Higher Education and Communications News in the Press
Updated 3 February, 1998
Current News | September 1997
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September 1997
ACLIS News Vol 9 No 4 September 1997
- p.2 New ACLIS President and the New Plans for Service Delivery
("Derek Whitehead elected unopposed as President of ACLIS
and Ray Choate, University Librarian at the University of Adelaide,
was elected unopposed as Deputy President.")
- p.3 Interlibrary Lending Document Delivery Costs ("...resolved
to increase the basic charge for loans and copies from $9 to $12
per item.")
Calendar (Copyright Agency Limited) September 1997
- p.2 Who can be a member of CAL? ("To be a member you
must control the rights to reproduce materials protected by copyright")
- p.3 How does CAL cover its operational costs? ("CAL is
a not-for-profit company, limited by guarantee... expenditure
over licensing revenue in 1997 was 22.17%")
- p.4 New Image for AVCS
- p.5 Copyright Reform and the Digital Agenda ("...application
of existing 'exceptions,' such as fair dealing to the proposed
new rights...exceptions for libraries and archives...However,
it does have concerns about the application of exceptions, such
as fair dealing, to the new rights. It is CAL'S view that in a
digital environment such exceptions would have too great an adverse
impact on the copyright owners market and should not be applicable
to the new rights.")
- p.10 CAL talks to Oliver Freeman ("Which book would you
most like to have written? Hamilton of the Ringers. The
only soccer novel for boys in my library in the "fifties."
I read it about 20 times.")
- p.11 Culture, Copyright and Control in New and Old Media:
Global Perspectives ("Cultural Crossroads: Ownership, Access,
Identity conference to be held in Sydney from 24-26 November...Michael
Fraser, CAL'S Chief Executive, will talk on the subject of 'Why
Strong Copyright Law is in our National Interest.' ")
CAVAL Newsletter No 57 September 1997
- p.1 Executive Director Resigns ("Geoff Payne will resign
as Executive Director of CAVAL on Friday 3 October 1997.")
- p.1 Acting Executive Director ("The CAVAL Board has resolved
that Richard Leadbetter be designated Acting Executive Director
effective 6 October 1997 to 31 December 1997.")
Gateways (National Library of Australia) No 29 September 1997
- p.8 Cooperative collecting and access ("The collection
policies of Australian research libraries went under the microscope
at two important consultative meetings hosted by the National
Library in July. The National Academies Forum and the National
Scholarly Communications Forum...")
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August 1997
Newsletter (University of Sydney Library) No. 31 August 1997
- New university librarian (John Shipp from 11 August 1997)
Australian Bookseller & Publisher August 1997
- p.60-1 Choreographing an Australian vision, by Colin Steele.
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 20 August 1997
- p.37 AVCC software deal opens export doors (" .... new
AVCC company UniCAS has bought .... student information software
for six universities")
Inside QUT No 166 19 August to 1 September 1997
- p.2 QUT Library teaches Internet to planners
The Australian 19 August 1997
- p.14 Web changes everything, says professor
Campus Review v.7 no.31 13-19 August 1997
- p.6 $109,200 web site for sacred artifacts (" .... managed
jointly by the Berndt Museum and the university [of Western Australia]
library ...[with] funding from the National Priority (Reserve)
Fund")
- p.15 Where does postgraduate research fit in? (Submission
by the Australian Academy of Science to the Review of Higher Education
Financing and Policy)
- p.40 Deakin library closed after fire (Rusden Campus)
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 13 August 1997
- p.35 Adelaide names new deputy VCs (and "John Shipp will
move from Wollongong .... [to be] librarian at the University
of Sydney")
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 6 August 1997
- p.15 Incoming AVCC president plots new course (Professor John
Niland, University of New South Wales)
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July 1997
The Australian 31 July 1997
- p.2 IT Mr Fixit a chance to avoid $46bn trade deficit (Report
of the Information Industries Taskforce, The Global Economy
- The Way Ahead. Chairman: Ashley Goldsworthy)
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 30 July 1997
- p.33 AVCC named in software dispute (AVCC-owned UniPower vs
CHA Computer Solutions re CASMAC systems development)
- p.36 Dearing pushes user-pays. (UK National Committee of Inquiry
into Higher Education )
- p.37 Advert. University of Auckland. University Librarian.
Applications close 1 September 1997.
The Australian 29 July 1997
- p.33 Single voice as Net groups merge (Internet Industry Association
of Australia (INTIAA) and the Australian Internet Association
(AIA) to become the Australian Internet Council)
- p.42 Britannica's CD version to test market (Publisher's announcement
that it will no longer print hard-copy editions)
- p.44 Net users to petition Senate on content.
The Australian 25 July 1997
- p.10 Kennett aims to corner the biblio-belt (Fran Awcock new
director of the State Library of Victoria)
The Australian 24 July 1997
- Streamlined R&D aid an incentive (Mortimer report: Universities
would .... be encouraged to increase their level of funding from
industry sources by 50 per cent)
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 23 July 1997
- p.33 Uni chiefs to be named in software suit (software supplier
CHA Computer Solutions vs AVCC CASMAC group UniPower)
- p.33 Dearing review calls for students to dig deep (Higher
Education in the Learning Society: [The Dearing Report]: report
of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/ncihe/
- p.35 Concern grows as ARC left in limbo (government inertia
at finding a replacement for chairman)
- p.36. Advert. University of Technology, Sydney Associate Librarian
(Resources) Salary range: $76,720 - $88,800 applications close
13 August 1997.
- p.39 Obstacles on the road to cooperation. ("Higher Education
Council will soon let a project to examine how universities may
increase their collaboration with each other ....")
The Australian 22 July 1997
- p.39 Net controls welcomed - with reservations
- p.44 Alliance guards copyright ("alliance formed to facilitate
trade and improve protection of IP on the Internet. The deal between
Australia's copyright projects Propagate and Esprit Imprimatur
collaborate on open system architecture for ECM systems")
Times Higher Education Supplement July 1997
- p.1 Research council for the arts ("Dearing committee
set to recommend the creation of an Arts and Humanities Research
Council .... CVCP recommended the council take over responsibility
for post-graduate training [from] the British Academy")
- p.1 Pot of gold for regions. ("Dearing may recommend
top-slicing higher and further education budgets")
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