Library Management: Volume 21 Issue 1

The scientific information environment in the next millennium

The evolution of the information environment in research and development at the beginning of the next millennium is dominated by the change of medium from printed to digital…

Wanting it all: the relationship between expectations and the public’s perceptions of public library services

Discusses research that examines the relationship between user perceptions and expectations of the public library service. Emphasis is not on what expectations and perceptions of…

Public library closures: the management of hard decisions

Reports on management issues arising when authorities decide to close public library service points. The data come from two British Library funded projects. The first used a…

Change and conflict in the academic library

It has been observed that “the libraries of colleges and universities are changing faster than their respective parent institutions. Essentially everything in and around the…

Libraries as bureaucracies: the viewpoints of librarians

Bureaucracy is usually associated with the negative consequences of large organisations such as “red tapeism”, unexplained delays, and general frustration. Max Weber assumed that…

Ethics at Work

Foundations of Library and Information Science

Information Landscapes for a Learning Society: Networking and the Future of Libraries 3. An International Conference held at the University of Bath, 29 June‐ 1 July 1998

Exploring the Contexts of Information Behaviour. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Research in Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts. 13/15 August 1998, Sheffield, UK

Information Seeking in the Online Age: Principles and Practice