Council of Australian University Librarians
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The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) is a representation body for university libraries of Australia. It was established as the Committee of Australian University Librarians in 1965. Membership is restricted to library directors whose parent institutions are full members of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee
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The organisation's office is located in the Chifley Building
, Australian National University
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Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee
Universities Australia is an organisation founded in Sydney in May 1920, which attempts to advance higher education through voluntary, cooperative and coordinated action. After being based for a time in both Sydney and Melbourne, its offices relocated to Canberra in 1966...
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The organisation's office is located in the Chifley Building
Australian National University Library
The Australian National University Library is part of the Division of Information of the Australian National University, one of the world's major research universities.- Mission :...
, Australian National University
Australian National University
The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...
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Activities
- Australasian Digital Theses program
- University Library Australia, the national borrowing scheme for Australian university students and staff;
- cooperative provision of access to electronic journalElectronic journalElectronic journals, also known as ejournals, e-journals, and electronic serials, are scholarly journals or intellectual magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission. In practice, this means that they are usually published on the Web...
s & bibliographic databaseBibliographic databaseA bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publications, patents, books, etc...
s - CAUL Information Literacy Standards and information literacyInformation literacyThe National Forum on Information Literacy defines information literacy as “...the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand.” This is the most common definition; however,...
measurement - Australian Library Collections Task Force
- Submissions to Australian Government inquirieshttp://www.caul.edu.au/gov-inqu/
- contribution to the enhancement of scholarly publishing through Association of Research LibrariesAssociation of Research LibrariesThe Association of Research Libraries is an organization of the leading research libraries in North America. As of October 2006, it comprises 123 libraries at comprehensive, research-intensive institutions in the US and Canada that share similar missions, aspirations, and achievements...
' Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources CoalitionScholarly Publishing and Academic Resources CoalitionThe Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition is an international alliance of academic and research libraries developed by the Association of Research Libraries in 1998 which promotes open access to scholarship. They currently have over 800 institutions in North America, Europe, Japan,...
,http://www.arl.org/sparc/ and the National Academies ForumNational Academies ForumThe National Academies Forum was replaced in May 2010 by the Australian Council of Learned Academies.The National Academies Forum was established in 1995 as the peak organisation for the four Australian learned academies...
National Scholarly Communication Forum - liaison with major international and national organisations
- CONZUL
- CAUDIT
- ACODE
- CURL
- ARLAssociation of Research LibrariesThe Association of Research Libraries is an organization of the leading research libraries in North America. As of October 2006, it comprises 123 libraries at comprehensive, research-intensive institutions in the US and Canada that share similar missions, aspirations, and achievements...
- SCONUL
- CARLCarlCarl may refer to:*Carl , includes info about the name, variations of the name, and a list of people with the name*Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries *Carl², a TV series*Carl an internet series on Adult Swim Video...
- Australian Library and Information AssociationAustralian Library and Information AssociationThe Australian Library and Information Association is the peak professional organisation for the Australian library and information services sector....
(ALIA) - Council of Australian State Libraries (CASL)
- National Library of AustraliaNational Library of AustraliaThe National Library of Australia is the largest reference library of Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the...
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