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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 46 | August 2000


Collecting Advisory Committee meets

The National Library has established a CollectingAdvisory Committee to advise on the development of the Library’s collections and on directions in scholarly research and other developments relating to collecting.

The members of the committee are: Professor Susan Bambrick, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Southern Queensland; Professor James Fox, Director of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University; Professor Malcolm Gillies, Executive Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Adelaide; Professor Stuart Macintyre, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne; Rosemary Sorenson of the Courier Mail, Brisbane; and Professor Elizabeth Webby, Professor of Australian Literature, University of Sydney.

The committee’s inaugural meeting was held on 8 June under the chairmanship of Professor Stuart Macintyre. At the meeting National Library staff briefed committee members on a number of library activities including Australian and overseas collecting, collecting by Australian libraries, recent studies on the availability of scholarly resources in Australian libraries and the Library’s strategic directions. The Library’s PANDORA archive of online Australian publications was also demonstrated.

Issues on which the committee will work with the Library are wide-ranging. They include: building the Library’s collections, both Australian and overseas, relationships between the National Library’s collections and other collections within Australia, digitisation, the impact of online publishing and the de-selection and de-accessioning of library materials.

The committee will meet again later in the year and will work via email between meetings.
Peter Haddad

Advasory Committee
Pictured (from left) are Professor Stuart Macintyre, Professor Susan Bambrick, Professor Malcolm Gillies, National Library staff and
(from right) Director-General, Jan Fullerton, Professor Jim Fox, Professor Elizabeth Webby. Photograph: Loui Seselja

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