********************************************************************* NEWS FROM AUSTLII http://www.austlii.edu.au/ Wednesday 3rd March 1996 ********************************************************************* CONTENTS: Employment with AustLII Correction: High Court Bulletin IRC Cases Updated Welcome Philip Chung to the AustLII Team Review of AustLII by Point Communications AustLII is Cosmic Site of the Night 3/3/96 February AustLII Statistics Summary ------------------------------ EMPLOYMENT WITH AUSTLII http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/employment.html AustLII is looking for good people to join our small team. We are always interested in hearing from people with legal training, a range of computing skills and an understanding of the Internet and its protocols. AustLII currently has an opening for person to work on Secondary Legal Materials. Responsibilities would include the mark-up and management of large collections of secondary legal materials, including the materials of the Australian Human Rights Information Centre, the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Law Reform Commissions, our index of Australasian Law on the Net, and other secondary legal materials, particularly law reform related. Essential requirements for this position are: Tertiary studies in Law (or Librarianship), and Computing skills which include some level of programming. It would also be desirable for this person to have an understanding of HTML, Unix, Internet Protocols. We are able to offer a one year contract; but we will also consider people currently undertaking tertiary studies. Contact: Geoffrey King (Manager) at geoff@austlii.edu.au ------------------------------ CORRECTION: HIGH COURT BULLETIN http://www.austlii.edu.au/hca/bulletin/ Whoops!! We were a little ambitious on the High Court's behalf ... Shortly after we mailed the last News from AustLII, they rang to remind us that the High Court Bulletin will be produced for each sitting of the Court, and not weekly as we had reported. Apologies! ------------------------------ IRC CASES UPDATED http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/irc/ The Industrial Relations Court of Australia case database has been updated and will be brought fully up-to-date by the end of this week. ------------------------------ WELCOME PHILIP CHUNG TO THE AUSTLII TEAM http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/welcome_philip.html Philip Chung, a recent graduate in Economics and Law joined AustLII last Monday to assist in the ongoing construction and maintenance of our primary legal materials collection. Special thanks to Philip for remaining in the University environment. ------------------------------ REVIEW OF AUSTLII BY POINT COMMUNICATIONS http://www.pointcom.com/gifs/reviews/2_20c007.htm The Point review of AustLII has recently been updated and we are now rated at 47 out of 50 for content, although Point aren't so impressed by our sparse and fast graphics policy ... ------------------------------ AUSTLII WAS COSMIC SITE OF THE NIGHT 3/3/96 http://www.adze.com/site-of-the-night.html AustLII was selected as AdZe's Cosmic Site of the Night for Sunday the 3rd of March. As their page says: "Cosmic is vast enough to be cosmological and mundane -- including commerce. Freedom and dignity are rooted in prosperity consciousness." ------------------------------ FEBRUARY AUSTLII STATS SUMMARY 280,000 pages of HTML 8,200,000 hypertext links 1,530 MB of indexed text 18,748 'sessions' in Feb 976 peak daily users 85 peak concurrent users 15,967 peak daily requests ------------------------------ Please feel free to distribute 'News from AustLII' either electronically or in print form. Please try to avoid cross-postings to news groups or e-mail lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe to AustLII news: http://www.austlii.edu.au/news/ ------------------------------ Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) http://www.austlii.edu.au/ PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007 AUSTRALIA Ph: (02) 281 2699 (intl +61 2 281 2699) Fax: (02) 281 2127 (intl +61 2 281 2127) Graham Greenleaf (Co-Director UNSW) graham@austlii.edu.au Andrew Mowbray (Co-Director UTS) andrew@austlii.edu.au Geoffrey King (Manager) geoff@austlii.edu.au Philip Chung philip@austlii.edu.au ----------------------------- End of News from AustLII