New Library World: Volume 111 Issue 3/4

Emerging patterns and trends in utilizing electronic resources in a higher education environment: An empirical analysis

Hepu Deng

The purpose of this paper is to present an investigation of the extent to which electronic resources are utilized in higher education in Australia. It seeks to explore the pattern…

The changing face of current awareness reporting in law libraries

Terry Ballard, Anna Blaine

In response to budgetary concerns and feedback from users, the New York Law School's Mendik Library needed to streamline the way it reported current law journal table of contents…

Undergraduate search strategies and evaluation criteria: Searching for credible sources

Lea Currie, Frances Devlin, Judith Emde, Kathryn Graves

The purpose of this paper is to determine undergraduate students' information‐seeking behavior and their thought processes involved in, criteria applied to, and methods of…

The US urban university library: supporting research related to crime

Mark Winston

The academic library mission is defined based on the need to support the larger parent university mission. In the case of the urban university, which has been the focus of…

Mentoring interactively (MIing): new tools for librarian recruitment and retention

Lisa Gieskes

This paper aims to explore the viability of social networking software as a new tool for librarian recruitment and retention.

“Why should the library collect immigrants' memories?”: A study of a multicultural memory group at a public library in Oslo

Synnøve Ulvik

The purpose of this paper is to present the work of a multicultural memory group in a Norwegian public library. The project aims to establish the library as a physical meeting…

The academic library becomes the academic learning commons

Bruce E. Massis

The purpose of this paper is to profile the academic “Learning Commons,” a model of library service adopted by numerous institutions of higher education to attract students…

A view from the floor: Participating in the 2009 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Conference

Biddy Fisher

The paper aims to present a short explanation of the complexity of the IFLA organization and specifically a descriptive account of the 2009 IFLA Congress held in Milan, Italy…

Library Partnerships: Making Connections between School and Public Libraries

Sarah McNicol

Books, Buildings and Social Engineeering: Early Public Libraries in Britain from Past to Present

Mike Freeman

Editorial

Linda Ashcroft