New Library World
Charting new developments
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Previously published as Library World and incorporating Asian Libraries
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Unique attributes
New Library World provides an international appraisal of current library trends and emerging patterns for the future.
Topicality
How libraries are run in the future will be determined by many social, cultural, technological and economic trends. New Library World presents lively, topical contributions by academics and practitioners which examine the changing role of the library and the impact external factors have on its future role and development - an essential companion for librarians and information managers.
Key benefits
International concerns within the profession are addressed in the journal, so that librarians can see trends emerging and discover imaginative ways of resolving difficulties in areas such as shrinking financial resources and the impact of the electronic age. The journal also looks at alternative structures for an established institution.
Key journal audiences
- Academics and other interested library users
- All practising information professionals
- All practising librarians
- Library and information researchers and teachers
Coverage
- Demographic trends
- Developments in the educational environment
- Impact of electronic publishing
- New information technology
- Service of future libraries
- The role of the library in its sale of knowledge
- The modern library - news and views on what's to come
New Library World is indexed and abstracted in:
- Current Abstracts
- Current Index to Journals in Education
- Current Awareness Abstracts
- Emerald Management Reviews
- Information Science & Technology Abstracts
- The Informed Librarian
- INSPEC
- Library & Information Science Abstracts
- Library Literature and Information Science
- Scopus
- zetoc
New Library World is available as part of an online subscription to the Emerald Library and Information Studies Subject Collection. For more information, please email collections@emeraldinsight.com.
This journal is a member of and subscribes to the
principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics.
News
- 17-11-2009: Application period open for RUSA business reference research grant
- 10-11-2009: Book Announcement: Volume 28 of Advances in Library Administration and Organization published
- 17-07-2009: “Moving In, Moving Up, and Moving On: Strategies for Regenerating the Library & Information Profession”
8th World Conference on Continuing Professional Development & Workplace Learning for the Library and Information Professions, 18-20th August 2009, Bologna, Italy - 02-04-2009: Academic Librarian 2: Singing in the rain
Conference on library change management - 04-12-2008: Call for applications for the 7th IFLA International Marketing Award
- 17-07-2008: 6th IFLA International Marketing Award - sponsored by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd
- 08-01-2008: First-ever issue of New Library World digitised for Emerald Backfiles
Sample Articles
- Heuristic evaluation applied to library web services
Marjo-Riitta Aitta, Saana Kaleva and Terttu Kortelainen
Volume: 109 Issue: 1; 2008
View Abstract | HTML | PDF - Traditional use patterns? An analysis of high school students? use of libraries and information resources
Niels Ole Pors
Volume: 109 Issue: 9; 2008
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