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Research can be defined as the search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, with an open mind, to establish novel facts, usually using a scientific method. The primary purpose for basic research (as opposed to applied research) is discovering, interpreting, and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge on a wide variety of scientific matters of our world and the universe. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Research)
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Change and Uncertainty in Academic Libraries |
Catherine Edwards highlights the impact and issues surrounding organisational change in academic libraries. |
September 1997, issue11, feature article |
Theses Unbound |
Alason Roberts looks at the use of theses in academic libraries. |
September 1997, issue11, feature article |
SKIP: Skills for new Information Professionals |
Penny Garrod reports on the changing skills profile in LIS. |
September 1997, issue11, project update |
Parallel Publishing for Transactions (PPT) |
Hugo Brailsford introduces a parallel publication in Geography. |
September 1997, issue11, project update |
York Information Connections: An Attempt to Catalogue the Internet |
Christine Ellwood and Sarah Thompson outline the rationale behind the approach of the University of York Library to cataloguing Internet resources. |
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Copyright Corner |
Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Down Your Way: Queen's University Library |
Isobel Stark visits the Victorian and 20th-century splendours of the Queen's Univerity, Belfast. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Interface: All Pre-Prints Servers Are Not the Same |
Isobel Stark talks to Dan Fleming of the Formations project. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
The Librarian of Babel: for a Public Reading Right |
The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, considers the economics of gathering all human knowledge and proposes a Public Reading Right. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Metadata Corner: Naming Names - Metadata Registries |
Rachel Heery examines metadata issues. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Minotaur |
Librarian at Kirriemuir Library, Angus, wonders if public libraries will ever go to the ball. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Planet SOSIG: ALISS and IRISS |
Debra Hiom on recent developments and happenings with ALISS, IRISS, and SOSIG. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Public Libraries Corner: A Public Library Metadata Initiative |
Sally Criddle introduces an initiative to extend current developments in the use of metadata to the public library community. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service |
Brian Kelly reports on a workshop on running an institutional web service. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Conference Goes One Step Beyond |
John MacColl reports on Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library. |
September 1997, issue11, event report |
Digital Libraries '97 |
David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97. |
September 1997, issue11, event report |
SIGIR '97 |
David Nichols reports on the follow-on conference SIGIR '97. |
September 1997, issue11, event report |
BULISC '97 |
John Eyre reports on the Bournemouth University Library & Information Services Conference, New Tricks 2. |
September 1997, issue11, event report |
Libtech '97 |
Christine Dugdale & Jackie Chelin of the ResIDe project, University of the West of England, report on the seminar which took place at Libtech at the University of Hertfordshire. |
September 1997, issue11, event report |