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Annual Users' Meeting

21-22 August 2003

Stamford Grand Adelaide
Glenelg
South Australia


Innovation Award Accommodation Registration Form Agenda Biographies South Australian Organising Committee

Speaker

Maxine Brodie Maxine Brodie

Macquarie University
Parallel Session, KDD, Thursday 21st, 1:15-2:30pm

Maxine Brodie BA DipEd (Syd) Dip Lib (NSW) MBA (Macq) AALIA

Maxine Brodie was appointed as University Librarian at Macquarie University in February 2003. She moved to Macquarie in 2002 as Deputy University Librarian after working for 5 years as Director of Information Technology at the State Library of New South Wales. Prior to this Maxine spent 14 years as a senior manager in client, collection and management services at the University of Technology, Sydney, where she also played an active part in IT Strategic Planning for both the Library and the academic and administrative areas of the University.

Maxine qualified as a mathematics teacher in 1974 and as a librarian and Associate of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) in 1976. She completed a Master of Business Administration at Macquarie University in 1996 and was awarded an Allan Knott Scholar's Medal for academic merit at graduation. She has always been active in professional activities within ALIA and is currently the Chair of the Standards Association of Australia Committee IT/19.

Maxine has a strong professional interest in the application of IT to improve service provision and in the vital role of information workers in the electronic age. She has published several articles and conference papers on library/IT planning and service issues. Her personal interests include textile crafts, book collecting, walking and theatre.

Parallel Session

Kinetica Document Delivery

Maxine Brodie, Macquarie University
Chris Taylor, University of Queensland

  1. Achievements - progress with KDD over last 12 months
    Delivery of enhancements; outstanding enhancements
    Highlights of next software release - VDX 2.3.2
  2. Different models for resource sharing - ISO interoperability; IFconference; ISO issues (NCIP standard?)
  3. KDD Issues (includes Z39.50 searching anomalies, workflow issues, problems with holdings - no holdings or holdings for electronic resources, training)
  4. Further improvements in functionality - KDD additional functionality, more flexibility (user input into process)