Aslib Proceedings: Volume 58 Issue 4

Defining the digital divide: the role of e‐readiness indicators

Brendan Luyt

To show how e‐readiness indicators, specifically the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), participate in the work of defining policy problems.

Dipping their big toe into the blogosphere: The use of weblogs by the political parties in the 2005 general election

Nigel Jackson

The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of weblogs by political parties in the 2005 general election campaign. It seeks to identify why, why not, and how parties used…

Seen and heard: duality at the access points to television databases

Jorge Caldera‐Serrano, Felipe Zapico‐Alonso

To show how the double nature of audiovisual material, that it is viewed and referenced, is reflected at the access points of a documentary database.

Moral rights and information content in published works

Tamara Eisenschitz

To explore moral rights laws in Europe and their effects on publication contents.

Using ICT with people with special education needs: what the literature tells us

Peter Williams, Hamid R. Jamali, David Nicholas

To provide a review of the past studies on use of information and communications technology (ICT) for people with special education needs (SEN) to inform a major research project…

Digital libraries: to meet or manage user expectations

David Bawden, Polona Vilar

The purpose of this paper is to review the nature of, and rationale for, user expectations in the digital library setting, and ways in which they may best be met and/or managed.