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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...
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.
To buy or to borrow? Circulating libraries and novel reading in Britain, 1778‐1828
Tập 47 Số 7 - Trang 348-354 - 1998
What access did readers have to fiction in Britain during the Romantic period?
To what extent might the fiction market have been segmented into readers who
borrowed their novels from libraries ‐ sometimes stealing or failing to return
them ‐ and those who bought them new or second‐hand at bookshops? Many
circulating‐library proprietors would also serve the novel‐reading population in
their capacit...
Automatic thesaurus for enhanced Chinese text retrieval
- 2000
Asian languages such as Japanese, Korean and in particular Chinese, are
beginning to gain popularity in the information retrieval (IR) domain. The
quality of IR systems has traditionally been judged by the system’s retrieval
effectiveness which, in turn, is commonly measured by data recall and data
precision. This paper proposes and describes a process for generating an
automatic Chinese thesaurus...
A survey of information literacy education in library schools in Africa
Tập 60 Số 3 - Trang 202-217 - 2011
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the state of information literacy
(IL) education in library schools in Africa. Principally, to understand how
prepared the library schools are to take the lead by integrating IL courses into
their school curricula.Design/methodology/approachThe survey was carried out in
two parts: first, the researcher conducted a survey of web sites maintained by
lib...
Managing Information Resources in Lbraries: Collection Management in Theory and Practice
Tập 51 Số 2 - Trang 107-112 - 2002
Career choice, satisfaction, and perceptions about their professional image
Tập 60 Số 7 - Trang 575-587 - 2011
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 sent to
117 professional librarians working in academic, public, and special libraries
in Kuwait.FindingsThe study identified factors which influenced the choice of
care...
STIMULI AND SANCTIONS
Tập 20 Số 8 - Trang 533-536 - 1966
THE PARLOUR OF ROTA'S OLD BOOKSHOP, Bodley House, in Vigo Street just around the
corner from the more commodious present location in Saville Row, London, is
where Knox first began to wend its way towards us here in Connecticut. I was
sitting there taking something against the cold, buying books for our new
institution—this was in the summer of ‘63—when the Knox collection first came up
and, as usu...