Changing Practice in a National Legal Deposit Library

This two-part essay considers how digital culture has influenced ideas about permanence and looks at the change in collecting practice in a legal deposit library. The author asks: how is the idea of permanence, understood in cultural heritage terms, influencing digital culture and thus digital technology? The first part of the essay touches upon the concepts associated with permanence, digital culture, digital technology, social change, and cultural institutions, in relation to collecting digital cultural material. The second part of this essay focuses on the change in collecting practice of the Alexander Turnbull Library (Turnbull Library) at the National Library of New Zealand in developing its heritage collection of electronically published material with the benefit of legal deposit, with a particular focus on the change in practice to include the collection of online publications

Doctoral Theses Digitisation

A doctoral theses digitisation project began in March 2008 and was estimated to be complete by November 2008. The phases (some overlapping) of the project were: contract settlement; database development; batch processing (itemisation and transportation); letter generation (permissions); and item processing (receipt of digital files). The planning, implementation, business and technical details of the thesis digitisation project are described in this report

Changing Practice in a National Legal Deposit Library

This two-part essay considers how digital culture has influenced ideas about permanence and looks at the change in collecting practice in a legal deposit library. The author asks: how is the idea of permanence, understood in cultural heritage terms, influencing digital culture and thus digital technology? The first part of the essay touches upon the concepts associated with permanence, digital culture, digital technology, social change, and cultural institutions, in relation to collecting digital cultural material. The second part of this essay focuses on the change in collecting practice of the Alexander Turnbull Library (Turnbull Library) at the National Library of New Zealand in developing its heritage collection of electronically published material with the benefit of legal deposit, with a particular focus on the change in practice to include the collection of online publications

Purchasing instruments and consumables

Good practice procedures for purchasing surgical instruments and consumables

Instruments and consumables

The importance of surgical instruments and consumables in the delivery of eye care and covered maintenance, repair, training, purchasing, and donations

Equipment for eye care

In many low- and middle-income countries, it is often the people who are poor or with a disability - or both - who find it most challenging to access and pay for health care. When people do come to us for eye care, it is therefore vital that we provide quality services efficiently and effectively.To achieve this goal, we must ensure that our equipment is well maintained and that we have enough spare parts and consumables for it to function with minimum interruptions. To cope with the sometimes inevitable breakdowns, we also need systems that will respond quickly to carry out repairs and replace broken or worn-out parts

Managing patient records in the eye unit

Providing excellent eye care requires excellent record keeping and data collection. Why? Because good record keeping ensures continuity of eye care, fulfils medico-legal requirements, and is professional! Good data collection, based on good record keeping, supports health management information systems, hospital audit, scientific research and provides accountability to donors

Instilling eye drops and ointment in a baby or young child

Extra care is necessary when instilling eye drops and eye ointment in babies and children. It is also important that parents and carers are taught how to continue the treatment when the child leaves the eye clinic or hospital setting. Allow parents to practice, and supervise and support them until they feel confident to do it on their own

Cinderella Collections come to the digital humanities ball

When the Cinderella Collections reports were released, in 1996 and 1998, 256 university museums and collections in Australia were identified as needing investment to aid in transforming research and teaching. Digitisation then was a functional extension of access to physical collections; however, 20 years on, a new paradigm for digitisation is emerging. This new paradigm is driven by strategic pragmatism and scholarly coherence through collaboration in digital scholarship, redefining collections “as data”, and in the use of new technologies and methodologies