Table of contents
Portrait of a young man with red hair
Ian RogersonThe dedicatee of this Festschrift Issue is Anthony J. Wood,retiring as Head of the Department of Library and Information Science ofManchester Metropolitan University. His career…
Sexism in the reading room
Alan DayReflects on how some apparently harmless correspondence in threeissues of Notes and Queries, September‐November 1884, regardingthe quality of readers′ chairs in the Reading Room…
Information for decision making: the DECIMAL project
Shelagh Fisher, Tony OultonThe DECIMAL project is a two‐year programme of research andtechnical investigation towards the development of a decision supportmodule for integrated library systems. Describes…
CD‐ROM interfaces: full‐text databases
Jillian R. Griffiths, J. Siân LambertExamines the growing, and diverse, full‐text CD‐ROM marketplace.Draws heavily on material from the 10th and 12th editions of TFPL′s CD‐ROM Directory. Uses various parameters to…
Automatic abstracting research
Frances JohnsonThe prospect of automatically generating abstracts has attractedresearchers for some time, but the promise of superseding the humaneffort has yet to be realized. Surveys the…
The nature of information
David KayeA wide‐ranging look at the nature of information and at associatedproblems and concepts, based on a critical review of the literatures oflibrary and information science…
Contextual issues for education in library and information studies in England for the year 2000
Jennifer RowleyConsiders the forces that are likely to influence higher educationin the UK in the late 1990s. The context is the HEFCE document, Review of Higher Education: Submission by the…
The joys of statistics
Peter Stephen, Susan HornbyThe need for investigation to provide hard evidence for managementplanning and decisions is well recognized. Statistical methods offermeaningful analyses of quantitative and…
Enter the cyberpunk librarian: future directions in cyberspace
Jonathan WillsonProposes the “cyberpunk librarian” as an identity forthe librarian able to operate in the emerging cyberspace. Describes theproperties and culture of this electronic frontier…