...Naresh Kumar Agarwal; Md Anwarul Islam Purpose – This paper aims to investigate how libraries prevent the loss of knowledge with people leaving or resigning, and the strategies they adopt to retain this knowledge and to transfer organizational knowledge to new employees. Design/methodology...

...Naresh Kumar Agarwal; Md Anwarul Islam Purpose – The purpose of the study is to investigate the tools/technologies that would be of value to libraries as they implement knowledge management (KM) and to map these to different phases of the KM cycle. Design/methodology/approach – Models...

...Dariush Alimohammadi; Mahshid Sajjadi Purpose There are many differences in, and various opinions on, naming library education institutions around the world. In a number of countries, this diversity has increased a powerful trend among library professionals to discuss and to challenge...

...Zahiruddin Khurshid; Syed Sajjad Ahmed Purpose The paper aims to highlight both major and minor features of the library portal, which empowers users to get access to a wide variety of e‐resources with a single sign‐on. Design/methodology/approach The study is mainly based...

...Sue Myer; Frances Porritt Purpose The purpose of this article is to evaluate whether students used the library and information services at the University of Teesside and, if not, what were the reasons for them seeking other sources of information. Design/methodology/approach...

...Charles R. McClure Purpose. To offer a range of practical suggestions for library staff and others who intend to collect and analyze data that describe their networked services. Method/approach. Based on the author's experience in completing a number of funded research projects...

...Angela Conyers Purpose. Describes the work of the e‐measures project, which aims to produce a set of statistics for measuring electronic information services in UK higher education libraries, to be used nationally as part of the Annual Library Statistics produced by the Society of College...

...Stephen Town Purpose. To provide a critique, some sources of data, and a broader conception for informing development of e‐measures frameworks for use in academic library services. Approach. Suggests that the broader context for e‐measurement is investigated and provides...

...Sebastian Mundt For decades, standards on library statistics have provided a solid knowledge base for collecting, reporting and comparing statistical data and therefore been widely respected by libraries nation‐ and world‐wide as an extremely useful and important framework. As electronic resources...

...Karin de Jager States that in 2001 the University of Cape Town (UCT) Libraries opened a new and integrated learning centre based on the “information commons” concept fairly common in the USA today and first encountered at the Leavey Library of the University of Southern California. Discusses...

...Danuta A. Nitecki; William Rando Describes the electronic library initiative project at Yale University and summarizes the first‐year collaborative research methodologies and initial results. Concludes that it offers several core contributions both through practical insights into the role...

...Erik Oltmans; Hilde van Wijngaarden Digital publishing is causing publishers, research institutions and libraries to develop new policies, new business models and new infrastructures and techniques. A major problem is that, at the same rate at which our world is becoming digital, digital...

...Deborah Woodyard As national library, the British Library (BL) has the ethical and legal responsibility to acquire, preserve and make available all printed material published in the UK. In recent years the national published output has included an increasingly digital component. Therefore, projects...

...Lesley Glassington; Christine Urquhart Describes evaluation of the LISCE (Library and Information Support for Clinical Effectiveness) project, at University College London Hospital Trust (2000‐2003). The evaluation used an action research framework as the researcher was also the clinical librarian...

... © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Libraries Librarians Learning Training Barriers Motivation User studies S. McNicol (University of Central England in Birmingham, Birmingham, UK), New Library World, 2002, Vol. 103 No. 7, pp. 251-8 The mere provision of resources...

... © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Libraries Public libraries Internet Community Information Consortia L. Atherton (Chatham Library, UK), New Library World, 2002, Vol. 103 No. 11, pp. 467-73 This article provides an introduction to seamlessUK from the perspective...

... by managing access to databases and journals. MetaLib[2] is a tool that enables a library to provide a single access point (portal/gateway) to Web databases, with simultaneous multiple database searching functionality for those databases that allow Z39.50 searching. Thus the Library can provide subject lists...

...Andrew Cox The article sets out a definition of the main functional elements of “portals” as supplied by library management system (LMS) suppliers, also touching on related technology. It lists the benefits and considers continuing issues. It concludes by suggesting the main criteria a library...

... underlying basic model is provided, exploring the potential for interoperability among independently managed systems. This is of special importance for libraries, along with the advantage of reducing the development and deployment costs of distributed applications, and of leveraging the value of IT and data...

... with Christopher Warnock, CEO of ebrary. Increasingly one suspects library services will have at their heart large such collections of licensed electronic content as ebrarian for libraries. Printed monographs and textbooks on the shelf will become secondary, at least for some users. The possibilities...