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Amanda Cossham
Amanda Cossham is the Research Development Leader at Open Polytechnic | Kuratini Tuwhera. Formerly, she was a lecturer teaching cataloguing and classification, social informatics, research, and knowledge organisation at the same organisation. Her research focuses on community archives, academic/practitioner collaboration, use of research methodologies, and continuing professional development of librarians and records managers, as well as researchers more generally.
She completed her PhD in 2017 through Monash University. Her thesis is around mental and conceptual models of the bibliographic universe, and the relevance of the notion of ‘bibliographic universe’ in an online and digital age.
She is the Editor, Australasia and South-East Asia, Information Research https://informationr.net/infres/about/editorialTeam, and Regional Editor of Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication (formerly Library Review) http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=gkmc. She is on the editorial boards of IFLA Journal, and Digital Library Perspectives.
She completed her PhD in 2017 through Monash University. Her thesis is around mental and conceptual models of the bibliographic universe, and the relevance of the notion of ‘bibliographic universe’ in an online and digital age.
She is the Editor, Australasia and South-East Asia, Information Research https://informationr.net/infres/about/editorialTeam, and Regional Editor of Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication (formerly Library Review) http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=gkmc. She is on the editorial boards of IFLA Journal, and Digital Library Perspectives.
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Stone, L. (Ed.). (2018). Informing New Zealand - He puna whakamōhio mō Aotearoa (6th edition; revised by A. Cossham). Open Polytechnic. http://hdl.handle.net/11072/2056
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Stone, L. (Ed.). (2018). Informing New Zealand - He puna whakamōhio mō Aotearoa (6th edition; revised by A. Cossham). Open Polytechnic. http://hdl.handle.net/11072/2056
Submissions are welcomed on the following major themes:
Global Knowledge and Communication:
Social interaction, networking, social media and space
Free/open access to information: legal, technical, social and managerial issues
Information and knowledge as agents of and for social, political, cultural and organisational change
Connecting the individual: personalised and meta-services
Sociological and philosophical aspects of information and knowledge, including service provision
World Memory: Text, Sound, Vision and Artefacts:
Information creation, ‘collection’ and curation
Information seeking, discovery and use
Sustainable preservation, including environmental, social, technical and legal issues
Sharing and facilitating individual engagement with archival, cultural and literary heritage: objects and services
Memory institutions and organisations: role and purpose, design, delivery, evaluation and cultural issues
Professional collaboration – consortia, exchange and sharing.