Responses and submissions received
Members of the University community and other interested stakeholders were encouraged to make submissions to the Information Futures Commission, particularly in response to the Consultation Paper.
The deadline for submissions was 9 May 2008. Seventy-five submissions were received, of which 74 are published below (the author of one submission requested confidentiality).
All submissions listed here are in PDF format. If you require an alternative version of any submission please contact us.
Jan Fullerton (PDF 1.3 Mb), on behalf of the National Library of Australia, received 5 June 2008- See also the comments received via the Information Futures blog
Responses from faculties
Faculty of Economics and Commerce (PDF 38 kb)
Graduate School of Education (PDF 19 kb)
Graduate School of Engineering (PDF 40 kb)
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (PDF 94 kb)
Faculty of Science (PDF 46 kb)
Faculty of the VCA (PDF 57 kb)
Faculty of Veterinary Science (PDF 32 kb)
Responses from groups
Archives Advisory Board (PDF 90 kb)
Committee of Convocation (PDF 130 kb)
Cultural Collections Committee (PDF 28 kb)
eResearch Coffee Network (PDF 65 kb), submitted by Gaby Bright on behalf of the eResearch Coffee Network which is cohosted by VeRSI, the eScholarship Research Centre and the Director of eResearch
Film and Television (PDF 18 kb), Victorian College of the Arts
Friends of the Baillieu (PDF 22 kb)
Libraries Committee (PDF 130 kb)
Library Committee, Faculty of Land and Food Resources (PDF 25 kb)
Library Users Committee, Faculty of Arts (PDF 111 kb)
Melbourne Experience Committee (PDF 25 kb)
Melbourne University Bookshop (PDF 140 kb)
National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies (PDF 29 kb), Faculty of Arts
Residential college libraries (PDF 23 kb): joint submission from libraries of Ormond College, Trinity College, Queen's College, International House, University College, St Hilda's College, St Mary's College and Newman College
School of Culture and Communications (PDF 30 kb), Faculty of Arts
School of Historical Studies (PDF 16 kb)
School of Languages and Linguistics (PDF 26 kb)
Vaccine and Immunisation Research Group (PDF 36 kb), School of Population Health
Responses from individuals
Carmela Baranowska (PDF 17 kb), PhD candidate
Howard Dick (PDF 16 kb), Professor, Department of Management and Marketing
John B Furness (PDF 17 kb), Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Roger Hadgraft (PDF 18 kb), Associate Professor and Director, Engineering Learning Unit; and Associate Professor David Shallcross, Associate Dean (Teaching), Melbourne School of Engineering
Dan Hunter (PDF 700 kb), Chair in Law, Melbourne Law School
Doug Parbery (PDF 28 kb), member of the Subcommittee on Library and Information Access, Committee of Convocation
Ronald Ridley (PDF 32 kb), Personal Chair in the Department of History (retired)
Gocha R Tsetskhladze (PDF 19 kb), Centre for Classics & Archaeology, School of Historical Studies
Marcus Wigan (PDF 93 kb), Professorial Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ian Williams (PDF 14 kb), PhD candidate, Centre for Adolescent Health
Robin Wright (PDF 38 kb), Research Fellow, Centre for Media and Communications Law, Melbourne Law School
Stephen Young (PDF 157 kb), Research and Policy Officer, Information Services, and University Copyright Officer
Justin Zobel (PDF 43 kb), Honorary Professorial Fellow and Principal Researcher, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Responses from Information Services staff
Joe Arthur et al (PDF 57 kb): Digitisation
Ruth Baxter (PDF 30 kb): Access to non-digital objects
James Beckford Saunders (PDF 33 kb): Library users and their perceptions
Georgina Binns (PDF 41 kb): The future of resources for Music, Visual and Performing Arts Libraries
Georgina Binns (PDF 21 kb): Space and information resources at The University of Melbourne music, visual and performing arts libraries (Louise Hanson Dyer Music Library, Parkville and the Lenton Parr Library, Southbank)
Georgina Binns et al (PDF 77 kb): Information literacy - trends
Colin Blythe (PDF 27 kb): Infrastructure, policy and technologies
Ailsa Dott (PDF 54 kb): Metadata
Jenny Ellis (PDF 57 kb): Copyright management
eScholarship Research Centre:
Rozana Kekovska et al (PDF 52 kb)
Jen McMeekin and Shirley Sullivan (PDF 20 kb): Licensing of digital resources
Donna McRostie and Michael Piggott (PDF 45 kb): Recordkeeping
Helen Page and Melanie Lazarow (PDF 49 kb): Information literacy
Evelyn Portek (PDF 115 kb): The Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library
Barbara Rocchi et al (PDF 56 kb): Future skills for academic librarians
Richard Slamkovic (PDF 63 kb): Enterprise (IT) architecture
Leon Sterling (PDF 23 kb): Fostering e-experts
Helen Thompson and Jenny Ellis (PDF 20 kb): Licensing of digital resources - a copyright perspective
Dirk van der Knijff (PDF 265 kb): High-performance computing facilities
Jennifer Warburton (PDF 109 kb): Software support for research
Eve Young et al (PDF 89 kb): Repositories
Responses from outside the University
Paul Ayris (PDF 30 kb), Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer, University College London
Paul Davis (PDF 93 kb), eResearch Consultant, VERSI
Jan Fullerton (PDF 1.3 Mb), on behalf of the National Library of Australia
Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) (PDF 30 kb)
Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI) (PDF 83 kb)