CAUL Strategic Plan

							                                           CAUL Strategic Plan
                             http://www.caul.edu.au/caul-doc/StrategicPlan.html

                                                 Report to CAUL
                       Author:                                Linda Luther
                       Date:                                     3 September 2009
                       Date of previous report:                       April 2009

Section                      Advocacy and Communication
Action                       Relationships with other organisations – Libraries Australia Advisory
                             Committee
Responsibility               Linda Luther and Anne Horn
Time-line                    ongoing
Activity since last          The Libraries Australia Advisory Committee met on 15 April 2008. The
report                       papers from the meeting are available at
                             http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/laacpapers.html
                             Libraries Australia has implemented new functionality based on the COinS
                             standard that will help research users of the service. COinS
                             (http://ocoins.org) is a standard that encodes bibliographic information. In
                             conjunction with Zotero in Firefox, researchers can collect, manage and cite
                             research sources. More information is available from Appendix C of the
                             Status Report in the LAAC papers.
                             Activity on Libraries Australia continues at a high rate, with search activity,
                             holdings added, bibliographic records added and document delivery
                             requests all showing growth.
                             Vic Elliott attended the LAAC meeting and reported on the governance
                             relationship with OCLC.
                             In July the National Library released its Directions for 2009-2011. In the context
                             of this broad statement of direction, the Resource Sharing and Innovation
                             Division of the Library has now released its Strategic Plan for July 2009 to June
                             2011.

Achievements since           Debbie Campbell reports that she has now just about completed her visits to
last report                  university libraries to discuss Libraries Australia issues.
                             In addition a roadshow has been presented in more than 20 locations covering
                             all States and Territories between April and September this year. This provided
                             both an overview of the Libraries Australia services as well as discussing the
                             ways in which organisations can more fully utilise the services offered. The
                             presentation for the roadshow is available at
                             http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/events.html#Roadshow


Publicity, reports,          None
publications since
last report
Plan for forthcoming         The next meeting of the Libraries Australia Advisory Committee will be held
activity                     on 5 November 2009.
                             The Libraries Australia forum will be held in Hobart on 6 November. More
                             details at http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/aum/laf09/index.html
                             Charles Sturt University School of Information Studies will be holding a
                             seminar on 5 November. Its theme is Empowering users – what can we do
                             to facilitate creation, discovery, use and transformation of our collections?
                             Registration is available from the LibrariesAustralia forum page.
CAUL budget                  None



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implications
Recommendations              It is recommended that CAUL note the report
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