Aslib Proceedings: Volume 62 Issue 6

Sociable knowledge sharing online: philosophy, patterns and intervention

Paul Matthews, Rob Stephens

This paper seeks to outline a social epistemological and ethical warrant for engaging in knowledge exchange on the social web, and to emphasise socio‐cognitive and emotional…

Representations of librarianship in the UK press

Leah Shaw

The image of the library and information professional has been a source of professional anxiety for many years. The purpose of this paper is to investigate this long‐standing…

A Malawian school library: culture, literacy and reader development

Johanna Anderson, Paul Matthews

This paper aims to investigate the success and suitability of a Western‐donated school library in furthering the aims of literacy and reader development in Malawi.

Using linked data to classify web documents

Dominic Fripp

The purpose of this paper is to find a relationship between traditional faceted classification schemes and semantic web document annotators, particularly in the linked data…

Developing work‐based learning for library and information science

Jacqueline Chelin

The purpose of this paper is to disseminate information about the development of a work‐based learning (WBL) honours degree top‐up in Library and Information Sciences (LIS)…

Practitioner involvement in teaching LIS at UWE

Amanda Richardson

This paper aims to review the practitioner‐based teaching model for the MSc in Information and Library Management (ILM) at the University of the West of England (UWE). With input…

Library and information management at the University of the West of England

Paul Matthews

2010 Awards for Excellence