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Publication date: 1 January 2006

Brendan Fitzgerald

This paper aims to provide a historical overview of VICNET at the State Library of Victoria (www.slv.vic.gov.au)., to introduce VICNET's conceptual development and to explore some…

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Purpose

This paper aims to provide a historical overview of VICNET at the State Library of Victoria (www.slv.vic.gov.au)., to introduce VICNET's conceptual development and to explore some of the impact and achievements of VICNET.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper looks at some of the published papers on VICNET and draws on the experiences of implementing and maintaining information and communications technology projects and services outlined in those papers. It also draws on the experience and opinions of the author as a senior manager within VICNET.

Findings

VICNET recognized that the online‐networked environment required development in parallel of access, content and skills. Its internet service provider and web design and hosting activities underpin VICNET's remarkable growth. This has served to enhance its capacity to deliver government ICT information society projects such as Skills.Net (www.skills.net.au) and My Connected Community (www.mc2.vicnet.net.au). The importance of community web publishing and access to online information is emphasized in the development of the VICNET web site (www.vicnet.net.au) and other key online content initiatives such as Victoria's Virtual Library (www.libraries.vic.gov.au), the Gulliver consortium, the Open Road project (www.openroad.vic.gov.au) and the MyLanguage Portal (www.mylanguage.gov.au).

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The paper gives to the wider global library sector an overview of a unique library‐based information technology initiative.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 24 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 14 December 2015

Brendan Fitzgerald, Wayne Hawkins, Tom Denison and Tegan Kop

This chapter looks at Australian public libraries and how they have developed and delivered inclusive service to people with disabilities over the past decade or so. As digital…

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Purpose

This chapter looks at Australian public libraries and how they have developed and delivered inclusive service to people with disabilities over the past decade or so. As digital technology impacts the public library sector the question of “how are libraries responding?” emerges, especially for the one in five Australians living with disabilities. This chapter is focused on how the public library network is delivering digitally inclusive services to people with disabilities.

Methodology/approach

The approach was to examine the international obligations, related governance, and professional standards that apply to Australian Public libraries; the current disability and digital inclusion related research from the past decade; and highlight some of the better examples of practice in Australian public library service.

Findings

This chapter is not a comprehensive examination but rather a summary scan of digital inclusion practice. However, it raises a number of questions for further investigation: research as to how these obligations are put into practice; how they can be better shared and learnt from; and more importantly how the aspiration of “inclusion for all” is being met.

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Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities and the Inclusive Future of Libraries
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78560-652-6

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Publication date: 1 March 2004

Brendan Fitzgerald and Frances Savage

This article explores the impact on public libraries in Victoria, Australia, as they become increasingly reliant upon information communications technology (ICT) to manage, access…

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This article explores the impact on public libraries in Victoria, Australia, as they become increasingly reliant upon information communications technology (ICT) to manage, access and deliver information services. Libraries Online and Rural Libraries Online have, since 1998, been developing Internet access in Victorian public libraries. Funded by State (Multimedia Victoria) and Australian Federal (Networking The Nation) and delivered by VICNET, a division of the State Library of Victoria, these projects have provided a library approach to e‐services which includes provision of bandwidth, infrastructure, ICT skills, and content. The specific projects such as satellite delivery of bandwidth, rural points of presence (POPs), Victoria’s Virtual Library, the Gulliver Consortium and the SWIFT Initiative are discussed. Aligned critically to the actual ICT models and implementations is the capacity of the 44 individual public library services to understand and meet the ongoing issues.

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OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, vol. 20 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1065-075X

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Publication date: 14 December 2015

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Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities and the Inclusive Future of Libraries
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ISBN: 978-1-78560-652-6

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Publication date: 1 August 1970

I suppose that most noticeable of all the changes in our profession since I came into it has been the multiplicity of the methods by which one can become a librarian. A. E…

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I suppose that most noticeable of all the changes in our profession since I came into it has been the multiplicity of the methods by which one can become a librarian. A. E. Standley says in a recent article in the L.A.R., in 1970: “The term librarian includes the Library Association chartered librarian, the graduate with a degree in librarianship, the scholar librarian, the information and intelligence officer, the translator, the abstracter, the non‐library‐qualified subject expert”.

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New Library World, vol. 72 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 21 November 2011

Liam Leonard and Paula Kenny

The quote above was taken from the actor Brendan Gleeson, who struck a chord with Irish people in his outburst about the lack of care shown to the old and vulnerable during the…

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The quote above was taken from the actor Brendan Gleeson, who struck a chord with Irish people in his outburst about the lack of care shown to the old and vulnerable during the years preceding the economic downturn in 2008. In the Irish case, it has always been the marginalised and poorest who have suffered at the hands of the pride and greed of the ruling elite. This chapter will establish an understanding of the ideologically driven and often tragic economic planning undertaken in the Irish state since Independence in 1922. The chapter will outline the problems associated with political elites which then became manifest in the socio-economic life of the country. These problems were political, but also cultural, and shaped the difficulties that have befallen the Irish state in almost every decade of its history.

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Sustainable Politics and the Crisis of the Peripheries: Ireland and Greece
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ISBN: 978-0-85724-762-9

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Publication date: 1 April 1993

Sylvia Fitzgerald and John Flanagan

The implementation of the UNICORN Collection Management System from Sirsi Ltd is described, showing its adaptation to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's particular needs, for books…

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The implementation of the UNICORN Collection Management System from Sirsi Ltd is described, showing its adaptation to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's particular needs, for books, art, archives and other materials; and the inter‐relationship of management and system factors.

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Program, vol. 27 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0033-0337

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Publication date: 1 May 2020

Brendan P. Carmody

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The Emergence of Teacher Education in Zambia
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ISBN: 978-1-78756-560-9

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Publication date: 15 June 2012

Garry D. Carnegie and Brendan T. O'Connell

The purpose of this Australian case study, set in the 1960s, is to comprehensively examine the responses of the two major professional accounting bodies to a…

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Purpose

The purpose of this Australian case study, set in the 1960s, is to comprehensively examine the responses of the two major professional accounting bodies to a financial/corporate/regulatory crisis necessitating the defence of the profession's legitimacy.

Design/methodology/approach

This historical paper draws on surviving primary records and secondary sources and applies the perspectives on the dynamics of occupational groups and the legitimacy typology of Suchman.

Findings

While the history of the accounting profession has been characterized by intra‐professional rivalries, this case study illustrates how such rivalries were put aside on recognising the power of collectivizing in defending the profession's legitimacy. Based on the available evidence, pragmatic legitimacy is shown to have been a key focus of attention by the major accounting bodies involved.

Research limitations/implications

The paper may motivate similar studies in Australia and elsewhere, thus potentially contributing to developing a literature on comparative international accounting history. The evidence for this historical investigation is largely restricted to surviving documents, making it necessary to rely on assessments of the key sources.

Originality/value

In addressing responses to crises in defending the legitimacy of the profession as a whole, the paper makes an original contribution in exploring the relationship between literature on the dynamics of occupational groups and on legitimacy management.

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Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 25 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0951-3574

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Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland: Perspectives from a Periphery
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ISBN: 978-1-80043-607-7

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