Pub Date : 2005-03-01DOI: 10.1177/0340035205052639
L. Brindley
Provides an overview of the British Library’s approach to e-learning, and describes how the Library’s online learning resources are being used by different groups of learners. It also touches on some of the challenges of delivering a widely accessible learning programme, and raises questions which the new possibilities offered by e-learning pose for national libraries.
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Pub Date : 2005-03-01DOI: 10.1177/0340035205052640
A. Curry
Examines the history and current cases of research fraud and deception, including the reasons for researcher transgression — reputation and career advancement, the chances of being caught, and the ineffective gatekeeper roles served by publishers and reviewers. It appears that librarians and LIS researchers are unlikely to conduct or publish unreliable research, but problems can arise when librarians distribute unreliable research in their collections. The wisdom of withdrawing all unreliable research from the collection is questioned, however, as some of this research may contain grains of truth that could result in future, reliable research.
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Pub Date : 2005-03-01DOI: 10.1177/0340035205052641
M. Brundin
Describes the activities of a new office created by the Parliament of Sweden (the Riksdag) with the objective of contributing actively to increasing the public’s — and especially young people’s — knowledge of and interest in the Riksdag and its work. The Riksdag Library contributes to satisfy the need among the public for accurate and easily accessible information about the work and decisions of the Riksdag with its open-door policy, regional activities and training of librarians from all over Sweden.
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Pub Date : 2005-03-01DOI: 10.1177/0340035205052651
Alastair G. Smith
Examines the use of citation counts and web links to evaluate online LIS journals. The Journal Impact Factor, a traditional metric for comparing journals, is based on the citation counts of a journal over a specified period of time, compared with the citable articles published in the journal. The Web Impact Factor (WIF) has been proposed as an equivalent metric for websites. The WIF is broadly defined as the ratio of links made to a site, compared to the number of information units (e.g. pages) at the site. The study compares the WIFs of a sample of online LIS journal websites with their conventional citation counts. Links to online journals are often considered to be equivalent to citations, but there are significant differences. Provides indications of how effective the online medium is for communicating LIS research and offers guidance for LIS authors and journal editors to help them make effective use of online journals.
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Pub Date : 2005-03-01DOI: 10.1177/0340035205052650
J. Weber
Manuscripts and their creators are subject to the conditions of history. The history of the Alexander von Humboldt Collection in Berlin is a history of the migration of manuscripts, the separation of parts of the collection, and their reunification. This leads to some more general observations. What if the original location of a manuscript is not a safe one? How can we guarantee safe preservation of the manuscript in another location? There are good reasons to build an alliance of institutions willing to cooperate with respect to these questions. Since we cannot turn back the wheels of history, we must act together now and in the future.
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Pub Date : 2005-03-01DOI: 10.1177/0340035205052652
M. Knoche
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Pub Date : 2005-03-01DOI: 10.1177/0340035205052648
George R. Ryskamp
Immigration records are wonderful, but often fail to give a complete picture of the emigrants and the experiences and processes they went through. European emigration records provide extensive information about individual emigrants, often including the place of origin. No survey of all such records exists and there is not even a complete list of records types and locations for any single European country. In describing the work of the Immigrant Ancestors Project at Brigham Young University this paper identifies the various record types that were generated by emigrants in the process of emigration, giving examples from several countries where each type of record may be found.
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Pub Date : 2005-03-01DOI: 10.1177/0340035205052637
S. Parker
Almost 4,000 participants from 121 countries attended the World Library and Information Congress, the 70th IFLA General Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in August 2004. From among the nearly 200 papers and presentations at the Congress, Division and Section Committees recommended 50 for consideration by the IFLA Journal Editorial Committee for possible publication in the journal. After carefully reviewing all 50 papers, the Editorial Committee selected 19 for publication during 2005. This issue contains the first of these papers; others will be published in forthcoming issues.
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