New Library World: Volume 103 Issue 9
Table of contents
A dangerous occupation? Violence in public libraries
Sarah FarrugiaOutlines the problem of violence in British public libraries, where incidents commonly involve problem groups from drunks to unruly youths to irate patrons. The problem can be…
Corporate information, institutional culture and knowledge management: a UK university library perspective
Damien McManus, Brendan LoughridgeBased on the results of a small‐scale pilot interview‐based survey of senior information professionals working in the academic community in the UK, this paper reviews some of the…
The trials of going online: the image database of British Library bookbindings
P.J.M. Marks, David GrinyerThe image database of British Library bindings, created with the help of iBase, is a stand alone system installed in the Rare Books and Music Reading Room in April 2001. It was…
Information services in an electronic environment: a review
Don RevillThe reviewer concludes that the human problems of knowing one’s users, liaison and collaboration with academic staff, user training and information literacy, are still unresolved…