Category Archives: consultation paper

Introduction

28 February 2008 – 7:40 pm

If this Consultation Paper poses a single overarching question, it is this:
How 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?
Rapid and unpredictable changes in information technology mean that we will need to reconsider this question every few years. [...]

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How you can be involved

28 February 2008 – 7:35 pm

During March, April and May 2008 the Information Futures Commission will seek input from the University community and other stakeholders.
Staff and students are invited to attend discussion forms, consultations and the Information Futures Forum series of lectures to be delivered by Australian and international experts.
The Information Futures weblog provides a venue for informal conversation. All [...]

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The changing environment

28 February 2008 – 7:30 pm

“Collaboration, across time and space, is the fundamental method of scholarship, and without it we can do nothing of value.”[4]
This section of the Consultation Paper explores six topics:

Repositories of human wisdom and knowledge
A networked world: new ways of seeking, understanding and using information
Disruptive change: university engagement with the Net Generation society
The changing nature of scholarly [...]

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Repositories of human wisdom and knowledge

28 February 2008 – 7:25 pm

Universities and libraries have both been characterised as the gatekeepers of knowledge.[5] The library, as the custodian of published knowledge, was both metaphorically and literally at the heart of its university, providing the fundamental infrastructure of scholarship. Publication[6] of a scholar’s work was the essential foundation for the creation of new knowledge. If scholars did [...]

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A networked world: new ways of seeking, understanding and using information

28 February 2008 – 7:20 pm

The Net Generation[9] is a term coined to refer to a social demographic that coincides with widespread access to Internet-related technologies. These technologies allow simple, fast access to vast amounts of online information, and the ability to communicate and collaborate easily and cheaply.[10] Of most interest in the current discussion are some related social trends [...]

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