The initial consultation period started with the release of the Consultation Paper on 29 February 2008.
It ended at close of business on Friday 9 May 2008.
In the intervening two-and-a-bit months, more than 300 people joined the Information Futures conversation in some way:
filling in a survey
writing or contributing to a submission (we received 66!)
emailing or phoning […]
Have you said your piece yet?
There are only 7 working days until the deadline for responses to the Information Futures Commission.
As of 6.00 pm Tuesday 29 April we had received:
four written responses from faculties and other groups
written responses from seven individuals
125 completed surveys
10 comments on the Information Futures blog
many informal emails
As well, we have run […]
During April and early May there are lots of opportunities for students and staff to get involved in the Information Futures Commission.
The conversations we have in the next few weeks will directly shape the University’s 10-year strategy for scholarly information and technologies. If you have an idea, a suggestion, a comment or a question, now […]
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?
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“[T]he archetypal image of a university is a community of scholars clustered around a library, drawing on and adding to a growing archive of codified knowledge…”[2]
Melbourne’s future is defined through the metaphor of the triple helix: a public-spirited institution defined by tightly-bound strands of research, internationally recognised teaching and continuous knowledge transfer, each reinforcing the […]