Yumma Darruwa Ngunnawal

SIS begins by acknowledging that our services are delivered from Ngunnawal and Ngambri country.

We acknowledge and celebrate the First Australians on whose traditional lands we meet and pay our respect to the elders past and present.

Thanks to all who are working on the new hub which will be launched in National Reconciliation Week. The theme of Reconciliation week this year is Now More Than Ever.

ANU COVID-19

COVID inspections are no longer required. If you see supplies are running low of hand sanitiser or masks please let the relevant people know in your building.

Please read all the messages from the University about COVID 19.

All COVID updates will be communicated to staff and students via the ANU On Campus email newsletter. You can find previous staff On Campus and student On Campus editions online.

WHS

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to look at the draft SIS WHS plan 2024 and considering it. The final version is now online.

Last week Jo and Josh, our Health and Safety representatives did a walk-through of the new Symonston repository, which is still being completed. Thanks to Tom for organising this and accompanying them. Health and safety are a top priority and we are very grateful for the work of our HSRs.

SIS Staff meeting

The next regular meeting is:

#2 Tuesday 4 June 9.30-11 am

Location: China in the World Auditorium

The remaining meetings are:

#3 Tuesday 3 September, China in the World Auditorium

9.30-11 am

#4 Tuesday 3 December, China in the World Auditorium

9.30-11 am

SIS symposium

We have started to think about the 2024 symposium. So far areas identified for presentations and discussion include AI, supporting the University’s commitment to respecting, celebrating and learning from First Nations Peoples and the Research and innovation plan. Let me know if you have suggestions or would like to contribute to the planning.

Buildings

Symonston

UPDATE!  There has been significant progress in the last fortnight. Thanks to Brian, Maria, the HSRs and Tom who visited for a walk through last week, Balfours staff and Facilities and Services staff. There are only a smallish number of boxes now at National Mail and Marketing. Amazing work!

Art & Music

Work on the hail remediation continues. Shelving is now being investigated to accommodate the collection safely and allow for building work access to spaces where construction is required. The news item on the Library website has more details.

Academic Board

The Board met last week – matters discussed include:

• Reports from VC and CVCs
• Eforms transition update
• Annual academic calendar 2026
• Institutional approach to engagement with Artificial intelligence – response to TEQSA RFI
• Policy:
• Discussion of a proposed amendment to the Coursework Awards Rule 2020
• HDR Candidature Progression procedure
• Proposed amendments to Student Assessment (coursework) Policy and Procedure and Class Summary procedure

CAUL & CONZUL

·       Sarah Howard will be joining Council as Acting University Librarian, QUT for the next 6 months while Nicole Clark takes on a secondment opportunity as Executive Director, Student Services and Wellbeing.

·       CAUL Council meeting is planned for 22 & 23 May. It will be online. Australia’s Chief Scientist, Dr Cathy Foley, will speak on her plan for open access.

Copyright

·       The 2024-25 budget announced that the Attorney-General’s Department will receive $1.2 million over 12 months to review the intersection between copyright law and AI.

·       Eight newspaper publishers sue Microsoft and OpenAI over copyright infringement.

·       For king & country? The federal court confirms the limits of governments’ use of copyright. After reviewing the relevant legislative history and statutory context of the relevant provisions of the Copyright Act, within which section 183 appears, Justice Burley found for Isentia’s outward and inward government services argument, stating the “… language of ‘acts done for the services of the Commonwealth or State’ provides no intrinsic connotation ‘limiting the type of acts to those done for the outward facing or end-use services provided by the Commonwealth or State. An otherwise infringing act is done for the services of the Commonwealth or State when the object or purpose of the act is to benefit the Government entity by assisting its employees or officers in the performance of their functions.
This is an important judgement”.

·       The Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act of 2024. A new proposal of interest. “The “Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act of 2024” is a legislative proposal introduced by Representative Adam Schiff aimed at enhancing transparency in the AI industry. This act requires developers of AI models to disclose any copyrighted materials used in their training datasets to the Register of Copyrights, with detailed notifications including summaries of the “copyrighted works used.”

·       The Presentations from the Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum, Copyright Crossroads held on 22 March are now on the website and ADA’s YouTube channel including:

·       Keynote speaker, Matthew Sag, Professor of Law and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science at Emory University Law School. Matthew’s talk covers the global perspective of copyright and the copy-reliant nature of AI.

·       Professor Kimberlee Weatherall’s talk follows Professor Matthew Sag’s keynote and offers insights on how Australia could approach AI and copyright issues.

·       A panel discussion chaired by Delia Browne, and featuring Boris Eldagsen, Cullen Miller, Seb Chan & Olivia Lanchester. This panel explored the challenges and opportunities for AI for creators and users, creators as users of AI technologies and mechanisms to opt out of copyright.

Beef and the Australian Agricultural Company

From Rachel Armstrong – she has been a fantastic ambassador for ANU and archives and had an amazing experience:

I have been able to address the following myths…

AACo’s records are held at the NLA - The Chairman of the Board now definitely knows who we are and that the Company records are at ANU. He is keen for a visit to Canberra and I offered him a tour. He is also keen to talk about what is in storage with the Company and look at getting more records into the archives.

All our AACo records are digitised - I took the opportunity to talk about what we have digitised (tiny amount) and what we would like to digitise and (hint hint) how expensive it is.

I am the AACo’s historian - It might feel like I work for AACo but took the opportunity to explain what an archivist does and what the NBAC is.

Things I have learned…

·       If you would like to go to a supermarket after 6pm on a weekend or anytime on a public holiday in Rocky (no one says Rockhampton), forget about it.

·       If you think food prices are bad in Canberra, you clearly haven’t visited a supermarket or restaurant up here.
It’s not called Beef Week, it’s simply “Beef”.

·       You can never have too much denim or too many Akubras.

I also now know more about beef than I ever needed to know.

Southeast Asia resource show case

Congratulations to Wan for her leadership and the many staff from the Menzies Library who organised the event as well as the Southeast Asia Institute staff who made the event happen.

Speakers included Nick Chan, Dr. Maria Tanyag, Prof. Matt Tomlinson, Dr Wayan Jarrah, Ms Bee Shumway, Ms Kathryn Dan, Ms Wan Chitravas and CAP Dean Prof Helen Sullivan.

We announced the commencement of a project to digitise the more than 6,000 folders in the Balinese palm leaf manuscripts transcripts collection.

Cumberland Council and censorship

NSW government threatens some Western Sydney libraries' funding over same-sex parenting book ban. Cumberland City Council voted in favour of removing a book about same-sex parenting.

Really truly, where do they come from?

ALIA’s statement is here and CAUL has also issued a statement: CAUL Statement on Freedom to Read.

A new era for national resource sharing in Australia

From the NLA:

We are pleased to be able to share the outcome of the national resource sharing procurement, following the public announcement today.

The National Library will be collaborating with CAVAL and Index Data to develop a national service tailored to Australia’s unique environment using the ReShare platform. This outcome is the result of an extensive engagement and research strategy with Trove Partners and a robust tender process to select an innovative solution.

Find out more in the article National Library of Australia set to evolve national resource sharing in Australia.

Privacy

The Attorney General stated “At the request of the Prime Minister, I will now be bringing forward legislation in August to overhaul the Privacy Act and protect Australians from doxxing - the malicious use of their personal and private information. We will also seek to strengthen laws against hate speech” in his speech at the Privacy by design Awards on 2 May.

Basham collection

Thanks to Kathryn for the information on The ‘Wonders’ that Basham Saw (2018 – current) project. It “deals with the archive of images put together by the late Professor A. L. Basham (1914-1986) during his tenure as Foundation Professor and Head of the Department of Oriental (later Asian) Civilizations at ANU (1965-1979). He helped set up the Faculty of Oriental (later Asian) Studies at ANU and played a pioneering role in teaching and research in this area in Australia and internationally. His book ‘The Wonder that Was India’ (1954) became a signal study in the field. Basham undertook extensive fieldwork in South Asia and studied several classical Indian languages.

Feedback

The new non-standard survey privacy assessment form is much easier and quicker than needing to do a full PIA and I appreciate the effort taken to reduce the administrative burden for researchers.

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I've been meaning to reach out to you to thank you for all your wonderful help with UAT and now the training platform, but I've been a little bit snowed under so apologies for the delay. You have really been a great support for us being a part of 3 UATs by helping the other participants along the way and providing us with the most detailed feedback. For the training platform you literally reviewed every page in depth which is far more than I had expected. So I really just wanted to say thank you for being a superstar. Thank you, it has been a pleasure to work with you and your team.

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Erin for the DigiSquad, (on the rescanning of the Ung Bun Heang collection)

I am overjoyed and overwhelmed, thank you and the preservation team so much for your incredible commitment and hard work in turning this around so quickly!

I am so grateful and appreciative for you and your team doing this. I'll also let the Ung family know, I know they will also be very pleased to hear this.

A million thanks and have a wonderful weekend when it comes.

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… a quote from the introduction to another related work by one of my colleagues, Professor Muhlis Hadrawi of Hasanuddin University in Makassar:

’The reading of the manuscripts was undertaken in the Menzies library since that overseas library has what is probably the most complete collection of Bugis manuscripts, in microfilm, in the world. Its collection of manuscripts in microfilm, with the help of the Australian staff, includes South Sulawesi manuscripts from the Leiden Library, the British Library, and the Berlin library, not to forget the collections of the Cultural Institute and the South Sulawesi archives [in Makassar]. The writer had the good fortune to be able to access Bugis manuscripts from the three European collections mentioned above on a visit in 2017.'

[translated from Muhlis Hadrawi and others, Lontara sakke’ attorioloang Bone: transliterasi dan terjemahan, Penerbit Ininnawa, Makassar, 2020, p.xxxv.]

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Roxanne Missingham

Director, Scholarly Information Services

ANU Press and open access

The impact of Plan S: a discussion on findings so far

The recording of this OASPA webinar is available online. Responses to unanswered questions and panellists’ slides – Ashley Farley (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), Pablo de Castro (scidecode and University of Strathclyde), Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal (scidecode and the Walter Eucken Institut, Freiburg) and Emma Wilson (Royal Society of Chemistry) are also online.

New titles

Dreaming Ecology: Nomadics and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia

Edited by Darrell Lewis and Margaret Jolly.

Forty Years in the South Seas: Archaeological Perspectives on the Human History of Papua New Guinea and the Western Pacific Region

Edited by: Anne Ford, Ben Shaw , Dylan Gaffney 

Open repository

Dspace upgrade – at last!

From Erin:

PSP confirmed that the thesis integration with eforms is working and we have a green light for go live. Hooray!

We are proposing a go live date of Monday 20th May 2024.

Akshay will take the upgrade to the Change Approval Board (CAB) next Tuesday for approval.

Both new and current DSpace will be down from 5pm on Monday 20th May 2024 to finalise the data transfer and cut-over of IP addresses, URLs, Handles etc.

Wiley workshop: ANU Publishing 101 for Early Career Researchers

When: Tuesday, 28 May, 10am-12pm

Venue: Auditorium, Australian Centre on China in the World

Registration: Register here

The ANU Library is hosting an exclusive, in-person publishing event where you will learn everything you need to know about publishing and promoting your work. This is a great opportunity to find out how to maximise your chances of publication and speak directly to scholarly publishing experts! The workshop will be of special interest to HDRs and ECRs but will also benefit seasoned academics, no matter what your discipline is.

As Wiley publishes journals across an enormous range of disciplines in humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, religion & theology, sociology, and cultural studies (to name a few). They also publish heavily in law, science, education, and medicine. You can view a full list of subjects in the Read and Publish Agreement.

New research resources

·       Mpeg1 is not essential for antibacterial or antiviral immunity, but is implicated in antigen presentation

·       Anti-tumor Activity of NuvastaticTM (C5OSEW5050ESA) of Orthosiphon stamineus and Rosmarinic Acid in an Athymic Nude Mice Model of Breast Cancer

·       Association between hospital-diagnosed sleep disorders and suicide: a nationwide cohort study

·       Reimagining, reclaiming, renaming

·       Risk factors for TB in Australia and their association with delayed treatment completion

Keeping up to date

Optimising the UK digital research infrastructure

A new report shared by an expert panel at Digital Universities UK explores the potential for extending and identifying new collaborative digital research infrastructure for a resilient, sustainable and inclusive research sector.

College & Research Libraries

The May 2024 issue of College & Research Libraries is now freely available online both as a full issue PDF and as individual articles. Papers include.

·       Librarians and Academic Libraries’ Role in Promoting Open Access: What Needs to Change? By Shlomit Hadad, Noa Aharony Exploring Social Media as an Information Source in IL Instruction by Kathia Salomé Ibacache Oliva, Elizabeth Novosel, Stacy Gilbert

·       Longitudinal Associations between Online Usage of Library-Licensed Content and Undergraduate Student Performance by Felichism Kabo, Annaliese Paulson, Doreen Bradley, Ken Varnum, Stephanie Teasley

·       Inviting Knowledge: Enhancing Archival Discovery through Information Design by David J. Williams

·       Benchmarking Librarian Support of Systematic Reviews in the Sciences, Humanities, and Social Sciences by Mê-Linh Lê, Christine J. Neilson, Janice Winkler

The May 2024 issue of College & Research Libraries news is also now freely available online. Papers include.

·       What Students Want: Electronic v. Print Books in the Academic Library by Jennifer Matthews, Ane Turner Johnson

·       2022 ACRL Academic Library Trends and Statistics Survey: Highlights and Key Findings by Devin Savage, Steve Borrelli

ARL/CNI 2035 Scenarios: AI-Influenced Futures in the Research Environment

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) have chosen to apply scenario planning to imagine a future influenced by artificial intelligence (AI) and to explore the range of uncertainty associated with AI in the research and knowledge ecosystem. The scenarios were developed through a highly consultative process leveraging the expertise of the ARL/CNI Joint Task Force on Scenario Planning for AI/ML Futures and the ARL and CNI communities and facilitated by Stratus, LLC. The strategic focus and critical uncertainties highlighted in the scenarios were identified through extensive stakeholder engagement with the ARL and CNI membership during the winter of 2023 and spring of 2024 and involved over 300 people. Input was provided through focus groups, workshops, and one-on-one interviews.

Scenario 1: Democratizing AI

Scenario 2: Technocratic AI

Scenario 3: Divisive AI

Scenario 4: Autonomous AI

AI – NSW TAFE course

Highly recommend this course. Thanks Tom for suggesting it. I know have my digital badge and certificate!

LJ survey – increased use of AV in academic libraries

Matt Ennis reports “Fifty-seven percent of academic libraries report that the use of audiovisual (AV) sources such as news reels, recordings, performances, and films have increased over the past three years—with 21 percent describing significantly increased usage—while only 15 percent say that use of these resources have decreased, according to Library Journal’s recent AV Primary Sources Survey of Academic Libraries, sponsored by AM, that netted 220 responses from academic librarians in the United States and Canada”!

IFLA Green Library Award

Read about the award winners over time, shortlisted nominations for this year and the award scheme.

IFLA Information Literacy Section Newsletter

Read the latest newsletter online. Articles include:

·       Unlocking Minds: Digital Libraries for Sustainable Literacy

·       Library Instruction and Blended Learning at RMIT University Vietnam

·       Introducing: Information Literacy is a Discipline

Coming events

ANZREG conference

When? 17-19 June, 2024

Where? Online.

More details. The ANU Library is a member of ANZREG – the official association for Ex Libris customers. An online conference is being held June 17 – 19, and they will discuss topics such as: making the most of Alma and Primo etc; resolving problems; and making new services.

The ANU Library has an institutional registration, so SIS staff can attend conference sessions for free. Once the program has been made available, we will distribute to staff along with login details.

If you have any questions, get in touch with Morgan Wilson.

IFLA Presidents meeting

When? 9 September and 2 October 2024.

Where?  Brisbane

More details. Early notice is on the website.

International Conference on AI for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (AI4LAM) (Fantastic futures)

When? 15–18 October 2024.

Where?  Canberra

More details. Information is available online.

Australian Society of Archivists (ASA, Archives & Records Association of NZ Te Huinga Mahara (ARANZ) and the Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council of Archives (PARBICA) conference

When? 22-25 October 2024.

Where?  Christchurch, NZ

More details. The theme is: Opening the Archives. Early notice is now live here.

ARDC

Neurodesk Unleashes the Future of Brain Exploration

With over 1,000 users each month from more than 60 countries, Neurodesk is accelerating research by simplifying neuroimaging, fostering collaboration and empowering scientists to handle large datasets. Read the full article online.

National PID Roadmap Website Launched

The new National PID Strategy Roadmap website assists the sector in implementing the national Strategy with guidance, a template, examples and more. Read the full article for more information.

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