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Most library consultancy reports prepared by Libraries Alive! are 'commercial-in-confidence'. However, those listed below are in the public domain:

AGLIN Best Practice Forum, August 2007 - report on the Forum and facilitation of the Benchmarking Workshop.

Report on ScOT Top Levels; Final report. Prepared by Sherrey Quinn, December 2005, for the Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT) Project, Review of the Top Level Structure of ScOT (Curriculum Corporation and The Le@rning Federation).
ScOT home page: http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/SCIS/partnerships/scot.htm

E Futures @Your Library: summary of the key issues discussed at the seminar on emerging electronic service delivery models for the 21st century, hosted by the State Library of New South Wales on 17th August 2004. Seminar summary compiled by the facilitators, Ian McCallum and Sherrey Quinn, at the request of the State Library of New South Wales.
Seminar home page: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/77226/20071011-0000/www.sl.nsw.gov.au/profession/efutures.html

Kippax Library and Belconnen Region Services Study: Options Paper, by Ian McCallum and Sherrey Quinn.  Prepared for ACT Information Management and Libraries, November 2002.
This report was the architect's brief for the new Kippax Library which opened on 30 August 2005. The opening was reported in Incite, vol 26, no 10, October 2005, p. 16 - see the Incite article or fulltext of the October 2005 issue.


Colloquium - Research Library  Futures: Strategies for Action, State Library of NSW, May 16-17, 2002.  Summary, by Ian McCallum and Sherrey Quinn.  
Colloquium home page:  http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/publications/colloquium_proceedings.html
Text of Summary presentation also published in Lasie, vol 33, no 1, August 2002, p. 117-122

APLN: the Will or the Last Testament? Investigation of the Business Case for the Creation of a New National Body to Represent and Promote the Interests of Public Libraries in Australia.  Final report to the Council of Australian State Libraries, by Ian McCallum and Sherrey Quinn, November 2001.
Public Libraries Australia home page: http://www.pla.org.au/

Civic Library Services Study. Consultancy in Relation to Planning for Services to be Delivered from the Proposed New 'Civic Link' Library. Report by Sherrey Quinn and Ian McCallum, prepared for Information Planning & Services, ACT Dept of Urban Services, August 2001.

The Directors of Libraries Alive! have also published papers in journals and conference proceedings:

Published papers by Ian McCallum

Published papers by Sherrey Quinn

 

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