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Franchising courses, library resources: the view from both sides
Get PDFThe provision of higher education through franchised courses has increased rapidly in recent years. Such courses are usually based at relatively small colleges which have libraries designed to support further, rather than higher, education. At a time when university libraries are having difficulties
supporting their own students, it is not surprising to find that the franchise situation, where students have to rely on much smaller libraries stocked for lower level courses, is a cause for
concern. The impact of franchised courses on library and information services from both the franchiser and franchisee perspective is currently being examined by the British Library Research and Development Department funded project: Library Support for Franchised Courses in Higher
Education. The following discussion presents some of the findings of two national surveys - one of libraries in FE institutions and one of libraries in HE institutions - examining the theory and practice of the provision of library support for franchised courses in higher education
"Better libraries, better health, better healthcare" - the development of a strategic framework for London Health Libraries
Get PDFThe London Health Libraries network was established in April 2003, following the last re-organisation of the NHS in the capital, which saw the creation of five Workforce Development Confederations (WDCs) and Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) and the end of the London Region. Building on the work and achievements of the London Library and Information Development Unit (LLIDU), the network includes libraries who are providing services to health and social care staff and students, whether they be managed by the NHS, a higher education institution or an independent or voluntary organisation. In total, this brings together some 125 library services, of which over 85 in the NHS and higher education sectors are receiving NHS funding
RefWorks investigated: an appropriate bibliographic management solution for health students at King\u27s College London?
Get PDFA small scale pilot project was set up to investigate
whether the introduction of web-based bibliographic
software at King\u27s College London would prove useful
to undergraduate and taught postgraduate students,
and to establish the support and training requirements.
Customisation of the interface and extensive local
preparation aimed to make the service as easy to use
as possible, and to test whether it could be used
successfully with the minimum of extra trainlng. The
service was primarily introduced to a cohort of
biomedical students. A questionnaire directed at all
registered users revealed a high degree of satisfaction
with the service. Some would have liked specific
training, but many were happy to receive support in a
variety of different ways
An evaluation of relevancy ranking techniques used by internet search engines
Get PDFA relevancy ranking algorithm aims to sort retrieved
information resources so that those most likely to be
relevant are shown flrst. Experimentation reveals that
ranking techniques employed by lnternet search engines
do not facilitate effective retrieval. The methodology
adopted allows for a comparative evaluation of rival
search engines. Additionally, different search techniques
utilised by experiment participants were analysed.
Results show that if more than four search terms are
used,the accuracy of a relevancy ranking will increase
Book Reviews
No full textBazillion, Richard J. and Braun, Connie. Academic libraries as high-tech gateways: a guide to design and space decisions
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Day, Abby. How to get research published in journals
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Willkommen in Munchen: a HyperCard database for use in teaching German.
Get PDFWillkommen in Munchen or "Welcome to Munich" is a HyperCard database, entirely in German, designed to be a resource for teaching German to GCSE level. It contains information, facts and photographs of the city of Munich. The information is all authentic, collected on a visit to Munich
in June 19933. The information included in the database is intended to be relevant to topics currently covered in the National Curriculum and is aimed at a teenage audience. It was created as part of a Masters dissertation at Loughborough University. For this dissertation, HyperCard was assessed as a tool for creating a resource for teaching German. It was argued that it might be more appropriate to create a package that would act as a teaching aid to support the teacher rather than a self-access package that attempted to replace the teacher, although the latter is much more common in existing Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) packages