This paper reports on research into issues surrounding the collection management of e-books in tertiary education libraries in the UK. Focus groups were conducted with university librarians representing three disciplines—business ...

Purpose Collaboration on procurement of e-content between health libraries in the National Health Service (NHS) and in higher education (HE) should have advantages in increasing their negotiating power to improve licence ...

This paper examines formal and informal information systems in homecare settings. Qualitative methods, including participant observation, were used, with 54 participants, and studying different types of social services ...

This article discusses two related techniques, critical incident technique and explicitation, used in a variety of social science research settings, and critically reviews their application to studies of information behavior. ...

Government policies, including the establishment of Foundation Trusts, require NHS organisations to review service delivery and its value. This research took place in an acute NHS hospital as it worked for Foundation Trust ...

The aim of the project was to develop a toolkit for professionally led library services to assess the impact of the various services provided, including provision of electronic information, on outcomes that related to ...

The research aimed to determine whether a tool or technique could be developed to assist librarians and other information professionals in the selection and evaluation of information sources available via the Internet. A ...