Aslib Proceedings: Volume 59 Issue 4/5
Table of contents - Special Issue: British Library and information schools: the research of the Department of Information Science, City University London
Guest Editors: David Bawden
Information Science at City University London
David BawdenThe paper seeks to introduce a special issue of Aslib Proceedings, which contains a series of papers written by staff and research students at the Department of Information…
Organised complexity, meaning and understanding: An approach to a unified view of information for information science
David BawdenThe paper seeks to outline an approach to a unified framework for understanding the concept of “information” in the physical, biological and human domains, and to see what links…
Healthcare libraries in Saudi Arabia: analysis and recommendations
Ahmad Khudair, David BawdenThe paper aims to gain a detailed understanding of the current health library/information environment in Saudi Arabia, to identify problems, issues, and areas for improvement, to…
Impact of digital information resources in the toxicology literature
Lyn RobinsonThe purpose of the study reported here was to assess the degree to which new forms of web‐based information and communication resources impact on the formal toxicology literature…
Evaluation of web search for the information practitioner
A. MacFarlaneThe aim of the paper is to put forward a structured mechanism for web search evaluation. The paper seeks to point to useful scientific research and show how information…
Parallel methods for the update of partitioned inverted files
A. MacFarlane, J.A. McCann, S.E. RobertsonAn issue that tends to be ignored in information retrieval is the issue of updating inverted files. This is largely because inverted files were devised to provide fast query…
Flickr and Democratic Indexing: dialogic approaches to indexing
Pauline Rafferty, Rob HidderleyThe purpose of this paper is two‐fold: to examine three models of subject indexing (i.e. expert‐led indexing, author‐generated indexing, and user‐orientated indexing); and to…
Non‐literal copying of factual information: architecture of knowledge
Tamara EisenschitzThe paper seeks to explore the rights of researchers to use facts gathered from previous authors, even when there are only one or a small number of sources, and also to explore…
Mixed reality (MR) interfaces for mobile information systems
David Mountain, Fotis LiarokapisThe motivation for this research is the emergence of mobile information systems where information is disseminated to mobile individuals via handheld devices. A key distinction…
Information history: its importance, relevance and future
Toni WellerThe purpose of this paper is to explore the emergent field of information history (IH) and to move towards a definition of IH. Some of the more traditional historical approaches…
Of the rich and the poor and other curious minds: on open access and “development”
Jutta HaiderThe paper seeks to reconsider open access and its relation to issues of “development” by highlighting the ties the open access movement has with the hegemonic discourse of…
Continuing professional development for library and information science: Case study of a network of training centres
Lyn Robinson, Audrone GlosieneThe paper aims to describe a network of training centres (TCN‐LIS) to support continuing professional development (CPD) of library and information specialists in countries of…
Where do we go from here? An opinion on the future of LIS as an academic discipline in the UK
Toni Weller, Jutta HaiderThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the current situation of academic LIS research, specifically in the UK and to provide some thoughts considering the future of the…