New Library World: Volume 103 Issue 1/2
Table of contents
Redeveloping the library at LSE
Maureen WadeThe Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science is the largest library in the world devoted to the social sciences, with some four million items. In a major…
Carmel Mountain Ranch Community Library
Mark W. SteeleThe Carmel Mountain Ranch Library was completed in San Diego, California, to high expectations and enthusiastic response from the design and library community. The building…
The library as congenial space: the Saint Mary’s experience
Madeleine LefebvreThe author, appointed University Librarian in 1999, saw that the library was not fulfilling its potential from the perspectives of congenial environment and student awareness. She…
Nasties in the Net: children and censorship on the Web
Emily Allbon, Peter WilliamsFocuses specifically on children’s experiences of the Internet, including the extent of their exposure to sexual, racial or other unpleasant material, how teachers view this…
What’s the use? The value of e‐resource usage statistics
Thomas A. PetersE‐resource usage statistics contain a wealth of information, but mining that information from the massive amounts of data can be time consuming, expensive, and dangerous. Focuses…
The public library director in the dot (.) world
Susan KentDescribes how recent technological developments have changed the way that information is stored, managed and accessed. The impact of the Internet has created a need for public…