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Creating the Charles Booth Online Archive: from nineteenth century London poverty to twenty‐first century digital riches
Caroline ShawThe Charles Booth Online Archive from the library of the London School of Economics gives free access to materials from Booth’s survey into life and labour in London 1886‐1903…
Managing adaptation of buildings to library use: a case study of community libraries in Kenya
Richard M. AtutiAdapted library buildings hinder rather than aid the optimum organisation and use of the library and information services, a situation which often puts librarians in difficulties…
Deterrents to information service for community development
A.N. UhegbuDiscusses the impediments to rural information services for community development in Nigeria. Highlights the nature and characteristics of a community as well as community…
Assessment of library services as a support system in the Institutes of Health Sciences (IHS) in Botswana
B.T. Fidzani, O.S. OladokunA study was undertaken to assess the state of libraries in Institutes of Health Sciences in Botswana. The objectives of the study were to assess the state of the collections and…
Practitioners as educators: formal quality assessment of the Bristol MSc in Information and Library Management
Mike HeeryThis article updates a more substantial article published in Library Review in 1999. The earlier article describes an LIS school based in the University of Bristol. The school…
Sir Anthony Panizzi
Eric GlasgowDescribes the early career of Anthony Panizzi in Great Britain, and considers his relationship with W.E. Gladstone. Panizzi’s move to the British Museum Library and his…