New Library World: Volume 93 Issue 4

Information flow within the university environment, and university information policy: A method study at Stockholm university

Marian Dabrowski

Since February 1990 a research project in library and information science has been in operation at the University of Stockholm. This project is being conducted under the aegis of…

Brave New World?

Wilfred Ashworth

Computer Library Services International's Annual Lecture on Library Automation, held at the Café Royal, 5 March 1992, was the eighth in an invitation‐only series, now well…

Organization of information in Nigerian newspaper libraries

E.E. Okorafor

Nigerian newspaper libraries, which are units of editorialdepartments, are accommodated within noisy areas of large buildingcomplexes and managed by untrained or trained but…

Vision statement

An institution, and a symbol of learning and valuable literature. This is my opinion of a library, and I really don't think that it is going to change in the next ten years.

Symbols of South Africa

Dear Sir, Part of the UK Library Association's international role should be to encourage and recognize emerging library associations in other countries. I would like to draw the…

The education of librarians and the labour market

Niels Ole Pors

Presents results from investigations into the information labourmarket, library school students′ work preferences and orientations. Alsopresents the ordinary citizen′s view of…

The demography of journals

Sándor Zsindely, András Schubert

Demonstrates analogies between human population and journalcommunities; the concepts and methods of demography can be used in thedescription of the “sociology” of journals �…