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Smith, Jill Buckley; Deacon, Prue – Australian Library Journal, 2009
Health"Insite" is the Australian Government's Internet gateway to reliable health information online, providing access to over 15,000 information items on the websites of more than 80 approved information partners. The gateway provides a variety of searching and browsing options to assist users to find information on a wide range of…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Gateway Systems, Health, Information Services
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Porter, Ann; Edirippulige, Sisira – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2007
Parents whose children are diagnosed in an infant screening program are required to make some difficult choices about the management of the hearing loss at a time when they are emotionally vulnerable. They are required to evaluate information and outcomes regarding issues such as technology for hearing impairment, communication options, education,…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Gateway Systems, Deafness, Screening Tests
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Wilkins, Linda; Swatman, Paula; Castleman, Tanya – Qualitative Report, 2004
A major issue in Information Systems (IS) research is how to combine relevance and rigor (Benbasat & Zmud, 1999) and reduce the widening gap between research results and adoption (Dunn, 1994). Qualitative researchers make use of interpretivist methods to add richness and depth to their understanding of user problems. Interpretivist methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Researchers, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology
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Sokvitne, Lloyd O. – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2006
The need to develop new OPACs that meet the needs of users better is becoming well acknowledged. How libraries can transform their OPACs to modern web friendly formats is not yet clear. This paper describes the State Library of Tasmania's experience in developing a new OPAC by exporting bibliographic data to a software package outside the ILMS.…
Descriptors: Government Libraries, Foreign Countries, Library Administration, Library Automation