Secretary needed for 2010

The position of ACCESS Secretary falls vacant at the end of 2009.

So we need a volunteer to fill the role.

The duties are not onerous at all, and it's very flexible in how tasks are divided between the President (Jocelyne Poirier) and the Secretary. Primarily it involves some organisation of the meetings (usually four or maybe five a year), and taking minutes.

Please consider it - it's a worthwhile thing to do... any questions, please contact Jocelyne Poirier at jpkcsolutions@gmail.com or Dianne Miers at dnmiers@wbmpl.com.au

ACCESS Meeting 21 October 2009

The next ACCESS meeting will take place next Wednesday 21 October, 12 noon - 2 pm.

Many thanks to Anthea Zwiegelaar for providing a venue for us :


Aurecon
Santos Place
32 Turbot Street

There is also an entrance to Santos Place off Tank Street.

If you're coming from Southbank, the Kurilpa Bridge will take you to Turbot St. Turn Right (pass the Courts in Santos Place).

Please sign in at reception on Level 14, where Anthea will meet us.

In case of last-minute problems, Anthea's contact phone number is 3173 8180, or Aurecon reception is 3173 8000.

This meeting is self-catering, so remember to bring your lunch !!

ACCESS Meeting, Thursday 20 August 2009

The next ACCESS meeting will be held at QUT Gardens Point Campus, Room V713 (7th Floor) , V Block (the Library) on Thursday 20 August 2009.

The meeting will start at 12 noon, and finish at 1.45pm.


The speaker will be Martin Borchert, Associate Director Library Services (Information Resources and Research Support Services) at QUT.

Martin will be sharing some insights on decision making and information resources. He will be focusing on information resources and research support; and hopefully will clarify some of the issues and trends that we face in relation to information resources (ebooks, databases, search engines...), research support (document delivery, collaborative technologies, publishing...).


Campus maps are available at http://www.qut.edu.au/about/location/index.jsp

It's bring your own lunch... so come prepared !!

Please RSVP to me at dnmiers@wbmpl.com.au if you intend coming, as we need to make sure our numbers will fit the room allocated to us.

Venue needed for next ACCESS meeting

Venue needed for next ACCESS meeting in late July/early August. One possibility is a meeting room in premises in Park Road, Milton, but it would be appreciated if anyone could offer an alternative. Attendees could provide their own lunch, so no catering costs would be involved for the host.

You are cordially invited to the

ACCESS Group /

Australian Law Librarians' Association

(Queensland Division) Inc

Networking Event

to be held at

The Pav Bar

Stamford Plaza Hotel

Cnr Edward & Margaret Streets, Brisbane

on Thursday 28th may 2009

from 12.30pm-2pm

Cost: $14.00 per person

to be paid on the day

Covers finger food. Drinks at personal expense

RSVP by Wednesday 20 May 2009

Dianne Miers email: dnmiers@wbmpl.com.au phone: (07) 3831 6744

Susan Oag email: Susan.Oag@cmc.qld.gov.au phone: (07) 3360 6360

New release of computer science portal io-port.net

io-port.net is a freely accessible database with more than one million computer science publications.

Documents from different sources are offered in a standardised format through one common search interface (duplicates have been removed):
§ CompuScience produced by FIZ Karlsruhe
§ DBLP (Digital Bibliography & Library Project) offered by the University of Trier
§ LNI (Lecture Notes in Informatics) and other publications by Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
§ IEEE Computer Society Digital Library
§ LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by Springer-Verlag GmbH
§ Publications from other publishers (e.g. Elsevier GmbH, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KgaA, Blackwell Verlag GmbH, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, IOS Verlag, World Scientific Publishing Co., Taylor and Francis Group)

http://www.io-port.net/

ACCESS Meeting - February

Our first ACCESS meeting for 2009 takes place on Wednesday 18 February, starting at 12 noon.

The Central Library at Dept of Main Roads is kindly hosting and catering the event.

Details are as follows:

12.00 - 12.45 Meeting and lunch

12.45 - 1.15 Presentation from Main Roads’ Library staff about their collection and resources

1.15 - 1.30 Tour of the Central Library collection

Venue:

Central Library
Department of Main Roads
Floor B2
477 Boundary Street (cnr Fortescue Street)
Spring Hill

If you will be attending the meeting please RSVP to me on miersmd@bigpond.com (or phone 3262 5267) by Monday 16 February.

2008 ACCESS Christmas Lunch

2008 ACCESS Christmas Lunch

Where: Zen Bar

Park Level
Post Office Square
215 Adelaide St
Brisbane

Time: 12pm

Date: Thursday 27th November

RSVP: 24th November with meal selection, desserts do not need to be pre-ordered

Nominations for President & Secretary

Melissa Porritt has decided to step down as President for the ACCESS Group after 3 years of service. Thank you Melissa!

The group would like to invite any nominations for President or Secretary.

Please contact Loretta Atkinson if you are interested.

AaeE Newletter - August 2008

The Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AaeE) August newsletter is now available.

Find the newsletter here.

ACCESS Group Meeting - October

The next ACCESS meeting will be held on Wednesday 1 October, 12pm-2pm. Melissa Porritt has kindly offered to host the meeting at Sinclair Knight Mertz.

Street address:
32 Cordelia Street
South Brisbane QLD 4101

Those attending the meeting are asked to meet on the ground floor.

Melissa will be showing the group around her new premises and we will be discussing the future of the ACCESS Group. Lunch will be provided.

Please RSVP to Loretta Atkinson if you would like to attend by the 29 September. Also please let me know if there is anything you would like to discuss at the meeting.

2008 Year of the Engineering Team

The Engineering Team Task Force have put together an online Blog to help facilitate communications between the members of Engineers Australia and the Engineering Team Task Force on matters relating to the Year of the Engineering Team.

Visit the section of the Engineers Australia website dedicated to the Year of the Engineering Team to see the latest updates, copies of the Engineers Australia magazine articles, and activities happening in divisions.

ScientificCommons

The ScientificCommons.org project makes it possible to access the largely distributed sources with their vast amount of scientific publications via just one common interface.

ScientificCommons identifies authors from all archives and makes their social and professional relationships transparent and visible to anyone across disciplinary, institutional and technological boundaries.

Currently ScientificCommons has indexed about 13 million scientific publications and successfully extracted 6 million authors' names out of this data.

http://en.scientificcommons.org/

NLA Online Newspaper Archive

Bronwyn Hicks has alerted us to the Australian National Library's digital scanning project. The online search facility will allow users to access 16 newspapers dating from 1803 to 1954.

Currently at testing stage, the NLA has made the site available for the public:
http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home

For more information:
http://www.misaustralia.com/viewer.aspx?EDP://20080730000030085242&section=technology

AaeE 2008

The Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE) and CQUniversity are pleased to invite you to Yeppoon for AAEE’s 19th Annual Conference.

The central theme for this year's conference is ' to industry and beyond', focusing on:
Beyond University
Beyond Australasia
Beyond the Present

This includes the focus on social responsibility and developing engineering graduates for a global workplace.

What is engineering? What do the various stakeholders want from an engineering graduate? How is the engineering workplace changing? What pressures will engineering graduates face at work now and in the future? What are the internal and external pressures experienced in engineering education?

This conference invites participants to reflect on and develop responses to these questions.

Conference Aim
The purpose of this conference is to:

Share ideas and experiences;
Identify and promote best practice
Develop networking opportunities
Foster active participation in presentations and workshops
Foster student involvement in their education

http://www.events.rockhamptoninfo.com.au/

Looking for Standards?

Standards are official publications used in all areas of industry and trade. They consist of specifications or recommendations on issues such as quality, safety, performance and construction requirements, codes of practice, methods of testing, symbols and terminology.

http://www.saiglobal.com/

Search by organisation:

American Society for Testing of Materials (ASTM)
http://www.astm.org/

American National Standards Insitute (ANSI)
http://www.ansi.org/

British Standards Institution (BSI)
http://www.bsi.org.uk/

International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
http://www.iec.ch/

International Standardization Organization (ISO)
http://www.iso.ch/

Additional Internet site for Standards:

Techstreet – one of the most comprehensive standards searching site on the Internet. Provides access to standards from over 350 standards organisations.
http://www.techstreet.com/

American Society for Engineering Education

ELD is the Engineering Libraries Division of ASEE. The division consists of librarians and information professionals concerned with the support of engineering education. We are involved in the provision of library services and the development of innovative approaches to networking information services. Our role within ASEE is to promote the role of the library as an integral part of engineering education. ELD serves as a forum for engineers who believe that information access lies at the heart of engineering education.

http://eld.lib.ucdavis.edu/

Edna (Education Network Australia)

Links to the ACCESS Group (Queensland) website and blog are now available on the Edna website. Edna provides a free service for communication and collaboration between members of the Australian education and training community.
http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go

Engineering Librarian Groups

You may want to check out sites of other interest groups:

E-group for Engineering College Librarians
http://krmulla.blogspot.com/2008/03/engg-lib-forum-e-group-for-engineering.html

EngLib for the Scitech Librarian
http://englib.info/

Science and Engineering Academic Librarians
http://www.carl-acrl.org/ig/seals/

Ontario Engineering Librarians’ Interest Group
http://library.queensu.ca/blog/englib/

If you know of any others - post them on the blog!

ALIA Education and Workforce Summit 2008

At the last ACCESS Group meeting, Jenny Hale spoke about the ALIA Education and Workforce Summit she attended at the State Library of Victoria on Friday 28 March 2008.

The link for the Education and Workforce summit is : http://www.alia.org.au/education/summit08/.

This page contains the original submissions plus the interim report.