Yumma Darruwa Ngunnawal.

SIS acknowledges 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.

I am delighted to report that our proposal for a presentation to the Kummargii Yulendji Symposium 2024 has been accepted. Find out more about the symposium on the website.

ANU COVID-19

COVID inspections are no longer required. If you see supplies of hand sanitiser or masks are running low, do 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

Read about safety and security on our campus here.

Next SIS Staff meetings

#3 Tue 3 September, China in the World Auditorium, 9.30-11 am, featuring Christina Page, WEG, will present on psychosocial risks.

#4 Tuesday 3 December, China in the World Auditorium 9.30-11 am

LSCC

The next meeting is Tuesday 13 August. Welcome to our new member Janne Lorenzen from Hancock Library.

SIS END OF YEAR EVENT

The most important question is would you prefer

·       Thursday 12 December

·       OR Friday 13 December

3-5 pm, in Menzies MacDonald room

LET ME KNOW!

Buildings

Symonston

Fabulous progress continues. Requesting monographs is operating very successfully. There are some security and overall collection management issues.

Art & Music Library

The retrieval services from the collection at the Art & Music Library continues. Next major work is on the shelving. Information has been provided to staff and the schools on the shelving plan.

Academic Quality Assurance Committee

The Extraordinary Meeting 1/2024 held last week had agenda items including:

Amendment of Undergraduate Awards

·       The tagging of Transdisciplinary problem-solving courses as outlined in Proposal to operationalise the Transdisciplinary Problem-Solving Tag;

·       An initial set of courses to be tagged as meeting the Transdisciplinary Problem-Solving (TD) Graduate Attribute (GA).

·       amendment of the 36 curriculum items

Academic Board

AB met this week with a very strong agenda. The recent meeting included discussion on the following items:

·       TEQSA Update - July 2024

·       eForms Transition Project Update

·       Interim and Unresolved Grade Report 2023 and earlier

·       Report on Progress, Attrition and Completion

·       ANU Approach to AI - Standing Item

·       Report of the Admissions Working Party

·       Recommendations to amend the Policy English

·       language admission requirements and post-admission support.

ANU Archives catalogue additions

ANU Archives staff progressively add information to the Archives catalogue as collections are listed or described. Newly listed on the Archives catalogue and available for research are:

·       Ernest Richard Scott’s diaries, photographs and logbooks of the artesian bore Eureka Well on Manfred pastoral station.

·       Field notebooks, slides and correspondence from geographer Elspeth Young’s work in Papua New Guinea, 1971-1997.

·       Business records of the Australia Japan Business Co-operation Committee, 1989-2014 (some require permission to access).

·       Records of Clarke and Barwood, Victorian law firm operating in Colac, 1879-1930.

Tula

Ahlam’s lovely daughter Tula is beautiful! Ahlam, Jon and Owais are delighted to have their gorgeous girl.

Hancock Library stars!

100 Research Consultations this year! This is 15% more than this time last year! Wow! Well done everyone.

The one hour consultations, either via Zoom or in -person, take us on many journeys into different subject areas and methodologies. A summary by college, discipline and review type is below. 

A few examples of topics undertaken have been "Healthcare access for persons with disabilities in Bangladesh: evaluating the impact of support programs", "Equitable access and delivery of genomics in cancer control" and "Biomimetic ligament replication".

What is interesting is we have undertaken more cross-disciplinary consultations on a science related topic from other schools. One recently from Law was "Examining the shortcomings of Australia’s Ramsar Implementation, searching for concrete examples of Commonwealth powers within the Water Act in Murray Darling Basin." Search terms were; "commonwealth powers" AND "Water Act" AND ("weak federal oversight" OR "federal oversight") AND (instructions OR leadership) and databases to search were SCOPUS, Proquest, Web of Science, Informit databases, such as APAFT, and CAB Abstracts.

Cathy Burton

Hancock Library

CAUDIT Library IT Community of Practice

Are you interested in Library IT? Want to discuss these topics with colleagues? 
CAUDIT has updated the old Library IT email list to a Teams Community of Practice site that can be found here: Library IT Community.

Please join us to discuss current topics of interest and build a network for increased skill development around library technology issues. We welcome anyone with an interest in this topic, from beginners to experts. 

As the CoP is now set in Teams, if your University already has a Teams environment, you will need to switch to the CAUDIT tenant for the channel to be visible and we recommend that you do this via a browser rather than your usual desktop app. You can find additional information about accessing your community spaces to ensure you have good engagement with your community on the CAUDIT website here.

Looking forward to meeting more of you virtually in the new CoP space.

Ruth Baxter and David Coupe

CAUL & CONZUL

Kathleen (Kath) Cambourn, a proud Kamilaroi woman has been appointed to the role of Indigenous Project Lead at UOW Library.

Copyright

·       Canada’s Copyright Act at 100

·       EIFL webinar on Libraries, Copyright and AI for science and research, the first in a series of four webinars on copyright and libraries

·       Authors sue Anthropic for copyright infringement over AI training

·       When Copyright and Contracts Collide: Advocacy for Library and User Rights 

·       Slade, C., Walton, J. & Lewandowski-Cox, J. Investigating Copyright as a Mechanism for Combatting Unauthorised Student Academic file-sharing in Higher Education: Findings from an Explorative Study. J Acad Ethics (2024)

New collections from British Online Archives

For the next 12 months ANU Library users will have access to the entire British Online Archives primary source collection. This is a major investment in humanities subjects, and gives students and researchers access to millions of valuable primary source materials dating back as far as the sixteenth century. Explore the newly available collections online

Procurement

Exemption Form: 

There is now a new version of the exemption form available for use. Please contact the Procurement Office Mailbox (procurement.office@anu.edu.au) for the latest version. 

Exemption Process: 

Please engage with the Procurement Office as normal to request the updated exemption form, your RFx number (if required) and for initial review. UPCO will now be responsible for uploading the Exemption form, quote, COI and any other relevant forms into DocuSign. This process change has occurred in an effort to reduce the back and forth we are currently seeing in this process. Please ensure you list your Financial Delegate on the form, as well as all relevant attachments so UPCO has all information required. 

Feedback

Hi Neiva,

Many thanks. I greatly appreciate your help and the help of everyone in the Library handling document delivery and purchases. I think I make rather a lot of these requests (!) but the support the Library provides by obtaining all these items is incredibly valuable to my research. I'm very grateful!

Kind regards,

Theo

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Roxanne Missingham

Director, Scholarly Information Services

Coming events

NFAW Canberra Winter Tales event with Beth Campbell

When? Sunday 25 August 2.00pm.

Where?  National Library of Australia

More details. A fundraiser to support NFAW's Australian Women's Register. When she retired in 2023, Beth Campbell had been the longest serving magistrate in the ACT. As she handed down her final sentence she was met with a chorus of applause from the gallery; celebrated as a pioneer for women in law, known for her patience, diligence, warmth and care. She was the second woman to be appointed to the ACT judiciary and served the court for close to 25 years. More information is available on the website.

IFLA Presidents meeting

When? 30 September to 3 October 2024.

Where?  Brisbane

More details. More information, such as speakers and programme is available on the website.

IIIF Australia Showcase & Workshops

When? 15-16 October, 2024.

Where?  Canberra

More details. The IIIF Consortium and the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) are organising a series of IIIF events alongside the AI4LAM Fantastic Futures conference. Day 1 will feature presentations from the IIIF executive, national and international institutions; Day 2 workshop will provide hands-on sessions to get started in adopting IIIF and Glycerine workflows. The Showcase and Workshops are free with a paid registration for the Fantastic Futures Conference. You must be a registered attendee of FF24 to attend. Information is here.

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 available to view online.

ARDC

Securing Voices of Country

The Language Data Commons of Australia will continue to grow through the ARDC's HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons. More information is on the ARDC website.

Empowering HASS Research Through the Carpentries Training

ARDC and AARNet collaborated to host a global Carpentries Instructor Training workshop to provide HASS researchers with essential coding and data science skills, further enhancing the Language Data Commons of Australia project. Continue reading on the ARDC website.

Biosecurity Commons Grows to Support Sector

The ARDC is excited to be partnering in the next phase of Biosecurity Commons to better meet the urgent needs of biosecurity researchers and decision-makers. Find out more information on the ARDC website.

ANU Press and open access

NSW Premier’s History Awards

The Premier of NSW, The Hon. Chris Minns MP, on Wednesday 7 August 2024 announced the shortlists for the 2024 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The shortlist includes the second edition of The Road to Batemans Bay: Speculating on the South Coast during the 1840s depression (Alastair Greig, ANU Press).

Oxford Scholarship Online: Commit to Open

Oxford Scholarship Online: Commit to Open is OUP’s new initiative aiming to secure funding from libraries and institutions for 30 monographs to be published open access, ensuring that their digital editions are freely available, globally and in perpetuity.

There are three collections of 10 books available for libraries to support:

• Support new voices: The landscape of academic publishing can often present particular challenges for those just starting their career. To nurture this community, we have a collection available where every book is written by an early career researcher. The titles in this collection are diverse, feature several titles on topics relating to under-represented groups, and cover eight different academic disciplines.
• Humanities: This showcases the vitality and variety of our publishing across the Humanities. These books cover topics including the cross-pollination of ideas via missionaries, the cultural influences on music and music genres, and the flow of religious ideas and identities around the Mediterranean in both the ancient and modern worlds.
• Law & Social Sciences: This collection has a strong focus on marginalised groups, with books on current controversies in development studies, incarceration systems, and voters from ethnic minorities and the LGBT community. It also features titles on radical ideas such as what we owe to animals and how states can exist without armed forces.

If they reach their funding targets by March 2025, they will publish all 30 titles open access.

Central European University Press (CEU Press)

Effective 1 August 2024, Amsterdam University Press (AUP), will be responsible for the production, marketing and sales of all titles published by Central European University Press (CEU Press), as well as completing existing projects and commissioning new titles. Read more here.

UK Research councils revise open access plans

“The REF Steering Group has now decided that: Open access for longform outputs remains a key area of policy interest for the funding bodies but in response to sector concerns, and in recognition of the broad set of challenges currently facing the sector, there will be no longform open access mandate for REF 2029. An open access requirement for submission of longform outputs will be in place for the next assessment exercise, with implementation from 1 January 2029.”

New titles

Preparing a Nation? The New Deal in the Villages of Papua New Guinea

By Brad Underhill.

Open repository

Variability, Irregular Publisher Metadata, and the Ongoing Evolution of Databases Complicates Reproducibility in Bibliometrics Research

David Crotty writes “Bibliometric databases are essential tools for research and publishing strategy. But the variability in how they parse publisher metadata and their constant evolution makes it difficult, if not impossible, to exactly reproduce any given piece of research”.

DPSACE

Thanks you to everyone for their patience and Erin for her prompt request for a roll back.  Everyone is working hard on understanding the problems in the latest release and to figure out how to solve them.

Recent additions

·       The Computer as a tool in socio-economic and environmental systems analysis ([Canberra] : Australian National University Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, 1975., 1975) Young, Peter Colin.

·       Dorian Le Gallienne: Sonata (1950-51) - 3. Molto lento Composer: Dorian Le Gallienne; Grafton-Greene, Michael.

·       Miriam Hyde: Tap Tune (1952) Composer: Miriam Hyde; Grafton-Greene, Michael.

·       Dorian Le Gallienne: Sonata (1950-51) - 2. Alla marcia Composer: Dorian Le Gallienne; Grafton-Greene, Michael.

·       Dorian Le Gallienne: Sonata (1950-51) - 1. Allegro moderato Composer: Dorian Le Gallienne; Grafton-Greene, Michael.

Drill Hall Gallery

Cathy Zhang: Medium of Wonders, pop-up exhibition at CIW Gallery

Cathy Zhang is an artist, ceramicist, sculptor, and jewellery maker. She sculpts forms which oscillate at the edge of the functional and the speculative, taking cues from vessels and the human, environmental, and technological bodies behind their creation. This two-week solo presentation of emerging artist and ANU Alumna Cathy Zhang will be held at the ANU Centre on China in the World Gallery.

Date: 19–30 August (opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm)

Venue: The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) Gallery, ANU.

More details are available on the website.

The Drill Hall Gallery website is here.

Keeping up to date

Governance and Business Models for Collaborative Collection Development

Library collaborations focused on collection development need to be responsive to the changing landscape of scholarly resources as well as the evolving nature of research, teaching, and learning. The purpose of this report is to further increase understanding of the governance and business characteristics of collaborative collection development initiatives, and how the attributes of different business models can affect the outcomes of collaborations. They focus on governance models as they provide a strategic framework in support of decision making, implementation, stakeholder engagement, business planning, and sustainability, which are all fundamental to building a strong scaffolding for collaboration. You can read the full article online.

SPARC

SPARC kicked off their Open Access 101 Series with the first event focused on OA Foundations. The recording of this first session is available on the SPARC YouTube channel.

Transforming library enquiry services: anywhere, anytime, any device

Julie Hockey’s article in Library Management vol. 37, no. 3 outlines how the University of South Australia Library transformed its enquiry services by replacing fixed service desks with a blend of virtual and on demand services. You can access it via Proquest.

AI

The evolving risk to academic integrity posed by generative artificial intelligence: Options for immediate action Associate Professor Jason M Lodge, The University of Queensland.

“This short document is intended to give institutions and teaching and learning leaders in Australian higher education some ideas about steps that can be taken immediately to address the risks to academic integrity posed by generative artificial intelligence (AI). It is recognised that longer-term planning and action are already occurring. The ideas in this document are intended to provide mitigation strategies while those longer-term plans take shape”.

DPLA, IPG Announce New Ebook Ownership Model for Libraries

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and the Independent Publishers Group (IPG) have announced a new model that will give libraries ownership rights to ebooks purchased from Austin Macauley, Arcadia Publishing, Dynamite Entertainment, Dover Publications, JMS Books, and dozens of other independent publishers. Under these ownership terms, libraries will have the right to give an ebook to another library or loan it through interlibrary loan, or even update an ebook file to a new format if needed for digital preservation. At launch, about 38,000 titles will be available for purchase under these terms on the non-profit Palace Marketplace, which is maintained by Lyrasis. 

The evolution and innovation of interdisciplinarity

In Future Campus’ latest webinar, they spoke to three experts from Campus+ partner institutions in Australia as they discuss interdisciplinarity, how to implement it in teaching and research, and why it’s important for the future. Louise Kuchel from the University of Queensland, Rohan Walker from the University of Newcastle and Kyle Jenkins from the University of Southern Queensland discussed a range of topics, including: 

• How to implement interdisciplinarity in teaching and research
• What students get out of interdisciplinary work
• The distinctions between multi- and transdisciplinary work and how they differ from interdisciplinarity
• How universities can promote interdisciplinary learning from the word go 

Watch the session online.

Unlocking AI Enhanced Research: New ProQuest Research Assistant

You can watch the Webinar Recording online.

More information about ProQuest Research Assistant and other Clarivate AI initiatives is also available on the website.

Preservation Starts with Creation: A Framework for University Libraries to Integrate Digital Curation in Scholarly Literacies

Roger Mills VALA paper aims to outline a lifecycle framework and tools to integrate digital curation into Research Data Management (RDM) for university research librarians and higher degree research students. Read the paper online.

Responsible choices: a new policy for using AI in the Australian Government

Coming into effect 1 September 2024, the Policy for the responsible use of AI in government positions the Australian Government to be an exemplar of safe, responsible use of AI.

Designed to evolve with technology and community expectations, it sets out how the Australian Public Service (APS) will:

• embrace the benefits of AI by engaging with it confidently, safely and responsibly
• strengthen public trust through enhanced transparency, governance and risk assurance
• adapt over time by embedding a forward-learning approach to changes in both technology and policy environments.

You can read the policy online.

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