The library and information profession in Australia, and indeed throughout the world, is rapidly aging. In the United States it was recently predicted that, by 2017, some 68 percent of today’s librarians will have retired (Lynch, 2002). The demographics of library and information professionals in Australia mirrors this situation, where 52 percent of qualified librarians are over the age of 45, ...

Classical old-field succession studies focused on vegetation changes after the abandonment of annual croplands or on succession after the elimination of cultivated crops. Perennial-crop-mediated succession, where fields are initially covered by perennial crops, reveals alternative aspects of old-field succession theories. We tested the validity of classical theories of old-field succession for ...