...Sara E. Morris; Lea H. Currie Purpose The University of Kansas (KU) libraries has faced increased requests for streaming video in the past five years. While we have provided access to many databases of films, feature films remained a problem. To write a collection development policy, the library...

...Sarah McNicol Search engines Databases Information literacy Jane   Devine and Francine   Egger‐Sider . Going Beyond Google: The Invisible Web in Learning and Teaching . London : Facet Publishing   2009 . 156 pp. , ISBN: 978‐1‐85604‐658‐9   £44.95 This book...

..., and discontinued resources. Originality/value While a large number of studies have measured the use of electronic journals and databases and have surveyed users, few studies have involved librarians in order to triangulate these results. Candela Ollé can be contacted at: olle.candela@ub.edu © Emerald...

...Margaret Ostrander; Sarah Kleppe Purpose Transportation librarians name the Transportation Information Research Services (TRIS) database as a critical resource to meet research needs of the US transportation community. This paper seeks to question the claim with evidence from a small‐scale pilot...

...Christina Bieber; Werner Schweibenz Purpose To provide an overview of the construction and features of an art image database for high‐resolution images. Design/methodology/approach A description of technical information, standards and tools used for creating an art image database using open...

... internationally. In Denmark there have been some interesting projects the objective of which has been to make it possible to search for material in several institutions at the same time. NOKS is one of these projects, it is an abbreviation for Nordjyllands Kulturhistoriske Søgebase, which is a database...

...Marta Seljak; Tadeja Brešar; Lidija Curk; Matjaž Zalokar; Andreja Tominac; Gordana Popović; Anka Rogina; Alojz Urbajs Describes a process of gradual implementation of authority control in the COBISS library information system in Slovenia (COBISS.SI). The CONOR.SI initial authority database...

... research databases. From these two trends emerges the concept of disintermediation, where library users seek and retrieve information without the assistance of the librarian, and the realization that librarians are no longer present when users need help in developing successful search strategies...

...Ka Wai Fan This paper examines electronic resources, including journals and databases for Chinese studies, collected in North American East Asian academic libraries. A small survey of 26 East Asian academic libraries in North America was conducted in May 2003 in order to learn more about collection...

.... At the beginning of the 1980s the University of Haifa Library signed up with the magnetic tapes services – MARC – to acquire the catalog registration of the entire book database of the Library of Congress. This database covered a large part of the current acquisitions of the library from the USA and the UK...

... of gender, type of practice (companion animals, farm animals, mixed practice) and regional distribution. Libraries Academic libraries Databases Slovenia Pharmaceuticals Medical products In the last decades the amount of information available has grown very quickly. There have been several...

...P.J.M. Marks; David Grinyer The 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 designed as a finding aid to bookbindings in the BL printed book collections. The requirement...

.... Identifies issues that arise from the data and that require further analysis for future study. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Libraries Information technology Internet Skills development Law Databases To be information literate, a person must be able to recognise when information is needed...

...Hildegund M. Calvert Reports the results of a series of studies conducted at Ball State University Libraries to examine the impact electronic journals and aggregate databases have on interlibrary loan activities. Borrowing and lending were monitored intermittently over a two‐year period...

... and proposed exploitation plans as well as a new task focussing on business and economic issues. Co‐operation Databases Document supply Interlending Library services As the title suggests, this is an update of the information given in previous articles (Clissman et al., 1997a; 1997b...

.... The products indicated in Figure 2 with “DTMO”, “STOWA” and “Absis” all concern databases or derivates thereof. They nearly cover their costs. STOWA in fact is profitable, as is MIC, our aforementioned Maritime Information Centre. Why do we think this is such an important exercise, the unearthing of our...

... of the task force: the design of the Web interface into the library catalog, including a description of the final outcome and the design criteria used. Third, a description of the Master List of Databases project, an effort to centralize the list of all CWRU‐available indexes and full‐text resources...

...Elisa Campos Machado; Waldomiro Vergueiro Discusses quality improvement, focusing on the development of the database DEDALUS, in the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Compares all the activities used in that institution with the management theories of quality. Submits that there is a correlation...

...S. Subba Rao Outlines information access through the right mixture of technologies namely, online and CD‐ROM. While mentioning the electronic databases, electronic information path and generations of online services, presents the salient features of CD‐ROMs, their cost effectiveness, database...

.... Information specialists of the 1990s, in contrast, have a choice of several CD‐ROM products in this field. To help facilitate the selection process, presents an overview and appraisal of a range of these CD‐ROMs, featuring EC Infodisk and the Justis series of databases. Each product contains...