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Direct linkSavova, Maria; Garsia, Matthew – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2012
E-readers are increasingly popular personal devices, but can they be effectively used for the needs of academic libraries' clients? This paper employs an evidence-based approach that examines the role and efficacy of implementing an E-reader Loan Service at McGill University Library. Suggestions are offered as to what lending model and device…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Library Services
Hider, Philip – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2009
The resource typologies proposed in the new standard, "Resource Description and Access" (RDA), are evaluated in the context of a particular university library catalogue through two card-sort exercises. Although it was found that end-users recognised the content and carrier aspects of the resource types as listed in RDA, they did not…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Classification, Universities, Cataloging
Earney, Sally; Martins, Ana – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2009
This paper presents case study research of a job rotation pilot involving six library assistants in Cardiff University Library Service (ULS). Firstly, it investigates whether job rotation improves motivation and secondly, whether there is an improvement in skills, both technical and "soft". Following a review of the literature,…
Descriptors: Employees, Motivation, Interviews, Research Libraries
Download full textFinnish Government, Helsinki. – 1972
The research libraries in Finland are in the majority of case libraries of universities and other institutions for higher education. Libraries in research institutes and some other special libraries account for some 20-30% of the total operational capacity. It is hoped the necessity of efficient libraries as a support to teaching and research will…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Science, Information Systems, Librarians
Koch, Hans-Albrecht – 1980
A report of the current state of librarianship in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) presents a brief history as well as an overview of the prerequisites of and organizations concerned with library research, and the objectives, methods, and results of intermediary but important research projects. Although the practice of library research is new…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Needs, Foreign Countries, Library Administration
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, London (England). – 1992
The following 19 papers were delivered at the 1992 annual meeting of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions for the Division of Education and Research: (1) "Across the Frontiers: Impact of Foreign Journals in Library Science in India: A Citation Analysis" (M. A. Gopinath); (2) "Children and Reading in…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Children, Continuing Education, Developing Nations
Steinerová, Jela; Šušol, Jaroslav – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2007
Introduction: The paper is based on the study of library users in Slovakia as part of a larger research project on the use of information. Method: A large-scale questionnaire survey was conducted in 2002 in sixteen academic and research libraries with 793 subjects, especially students and educators. Analysis: The data were analysed with the use of…
Descriptors: Users (Information), Questionnaires, Surveys, Research Libraries
