The conference papers are being posted here progressively. Please be patient - bottom of the page footnotes aren't easy in html.

Please note that the conference proceedings will not be printed.

Full papers have been peer reviewed in accordance with DETYA guidelines.

Papers presented at the main Conference

• Dawn Casey - Indigenous ownership of digital material
• Rod Badger - The 21st Century Information Environment
• Trevor Barr - User Perspectives of the Future of the Internet
• Tony Barry - The User Interface: glitz versus content
• Chris Batt - Public Libraries in a Wired World
• Barbara Biggins & Elizabeth Handsley - Censorship in Public Libraries
• Karen Bishop - Heads or Tales: Can Tacit Knowledge Really be Managed?
• Charles Britton - Consumer Rights and Digital Intellectual Property
• Maxine Brodie - The impact of change on research libraries: the State Library of New South Wales
• Jo Bryson - Building a Knowledge-based Economy and Society
• Jo Bryson - Value and Performance in the IT society
• Kerry Burgess and Therese Lake - Reading Minds: adding value to services at the State Library of New South Wales
• Alan Bundy - Best Value: Libraries
• Margaret Butterworth - The Entrepreneurial Public Library: the Policy and Practice of Fee-based Services
• Alex Byrne - Today I want to Talk about Piracy
• Ainslie Dewe - Library Industry Statistics for the 21st Century
• Peter Donoughue - 'Free at Last' - Information in the New Digital Age
• Dr Bill Donovan - Keeping the Elderly Young: Adult Education Today
• David Emery - Intellectual Property: Access and Protection
• Stewart Fist - Infrastructure and convergence issues
• Oliver Freeman - From pre-shopping to e-shopping: the new online world for consumers
• Anne Galligan - Libraries and Literary Outcomes: A Crucial Intersection in the Cultural Field
• José-Marie Griffiths - Provider Roles: the Information creator and the roles of the Information professions
• José-Marie Griffiths - Ensuring Effective Access to Library Services - the Digital Divide
• Helen Hasan - Development of Information Literacy: a Plan
• Brian Hawkins - Libraries, Knowledge Management, and Higher Education in an Electronic Environment
• Helen Hayes - The Impact of Change at the Melbourne University Library
• Paul Hetherington - Cultural Exploration: Publishing the Donald Friend Diaries
• Geoff Huston - Views of Technology Futures: an Internet perspective [PDF]
• Cedric Israelsohn - Overview of Knowledge Management/Portal Delivery
• Christine Johnston - The Business of Knowledge Management in the Knowledge-aware Organisation
• Jay Jordan - Information Needs in the Consumer Society - a Technological Basis
• Dr Brewster Kahle - Upgrading each Library to be World Class
• Maureen Kahlert - Lifelong Learning - A Public Library Perspective
• Nikki Kallenberger - Taking the initiative: Ensuring an educational role for libraries in the information society Stream: Education and information literacy
• Jan Kaye - The Greying of the Teacher Librarian
• Philip Kent - You Must Like Reading if You Work in Libraries
• Robert Knight - Access to Service: Rural and Remote Communities
• Sally-Anne Leigh - Resource Discovery within the Networked "hybrid" library
• Edward Lim - The Last Book: The Delivery of Future Content
• Sophie Masson - Imagination's Stronghold
• Moyra McAllister - The Bottom Line: Performance Measurement in a Corporate Library
• Felicity McGregor - Performance measures, benchmarking and value
• Prue Mercer - Changing our future: issues in leadership and management skills and the information profession
• Michael Middleton - Self service: what is the function of the new intermediary?
• Michael Middleton - Education rap: a brief summary of educational implications of material presented at ALIA2000
• Roxanne Missingham - Virtual services for virtual readers: reference reborn in the E-library
• Jennefer Nicholson - To market, to market to buy a fat pig
• Kay Poustie - Whither Australian Public Libraries
• Victoria Richardson - The Market for Information
• Janice Rickards - Flexible Learning Developments
• Catherine Riordan - Intellectual Property: Setting the scene for the 21st century: Privacy aspects
• Sheridan Roberts - Official statistics on the online society
• Anne Robertson - Enabling Best Practice Recordkeeping in the Digital Age
• Sabina Robertson and Shirley Sullivan - The rediscovered agents of change: librarians working with academics to close the information gap
• Richard Sayers - Learning to be ourselves, with more skill: Aurora and beyond
• Jeremy Shearmur - Content for the Future
• Nick Smith - Speech for ALIA 2000
• Chris Trevitt - Flexible learning in higher education: examining the case for the 'learning profession' and the 'learning discipline'
• Rob Tucker - Skills for Systems Support
• Dr Paul Turnbull and Chris Blackall - A New Foreign Country: The Challenges and Risks of Making History in Digital Media for Historians and Librarians
• Belinda Weaver - Making the Most of the Web
• Aileen Weir - The Information Professional of the Future: What skills will be needed and how will they be acquired?
• Kirsty Williamson et al - Levelling the Playing Field: The Role of Libraries in Providing Online Services for People with Disabilities
• Evelyn Woodberry - Changing 'Shape' of Copyright: The Impact on Libraries
• Tom Worthington - The Network Becomes the Library: The need for Supportability

Papers presented at the Fringe Conference

• Belle Alderman - Mentoring Relationships
• Leonie Blair - Career planning
• Bruce Cumming - Summing up the Fringe: a personal view
• Heather Fisher - Traveling the Yellow Brick Road
• Greg Fowler - Evidence based health care: diverse career opportunities for librarians
• Robert Knight - Superman left in the shade: librarians eclipse traditional superheroes in regional and remote communities
• Ann Luzeckyj - A foot through the door: do you feel your course adequately prepared you for work?
• Carolyn McSwiney - Think Globally!
• Roxanne Missingham - Switched on: your new career!
• Michael Robinson - New Members Welcome: the library professional and the professional association
• Terena Solomons - The Value of Overseas Work Experience
• Vicki Williamson - Innovation, flexibility and professionalism
• Helena Zobec - Stand out in the Crowd: skills development for a successful career