New editor sought for AARL

A new editor is being sought for AARL. I am stepping down from the editorship of AARL after the final issue for 2008, principally because I am now residing in the United States. Accordingly, the ALIA Board of Directors is seeking expressions of interest in the position of editor from suitably qualified and experienced persons. The position is available for 12 months from January 2009. The selection criteria are available on the ALIA website at http://www.alia.org.au/publishing/aarl/. Further information on the duties and responsibilities of the editor and the roles of the Editorial Board and the Association is available from Sue Hutley, ALIA Executive Director (phone 02 6215 8215, email sue.hutley@alia.org.au).

Ross Harvey
Editor

2008 September issue of AARL almost ready

The September issue of AARL (vol 39 no 3) is soon to go to the printers. Its contents are:

• Geoff Fellows, Ross Harvey, Annemaree Lloyd, Bob Pymm and Jake Wallis, Separating the wheat from the chaff: Identifying key elements in the NLA .au domain harvest
• Bruce Munro and Peter Philps, A collection of importance: the role of selection in academic libraries
• Mary Simons, Partnerships in medical education: an exploration of library service models for postgraduate medicine at Macquarie University
• Liz Burke, Lea Beranek, Graham Walton and Ruth Stubbings, Where and why students choose to use computer facilities: a collaborative study at an Australian and United Kingdom university
• Alan Butters, RFID in Australian Academic Libraries: exploring the barriers to implementation
• Bonna Jones, European modernism and the information society: review article
• R L Cope. The 450th Jubilee of the Bavarian State Library: A note
• Reviews.

Enjoy!

And here's the June 2008 issue of AARL

Subscribers should soon see the June 2008 issue (vol 39 no2) of AARL. Look forward to reading:

• A selection of papers from the fourth RAILS (Research Applications in Information and Library Studies) conference, 2007 (and more of these will be published in the next issue):

1. Patricia Willard, Mary Anne Kennan, Concepción S Wilson and Howard D White, 'Publication by Australian LIS Academics and Practitioners: a Preliminary Investigation'
2. Gaby Haddow, 'Quality Australian Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences'
3. Bob Pymm and Philip Hider, 'Research Literature and its Perceived Relevance to University Librarians'
4. Clare Snowball, 'Teenagers Talking About Reading and Libraries'

• An obituary of Harrison Bryan, whose positions included University Librarian at both the University of Queensland and the University of Sydney, and Director-General of the National Library of Australia
• Reviews.

AARL volume 39 number 1 (March 2008) now published

The March 2008, in its new green livery, should be with subscribers by now. It contains:

Edmund Balnaves, ‘Open Source Library Management Systems: A Multidimensional Evaluation’

Philip Hider, ‘Catalogue Use at the State Library of Victoria’

Lisa J Gurney and Janelle Wilkes, ‘Creating a Library Presence in Online Units’

Nicole Sackers, Bess Secomb and Heather Hulett, ‘How Well do you Know your Students?: International Students’ Preferences for Learning About Library services’.

Reviews include two Australian publications (Libraries in the Twenty-First Century: Charting New Directions in Information Services and Uniting a Profession: The Australian Institute of Librarians 1937-1949) plus books about government information, managing information services, knowledge management, and collaboration for academic libraries.

In production: AARL March 2008 issue

The March issue of AARL (vol. 39 no.1) is at the production stage and will be published soon. It contains:

Edmund Balnaves, ‘Open Source Library Management Systems: A Multidimensional Evaluation’

Philip Hider, ‘Catalogue Use at the State Library of Victoria’

Lisa J Gurney and Janelle Wilkes, ‘Creating a Library Presence in Online Units’

Nicole Sackers, Bess Secomb and Heather Hulett, ‘How Well do you Know your Students?: International Students’ Preferences for Learning About Library services’.

Reviews include two Australian publications (Libraries in the Twenty-First Century: Charting New Directions in Information Services and Uniting a Profession: The Australian Institute of Librarians 1937-1949) plus books about government information, managing information services, knowledge management, and collaboration for academic libraries.

AARL December 2007 issue published

The 2007 December issue of AARL (vol. 38 no.4) has been published and should be with subscribers.

It contains: Jenny Warren, ‘Directors’ Views of the Future of Cataloguing in Australia and New Zealand: A Survey’; Edmund Balnaves, ‘Ensuring Equitable Participation in a Resource-Sharing Network: Gratisnet Case Study’; Dennis Warren, ‘Lost In Translation: The Reality of Federated Searching’; Jaya Ralph and Sonja Olsen, ‘Podcasting as an Educational Building Block in Academic Libraries’; Roxanne Missingham, 'Australian Government Publishing Online a Decade on: Has the Promise Been Delivered?; plus reviews.