New Library World: Volume 103 Issue 4/5

Promoting reading through partnerships: a ten‐year literature overview

Stella Thebridge, Briony Train

A recent research project examined partnerships between booksellers, publishers, library suppliers and librarians that were being used to promote books and reading. The full…

Providing digital opportunities through public libraries: the Canadian example

Carol A. Erickson

This article describes the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s work in providing grants to public libraries in low‐income communities above the 60th parallel in Canada. Through its…

Winds of change: research libraries

Tove Bang, Karen Harbo

The article takes its starting point in new trends and paradigm shifts in scholarly research methods and discusses how research libraries must act in relation to this. Various…

Academic library assessment: new duties and dilemmas

Denise Troll Covey

Two studies sponsored by the Digital Library Federation (DLF) aimed to discover the assessment practices, priorities, and concerns of academic libraries, and to propose next steps…

Stratum continuum of information: scholarly communication and the role of university libraries

Leo Waaijers

As a consequence of digitization, universities have to investigate their scholarly communication process. In fact, this is a quest for values that goes beyond the issues of the…

The Cost of Copyright Compliance in Further and Higher Education Institutions

Don Revill

Information Sources and Searching on the World Wide Web

Karyn Meaden

The Complete Guide to Preparing and Implementing Service Level Agreements (2nd ed.)

Richard Turner

Building Bridges: Linking Cultures – The Proceedings of the 86th Annual Conference of the Scottish Library Association

Mike Freeman