Library Review: Volume 55 Issue 6

Teaching intellectual property rights as part of the information literacy syllabus

To argue that in the knowledge economy, those who are expert in understanding intellectual property issues, such as librarians and information professionals, have a special…

Taking stock of open access: progress and issues

Aims at providing a broad overview of some of the issues emerging from the growth in open access publishing, with specific reference to the use of repositories and open access…

Webliometrics: a new horizon in information research

During the second half of the past century, the field of library and information science (LIS) has frequently used the research methods of the social sciences. In particular, q…

Civil society and good governance: challenges for public libraries in South Africa

To demonstrate that “civil society” is an important aspect of the democratic process, providing a vital link between the citizens and the state. One of the principal functions of…

Examining the quality of National Library of Malaysia (NLM) cataloguing in publication (CIP) records

This study attempts to compare the National Library of Malaysia (NLM)'s cataloguing in publication (CIP) records with their permanent records in the NLM's online public access…

Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics: A Framework for Studying and Teaching the Human Contexts of Information and Communication Technologies

Basic Research Methods for Librarians – 4th Edition

Digital Library Development: The View from Kanazawa

Managing Electronic Records

Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War and Radical Politics in the United States

Teen Genre Connections: from Booktalking to Booklearning

The Whole School Library Handbook

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