Biagi, G. (2006). The Library: its past and future. In Library daylight:tracings of mod... - 0 views
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Biagi, G. (2006). The Library: its past and future. In Library daylight:tracings of modern librarianship 1874 - 1922 (pp. 111-123). Library Juice Press. Retrieved fromhttp://edocs.library.curtin.edu.au/eres_display.cgi?url=dc60261222.pdf This is an address to the American Library Association in 1904. The predictions at the bottom of p. 117 are fascinating.
Wright, J., & Cowell, J. (2014). ALICE: are we ready for a startup? - 0 views
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Questioning the purpose and functions of a modern state library. Well worth reading to get an idea of one state librarian's vision of what Australian state libraries could be doing. Wright, J., & Cowell, J. (2014). ALICE: are we ready for a startup? Presented at the VALA 2014: Streaming with possibilities, Melbourne Australia: VALA: Libraries, technology and the future. Retrieved from VALA2014-Session-15-Wright-Paper
M. Piggott (2012) "Themes in Australian Recordkeeping, 1788 - 2010", Chapter 2, Archive... - 0 views
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M. Piggott (2012) "Themes in Australian Recordkeeping, 1788 - 2010", Chapter 2, Archives and societal provenance : Australian essays, Chandos Publishing. http://link.library.curtin.edu.au/p?pid=CUR_ALMA51110902610001951 Subjects: Archives -- Australia -- History ; Libraries and society -- Australia ; Archives -- Collection management -- Australia ; Archives -- Australia ; Libraries -- Australia ; Records -- Australia -- Management Description: "Records and archival arrangements in Australia are globally relevant because Australia's indigenous peoples represent the oldest living culture in the world, and because modern Australia is an ex-colonial society now heavily multicultural in outlook. Archives and societal provenance explores this distinctiveness using the theoretical concept of societal provenance as propounded by Canadian archival scholars led by Dr Tom Nesmith. The book's seventeen essays blend new writing and re-workings and combinations of earlier work and comprise the first text to present a societal provenance perspective to a national setting. The book is divided into four sections. The first part looks at the historical context of archives in Australia; the second part covers the institutions involved in the Australian archival story; the third part discusses the formation of archives; and the fourth part considers the debates surrounding archives in Australia. The book concludes with a consideration of the notion of an archival afterlife." --backcover.
The Code4Lib Journal - How Hard Can It Be? : Developing in Open Source - 0 views
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We experienced freedom to explore alternate avenues, to innovate, to take risks in ways that would have been difficult under the direct control of a district council.
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patrons made it clear that while they appreciated that computers were a necessary part of a modern library, they did not consider them the most important part.
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Our overall objective was to source a library system which: could be installed before Y2K complications immobilised us, was economical, in terms of both initial purchase and future license and maintenance support fees, ran effectively and fast by dial-up modem on an ordinary telephone line, used up-to-the minute technologies, looked good, and was easy for both staff and public to use, took advantage of new technology to permit members to access our catalogue and their own records from home, and let us link easily to other sources of information – other databases and the Internet. If we could achieve all of these objectives, we’d be well on the way to an excellent service.
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For more information about Koha and how it was developed, see: Ransom, J., Cormack, C., & Blake, R. (2009). How Hard Can It Be? : Developing in Open Source. Code4Lib Journal, (7). Retrieved from http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1638
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