Alison Hunter

Principal Manager Information Access
Division of Academic Information Services
Library;  The University of Southern Queensland

Contact details
Address: Library, West Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, 4350, Australia [map, USQ campus map]

Professional
Web Authoring Page
Web personality

B.A. (Hons) James Cook University (1978)
Dip.Lib. University of New South Wales (1980)
MBA University of Queensland (1997)

Professional Interests and Projects:

Institutional repositories: management, impact and value proposition for researchers (see, for example, Les Carr's terrific take )
Website usability, and web site personality: what gives a site a personality that reflects its purpose, its author/owner(s) and how important is site 'personality'?
Electronic resources in libraries and how university staff and students use them.

Papers:

Borchert, Alison; Hunter, Alison; McDonald, Debby and Tittel, Clare (2009) A study on student and staff awareness, acceptance and usage of e-books at two Queensland universities In Information Online 2009: 14th ALIA Exhibition and Conference, Sydney, Australia, 20-22 January 2009.

Hunter, Alison (2006) When the landscape keeps changing: scope creep in repositories.' In: IDEA 2006 - RUBRIC Reports: Planning, Projects and Practicalities, 12 Oct 2006, Melbourne, Australia.

Lowe, Deidre and Hunter, Alison (2003) Will they goggle if we look like Google? Exploring a new paradigm for the USQ Library Home Page. In Proceedings EDUCAUSE in Australasia 2003, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.viewed 13 June 2008 <http://eprints.usq.edu.au/4197/>

Richardson, Joanna; Fletcher, Janet; Hunter, Alison; Westerman, Philippa (2000)" 'Ask a librarian' electronic reference services : the importance of corporate culture, communication and service attitude", LASIE, v.31, no.4, Dec 2000 : 25-37.

MBA Research Report:
The adoption and diffusion of electronic journals: an exploratory study