The International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries (IATUL) is a voluntary international organization which provides a forum for the exchange of ideas relevant to librarianship in technological universities throughout the world. It also provides library directors and senior managers an opportunity to develop a collaborative approach to solving common problems.
The 19th Annual IATUL Conference was held on June 1st – June 5th, 1998 at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. The 19th Annual IATUL Conference’s theme was “The Challenge to be Relevant in the 21st Century”.
Papers and presentations may be found in the links below, organized first by the day they were presented and then alphabetically by the title of the presentation. Presentations that were given may be found under the additional files field. Papers and presentations for which no files were provided, or for which permission to make openly available was not granted, have been omitted from this collection.
Helena R. Asamoah-Hassan, University of Science and Technology |
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Avoiding the reefs and rips while riding a relevant technology wave into rural regions John Frylink, Curtin University of Technology |
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Nongyao Premkamolnetr, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology |
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Consortia licensing, information as infrastructure Vincent Cassidy, Academic Press |
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Consortia licensing, information as infrastructure Andy Crowther, Academic Press |
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Mike Johnson, CHEST & NISS |
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Economics, education and the academic information sector Antony Melck, University of South Africa |
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Everytime I figure out where it's at, somebody moves it! Eugenie Prime, Hewlett-Packard |
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Factors Related to Faculty Publishing Productivity Carol Ann Hughes, University of Iowa |
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GAELIC: Consortial strategies for survival Heather M. Edwards, University of the Witwatersrand |
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Lynne Rudasill, University of Illinois-Urbana |
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Information literacy: the key competency for the 21st century Alan Bundy, University of South Australia |
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Launching Transformations at the Academic Information Service, University of Pretoria Heila Pienaar, University of Pretoria |
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Johannes Cronjé, University of Pretoria |
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Libraries in partnership: defining our core business for the 21st century Gaynor Austen, Queensland University of Technology |
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Library leadership and re-engineering - an Israeli experience Nurit Roitberg, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology |
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David Ball, Bournmouth University |
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Library Resource-Sharing in the Network-Centric World Rob McGee, RMG Consultants, Inc. |
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Mainstreaming the developing world Errol Tyobeka, Director, Public Science and Liaison Dept. Arts, Culture, Science and Technology |
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Malaysia's Multimedia super corridor and roles of information professionals Edna Reid, Teja Information Services Sdn Bhd |
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Rowena Cullen, Victoria University of Wellington |
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Millennial megatrends: forces shaping the 21st century Philip H. Spies, Creative Futures |
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People in a Technology Driven future: On The Social Relations of New Information Technologies Ojelanki K. Ngwenyama |
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Marja Talikka, Lappeenranta University of Technology |
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Remote Electronic Resources and the OPAC: illustrated by the UNISA Library Experience HC J. Van der Merwe, UNISA |
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Pierre Malan, SABINET Online (Ltd) Pty |
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Smarter higher education: information literacy adds value Cathy-Mae Karelse, Western Cape Tertiary Institution's Trust, Calico - INFOLIT |
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Teaching and learning models in the 21st century: a technological response TH Tate, Rutgers University |
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The challenge of cooperation: the attempt of Greek Academic Libraries to create their union catalog Anthi Katsirikou, Technical University of Crete |
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The impact of technology on the management of knowledge in developing countries Adi Paterson, CSIR |
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The KMAT: benchmarking knowledge management Martha De Jager, Arthur Andersen |
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The library as a hybrid organisation Leo Waaijers, Library, Delft University of Technology |
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The truth is in the details: lessons from library collaboration Murray Shepherd, University of Waterloo |
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The UK Electronic Libraries Programme Michael Breaks, Heriot-Watt University |
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Douglas Manase Chipoya, Zambia Library Association |
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User access to the hybrid library Peter Leggate, University of Oxford |
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Anette Janse Van Vuren, Technikon SA |
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Using the Internet to support lifelong learning: the role of the librarian Robert Newton, Robert Gordon University |
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What it really takes to be world class Clem Sunter, Anglo American |