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
As part of an investigation as to whether a national retrospective catalogue conversion programme is justified, presents a summary of the results of a survey of retrospective conversion programmes in UK higher education libraries. The survey was conducted by the author in association with Philip Bryant of the University of Bath. Questionnaires were sent to 266 higher education libraries in...
Outside RQ, writing on reference service, whether at craft or at management level, is rare. Attempts by LR to establish a practitioners' reference column have consistently failed. One referee doubted whether the following paper really deals with management aspects. Readers with other viewpoints may like to comment.
YOU have asked me to address you on the subject of The Public Library Service of To‐day and the Carnegie Trust Policy in relation thereto. The subject of libraries is large and important, but it is one which people refrain from studying because they are apt to think of a library as a room containing a collection of rather musty old books, and we have to dismiss that idea from our minds bef...... hiện toàn bộ
In an earlier article contributed to the issue of Winter, 1951, the libraries described were all in men's clubs. In the Forum, I came to a different atmosphere. Here, women ruled and grace abounded. Since the Lyceum Club closed in 1919, the Forum has been London's premier ladies' club. Princess Marie Louise is its President, and its list of officers bristles with Dames and letters of disti...
THE other day my attention was arrested by a statement from one of our younger critics. “Mr. Auden,” he said, “makes Mr. Yeats's isolation guilty as a trance.” Not a particularly earth‐shaking statement, perhaps; but, when one thinks of it, a startling and significant one. I had not thought to live to see Mr. Yeats receiving the public sneer. Only a year or two ago Mr. Yeats was the doyen,...... hiện toàn bộ