New Library World: Volume 109 Issue 5/6
Table of contents
Google Scholar and academic libraries: an update
Karen A. Hartman, Laura Bowering MullenThis paper aims to update the authors' original 2005 study of Google Scholar's integration into ARL libraries' web sites. Have more ARL libraries added Google Scholar?
Successful approaches to teaching through chat
Frances Devlin, Lea Currie, John StrattonThe purpose of this paper is to determine whether librarians at the University of Kansas are providing instruction through chat in order to develop best practices for training…
Evolution of a summer research/writing workshop for first‐year university students
Janneka L. Guise, Janet Goosney, Shannon Gordon, Heather PrettyThe paper aims to describe a framework for a summer research/writing workshop for new university students, and its evolution over time and across institutions.
Using standards to make your case: examples from the medical library community
Carla J. FunkThe paper seeks to discuss how medical librarians have used library standards, especially benchmark data, in advocating for the medical library and medical librarian to their…
Special collections for beginners: A case study of special collections at Waterford Institute of Technology Library Service
Neil Darbey, Helen HaydenThis article sets out to describe the challenges and opportunities created by the presentation of a number of special collections to the library service of Waterford Institute of…
Exploratory nature of, and uncertainty tolerance in, qualitative research
Yazdan MansourianThis paper seeks to depict an overall picture of an exploratory research journey to exemplify how qualitative studies on little understood phenomena can be done successfully. The…
Job satisfaction in libraries: love it or leave it
Elisa F. TopperThis article aims to explore job satisfaction among library workers.
IFLA WLIC 2007 Durban, South Africa
Bruce MadgeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a flavour of the World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council.