Higher Education and Communications News in the Press 1997 Apr-J

Higher Education and Communications News in the Press

Updated 3 February, 1998

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June 1997

CAVAL Newsletter No 56 June 1997

p.1 CIDER (CAVAL Information Delivery and Electronic Requesting) ("Researchers in the fields of arts, social sciences and humanities will be able to order articles from Melbourne, Monash, Deakin and La Trobe universities and the CARM Centre, where the scanners will be located, and receive the documents electronically to their desktop...CIDER web page...")
p.2 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.")
p.2 CAVAL Reference Interest Group (CRIG) ("The CRIG Working Party on Performance Measures for Reference Services has just published its 'Second Report'. Copies are available from the CAVAL Office [free to CAVAL Libraries and $25.00 to others}.")

inCite (News magazine of the Australian Library and Information Association) v.18 June 1997

p.18 Partnership agreement signed (between Griffith University and Blackwells, preferred supplier for serials and monographs)
p.25 Who's where (Ainslie Dewe is RMIT's new university librarian)
p.27 CILLA (The AVCC and the NLA have agreed in principle to undertake a joint procurement process for systems to provide local request management capabilities, as described in the feasibility study for the Coordinated interlibrary Loan Administration Project (CILLA)) http://www.gu.edu.au/alib/iii/docdel/cilla/

UNILINC Newsletter no.26 June 1997

p.2 Member News. Southern Cross. Professor Jim Hann appointed to Executive Director, Information Services.

Campus Review v.7 no.24 25 June - 1 July 1997

p.5 Market focus urged for review (Review of Higher Education Financing and Policy)
p.13 Library bodies set to merge (Australian Library and Information Association and Australian Council of Libraries and Information Services)
p.13 Price rise forecast on journals. (Academic journals rise 11%, weakness of dollar increases blow out to 15%)

The Canberra Times 23 June 1997

p.17 Confusion over electronic documents

The Australian 14 June 1997

p.33 Advert. State Library of South Australia. Director. Applications close 14 July 1997.

The Australian 11 June 1997

p.13 The next university challenge - to work together or alone: competition or collaboration: which better serves the interests of higher education?

Campus Review v.7 no.21 4-10 June 1997

p.5 Budget shelves $150,000 Aus AID library scheme.

The Australian Higher Education Supplement 4 June 1997

p.33 U-turn on funding stance (Roderick West releases statement University Funding Cuts - The Facts, appearing to contradict earlier comments on the need for more public funding for universities)
p.38 Advert. University of Tasmania. University Librarian. 5 year contract. Applications close 4 July 1997.
p.39 Advert. Griffith University. Professor and Director, Griffith Flexible Learning Services, $81,780 + Applications close 20 June 1997.

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May 1997

Library News Update (University of Newcastle) May 1997

p.1 Academic Press Journals Online ("The University of Newcastle has access to 173 full text research journals online for one year in a trial organised by the Council of Australian University Librarians.")

OCLC Newsletter May/June 1997

p.24 Asia pacific librarians meet at OCLC to discuss cooperation, diversity. (Janine Schmidt, library director, University of Queensland; Alex Byrne, director of information services, Northern Territory University)

Campus Review v.7 no.20 28 May - 3 June 1997

p.5 Australian Technology network "Useful Five" enhance their ties (.... "already had cooperative projects involving librarians and planning officers, and the ATN Women in Leadership program")
p.7 Uni executives 'lack skills' for new role. (Professor Ken McKinnon speaking at AITEA Queensland conference)
p.7 Call for training to meet challenges (AITEA setting up joint working party with ANTA to examine training programs across the two sectors)
p.23 Co-op Web site expands to a million titles. http://www.coop-bookshop.com.au/

The Australian 28 May 1997

p.1 Cuts hurt quality at unis, says West

The Australian Higher Education Supplement 28 May 1997

p.33, 40 West backs public funding for unis ("....report will have to say ....the national good that comes from a university education....")
p.35 Stress on applying new technology (Professor Gordon Stanley, Higher Education Council "was developing a quality framework for flexible learning arrangements" expected to be made public in June)

UniNews (University of South Australia) no.7 26 May 1997

p.4 Library cooperation. (All staff and students of the three universities in South Australia have borrowing access to the libraries of the three institutions.)

INFO (University of Western Sydney Hawkesbury Staff Newsletter) 9/97 22 May 1997

p.1 Bon Voyage, Aileen (Aileen Stevenson retires as Head Librarian 14 May)

Campus Review v.7 no.19 May 21-27 1997

p.1 New VC emphasises global education role (Professor Deryck Schreuder appointed Vice-Chancellor of University of Western Australia)

Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee Bulletin to Vice-Chancellors and Registrars no.4/1997 21 May 1997

p.2 Copyright and Intellectual Property (12 universities chosen to give discovery of documents in the matter of determining the license fee payable for copying works into electronic databases in university libraries: ANU, Ballarat, CSU, Deakin, Melbourne, Monash, QUT, UniSA, SCU, UNSW, UWA and UOW. Payment for audio-visual copying in 1997 will be at the rate of $8.65 per EFTSU)
p.3 Other business. (AVCC agreed to establish a reference group, to include the chairs of the AVCC's standing committees, to develop a number of key issues for the AVCC to pursue with Government over the next 12-18 months)

The Australian Higher Education Supplement 21 May 1997

p.35 Management the key to effective IT ("Managing the Introduction of Technology in the Delivery and Administration of Higher Education was carried out by the Fujitsu Centre in the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of NSW. The study, founded under the Commonwealth Evaluations and Investigations Program...")
p.35 Collaborative project costs time and money ("A 'WAITING for CASMAC' syndrome within universities and below average management scrutiny of the project have led to a potentially higher risk")
p.35 High-tech revolution in tertiary jobs ("...with a few exceptions, there is little evidence of universities actively planning for the role changes IT will bring")
p.39 Enough instability already: VC ("The 'state of disrepair of university equipment, libraries and fundamental infrastructure combined with reduced intra-mural funds to invest in infrastructure' meant the fabric of universities was threatened.")

Adelaidean (News from the University of Adelaide) v.6 no.8 19 May 1997

p. 3 German Donation to Barr Smith Library (.... microfiche collection Bibliothek der Deutschen Literatur, full-text collection of German literature from the 4th century "Ulfilas" to 1900)

Campus Review v.7 no.18 14-20 May 1997

p.2 Budget neglects research ("In his speech to Parliament, Costello uttered no words remotely relating to science, technology, research, development and higher education ....")
p.9 Home is where the heart of the Net is. (Report A Planning Model for Innovation: New Learning Technologies by John Mitchell and Robert Bluer)
p.15 Web database on South Asian region (LaTrobe and Curtin Universities, with the National Library of Australia, partially funded by the Australian Research Council http://recall.curtin.edu.au/Data/saru/Sard.htm)
p.15 The 1997 design challenge is on. (Apple Design Project - Design Brief: The Future of Libraries http://design.research.apple.com/design97/brief.html (Apple Research Laboratories))
p.16 Librarians choose SearchBank for trial ("The Council of Australian University Librarians has selected Information Access Company's SearchBank as its choice for a full-text Web-based database service")
p. 17 or 18 South Asian Region ("Strong supported by the National Library of Australia, and other research libraries, the database was also partly funded by the Australian Research Council...http://recall.curtin.edu.au/Data/saru/Sard.htm")

The Australian Higher Education Supplement 14 May 1997

p.27 Further 1pc cut with few sweeteners (Federal government budget 97)
p.34 Advert. Higher Education Council Consultancy. Collaboration between Post-Secondary Education, Training and Research Institutions.

Campus Review v.7 no.17 7-13 May 1997

p.3 Challenges to the West review (References to CAUL submission)
p.12 University and industry R&D must work together ("Griffith vice-chancellor Professor Roy Webb said that infrastructure such as the new Griffith [Science Two Research Extension] was still effectively funded by the Commonwealth and that industry had showed no willingness to fund buildings, libraries and laboratories")

Inter ALIA May 7 - 13 1997

p.1 The new frontier of academia ("Even the chief librarians - in a field overwhelmingly dominated by women - tend to be males.")

The Australian 7 May 1997

p.14 Obituaries. Librarian built up uni collection (Andrew Delbridge Osborn, University of Sydney 1959-62)

Copyright Bulletin (Australian Council of Libraries and Information Services) No 12 May 1997

p.3 Statutory Licences and Digital Copying: Overcoming the Problem of Incomplete Rights Coverage ("How then is the process to digitisation going forward, and more specifically, what are parties such as libraries and universities negotiating for when they negotiate terms of digital copying licenses with Copyright Agency Limited(CAL)?")

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April 1997

The University of Adelaide Library News No 11 April 1997

p. 1-3 Electronic Information resources in the Library: 20 years on ("Additional databases have been made available in CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians)-sponsored trials which, (commencing with Current Contents in September 1993, followed by First Search in 1994, by CitaDel, Lexis-Nexis and others in 1995 and Britannica Online in 1996) have provided the opportunity to test a number of databases before purchase.")

Campus Review v.7 no.16 30 April - 6 May 1997

p.1,3 VCs push for global standards (AVCC submission to the West Review: "government must look to tax incentives for industry investment in teaching and training")
p.11 Resource centres face closure (UniServe Clearinghouses funding runs out 1997)

The Australian Higher Education Supplement 30 April 997

p.35 Compendium details review of competition (Legislation review compendium by National Competition Council)
p.35 VCs seek talks on collaboration ("to cooperate on courses without fear of breaching the Government's competition principles")

Campus Review v.7 no.15 23-29 April 1997

p.5 Librarians in plea for overdue cash boost (CAUL submission to the Review of Higher Education Financing and Policy)
p.5 $7.05million slashed from budgets (of Australia's university libraries, due to recent budget cuts)
p.5 JCU announces two new pro VCs (Eric Wainwright, pro vice-chancellor (academic support), Professor Norman Palmer, pro vice-chancellor (research and international))

The Australian Higher Education Supplement 23 April 997

p.36 Fear and overload on the review trail: the West committee safari across university campuses ends this week.

The Australian April 17 1997

p.6 NZ censure for national software partner

Campus Review v.7 no.14 16-22 April 1997

p.4 Moses takes top post at UNE (Professor Ingrid Moses appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England)
p.5 UniPower takes on UK firm in court (AVCC-owned UniPower vs CHA Computer Solutions re CASMAC systems development)
p.12 Seeking middle ground for management and academe. (DEETYA EIP report Higher Education Governance and Management: an Australian Study by V.Lynn Meek and Fiona Q. Wood http://www.deetya.gov.au/divisions/hed/operations/eip9701/front.htm)
p.15 Distance Ed? It's here, there and everywhere (DEETYA commissioned evaluation of the scope for technology-based delivery across territorial borders, alliances between global media networks and universities, and the implications for educational institutions)
Optus offers Net gains (Infotech Advertising Feature on AARNet 2)

Inside QUT No.159 18 March - 17 April 1997

p.1 QUT to investigate 'virtual unis' ("QUT team will assess the likelihood of competition from privately owned education networks and any subsequent implications for the Australian higher education sector")

The Australian Higher Education Supplement 16 April 1997

p.34 Advert. Southern Cross University. Executive Director of Information Services. Applications close 19 May 1997.

Campus Review v.7 no.13 9-15 April 1997

p.4 Guardian of spirit of inquiry v 'stamp collectors' (Professor Peter Baume, member of the West Review Committee on the nature of higher education)

The Australian Higher Education Supplement 9 April 997

p.33 VCs divided over draft submission to West review.
p.33 Unis sue software firm for breach (UniPower group sues CHA Computer Solutions, CASMAC software)

The Australian Higher Education Supplement 2 April 1997

p.33 First stop ECU, then the world (Professor Millicent Poole is Edith Cowan University's new vice-chancellor, from July)
p.34 Call for national science body ("FASTS also wants the Federal Government to set up a national facilities and projects research committee to finance large-scale research outside the Australian Research Council's capacity.')
p.34 New grants head targets funding gaps (Professor Ross Milbourne, chairman of the ARC research grants committee)

CALendar April 1 1997

p.1 Fair dealing in an unfair world ("The CAL submission was in response to a CLRC issues paper on the simplification of the fair dealing provisions within the Copyright Act 1968.")
p.9 CAL supports copyright projects ("...University of Melbourne...information kit on their copyright entitlements and responsibilities in relation to print, software, graphics, images and multimedia.")
p.10 Staying in touch with CAL ("CAL's directory of authors and publishers is now online")
insert page Fair Dealing: A Summary of CAL's Submission to the CLRC ("...digital copying, if allowed to take place without a mechanism for payment of remuneration, will substantially adversely affect the markets, or potential markets, of copyright owners ...current provisions allowing substantial copying without payment...through the development of voluntary licences administered by collecting societies such as CAL... introduction of a levy on hardware such as photocopiers, scanners and personal computers, would be appropriate...CAL would give its qualified support for the simplification of the provisions...section 40(1A)...enrolled external students of an educational institution...CAL's view that this section should be repealed.")

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