New Library World: Volume 104 Issue 11/12

Building a skills portfolio for the information professional

This paper reports on research in progress that reviews the skills used by library and information science (LIS) professionals and how to record them in a manner that encourages…

Job satisfaction among library managers: a cross‐cultural study of stress, freedom and job conditions

Based on a survey of British and Danish Library Managers the paper explores the concept of job satisfaction and its relation to stress, job content and job conditions. The paper…

Stone buildings, cyberspace, and the library user

Although libraries provide quiet and well‐equipped places for students to seek and use information, the trend librarians are seeing is a decline in the number of people coming to…

Funding down under: entrepreneurial approaches to generating income at the University of Queensland Cybrary

The government, from both national and regional sources, is the primary source of funds for universities and their libraries in Australia. Student numbers and financial…

Developing diverse professional leaders

Diversity issues pervade a world connected by electronic advances that have closed distances and made possible millisecond communication. In the USA, and throughout the world, the…

Prospects for continuing professional education for library and information science professionals in Nigeria: the case of Delta State

This paper surveys the prospects for continuing professional education (CPE) of library and information science (LIS) professionals in Nigeria using Delta State as a case study…

The Accidental Webmaster

An Ounce of Prevention: Integrated Disaster Planning for Archives, Libraries, and Record Centres

Cooperation in Action; Collaborative Initiatives in the World of Information

Centred on Learning: academic case studies on learning centre development