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"Freshest advices"?: the currency of London news in Dublin City newspapers, 1790 - 1801
Get PDFThis paper summarises a MLIS dissertation which studied the currency of news, sourced from London newspapers and re-printed in Dublin City newspapers, during the final decade of the eighteenth century. London was a vital communications network hub for the dissemination of information, consisting of British and Foreign Intelligence, to Irish port cities such as Dublin. Using the resources of recently digitised London and Dublin newspaper series, it was possible to build a model which accurately represents the transmission time for London \u27News\u27 into Dublin editorial offices. The model provides a frequency distribution from which the minimum, maximum and average transmission times are established. It is argued that the same method can reliably be applied to determine the transmission time for news from the main European cities to London and Dublin
HERRING, James E. Improving students\u27 web use and information literacy: A guide for teachers and teacher librarians. London: Facet Publishing. 2011.
Get PDFSPAULDING, Amy E. The art of storytelling: telling truths through telling stories. Lanham, MY: Scarecrow Press. 2011.
Get PDFROBINSON, Lyn. Understanding healthcare information. London: Facet Publishing. 2010. ISBN 978-1-85604-662-6.
Get PDFInformation Needs, Preferences, and Behaviors of Home Cooks
Get PDFPurpose - This research aims to contribute to the analysis of the information needs, preferences, and behaviors of home cooks and how libraries can serve this user group.
Methodology - This study uses a literature review for background and includes new research using online surveys. The research used 31 anonymous home cooks in the USA who describe their information needs, preferences, and behaviors when in the process of gourmet cooking.
Findings - Home cooks seek recipes that meet specific needs such as quick, budget-friendly, child-friendly, special occasions, personal preference, portable, and ethnic foods. To find information, home cooks use the All Recipes, Food Network, Epicurious, or Google websites; Cooking Light, Southern Living, or Real Simple magazine subscriptions; and Barefoot Contessa, 30 Minute Meals with Rachael Ray, or other Food Network channel television shows.
Practical Implication - This study can serve as a guide to libraries in order to improve their services for home cook users
Searching where for what: A comparison of use of the library catalogue, Google and Wikipedia
Get PDFThere is a widespread concern amongst librarians that Google Search and Wikipedia are making library reference services and even library collections redundant. There is however, little research on the types of subjects that people look up on Google, Wikipedia and library catalogues. This exploratory analysis draws together the results of transaction log analyses of the subjects of Google and library catalogue search queries and the subject of search engine queries that took users to Wikipedia. As well as comparing the subject of search queries, it estimates the extent of use of each information resource. Hence this paper contributes to research on current information-seeking and the role of public libraries in online information provision
Like an open book? Accessibility of e-book content for academic study in a diverse student population
Get PDFThis paper reviews previous research on e-books and the information seeking behaviour of scholars. It presents the initial findings from an in-depth study of the behaviour and experiences of seven students (including students with dyslexia and visual impairment) using e-books for their academic coursework assignments and highlights the information accessibility issues they encountered. It discusses the need to develop a new model of e-book content delivery and proposes a framework for the evaluation of academic e-books from a commercial or \u27business\u27 perspective
