Journal of Documentation: Volume 61 Issue 3

The Joint Committee on Books for Devastated Libraries

This article aims to look into the joint efforts of libraries in the USA and Canada to replace the books that were destroyed or damaged during the war.

The post‐war problems of continental libraries

Aims to look at the post‐war problems of continental libraries.

The library rehabilitation programme of the American Library Association

At the very outbreak of the war official permission was sought to import books and periodicals from war areas. This article seeks to look at the problems that arose for libraries…

A state secret – dissertations in the German Democratic Republic

Since the early 1970s the Communist regime in the German Democratic Republic classified thousands of doctoral dissertations as confidential, thus blocking the dissemination of…

Libraries in continental Europe: the 40s and the 90s

Part of the “JDoc at 60” series, this paper aims to discuss, evaluate and compare writings on the state of libraries in Continental Europe in the 1940s and the 1990s.

“Conversational” information systems: Extending educational informatics support for the web‐based learner

The purpose of this paper is to review recent developments in educational informatics relating to the provision by information systems of pedagogical support to web‐based…

Journal interaction: A bibliometric analysis of economics journals

Citation analysis is widely used as an evaluation method within sciences. The purpose of this paper is to use citation analyses to add insight into the interaction between…

A new history of ASLIB, 1924‐1950

ASLIB – the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux – was founded in 1924 with the aim of co‐ordinating the activities of specialist information services in the…

The public library as a meeting‐place in a multicultural and digital context: The necessity of low‐intensive meeting‐places

The purpose of the paper is to develop an improved conceptual framework for researching and discussing the public library's role as a meeting‐place in a multicultural and digital…

Evolution and Structure of the Internet: A Statistical Physics Approach

Data Mining and Decision Support: Integration and Collaboration

Managing Preservation for Libraries and Archives: Current Practice and Future Developments

Copyright: Interpreting the Law for Libraries, Archives and Information Services (4th edition)

Libraries without Walls 5: The Distributed Delivery of Library and Information Services

Net Effects: How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet

Improved Access to Information: Portals, Content Selection, and Digital Information

The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer

Documenting disaster