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Leigh, Sally-Anne – 2000
This paper focuses on the development, adoption, and integration of resource discovery, knowledge management, and/or knowledge sharing interfaces such as interactive portals, and the use of the library's World Wide Web presence to increase the availability and usability of information services. The introduction addresses changes in library…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Interfaces, Foreign Countries, Information Management
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 2001
This book, in French and English, addresses how the school library of the future will be designed and what role it will play as a school facility within the educational system and in society as a whole. The following papers are included: (1) "Issues" (John Mayfield); (2) "Designing Schools for the Information Society: Libraries and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Information Technology
Brodie, Maxine – 2000
This paper discusses the impact of change on the State Library of New South Wales (Australia), a large public research library charged with the care and continuing use of a documentary heritage. The first section provides background on the State Library, including history, collection, mission, and use. The second section describes library clients,…
Descriptors: Archives, Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Information Technology
Middleton, Michael – 1999
Supervision of library digitization is the focus of this paper. First outlined are the definition, formalization, implementation, and completion phases of project management. Descriptions of management decisions involved in digitization projects follow on matters such as: collection analysis, resourcing, project personnel, production, access and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Partridge, Jan; Dalling, Cheryl; Ho, Elizabeth; Allery, Linda; Hays, Sally – inCite, 1998
Several brief articles examine how library and information workers in Australia, along with community historians, are meeting the challenge of finding, cataloging, preserving, and communicating local history to their clients and the world beyond. Describes cooperative initiatives by state, local, and regional libraries; discusses how technology…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Study, Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Planning

Exon, F. C. A.; Punch, Keith F. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1997
This study tested assumptions about self-sufficiency of academic library collections and the paradigm shift to providing access to information stored elsewhere. Inter-library borrowing statistics of Australian libraries were correlated with collection size. The study concluded that collection self-sufficiency is a fallacy and that the information…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Foreign Countries, Higher Education