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Bilandzic, Mark; Johnson, Daniel – Australian Library Journal, 2013
This paper presents research findings and design strategies that illustrate how digital technology can be applied as a tool for "hybrid" placemaking in ways that would not be possible in purely digital or physical spaces. Digital technology has revolutionised the way people learn and gather new information. This trend has challenged the…
Descriptors: Library Automation, Library Development, Library Services, Computer System Design
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Megarrity, Lyndon – Australian Library Journal, 2010
People who love books can find entering an Australian library in the so-called "cyber-age" to be an unsettling experience. The first thing you notice is the reduced emphasis on book shelves in favour of empty but architecturally pleasing "public spaces", comfortable cushions, computer terminals, sometimes even new cafes and…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Library Development, Library Services, Foreign Countries
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Patton, Maggie – Australian Library Journal, 2009
Since 2005 the State Library of New South Wales has provided staff with an opportunity to research aspects of the Library's services and collections through the State Librarian's Staff Fellowship Program. In January 2008, Maggie Patton commenced a project to rediscover and document the development of the rare printed collections at the State…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Government Libraries, Foreign Countries, Archives
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Bissett, Cindy – Australian Library Journal, 2010
Libraries have limited budgets and Collection Development Librarians can be faced with difficult decisions in the spending of their allocated funds. This paper discusses how the Tasmanian Polytechnic Launceston Campus Library discovered a gap in their collection and addressed this situation without funding. The Library wished to purchase fiction…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Library Services, Fiction, Library Administration
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Blackburn, Fiona – Australian Library Journal, 2010
The nature of learning in a public library is relevant to what place e-learning and social networking technologies might have there. That a public library aims to provide something for everyone is also important. Alice Springs Public Library (ASPL) is a place of learning; it is also a crowded and composite space. The use ASPL could make of the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Public Libraries, Library Automation, Library Development
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Hoskin, Cheryl – Australian Library Journal, 2009
This paper is a practical and personal perspective on the challenges faced by special collections in an increasingly digital environment, and the strategies employed to promote their unique resources to the academic and wider communities, including the value of promoting heritage through reconstructing collections and the place of expertise in the…
Descriptors: Library Services, Academic Libraries, Archives, Library Materials
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Hinsch, Neil; Dunn, Kate – Australian Library Journal, 2009
At the end of 2006 the UNSW Library restructured its five special libraries into a new division called the Information Services Department. It was a radical restructure and provides a new model through which the Library delivers services in both the physical and online environments in a flexible and proactive manner. A pivotal role within this new…
Descriptors: Library Services, Outreach Programs, Library Automation, Library Development
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Stephens, Matthew – Australian Library Journal, 2009
There is a general perception that as librarians, we know what constitutes and defines a rare book, that our heritage book collections are well-documented and their future survival is planned for and secure. This discussion paper asks whether our definitions of heritage material might be too narrow and whether they reflect the reality across all…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Library Services, Selection Tools, Best Practices
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Richards, Jan – Australian Library Journal, 2009
The President of ALIA writes about expectations for the Public Libraries Summit, and provides an account of what took place on the day of the meeting, and what has taken place since. In funding terms, the most likely areas of productive engagement with the federal government are considered to be: children, early learning and a literate Australia;…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Foreign Countries, Meetings, Conferences (Gatherings)
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Stephens, Matthew – Australian Library Journal, 2007
The Australian Museum, Sydney, is Australia's oldest museum, internationally recognised for its longstanding scientific contributions. Less well-known is the Museum's fine collection of monographs and journals relating to natural history and anthropology, which has been used to support the work of Museum staff and external enquirers since the late…
Descriptors: Library Services, Anthropology, Museums, Foreign Countries
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Jones, David J. – Australian Library Journal, 2005
Today every citizen in New South Wales has access to public library services through a sophisticated network, a partnership between local and State Government. In fact, free public libraries in New South Wales only began to operate in any numbers after the end of World War II--not even sixty years ago. Why did it take so long here, bearing in mind…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Development, History, Legislation
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McKeon, Kelly; Thompson, Ellen – Australian Library Journal, 2008
The Arts Libraries Society of Australia and New Zealand (Arlis/ANZ) recently implemented a new web presence. More than just a website, it was envisaged as a web "identity", a virtual clubhouse where the Society could conduct its "virtual business" and where members could "meet" and contribute to the activities of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Web Sites, Computer System Design
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Maguire, Carmel – Australian Library Journal, 2007
Traces the role of Geoffrey Cochrane Remington, Sydney solicitor and businessman, in free public library development in Australia. Describes how the Munn Pitt Report on Australian libraries and Remington's acquaintance with John Wallace Metcalfe of the Public Library of New South Wales led to the birth of the Free Library Movement in 1935, and…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Public Relations
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Barker, Donald – Australian Library Journal, 2007
The "Victorian Free Library Service Board Act" of 1946 was the culmination of a long campaign to replace the mechanics' institute model of library provision with free libraries funded by state and local government. Given that library reform required legislation by the state government, this paper is mainly concerned with the political…
Descriptors: Library Services, Public Libraries, Educational Change, Local Government
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Simon, Jane – Australian Library Journal, 1997
Oral histories of retired Australian librarians show the sexual division of libraries from pre-1950s to the 1980s. Discussion includes the appeal of on-the-job training; public and private roles of women; the marriage bar; discrimination; lack of skill recognition; wage inequities; feminist resistance; sexual harassment; unions; and electronic…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Females, Foreign Countries, Librarians
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