... to link the staff and the information resources in the library together. Social implications All stakeholders of libraries must play their role to make academic libraries functional. Originality/value The study provides insight into the collection development activities undertaken by the libraries...

... --> Library Collection management Digital technology Resources The handbook is innovative in this point: the author faces the library collection as a whole and describes every operation (selection, acquisition, collection, maintenance, preservation, budgeting etc.) including every type of material...

...Marie Kennedy Purpose This paper aims to identify which marketing activities libraries are using to promote electronic resources and to examine how libraries are measuring the successes or failures of their marketing plans. Design/methodology/approach The research analyzes the literature...

... planning the demand for staff time can be reduced. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Libraries Information technology Costs Resources Research Hybrid systems The cost of a hybrid library, like the length of a piece of string, is not a given quantity but rather something we can measure. However...

...John Sumsion More comprehensive trend data on UK academic libraries’ operations and resources are now available. Explains the extended scope of annual published statistics ‐ along with a summary of results for 1994/95 and the previous ten years. Discusses the general statistical approach including...

... Resources User satisfaction User studies The past decade has seen significant changes in the organization and provision of higher education in the UK, including increasing student numbers, the change in status of the former polytechnics, and limited budgets. These changes have had wide‐ranging...