Council of Australian University Librarians

The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) is a representation body for university libraries of Australia. It was established as the Committee of Australian University Librarians in 1965. Membership is restricted to library directors whose parent institutions are full members of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee.

The organisation's office is located in the Chifley Building, Australian National University.

Activities

• Australasian Digital Theses program
• University Library Australia, the national borrowing scheme for Australian university students and staff;
• cooperative provision of access to electronic journals & bibliographic databases
• CAUL Information Literacy Standards and information literacy measurement
• Australian Library Collections Task Force
• Submissions to Australian Government inquiries[1]
• contribution to the enhancement of scholarly publishing through Association of Research Libraries' Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition,[2] and the National Academies Forum National Scholarly Communication Forum
• liaison with major international and national organisations
  • CONZUL
  • CAUDIT
  • ACODE
  • CURL
  • ARL
  • SCONUL
  • CARL
  • Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)
  • Council of Australian State Libraries (CASL)
  • National Library of Australia.