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librarian will take care of reference services, SDI, DB instruction and book selection on the same subject.  …
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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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analysed and are discussed in the paper. Findings – Library customers were bypassing the library services and seeking …
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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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communities. Findings – The paper describes some characteristics that local projects, similar to Redalyc, must have in order to …
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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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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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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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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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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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