New Library World: Volume 105 Issue 1/2
Table of contents
The role of LIS faculty in the information literate university: taking over the academy?
Bill Johnston, Sheila WebberThis paper aims to identify potential roles for Library and Information Science (LIS) faculty in an information literate University (ILU). The authors note the pressures on…
“Money makes the world go around” – fee‐based services in Danish public libraries 2000‐2003
Carl Gustav JohannsenThis paper contains some of the main results of a recent 2003 Danish qualitative survey on opinions and experiences of fee‐based services among public libraries. Current…
Impact evaluation, professional practice, and policy making
Ian M. Johnson, Dorothy A. Williams, Caroline Wavell, Graeme BaxterThis paper examines the relationship between research into the evaluation of the impact of library and information services, policy making in the field, and professional practice…
Public libraries as democratic intermediaries: some examples from Sweden
Veronica JohanssonGovernment practices concerning self‐administered, direct Internet publishing of material are burgeoning. In this situation, local public libraries can balance democratically…
Is the education on digital libraries adequate?
Yan Quan LiuThis study investigates the state of education for digital libraries. For this study, a Web survey was conducted of syllabi of courses on the subject of digital libraries (DL)…
Metasearching in Boston College Libraries – a case study of user reactions
Ed TallentAs the Boston College Libraries prepared to migrate to a new release of MetaLib, a metasearch and portal tool from Ex Libris, the library conducted some informal usability studies…