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NEW STUDENT ACCOUNT CREATION AND SUPPORT
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The Student IT Account project has been a great success. All students who commenced study in January 2008 activated their IT Accounts via this new system including all Bond students, BUELI students and MyBondMBA.com students, who study remotely in Japan. | |
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BOOK LAUNCH
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 In September last year a Cocktail Reception was held in the Main Library to celebrate the launch of the book, Clinical Thinking: Evidence, Communication and Decision Making, the latest published works of Professor Chris Del Mar (Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University), Associate Professor Jenny Doust (University of Queensland) and Professor Paul Glasziou (University of Oxford). | |
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EXTENDED OPENING HOURS FOR SERVICE DESK
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From the beginning of Semester 1, computing and AV support hours have been extended through to 8.00pm. The aim of the additional hours of operation is to improve support for staff teaching in the evenings and to provide additional support for students. | |
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UPDATE ON THE MULTIMEDIA LEARNING CENTRE
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Construction of the Multimedia Learning Centre in the old Art Gallery space is fast approaching completion with all indications that it will indeed be the spectacular learning environment originally envisaged. | |
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NEW SERVER ROOM
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Following the opening of the New Server Room on the 29th of November 2007, Information Services have been actively engaged with the task of moving the production servers from the old server room to the new server room. | |
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ANNUAL STAFF AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE
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To recognise and celebrate the outstanding achievements of staff, the annual staff awards were announced at the Information Services Christmas Party on 14th December 2007. | |
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TVNews
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 Would you like to access a past program of Media Watch, Business Insiders or Today Tonight?
TVNews is an exciting new database providing a searchable interface for Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks. | |
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RefWorks
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A subscription to RefWorks has recently provided Bond staff and students with an alternative, easy to use, web based service for managing references and producing bibliographies in styles such as APA 5th,Vancouver, Australian Guide to Legal Citation, or Harvard. Being web based, RefWorks folders of bibliographic references can be accessed anywhere the Internet is available at any time convenient to the user. | |
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FAST LOANS
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The Fast Loans self-checkout machine is now up and running at the loans desk in the Main Library and using this service couldn't be simpler. All you need to do is insert your student/staff card into the slot provided and follow the easy instructions displayed on the Fast Loans screen. | |
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PERSONAL RESEARCHER PAGES ON E-PUBLICATIONS@BOND
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e-publications@bond is Bond University's digital repository which is managed by Information Services. It is a dynamic and growing electronic resource which contains a variety of items ranging from conference papers to Bond images, which are all easily accessible and downloadable. | |
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| FROM THE DIRECTOR |
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It gives me great pleasure to update the Bond community about the outcomes of a number of projects accomplished in the last six months. The success of these projects is due to the perseverance of not only the Information Services staff, but also everyone else who contributed across the campus. The credit also goes to the ICT Governance Board, led by Professor Garry Marchant, for its support and oversight of ICT projects. The following projects were concluded in recent months:
- The new data centre – launched in November 2007
- Fast Loans Service – students can now borrow books using a self-service facility in the Main Library
- The anti spam and anti virus appliance, Ironport - This new service has almost completely stopped the amount of spam staff and students received daily.
- Student IT Account creation - Students are now able to use the self-serve function to generate their IT accounts
- Bond Alumni Portal (iModules) - Bond Alumni portal was launched on 25th Feb ’08 to Bond Alumnus and staff. A web-based service that manages online communities.
- Contact Management System (Law Faculty) - A new database of organisations, legal firms, schools and relevant contacts was created using the existing CRM system (Goldmine). This new database will assist the Law Faculty in event management, marketing and assist Law graduates to contact legal firms for enquiries and employment opportunities
- CallXpress Upgrade – staff can now receive voice mail in their Outlook inbox
- iLearn Data Feeds – A scalable and robust program designed to send student enrolment and faculty information to iLearn in a timely and efficient manner
- A number of ICT upgrades to learning spaces – including the Moot Court, Entropy Room, HSM Clinics, HSM teaching spaces
- iLearn upgrade – We upgraded Blackboard from version 7.0 to 7.3 over the Christmas break. The new version will provide much enhanced functionality for staff and students, including enhanced discussion boards and improved grade book facility.
- E*Value – A healthcare management solution for the Faculty of HSM to administer and manage the clinical rotation component of its medical program
- Sedona – A web application that allows faculty to maintain their own teaching, research and service records, capture and document academic information and generate reports which are vital components in the School of Business’ application for accreditation through the AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business)
We are working on many projects, some of which are of high strategic importance to the University. These include:
- Student One Upgrade
- CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system
- Enterprise Content Management System and Intranet
- Multimedia Learning Centre
- Digital signage
Information Services received a number of accolades in recent times, one of which is the recognition of our blog, L Files as an innovative tool to communicate with our customers.
Bond University was recently represented at the national VALA Conference (Victorian Association of Library Automation) in Melbourne with a paper written by Wendy Abbott and Mark Sutherland and presented by Wendy Abbott on Transforming the Library for the New Millennium. The conference was attended by over 1,000 delegates. Peta Hopkins also gave a presentation on Web2.0 social media technologies at a pre-conference workshop.
I will be on leave from Bond University from mid April to mid October, working for a new private university in Istanbul, Turkey to help them set up their Information Services. In my absence Information Services will be in good hands with Wendy Abbott as Acting Director.
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Email: enews@bond.edu.au
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Joshua Fry has joined Information Services as Service Delivery Manager with the level 3 Infrastructure support team. 
Lawrence has been involved in IT since the days of the punch cards and has taken on a number of IT and Business management roles locally and internationally. 
Before Sarah commenced at Bond she studied for five years doing her Teaching degree and a Masters in Learning and Innovation (Teacher-Librarianship). 
