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• Return of the unexpected: Rural workforce recruitment and retention in the era of COVID-19 

  Jones, Martin; Versace, Vincent; Lyle, David; Walsh, Sandra

  Published 2021

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• A survey of Koha in Australian special libraries : open source brings new opportunities to the outback 

  Keast, Donald

  Published 2011-02-01

  Since 2007, the library management systems landscape has changed markedly, with a variety of open source systems gaining an increasing share of the market. In Australia, penetration by open source systems has been led by ...

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• Open source systems bring Web 2.0 to special libraries 

  Keast, Donald; Balnaves, Edmund

  Published 2009-09-01

  The library management systems market place has been transformed by two innovations: Web 2.0 and open source systems. Open source developers have been quick to implement Web 2.0 functionality in their systems, making it ...

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• The origins of Inter Library Loans in Australia in relation to special libraries 

  Keast, Donald; Balnaves, Edmund; Czuchnowski, Judy; Balnaves, John

  Published 2011-04-01

  This paper examines the origins of inter-library loans in Australia in relation to special libraries. Prior to the advent of low-cost computing, union lists in special libraries were rare. In the early 1980's a number ...

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• The loneliness of the long-distance blogger : using blogs to reach isolated rural health professionals 

  Keast, Donald

  Published 2011-03-31

  Background. The Greater Western Area Health Service (GWAHS) occupies an area of 444,900 sq. km. or 55.52% of the state of New South Wales. While the health service has 5 small libraries, many users are several hundred ...

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