Library Review: Volume 41 Issue 6

Library Use of Performance Indicators

Stephen Richard

Surveys the use of performance indicators in higher educationlibraries, arising from a study tour of the USA. Considers the purposesand use of performance indicators in relation…

Safe in Whose Hands? Scottish University Library Finances in the 1980s

Kenneth J. Cameron, Michael Roberts

A review of the main financial trends in Scottish universitylibraries during the 1980s. Updates a previous study in 1986 by the sameauthors on this topic, covering the…

Career Development Reports: A New Initiative in Student Career Perceptions

Peter Stephen, Maria E. Burke

Students at Manchester Metropolitan University School of Libraryand Information Studies are required to submit a career developmentreport, analysing their own aims and aptitudes…

The Electronic Book Arrives: At Last?

An initial series of small CD‐ROM discs containing the texts ofbooks, and of a hand‐held reader to access them, has recently beenlaunched by Columbia Tristar Home Video and Sony…