Category Archives: events

Documents released for comment

Following their presentation at today’s Academic Board meeting, we are releasing two new documents for comment:

Progress Report from the Commission’s Steering Committee
Melbourne’s Information Future: one possible strategy

The documents outline the Commission’s work to date and describe some long-term options for the University’s library, archive and cultural collections; research data management; IT support for research activities; […]

Opportunities to discuss

Coming up shortly are some opportunities for you to engage with others in the University community to discuss ideas for our scholarly information strategy.
In late April we will facilitate a series of exploratory workshops to frame the broad objectives of the strategy. Participants will examine draft statements outlining possible strategies and their […]

Progress and process

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 […]

Video now available: Rhys Francis on e-research

Video of last month’s Information Futures Forum is now available online — well worth a look!
The feedback from those who attended this event was overwhelmingly good — guest speaker Rhys Francis was rated as “excellent” for his knowledge of the subject, his presentation style, the content of the presentation and the relevance of the topic […]

April is face-to-face month!

This month the Information Futures Commission project team are encouraging students and staff to participate in two kinds of face-to-face consultation activities.
First, we are hosting two student-staff consultation forums. Hosted in lecture theatres that seat up to 200 people, these events are a chance for you to ask questions about issues raised in the consultation […]