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Censorship or recklessness? Obligations and legality regarding controversial materials in libraries
David McMenemyThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the nature of the debate in terms of a recent consultation in England on guidance for public libraries in selection of controversial…
Practical digital asset management and the university library
Nicholas JointThe purpose of this paper is to examine the assertion that, because library‐managed institutional repositories (IRs) have successfully created specific collections of…
Cataloguing training at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine
Portia Bowen‐Chang, Yacoob HoseinThis paper aims to examine the effectiveness of a series of in‐house training offered to cataloguers and para‐professional cataloguing staff at the University of the West Indies…
Search images, information seeking and information literacy
Andrew K. ShentonThe purpose of this paper is to explore the applicability to information behaviour contexts of the notion of a “search image”, a mental entity highlighted in a significant…
The world of outreach: One art librarian's perspective
Amanda K. GluibizziThe purpose of this paper is to report on the outreach activities of the Fine Arts Library at Ohio State University.
Exploiting the social style of patrons to improve their satisfaction with the reference interview
Peggy SisselmanThe purpose of this paper is to discover whether the social styles of patrons affects their perception (and librarians’ perception) of the quality of the reference interview…