Preface.This issue of The Globe is the first fully digital issue. Not only were all papers and illustrations supplied by authors in digital format, but the entire issue has been delivered to our printers (University of Melbourne
In 2006, Times Higher Education Supplement ranked the University of Melbourne 22nd in the world. Because of the drop in ranking, University of Melbourne is currently behind four Asian universities - Beijing University, Print Centre) in electronic format, as pressquality PDFs on CD. Digital production is quicker and easier for the Editorial Committee. It also results in improved product quality for readers, since the hard copy is printed directly from the electronic original instead of being photocopied from a hardcopy printout. Content from The Globe is available online via several services. In reaching agreements with online service providers, the Editors and the Australian Map Circle Executive negotiate from the position that we and our authors work on a voluntary basis. We therefore seek to maximize access to material appearing in The Globe. This is achieved by ensuring that all agreements are strictly non-exclusive. Informit (RMIT RMIT Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Publishing) in partnership with the National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia is located in Canberra, Australia. Established in 1960, the Library grew out of the Federal Parliamentary Library, which was established in 1901. scans The Globe from hard copy and makes articles available online via APAIS APAIS Australian Public Affairs Information Service Full Text; this arrangement has now been in place for a couple of years. Earlier this year the AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) See AdvancedTCA. reached agreement with Gale Publishing in the US, which also scans The Globe from hard copy and makes articles available online to its subscribers. RMIT Publishing is currently negotiating with the AMC to make the entire contents of The Globe, including reviews, reports and even the preface, available as an electronic journal via its Informit Library online publishing service; this will take content directly from us in electronic format. Work is proceeding on an index to The Globe nos. 1-50, which has been compiled by Joanna MacLachlan. A draft version covering nos. 1-50 is available in electronic form on the AMC website and, once a period has been allowed for comments, it will be published in hard copy. This issue of The Globe mainly features the second batch of papers presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the AMC in Cairns Cairns, city (1991 pop. 64,463), Queensland, NE Australia, on Trinity Bay. It is a principal sugar port of Australia; lumber and other agricultural products are also exported. The city's proximity to the Great Barrier Reef has made it a tourist center. . Most of the remaining papers from that conference should appear in The Globe no. 55. The 31st Annual Conference of the AMC was held at Macquarie University Location University publications and material indicate that its campus is located in the suburb of North Ryde, although the Geographical Names Board of NSW indicates it is located in the suburb of Macquarie Park. The University has its own postcode: 2109. in Sydney from 2-5 February 2003. Papers from this conference will begin appearing in The Globe no. 55, which should be published later this year. In this issue we commemorate the lives of three people: one as Editor of the Atlas of Victoria and President of the AMC, the others as heads of military survey and national mapping respectively during the golden age of Australian mapping. We salute their achievements. The bibliographic references for Frank Urban's paper "Maps on stamps, frontiers and magpies", pp. 33-42 in The Globe no. 53, 2002 was incomplete. The complete bibliography can be found as an addendum addendum n. an addition to a completed written document. Most commonly this is a proposed change or explanation (such as a list of goods to be included) in a contract, or some point that has been subject of negotiation after the contract was originally proposed by in this issue. John Cain John Cain may mean:
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