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Celebrity book clubs and public libraries: opportunity and threat?
David McMenemyThe purpose of this Editorial is to discuss the nature of television‐based celebrity book clubs and the pressures on public librarians to provide reading material for users who…
Can new laws make public services better? Reflections on diversity legislation for libraries
Nicholas JointThe purpose of this paper is to argue that government‐led social legislation inspired by Victorian ideals of paternalistic law‐making is still an appropriate way of intervening to…
Brave new worlds: 80 years of Library Review
Stuart JamesThe purpose of this paper is to indicates the history and nature of Library Review over 80 years.
An empirical study of knowledge management in academic libraries in East and Southern Africa
Priti JainThe purpose of this paper is to distinguish between information management (IM) and knowledge management (KM) and present the findings of small‐scale research conducted to…
Supporting lifelong learning in public libraries across Europe
Juliet Eve, Margo de Groot, Anne‐Marie SchmidtThe purpose of this paper is to present findings from the European project PuLLS (Public Libraries in the Learning Society), funded by the EU's Socrates programme.
MPhil and PhD library and information science research in Pakistan: an evaluation
Syed Jalaluddin Haider, Khalid MahmoodThe aim of this study is to provide an insight to international readers into the perspective of doctoral level research in Pakistan. The factors which led to the start of this…