... resource by academic subject librarians, who view them as having varying value to their clients. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 New Zealand University libraries Librarians Institutional repositories Information management Academic libraries Information resources Subject...

...Magdalini Vasileiou; Richard Hartley; Jennifer Rowley Purpose E‐books are an important and growing type of digital resource. Academic libraries have traditionally had a major role in selecting books and making them available to learners, scholars, and researchers. Therefore the processes...

... that Minčić‐Obradović has identified as being of importance to academic libraries. Overall, this is an excellent exploration of the current state of e‐books in academic libraries. It addresses issues that are timely and of interest to all libraries that have begun to include e‐books in their collections...

...Philip Calvert David   Ball . Managing Suppliers and Partners for the Academic Library . London : Facet Publishing   2005 . 192 pp. , ISBN: 1856045471   £39.95 hard cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Academic libraries Library management UK...

... professional competence for the networked environment, by Sheila Corrall 3. Developing the academic library managers of the future, by Patrick Noon 4. Converging on staff development, by Biddy Fisher 5. Developing the academic librarian as learning facilitator, by Chris Power 6. Development...

... in 127 academic libraries in the UK. Many academic libraries are providing access to e‐book resources that are free‐of‐charge, and those libraries offering e‐book subscriptions are using the World Wide Web for their platform. There are similar issues in the take‐up of e‐books to those regarding the take...

... --> Academic libraries Library services Change management Digital libraries What has changed or is changing for academic libraries, and is there a role for them in the digital age? This report sets out to answer these questions by looking at the impact caused by the democratisation of technology...

...Hans E. Roosendaal; Theo W.C. Huibers; Peter A.Th. M. Geurts; Paul E. van der Vet The economic impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on the academic library and on the academic institution are discussed in terms of changes in the value chain of scientific information induced...

...Aimee Fifarek Adoption of technology in academic libraries sets up circumstances for collection of personal patron information and records of patron information seeking behaviour not possible in the pre‐digital library. Even if collected unintentionally, this information may then be seized by law...

... kind in the country. It offers graduate degrees in education and law. Future plans include graduate studies in LIS. It is still under consideration for accreditation by the HEC. Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of Internet use in academic libraries. The perception of the Internet...

...‐and‐leave visitors. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Internet Academic libraries Systems design Libraries Transactional analysis Korea Digital libraries of theses and dissertations help promote the distribution of student research, enhance graduate education, improve information...

... to the academic library environment that is experiencing an increased demand for document delivery solutions thanks to the growth of published and electronic materials whose purchase is limited by budget constraints. The surging enrolments of distance education and remote students, along with the introduction...

... investigates the effect of the Internet on reference services in Malaysian academic libraries. The objective of the study was to find out how the integration of the Internet has affected reference professionals and services. The study also investigated respondents’ perceptions of the importance of the Internet...

... worlds with which the Internet now coevolves, and make sense of the technology in that dynamic context” (Agre, 1998). © MCB UP Limited 2000 Information retrieval Internet Cataloguing Research Academic libraries United Kingdom This special issue is about a set of services which...

... metadata altogether. Since the WWW does not provide a solution to the problem of finding and accessing the relevant documents, academic libraries have to take the responsibility for describing this material. These are the basic considerations behind the launch of the “Sondersammelgebiets...