Abstract
This seminar incorporates papers from the sixth criminal justice librarians' seminar and the first welfare information network seminar. Participants discuss information of interest to corrections, criminology, legal/courts, police, and welfare librarians.
Proceedings of a seminar held 19-22 April 1988
Contents
Introduction and keynote paper
- Introduction
- Networking with PCs: the WHIGNET experience
Laura Maquignaz
Corrections
- Cataloguing on Inmagic: the NSW Corrective Services experience
Helen Reidy - Report from the Correctional librarians' special interest group
Ellen Quinn - Australian prison libraries: minimum standard guidelines
Phil Roberts
Criminology
- CINCH: the Australian Criminology Database: a 1988 report
John Myrtle - Family law, welfare and criminology: attitudes and information
Gayle Davies - NCJRS and CJPI: a comparison of two criminal justice databases on DIALOG
Christine White - Public information on crime and criminal justice from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research
Jan Houghton
Legal/courts
- New Zealand Department of Justice Library: functions and services within the criminal justice system
Elizabeth Buckley, Lyn Wilson - Report of Legal/Courts special interest group meeting
John Rodwell
Police
- New Zealand Police Library: an overview
Marie Andre - Report from the Police librarians special interest group
Erica Bolto - Victoria Police Library Service
Pamela Reid
Welfare
- Thesaurus development - why bother?
Greg Fowler - DIRECT: the Directory of Social Statistics
Terry Kanellos, Robin Slater - Distance service delivery: the Department of Community Services and Health Library experience
Sylvia Admans - HEAPS: the development of an Australian Health Education and Promotion Information System
Michael Kay - Information resources in the welfare sector: a Parliamentary Library perspective
Paul Mackey, Paula O'Brien - Let's stick together: eight years of ADDLIS: Alcohol and Drug Dependence Librarians and Information Specialists
Stephanie McNeill - Libraries and librarians dealing with fringe groups and individuals
Gayle Davies - Special library services at the Department of Youth and Community Services: towards an effective life skills resource for children in care or custody
Betty Allen - The future of the Welfare Information Network
- List of participants