... 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...

... be contracted out to a specialist unit or individual. The storage of paper resources, any hardware and, critically, any additional staff will generate space requirements. These will of course vary – servers and paper do not require windows, but people generally do. Other properties of the space may involve...

...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...

... readers, 5 per cent researchers and 2 per cent had other job titles. Academic libraries Library users 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...