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.