Category Archives: events

Video now available: Rhys Francis on e-research

10 April 2008 – 6:43 am

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 [...]

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April is face-to-face month!

9 April 2008 – 1:01 pm

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 [...]

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Call for submissions, release of Consultation Paper

28 February 2008 – 8:00 pm

At today’s meeting of Academic Board, the Vice-Chancellor tabled “Scholarly Information in a Digital Age: choices for the University of Melbourne.”
This consultation paper outlines:

changes in society and scholarly practice that affect how we value and manage our scholarly information
the history, size and resourcing of our current scholarly information environment
some questions and choices we now face [...]

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Congratulations to Michael Geist

22 February 2008 – 2:32 pm

Congratulations to Professor Michael Geist, who has received a 2008 Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award.
The award recognises “significant and influential contributions to the development of computer-mediated communications and to the empowerment of individuals in using computers and the Internet.”
Michael was a keynote speaker at the VALA 2008 conference in Melbourne earlier this month.
We at the [...]

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Play, pause, rewind

8 February 2008 – 4:05 pm

The Western New Year is a scant six weeks old, Chinese New Year has only just started, and already the University community has been treated to two Information Futures Forum lectures by international guest speakers.
Missed the forums? No worries — you can ‘attend’ online instead. Videos of both the forums are now available on the [...]

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