National Resource Sharing Working Group Final Forum

Objectives of the Forum

The overall objectives of the Forum and Field Day are to:

  • To report on achievements in Australian resource sharing over the past decade;
  • To review key issues in Australian resource sharing;
  • To come up with a set of priority areas for investigation and further analysis leading to the development of an action plan for the next decade.

Forum Minutes

Friday 30 July 2004
National Library of Australia, Council Room
Forum Program

TIME TOPIC SPEAKER
9.30- 9.45 am Introduction and welcome
Chair: Toby Burrows
9.45-10.30 am Achievements
Background report
- Resource Sharing in Australia 2004
- Email from Russell Nicholson
10.30-10.45 am

Refreshments

 

10.45-12.15 am Specific papers and topics:

ARLCAP study
(University of Western Australia -
http://www.library.uwa.edu.au/about_the_uwa_library/
research__and__development_projects/arlcap
)

Australian Libraries Collection Task Force studies
(End user perspectives - http://www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/alctf/ )

Survey of Users of the National Library's Document Supply and Copies Direct Services
(Summary paper)



Toby Burrows


Sandra Henderson


Roxanne Missingham/ Margarita Moreno
12.15-1.00 pm Lunch
1.00-3.00 pm

Perspectives:

Discussion topic 1: Academic, state and research libraries

Discussion topic 2: Special libraries: health, law and special and public libraries.

(Attendees to give a brief overview from their library sector perspectives to the meeting)

 Oral reports

3.00-3.15 pm Refreshments
3.15 pm

Where to from here


Discussion of Issues
Future directions
Recommendations

4.15-4.30 pm

Close

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