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Challenges in developing professionals for the “information society”: and some responses by the British schools of librarianship and information studies
Ian M. JohnsonThis paper identifies six major challenges facing the information profession as the “information society” emerges: assisting users to deal with information overload; the high…
The collaborative library community ‐ a Danish reality
Mogens Brabrand JensenThe DanBib system is a nation‐wide union catalogue offering a number of common functions and a network to all Danish libraries ‐ public as well as academic ones. The system is…
The only way is up: an enhanced role for library and information services within the NHS beckons
Richard MarriottDiscusses the emergence of a climate very favourable to libraries within the UK National Health Service. Links to national policy initiatives such as clinical effectiveness…
Collaborating to meet the needs of non‐English speaking patrons
Kimberley KreickerKansas is a predominantly rural state, located in the geographic and geodetic centre of the USA. Recently, meat processing and other agriculture‐related industries have located in…
The Record scores a hundred
K.C. HarrisonThis year the Library Association Record is 100 years old. The author, who has been a regular recipient of the journal for two‐thirds of that time, and who has contributed…
I was there
Alan DayIs an account of the author’s experiences as a library user on the first day of opening of the British Library at its new St Pancras site, 24 November 1997. Rates the services…
Moving the British Library
Stuart JamesGives an account of the history of the British Library Round Reading Room, situated in the courtyard of the British Museum site at Bloomsbury, London. Includes details of the…