Recently added articles from The Australian Library Journal:
Editorial.(Editorial)
Aug 01, 2009; ... In August last year (ALJ Vol 57 No. 3), in our special issue on community and workplace information literacy guest edited by Helen Partridge, we published a paper by a new author, Katrina Macdonald, from the University of Ballarat. Katrina's paper 'ESL Library Skills: an information ...
Library technician course recognition: meeting the challenge of a distributed national education program.(Report)
Aug 01, 2009; ... This paper looks at the challenges presented for the Australian Library and Information Association by its role as the professional association responsible for ensuring the quality of Australian library technician graduates. There is a particular focus on the issue of course recognition, ...
Responding to the challenges of KM education in the LIS sector: some academic and professional perspectives.(knowledge management)(library and information science)(Survey)
Aug 01, 2009; ... As a newly emerging field of study, KM education is faced with significant challenges which continue to evolve. Informed by wider organisational perspectives, this paper presents the findings of recent research into this field. The first part of the research was in the form of an online ...
Learning wellness: how ageing Australians experience health information literacy.(Report)
Aug 01, 2009; ... Given identified synergies between information use and health status greater understanding is needed about how people use information to learn about their health. This paper presents the findings of preliminary research into health information literacy. Analysis of data from ...
UNSW Library's outreach librarian service: what they need before they want it!(University of New South Wales)(Report)
Aug 01, 2009; ... At the end of 2006 the UNSW Library restructured its five special libraries into a new division called the Information Services Department. It was a radical restructure and provides a new model through which the Library delivers services in both the physical and online environments in a ...