Aslib Proceedings: Volume 53 Issue 2

Comment Change and the changing face of a regional newspaper library 1990‐2000

Peter Chapman

This paper arises from the work that the author has done during the past year in preparing for a series of lectures on the analysis of the factors that have influenced the…

Location, Location, Location

Julie Rowbotham

This article explores the belief held by one publishing company, UpMyStreet, that location‐based searching technology not only allows users to more easily access information about…

Gatekeepers and other intermediaries

Paul Sturges

Ever since Information technology was introduced into the work of some special libraries in the 1960s, there have been predictions that the end‐user searching of online databases…

Trends in using CD‐ROM is academic libraries of three South Asian countries ‐ Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Shaheen Majid

High hopes were attached to CD‐ROM technology at its inception in bridging the gap between ‘information rich’ and ‘information poor’ countries. However, this is technology is…