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Sherrey Quinn - Select List of Publications

Libraries

Reading rewards: the evolution and assessment of a train the trainer course for public library readers’ advisers by Sherrey Quinn, in Bundy, Alan (Ed.) Reading critical: developing readers in Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne 11–12 April 2008; conference proceedings (Auslib Press, 2008): 139–151. (Also published in APLIS, Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services, vol 21, no 2, June 2008, p. 44–55

Valuing libraries, by Ian McCallum and Sherrey Quinn. Australian Library Journal, vol 53, no 1, February 2004, p. 55-69

Indexing and thesaurus construction
Report on ScOT Top Levels; Final report. Prepared by Sherrey Quinn, December 2005, for the Curriculum Corporation and The Le@rning Federation.

Thesaurus of Australian Government subjects (TAGS) (NOIE, 2002)

Development of a thesaurus for the Science and Geography Education (SAGE) Database.  In Indexers - Partners in Publishing, Proceedings from the First International Conference, March 31 to April 2, 1995, Marysville, Victoria, ed by Max McMaster.  (Australian Society of Indexers, 1995): p. 154-161.

Thesaurus, SAGE Science and Geography Education, edited by Sherrey Quinn (East Melbourne, CSIRO Information Services, 1995).

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Australian databases - directories and handbooks
AANRO, Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online: Content policy, September 2004, prepared by Sherrey Quinn for the AANRO Steering Committee and Infoscan Pty Ltd.
Recipe book service of online searching, 8th edition, 1987 to 14th edition, 1993/94.  Edited by Sherrey Quinn (Doncaster, Vic, Online Information Resources Pty Ltd)
CSIRO AUSTRALIS: the manual.  2nd ed, edited by Max McMaster and Sherrey Quinn  (East Melbourne, CSIRO Information Services, 1993)

Directory of Australian databases on CD ROM, edited by Jenny Williams and Sherrey Quinn (Hawthorn, Vic: Australian Database Development Association, 1993)

Directory of Australian and New Zealand databases, edited by Sherrey Quinn (Hawthorn, Vic: Australian Database Development Association, 1988)
ARRB publications index, 1960-76, edited by Sherrey Quinn (Vermont South, Vic, Australian Road Research Board, 1985)
Directory of Australian databases, edited by Diana Killen, Ian McCallum, Elizabeth Morrison, and Sherrey Quinn (Hawthorn Vic, Australian Database Development Association, 1984)

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Databases and information resources: history and reviews
Finding information on the Internet: a review of two books, by Sherrey Quinn and Ian McCallum.  Online Currents, vol 19, no 1, January/February 2004: 22-24. [Review of Catch the wave: how to find good information on the Internet - fast by Belinda Weaver (RMIT University Press, 2003) and The hidden web: finding quality information on the net, by Maureen Henniger (University of NSW Press, 2003)]
Database updateNew Librarian, vol 1, no 10, December 1994: 12-13.
Australian databases and information services: summary of developments 1988 to 1992. In Proceedings of the 6th Australasian Information Online and On Disc Conference and Exhibition, Sydney, 1993. (ALIA Information Science Section, 1993): p. 49-69.
Compiling ADDA's 'Directory of Australian Databases on CD ROM', 1993, by Sherrey Quinn and Jenny Williams.  Online Currents, vol. 8, no. 4, May 1993: 8-10.
Australian databases and network access: an overview (p.113-126), and Case study: SAGE - Science and Geography Education database (p. 127-129).  In Networking & libraries in Australia, edited by Christine Goodacre. (Melbourne, ALIA Press & D. W. Thorpe, 1993)
News items and ' Database Jottings' column, in Online Currents, vol 8, 1993 to vol 10, 1995:
  • SCANfile. vol 8, no 6, July/August 1993: 9-11

  • Which database? vol 8, no 8, October 1993: 13-14

  • Databases of databases. vol 8, no 10, December 1993: 11-12

  • Energy database.  vol 9, no 2, March 1994: 12-13, 19

  • Pricing options for online services.  vol 9, no 4, May 1994: 10-11.

  • Nikkei Telecom Japan News and Retrieval Database. vol 9, no 6, July/Aug 1994: 11-13

  • Information Express acquired by Financial Times Group. vol 9, no 8, October 1994: 1

  • Kiwinet. vol 9, no 8, October 1994: 7-8

  • InfoPlus. vol 9, no 10, December 1994: 8-9

  • SCIS - Schools Catalogue Information Service. vol 10, no 2, March 1995: 8-9

  • CatSkill; a clever Australian product.   vol 10, no 7, September 1995.

Australian and New Zealand databases. Australasian College Libraries, vol 7, no 1, 1989: p.27-33.
Australian and New Zealand databases in 1988. In Information Online '89; Proceedings of the fourth Australasian Online Information Conference, Sydney, 17-19 January 1989, edited by G. Lowry.  (Sydney: Library Association of Australia, Information Science Section, 1989): p. 24-36.   Also published in:  Information Services & Use, v.9, nos 1-2, 1989: p. 3-14.
Stitched up or sewn down: proceedings of a seminar on database contract negotiation and costing, 14 July 1987, edited by Sherrey Quinn. (Hawthorn Vic, Australian Database Development Association, 1987)
Australian research in progress: a viewpoint, by Peter G. Mathews and Sherrey Quinn.  In Second Asian-Pacific Special and Law Librarians Conference, September 1987, Brisbane: Proceedings, edited by G. Mackenzie: p 228-242. (National Special Libraries Section of the Library Association of Australia, and the Law Librarians' Group: Brisbane, Qld, 1987)
Document acquisition and selection criteria, by Sherrey Quinn and Margaret Findlay. In Small scale bibliographic databases, edited by Peter Judge and Brenda Gerrie. (Sydney, Academic Press, 1986): p. 167-179.   (First published in The generation and management of small scale data bases.  Canberra: Library Association of Australia, 1982)

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Roads and transport information services
ALSIS: an information system on local street practices, by R. E. Brindle and Sherrey Quinn. In Fourth National Local Government Engineering Conference 1987, Perth, 17-21 August 1987, Preprints of papers: p 351-356.  (Institution of Engineers, Australia: Barton, ACT, 1987)
The development of ALSIS, ARRB's Local Street Information System, by Sherrey Quinn and R. E. Brindle. In Fourth Victorian Association for Library Automation Biennial Conference and Exhibition, 1987, Melbourne: Information Futures: Tomorrow Today, Preprints. p. 143-156.
ARRB Publications Index, 1960-76, edited by Sherrey Quinn. (Vermont South, Vic, Australian Road Research Board, 1985)
IRRD operations: national and international hosts; access to IRRD.  In Proceedings of the IRRD Plenary Meeting 'The Information Needs of Users', Cologne, Federal Republic of Germany, October 1985, p. 53-65. (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Paris, 1985)
Australian Road Research Board Information Services: a brief report [1984], by Sherrey Quinn.  In Developments in Australian Library Services 1982, p 76-81. (Canberra, National Library of Australia on behalf of AACOBS, Canberra, 1984)
The ARRD database: documentation of Australia's road related literature and research in progress. In Engineering information and documentation in Australia: problems and solutions: proceedings of a national seminar conducted by Footscray Institute of Technology on 25 November 1983, edited by L Lane, pages 15-29. (Footscray Vic: Footscray Institute of Technology Library, 1984)
Bibliographic information retrieval for engineers. Second National Conference on Local Government Engineering, Brisbane, 19-22 September 1983; Preprints of Papers.  (Institution of Engineers, Australia: Barton, ACT, 1983): p. 39-47.
Australian Road Research Board's initiatives in transport information and statistics, by J. B. Metcalf, S. Quinn and M. G. Lay. In Australia on the Move: a Guide to Transport Information & Statistics: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Burgmann College, the Australian National University, Canberra, 6-8 July 1983, p. 87-105.
Roads databases in Australia and New Zealand: ARRD, IRRD, LASORS (p. 8-14) and Roads databases in Australia and New Zealand: document backup (p. 26-33)  In Resource Sharing: a Necessity for the '80s, Papers presented at a Seminar organised by the NZLA Special Libraries Section and LAA Special Libraries and Information Science Sections, Christchurch, NZ, January 1981. (NZLA Special Libraries Section: Wellington, NZ, 1981)
Road information in Australia: resources and needs. In Road Research and Information for South East Asia, Workshop, Melbourne 1980,   Proceedings: Session 2, p. 1-51  (Australian Road Research Board, 1980)

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Works indexed
Examples of published indexes and indexing projects:

McCubbin; last impressions 1907–17 (National Gallery of Australia, 2009)
Accommodation choices for older Australians and their families: what older Australians and their families need to know. (Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, 2009)
Fashion: the key concepts, by Jennifer Craik (Berg, 2009)
A Federation in theses seas; an account of the acquisition by Australia of its external territories, with selected documents, by Alan Kerr (Attorney-General’s Department, 2009
Access and equity in government services: report 2006-08 (Department of Immigration and Citizenship, 2009)
Australia and New Zealand valuation and property standards, 6th ed. (Australian Property Institute, 2008)
Australian artists books, by Alex Selenitsch (National Gallery of Australia, 2008)
Degas: the uncontested master (National Gallery of Australia, 2008)
A textbook of Australian rural health, edited by Siaw-Teng Liaw and Sue Kilpatrick (Australian Rural Health Education Network, 2008)
Your home: design for lifestyle and the future; technical manual, 4th ed. (Australian Greenhouse Office, 2008)
Asian and Pacific cosmopolitans; self and subject in motion, edited by Kathryn Robinson (Palgrave, 2007)
Australian Government regional information directory 2007 (Dept of Transport and Regional Services, 2007)
Climate change and the Great Barrier Reef; a vulnerability assessment, edited by Johanna E. Johnson and Paul A. Marshall (Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and Australian Greenhouse Office, 2007)
George W Lambert retrospective: heroes and icons, by Anne Gray (National Gallery of Australia, 2007)
Improving fox management strategies in Australia , by G Saunders and L McLeod (Bureau of Rural Sciences, 2007)
Libraries in the twenty-first century: charting new directions in information services, ed. by Stuart Ferguson. (Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, 2007)
Licensed electricity, gas and water and sewerage utilities, performance report for 2004–05. Report 1 of 2007, February 2007 (Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission, 2007)
Managing bird damage to fruit and other horticultural crops , by J Tracey, M Bomford, Q Hart, G Saunders and R Sinclair (Bureau of Rural Sciences, 2007)
Mediguide, 11th ed. (Medicare, 2007)
The self-organizing school; next generation comprehensive school reforms, by Alan Bain. (Rowman & Littlefield Education, Lanham, Maryland; Plymouth, UK, 2007)
Uniting a profession; the Australian Institute of Librarians, 1937-1949, by Jean P. Whyte and David J. Jones. (Australian Library and Information Association, 2007)
Valuation principles and practice, 2nd ed (Australian Property Institute, 2007)
Grace Crowley; being modern (National Gallery of Australia, 2006)
Collection management; a concise introduction, by John Kennedy. Revised edition. (Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, 2006)
National guidelines for water recycling: managing health and environmental risks (Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council, Environment Protection and Heritage Council, and Australian Health Ministers’ Conference, 2006)
Murray-Darling Basin groundwater status: summary report 1990–2000, by David Ife and Kathryn Skelt.  (Murray-Darling Basin Commission, 2005)
National biodiversity and climate change action plan, 2004–2007 (Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council, Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2005)
The Navy contribution to Australian maritime operations: RAN Doctrine 2 - 2005 (Sea Power Centre Australia, 2005)
Australian consumer handbook, 2004 and 2003 editions. (Canberra, The Treasury Consumer Affairs Division)
The Darling, edited by Roland Breckwoldt, Robert Boden and Jenny Andrew (Murray-Darling Basin Commission, 2004)
Towards whole of community engagement: a practical toolkit  by H.J. Aslin & V.A. Brown (Canberra, Murray-Darling Basin Commission, 2004)
Biophysics of the cochlea: from molecule to model; proceedings of the International Conference, Titisee, Germany, 27 July-1 August, 2002,  edited by A. W. Gummer. (Singapore,  World Scientific, 2002)
Recipe book service of online searching, 8th edition, 1987 to 14th edition, 1993/94.  (Doncaster, Vic, Online Information Resources Pty Ltd)
Directory of Australian databases on CD ROM. (Hawthorn, Vic: Australian Database Development Association, 1993)
Australian Automotive Air Conditioning, by Jeff Green, Roger Green, and Boyce Dwiggins (Thomas Nelson Australia, 1993)
OCELOT for schools: reference manual. (Ferntree Computer Corporation, Clayton, Vic, 1992)
Directory of Australian and New Zealand databases. Hawthorn, Vic: Australian Database Development Association, 1988.
Directory of Australian databases, 1st edition, 1984, and 2nd edition, 1986. (Hawthorn Vic, Australian Database Development Association)
Australian road index, 1975-1985 [quarterly and annual cumulation] (contributing indexer, and Manager 1979-85)
Australian road research in progress, [annual] 1980-1985 (editor and contributing indexer)
Australian Road Research Board publications index, 1960-76  (editor and contributing indexer)

Annual reports for numerous government agencies, 2002 to date.

Database Indexing
  • Australian Road Index/International Road Research Documentation
  • Australian Energy Research in Progress
  • SAGE - Science and Geography Education
  • Reference and directory databases and Intranet resources

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