...   2012 . 206 pp.   £54.95 soft cover , ISBN: 9781856047760 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> M‐libraries Mobile technology Librarians Information Distant learning Libraries' service delivery modes are being transformed by mobile service delivery approaches...

...Daniel G. Dorner; James Revell Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on a research project aimed at gaining an understanding of subject librarians' perceptions and promotion of institutional repositories as an information resource for their clients. Design/methodology/approach...

...Dirk Lewandowski; Pertti Vakkari Purpose This paper seeks to evaluate to what extent Google retrieved correct answers to queries inferred from factual and topical requests in a digital Ask‐a‐Librarian service. Design/methodology/approach In total, 100 factual and 100 topical questions were...

... behaviour Electronic information resources Librarians This book is about digital consumers and the impact they are having on the publishing, media, marketing, commercial and information professions (or worlds). The authors have expertise in these areas and are mostly researchers who have worked...

... : Information Today   2007 . 286 pp.   US$39.50 (soft cover) , ISBN: 9781573873093 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Intranets Librarians The 11 chapters cover the following: issues of current importance as well as directions for the future, the roles of information...

... not reported (soft cover) (Crash course series) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Worldwide web Libraries Librarians Librarians communicate with their patrons and staff in many ways, including web pages posted on the worldwide web and intranets. Yet planning, HTML coding...

... Publishing Limited 2006 --> Internet Librarians The cover of The Library and Information Professional's Internet Companion suggests that this “desk reference will keep practitioners ahead”. Does a “desk reference” have a place in the fast‐changing virtual world of theinternet? Last...

... and information networks Librarians To survive and be successful in the current rapidly changing library environment, staff learning, and developing library staff, are key drivers for the effective management of academic libraries. This book focuses on important issues of library staff development within...

... Research Librarians United Kingdom Whilst the Oxford English Dictionary defines electronic publishing as, “the issuing of books and other material in machine‐readable form rather than on paper”; it does not provide an authoritative definition of the term e‐book (electronic book...

...Madely du Preez Steven M.   Cohen . Keeping Current: Advanced Internet Strategies to Meet Librarian and Patron Needs . Chicago, IL : American Library Association   2003 . 136 pp. , ISBN: 0838908640   US$35.00 (ALA members $31.50) soft © Emerald Group Publishing Limited...

...Ina Fourie Acquisitions librarians operate in a dynamic environment requiring constant alertness to new developments. Current awareness services (CAS), especially those available for free through the World Wide Web (WWW), can help them to keep up with trends, publisher and vendor‐related...

...Philip Calvert Gretchen McC.   Hoffman . Copyright in Cyberspace: Questions and Answers for Librarians . New York, NY : Neal‐Schuman Publishers   2001 . 263 pp. , ISBN: 1555704107   US$55.00 (paperback) Copyright Librarians Copyright is not easy...

...Ina Fourie S.L.   Nesbeitt and R.S.   Gordon . The Information Professional’s Guide to Career Development Online . Medford, NJ : Information Today   2002 . 401 pp. , ISBN: ISBN1573871249   US$29.50 (softback) Career development Librarians...

... and to help libraries with the long‐term costs associated with the storage of back issues (Wood and Walther, 2000) (see URL < http://www.jstor.ac.uk >). © MCB UP Limited 2001 Librarians Promotion Evaluation Information technology Journal publishing Technological innovation...

..., discussion of the “free‐or‐fee” issue and user training. A useful glossary and an index conclude the work. This practical book provides librarians with much useful information on developing Internet‐based public library services. It is recommended for all public librarians working in the delivery of up...

... for the adoption of a more complex view of human relevance judgements in the education and practice of information professionals. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Information services Libraries Information retrieval Librarians User studies Issues, questions and concerns surrounding user needs...

... of them disagreed that the Internet should completely replace traditional reference tools. Respondents also felt that reference librarians should possess good computing and Internet use skills for providing effective reference services. © MCB UP Limited 2000 The study used a questionnaire‐based...

... Librarians This issue of Library Trends (as often the case with this excellent journal) presents a significant collection of cutting‐edge library science research. This is not the first special issue on the themes to appear in a professional journal, but it goes beyond a discussion...