In 2003, a group was formed to develop an Information Management Strategy for the
university. The initial membership (later augmented) included the Executive Director
(ITS), the University Librarian, the Head of the Centre for Learning and Teaching
Support, the Manager of Records and Archives and discipline experts from the
School of Information Management and Systems. The resulting strategy (Monash
2005) took an explicitly holistic approach that did not see information as belonging to
only one part of the university. The strategy was adopted as one of the University's
key priorities for 2006, and it retains an ongoing importance. The strategy articulated
a set of principles, including statements about information being of corporate
importance and available to anybody, anytime, anywhere and anyhow, as
appropriate. These principles have informed a range of initiatives since then,
including the ARROW, DART and ARCHER projects (see below). For more details
about the strategy, see Treloar (2004, 2005a, 2006a), and Palmer (2007).