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Book Review: Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management
Fiona MacLellan reviews the third edition of Peggy Johnson’s text focusing on a key area for libraries: collection development.
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Visualising Building Access Data
Gary Brewerton and Jason Cooper describe how the imposition of visitor access control for safety purposes was developed into a useful management tool to measure library building usage.
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Book Review: The New Digital Scholar - Exploring and Enriching the Research and Writing Practices of NextGen Students
Julia Robinson reviews a substantial and timely collection of essays related to the research and writing practices of NextGen students. Expressing a call for change in the way educators approach Information Literacy teaching, this book invites the reader to redefine, re-evaluate and reflect on what we think we know about students’ research practices today.
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Implementing a Resource or Reading List Management System
Gary Brewerton takes us step by step through the various stages of implementing a Resource or Reading List Management System for your institution.
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Upskilling Liaison Librarians for Research Data Management
Andrew Cox, Eddy Verbaan and Barbara Sen explore the design of a curriculum to train academic librarians in the competencies to support Research Data Management.
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Walk-in Access to e-Resources at the University of Bath
Kate Robinson, Lizz Jennings and Laurence Lockton outline a low-cost solution to walk-in (visitor) access to licensed e-journals, drawing on their practice at the University of Bath with a wiki ERM and OPAC terminals.
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The Informatics Transform: Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade
Liz Lyon proposes that libraries re-position, re-profile and ramp up their engagement with research data management, scholarly communications and citizen science.
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Looking for the Link Between Library Usage and Student Attainment
Graham Stone, Bryony Ramsden and Dave Pattern introduce the JISC-funded Library Impact Data Project (LIDP). -
10 Years of Zetoc
Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service. -
Academic Liaison Librarianship: Curatorial Pedagogy or Pedagogical Curation?
Allan Parsons presents a strategic view of the need to develop the academic liaison librarianship role. -
CIG Conference 2010: Changes in Cataloguing in 'Interesting Times'
Rhiannon McLoughlin reports on a three-day conference on cataloguing in a time of financial stringency, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group at Exeter University, from 13-15 September 2010. -
Don't You Know Who I Am?
John Paschoud looks into identity and access management in the pre-digital and digital age, and describes how the JISC Identity Management Toolkit can help us manage identities better. -
Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London
Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham Seaman and Tim Wales describe the implementation of an open source front end to the MetaLib federated search tool. -
The Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2009
Rosie Jones reports on a three-day conference about Information Literacy held by CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group at Cardiff University over 30 March - 1 April 2009. -
Libraries of the Future
Michelle Pauli reports on the National e-textbook Debate and Libraries of the Future panel sessions held by JISC in Birmingham over 14-15 April 2008. -
Book Review: Evaluating the Impact of Your Library
David Parkes reviews a new book, targeted at managers, which is both a tool to help evaluate your library and an analysis of Impact Evaluation methodology. -
Book Review: Developing the New Learning Environment
Stephen Town welcomes this new text on a key issue for the future of academic librarians, and suggests some broader questions for consideration. -
Book Review: Libraries Without Walls 5
David Parkes reviews the fifth compilation of the biennial Library Without Walls Conference. He finds how far we have come and how far we have to go in delivering services to distributed learners. -
Book Review: Developing Web-based Instruction
Lyn Parker finds this compilation a useful overview of the issues involved in developing e-learning and a valuable addition to the literature. -
Book Review: Developing Academic Library Staff for Future Success
Stephen Town considers this new multi-author volume, appreciates its many qualities and reflects on the key issues for library staff development in the digital future. -
Book Review: Joining Up the Dots
Stuart Hannabuss seeks the tenor among the diversity of voices provided by Challenge and Change in the Information Society. -
Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now?
Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks. -
Digitization: Do We Have a Strategy?
David Pearson suggests that the library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the agenda. -
Beyond the Online Tutorial
Ariadne reports on a one day JISC workshop in Edinburgh on pedagogical issues for projects developing resources for the DNER. (30 August) -
Managing Electronic Library Services: Current Issues in UK Higher Education Institutions
Stephen Pinfield surveys some of the key issues associated with delivering electronic library services. -
After the Big Bang: The Forces of Change and E-Learning
Pete Johnston examines what recent developments in the area of "e-learning" might mean for the custodians of the information resources required to support teaching and learning. -
Looking Back in Anger: A Retrospective
Don Revill, former Head of Information Services at Liverpool John Moores University, offers a retrospective. -
Building on Shifting Sands: Information Age Organisations
Clive Field draws on his experience at the University of Birmingham to explore the issue of creating a flexible organisation. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Dearing, IT and Information Services: Two Cheers (or One and a Half?)
Lyndon Pugh reviews a serious attempt to square a circle. -
Infopolecon
John Lindsay comments on the evolution of the UK network infrastructure, and the problems arguably generated along the way.