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2015 no.4. February 27
Have your say on the future of Union Court
A big university-wide conversation about the future of Union
Court will start in March, and you will be invited to have your
say in the coming months. Click here for more information.
2015 – what do Students highlight about the
library? Woroni readers will have noticed an article in the
First year - first day - looking lost – ANU –
photo from Facilities & Services
first issue that highlights the ANU Library for – you guessed it
– sex - “Hancock Library Basement: Yes, it’s a classic. And
yes, 6 out of 10 ANU students surveyed have said they’ve had
sex there already, but that leaves 4 students who have not yet
fulfilled the“late night in the library” fantasy.”
Achievements 2014.
What more can we say? Well “Library bingo can be achieved
by taking on all 5 libraries in a week – Menzies, Hancock,
Law, Chifley and Art School”…
2014 was another year where all SIS staff
made a significant contribution to education and
research at the university. Statistics continue:
Students are back – and yes they need us! Did
Jan-Dec
2014
Number
of reference
enquiries
Total number
of visitors to
library
buildings
ANU Press
titles
published
Use includes
E-view and E
press titles
JanDec 2013
45,896
77,563
1,239,348
1,255,280
you know:
Library
Art & Music
-40.82%
Chifley
Hancock
Law
Menzies
-1.27%
Increase in
tour
participation
24.5%
Na (1)
38%
38%
9.0%
Increase in
door count
3.8 %
18%
0.5%
14.9%
22.7 %
(1) Unable to compare door count as their gates were
experiencing settling in problems in O Week in 2014.
2015 had a total of 6641 visitors.
54
63
1,578,981
893,266
And the students are everywhere:
New
archive exhibition in Menzies. Congratulations
-14.28%
to Archives and SIS Communications staff for putting together
a wonderful exhibition. Some great photos:
+76.76%
“1973 Bush Week. In the Scavenger Hunt points are awarded
based on the degree of difficulty involved in finding the objects
listed. A lamb may be hard enough but where would you start
looking for a nun with a packet of 'Omo'?” says Maggie
Shapley.
24x7 access. This week we met with Facilities and
A home away from home…photo by
Tracey Cunningham
HR News/Staffing
Helena Zobec - farewell. Helena has
been an outstanding contributor to the delivery
of services through the Chifley Library – with a
tremendous commitment to services to
students. We wish her all the best in her next
role as Branch Manager at the Australian
Catholic University. But we will miss her sorely!
Services staff and the building people who will be doing the
work that will enable level 2 to be secured to offer 24x7
access. The work is planned to take place in March and
should be completed by the end of the month. We have asked
that noisy work be completed before 9am but there may be a
bit of noise on Thursday and Friday next week. It’s the same
building group that did the work in the Chifley foyer early last
year – so they are used to trying to accommodate their work
to the demands of the library and its clients. Hopefully it will all
go smoothly – we won’t be determining the date for 24x7 to go
live until the building work is finished and we are sure that we
have covered off all issues.
Regular updates will be provided to Chifley staff on the details
of the building work including schedules and how to raise any
noise issues.
Our jobs are desirable! A survey has revealed that
Welcome to Zixiao Wang. She started
with the Digital Repository and is located in the
Chifley Library; She is responsible for data
management, open access and repository
work. She has come to us from Macquarie
University.
54% of the 14,000 respondents would choose to be a
librarian, second to a career as an author at 60% - surely
them meant archivists were number 1!
CAUL news.
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Work Health and Safety have updated
their website – do have a look.
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Discussions at the WHS committee
occurred on the proposal for ANU to be a
smoke free area. Recommendations will
be made to the Vice Chancellor – expect to
see information about what ANU will be
doing soon.
University committees
University Education Committee.
University Education Committee was held on
Friday 13 February – matters discussed
included:
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Report from the Chair
o successful relationship with
NYSF, Science Olympiads,
National Maths Summer
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Ray Choate, University Librarian at the University of
Adelaide, has announced that he will be retiring in
June. He has completed 25 years of service at the
Barr Smith Library.
Helen Taylor has been appointed to the position of
University Librarian at the University of Canberra.
Kim Tairi has been appointed University Librarian at
Swinburne. Kim has been with Swinburne Library in
various senior roles since 2006.
Industry changes. Ebsco has announced that they are
acquiring YBP and its GOBI platform from Baker & Taylor, Inc.
ALIA launches FAIR. Freedom of Access to Information
and Resources is a new program aiming to increase the reach
and profile of our advocacy for the library and information
sector.
Roxanne Missingham
University Librarian
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School and the Aurora
Aspiration Initiative
o Union Court; Council in
December gave the proposal
received in principle
agreement to proceed to the
next stage
Coursework Research Projects –
Human Research Ethics - three
options put forward for UEC
consideration and contribution
ANU College of Law Assessment and
Grade Allocation Report (the GAGA
report) – a very high quality report and
the recommendations were discussed
learning spaces and design – a major
item for 2015. Dr Kristen Pammer
gave a presentation on LG29
PhB working party report was
considered
The Dean of Students gave a very
informative annual report
“Exploring the Future of Learning and
Teaching at ANU” paper discussed
noting feedback provided - a DVCA
working group will be established
Double master degrees – useful paper
with considerable discussion
Academic Calendar 2018 paper led to
discussion of lengths of semesters and
breaks – previous paper to be brought
back to next UEC
Undergraduate Coursework Programs.
University Research Committee.
University Research Committee was held on 18
February – matters discussed included:
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Research strategy – strategic plan
2015 and Research Priorities &
Strategic Topics for 2015
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European Research strategy
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Defence Trade Controls
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Centres and Institutes policy – a very
important topic which will see further
discussion and analysis
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2015 strategic research funds
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Early Career Researcher Travel Grant
Scheme
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Report from the DVC R – including
progress on the Research
Management System, ethics, and ANU
responses to sector consultations
Events
Reinventing university publishing international
symposium
WHEN: 17-19 March 2015
WHERE: ANU, Allan Barton Forum
DETAILS & REGISTRATION: here
COST: $290
Digital Humanities 2015
WHEN: 29 June–3 July 2015
WHERE: University of Western Sydney
DETAILS & REGISTRATION: here
Mark Latham will speak about his new book, Latham at
Large, covering politics and the modern media.
WHERE: Manning Clark 3,
WHEN: 6.30pm. March 11th.
Bookings: ANU Events, 6125 4144 or
[email protected] .
Anna Bligh will speak on her new book, Through the
Wall, Reflections on Leadership, Love and Survival.
WHERE: Copland Lecture Theatre,
WHEN: 6.30pm. March 30th.
Bookings: ANU Events, 6125 4144 or
[email protected] .
Marion Halligan will read from her new novel, Goodbye
Sweetheart, and will talk about her writing with Colin
Steele
WHERE: Theatrette, Sir Roland Wilson Bldg
WHEN: Wednesday 1 April 2015, 6 –
7pm. Registration: Please register to
[email protected] or 6125 2895.
E Press and Open Access
The ‘total cost of publication’ in a
hybrid open-access environment:
Institutional approaches to funding
journal article-processing charges
in combination with subscriptions. A
very useful article from JAIST by S. Pinfield, J.
Salter and P.A. Bath.
» read more
Readings
The future of library resource discovery. National
Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a
white paper, written by Marshall Breeding. A very useful
summary of the software tools available and key issues.
» read more
The costs of double dipping Research Libraries UK. Terrifying – “the
total spend over 20 of the institutions on
subscriptions and APCs across the largest
publishers in 2013 ... Let’s take the first
publisher listed: Elsevier. In 2013 the 20
institutions surveyed spent in total £14,259,959
on subscriptions and £937,531 on APCs in
hybrid journals. It is clear that the UK’s
embracing of gold OA brought to Elsevier an
increase in their revenues from these
institutions of over 6%”
» read more
Sweden adds CC-BY to open access
requirements. The Swedish Research
Council was an early adopted of open access
requirements – outputs of research funded
since 1 January 2010 must be made available
via open access. From 2015 all peer-reviewed
publications must be publicly available within a
year. Researchers receiving grants as of 2017
must publish with a CC-BY-licence.
» read more
Brill open access journals and
Copyright Clearance Center. Brill has
launched four new Open Access journals: Brill
Open Biology, Brill Open Humanities, Brill Open
Law, and Brill Open Social Sciences. Article
Processing Changes will be processed through
the RightsLink® for Open Access platform from
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) No
doubt CAL are looking at this development with
interest.
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US plans to increase public access to publicaly
funded research The Association of Research Libraries
has posted a summary of the plans of the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the US
Department of Agriculture (USDA) to implement the o the
2013 White House Office of Science & Technology Policy
(OSTP) directive.
» read more
Recordkeeping Around the World. The January
2015 issue of the Governance and Recordkeeping Around the
World Newsletter is now available. Good list of news snippets,
events and information resources from around the world – my
eye was caught by Is That Agency Tweet a Federal Record?
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COAR Roadmap: Future Directions for
Repository Interoperability. A very important and
thoughtful review of key issues in developing a great
interconnected repository system to support greater access to
research.
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Where to keep your data: key considerations.
This report is a draft checklist from the UK Data Curation
centre.
» read more
Digital Skills. From National State Libraries Australia:
Lesley Sharp and Corin Haines, co-managers of the
Digital Skills project, they chat about the project's
progress and upcoming plans to run the Library of
Congress's Digital Preservation Outreach & Education
train-the-trainer course for NSLA libraries. Listen to the
podcast or read the transcript.
» read more
Digital literacy resources. The Digital Skills project
has also compiled a list of online resources that offer training
in foundation skills in day-to-day use of computers and
applications for library staff, regardless of their roles.
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Economic Value
of Law Libraries.
The American
Association of Law
Libraries created a
special committee to
conduct this study – as
they say in the
executive summary
“Briefly put, the overall
takeaway from the
study is: "It's not about
the library. It's about
the relationship
the librarian has with
those
who do or could benefit
from the library.””
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Universities Australia. The Pre budget submission to
government outlines the need for a well-funded university
system, noting that public investment in Australian universities
remains inadequate and low compared with OECD countries .
» read more
Digital Collections Research
Collection
Software upgrade. The Digital Collections
was migrated to DSpace 4.2 today – thanks to
all the staff in ITS who have worked on this
project – John Parry, Nalini Nair, Doug Moncur,
Genevieve and Raul.
Selected recent additions
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Encountering stressed bodies:
slow creep transformations and
tipping points of commuting
mobilities
Modelling and control of direct
steam generation in solar cavity
receivers powered by paraboloidal
dish concentrators
From expressivism to
communication in transitional
justice: a study of the
Extraordinary Chambers in the
Courts of Cambodia
Transforming commuting
mobilities: the memory of practice
Genetic affinities of oceanic
populations based on RFLP and
Haplotype analysis of genetic loci
Papers & Presentations Information Online
2015. Yes now online. Click on the Conference Program and
select the link to presentation you wish to view
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Marshall Breeding discusses issues and
products with Ebsco staff. Marshall interviews senior
EBSCO staff on the EBSCO Discovery Service, User
research, EBSCO a-z, collection management workflow and
eBooks.
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Online readers buy more print! From ALIA news “In
the US, surveys conducted by textbook makers, bookstore
owners and college students show that millennials still prefer
print books. At the University of Washington, 25% of students
given an e-textbook for free went on to purchase a print copy”
» read more
Swords, Dragons & Spells: Libraries & Privacy.
Catch up on this CNI session online – hear Pater Brantley,
New York Public Library, marshall Breeding, Library
technology Guides; Eric Hellman, Gluejar and Gary Price,
infoDOCKET.com
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OCLC.
Roy Tennant has just completed updating his “MARC Usage
in WorldCat” website summarizing and reporting MARC
element use in the 333,518,928 MARC records in WorldCat
as of 1 January 2015. Did you know that usage of the new
fields 336 (Content Type), 337 (Media Type) and 338 (Carrier
Type) shot up, from 9-10 million in January 2014 to 40-50
million occurrences in January 2015.
» read more
on three chromosomes
Australian National Data
Service
NEW! Metadata for impact ANDS webpage. ANDS RIF-CS
metadata requirements have both required (or
mandatory) and recommended (or optional)
elements, so how should you decide which
recommended elements to include in your data
descriptions? A good way to think about this is
to consider what your institution wants to
achieve by publishing data via Research Data
Australia and how you expect people will
search for and reuse your data.
Some common institutional goals, with
examples of associated RIF-CS encoding, are
provided on this new page.
Engaging librarians in RDM:
approaches & lessons learned.
Special thanks to Simon Huggard and Sam
Searle for being so willing to share their support
stories with the wider community in our webinar
last week.
 Powerpoints, webinar recordings and
other links to ANDS resources here
 Sam Searle's blog with further info on
the training scenarios
 Other Data Librarian stories on the
andsdata Data Librarians youtube
channel
 Research Data and
Librarians pamphlet
 Who are data librarians?
Next webinar: Flying solo: Data Librarians
outside (traditional) Libraries. Thurs, 5
March 12.30-1.30pm AEDT Register
This webinar will explore the journey of 3
Librarians who currently support data
management outside of traditional library
settings:
 Siobhann McCafferty - Research Data
Coordinator for the National
Agricultural Nitrous Oxide Research
Program (NANORP)
 Michelle Teis - Senior consultant
at Glentworth
 Jane Frazier - Data Librarian at
ANDS, previously at the Dryad Data
Repository in the USA.
Libraries and the Internet of Things. New issue out now
from OCLC. Jeff Jacobs writes on innovation.
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Efficiency, effectiveness and value for money.
This new report from Universities UK “highlights how the UK
higher education (HE) sector is balancing cost savings with
raising the quality of teaching and learning through
technology”. Jisc notes that the collaborative approach taken
through it has resulted in savings of £2million per annum. No
doubt CAUL could also demonstrate value though making
major savings through CEIRC’s work.
» read more
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