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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

Robyn Walden Robyn Walden

Bibliographic Services Librarian
Flinders Univeresity
SA Showcase, University Libraries, Thursday 21st, 4-5pm,

Robyn has worked in the Flinders University Library since 1976, and has in that time gained wide experience in both traditional Technical Services areas and Reader Services. She is currently the Bibliographic Services Librarian responsible for managing the section which undertakes all monograph acquisitions, the cataloguing of monographs and serials and quality control of the Library's Voyager database. Robyn has held a variety of positions including Serials Librarian, Lending Services Librarian, Special Collections Librarian and Asian Studies Librarian.

South Australian Showcase

University Libraries

Robyn Walden, Flinders University
Jay Douglas, University of South Australia
Patricia Scott, University of Adelaide
In this presentation we will be speaking about the University sector in South Australia outlining the history of cooperation between the three University libraries including the joint purchase of the Voyager Information System and future plans such as the bench marking of technical services operations. We will discuss the issue of "disappearing collections" from smaller libraries (have they really disappeared or just changed hands) and the services offered to special libraries by the three universities. We will also discuss a pilot project conducted at Flinders in 2002 with YBP and OCLC to test the potential of the Voyager Acquisitions system for streamlining Bibliographic Services' operations and negotiations with Kinetica to provide a similar service.