Alison Ransome

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• History
• Regional Borrowing Schemes
• Aim of the National Borrowing Scheme

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HistoryCAUL Strategic Plan 1999 - 2005

• Mission
• CAUL is dedicated to improving access by the
  staff and students of Australian universities to
  the scholarly information resources that are
  fundamental to the advancement of teaching,
  learning and research.
• Values - Collaboration and Partnership
• Australian university libraries will cooperate
  with each other to meet national needs.

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History (contd) CAUL Strategic Plan 1999 -
2005

• Goals - Information Resources
• Maximise access to information resources
  required for the
• advancement of teaching, learning and research in
  Australian
• universities.
• Strategy 1.4
• Develop protocols for a national borrowing
  scheme

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Existing Regional Borrowing Schemes
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Working GroupMembers

• Alison Ransome, Southern Cross University - Chair
  
• Beth Marnane, University of Technology Sydney
• Diane Costello, CAUL - Convenor
• Imogen Garner, University of Western Australia
• Jan Gordon, Australian Defence Force Academy
• Judy Stokker, Queensland University of Technology
  
• Stephen Beaumont, Adelaide University
• Tony Arthur, University of Melbourne

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Aims of the National Borrowing Scheme

• Minimum effort at home and host libraries
• Free service to users (other than fees charged as
  penalties)
• Home libraries indemnify host libraries against
  problems
• Service use is recorded to assist future planning

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Goal of University Library Australia

• A national scheme
• which complements current regional schemes and
  is simple to use
• for both the borrower and library staff.

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Details

• Eligibility - all students and staff of AVCC
  member universities
• Registration - completed at host institution
• Authentication - photo ID and proof of current
  enrolment/employment
• Indemnity - eligible borrowers covered by home
  library

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Details (contd)

• Duration of enrolment- 12 months from 28/02
• Delinquency - host library to manage as normal
  with fines and charges at their discretion
• Level of access - host library to determine
• Fees - fee-free
• Statistics - registrations and loans, inclusion
  in CAUL statistics

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Details (contd)

• Support - website, performance indicators, FAQs,
  retention of Working Group
• Duration of the scheme - 1 July 2001 - 31
  December 2002
• Review of the scheme - July 2002

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A NationalInformation Policy

• Access to information in Australia is currently
  very poor. Our principle should be that
  information paid for by the Australian people
  through their taxes should be readily available
  to all Australians.
• from Recommendation 17,
• An Agenda For The Knowledge Nation -
• Report Of The Knowledge Nation Taskforce,
  Canberra, July 2001

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• For more information
• About University Library
• Australia refer to
• http//www.caul.edu.au/caul-doc/national-borrowi
  ng.htm