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.

AARL December 2007 issue in production

The December issue of AARL (vol. 38 no.4) is at the production stage. 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’

plus reviews

AARL v38 no3 published

The September issue of AARL (vol 38 no 3) is now available, and subscribers should have received their copies. Its contents are:

Editorial

Bob Pymm and Annemaree Lloyd, Dealing with Digital Collections
Peter Thompson, Twilight of the Gatekeepers: Crisis and Innovation in a Victorian Regional Library, 1867-1880
Rae-Anne Locke, More Than Puppets: Curriculum Collections in Australian Universities
N M Nakata et al, Libraries and Knowledge Centres

Reviews
Publications Received

Reviewers wanted!!

The following titles are in need of a home... and they can be yours in return for a 3-400 word review to be published in AARL. Please contact Bob Pymm if you are interested in reviewing any of the following:

Managing information services: a transformational approach. 2nd ed. Jo Bryson. Aldershot, Hants.: Ashgate, 2006.

Building bridges: collaboration within and beyond the academic library. Anne Langley, Edward G. Gray and KTL Vaughan. Oxford: Chandos, 2006

Remote shelving services. SPEC Kit 295. Thomas C. Deardorff, Gordon J. Aamot. Washington: ARL 2006

Library development. SPEC Kit 297. Karlene Noel Jennings, Jos Wanschers. Washington: ARL 2006

Marketing and managing electronic reserves. Ed. Trevor A. Dawes. NY: Haworth Press, 2006. ISBN 0789034042

Collection development issues in the online environment. Ed. Di Su. NY: Haworth Press, 2007. ISBN 078903087X

Electronic journal management systems: experiences from the field. Ed Gary Ives. Binghampton, NY.: Haworth Press, 2006


Dr Bob Pymm
Reviews editor Australian Academic & Research Libraries (AARL)
School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University
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AARL vol 38 no 3 available soon

The September issue of AARL (vol 38 no 3) is in production. Its contents are:

Editorial

Bob Pymm and Annemaree Lloyd, Dealing with Digital Collections
Peter Thompson, Twilight of the Gatekeepers: Crisis and Innovation in a Victorian Regional Library, 1867-1880
Rae-Anne Locke, More Than Puppets: Curriculum Collections in Australian Universities
N M Nakata et al, Libraries and Knowledge Centres

Reviews
Publications Received