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Current and future print storage for Australian academiclibraries: results of a survey
Paul Genoni, Curtin University of Technology
Library Collections, Acquisitions & Technical Services (forthcoming, 2008)

Changing library spaces: finding a place for print
Paper presented by Cathie Jilovsky, CAVAL, and Paul Genoni, Curtin University of Technology, WA at VALA2008, Melbourne, February 2008
Presentation [PDF] 588KB
Paper available from VALA

2007

Libraries, the long tail and the future of legacy print collections
Paul Genoni, Curtin University of Technology,
LIBRES 17:1, 2007

Towards a national print repository for Australia: where from and where to?
Paul Genoni, Curtin University of Technology, Australian Academic and Research Libraries, 38:2, 2007, pp. 84-98

The right staff from X to Y: Generational change and the implications for professional development and training in future academic libraries [PDF] 237KB
Paper presented by Richard Sayers, CAVAL, at the conference "The Academic Librarian: Dinosaur or Phoenix? Die or fly in library change management", held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, April 2007. Papers and presentations are available at the Conference Website.

Wagging the long tail: Managing print collections in a digital age
Held on 3 May 2007 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Melbourne
Presentations available here

Transforming Professional Development for Librarians – More than Meets the Eye (or Robots in Disguise?) [PDF] 113KB
Paper presented by Richard Sayers, CAVAL, at LIANZA Conference 2007

Current and emerging trends in cataloguing
[PDF] 54 KB
Paper presented by Helen Gourkova, CAVAL, at the ALIA National Library and Information Technicians Conference 2007

2006

CLIC @ CLICK06: a consortial success story [PDF] 195KB
Paper presented by Cathie Jilovsky, CAVAL, jointly with Kathryn Pearson, Macquarie University and Julie Wilson, RMIT University at the ALIA 2006 Conference “CLICK06”, Perth, September 2006

Asian Online Statistics: Why, What and How
Paper presented by Cathie Jilovsky, CAVAL, in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Bangkok on behalf of the iGroup (Asia).

Multi-lingual Cataloguing: culture, practice and systems [PDF] 68KB
Paper by Cathie Jilovsky, Eva Varga and Lamis Sukkar, CAVAL, presented at the Open Road 2006 Conference: Challenges and Possibilities, Melbourne, February 2006.

2005

Measuring Value: A Comparison of Performance Quality Measures and Outcomes Identified by Australian and North American Libraries [PDF] 100KB
Paper jointly presented by Cathie Jilovsky, CAVAL, and Steve Hiller, University of Washington, USA at the 3rd International Evidence Based Librarianship Conference, Brisbane, October 2005.

Library Statistics: reflecting yesterday, today and tomorrow [PDF] 53KB
Paper presented by Cathie Jilovsky, CAVAL, at the 6th Northumbria Conference on Performance Measures for Libraries and Information Services, Durham, United Kingdom, August 2005.

Multilingual Cataloguing: Practical and Technical Issues [PDF] 68KB
Paper presented by Cathie Jilovsky, CAVAL, at the IFLA Satellite Conference “The Multicultural Library: Staff Competence for Success”, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2005. (Jointly authored with Andrew Cunningham, State Library of Victoria).

Data Quality - What is it and Does it Matter? [PDF] 39KB
Presentation by Cathie Jilovsky, CAVAL, presented at Information Online 2005 Exhibition & Conference - Sydney
Click here for the "Information Online 2005 Exhibition & Conference" site.

The Future of Consortia - Keynote to Gulliver Public Library Conference February 2005 [PDF] 171KB
Paper by Steve O'Connor, CAVAL, presented at Gulliver Conference February 2005

Plagiarism in publisher files: Online Conference February 2005 [PDF] 2.8MB
Presentation by Steve O'Connor, CAVAL, presented at the Online Conference, Sydney February 2005

Special Issue: Repository print libraries: vital strategies in the digital world
"Library Management" journal, Volume 26(1/2) 2005

2004

Unicode: a tool for system interoperability and human communication [PDF] 30KB
Paper by Cathie Jilovsky, CAVAL, presented at the VALA2004 Conference, Melbourne, February 2004.

A brief presentation of images and words on the CARM Centre [PDF] 639KB
May 2004

The economics of Repository Libraries in the context of the future conventional libraries [PDF] 435KB
Paper by Steve O'Connor, CAVAL, 2004

The Future of Consortia
Paper by Steve O'Connor, CAVAL,
ACCESS (Asia's Newspaper on Electronic Information Products and Services) No.51 December 2004.

Effective and Meaningful Statistics
Paper and workshop presented by Cathie Jilovsky and Sue Henczel, CAVAL, at the Online Information and Education Conference 2004 "From Open Access to Open Learning", Bangkok, Thailand. (2004)

2003

Cheating and Electronic Plagiarism - Scope, Consequences and Detection [PDF] 66KB
Paper by Steve O'Connor, CAVAL, presented at the EDUCAUSE Conference, Adelaide, May 2003.

Developing Print Repositories: Models for Shared Preservation and Access [PDF] 371KB
by Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. : Center for Research Libraries, June 2003.
This report nominates the CARM Centre as world's best practice.

2002

Research is the basis of a collaborative solution for academic libraries: the Victorian Academic Digital Library (VADL) [PDF] 83KB
Paper by Steve O'Connor, CAVAL, published in Library Management 23(8/9), 2002:417-421.

The paradox of collecting in a digital age: paper presented to the Asian Conference on Collection Development [PDF] 85KB
Paper by Steve O'Connor, CAVAL, presented at the Asian Conference on Collection Development in Penang, Malaysia in July 2002.

A Case Study of Collaborative Storage of Library Resources [PDF] 177KB
Paper by Steve O'Connor, CAVAL, Andrew Wells and Mel Collier published in Library Hi Tech Volume 20, Number 3 2002.

2001

A Study of Collaborative Storage of Library Resources [PDF] 145KB
Conducted by: Steve O'Connor, CAVAL, Andrew Wells & Mel Collier. June 2001
Sponsored under the Research Support Libraries Programme for the British Library/Higher Education Task Force.

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