Library Management: Volume 18 Issue 3

Bibliographic record provision in the UK

Ann Chapman

States that since 1980, UKOLN has been carrying out a survey to monitor the availability of bibliographic records in the BNB files on the British Library automated information…

Motivating staff in Nigerian university libraries

Abimbola Abifarin

Reports on a survey conducted to investigate the level of motivation among librarians and para‐professional staff in Nigerian university libraries using the questionnaire method…

Information professionals, CPD and transferable skills

Jane Farmer, Fiona Campbell

Argues that the workplace of today is in a state of perpetual change and that individuals across the professions are faced with economic cutbacks, managerial reorganization and…

Current practice in training flexible information workers

Evelyn Kerslake, Anne Goulding

Reports findings of research investigating the training needs and opportunities of flexible information workers. Concludes that unless positive action is taken to address the…

ISO 9000 and the total quality management models

Ana Reyes Pacios Lozano

Establishes the most outstanding differences between the ISO 9000 norms and total quality management as forms or manners of managing quality used in some information services…

Can we really see where electronic journals are going?

Jack Meadows

Where electronic journals will go in the immediate future depends on their relative advantages and disadvantages as seen by four participating groups ‐ authors, publishers…

Electronic journals: myths and realities

Hazel Woodward, Fytton Rowland, Cliff McKnight, Jack Meadows, Carolyn Pritchett

Considers the preliminary findings of the Cafe Jus research project, investigating end user reactions to electronic journals. Issues explored include: access to e‐journals;…

University library statistics from LISU

John Sumsion

More comprehensive trend data on UK academic libraries’ operations and resources are now available. Explains the extended scope of annual published statistics ‐ along with a…