New Library World: Volume 103 Issue 4/5
Table of contents
Promoting reading through partnerships: a ten‐year literature overview
Stella Thebridge, Briony TrainA recent research project examined partnerships between booksellers, publishers, library suppliers and librarians that were being used to promote books and reading. The full…
Providing digital opportunities through public libraries: the Canadian example
Carol A. EricksonThis article describes the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s work in providing grants to public libraries in low‐income communities above the 60th parallel in Canada. Through its…
Winds of change: research libraries
Tove Bang, Karen HarboThe article takes its starting point in new trends and paradigm shifts in scholarly research methods and discusses how research libraries must act in relation to this. Various…
Academic library assessment: new duties and dilemmas
Denise Troll CoveyTwo studies sponsored by the Digital Library Federation (DLF) aimed to discover the assessment practices, priorities, and concerns of academic libraries, and to propose next steps…
Stratum continuum of information: scholarly communication and the role of university libraries
Leo WaaijersAs a consequence of digitization, universities have to investigate their scholarly communication process. In fact, this is a quest for values that goes beyond the issues of the…