... Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only This study investigates an approach to book metrics for research evaluation that takes into account the complexity of scholarly monographs. This approach is based on work sets – unique scholarly works and their within...

... with lighter reading than non-fiction. When browsing for finding good books escapists leaned on library’s genre classification and the shelves of returned novels, while esthetes and realists browsed shelves of new books in addition to shelves of returned books. An interest in various aspects...

...Anna Mikkonen; Pertti Vakkari Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate fiction readers’ interest criteria when selecting novels in library catalogs for various search tasks. Design/methodology/approach – The data of the book selection behavior from 80 genuine fiction readers...

... of this study is to analyze readers’ methods of accessing fiction in a public library for informing the design of fiction search systems. This study seeks to find out which attributes of books readers perceive as indicators of a good novel, and what kind of tactics they use for finding these good novels...

...Gary P. Radford; Marie L. Radford; Jessica Lingel Purpose Deaccessioning, the deliberate culling, disposing, or selling of books from a collection, is one of the most controversial aspects of the collection development function of the library. This article aims to examine what can become...

...Karl H. Wolf While the authors in this volume do not share a uniform sensibility on these diverse issues, each of the chapters adds a portrait that finds books enduring in a rapidly changing context in the decades since 1945. Much is said about the recent history, but there is disagreement about...

...Karl H. Wolf Books Electronic books Book publishers Internet Publishing Article Type: Comparative review From: Journal of Documentation, Volume 66, Issue 3 The Book Is Dead, Long Live the Book Sherman YoungUniversity of New South Wales PressSydney2007189 pp.ISBN...

...Mingjie Li; Jinfang Niu Purpose This paper aims to provide a theoretical guide for preserving ancient books in China. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews the history of the damage and preservation of ancient books in China, and analyzes the value attributes of ancient books...

...Karl H. Wolf Gail   Pool . Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America . Columbia, MO : University of Missouri Press   2007 . 171 pp. (hard cover) , ISBN: 978‐0‐8262‐1727‐1 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Books Peer review Refereeing...

...David Bawden © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Books Publishing Internet World Wide Web Communication P. TetlowWiley,Hoboken NJ2007xxi plus 239 pp.ISBN 9780470137949, These are two books which examine in detail the future of the communication of information...

...Douglas J.C. Grindlay; Anne Morris Possible reasons for the decline in annual adult book issues from UK public libraries are reviewed. Annual book issues have been decreasing since 1980, due mainly to a decrease in issues of adult fiction and, to a lesser extent, adult non‐fiction. Possible...

...Douglas J.C. Grindlay; Anne Morris Annual book issues from UK public libraries have been decreasing since 1980, due mainly to decreases in issues of adult fiction and, to a lesser extent, adult non‐fiction. This paper describes an analysis of trends from 1980 to 1998 in annual book issues...

... features of paper books to be preserved in the electronic medium, while also preferring electronic text to be written in a scannable style. Reductionist principles were applied to the evaluation model so that very sophisticated experiments with unlimited resources which comprised most of the tasks...

...Maurice B. Line Edited by Hermina G.B.   Anghelescu and Martine   Poulain . Books, Libraries, Reading and Publishing in the Cold War . Washington, DC : Library of Congress, The Center for the Book   2001 . xxiv + 297 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 0 8444 1056 X   $25.00 © MCB UP...

...John Sumsion; Margaret Hawkins; Anne Morris In the context of statistical research into the economic value of public library services, a model was developed to demonstrate the economic benefit when books are borrowed rather than bought. The model is based on the number of book reads rather than...

...Maurice B. Line Jennifer   Andersen Edited by, Elizabeth   Sauer Edited by, Stephen   Orgel Afterword by . Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies . Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press   2001 . vi, 305 pp. (paperback) , ISBN: 0 8122...

... online catalogue work displays. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Document management Books Bibliographic standards Journal of Documentation, Vol. 55, No. 2, March 1999 © Aslib, The Association for Information Management. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted under the Copyright, Designs...