New Library World: Volume 111 Issue 5/6

From information to learning commons: campus planning highlights

Mary M. Somerville, Navjit Brar

This paper seeks to highlight elements of and assumptions for an inclusive planning process which guided the transformation of an information commons into a learning commons over…

European information users: Topics from a comparative analysis within the European Union

Ana Lúcia Terra

The aim of this paper is to present some results from research undertaken into the information behaviour of European Documentation Centre (EDC) users. It will reflect on the…

Protect your library's computers

Martin Zimerman

The purpose of this paper is to describe how malware can harm the library's computers, and how technology can be used to protect them, in a way that can be understood by the…

Readers' advisory interactions with immigrant readers

Keren Dali

The purpose of this paper is to address a somewhat under‐researched aspect of readers' advisory services in public libraries in North America, namely, readers' advisory for…

Trashy tags: problematic tags in LibraryThing

Marliese Thomas, Dana M. Caudle, Cecilia Schmitz

The purpose of this paper is to provide a quantitative analysis of the “messiness” of the social tags in folksonomies to see how useful they might be for general search and…

Local studies collections, librarians and the Norwegian local history wiki

Tor Sveum

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relevance of local studies collections and contributions from local studies librarians to a Norwegian local history wiki.

Continuing professional education: ensuring librarian engagement

Bruce E. Massis

The purpose of this column is to discuss the importance of continuing professional education for working librarians whose skills and knowledge need to be kept up to date in order…

ALA Midwinter: a first‐timer's viewpoint

Darcel B. Jones

The purpose of this paper is to provide a flavour of the content of the American Library Association Midwinter Conference held in Boston in January 2010.

The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher (3rd edition)

Sarah McNicol

A Mosaic of Library and Archive Practice in Malta: A Collection of Papers by MaLIA Members and Friends on Its 40th Anniversary, 1969‐2009

Mike Freeman

Editorial

Linda Ashcroft