reciprocal Borrowing Agreement  (CA)

19 June, 2002

• Department of Education, Science & Training. Research Evaluation Program. (AU)

24 May, 2002
 

• Developing National Research Priorities: An Issues Paper.  Authors - National Research Priorities Taskforce. Department of Education, Science & Training (AU)
• Storm or Sea-Change: Meeting the Challenges of Providing Tertiary Materials in Accessible Formats For Students with Print Disabilities:  A Discussion Paper produced by the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. May 2002 (AU)
• Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. Disability Rights.  Education Page.  (AU)
• Digital Rights Management in the Higher Education Sector. Authors - Renato Iannella (Editor) Evaluations And Investigations Programme Higher Education Group 02/02 Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• Universities Online: A survey of online education and services in Australia. Authors -Margot Bell, Denise Bush, Peter Nicholson, David O’Brien, Thien Tran. Higher Education Group.  Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) Occasional Paper Series 02A March 2002 (AU)
• Australian Universities Quality Agency (AU)
• Australian Information and Communications Technology in Education Committee (AICTEC) - a  cross-sectoral, national committee responsible for providing advice to all Australian Ministers of Education and Training on the economic and effective utilization of online technologies in Australian education and training. (AU)
• Third Annual EDUCAUSE Survey Identifies Current IT Issues:  Campus IT staffing challenges have eased, while security management has emerged as an issue of strategic importance. By Paul Kobulnicky, Julia A. Rudy, and the EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee (EDUCAUSE QUARTERLY • Number 2 2002) (US)
• The Application of Knowledge and the Evolution of Society: the emerging role of the Library in the knowledge society (in PDF)  Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library. Opening plenary talk given at the World Library Summit, 24 April 2002 Singapore.  (UK)
• National Forum for Information Planning (NFIP) - a national vehicle for discussion, exchange of experience advocacy, representation and promotion of strategic, cross-sectoral information planning and collaboration. (UK)

15 May, 2002

• The Effectiveness of Models of Flexible Provision of Higher Education. This study constitutes an investigation of the effectiveness of several models of flexible provision of higher education in Australia. The report is part of the Evaluations and Investigations Programme (EIP 01/9) Authors - Peter Ling, et al.  May, 2002.  Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• Characteristics and Performance Indicators of Higher Education Institutions. March, 2002 Department of Education, Science and Training (AU)
• 01/19 The Regulatory Environment Applying to Universities.
   Author - Phillips Fox, Lawyers
• 01/8 Shared Services Initiative: A joint initiative of the University of South Australia and the Flinders University of South Australia,
   Authors - Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, The Flinders University of South Australia, University of South Australia
• 01/3 Validating Scholarship in University Teaching: Constructing a national scheme for external peer review of ICT-based teaching and learning resources Author - Peter G Taylor, Angela S Richardson
•   01/2 Strengthening the Nexus between Teaching and Research  Authors - Ann Zubrick, Ian Reid, Paul Rossiter

10 May, 2002

• Guidelines for the Creation of Content for Resource Discovery Metadata.  Prepared by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of Tasmania.  (AU)

2 May, 2002

• Higher Education in Hong Kong:  Report of the University Grants Committee, commissioned by the Secretary for Education and Manpower, Stewart R. Sutherland, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Edinburgh.  March 2002 (HK)

12 April, 2002

• Digest of  Education Statistics.  National Center for Education Statistics. (US)

10 April, 2002

• Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Benchmarking Study National Library of Australia 2001 (AU)

21 March, 2002

• International Digital Libraries Collaborative Research And Applications Testbeds.  Program Solicitation Nsf-02-085 Directorate For Computer And Information Science And Engineering Division Of Information And Intelligent Systems. (Letter of intent due date 27/4/02)  National Science Foundation.  (US)
• A report to the RSLP on: Barriers to Resource Sharing Among Higher Education Libraries.  Research Support Libraries Program. January 2002 (UK)

19 March, 2002

• education.gov.au - The Education Portal is the online entry point to a comprehensive array of Commonwealth Government information and services concerning all aspects and levels of education in Australia. (AU)
• Higher Ed Systems - a wholly owned, not-for-profit subsidary of the Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee.  (AU)

26 February, 2002

• Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment, by William S. Brockman, Laura Neumann, Carole L. Palmer, Tonyia J. Tidline. Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources December 2001 (US)
• Top performing interlending operations:  Results of the Australian benchmarking study:  A paper presented by Tom Ruthven, National Library of Australia, at the Interlending and Document Supply 7th International Conference 1–5 October 2001 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.  Tom Ruthven, Susan Magnay (AU)

25 February, 2002

• Archiving Electronic Publications: A report of the NISO/BISG Meeting January 20, 2002 National Information Standards Organization. (US)

14 February, 2002

• Six-Month Report on Co-Regulatory Scheme for  Internet Content Regulation. January To June 2001. Tabled by the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.  February 2002 (AU)

11 February, 2002

• The Digital Preservation Coalition.  (UK)
  ARL E-Metrics Phase II report.    October 2001.  Association of Research Libraries (US)