Missing Items: Treasures of Australia's Past Lost from the National Archives
UPDATE: Audio: National Archives defend records, despite missing items (via ABC News) From The Telegraph: Over the past two decades the National Archives has lost at least 748 historic items, some...
View ArticleAustralia's Public Broadcaster (ABC) to Open Access to Digital Archives
From ITnews.com.au: The ABC and Education Services Australia have garnered a $20 million project to digitise the public broadcaster’s archives for a new education portal the Federal Government hopes...
View ArticleAustralia Considers National Digital Archive: Copyright Act Amendment Could...
via The Register: Australia’s Legal Deposit requirement, which compels publishers to send copies of all books to the National Library, may be extended to digital works. The potential extension of the...
View ArticleNational Archives of Australia Shares Records Digitization Strategy With...
From iTnews.com.au: The National Archives of Australia has outlined a plan to reduce the dependency of government agencies on paper records, saving up to $200 million a year in physical storage costs....
View ArticleAustralia: New South Wales Government to Open Source Digital Archives Software
From iTnews.com.au: NSW State Records has promised to open source any digital preservation software it writes for an archive of “born-digital” records that will sit in a new Western Sydney data centre....
View ArticleAustralian Broadcasting Corp. Adds Archival Video to Wikimedia Commons,...
From the Wikimedia Blog: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the national public broadcaster, turns 80 this year. To celebrate it has launched a new website called “80 Days That Changed Our...
View Article24 Hour Library Facility Proposed in Sydney, Australia
From a News.com.au Commentary by Tim Blair: Libraries aren’t often in the news these days. This situation was partially rectified last week by the City of Sydney council’s latest “draft strategy and...
View ArticleAudio: Wikimedia’s Executive Director, Sue Gardner, Speaks at New Librarians...
Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation (the organization that “powers” Wikipedia) was interviewed last week at ALIA’s 6th New Librarians Symposium in Brisbane, Australia. Richard...
View ArticleResults of International Survey: “Feeling Better Connected: Academics’ Use of...
The following full text report was published in June by the News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Australia. Title Feeling Better Connected: Academics’ Use of Social Media Author...
View ArticleNew Full Text Research Article: “A Theory of Mobile Library Service Delivery”
Note: infoDOCKET would once again like to thank the team at SAGE for opening up their paywall and allowing us to provide free, full text access to a journal article we selected and have linked to...
View ArticleMissing Items: Treasures of Australia's Past Lost from the National Archives
UPDATE: Audio: National Archives defend records, despite missing items (via ABC News) From The Telegraph: Over the past two decades the National Archives has lost at least 748 historic items, some...
View ArticleAustralia's Public Broadcaster (ABC) to Open Access to Digital Archives
From ITnews.com.au: The ABC and Education Services Australia have garnered a $20 million project to digitise the public broadcaster’s archives for a new education portal the Federal Government hopes...
View ArticleAustralia Considers National Digital Archive: Copyright Act Amendment Could...
via The Register: Australia’s Legal Deposit requirement, which compels publishers to send copies of all books to the National Library, may be extended to digital works. The potential extension of the...
View ArticleNational Archives of Australia Shares Records Digitization Strategy With...
From iTnews.com.au: The National Archives of Australia has outlined a plan to reduce the dependency of government agencies on paper records, saving up to $200 million a year in physical storage costs....
View ArticleAustralia: New South Wales Government to Open Source Digital Archives Software
From iTnews.com.au: NSW State Records has promised to open source any digital preservation software it writes for an archive of “born-digital” records that will sit in a new Western Sydney data centre....
View ArticleAustralian Broadcasting Corp. Adds Archival Video to Wikimedia Commons,...
From the Wikimedia Blog: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the national public broadcaster, turns 80 this year. To celebrate it has launched a new website called “80 Days That Changed Our...
View Article24 Hour Library Facility Proposed in Sydney, Australia
From a News.com.au Commentary by Tim Blair: Libraries aren’t often in the news these days. This situation was partially rectified last week by the City of Sydney council’s latest “draft strategy and...
View ArticleAudio: Wikimedia’s Executive Director, Sue Gardner, Speaks at New Librarians...
Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation (the organization that “powers” Wikipedia) was interviewed last week at ALIA’s 6th New Librarians Symposium in Brisbane, Australia. Richard...
View ArticleResults of International Survey: “Feeling Better Connected: Academics’ Use of...
The following full text report was published in June by the News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Australia. Title Feeling Better Connected: Academics’ Use of Social Media Author...
View ArticleNew Full Text Research Article: “A Theory of Mobile Library Service Delivery”
Note: infoDOCKET would once again like to thank the team at SAGE for opening up their paywall and allowing us to provide free, full text access to a journal article we selected and have linked to...
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