Information Research, Volume 9

Volume 9, Number 1, October 2003

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  T. D. Wilson:
  Editorial.
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  Brenda Dervin:
  Human studies and user studies: a call for methodological interdisciplinarity (Invited paper).
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  Gary Burnett, Michael H. Dickey, Michelle M. Kazmer, Katherine M. Chudoba:
  Inscription and interpretation of text: a cultural hermeneutic examination of virtual community.
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  Kalervo Järvelin, T. D. Wilson:
  On conceptual models for information seeking and retrieval research.
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  Barbara Niedzwiedzka:
  A proposed general model of information behaviour.
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  Jannica Heinström:
  Five personality dimensions and their influence on information behaviour.
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  Terrence A. Brooks:
  Watch this: corralling wild bits.
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  Resúmenes en Español.

Reviews

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  T. D. Wilson:
  Software Review: EndNote 7 and VizRef. Berkeley: CA: Thomson/ISI ResearchSoft, 2003.
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  T. D. Wilson:
  Review of: Dupuis, Elizabeth A. Developing Web-based instruction: planning, designing, managing, and evaluating for results. London: Facet Publishing , 2003. xvi, 279 pp. ISBN 1-85604-494-7.
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  T. D. Wilson:
  Review of: Huberman, B. O. The laws of the Web. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001 (2003). x, 105 p. ISBN 0-262-58225-2.
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  Elena Maceviciute:
  Review of: Kizza, Joseph M. Ethical and social issues in the information age. 2nd ed. New York: Springer Verlag, 2003. xxiii, 374 p. (Series: Texts in Computer Science). ISBN: 0-387-95421-X.
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  Elena Maceviciute:
  Review of: Lipow, Anne Grodzins. The virtual reference librarian's handlbook. Berkeley, CA/New York, NY: Library Solutions Press and Neil Schuman Publishers, 2003. xxiv, 199 p. + CD-ROM. ISBN: 1-55570-445-X.
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  Ona Norvaisaite:
  Review of: McKay, Duncan. Effective financial planning for library and information services. 2nd ed. London: Europa Publications, 2003. xi, 114 p. ISBN 0851424643.
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  Daniela Petrelli:
  Person vs. agent: views of the computer future. Review of: Hayes-Roth, F. & Amor, D. Radical simplicity. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003 and Shneiderman, B. Leonardo's laptop. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
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  Elena Maceviciute:
  Review of: Woolgar, Steve (ed.) Virtual society? Technology, cyberbole, reality. Oxford University Press, 2002. xviii, 349 p. ISBN 0-19-924876-1.

Conference announcements

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  Workshop on Terminology, Ontology & Knowledge Representation.
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  Thinking beyond digital libraries - designing the information strategy for the next decade.
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  ISIC (Information Seeking in Context) 2004.

Volume 9, Number 2, January 2004

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  T. D. Wilson:
  Editorial.

Selected papers from the Conference, 'Toward a user-centred approach to digital libraries', Espoo, Finland, September 8 - 9, 2003

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  Sinikka Koskiala, Reijo Savolainen:
  Issue Editorial.
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  Linda Banwell, Graham Coulson:
  Users and user study methodology: the JUBILEE project.
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  Terttu A. K. Kortelainen:
  An analysis of the use of electronic journals and commercial journal article collections through the FinELib portal.
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  Kirsti Nilsen:
  The Library Visit Study: user experiences at the virtual reference desk.
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  Eero Sormunen, Sami Pennanen:
  The challenge of automated tutoring in Web-based learning environments for information retrieval instruction.
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  John Colvin, Judith Keene:
  Supporting undergraduate learning through the collaborative promotion of e-journals by library and academic departments.
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  Bo-Christer Björk:
  Open access to scientific publications - an analysis of the barriers to change.
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  T. D. Wilson:
  A message to Conference organizers.

Other refereed papers

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  Wallace Koehler:
  A longitudinal study of Web pages continued: a consideration of document persistence.
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  Rita Marcella:
  Systems for the management of information in a university context: an investigation of user need.
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  Terrence A. Brooks:
  Watch this: forms move centre stage.
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  Resúmenes en Español.

Reviews

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  T. D. Wilson:
  Review of: Bishop, Ann Peterson, Van House, Nancy A. & Buttenfiled, Barbara P. Digital library use: social practice in design and evaluation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. ix, 341 p. ISBN 0-262-02544-7.
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  Elena Maceviciute:
  Review of: Ceynowa, Klaus and Coners, André (Eds.) Cost management for university libraries: with attached CD-ROM. In collaboration with R. Poll, P. te Boekhorst, B. Powels, and B. Rosenberger, translated from German by P. Nicholson. Munich: Saur, 2003. 177 p. (IFLA Publications ; 104). ISBN 3 598 21834 6.
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  Nigel Ford:
  Review of: Fensel, Dieter, Hendler, James A., Lieberman, Henry and Wahlster, Wolfgang. Spinning the Semantic Web: bringing the World Wide Web to its full potential. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. xxiii, 479 p. ISBN 0-262-06232-1.
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  T. D. Wilson:
  Hacking the systems. Review of: Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest, Google hacks; Paul Bausch, Amazon hacks. Preston Grall, Windows XP hacks. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2003.
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  T. D. Wilson:
  Review of: Herrero, Leandro. The trouble with management. Richmond: PJB Publications Ltd., 2002. vi, 162p. ISBN: 0-946864-24-1.
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  Peter A. Bath:
  Review of: Hersh, William. Information retrieval: a health and biomedical perspective (2nd ed.) New York, NY: Springer, 2003. 517 p. ISBN 0387955224.
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  Elena Maceviciute:
  Review of: June Lester and Wallace C. Koehler. Fundamentals of information studies: understanding information and its environment. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2003. xx, 306 p. ISBN 1 55570 474 3.
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  Elena Maceviciute:
  Review of: Bruce Edward Massis, editor. Models of cooperation in U.S., Latin American and Caribbean libraries: the first IFLA/SEFLIN International Summit on Library Cooperation in the Americas. Munich: Saur, 2003. 86 p. (IFLA Publications ; 105). ISBN 3-598-21835-4.
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  T. D. Wilson:
  Software Review: Net Snipppets 3.0.3.2. Sunnyvale: CA: Net Snippets, 2003.
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  Sirje Virkus:
  Review of: Paulsen, Morten Flate. Online education and learning management systems: global e-learning in a Scandinavian perspective. Oslo: NKI Gorlaget, 2003. 337 pp. ISBN 82-562-5894-2.
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  T. D. Wilson:
  Review of: Ray, Erik T. Learning XML (2nd ed.) Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2003. xiv, 400, [1] p. ISBN 0-596-00420-6.
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  José Vicente Rodríguez-Muñoz:
  Review of: Cristina Soy. Auditoría de la información. Editorial UOC, 2002. 158 p. + CD-ROM ISBN: 84-8318-978-X.
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  Marija Norvaisaite:
  Review of: Valmas, Anne. Eestlaste kirjastustegevus välismaal 1944-2000. [Publishing activities of Estonians outside Estonia 1944-2000]. [Two volumes]. Tallinn: Tallinna Pedagoogikaülikool, 2003.

Conference announcements

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  ISIC (Information Seeking in Context) 2004.
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  ECDL 2004, the 8th European Digital Library Conference, 12-17 September, 2004. University of Bath, United Kingdom.

Volume 9, Number 3, April 2004

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  T. D. Wilson:
  Editorial.

Papers from the Information Management Research Institute, School of Informatics, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.

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  Linda Banwell:
  Issue editorial.
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  Alison Pickard, Pat Dixon:
  The applicability of constructivist user studies: how can constructivist inquiry inform service providers and systems designers?
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  Fiona Duggan, Linda Banwell:
  Constructing a model of effective information dissemination in a crisis.
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  Julie McLeod, Catherine Hare, Rusnah Johare:
  Education and training for records management in the electronic environment - the (re)search for an appropriate model.

Papers from the Conference, 'Toward a user-centred approach to digital libraries', Espoo, Finland, September 8 - 9, 2003

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  Jette Hyldegaard, Piet Seiden:
  My e-journal - exploring the usefulness of personalized access to scholarly articles and services.
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  Mark Notess:
  Three looks at users: a comparison of methods for studying digital library use.

Other refereed papers

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  Terrence A. Brooks:
  The nature of meaning in the age of Google.
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  Shiyong Lu, Dapeng Liu, Farshad Fotouhi, Ming Dong, Robert G. Reynolds, Anthony Aristar, Martha Ratliff, Geoff Nathan, Joseph Tan, Ronald Powell:
  Language engineering for the Semantic Web: a digital library for endangered languages.
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  Resúmenes en Español.

Reviews

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  Wido Bosch:
  Review of: Biegelbauer, Peter S. and Borrás, Susana (Eds.) Innovation policies in Europe and the US: the new agenda. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2003. 325 p. ISBN 0-7546-0942-1.
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  Simonas Daukantas:
  Review of: Firestone, Joseph M. Enterprise information portals and knowledge management. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003. 422 p. ISBN 0-7506-7474-1.
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  Elena Maceviciute:
  Review of: Griffiths, Peter. Managing your internet and intranet services: the information professional's guide to strategy. 2nd ed. London: Facet Publishing, 2004. xii, 243 p. ISBN 1 85604 483 1.
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  Eva-Maria Flöög:
  Review of: Herring, James E. The Internet and information skills: a guide for teachers and school librarians. London: Facet Publishing, 2004. xxi, 171 p. ISBN 1-85604-493-9.
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  Marija Norvaisaite:
  Review of: Hughes, Lorna M. Digitizing collections: strategic issues for the information manager. Facet Publishing, 2004. xvi, 327 p. (Digital Future Series). ISBN 1 85604 466 1.
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  T. D. Wilson:
  Review of: Kuhlthau, Carol Collier. Seeking meaning: a process approach to library and information services. 2nd. ed. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2004.
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  T. D. Wilson:
  Review of: Nentwich, Michael. Cyberscience: research in the age of the Internet. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press , 2003. xxii, 490, A79, [1] p. ISBN 3-7001-3188-7.
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  Henry Fisher:
  Review of: Oldroyd, Margaret. Ed. Developing academic library staff for future success. London: Facet Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-85604-478-5.
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  Karen Nowé:
  Review of: Powell, Mike. Information management for development organisations (2nd ed.) Oxford: Oxfam, 2003. (Oxfam Development Guidelines.) 294p. ISBN 085598483X.
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  T. D. Wilson:
  Review of: Schonlau, Matthias, Fricker, Ronald D. and Elliott, Marc. Conducting research surveys via e-mail and the Web. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2002. xxiv, 118p. ISBN 0-8330-3110-4.
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  T. D. Wilson:
  Review of: Watson, Don. Death sentence: the decay of public language. Sydney: Knopf, 2003. [4]. 198 p. ISBN 1-74051-206-5.

Conference announcements

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  ISIC (Information Seeking in Context) 2004.
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  ECDL 2004, the 8th European Digital Library Conference, 12-17 September, 2004. University of Bath, United Kingdom.
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  A message to Conference organizers.

Volume 9, Number 4, July 2004

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  T. D. Wilson:
  Editorial.

Papers from the School of Information Management, Victoria University Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.

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  Alastair G. Smith:
  Issue editorial.
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  Matthew Conway, Dan Dorner:
  An evaluation of New Zealand political party Websites.
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  Beverley G. Hope, Zhiru Li:
  Online newspapers: the impact of culture, sex, and age on the perceived importance of specified quality factors.
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  Alastair G. Smith:
  Web links as research indicators: analogues of citations?
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  David Johnstone, Mary Tate, Marcus Bonner:
  Bringing human information behaviour into information systems research: an application of systems modelling.
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  Pak Yoong, David J. Pauleen:
  Generating and analysing data for applied research on emerging technologies: a grounded action learning approach.

Papers from the Conference, 'Toward a user-centred approach to digital libraries', Espoo, Finland, September 8 - 9, 2003

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  Brinley Franklin:
  Library usage patterns in the electronic information environment.
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  Annaïg Mahé:
  Beyond usage: understanding the use of electronic journals on the basis of information activity analysis.

Other refereed papers

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  Janet Cooper, Rachael Lewis, Christine Urquhart:
  Using participant or non-participant observation to explain information behaviour.
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  Dror G. Feitelson:
  On identifying name equivalences in digital libraries.
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  Joachim Griesbaum:
  Evaluation of three German search engines: Altavista.de, Google.de and Lycos.de.
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  Jarkko Kari:
  Web information seeking by pages: an observational study of moving and stopping.
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  Alan R. Peslak:
  An empirical study of the effect of information technology expenditures on student achievement.
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  Antonio Pulgarín, Cristina Carapeto, José M. Cobos:
  Análisis bibliométrico de la literatura científica publicada en "Ciencia. Revista hispano-americana de ciencias puras y aplicadas" (1940-1974).
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  Antonio Ángel Ruiz Rodríguez, David Gómez Domínguez:
  Diseño y desarrollo de una plataforma digital de apoyo a la docencia y a la investigacio'n en Archivos Electrónicos: un portal temático.
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  Elías Sanz-Casado, Carmen Martín-Moreno, Carlos García-Zorita, María Luisa Lascurain-Sánchez:
  Study of interdisciplinarity in chemistry research based on the production of Puerto Rican scientists 1992-2001.
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  Carlos Vílchez Román:
  Censura y tolerancia del material sexualmente explícito: la opinión de los estudiantes universitarios de pregrado.
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  Resúmenes en Español.

Reviews

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  Elena Maceviciute:
  Review of: Bell, David J., Loader, Brian, Pleace, Nicholas, and Douglas Schuler. Cyberculture: the key concepts. London: Routledge, 2004. xiv, 211 p. ISBN 0-415-24754-3.
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  Elena Maceviciute:
  Review of: Booth, Andrew and Brice, Anne (Eds.) Evidence-based practice for information professionals: a handbook. Facet Publishing, 2004. xvi, 304 p. ISBN 1-85604-471-8.
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  Elena Maceviciute:
  Review of: Boczkowski, Pablo J. Digitizing the news: innovation in online newspapers. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004. xi, 243 p. ISBN 0-262-02559-0.
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  Alistair Norman:
  Review of: Gay, Geri and Hembrooke, Helene. Activity-centred design: an ecological approach to designing smart tools and usable systems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. xxi, 111p. ISBN 0-262-07248-3.
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  Karen Nowé:
  Review of: Hildreth, Paul and Kimble, Chris. Knowledge networks: innovation through communities of practice. Hershey, PA; London: Idea Group Publishing, 2004. 354 p. ISBN 1-59140-200-X (hardcover).
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  Elena Maceviciute:
  Review of: Hunter, Gordon M. and Tan, Felix B. (Eds.) Advanced topics in global information management: Vol. 3. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2004. viii, 380 p. ISBN 1-59140-294-8.
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  T. D. Wilson:
  Review of: Milstein, Sarah and Dornfest, Rael. Google: the missing manual. Sebastopol, CA: Pogue Press/O'Reilly, 2004. xii, 299, [1] p. ISBN 0-596-00613-6.
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  Elena Maceviciute:
  Review of: Norman, Sandy. Practical copyright to information professionals. London: Facet Publishing, 2004. xiv, 194 p. (The CILIP Handbook). ISBN 1-85604-490-4.

Conference announcements

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  ISIC (Information Seeking in Context) 2004.
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  ECDL 2004, the 8th European Digital Library Conference, 12-17 September, 2004.
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  ALISE 2005 Annual Conference. Boundary Crossings: LIS Education in a Global Context.
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  A message to Conference organizers.