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New Age Cooperation: The Effect Of Technology On Library Cooperation, John Shipp, Neil Cairns
New Age Cooperation: The Effect Of Technology On Library Cooperation, John Shipp, Neil Cairns
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
Novel and aggressive attitudes toward cooperation will need to accompany the development of information technologies if libraries are to maintain a central role in the information environment. Existing cooperative mechanisms must be expanded by the establishment of international strategic alliances with publishers, database producers, software developers and hardware suppliers. In particular, Australian librarians need to re-assess their involvement in scholarly publishing and develop strategies which meet the challenges posed by emergent communication and storage technologies.
W.B. Clarke As Scientific Journalist, Michael K. Organ
W.B. Clarke As Scientific Journalist, Michael K. Organ
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
This paper comments on W.B. Clarke's role as a scientific journalist in Sydney, 1839-1878. It also argues that Clarke has been misrepresented over time because large sections of his published work - specifically anonymous and signed newspaper articles - have not been considered in analyses of his life and assessments of his place in the history of Australian science.