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Gomeroi woman Rachael McPhail has been petitioning Australia Post to make the change, as part of a campaign to include traditional place names in all addresses. McPhail has been championing the use of traditional Country names for years.
It’s a significant step in the right direction. McPhail told the ABC that there is still work to be done, however. The next step is compiling a comprehensive database of all traditional place names, so people can easily work out where to send their mail.
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This paper discusses an Australian perspective of digital library economics.
Introduction: definition and scope
In 1998 the Digital Library Federation offered the following definition of digital libraries : Digital libraries are organizations that provide the resources, including the specialized staff, to select, structure, offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works so that they are readily and economically available for use by a defined community or set of communities .(Council on Library and Information Resources,1998)
This definition emphasises that a digital library, like any library, is more than a mere aggregation of information resources: it is a service which is based on principles of selection, acquisition, access, management and preservation, related to a specific client community (Cathro, 1999). Thus any analysis of the economic aspects of digital libraries wil
The Library seeks to build comprehensive collections where relevant materials are acquired to the greatest extent possible; representative collections where the Library selects a manageable amount of material to represent a type, creator or subject; and selective collections where items of national priority or special significance are identified and collected, or where depth of collecting is prioritised above breadth. This section of the policy is arranged in sequence from comprehensive to selective, recognising that such a continuum is neither fully linear nor completely exclusive. Web archiving for example, falls midway along this imaginary line, and is by turns comprehensive, selective and representative.