Issue 8, Monday 2 April 2001

Digitising core reading material – information session 

The Library now offers digitisation and storage of core reading material for flexible online access. Students can download or print these digitised materials from the Internet.

The university has adopted a policy to centralise the digitisation of copyright protected materials for educational purposes. This is to ensure compliance with the Copyright Act and the agreement made between the University and the Copyright Agency under Part VB of the Act.

The Library has established the digitisation centre at the Clayton campus. The digitisation centre scans books and journal articles and places the digital copies in a central repository for access by authorised users via the Internet. The library manages the record keeping required to ensure that there is no unintentional copyright infringement and to track the use of the digital copies made under the agreement.

To learn more about the digitisation service offered by the centre and how you may make use of its services, you are invited to attend a lunchtime presentation given by Andrew Harrison, the University Library’s Digitisation Officer.

• When: Tuesday, 3 April 2001, 1.10 pm – 2 pm.

• Where: Lecture Theatre A2.14 

OR

• When: Thursday, 5 April 2001, 1.10 pm – 2 pm.

• Where: Lecture Theatre E2.11

For further details about the presentation please contact Andrew Harrison extn 52682.

Monash Open Day 2001

This year Monash Open Day will be held over the weekend 4 & 5 August.

Caulfield campus will be open on Sunday, 5 August from 10 am to 4 pm.

Last year's committee leaders Laurie Webb from Accounting and Finance and Fiona Shorter from Facilities and Services will again head the campus's Monash Open Day Committee for 2001.

The first meeting of the Caulfield Campus Committee will be held on Tuesday, 10 April, at 11 am in Room A1.37.

A representative from all relevant campus areas is encouraged to attend
this meeting as budget and space allocations will be a main item on the
Agenda.

For further information or queries, please contact Fiona Shorter on extn 32582.

Chickenpox prevention

Prevention of chickenpox is now available. 

Complications from chickenpox are more likely in adults. The virus is
spread easily from person to person, usually by airborne droplets
produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes, or by contact from a chickenpox sore. 

People with chickenpox are infectious for about two days before the onset of the rash and until the final sore has crusted over. Shingles can be a very painful complication later in life after an earlier chickenpox infection. Immunisation prevents this condition.

Now chickenpox can be prevented by immunisation. Arrange an
appointment to talk to one of Community Services doctors to see if this immunisation is for you.

For further information or to make an appointment, contact Monash Caulfield Health Service at Community Services, 7 Princes Avenue (opposite the Student Union building) on extn 32500.

Diary dates

6 April Accounting & Finance seminar 'Do Australian companies manage earnings to meet simple earnings benchmarks?', by David Holland. Room SG03, Clayton. 1.10 pm.

Authorised by the Office of the Campus Director - Caulfield 

Contributions can be emailed to julie.ryan@adm.monash.edu.au by 5 pm Thursdays.