The Australian Library Journal
volume 48 issue 4
J Levett
Electronic publishing in science: changes and risks
Otto Kinne
The internet has revolutionised data transfer and use. It makes a host of world- wide information quickly available in offices or homes - at finger tip control. The concept of the graphical component of the internet, the world wide web, was first
envisioned and then developed in the early 90s by Tim Berners-Lee...
This article was first published as an editorial in Marine Ecology Progress Series Vol. 180, 1-3, and on the world wide web at http://www.int-res.com/. It is reprinted here with permission of the publisher
Inter-Research and the author Professor O Kinne.
Dissecting a mighty mammoth: or, Lichtenberg's advice. A review article
R L Cope
PR Harris: A History of the British Museum Library 1753-1973 London, The British Library, 1998. xx, 833p. plans and illustrations, index. ISBN 0 7123 4562 0. Price: £50.
To review this massive work raises questions of method and approach for reviewers, which must also have given the author similar headaches. It is not a work that can be easily or briefly reviewed, nor should the attempt be made if we are concerned with
intellectual responsibility and justice. This will explain the nature of the present review and account for its length.
Manuscript received August 1999
He did not suffer fools gladly: Leonard J Jolley
Brian Dibble
Since some readers of the Australian Library Journal might have known, or known of, Leonard Jolley (1914-1994), or some might be interested in his type, a mid-century scholar librarian in an Australian university [the University of Western Australia
(1959-1979)] and/or some might be interested in Elizabeth Jolley, the novelist, and thereby in her husband, I shall try to construct a verbal image of Leonard Jolley that speaks in different ways to each such reader. Time and again interviews I conducted
elicited verbatim the phrase 'he did not suffer fools gladly', leading to my research question: What were his predispositions and what were the circumstances that facilitated Leonard Jolley's career?
Manuscript received August 1999 - this is a refereed article
A Siberian reality check on open source information
Athol Yates and Nicholas Zvegintzov
Open Source Information (OSI) and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) are attracting enormous interest from the business, military and political intelligence communities. While OSI and OSINT may offer considerable potential when employed to produce
information on foreign countries, they are totally dependent on the researchers' and analysts' understanding of the target country's history, politics and society.
Manuscript received February 1999 - this is a refereed article
A review of the preservation issues associated with digital documents
Mitchell Parkes
In 1995, in what was to become one of the seminal pieces in the field of digital preservation, Rothenberg made the crucial observation that:
'Information technology is revolutionising our concept of record keeping in an upheaval as great as the introduction of printing, if not writing itself. The current generation of digital records has unique historical significance. Yet these documents are
far more fragile than paper, placing the chronicle of our entire period in jeopardy' (p24).
Since this article appeared, many other commentators have voiced their concerns over the long term viability of digital documents and problems in their preservation. As a consequence, many believe that there is the real possibility that the cultural memory
of the entire period of the latter 20th century and beyond may be lost. The purpose of this review is to examine the literature and assess the extent to which the concerns of Rothenberg and others are justified.
Manuscript received May 1999 - this is a refereed article
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