New Library World: Volume 106 Issue 7/8

Towards a usability framework for memory institutions

The aim of this paper is to define the main directions and emerging challenges in adoption of general usability principles by the memory institutions.

Global measures of development and the information society

To examine the effects of telecommunications on national development, broadly measured in the areas of economic, social, and political change, and cultural development.

Testing the barriers to digital libraries: A study seeking copyright permission to digitize published works

The aim was to explore the issues related to acquiring copyright permission with the goal of determining effectiveness and efficiency using the least complex process.

The present and future of China's National Science and Technology Library: A new paradigm of sci‐tech information resource sharing

The purpose of this case study is to explore the construction pattern and issues involved with the development of the National Science and Technology Library (NSTL) in China.

Re‐engineering customer services: University of Salford information services division

This paper describes the first steps in a process of service re‐engineering – business process re‐engineering (BPR) – in the information services division (ISD) of the University…

Comparing polarized perspectives: librarians' professional skills and development

The main aim of the research conducted was to identify whether the particular country environment of today's professional librarian impacts upon his/her skills capabilities as…

Serving the “Boomer” generation and beyond

To focus on the importance of providing appropriate and specialized services for the senior population.

Essential Dewey

Guidelines for Colleges: Recommendations for Learning Resources

Information Literacy: A Practitioner's Guide

Animals are the Issues: Library Resources on Animal Issues

Librarianship in the Information Age: The 13th BOBCATSSS Symposium

Editorial