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The state of digitisation initiatives by cultural institutions in Malaysia
Tập 56 Số 1 - Trang 45-60 - 2007
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the current state of digitisation
initiatives by cultural institutions in Malaysia. Evidently no research has been
conducted to investigate the state of digitisation initiatives by cultural
institutions in Malaysia.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts an
exploratory survey, to explore the state of cultural heritage digitisation. A
total of 60 ...
JOHN FOWLES: THE AMBIVALENT VIRTUES?
Tập 29 Số 1 - Trang 36-38 - 1980
In some ways the popularity of John Fowles is surprising. His two best‐sellers,
The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman, exemplify strengths and weaknesses
unusual in so widely‐read a writer. His virtues shade into his faults. His
uncompromising determination to write the kind of novel that interests him,
regardless of the expectations of his readership, has made each of his books
excitingly d...
THE PROFESSION
Tập 34 Số 2 - Trang 108-111 - 1985
The history of the early years of the library movement in Ireland must be read
in conjunction with its political counterpart in order to understand why,
although the enabling Acts were almost contemporaneous with those in Britain,
little or no growth took place in public sector libraries outside the major
cities in the turbulent times before 1928. The academic libraries looked for
scholarly excell...
Library Orientation: A Workable Alternative?
- 1992
Library orientation in Bristol Polytechnic was reappraised and the decision
taken to develop a workbook as a potential alternative to the library induction
tour and evaluate its effectiveness. Describes the project and the workbook.
Outlines its implementation and evaluation and analyses the educational benefits
of the workbook approach.
The Leeds Library
Tập 44 Số 3 - Trang 12-16 - 1995
Discusses the foundation of Leeds Library in 1768 (which was a time of expansion
in the wider world) and its founders. Describes the subsequent history and
growth of the library, and of its librarians. Briefly indicates the present
healthy state of the library which it attributes to the position of the library
in the centre of Leeds and the will of the proprietors for it to survive.
Days of Industry: Anna Jameson 1794–1860
Tập 23 Số 1/2 - Trang 22-24 - 1971
IN THE DAYS BEFORE TYPEWRITERS, stenographers, and tape‐recorders, when every
word of a book was written by hand, revised by hand, and eventually printed from
the handwritten manuscript, the industry required to produce such a history as
that of Gibbon is remarkable. How much more remarkable the industry of women
writers, in days when authorship for women was not always regarded as a
respectable p...
Digital Libraries: Philosophies, Technical Design Considerations and Example Scenarios
Tập 49 Số 8 - Trang 404-415 - 2000
Exploiting the social style of patrons to improve their satisfaction with the reference interview
- 2009
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discover whether the social styles of
patrons affects their perception (and librarians’ perception) of the quality of
the reference interview. Also, whether learning to assess social styles of
patrons improves perception of the quality of the reference
interview.Design/methodology/approachThe researcher observed 24 reference
interviews, assessed the social st...
Administrative Problems Affecting Newspaper Collection Management in Nigerian Libraries
Tập 40 Số 5 - 1991
The following problems affecting newspaper collection management in Nigerian
libraries are identified and discussed: publishing and distribution;
misconception of the role of libraries; ineffectiveness of the Nigerian Library
Association; position of libraries in their parent institutions; laymen′s
control over libraries; position of newspapers in libraries; absence of
newspaper departments; inade...