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Restructuring library organizations for the twenty‐first century: the future of user‐oriented services in Korean academic libraries

Shin, Eun‐Ja; Kim, Young‐Seok - In: Aslib Proceedings 54 (2002) 4, pp. 260-266

librarian will take care of reference services, SDI, DB instruction and book selection on the same subject. …

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Public libraries: political vision versus public demand?

Boughey, Alan; Cooper, Mike - In: Aslib Proceedings 62 (2010) 2, pp. 175-201

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to review UK government policy on public libraries since 2003, and to examine its relationship to other forms of demand for public libraries Design/methodology/approach – The published literature from government and professional bodies is reviewed,...

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Customers, relationships and libraries: University of Malta – a case study

Broady‐Preston, Judith; Felice, Joanna - In: Aslib Proceedings 58 (2006) 6, pp. 525-536

analysed and are discussed in the paper. Findings – Library customers were bypassing the library services and seeking …

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Sociable knowledge sharing online: philosophy, patterns and intervention

Matthews, Paul; Stephens, Rob - In: Aslib Proceedings 62 (2010) 6, pp. 539-553

communities supported by social software. An attempt is made to identify positive and negative patterns of interaction from this … platforms and for engagement with existing communities are outlined. Social implications – The ideas presented attempt to define … is rarely applied to practice or to online social platforms and communities. …

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The need and viability of a mediation index in Latin American scientific production and publication

Aguado‐López, Eduardo; Adolfo Garduño‐Oropeza, Gustavo - In: Aslib Proceedings 64 (2012) 1, pp. 8-31

communities. Findings – The paper describes some characteristics that local projects, similar to Redalyc, must have in order to …

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Living and lurking on LiveJournal

Kate Merry, Sarah; Simon, Anoush - In: Aslib Proceedings 64 (2012) 3, pp. 241-261

members of two different LiveJournal communities. Findings – The data indicate that both active participants and lurkers … communities, including individuals' reasons for joining and participating in communities. Originality/value – The research builds …

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Ranganathan and the Net: using facet analysis to search and organise the World Wide Web

Ellis, David; Vasconcelos, Ana - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 1, pp. 3-10

This paper documents the continuing relevance of facet analysis as a technique for searching and organising World Wide Web based materials. The two approaches underlying WWW searching and indexing – word and concept based indexing – are outlined. It is argued that facet analysis as an a...

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Information retrieval and the perpetual innovation economy

Karamuftuoglu, Murat - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 4, pp. 99-108

The main objective of this article is to show the increasing relevance of the knowledge production capability of information storage and retrieval systems in the context of ‘perpetual innovation’, otherwise known as the ‘information’ economy. The knowledge production potential of...

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Internet, intranet, extranet: managing the information bazaar

Watson, Ian - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 4, pp. 109-114

The web has brought to the business world an inexpensive way of distributing corporate information to employees, business partners and customers. The term intranet describes a closed computer network built upon World Wide Web technology in which access is restricted to a particular group of...

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A national survey of the citizenship information needs of the general public

Marcella, Rita; Baxter, Graeme - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 4, pp. 115-121

This paper reports the results of a survey of information needs and information seeking behaviour of a national sample of the UK population. The survey was the first stage of the Citizenship Information project, funded by the British Library Research and Innovation Centre. In total, 1294...

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