Aslib Proceedings: Volume 53 Issue 3

The future of academic libraries

John Akeroyd

A review of the future of academic libraries that draws initially on a generic model to describe the components of all library systems. Touches upon some economic changes and…

Digital Dilemmas: electronic challenges for the scientific journal publisher

Michael A Mabe

Excited by what has now become possible, paricipants in the creation of the new digital library often overlook fundamental (often implicit) aspects of the paper paradigm that…

The shifting terminologies of information.

David Bawden

At the heart of any discussion of the information sciences, at least when this discussion is held in the English language, lies the problem of the variant, and shifting, set of…

Learning area network: information dissemination and online discussion in an education environment: the Capabil‐IT‐y project

Peter Williams

The development of undergraduate key skills programmes has been a major concern for some years now, recently given added impetus by the Dearing report. This paper discusses the…