This is the fourth in a series resulting from a joint research project directed by Professor Tom Wilson in the United Kingdom and Dr. Amanda Spink in the United States. The analysis reported here sought to test a number ...

Our project has investigated the processes of mediated information retrieval (IR) searching during human information-seeking processes to characterize aspects of this process, including information seekers' changing ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to present the results of a survey of international students of the Institute of Technology, Carlow which was carried out during 2009-2010. There has been substantial growth in the ...

Describes key aspects of the methodology and outcomes of the JISC User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework in its first three annual cycles (1999-2002). The Framework was initiated to assure the JISC that their ...

Executive summary Aims and objectives of JUSTEIS Cycle Four There were five main elements to JUSTEIS work in 2002/2003: • monitoring user behaviour – identifying trends in the way staff and students are using electronic ...

This paper explores issues in relation to the contribution and importance of mandatory continuing professional development (CPD) in re-energizing and motivating the information profession. Set within the context of developing ...

This paper discusses the lessons learned from the interim evaluation of a training skills programme for a Mental Health Trust. The main lessons learned were that design of a library skills training programme should be ...

This chapter, in a work of 31 chapters, provides a review of developments in the marketplace for library management systems in the period 1991-2000. Brief descriptions are given of some of the library management systems ...

This 30-slide PowerPoint presentation given in the Technology strand of Umbrella 2007 provides a brief look at the past library management systems (LMS) as well as an overview of recent developments in LMS functionality ...