SCONUL Focus - Number 43 Spring 2008

ISSN 1745-5790 (online)
ISSN 1745-5782 (print)

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1 Contents
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3 Web 2.0, Library Brand 3.0
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4 Don't believe the hype: blogging with your feet on the ground
Paul Williams
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7 Blogging in the UK and Ireland
Compiled by: Peter Williams
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16 LASSIE (Libraries and Social Sciences in Education): project overview and key findings
Jane Secker
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19 Reflections in Wonderland
Alison ('Wynne Merlin'), Mary ('Merry Mayo') Hudson
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22 Portals, A to Z, OPAC: how best to provide access to our resources
Monica Crump
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29 Delivering core text material electronically: a project management perspective
Elizabeth Murphy
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33 The Library Game - using creative games technology to develop the library, learning and information skills of our students - the story so far
Simon Ngozi Okolo, Elias Pimenidis, Professor Andrew McDonald
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37 IL at eye level: Cardiff's Handbook for information literacy teaching comes to your screen
Jessica Gaunt, Nigel Morgan (Chair of the HILT Group), Rowland Somers, Rosemary Soper, Erica Swain
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40 Going Greek: introducing the Cephalonian method at WIT libraries
Nora Hegarty
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43 Guides at the side: developing Informs through community collaboration
Lisa Charnock
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45 Celebrating 15 years of library collaboration
Genein Cox-De Sousa
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47 Widening participation: how do we measure up?
Tracey Stanley
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51 Reflections on a benchmarking survey of research support provided by 1994 Group libraries
Helen Young, Peter Lund
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56 Grazing the long acre - distance students in Equine Science using the Glucksman Library of the University of Limerick
Liz O'Sullivan
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60 Front-line service delivery: responding to changing user needs and patterns of library usage at NUI Maynooth
Mary Antonesa, Elizabeth Murphy
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64 From 'How satisfied are you?' to 'Tell us what matters': user evaluation at the Wellcome Library
Judy Henwood, Frances Norton
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66 'It's just like studying in your front room': designing a twenty-first century library in a classic building
Katherine Everest, Debbie Morris
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69 Charter mark - to apply or not to apply?
Lydia Matheson, Amy Cawood, Alison Lobo
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72 A week in the life of the director of the Library and Information Statistics Unit (LISU)
Claire Creaser
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74 News from SCONUL
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76 Report from the SCONUL Executive Board
Anne Bell
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78 RLUK/SCONUL digest of scholarly communication news
Frederick J. Friend
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83 The SCONUL Working Group on Quality Assurance - what is it doing for you?
Scott Robertson
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85 Conference report
Alison Mackenzie, Ellen Breen
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87 Research methods in information
Reviewed by Maria J Grant
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88 Tara Brabazon, The University of Google: education in the (post) information age (book review)
Peter Williams
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90 New publications
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90 News from member libraries
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98 Advice for authors
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