Updated 5 September, 2005

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2005

September, 2005

• Don't turn unis into shopping centres.  By Ross Gittins

August, 2005

• p.29, 32.  China's big spend bites. "Australia decided it can reduce public investment in universities and let the market replace it.  In China and Singapore they've decided to go the other way."

July, 2005

• p.15  Advert. Southern Cross University University Librarian Closing Date: 15 August, 2005 www.scu.edu.au/jobs

• p.4  Unis highly productive, but at a cost.  "... Electronic library services and learning materials .... had greatly benefited teaching productivity."  Efficiency, Technology and Productivity Change in Australian Universities, 1998-2003  Andrew C. Worthington and Boon L. Lee.  June 2005

June, 2005

• p.28  Research is not a contest.  [Research Quality Framework]
• p.33  How to stay the course [in online courses]

• p.30 Backing Australia is a contradiction.
• p.31 Time plea on quality formula. [Research Quality Framework]
• p.31 International group cops criticism. [DEST AEI]
• p.34 Computers close chapter of the campus library [University of Austin at Texas converts one of its libraries to "software suites"]

The Australian IT Today 18 January, 2005

• p.26  Commons simplifies net rights. [Australian Creative Commons licence]
• p.29  Fifties rockers losing their royalties.  [UK performers' rights expire 50 years after publication.  US in 95 years.]

• p.25 A closer look at research. CHASS study into the measurement of the value and quality of researcyh.
• p. 29 Advert.  NHMRC, ARC, AVCC. Call for public submissions on the Australian Code for Conducting Research.  http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/research/general/nhmrcavc.htm
• p.32 Deakin University has appointed Lin Martin to the newly created position of vice-president (academic and information services)

2004

December, 2004

• p.20 Congratulations to ALIA's newest Fellow! Janine Betty Schmidt, BA, MLib, FALIA.
• p.20 New Trenholme director of libraries [McGill University, Montreal]. Janine Schmidt
• p.26 Obituary.  Ira Doley Raymond 1917-2004

September, 2004

• Formulating 130, 000 theses for your perusal. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,10837338,00.html

• Thesis database to bloom. Bill Pheasant http://www.afr.com/premium/articles/2004/09/12/1094927428392.html

June, 2004

• p.37 Focus on humanities in quest for profits
• p.41 Conference : “Building Relationships” The Universities public relations, marketing and development conference, Sydney 27-29 October 2004 http://www.pr.mq.edu.au/buildingrelationships/

• p. 1 The great economic pay-off

• p.33 Watchdog for offshore operations
• p.33 Research head wants to drive productivity
• p.35 AVCC feels lobbying pinch

• p.37 Conference  4th National  University finance and procurement conference 19-20 July Flinders university `
• p. 40 Conference First year in higher education 14-16 July 2004 at Monash university QUT 07 3864 2915

• p.27 Macquarie university Macquarie E-Learning centre of excellence (MELCOE) employment opportunities

• p. 31 Votes in research agenda
• p. 32 Conference NET*WORKING 2004 “Inclusion and inspiration” 8-19 November 2004

• p.32 A painful wait before acting on information

• p.29 Campus in for constructive criticism
• p.31 Law book shortage hits UNE libraries

May, 2004

• p.32 Rundown on growth of market for electronic learning Melbourne

• p.5 Howard tries to head off free-trade concerns

• p.22 Employment opportunity Head, Information Services University of Ballarat
• p.22 Profiteers threaten offshore ventures
• p.29 New era rises from the ashes of the old

• p.34 Law schools out of touch
• p.35 Vigorous overseas campaign
• p.36 Funding mission flying
• p.37 Intellectual wealth is invaluable for us
• p.39 Researchers left stranded

April, 2004

• p.2 Research Infrastructure: A university perspective

• p.35 Call to wipe Abstudy debts

• p.24 Griffith told to lift research care
• p.24 Employment opportunity

• p.7 Uni in turmoil  as heads roll
• p.14 Uni must place truth above all else

• Business as usual at ADFA

March, 2004

• p.30 ISPs left in the dark over internet copyright law
• p.34 And let us fondly recall NOIE’s economic input

• Technology threatens old school ties, by Bill Pheasant.

2003

June 2003

Campus Review May 28 - June 3

• p.1  CHASS:  Life in the FASTS lane for humanities.  "Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) will boost the profile and policy influence of the disciplines as well as provide much-needed scope for pitching funding claims at government movers and shakers in higher education."
• p.12-13  CRCS and universities: quantifying the benefits.
• p.14  Protecting research, by Kim Carr, Shadow Minister for Science and Research and the Public Service.
• p.17  Teaching technology training:  a hurdle for online programs.  "It was decided that the most effective way to conduct initial training would be through a series of face-to-face workshops."

May 2003

Campus Review May 21-27

• p.2  Education reform package - a breakdown of where dollars go.
• p.3  The devil's in Big Brother's detail.
• p.3  Time will tell if new policy can deliver, says Griffith VC

March 2003

• p.28  Music copyright code closer. (IT Today)

2002

November 2002

• Up to 14% of Australian University Students May Be Plagiarizing From Web, Study Suggests By ANDREA L. FOSTER

Campus Review v.12 no. 44 November 13-19 2002

• p.9 CAUL appoints McPherson to top post.

September 2002

• p.A4 Library heads talk shop. CAUL meeting in Dunedin New Zealand

• p. 19 Plagiarism tracked at 8 per cent. Report by CAVAL.

• p.13 CD Launch for ANU bulletin Archive. AusAID will provide copies of the ANUs Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies on CD to university libraries.

• p.7 Libraries assist East Timor to rebuild its library collections. To help see the following websites http://www.apheda.org. and the UNTL library project website http://www.untl.labor.net.au Contribution great and small are welcome
• p.20 Discussion of catering to the variety of web browsers when designing websites. With particular reference to the W3C ( World wide web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#transform-gracefully
• p.23 CAUL website gets a plug. http://www.caul.edu.au/
• p.23 better practice in online service delivery http://www.noie.gov.auplease note: this information will be available through this address from mid November 2002 and was previously accessed through the GovOnline site. http://www.noie.gov.au/projects/egovernment/Better_Practice/BPGuide/bp_index.htm

August 2002

• p.52 Much more to Monash. Praise for library courses on research and other library skills.

• p.C4 Universities take a spin amid the din and clutter. More discussion of the reform papers in the Governments Higher Education Review

• p. Pedagogy needs place in education reform. Interview with Mary Kalantzis; chair of the Australian Council of Deans of Education.

July 2002

• p. Library's quiet achiever seeks open cheque-books (NLA)

• p.29 "Suit the system" A Survey of business leaders show they crave deal-makers in universities
• p.30 Consultants weigh merger - KPMG consulting and Phillips Curran
• p.33 Social and creative disciplines in ascent - intellectual content and innovation funding
• p.36 Campuses vote for office democracy. report "eBusiness in Education" issued by the National office for the Information Economy. www.noie.gov.au/publications

June 2002

• p.29 AVCC proposals create heated debate in Parliament - particularly regarding the suggestions about fees.
• p.34 AVCC wants basic changes to funding and regulation from the federal governments review.

• p.30 The Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission warns in a new paper that all universities should meet their legal obligations to the disabled or risk anti-discrimination action.
• p.31 Education Minister, Brendan Nelson seeks valid benchmark between Australian and overseas universities as part of the Productivity Commissions inquiry into higher education.
• p.31 World Alliance of Distance Education opens new world of e-learning.

• p.27 CAL to begin trials of a digital system for selling intellectual property over the Internet.

April 2002

• p.5 Chubb defends ANU's status. Attack on education minister denigrating quality of Australian University's international ranking

• p.59 Paper chase. Article on cost and access to scientific journals by Colin Steele

March 2002

• p.33 Skills are built by degree - students critical thinking problem solving skills tested on entry and exit
• p.35 Peers to get a lesson. Australian Universities Quality Agency (AQUA) audit processes
• p.35 Vice-Chancellor designate of University of Adelaide, James McWha talks about the financial challenges facing the University
• p.38 UNSW new Vice-Chancellor Rory Plum
• p.40 Online course to teach research skills ready to start at University of South Australia.
• p.40 Search for common rule - Academics had better get involved with instructional software design or risk being stuck with inappropriate standards

• p.31 New website lists upcoming programs, teaching resources and related websites. www.enhancetv.com.au
• p.32 New Parliamentary committee on science- House of representatives standing committee on science and innovation.
• p.33 ARC announces priority areas for funding and release of discussion paper.
• p.33 Series of discussion papers to be produced over the next 9 months as government quickens its higher education shakeup.
• p.38 Satisfaction measures show an emphasis on students as customers has reduced quality and responsiveness.
• p.39 CSU Vice-Chancellor Ian Goulter discusses strategies to ensure the university's "thrival" ; seeing university funding as an investment rather than a cost

• p.2 University of Adelaide to be known by this, its statutory name rather than as the Adelaide University decides the university council
• p.8 CAUDIT has new executive officer, Peter Nissen.
• p.18 Publisher Macmillan's academic and reference division will in future be known as Palgrave Macmillan Australia

• p.31 Jobs up for grabs in DEST overhaul
• p.33 Universities boost Research power with library link. SA universities jointly buy library system which allows students to access the collections of the 3 unis

• p.2 Shergold talks tough on DEST's policy
• p.4 AARNet revamps cache mirror device for a new look and feel. http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au
• p.4 New online portal provides quick link to Australian education. www.education.gov.au
• p.13 Learning your ABC (Activity based costing)
• p.14 As digital records increase so does the need to keep them readable; a report on a new drive to keep old information alive

February 2002

• p.6 Disability access points under review at WA TAFEs
• p.7 The national review of nursing education discussion paper released by Department of Education, Science and Technology. www.dest.gov.au/highered/programmes/nursing
• p.15 Online book challenges the university system. "The Subversion of Australian Universities" www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/sau/

January 2002

• Leading Liberal tipped as AVCC lobbyist

2001

November 2001

• p.37 Ministries perform soft shoe shuffle . combination of education and science DEST
• p.37 Healing hand, hard head. Brendan Nelson has a vision for Australia.
• p.47 Macquarie University Advertises university librarians position

January 2001

• p.29  Changes again for DETYA indicators. (Characteristics and Performance Indicators of higher Education Instituions, 2000:  Preliminary Report - "ANU spends $1798 per full-time student on the library .... Griffith spends $372)

2000

November 2000

• p.6  R&D needs funds, tax break (Batterham report)

June 2000

• p.37  Survey shows private sector surge (http://www.detya.gov.au/highered/eippubs/eip00-4/00_4execsum.htm)
• p.44  Dollar for dollar, a graver issue (".... studies will highlight the resource infrastructure problems for Australian researchers in a globally competitive environment ....") Letter, Colin Steele, ANU.

April 2000

• p.29  All geared up for online learning.  (News Corporation .... negotiating for six months with the Universitas 21 group)
• p.32 IT inaction risks export earnings (.... information economy action plan prepared by the Higher Education IT Consultative Forum for the EdNA Reference Committee)  http://www.avcc.edu.au/avcc/itpolicy/actionplan/index.html

1999

December 1999

p. By the book. Academic libraries are getting together to meet the challenges of the information age. (Helen Hayes author.)

• p.35  Library cuts put research at risk (CAUL submission to the Federal Government's science capability review)
• p.36  Scientists take ideas to Canberra (FASTS set up 140 appointments matching a politician with a pair of scientists)

November 1999

• p.37  Private sector a drain on unis (Australian governments spend up to $18 billion each year on handouts and concessions for the private sector, mostly in old and declining industries - Mark Latham)
• p.39  Voucher system back on agenda (AVCC discussion paper on the green paper)
• p.43  Nothing ventured, nothing gained. (Enhancing Diversity in Australian Higher Education:  A discussion paper, by Stephen Kemmis, Simon Marginson, Paige Porter and Fazal Rizvi (Prepared for the University of Western Australia)
• p.46  Advert.  Swinburne University of Technology.  Director, Information Resources Group.  Applications close 8 December, 1999.

• p.4  AVCC spells out dangers of digital copyright.  (... universities recognise the importance of copyright and the appropriate and the appropriate economic incentives and rewards that it provides to creators.  The health of academic publishing is obviously important to education, and universities are both creators and users of copyright material... )
• p.6  Industry links praised by alumni  (.. Yerbury said ... new technologies had ... help build strategic alliances between universities and industry.  Information services, including university libraries had been transformed...)
• p.12  Let's put some perspective into copyright, by Simon Lake, CEO Screenrights  (Wiseman report Copyright in Universities - no mention of the percentage of operating revenue spent on this valuable teaching resource and no comparison with other key budget items.  There was no mention of inherent value of these materials to students, to researchers .... call on DETYA to invest in a report on the educational value and use of material copied under the statutory licences...)
• p.20  Advert.  University of Technology, Sydney.  Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education & Quality Enhancement.  ... direct reports include University Librarian ... Applications close 1 December 1999.

October 1999

• p.1  AVCC responds with restraint [to the Green Paper on Research]
• p.11  University libraries struggl to meet the needs of researchers.  [Australian Library Collections Taskforce publication Looking for Books:  a report on access to research monographs by academics and higher degree researchers at Australian university libraries]
• p.11  Time to examine copyright as costs become a burden. [Copyright in Universities report]
• p.21  Flawed, misleading, unworkable, thwarted [CAPA response to the Green Paper on Research]

September 1999

• p.29 Science scrutiny to affect research [review of Australia's science capability - led by Robin Batterham, Chief Scientist]
• p.29 Lib MP urges more funding [Danna Vale - funding was the most fundamental problem facing Australia's universities]
• p.35  Advert.  Department of Industry, Science & Resources - A Chief Scientist Project - Australian Science Capability Review - Call for submissions - due 30 November.
• p.38  The next press thing hinders quest for quality:  you can either do significant research or publish lots of papers, not both, argues Garth Paltridge.  He proposes a new formula to bring back the quality.

August 1999

• p.3  Chubb pinpoints funding and research as AVCC priorities (incoming AVCC president, Professor Ian Chubb)
• p.3  Kemp's dual reform agenda 'de-coupled'.  (Green Paper on research funding & funding of undergraduate "teaching and learning" have been de-coupled - Mike Gallagher, Head, Higher Education Division, DETYA)
• p.5  Labor promises to replace NBEET with new independent cross-sectoral body.
• p.6  Gaps in database threaten research.  (Australian Library Collections Task Force - millions of library items not listed in national bibliographic database, either uncatalogued or listed only in local library systems)

• p.2  On-line taste of university.  (Cyberschool - partnership between UQ Library and Information Access Company - to give secondary students a taste of university research skills)

• p.7  University Researchers gain access to ABS data.  (CURFS - confidentialised unit record files - 111 applications to the end of July)

July 1999

• p.1,2  Green Paper promises ARC revamp but no new funding.  ("A framework was needed, Kemp said, that woul encourage and support collaboration, accompanied by the exchange of technology and information .... across institutions and the nation and internationally")

• p.10  Editorial.  Education paper light on specifics. ("An ideological shift in the tertiary sector is pointless unless the same shift can be fostered in the market-place of a small nation with no real history of corporate philanthropy")
• p.13 Minister's paper fails the grade.  ([Green paper] system that encourages scientists (or other scholars) to pack their bags and move along does nothing for the long-term viability of the institution [or] research program ...)

• p.12  Letters.  More cake to go with the cream, please.  Peter Swannell, VC of USQ ("All that remains to be done is the creation of procedural and operational frameworks that allow genuine research cream to rise to the top irrespective of the size of the container.")

June 1999

• p.1  Unis face research shake-up.  [Green paper on research released - New Knowledge, New Opportunities: A Discussion Paper on Higher Education http://www.detya.gov.au/highered/otherpub/greenpaper.pdf]
• p.39 Radical revamp of research proposed.  [Green paper:  main points: single flexible national competitive grants scheme;  institutional block funding to "support diversity";  .... research infrastructure funded within grants; ....]
• p.41 Vales's stand backed.  [MP Danna Vale - 30 formal responses to her speech in Parliament calling for a Menzies-size funding injection for the top research universities.]
• p.43  Advert.  University of Newcastle.  Client Services Faculty Librarian (Law).  HEW 8  Applications close 19 July 1999.
• p.48,47  Paying for world-class research.  [Extract from Green Paper.  "Collaboration should encompass the sharing of knowledge, technique, expertise and research infrastructure ....]

• p.1, 10  University shakeup over R&D.  [...."seeks to tie block research funding to a university's success in gaining financial support from other sources, as well as the number of research places"  .... "funding allocated through streamlined national competitive grants program would also be split between allocations for "discovery" projects and those for "linkage" projects that seek to develop ventures involving national and international collaboration"  .... "intended to concentrate research funding" .... "regional universities can be regional leaders in stimulating business growth and new enterprises" ....]

• p.12  Letters.  Publishing problems (publications used a bibliometric measurees for ... RQ, promotion and tenure ...), by Colin Steele, ANU.

• p.37  Report shows Curtin's a big earner for State.  ("Contributing to the Community through Education and Research"  .... Melbourne University, UNSW, UWS and JCU commissioning economic impact studies)
• p.42  Letters.  Researchers need proper facilities.  ("State and federal governments have a responsibility to demonstrate leadership through investing in more world-class R&D infrastructure such as equipment, libraries and laboratories.")  Professor Frank Larkins, DVC (Research) University of Melbourne.

• Computers. p.9 Librarians brought to book over digital crisis.  Virtual Libraries summit at the New York Public Library.  ("it's still unclear what software will be compatible with computers in future decades or centuries .... paper lasts 500 years .... CD-ROM lasts 10 years .... whose responsibility is it to preserve all this digital material?")

• p.16-17  New-look 'Cybrary' lifts learning to new levels.
• p.23  Top marks at teaching awards  (1998 Awards for University Teaching - institutional awards category for srvices for Australian students - the University of Queensland Cybrary entry prepared by University Librarian Janine Schmidt.)

• p.37  ACER to test generic skills. (DETYA tender to develop entry and exit test for generic skills for Australian universities)
• p.40  Advert.  University of Technology, Sydney.  University Librarian.  Applications close 9 July 1999
• p.44  Advert.  Hong Kong Baptist University Library.  Associate Librarian (Technical and Collection Services).  Applications close  15 September 1999.

• p.1  Educators condemn GST deal ("...now seems that research conducted in Australia's universities will be liable under the GST ...")
• p.5  Janus looks to boost research and access.  (... project to address diminishing funding for research materials....)
• p.5  Universities still concerned about new Internet porn bill despite amendments.

• p.35  Uni fears on performance measures.  (".... potential for funding to be made conditional on efficiency")
• p.35  Sector rejects tax deal.  ("amended GST package fails the education test";  "leave[s] the institutions with significant compliance costs, ... administer three types of activity .... GST-free, GST-liable and input-taxed?)
• p.35  UniPower collapse costly.  ("objective set for CASMAC was achieved.  'A generic set of administrative computing specifications for Australian universities was established and became the basis for the collaborative effort for some 30-plus universities.")

• p.3  From the University Librarian.  Co-operation and Resource Sharing.  ("... many CAUL cooperative initiatives.  One of the most productive has been the joint purchase of expensive databases which are then made available for network access.")

April 1999

• p.3  Alarm over research decline (paper issued by Profess Deane Terrell, vice-chancellor of the Australian National University and endorsed by the Business Higher Education Round Table).  http://www.anu.edu.au/admin/vc/pdf/papers.pdf
• p.3  AVCC reschedules forum around release of Green Paper on research (20 May at Aitken Hill Conference Centre, near Melbourne)

March 1999

• p.11  Laurels.  USQ Librarian Madeleine McPherson has been appointed to the Queensland Premier's Women's Council.

• p.35  Course eases culture shock [of university life].  (One-year orientation program at RMIT ... key skills taught would include library searching, Internet searching and how to both trust and distrust Internet material)

• p.4  USQ develops a 'Wide Bay mode' (... the library as one of the "jewels" in the complex which has been of immense benefit to the local community...)
• p.5  Advert.  Australian Research Council. The long term impact of research supported by the Australian Research Council.  Consultant sought for investigation.  Applications close 9 April, 1999

• p.40  Information crisis sparks action plan.  ("A top-level workship funded by DETYA and the Australian Research Libraries Fighting Fund held a the ANU last week, identified five areas for action .... The recently funded JANUS project was intended to develop a business model for the development of cooperative information centres in three subject areas - agriculture, chemistry and philosophy")
• p.45  Advert.  University of Hong Kong.  [University] Librarian.  Applications close 30 April, 1999.

February 1999

• p.11 In Brief.  On the money.  $455,000 .... to develop a business model for a collaborative approach to research collections and information.

1998

December 1998

• p. 4  Helen Hayes will take CAUL up to the year 2000

• p.29  Alliance of old rivals bears Russian fruit.  (Monash and Melbourne have agreed to form a Melbourne-Asian libraries consortium.  ....nobody can maintain a top level teaching and research library anymore...)
• p.31  Authors cautious as the Net profits.  (Copyright protection for academics targeted by NTEU).
• p.31  Advert.  DETYA Higher Education Innovation Programme (HEIP).  Proposals invited for a project to develop an instrument to measure generic skills of university students ....  communication, problem-solving, reasoning and ability to use appropriate technology.

• p.13  Career moves.  Margaret Trask new deputy-chancellor at University of Technology, Sydney.

• p.3 Unis reject claims of illegal student charges.
• p.11 Don't thow out the cathedral with the monastery. (Higher education is set to diversify...this doesn't mean universities will find themselves with no rolse to play, argues Chris Duke of Western University.)

• p.11 University librarians fight back

• p.35 Kemp sees 'strategic' ARC role.
• p.35 Performance-based pay flagged for unis.

• p.3 National teaching awards UQ finalists.

November 1998

• p.20 CAUL representative visits OCLC

• p.20  Library & information technology links (relations between Australian and British libraries)

• p.1 Library report...CAUL met recently at the University of Sydney...discussion concerned the challenges confronting Australian Universities and their libraries.

• p.2 Deeming provisions -section 40(2)
• p.2 Copying by libraries
• p.2 The recommendations combined
• p.5 Is copyright past its use-by date?
• p.7 CAL v The Universities - copying fees

• p.2  Govt marketing funds 'pathetic': Selling higher education to overseas students is worth at least $1 billion a year to Australia's universities but they can expect little help from the Federal Government.
• p.2 Overseas students keep coming: IDP

• p. 35 Laurel night for teachers
• p. 36 DETYA to tackle illegal fees claims
• p. 36 Humanities head fears for diversity
• p. 36 Prepare now for virtual campus, academics told
• p. 37 Monash opens portals to law
• p. 37 Vice-chancellors hold out for wage rise-funds
• p. 38 Science of the appliance ( book-sized small electronic library)

• p.3 Rare double honour for ANU Librarian

• p.2 Libraries...pathways to knowledge

• Librarian twice honoured

• p. 29 Kemp urged to debate funds route
• p. 29 Indicators released (performance indicators for Australian universities)
• p. 29 Unis begin to unravel accounting guidelines
• p. 39 GST-free tuition insufficient cause for joy

• p.2 AARNet goes independent

• p.1 and 4 Premier opens library upgrade

October 1998

• p.1 Devaluation of Australian dollar
• p.2 Consortium brings better deals for electronic products

• p.1 Part 1 of the Copyright Law Review Committee's Report on Simplification of the Copyright Act 1968 - Exceptions to the Exclusive Rights of Copyright Owners

• p.3 Hayes is new head of CAUL
• p.3 RMIT offers worldwide network
• p.4 UNESCO calls for worldwide reform
• p.4 'No frills' study on CQU's minor campuses

• p. 6 CAUDIT hears help desk task

September 1998

• p.11 Authentication Issues or problems providing access to library databases for authorised users

• p. 1 Academics offered rival INSPECs
• p. 3 Derent gets fixed

• p. 3 The SilverPlatter and ALS partnership ends

• p. 1 Copyright Amendment Act 1997: Implications for CAL's members and licensees

• p.29 Books dive with dollar
• p.37 Diverse range of dwelling options

• p. 3 A new book for Librarians

• p.1 Kemp runs on record, GST

• p.1 Libraries cut $7m after fall in dollar

• p.37 ALP offers cash carrot

• p. 44 Human touch trumps IT

August 1998

• p.46 Regional strategy summits set up
• p.46 Policy contribution sought....on the information economy

• p.35 The University of Newcastle. Information and Education Services Division. Client Services Faculty Librarian - Music. HEW 8 Applications close 17 August 1998.

• p.35 GST plan 'threatens research'
• p.35 Dawkins reforms branded a failure
• p.35 Status for Sunshine

• p.39 Some forms of research to be taxed

• p.1 GST sparks education fury
• p.4 $2m flood damage closes Wollongong uni

July 1998

• p.38 Brought to book.  Colin Steele looks at the diminishing shelf-life in Australia's libraries.

• p.1 West and Libraries

• p.17 Was it worth it, Ron?..One year after Ron Dearing published his report on the failure of higher education...

• p.35 Science body fears GST

• p.114 Academic Librarians warn publishers on journal prices

• USQ chases online edge
• UniPower settles out of court

• p.13 Reclaim the future with information for all

June 1998

• p.1 Electronic Reserve (The Library is developing an electronic reserve collection.)
• p.2 Periodicals - prices and perils

• p.1,2 Copyright Agency ltd v The Universities

• p.11 Forces ill at ease on education. (The release last week of Bronwyn Grey's report...)

• p.32 Buy the book

• p.1 Gilbert blasts Labor policies
• p.2 Report critical of push for unity and privatisation
• p.5 West calls for more government funding

• p.34 Labor policies assailed

May 1998

• p.44 Academic to rebuild ARC

• p.35 Cuts fuel research worries (Budgets shows research infrastructure funding not being maintained; formula for indexing not keeping pace with library subscriptions)
• p.35 Online library link boosts Macquarie (Accessible Lifelong Learning Project - State Library of NSW)

• p.1 Small change in low-key budget ("Kemp said that a statement on higher education and research training would be made following the Government's consideration of the West Report")
• p.13 Advert. University of Western Sydney (Hawkesbury) Executive Director, Information Services & Systems. Applications close 26 May 1998.

• QUT expert puts report 'in context'
• New Internet copyright laws
• p.3 West IT savings tenet 'untenable'

• p.1 From my Desk by Helen Hayes (comments on national strategies)

• p.40 How learned books nearly perished by Janet McCalman (extract from an essay, The Humanities and the Community, in the Australian Research Council report Knowing Ourselves and Others: the Humanities in Australia into the 21st Century)

April 1998

• p.1 VCs attack 'glib' Kemp claims.
• p.3 Librarians back Kemp plan (CAUL .... delighted that Kemp had drawn attention to library issues, following the release of the West review's final report which devoted only eight lines to the subject .... bulk purchasing of serials already a high priority in the sector .... each university library was obliged to purchase materials relevant to the academic profile of their particular university....)
• p.5 Student charges survey launched (survey of ancillary charges by the National Union of Students .... [DEETYA] guidelines incredibly ambiguous)
• p.11 A strategy in search of ideas (West review .... need for ever more expensive and sophisticated electronic delivery of university products .... costs involve not only purchasing equipment but salary costs for technical support staff and training for teachers in how best to use technology to improve course delivery)

• p.3 Kemp trumps West with new reform agenda
• p.3 Uni asset sell-offs to boost finances
• p.11 DEETYA: downsized but not out
• p.12 Research still suffers in latest West report findings
• p.13 Strategic developments in higher education by David kemp. (edited version of the address by Dr Kemp) The good doctor is back - with a flourish Criticism underlies VC caution on West Labor attacks West's funding 'obsession'

• p.43 Tertiary opportunity for all is the next big challenge (edited text from David Kemp's speech with his response to the West review)

• Library project online

• p.3 Indonesians focus on library automation (University Library's international training programs for six Indonesian Librarians)
• p.8 UniSA Librarian honored (Dr Alan Bundy - winner of the premier honorary award of the Australian Library and Information Association)

• p.6'World 1' program shelved
• p.13The bottom line for research funding

• p.34 CSC's $9m settlement closes book on dispute (NDIS project of the National Libraries of Australia and New Zealand)
• p.46 Copyright will count online (US bill limits the liability of online service provider for copyright infringment)

• p.6 Alarm over humanities funding (Review Knowing Ourselves and Others - The Humanities in Australia into the 21st Century - recommends .... a coordinated library and IT service)
• p.12 Call for more support for internationalisation by Stuart Hamilton (extract from his paper "Setting the Foundations for the Internationalisation of Australian Higher Education", delivered to the Education `98 conference in Sydney, March 17-19)

• p.3 New Off-campus Document Service for UTS students ( partnership agreement with the Dixson Library, University of New England, located in Armidale, NSW to provide remote services to support flexible learning)

• Editorial: The need to reduce expenditure on journals has been announced and will have considerable consequences for teaching, learning and research. (CAUL acts as a consortium...)
• p.16 Unity role in library job (AVCC has seconded Stephen Cramond to the position of executive officer, information infrastructure liaison)

March 1998

• p.3 In Brief. Broader access for Australian Universities (Eight universities have concluded an agreement through CAUL for access to major sections of Literature Online)

• p.3 Web access win for UniSA students.
• p.3 Growing Internet costs cause concern (.... a rise in instances of universities levying charges against students .... as wide-ranging as Internet facilities, library loans or exam supervision)
• p.15 Career Moves. Janet Copsey appointed University Librarian at the University of Auckland.

• p.38 Advert. The University of Newcastle. Central Coast Campus. Manager Information Resource Centre. HEW Level 10. Applications close 9 April 1998.

• p.4 Journals are combined on new database. (Internation edition of Expanded Academic ASAP announced by IAC and CAUL)

• p.35 Ameritech purchases its local distributor (Dynix Australia)

• p.1 Students to benefit from software agreement ("For the Matworks company, this agreement guarantees that the country's top engineering students are fluent users of their software when they graduate....")

• p.12 Advert University of New England PVC (Information Services) seehttp://www.une.edu.au/

• p.35 AVCC adopts presidential moniker (now known as the Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee with the subtitle Council of Australian University Presidents)
• p.38 Machine minders of Academe - Michael Green detects a whiff of managerialsim behind the rush into unproven education technology.

February 1998

• p.4 Exam scammers gain high-tech edge on unis
• p.42 Library loans to go digital

• Final West report delayed
• p.3 Smart cards in campus trial
•  Gateway website launched

• Study explores the global media options for Australian universities
• Research grants funding up for ‘98

• V-cs go local to contain Net costs. (Australia's institutions will pay more to fetch a web page from overseas .... also keen to promote local content)

• p.43 Judicial research nets technology's frontier

• p.1 West paper roundly condemned

• p.37 Open market offers unlimited rivalry. (paper commissioned by the West Committee written by Professor Mark Armstrong)
• p.39 Cash chase erodes academic time (report published in DEETYA Higher Education Series, written by Craig McInnis)
• p.40 Publish online or perish (from The Economist - some publishing profit margins above 40%; journal prices have been rising steadily above the rate of inflation for years; big publishers have a captive audience)
• p.44 Change or be overwhelmed (review of On the brink: Australia's universities confronting their future, by Peter Coaldrake and Lawrence Stedman, University of Queensland Press)

January 1998

• p.35 Uni staff slow to exploit Internet (study by Edith Cowan and Notre Dame Universities - "a crucial factor in overcoming the problem was education so that a wider range of people would use it to deliver a better service to students")
• p.42 Library loans to go digital. ("LIDDA (Local Inter-lending and Document Delivery Administration) will automate all processes involved in inter-library loans at the library end, which will save time and paper" - initial participants are Macquarie, Griffith, UTS, Sydney, USQ and the Australian Catholic University)

• p.1 Labor bows to union pressure (Policy commits a Labor government to abolishing upfront fees for Australian undergraduates)

• p.3 Uni swots get Internet library access

• p.1 Labor debates policy blueprint (for higher education)
• p.3 Students face fees for internet.
• p.3 Information overload. (AVCC has adopted new pricing arrangements this year for accessing the internet via AARNet)
• p.17 Advert. Deputy Director, Commonwealth Higher Education Management Service (CHEMS). Applications close 20 February. http://www.acu.ac.uk/chems/chems.html
• p.20 New tech-based threat to unis? (New Media and Borderless Education: a review of the convergence between global media networks and higher education provision, a report under DEETYA's Evaluations and Investigations Program) http://www.deetya.gov.au/divisions/hed/highered/eippubs/eip97-22/execsum.htm

• p.1 VCs warm to voucher option
• p.2 NUS plans a day of action
• p.9 Charting the death of altruism (Simplistically university core business is about protecting a knowledge base for present and future generations and generating new knowledge to add to that base. Protection takes place in two ways; through storage of information, usually in libraries, and through dispersal of information to other members of the community through teaching.)
• p.10 Wanted: a blueprint for education
• · p.40 Unis urged to better use software aids

• p.31 Web data on performance draws fire. (Characteristics and Performance of Higher Education Institutions (A Preliminary Investigation))
• p.31 Tax break funding on AVCC wish list.
• p.39 Librarians back author pay scheme. (CAUL President - Federal funding should be provided for an Education Lending Rights scheme.)
• p.37 Funding on a tight leash (Commonwealth funding report for the 1998-2000 triennium released. Government proposes to develop a sound costing methodology in consultation with universities. Government proposes compilation of a national inventory of electronic courseware and electronic delivery infrastructure. "Computer-based learning materials have very high development costs, and there are significant advantages in cooperation between institutions.... But it is hard to imagine the type of collaboration the Government is apparently seeking without extensive and close working relationships, such as those built by the academic libraries over several years.")

• p.13 Union slams 'dangerous' AVCC voucher scheme
• p.14 Software litigants warned to hurry talks
• p.15 No magic cure in new technologies
• p.16 Armidale counts losses from leaking library

• p.1 Higher education: the cutting wedge
• p.5 Government archives at risk, report warns

• · Labor policies assailed

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