New Library World: Volume 102 Issue 4/5
Table of contents
Open linking for libraries: the OpenURL framework
Jenny WalkerReports on the ground‐breaking work by Herbert Van de Sompel while associated with Ghent University, Belgium, and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which has led to the…
How were we all doing in 1999? A review of UK library statistics
Don RevillReviews the latest set of statistics on UK public, national, academic, special and school libraries. Deplores the general decline in financial support over the ten‐year period and…
A comparison of public library use of statistics – a cross‐country survey report
Yan Quan LiuLibrarians have been involved in collecting and disseminating statistics for many years. Utilizing statistics to describe and assess the operation of library activities as a part…
Developing performance measures within a marketing frame of reference
Christine M. Koontz, Persis E. RockwoodMeasures of the library’s productivity assess whether the library is achieving the goals and objectives of its chosen missions. This paper illustrates the concept of placing…
Open to All? The public library and social exclusion: executive summary
Dave Muddiman, Shiraz Durrani, John Pateman, Martin Dutch, Rebecca Linley, John VincentThe executive summary of the report of an 18‐month research project on public library policy and social exclusion based at Leeds Metropolitan University and conducted in…
Interpreting the scope of their literature reviews: significant differences in research students’ concerns
Christine BruceAs librarians have developed a growing concern for fostering the information literacy of library users they have become increasingly involved in teaching many facets of…