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| Searchable full text of a 1992 book about changing library services, and the uses of technology in the redesigning process. Chapter titles include The Paper Library, the Automated Library, and The Electronic Library. | |
| Influential analysis of UK university library provision. | ||
| Annual collection of statistics aiming to present a broad overall perspective of the library and information scene in the UK. Includes coverage of public, national, academic and special libraries. | ||
| Libraries and learning resource centres from six universities spent two years focused on a culture change in the support provided to education, law, and life sciences subject departments. Their efforts resulted in a mediation model for networked information. The author, the project manager for TAPin, reflects upon the importance of attitudes, infrastructure, staff skills, appearances, and service practices in the process of change. | ||
| Article aiming to identify what type of academic library and information services have quality management systems, establish whether the initiatives are part of a university wide initiative and seek to identify any future trends. Concentrates on three systems: TQM, ISO 9000 and Investors in People. | ||
| Major research programme which emerged from the Follett Report. The programme has resulted in around 60 projects in a number of areas: Access to Network Resources, Digitisation, Electronic Document Delivery, Electronic Journals, Electronic Short Loan, Images, On Demand Publishing, Preprints, Quality Assurance, Supporting Studies, Training and Awareness. | ||
| Abstracts and full text of papers given at the 1998 IATUL Conference in Pretoria, South Africa, on 1 5 June 1998. Topics include library purchasing consortia, information literacy, benchmarking knowledge management, faculty publishing productivity, performance measurement in libraries and information services, and using the Internet to support lifelong learning. | ||
| Discussion about coping with change in academic libraries due to the increased use of electronic information and pressures to provide services with fewer human and financial resources. Part of a series of guides written by the IMPEL2 Project based on findings from case studies conducted in the library and information services of 24 UK universities and colleges during 1996 97. | ||
| Report surveying over a decade the use of a variety of print and online resources by reference librarians at academic research libraries in the United States and Canada. | ||
| Report of an eLib supporting study, published April 1998, to investigate the incidence and nature of the publishing of electronic scholarly monographs and textbooks in the UK. It suggests that UK electronic monograph publishing is embryonic, and that extensive bibliographical problems remain, especially for Web monographs, with little evidence of collection management activity associated with electronic monographs in university libraries. | ||
| Central point of contact for LIS organisations and academic research groups. Provides background information about the consortium, and links to UK research councils and associated libraries. | ||
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