..., ideas, challenges and concerns of those who lack access to mainstream community and media. They aid the flow of developmental information by facilitating the rights to information, promoting the rights to communication and facilitating the rights to communication (Naaikuur and Dombo, 2021). Furthermore...

...Md. Jahangir Alam; Muhammad Mezbah-ul-Islam Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a service quality assessment model for academic libraries using SERVQUAL and validate the model surveying teachers, students and researchers. Design/methodology/approach A model was developed, including...

... and provide awareness about issues related to environmental policy that is consistent with sustainable development. Data collection is done from census data of Cikarawang population, observation and in-depth interviews with informants of community leaders. Constructive theory constructs to identify...

... to explore such phenomenon. The multiple-case study design is selected for the present study. The objective of the present study was not to study any extreme case but to explore the phenomenon (status of libraries and their developmental issues). The multiple cases are individually studied as whole...

...Derek Law Information profession Information services Leadership Development Whole forests have been devoted to describing the differences between leadership and management in an apparently unending and perhaps ultimately fruitless debate. While Roberts and Rowley recognise...

...Colin Will Susan   Osborne . Essential Guide for Reading Groups . London : Bloomsbury   2002 . 154 pp.   £6.99 , ISBN: 0 7475 7211 9 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Readership Development The major part of this book is devoted to a list of 50...

...Stuart James Judith   Elkin , Briony   Train , Debbie   Denham . Reading and Reader Development: The Pleasure of Reading . London : Facet Publishing   2003 . 241 pp. , ISBN: 1 85604 467 X   £39.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Reading...

...Martin Guha Laura   Roper , Jethro   Pettit and Deborah   Eade (Eds) . Development and the Learning Organisation: Essays from Development in Practice . Bournemouth : Institute of Development Studies and OXFAM   2003 . 434 pp. , ISBN: 0 85598 470 8   £13.95 Development...

... serious constraints confronting agricultural development in West Africa – the sector of the country that includes Nigeria – is limited access to agricultural information; though a wealth of research results exists in the national agricultural research system, the worsening economic environment leads...

... libraries Reading Development The Vital Link was a project with a joint focus on basic skills and reader development. The term “reader development” is defined by reading promotion agency Opening the Book as an: … active intervention to open up reading choices, to increase people’s confidence...

...Rose Bini Okiy Nigeria is a developing country where the majority of the population live in rural areas. The majority of these rural dwellers are either non‐literate or semi‐literate. The need to involve them in the national development process cannot be overemphasized. This can be achieved through...

... instance, this value could be evident in securing further funding, but library managers should also be able to recognise the merit of evaluating a longer‐term programme which is developmental, incremental, focusing on continuous improvement and innovation. Hopefully, participation in projects...

...A.N. Uhegbu Discusses the impediments to rural information services for community development in Nigeria. Highlights the nature and characteristics of a community as well as community information needs and services. Four components of community information were identified. They are information...

...Lan Anh Tran Based on extensive fieldwork in Vietnam and first‐hand knowledge of library science education in the country, the paper proposes a detailed library school curriculum in electronic information and electronic resources. Drawing heavily on the experience of developed countries, the paper...

...Abdul Razeq Younis Reviews the higher education movement and the development of universities in Jordan. Reports a study aimed at exploring the effect of automation on academic libraries, organizational structure and technical and administrative services. The study sample constituted 20 libraries...

... conference of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) was a grand affair with over 600 publishers, vendors and librarians in attendance. These proceedings contain 52 papers including workshops. Taken as a whole, the papers reflect the current direction of serials collection, development, creation...

... increased as 50 per cent of the cataloguers are now heads of bibliographic access departments. Academic libraries Cataloguing Development Librarians Skills United Kingdom The cataloguing department in the library was at one time a bustle of labour‐intensive activity. Huge backlogs of materials...

...Peter Hoare The development of a society reliant on information is traced from the scientific revolutions of the mid‐seventeenth century. Throughout Europe (and later the world) this led to new methods of dissemination and control of published information, through libraries and other institutions...

... of hospitality to their fellow Earthlings. May it please Your Majesty, Tuesday, 21 January 1995 London Number 09521, Buckingham Palace, Space, The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, Planet Zark, Book trade Children Development Libraries Library users For the partially deaf...

...Alan Day Outlines various positive achievements by the British Library during 1994. Suggests that for the British Library, 1994 was marked by continuing controversies over the new St Pancras building. Discusses the arguments surrounding the St Pancras development in relation to three documents...