Provides a systematic method of identifying, evaluating and comparing information needs, and examines the role of the Internet in meeting these needs.

This volume provides a practical guide to all aspects of collections care including conservation practice, the monitoring of control of light, relative humidity and atmospheric pollution, biological infestation and disaster planning.

An invaluable and practical introduction bringing together leading recent papers emphasising some of the major issues affecting collections management.

Explores what we know about how we want, see, browse, read, use and remember online information. Readers take a non-technical and entertaining journey into previously obscure depths of cognitive psychology and information science.

A practical guide to the basic structure of STM information, describing in simple terms, with examples, how to locate what you need.

Effectively the eighth edition of Aslibs flagship Handbook of Special Librarianship and Information Work, the definitive reference source on information theory, practice, and procedure since 1957.

Bringing the reader the very best of modern scholarship from the heritage community, this comprehensive reader explores the many diverse issues that have been identified and foregrounded in the field of heritage, museums and galleries over the past...

The first integrated approach to the assessment, conservation, interpretation, financing and management for the complext heritage of industrial cultures. A practical book drawing examples from real issues in Europe and North America.

The Proceedings of an international forum on the impact and effectiveness of the Internet, held in the UK in July 1999, organised by City University, and sponsored by Aslib, The British Library and News International.

With real-world case studies culled from over three dozen prominent librarian-instructors from across the US and Canada, the essays collected here provide librarians with detailed methods for and accounts of approaches to implementing experiential...