The Australian School Libraries Research Project

Scope of data collection

To develop and implement a survey which would capture the widest possible demographic and cover all schools in Australia, the most effective method of collection is via an electronic survey.

This data collection includes the following areas

• number of resources and collection development;
• budget allocations
• staffing profiles; and
• staffing qualifications.

This survey has been constructed to ensure that confidentiality of individual schools and personnel is maintained.

Ownership of information

The information gathered will be owned jointly by ASLA, ALIA and ECU. The partners have agreed on the following guiding principles for intellectual property and copyright:

• the Partners will hold equal copyright and intellectual property rights to the Project data and analysis reports;
• copyright of works published by party members will remain with the creators, but must contain the Project logo and acknowledge all the Partners;
• any works published from the Project must be made available for publication on the Project website, as agreed upon by the Partners.
• the right to license further uses of the Project data and analysis reports must be agreed upon by all of the Partners.
• the Partners will have equal access to information purchased for the use of the Project. eg. Curriculum Corporation Australian Schools Database.

Privacy of information

The Partners agree to abide by the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000(Commonwealth) as amended.

Ethics

Ethics clearance for the Project has been approved by the ECU Ethics Committee to ensure the project meets the ECU Policy Statement on Ethical Conduct of Research Involving Humans and complies with the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Humans (Commonwealth).