The Australian Library Journal
Volume 54 Nš3 August 2005
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John Levett
Roslynn Cousins
High level learning by design: the nuts and bolts of assessment and evaluation in a Doctorate of Business Adminstration program
Suzanne Lipu and Allison Hill
In 2003 two librarians at the University of Wollongong faced the challenge of designing and delivering a crucial subject in a pilot Doctorate of Business Administration program which sought to prepare a group of successful business leaders for the task of research. The focus was on developing the participants' information literacy skills and knowledge so as to help them prepare their research proposal and ultimately conduct their research effectively. The Australian Information Literacy Standards (now known as the Australian and New Zealand Information Literacy Framework: principles, standards and practice) proved extremely useful. This article describes the assessment plan in more detail as well as outlining the role and results evaluation played in this pilot program.
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Charles Sturt University's Matching users with information Community of Scholars
Ross Harvey
The articles by members of CSU staff which follow reflect a selection of the research being conducted by members of the Library and Information Management (LIM) group in the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University. The LIM group has always been active in research, but until recently individuals have undertaken their research independently. In 2003 we took time to identify more precisely what this research was. The outcome of this audit of activities and strengths was a successful application for funding for the Matching users with information 'Community of Scholars' (CSU's term for an emerging research group in fields other than its traditional research strengths). The name - Matching users with information - describes where our research is situated and encompasses what we will do in the future.
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No man (or woman) is an island: information literacy, affordances and communities of practic
Anne Lloyd
Current understandings of information literacy are drawn from research within library and educational contexts, in which information literacy is identified as a suite of skills that facilitate the learning process. In these contexts, information literacy education focuses on information discovery through the development of a systematic set of skills which result in individual competency. This view of information literacy is questioned by recent research into workplace information literacy which indicates that, when learning is informal or unstructured, acquiring information literacy becomes a collaborative process aimed at developing collective competency. Understanding how information literacy is manifest in the workplace will assist librarians in higher education institutions to develop programs that assist with the transfer of skills from an educational setting to the workplace.
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A collection development policy for digital information resources
John Kennedy
Library collections are, increasingly, hybrids of print and digital materials. This paper considers whether library collection development policies, whose 'golden age' in Australia was in the 1980s and 1990s, are still required for today's hybrid collections.
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Information systems evaluation and the search for success: lessons for LIS research
Stuart Ferguson, Philip Hider and Tricia Kelly
Libraries and other information agencies have highly developed systems, skills, and techniques for delivering information to users. There is, nevertheless, a need to improve the delivery systems and discusses the means by which web-based systems in particular can be evaluated. The authors review systems evaluation in recent LIS literature and identify some of the common measures and methodologies employed.
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Coding online information seeking
Philip Hider
This paper reports on a coding scheme devised during preliminary data collection of online searching using Camtasia, and compares this scheme with one recently developed by Hargittai for a similar purpose. The author's scheme is put forward as a prototype for a standard 'core' system, which might assist in the process of transcription of recordings and facilitate comparison of findings across research projects. In a case study, the coding system is applied to the examination of cross-database searching through a particular library's online interface, which offers SFX and MetaLib linking tools.
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Still lost in cyberspace? Preservation challenges of Australian internet resources
Wendy Smith
Ensuring the longevity of web-based information is a significant preservation issue with wide implications for the future of scholarship. This paper describes a longitudinal study of fifty websites through which the determination of survival rates of Australian web publications is attempted. It suggests that the Internet Archive may be serving Australia better than PANDORA in preserving the web component of its documentary heritage.
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Lost and missing Australian documentary heritage: is there any?
Anne Lloyd, Ross Harvey and Damian Lodge
The Memory of the World (MOTW) Program identifies and protects significant documentary heritage. Part of the Australian MOTW program seeks significant Australian documentary heritage that can no longer be located. The Australian Lost and Missing project, based at Charles Sturt University, is the first in the world to attempt a register of lost and missing documentary heritage. This paper describes the activities of the project during 2003-04, building on the article by Harvey in the Australian Library Journal in May 2003. It notes the evolution of methodological approaches to identify material that no longer exists.
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Case studies and codes of ethics: the relevance of the ACS experience to ALIA
Stuart Ferguson, Rachel Salmond, Yeslam Al-Saggaf, Mike Bowern and John Weckert
This paper comments on a recent Code of Ethics project conducted on behalf of the Australian Computer Society, and proposes a similar project for the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). It reviews the scope and methodology of the project, which developed a comprehensive set of case studies and related them to the ACS Code of Ethics and to specific standards of conduct in the Code. It discusses a small selection of the case studies and suggests that a similar series for ALIA could assist in the provision of useful context for ALIA's Statement on Professional Conduct, material for the profession's continuing professional development (CPD) programs and a stimulus to further ethical debate in the profession.
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JJ Hallein
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