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Academic library research

1. 2004 Library and Information Statistics Tables
2. Collections Wales
3. ELIB: Electronic Libraries Programme
4. E-LIS: E-prints in Library and Information Science
5. Joint Funding Councils' Libraries Review Group (Follett Report)
6. Publishing of Electronic Scholarly Monographs and Text Books
7. Redesigning Library Services: A Manifesto

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2004 Library and Information Statistics Tables

Annual collection of statistics aiming to present a broad overall perspective of the library and information scene in the UK. Includes coverage of public, national, academic and special libraries.
     Author: British Library Board
     Subjects: academic library research, library and information science news, national libraries, public libraries, special libraries
     DeweyClass: 020
     Resource type: reference data

Collections Wales

RSLP-funded research project aiming to improve resource discovery and sharing, and facilitate access to research materials in and about Wales. Project outcomes will include a bilingual online inventory of research collections in Wales, a gateway providing researchers with access to other relevant physical and digital collections, Web materials and OPACs held elsewhere in the UK and overseas, and a working model of the RSLP/UKOLN Collection Level Schema. Available in Welsh and English.
     Author: Collections Wales
     Subjects: academic library research, library resource sharing, wales
     DeweyClass: 025.0
     Resource type: documents

ELIB: Electronic Libraries Programme

Major research programme, 1998 to 2001, which emerged from the Follett Report. The programme has resulted in around 60 projects in a number of areas: Access to Network Resources, Digitisation, Electronic Document Delivery, Electronic Journals, Electronic Short Loan, Images, On Demand Publishing, Preprints, Quality Assurance, Supporting Studies, Training and Awareness.
     Author: UKOLN
     Subjects: academic library research, digital library programmes, digitisation, document delivery, electronic journal production
     DeweyClass: 025.0
     Resource type: documents, index

Joint Funding Councils' Libraries Review Group (Follett Report)

Influential analysis of UK university library provision in 1993.
     Author: Joint Funding Councils
     Subjects: academic library research, digital library philosophy
     DeweyClass: 020
     Resource type: document

Publishing of Electronic Scholarly Monographs and Text Books

Report of an eLib supporting study, published April 1998, to investigate the incidence and nature of the publishing of electronic scholarly monographs and textbooks in the UK. It suggests that UK electronic monograph publishing is embryonic, and that extensive bibliographical problems remain, especially for Web monographs, with little evidence of collection management activity associated with electronic monographs in university libraries.
     Author: Lonsdale, Ray and Armstrong, C. J.
     Subjects: academic library research, book studies, electronic publishing
     DeweyClass: 070.5
     Resource type: document

Redesigning Library Services: A Manifesto

Searchable full text of a 1992 book about changing library services, and the uses of technology in the redesigning process. Chapter titles include The Paper Library, the Automated Library, and The Electronic Library.
     Author: Buckland, Michael
     Subjects: academic library research, library management, library services
     DeweyClass: 025.0
     Resource type: non-fiction ebook