A survey was conducted at Beijing Normal University to explore subjects' motives for image seeking; the image types they need; how and where they seek images; and the difficulties they encounter. The survey also explored subjects' attitudes towards current image services and their perceptions of how university libraries might provide assistance. Based on the findings, this article summarizes th...

COMPETITIVE providers; widely PRESSURES FROM DIFFERENT INFORMATION available information resources; rising costs of books, serials, and electronic resources; and emerging new technologies and services providing information to potential library users raise questions about the role of academic libraries in present times. There has been some deliberation about the necessity to better understand an...

On September 3, 2003, the Medical Library Association adopted a policy statement on the role of expert searching in health sciences libraries. The policy highlighted the need for more thorough literature searching following the unfortunate death of a healthy research volunteer in a clinical trial that might have been prevented by a more complete literature review [1–3]. In light of this policy,...

For many years, Academic Library’s Application at Indonesian Higher Education Institutions operates in a “stand-alone” mode. This causes a great loss of opportunity to share libraries resources that tend to be limited in each library. University of Indonesia’s libraries are the miniature of such a kind. University of Indonesia has more than one library that distributed in several faculties and ...

Exhibitions draw people to libraries. They encourage visitors engage with objects and media in a public space provide opportunities for discovery within the library’s collection. Not every library has resources create original exhibitions, however. Traveling which arrive ready set up existing space, can alleviate some of labor involved creating exhibitions while providing same benefits library....

introduction: rapid development of information technology, extent of information, media variety of information and the growing information needs, made librarians to keep pace with these developments in order to respond quickly, accurately and with the quality to needs of users. planning education for librarians depends on the accurate needs assessment studies and the purpose of this study was n...