Library Review: Volume 47 Issue 7

Information needs and information‐seeking behaviour of graduate students at the University of Botswana

B.T. Fidzani

This study was undertaken to determine the information‐seeking behaviour and use of information resources by graduate students at the University of Botswana. The overall purpose…

Books ‐ life or art? University of Paisley Library/John Smith & Son Bookshops Ltd: Scottish Schools Essay Competition

Victoria Catterson, Angela Robb, Catriona Semple

Presents the three winning entries from the 1998 Scottish Schools Essay Competition, organized by the University of Paisley Library and sponsored by John Smith & Son Bookshops…

To buy or to borrow? Circulating libraries and novel reading in Britain, 1778‐1828

Christopher Skelton‐Foord

What access did readers have to fiction in Britain during the Romantic period? To what extent might the fiction market have been segmented into readers who borrowed their novels…

Sir Walter Scott: the reference companion

Alan Day

Outlines the aims, purposes and contents of the various reference guides to the manuscripts, poems and novels of Sir Walter Scott, to the dramatizations of the novels, to…

Why Requests Fail:: Interlibrary Lending and Document Supply Request Failures in the UK and Ireland:

Valerie J. Nurcombe

First Steps on the Internet

Roddy Macleod

Managing Business Collections in Libraries

Christine D. Reid

A Survey of Library Services to Schools and Children in the UK: : 1996‐1997

Stuart Hannabuss

Developing a Records Management Programme

Valerie J. Nurcombe

Effective Use of Health Care Information: : A Review of Recent Research

John Goodier