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Library Use of Performance Indicators
Stephen RichardSurveys the use of performance indicators in higher educationlibraries, arising from a study tour of the USA. Considers the purposesand use of performance indicators in relation…
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Safe in Whose Hands? Scottish University Library Finances in the 1980s
Kenneth J. Cameron, Michael RobertsA review of the main financial trends in Scottish universitylibraries during the 1980s. Updates a previous study in 1986 by the sameauthors on this topic, covering the…
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Career Development Reports: A New Initiative in Student Career Perceptions
Peter Stephen, Maria E. BurkeStudents at Manchester Metropolitan University School of Libraryand Information Studies are required to submit a career developmentreport, analysing their own aims and aptitudes…
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The Electronic Book Arrives: At Last?
An initial series of small CD‐ROM discs containing the texts ofbooks, and of a hand‐held reader to access them, has recently beenlaunched by Columbia Tristar Home Video and Sony…
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