**Apologies for cross posting**
The British Library Research and Innovation Centre has recently
published six reports:
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Extremism and the Internet
by Peter Brophy, Jenny Craven and Shelagh Fisher
95p
BLR&I report 145
ISBN 0953534308
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Available from: CERLIM, The Manchester Metropolitan University,
Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester M15 6LL; tel: 0161 247 6142; fax:
0161 247 6351; email: [log in to unmask] £15.00
Details of this report have already been posted to a number of email
lists by CERLIM. If you would like to read a brief description of the
report please visit the following Research and Innovation Centre web
page:
http://www.bl.uk/services/ric/publications/pub1999.html#report145
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The media and the Internet: final report of the British Library
funded research project The changing information environment: the
impact of the Internet on information seeking behaviour in the media
by David Nicholas...[et al.]
vi,205p
BLR&I report 110
ISBN 0851424155
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Available from: Portland Press Ltd, Commerce Way, Whitehall Industrial
Estate, Colchester CO2 8HP; tel: 01206 796351, fax: 01206 799331,
email: [log in to unmask] £35.00 (£28.00 Aslib corporate
members)
Its sheer functionality, connectivity and accessibility make the
Internet an information force to be reckoned with. However, there is
very little qualitative data on how the Internet is impacting upon
information seeking in the workplace. Using largely unstructured
interviewing techniques, the impact on the media - mainly the press -
was assessed. More than three hundred journalists and media librarians
were surveyed. It was found that amongst traditional print journalists
use was light, unsophisticated and uneven and there was a disagreement
as to its future significance. Poor access to the Internet - and good
access to other information resources - were largely the reasons for
this. In general it was the older and more senior journalists who
availed themselves of the facility. Librarians and the new media
journalists however made extensive use of the Internet. Other findings
reveal that the use tended to concentrate on searching the World Wide
Web and was generally conservative in character and that email was
being used on a very limited scale and was not regarded as a serious
journalistic tool. In general, media librarians have pioneered the use
of the Internet and this has enhanced their position. And even in the
case of the most avid Internet users - the new media journalists -
information professionals appear to have an important role to play.
Information management is seen as the key to news management.
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WebWatching UK Web communities: final report for the WebWatch Project
by Brian Kelly and Ian Peacock
73p
BLR&I report 146
ISBN 0712397361
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Available from: British Thesis Service, British Library Document
Supply Centre, Boston Spa, Wetherby LS23 7BQ tel: 01937 546229; fax:
01937 546286; email: [log in to unmask] Price in the
UK: microfiche £5.00; photocopy £12.00
Also available on the Internet at:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/webwatch/reports/final/
The report describes the work of the WebWatch project. The main aim of
the project was to develop a set of tools to audit and monitor design
practice and use of technologies on the Web and to produce reports
outlining the results obtained from applying the tools. The report
provides a brief overview of robot software on the World Wide Web,
reviews the development of WebWatch robot software, reports on the
WebWatch trawls which were carried out and summarises the conclusions
drawn from the trawls. Trawls were made of UK public libraries, UK
university entry points, eLib projects and UK academic libraries.
These provide data about which servers are in use, about the
deployment of applications based on ActiveX or Java, about the
characteristics of Web servers, and so on. This information should be
useful for those responsible for the management of Web-based
information services, for those responsible for making strategic
technology choices and for vendors, educators and developers.
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GINN: investigating school governors' information needs
by Linda Banwell and Pat Dixon
90p
BLR&I report 154
ISBN 0712397434
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Available from: British Thesis Service, British Library Document
Supply Centre, Boston Spa, Wetherby LS23 7BQ tel: 01937 546229; fax:
01937 546286; email: [log in to unmask] Price in the
UK: microfiche £5.00; photocopy £12.00
The report presents the findings of the GINN project which took place
between January 1996 and December 1997. The central hypothesis
underlying the project was that individual school governors have
individual information needs which are not being well met at present.
The research has found this hypothesis to be the case. The project was
designed to answer the following questions: Do governors get the
information they need? Do they know what they need, and if they get
it, do they use it effectively? Is the information they use the best
available in relation to the decisions they must make? The findings
indicate that school governors mostly do not use information or have
much notion of operating in an information culture. They state the
opinion that it is important for them to be well informed; and yet the
main source of information used by school governors is the
headteacher, whose management of the school the governors are
legislated to oversee.
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Average prices of British academic books: July to December 1998
17p
BLR&I report 164
LISU British academic book prices report no.24 (ISSN 0261-0302)
ISBN 1901786188
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Available from: Publications Section, LISU, Loughborough University,
Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU tel: 01509 223071; fax: 01509
223072; email: [log in to unmask] £11.00
The report continues the statistics of British academic book prices
derived from the Blackwell's (UK) primary subject coverage database,
which began with a base of July to December 1984.
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Average prices of USA academic books: July to December 1998
17p
BLR&I report 165
LISU USA academic book prices report no.24 (ISSN 0951-8975)
ISBN 1901786196
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Available from: Publications Section, LISU, Loughborough University,
Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU tel: 01509 223071; fax: 01509
223072; email: [log in to unmask] £11.00
The report uses data supplied by Blackwell's (NA) from their primary
subject coverage database and provides statistics on the average price
of USA academic books.
Full details of all reports published by the Centre from 1997 to date
are available on the Centre's web pages:
http://www.bl.uk/services/ric/
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Simon Matty
Information Officer
Research and Innovation Centre
The British Library
2 Sheraton Street
London W1V 4BH
tel: 0171 412 7054
fax: 0171 412 7251
email: [log in to unmask]
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