New Library World: Volume 99 Issue 1
Table of contents
San Francisco’s new Main Library
Kathryn PageSan Francisco’s new Main Library opened in 1996 to great acclaim and increased use by the public. Several controversies related to the library system’s management and budget…
The UNIverse Project: state‐of‐the‐art of the standards, softwares and systems which will underpin the development. Part 2: record syntax conversion, result set de‐duplication, and multilingual thesauri
C. Clissman, R. Murray, E. Davidson, J. Hands, O. Sijtsma, A. Noordzij, R. Moulton, S. Shanawa, J. Darzentas, I. PettmanProvides a brief introduction to the UNIverse Project and its major objectives. Continues the overview of the international standards, softwares and systems which will enable…
Future information infrastructure as a base for the knowledge society ‐ a comparison of librarianship in East and West
Elisabeth Simon, Karl A. StroetmannThe cultural determination of information behaviour is deeply influencing the way information is looked for, used and handled. Therefore, libraries in Central and Eastern Europe…
End‐user searching at Cranfield University
Simon BainsCranfield University Library has a tradition of matching technological developments to user needs, but it is important to ensure that a move from mediated to end‐user searching…
New light on the Reading Room’s future
Alan DayWhen the British Library vacates the British Museum’s round Reading Room it will be restored to its pristine decorative style and will accommodate a reference library of…