New Library World: Volume 107 Issue 5/6
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The basis for evidence‐based practice: evaluating the research evidence
Laurel Anne ClydeThis article is based on a paper presented at the 2005 IFLA World Library and Information Congress. It brings together the findings to date of the author's research project on…
Assessing library performance with GIS and building evaluation methods
Wolfgang F.E. Preiser, Xinhao WangThe purpose of this article is to report on the methodological approach taken in a project which was to create a Facilities Master Plan for the Public Library of Cincinnati and…
Employability skills: are UK LIM departments meeting employment needs?: The results of a survey of employment agencies identifies gaps in UK LIM curricula in the UK
Derek Stephens, Yvonne HamblinThis research paper describes the results of a survey of specialist UK library and information sector (LIS) employment agencies concerning employability of library and information…
SwissInfoDesk: the Virtual Reference Desk Project of the Swiss National Library
Jean‐Philippe AccartLibraries and librarians must adapt their services and products to the evolutions of the information society, and more precisely to users' needs. Virtual reference desks are new…
Meeting the challenges of expansion and renovation in an academic medical library: A case study of the Li Ping Medical Library of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Louisa M.C. LamTo analyze the challenges encountered in the expansion and renovation of an academic medical library sited in an old teaching hospital administered by a government body, and the…
Library student shelvers at Waterford Institute of Technology
Helen Hayden, Clare BlountThis paper traces the context of, and outlines the reasoning for, the use of student shelvers in an Irish higher education academic library (Waterford Institute of Technology).