... as a recognized expert in community maintenance, repair and democracy through books and reading. For decades, public libraries have been operating in a socio-technical context that has led to the erosion of its ability to deliver on its historical commitments to, and support for liberal democratic practice...

...Linda Sīle; Raf Guns; Alesia A. Zuccala; Tim C.E. Engels The authors use insights from library and information science (LIS) to construct complexity-sensitive book metrics. In doing so, the authors, on the one hand, propose a solution to a problem in research evaluation and, on the other hand...

... and credible descriptions of everyday life or development of a subject. Their motivation to read was learning new things and also relaxation 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...

...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 As to the publisher's advertisement (quoting): “The fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the present. During this period factors such as the expansion of government...

...Karl H. Wolf An Acknowledgements and a Prologue is succeeded by the following eight chapters. And, of course, the book ends with the usual Notes, Select bibliography, and Index. The Prologue sets the stage: the author refers to his experience...

...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 Publications in general, i.e. all “documents”, are frequently edited, evaluated, peer‐evaluated, criticized, and of course generally reviewed in journals. Numerous publications exist related to these processes – and here is another fine contribution to this genre. Pool's book...

...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...