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Staff appraisal in university libraries
Get PDFStaff appraisal was an American invention that emerged at the time of the Second World War. It only came to general notice two years later with the publication of the twenty-third report of \u27Committee A\u27 of the University Authorities\u27 Panel (UAP) and the Association of University Teachers (AUT). Only one major study of the functioning of the universities\u27 appraisal system has been published (3), and very little has been written on the experience of libraries(4). The purpose of this study was to shed light on the impact of appraisal on the \u27old\u27university libraries and their staffs,s and to try to assess its benefits and disbenefits
Changes in the employment market for information professionals?
Get PDFExpanding upon the brief introduction given in LIRN 57, this article focuses upon some problems arising from the relationship between the education and training sector for information professionals and the employment market in the Netherlands. As a result of the 1990 state-of-the-art study Functional analysis of the curricula in the information
services sector new initiatives were taken by schools and training institutions, national organizations began innovative projects, and other studies were carried out. In 1992 a survey New markets for the information professional? was carried out; a brief outline is given. This study explored the way educators and professional bodies in the libraries and information services sector respond to the developments in the employment sector, and specifically in the emerging new market.
The ensuing thorough assessment of curricula is described, as are reactions to the assessments from professional associations and practitioners
Book Reviews
No full textJoint Funding Councils\u27 Libraries Review Group:
Report [The Follett Report].
Gibb. Forbes (Editor). Journal of Document and Text Managemen
Review of the Under One Umbrella Conference (Discover Connect Achieve) Manchester 2-3 July 2013
Get PDFThis article provides personal reflections on CILIP’s Under One Umbrella Conference. The conference themes and keynote presentation are described and highlights are summarised. The article also describes the unconference elements (Unbrella), the Libraries Change Lives Award and the closing speech by CILIP President Phil Bradley
Little Acorns: small scale research in the practice setting- how employers can foster research awareness.
Get PDFResearch is of importance to libraries and the people
who work in them. The Bursary Scheme that operated within the Faculty of Educational Services of Anglia Polytechnic
University sought to encourage Faculty staff to engage
in small scale research projects. Two examples of such
projects are described
Book Reviews
Get PDFLibrarianship and information work worldwide 1998
Maurice Line, Graham Mackenzie, Paul,Sfarges (eds.)
Handbook of special librarianship and information work
Alison Scammell (ed.)
Survey of library services to schools and children in the UK
Claire Creaser and Alison Murphy
Modelling use at individual service points Claire Creaser
Library and information studies: research and professional i
practice (Proceedings of 2nd British-Nordic Conference 1997)
Micheline Beaulieu, Elisabah Davenport, Nils Ole Pors
Thesaurus construction and use: a practical manual
Jean Aitchison, Alan Gilchrist, David Bawden
Going online, CD-ROM and the Internet Phil Bradley
The Internet for library and information serrice professionals
Andy Dawso
