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Focusing on what really matters

01-Dec-08

In a short Educause Review article, Christine L Borgman describes several types of academic activity that are being profoundly influenced by information technologies:

information-intensive scholarship
data-intensive scholarship
distributed scholarship
collaborative scholarship
multidisciplinary scholarship

Collectively, these are known as e-scholarship practices. They are types of academic behavior. They are not descriptions of the tools or technologies used in that behavior.
If academic librarians [...]

Getting sign-off

10-Aug-08

In project management terms, the Information Futures Commission achieved sign-off last month.
The Commission delivered three key documents to the University community:

Final Report of the Steering Committee, describing the consultation process, summarising what we learned, and analysing the major areas of contention
Melbourne’s Scholarly Information Future: a ten-year strategy (”Zis iss ze big vun,” as Otto von [...]