New Library World: Volume 101 Issue 1

Equilibrium and opportunism: information strategies and the new environment

James Michalko

The substance of this article was prepared for and delivered as the keynote address at the Joint Information Systems Committee’s Electronic Libraries Conference, “Information…

COBISS: National Union Catalogue, online bibliography and gateway to other resources

Marta Seljak, Tomazo Seljak

In 1987, a shared cataloguing system as the common basis for the library information system of the former Yugoslavia was designed. Before Yugoslavia’s disintegration in 1991, the…

Personalised information retrieval in specialised virtual libraries

Lobna Jéribi, Béatrice Rumpler, Jean Marie Pinon

The New Information Technology in Engineering Science Field (NIT‐ESF) project focuses on the virtual library’s contribution to the education and research field. Different teams…

The impact of electronic journals and aggregate databases on interlibrary loan: a case study at Ball State University Libraries

Hildegund M. Calvert

Reports the results of a series of studies conducted at Ball State University Libraries to examine the impact electronic journals and aggregate databases have on interlibrary loan…