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. hiện toàn bộ
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 expectati...... hiện toàn bộ
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 scholarl...... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors affecting career choice, job satisfaction, and perceptions of the public image of librarians in Kuwait.Design/methodology/approachData were gathered via questionnaires...... hiện toàn bộ
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.
TWENTY‐ONE YEARS AGO I was a publisher and a struggling one. After the war two friends and myself had started a new firm. Our first five books had all been slim volumes of poetry, and although we had been lucky with these—they had all covered their costs and received good notices in the press—we had not made a penny profit. The expense of running an office, even a one‐room affair, was eati...... hiện toàn bộ
ALL THE WHILE that the Carnegie Free Public Library brought culture and information and just plain entertainment to the residents of my home town, The Other Library there also provided the inhabitants with information and entertainment. This latter institution was far more powerful, all‐knowing, and, if the truth be told, more popular with its patrons, for all its sometimes shoddiness, tha...... hiện toàn bộ
IN the base of this edifice I came upon a den wherein were some few of the citizens poring over the public prints; I marvelled greatly to see both the stuff which was printed and the manner of men perusing it. For it appeared that among the several sheets there was the utmost confusion regarding what ought to appeal to the lieges as news; some giving all prominence to affairs of state and ...... hiện toàn bộ