...Jennifer Cram Looking at the value of public libraries in society, this paper discusses actual potential and unrealised value in the Australian context. Value is analysed in relation to an increasingly competitive environment, and with particular reference to library collections and their enduring...

...Kay Poustie The Bertelsmann International Network of Public Libraries was created by the Bertelsmann Foundation of Germany to think flexibly about the public library of tomorrow and to develop model solutions to address the issues faced by public libraries across the world. From the first meeting...

... is widespread literacy for the children of the UK. Children Information services Public libraries School libraries One of the key recommendations of the 1995 UK report, Investing in Children, was that the proportion of the total budget spent on materials for children in public libraries...

...Sujin Butdisuwan Prepared   by the Thailand Ministry of Education , Department   of Nonformal Education . A Training Package for Rural Public Libraries . Uppsala University Library for the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Advancement...

...Roderick Cave Chris   Batt . Information Technology in Public Libraries. 6th edition . London : Library Association Publishing   1998 . 159 pp , ISBN: 1856042537   £26.95 (£21.56 LA members) (hardback) © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> IT Public Libraries United...

...Patrick Roach; Marlene Morrison This paper reports on a British Library‐funded project, Public Libraries, Ethnic Diversity and Citizenship. The project examiend how public library services have responded to the implications of ethnic diversity in the way that services are constructed, managed...

... approximately 20,000 libraries of various types in Vietnam, including public libraries, specialised libraries, general scientific libraries and local libraries (Du, 1995a). Based on the functions and activities of each library type and its administrative management (that is, the ministry responsible...

... community which valued education highly and conducted an 18‐year campaign, beginning in 1903, to establish a School of Mines (now TAFE) and a public library in the town. A pamphlet advertising a public meeting to discuss the issue in 1909 made much of the fact that a public library and a technical institute...

...Syed Jalaluddin Haider Surveying the growth of public libraries in Pakistan prior to and following independence, this paper shows that development has been at best a piecemeal affair and at worst non‐existent. Although some libraries seek to fulfil their goal of providing quality service...

... and Technical Information of China (ISTIC), the System of Public Libraries has expended substantial effort on promoting the standardisation of library and information services. Probably the most valuable activity in this sphere has been the rationalisation and standardisation of classification schemes...