Kerrie Burn BSc(Melb) GradDipLibInfoStuds(Melb) MA(MCD) AFALIA(CP) Kerrie has been working at Southern Cross University Library as Team Leader, Resource Services since July 2007. She is responsible for providing leadership to the section and managing its day-to-day operations. She is also responsible for the establishment and maintenance of the University's institutional repository. Prior to coming to SCU Kerrie worked as a library manager for over 12 years, at colleges affiliated with the University of Melbourne. Her research interests have primarily been in the areas of collaborative collection development and the management of distributed special collections. Successful grants and awards include: 2004 - Melbourne College of Divintiy Faculty Small Grant; 2004 - ALIA's YBP/Lindsay & Howes Research Award; 2005 - Community Heritage Grant from the National Library of Australia; 2005-6 - Australian Postgraduate Award for Master of Arts by Research Studies. In 2007 Kerrie was awarded the distinction of Associate Fellow of the Australian Library and Information Association - AFALIA(CP).
Book chapters
Baptist periodicals in Australian library and archive collections, The National guide to Australian Baptist historical resources and services (2007)
Theses and other papers
Build it and they will come?: assessing the impact of 'academic-friendly' practices on institutional repository growth at Southern Cross University (with Katie Wilson), Library Papers (2008)
Despite a proliferation of institutional repositories being established in recent years, and the significant financial...
The Australian Baptist Heritage Collection: management of a geographically distributed special collection, Library Papers (2007)
This project examined the history, development and current state of Australian Baptist Heritage collections by...