... author and can be contacted at: lauren_mandel@uri.edu GIS Geographic information systems Spatial analysis Library service areas Library facilities management Collections management After analyzing the titles and abstracts and browsing articles' content, 441 articles qualified from...

... Nigeria Collections management University libraries Africa as a continent and Nigeria in particular is rich with local content materials that are critical in propelling national development. However the greatest challenge is the ability of information professionals to bring together...

... --> Collections management Digital libraries Article Type: 2012 Awards for Excellence From: Library Hi Tech, Volume 31, Issue 1 The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for Library Hi Tech "The Espresso Book Machine: a change agent for libraries...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Digital libraries Architecture Technological change History Collection development Collections management Early web servers provided a connection to external systems via the common gateway interface (CGI). This allowed developers to use a web...

... available online, and correspondingly the percentage of arts, humanities and social sciences is 86.5 per cent”. Library networks Collections management Academic libraries Information transfer India In India, there are more than 2300 colleges engaged in imparting higher education...

... Digital libraries Collections management Plagiarism The choice of what exactly to preserve seems simple at one level: the dissertation itself as it was approved at Bayreuth and as it was published in 2009. Merely preserving the work itself does not, however, preserve either the social, political...

... Collections management Information technology Statistics Technological change Libraries A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. If the map could be ideally correct, it would include, in a reduced scale...

... to the patron without having to edit them into the video files. Mark O'English can be contacted at: markoe@wsu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Archives Audiovisual media Cataloguing Collections management Data handling Library systems The Washington State University...

... and opinion articles. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Collections management Digital libraries The debut of the Espresso Book Machine (EBM) in 2006 set off a flurry of speculation among libraries and book publishers about its potential impact, and that speculation has not slowed...

... --> Collections management Photographs The front page of flickr.com, one of the best known and most quoted examples of the success of so‐called “user‐generated content” which Web 2.0 is famous for, reveals what photography in numbers means today. There are about 5000 uploads a minute. The simple word...

...? Any advice as how to pursue this to a more satisfactory conclusion would be much appreciated. Kathie © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Collections management Leadership United States of America The American Library Association (ALA) is the largest and most influential...

... and other repositories to integrate digitization of materials into their usual and routine tasks. Digital libraries Research libraries Collections management Since, the early 1990s libraries have been embarking on digitization projects to provide access to and to preserve unique materials...

... will articulate the principles governing what is included. They are organized to make information accessible in particular, well‐defined, ways – and good ones will include a description of how the information is organized (Lesk, 2005). Digital libraries Collections management User interfaces ©...

...‐journal. Duy and Vaughn (2003) also note this problem. However, this is a very small group of users. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Online databases Library users Collections management Year after year the subscription cost of electronic resources are increasing, while...

... collection management activities, such as inventory and weeding. The system has also had a positive impact on customer service. Benefits of the system currently outweigh the potential risks in terms of patron privacy. Practical implications Libraries must continually assess their positions on radio...

.... A researcher's methodology may seem as whimsical and irrational as that of a college freshman. The historian's and the archivist's definition of evidence, context and relationships can be very different. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Collections management Digital libraries...

... was not used to aid in image discovery for end‐users. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Controlled languages Photography Digital storage Collections management The Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection (www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/) is an online resource providing...

... at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The article outlines several challenges the library faced with the addition of new academic programs and provides a case study of dealing with these challenges, which include budget constraints, collection management and the curriculum, reference assistance and formats...

... serve as training centers and assist with local digitization efforts. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Digital libraries Collections management Information operations United States of America One Project goal was for every repository to complete a directory entry...

...Jingfeng Xia The management of library “pick‐up books” – a phrase that refers to books pulled off the shelves by readers, discarded in the library after use, and picked up by library assistants for reshelving – is an issue for many collection managers. This research attempts to use geographic...