Libraries & Learning
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Professor Margaret Gardner
Professor Gardner talks about the relationship between universities and libraries, and the interaction students have with libraries on and off campus. Libraries and universities are places of dynamic engagement and learning. The collaborative project to provide wireless access at the State Library of Victoria and RMIT University is an example of a successful cohesive approach to providing information and access.
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Dr Vicki Williamson
Dr Williamson discusses the major changes in universities and in scholarly communication in the last decade and considers the capability of the library profession to respond to new technologies and the rapidly changing environment.
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Ms Linda O'Brien
Linda O'Brien looks at e-scholarship and e-research and the impact of the new technological environment on libraries. She considers the increased collaboration between researchers and libraries that is required to manage huge data sets dispersed across the globe, and the emerging opportunities to preserve unrepeatable events and data in older formats.
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