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A National Library for Australian Educational Research

A National Library for Australian Educational Research. Sue Clarke Manager, Cunningham Library Australian Council for Educational Research 27 th IATUL Annual Conference: Porto, Portugal, May 22-25 th, 2006. Strategic Environment.

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A National Library for Australian Educational Research

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  1. A National Library for Australian Educational Research Sue Clarke Manager, Cunningham Library Australian Council for Educational Research 27th IATUL Annual Conference: Porto, Portugal, May 22-25th, 2006

  2. Strategic Environment • Researchers require access to research carried out by colleagues worldwide in refereed scholarly journals, books, theses, research reports etc • Changes to strategic environment for scholarly research in education • International open access movement, emergence of digital repositories, impact on online publishing & internet services including the social web • ACER is placed strategically to provide access to educational research information both nationally and internationally, as it is a major research and publishing organisation

  3. Overview • Cunningham Library – • Provides access to information to support research • Pays a major role in disseminating research • The Library is embedded in the learning and research process by • Having a close alignment of corporate and library goals • Through its development and dissemination of Knowledge-based products and services • Some issues and challenges facing online publishing, information research and retrieval will be highlighted

  4. Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) • Australia’s premier educational research organisation • An independent, not for profit organisation since 1930 • Creates and disseminates knowledge and tools to improve learning in the context of lifelong learning • International orientation to work with offices in India, Dubai and Cambridge, UK • Goal is to “improve outcome for learners through reliable, scientific research and dissemination of a” • www.acer.edu.au

  5. ACER Research Programs • Assessment and reporting • Early Childhood Education • Learning Processes and Contexts • National & International Surveys • Systems and School Testing • Teaching & Learning • Transitions & Economics of Education

  6. Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

  7. www.acer.edu.au

  8. Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) – Cunningham Library

  9. Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) – Cunningham Library • Build and maintain an information resource which supports policy development, research, practice and debate in the field of education • Provide information access to the education community on research and practice in the field of Australian education • Compile and maintain the Australian Education Index and other knowledge based products such as the Australasian Education Directory, the Australian Thesaurus of Educational Descriptors

  10. www.acer.edu.au/library

  11. Libraries and Research at ACERHistorical context • History of ACER Library is linked to the history Australian librarianship (outlined in paper) • Library has always been embedded in research by being both a publisher and a disseminator of research • The Library collects and disseminates information by building databases and then re-using and repackaging educational information in a variety of products.

  12. Repackaging and Re-use of information Database of Research Int Educ Australasian Thesaurus of Educational Descriptors (ATED) Australian Education Index (AEI) Library Catalogue Full Text ACER Research Repository Theses Australasian Education Directory (AED) Information Management – Diagram

  13. Australian Education Index

  14. Australasian Education Directory

  15. Australian Thesaurus of Educational Descriptors (ATED)

  16. Research in International Education

  17. Online Content - Full Text: EdResearch Online

  18. EdNA Online

  19. Education Research Theses (ERT) Doctoral & Masters Theses

  20. Summary - challenges for Information Providers • Professional and research organisations have a range of services available to their members and stakeholders • Explore how ACER fits into the national information infrastructure by continually developing new business models according to customer needs & changes in scholarly publishing • Researchers want less places to look when finding information and / or • Federated searching across content & open url compliance

  21. Some Questions?? • The role of information providers in the Google web world – if people want to find information, will they just use Google (and find what they want?) or go to a systematically indexed database? • The role of organised systematically indexed material and constructed thesauri, taxonomy like Australian Thesaurus of Educational Descriptors (ATED), vs free text searching of full text • With more and more material being made open access, will people pay for information? • Collaborative web space – users as providers of information in “My web”, wikis & blogs, RSS feeds

  22. Information Dissemination: new technologies • New tools emerging that store and disseminate information • Examples include use of RSS feeds for Library alerting services which are disseminated in a regular way, such as new acquisitions lists / or bringing information to the website from other website, e.g. EdNA • An idea could be the use of webblog technology to create an Australian Education Webblog

  23. ACER Research Repository

  24. Conclusion • ACER is strategically placed to work with the educational research community and collaborative partners to explore new business models, develop metadata and document repositories to avoid duplication of effort and fragmented collections of resources • Examples have been provided of some initiatives with Informit, education.au, and the education community • We welcome collaborative discussions with people here today so please let us know if you have any ideas!

  25. Contact Sue Clarke clarke@acer.edu.au www.acer.edu.au

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