Peak Bodies Forum 2002

Issues Summary

15 February 2002
9.30am – 4.00pm
Council Room, National Library of Australia

Agenda

  1. Welcome and background to the meeting (Jan Fullerton)
  2. Review of issues facing the Australian library community
  3. Discussion of issues
  4. Development of an action plan
  5. Plans for the future

 

Having: Collecting

Outcome: Enhancing the resources available to all Australians through the Australian library system.

Discussion topics

  • Australia’s resources in electronic form
  • Consortium licensing of datasets
  • Cooperative collection development of printed monographs
  • Cooperative discard/cooperative storage

Cooperative Structures

  • Australian Libraries Collections Task Force
  • CASL Consortium
  • CAUL Electronic Information Resources Committee
  • Cooperative collecting networks (eg Metropolitan Public Libraries Association of NSW Sydney Subject Specialisation Scheme; Victorian Academic and Research Libraries Consortium)

Projects

  • CAVAL SMIT Project
  • Australian Research Libraries Collection Analysis Project
  • Eprint Archives
  • Research Resources Australia (Cooperative Store); CARM store

Services to Support Cooperative Collecting

  • Kinetica
  • PANDORA
  • Australian Digital Theses
  • Australian Libraries Gateway

 

Finding: Discovery

Outcome: enabling Australians to find easily the information resources they need.

Discussion topics

Kinetica: future strategies

  • End user access and ease of use
  • Coverage of electronic resources
  • Need for enhanced and different types of metadata
  • Extension of indexing of Australian journal titles

Cooperative Structures

  • Australian Libraries Collections Task Force
  • Australian Subject Gateways Forum

Projects

  • AARLIN Portal Project
  • E-print Archive
  • E-repository project (NLA)
  • Austlit
  • WebLaw
  • Music Australia

Services to support resource discovery

  • Kinetica
  • Australian Libraries Gateway
  • Online Public Access Catalogues
  • Joint union catalogues (eg COOL_CAT)
  • Australian Journals Online
  • Indexing services (eg. APAIS/ AMI, AGIS)
  • Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts
  • Oral History Directory
  • Subject gateways (eg EdNA, AVEL)
  • Schools Catalogue Information Service
  • Australian Government Locator Service

 

Getting: Access

Outcome: Australians can effectively and efficiently gain access to the resources they want.

Discussion topics

  • National digitisation policy
  • Collaborative digital reference services

Ensuring the relevance and viability of library services by improving ILL/DD service levels:

  • Negotiating licenses to cover ILL from electronic journals
  • Facilitating end user access to ILL/DD
  • Improving turnaround times and procedures through implementing Benchmarking Survey recommendations

Cooperative Structures

  • National Resource Sharing Working Group
  • CASL Reference Issues Working Group
  • CASL Digital Issues Working Group
  • Australian Library and Information Association
  • National Scholarly Communications Forum
  • Australian Libraries Copyright Committee
  • Australian Digital Alliance

Projects

  • Digitisation
  • ILL/DD Benchmarking Survey
  • LIDDAS

Services to Support Resource Access

  • Kinetica Document Delivery Service
  • Cooperative regional ILL networks (eg GRATISnet)
  • ILRS Directory and ILRS Code
  • Government information services (eg fed.gov.au; GOVERNET)
  • PictureAustralia
  • PANDORA
  • Fed.gov.au
  • Australian Digital Theses
  • Other cooperative library networks (eg NSWnet; PLAIN)
  • CAUL National Borrowing Scheme

 

Keeping: Preservation for Long Term Access

Outcome: Ensuring that Australian information resources will be available to all Australians in the future.

Discussion topics

  • Role of institutions in the long term preservation of the electronic resources they create
  • Improved mechanisms for collaboration on longer term preservation

Cooperative Structures

  • Cooperative Microfilming network

Projects

  • Cellulose Acetate project
  • NPLAN

Services to Support Preservation for Long Term Access

  • Kinetica
  • Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI)
  • Community Heritage Grants

 

Supporting: National Policies and Strategies

Outcome: Ensuring that key issues relating to the development of national policies and forums are identified and addressed collaboratively.

Discussion Topics:

  • National information policy (background paper attached)
  • Workforce planning (background paper attached)
  • Information literacy (references attached)
  • Advancing the profile of Australian libraries

Cooperative Structures

  • Australian Library and Information Association
  • Council of Australian State Libraries
  • Council of Australian University Librarians
  • Federal Libraries Information Network

Projects

  • ALIA Literacy Round Table
  • Training Competencies for Public Libraries
  • Library and Information Science Education for the Knowledge Age

Services to Support National Policies and Forums

  • ·Round Tables and Forums (e.g. Forum on Library Services for People with Disabilities)

 

Future Mechanisms to Support Agreed Outcomes

Outcome: Ensuring the continued development of the whole Australian library system in the national interest

Discussion topics

  • Future mechanisms for collaboration
  • National meeting or other mechanism

Cooperative Structure

  • Australian Library and Information Association
  • Council of Australian State Libraries
  • Council of Australian State Universities
  • Federal Libraries Information network

Actions

  • To be agreed by the Peak Bodies Forum

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