Mr Stephen Parnell

Welcome to my home page. I currently have responsibility within the Library for information resources and technologies, copyright and project management. For 2006-7 I am Chair of the University Copyright Committee. For more information about the UniSA Library visit the Library homepage http://www.library.unisa.edu.au

Finding data to support university funding allocations. Library Connect Pamphlet #9 November 2006

Organisational change to meet the digital challenge. In Huthwaite, Ann ed. Managing information in the digital age. Adelaide, University of South Australia Library, 2005

Beyond the Stereotype: Presentation to the 2nd ALIA New Librarians' Symposium Adelaide, December 2004

Cooperation not consortia: implementing the Voyager library system in the South Australian universities. (pdf document) Paper presented at the Conference: Educause in Australasia 03, Expanding the learning community, meeting the challenges held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia, 6-9 May 2003

Managing digitisation of course readers through internal and external partnerships. (pdf document) Paper by Stephen Parnell, Mike Hobart and Brent Wilson presented at the Conference: Educause in Australasia 03, Expanding the learning community, meeting the challenges held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia, 6-9 May 2003

Redefining the Cost and Complexity of Library Services for Open and Distance Learning. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (October - 2002)

Ripple on the pond: libraries and change in distance education. Paper presented at the 20th ICDE Conference Dusseldorf 1 - 5 April 2001

Drift without direction: how information and information technology is changing the education paradigm Paper presented at the Conference: Educause in Australasia 2001, The Power of 3 Marriott Surfers Paradise Resort Queensland, Australia 20th - 23rd May 2001

Literature searches and distance education: Whose problem?

A prosperous future and good luck: the autobiography of Norm Parnell

Literature, libertines and Lenin's wife: famous people and libraries.

The ultimate acquisition: selecting a library system for the South Australian universities. Presentation to the ALIA Acquisitions National Seminar - Acquisitions: The New Age November 2002 Adelaide.

Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)

BA (Adel.) GDipAg (Adel.) MLitt (UNE) AALIA

• The influence of online information on teaching and learning in Higher Education.
• Flexible Delivery of Library Services - particularly costs, responsibilitties and quality assurance

Redefining the Cost and Complexity of Library Services for Open and Distance Learning. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 3 (2) (October - 2002) http://www.irrodl.org/content/v3.2/parnell.html

Quality Assurance and Models of Service in an Environment of Change. Paper presented at the Tenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference. April 17-19, 2002. Appears as pages 151-163 of the published Proceedings, Edited Patrick B. Mahoney. Central Michigan University: Cincinnati, Ohio.

Library services for students and staff of the University of South Australia: Singapore & Hong Kong. Report to the University Librarian by Stephen Parnell and Anthony Stevens. UniSA, Adelaide, 1999.

Quality assurance and an expanded role for the library in distance education. Paper prepared for the 21st ICDE Conference, Hong Kong, Feb 19-21, 2004

McSwiney, C and Parnell, S. Transnational expansion and the role of the university library: a study of academics and librarians in an Australian university. New Review of Libraries and Lifelong Learning, v4, January 2004 http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/about/papers/McSwiney-transnational.pdf