The Australian Library Journal
Volume 52 Nš1 February 2003
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John Levett
AEShareNet: Reflections on an innovative venture to move copyright licensing into the digital age
Jack Gilding and Carol Fripp
AEShareNet is a collaborative system to streamline the licensing of intellectual property so that Australian training materials are developed, shared and adapted efficiently. AEShareNet went live in February 2002: its history is reviewed here to illustrate the many strands in the provision of an online system in the context of the national vocational education and training system and to move practitioners from traditional paper-based systems to the new world of online resource discovery and licensing. This account focuses particularly on information management and technical issues and addresses the need for consultation, user education and innovative organisational structures. The positioning of AEShareNet in relation to global developments in intellectual property management and the future challenges facing it are briefly reviewed.
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Valuing our clients: a report on the client survey at NSW Agriculture Library Services
Fiona Drum and Sally Anderson
NSW Agriculture Library Services Network commissioned Libraries Alive! to conduct a survey of departmental staff in September 2000. The survey aimed 'to determine clients' views on the quality, relevance and importance of library services, and to use this information in subsequent strategic and tactical planning' (McCallum and Quinn, 2000). Focus group discussions were also held. The main findings were that clients valued the library services and staff highly, they accepted the trend towards electronic delivery at the desktop, and appreciated the decentralised service delivery model. Recommendations included expanding web-based services, more promotion of library services and increased client training by librarians.
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Consultancy and contract work: perspectives from New Zealand
Alison Fields
Consultancy and contract work forms a small sector of the fields of librarianship, records management, archives, information management and knowledge management within New Zealand. This study shows the people operating as consultants and contractors within these areas share similar characteristics and concerns, some of which are congruent with their field of expertise, and others are more closely aligned with consultants and contractors working in other fields. A survey of those working in this sector provides details of the people involved, their work, the market, business practices, standards and codes, professional development and support, the New Zealand environment and the future.
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Cybrary skills in the tertiary environment: in-service education for librarians from developing countries
Elizabeth Jordan
This article describes the program Cybrary Skills in the Tertiary Environment offered at the University of Queensland Library to librarians from tertiary institutions in developing countries. Under the program, librarians from several countries have worked and studied at UQ Library, in groups or in individual placements for varying periods of time; the paper describes the generic program and looks at critical success factors.
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Information literacy at the primary school level?
Tracy Foggett
This article reports on an exploratory case study of a class of Year 4/5 government primary school students in the ACT. The purpose of this case study was to establish to what degree, if at all, the skills involved in information literacy are being assimilated and practised by primary school children.
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A decade of recordkeeping education at Curtin University of Technology: flux and flexibility
Margaret Pember
Curtin University has been offering first qualifying courses in the discipline of recordkeeping for over a decade. The undergraduate degree, the Bachelor of Applied Science (Records Management), began in 1990 and the first intake of students completed their studies in November 1992. The graduate program began as two separate graduate diplomas in records management and archives in 1994. These were amalgamated into a single qualification, the Graduate Diploma in Records Management and Archives, in 1995.
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