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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... vol. 61 no. 3 August 2012 of The Australian Library Journal est. 1951 The Australian Library Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Website Accessibility : A Comparative Analysis of Australian National and State/territory Library Websites, Vivienne Conway , Justine Brown , Scott Hollier , Cam Nicholl , single work criticism essay
'This paper assesses the accessibility of the websites of the National Library of Australia, and those of each of the State/Territory Libraries. The analysis has been conducted using expert manual evaluation, automated tools and users with disabilities to identify both the Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) Version 2 compliance as well as the chief accessibility barriers identified by users with disabilities. ...'
 (p. 170-188)
And the Winner Is ? : Thinking about Australian Book Awards in the Library, Erica Hateley , single work criticism essay
'Among their many duties, librarians occupy and must negotiate a space between the dreamed-of library and the all-too-real culture industries. This is perhaps most visible in the competition between pragmatism and idealism in text selection and collection development, and in one commonly used tool thereof: the book award. So, to begin my discussion, I am drawing on notorious examples of each. ...'
 (p. 189-199)
Note: Includes bibliography
Value of Collections : A Study of Australia's Group of 8 University Libraries, Roxanne Missingham , Helena Zobec , single work criticism essay (p. 212-224)
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