Library Review: Volume 61 Issue 3

The impact of demographic characteristics of users on patterns of usage on search engines and OPAC

Shiv Kumar

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of user demographic characteristics on the impact of usage of search engines, particularly Google, with special regard to…

Text reference via Google Voice: a pilot study

William Breitbach, Adolfo G. Prieto

This paper aims to analyze data from a pilot study at one academic library using Google Voice for text message (SMS) reference. It also aims to analyze SMS reference question…

Plugging the “whole”: librarians as interdisciplinary facilitators

Jeffrey A. Knapp

The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the obstacles to interdisciplinary research and examine some ways that academic librarians can help to overcome them.

School library research in Nigeria: Content analysis of Nigerian School Library Journal 1979‐2010

Fadekemi Omobola Oyewusi

The purpose of this article is to analyse the content of the Nigerian School Library Journal (NSLJ) from 1979‐2010.

Advances in Librarianship, Volume 33

Stuart James

Freedom of Information: Local Government and Accountability

David McMenemy

Innovations in Information Retrieval: Perspectives for Theory and Practice

George Macgregor

Read to Succeed: Strategies to Engage Children and Young People in Reading for Pleasure

Ian McCulloch