New Library World: Volume 93 Issue 3
Table of contents
News from Nowhere: Thinking about the New Information Order
Nigel NormanInformation has become a strategic resource, a factor of production along with land, labour and capital. In some ways it rivals the money form as vector of value and means to…
UKMARC: A format for the twenty‐first century?
Ross BourneMARC formats have been in use since the 1960s. UKMARC was developedoriginally by the British National Bibliography and although it nowmanifests itself in a variety of outputs …
The choice of librarianship as a career
M.A. BelloExplores the factors which motivate graduates in Nigeria to enterlibrarianship via the Master of Library Studies qualification.Questionnaire respondents cited the desire to be…
The World's Top 20 Newspapers — The View from Down Under
Toby BurrowsHow do you know if a newspaper is good? What are the best newspapers in the world? Most of us have opinions on these questions, but few would claim that our views are more than…
A new process of library service and building design planning at case western reserve university library
Arlene Moore SieversExamines the challenge of defining future library servicerequirements. Describes the processes and models being used by anAmerican university to analyse user group needs prior to…
News
Wilfred AshworthDOCUMENTATION STANDARDS The British Standards Institution announces the publication of two standards on Information and Documentation which are implementations of International…