Monthly Archives: March 2008

IS response to the Information Futures Commission Consultation Paper

31 March 2008 – 7:31 am

Framework and ideasHow should we develop our scholarly information and technologies, services and infrastructure to achieve our research, learning, teaching and knowledge transfer aspirations over the next decade?

By shirley | Posted in consultation paper | Comments (0)

More than words

29 March 2008 – 6:10 am

When we talk about scholarly information, it’s easy to assume we mean words, lots of words, published in books and articles.
In fact, the Information Futures Commission is interested in much more than text-based materials.
For example, let’s consider the image as a piece of scholarly information. In this post, I will describe two types of ’scholarly [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Posted in search, users | Comments (0)

Outstanding! (What would that feel like?)

28 March 2008 – 8:00 pm

The Information Futures Commission wants to know:

what’s your experience of finding, accessing, using and sharing scholarly information?
what would that experience be like in an ideal future, say 10 years from now?

Take our 15-minute survey and let us know!
Results of the survey will be published by the Information Futures Commission and used to inform discussions during [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Posted in users | Comments (0)

FAQ 21 March: Who uses our library collections?

21 March 2008 – 6:30 am

Good question!
The Library regularly collects statistics about its activities. For example, we know how many items are checked out every year from the Legal Resource Centre – click the image below to see a larger version of the graph.

Another example: we know that in the week ending 4 August 2006 library staff received 197 telephone [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Posted in access, faq, users | Comments (1)

Library research as a form of computation

17 March 2008 – 12:32 pm

Posted on behalf of Steering Committee member Professor Janet McCalman, who writes:
I am anxious that a paper, originally recommended to me by Pip Pattison, be shared as widely as possible in the academic community and among those involved in the IF Commission.
The document is a draft paper (2007) by Andrew Abbott on “library research as [...]

By informationfutures | Posted in research, users | Comments (0)