New Library World: Volume 110 Issue 9/10
Table of contents
Information and learning commons, faculty and student benefits
Jon BodnarThe purpose of this paper is to examine the benefits of information and learning commons to students and faculty.
A study on the patronage of the intelligent library: The Ximen Intelligent Library of the Taipei public library system
Shu‐hsien Tseng, Pin‐dar KuoThe purpose of this paper is to introduce how the Taipei Public Library established an intelligent library that offers automated service equipped with radio frequency…
Balancing both lives: issues facing librarians working in Second Life and real life worlds
Emily F. Blankenship, Yolanda HollingsworthThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the ongoing issues and concerns of Second Life librarians who are attempting to balance both their virtual library tasks and assignments…
A new model of faculty‐librarian collaboration: the faculty member as library specialist
Ti YuThe purpose of this paper is to show how the library at Jinwen University of Science and Technology (JUST) in Taiwan introduced the use of a new model “Faculty member as library…
Using Kidder's dilemma paradigm to resolve conflicts in library core values
Wanda V. Dole, Jitka M. HurychThe purpose of this paper is to identify core values commonly held by library and information professionals and discusses whether Rushworth Kidder's concept of dilemma paradigms…
Information seeking and learning: a comparison of Kuhlthau's information seeking model and John Dewey's problem solving model
Linda Isabella FainburgThe purpose of this paper is to explain how the users' information need could be compared with a learning, knowledge and research need where the purpose of information seeking is…
Interim leadership after the administrator leaves
Elisa F. TopperThe purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the concept of interim leadership for an organization when the administrator leaves.
Third IFLA‐Presidential Meeting: access to knowledge: networking libraries: Exploring library issues in Arab speaking states
Marian KorenThe purpose of this paper is to provide a flavour of the content of the third IFLA Presidential Meeting held in Berlin, Germany in 2009.