The latest issue of Library and Information Research, the journal of the
Library and Information Research Group of CILIP, is now available with
open access at http://www.lirg.org.uk/lir/ojs/index.php/lir . This issue
combines a focus on users and their information needs, together with an
exploration of the lessons to be learned from experience to date
implementing the CLA Trial Scanning Licence for HE. Thus contents
include:
* Andrew Shenton - Library suggestions and typologies of information
needs
* Jenny Delasalle - The CLA HE Trial Scanning licence - how we're using
it
* Catherine Parkinson - Website accessibility statements: a comparative
investigation of local government and high street sectors
* Wendy Olphert & Leela Damodaran - An evaluation of the information
content of local authority websites in the UK using citizen-based
scenarios
Books reviewed include titles by John Crawford, Allan Martin and Dan
Madigan, Caroline Williams, Julie Todaro & Mark L. Smith.
We welcome your feedback and comments on this issue. If you are
interested in submitting a paper to LIR, guidelines for authors can be
accessed at
http://www.lirg.org.uk/lir/ojs/index.php/lir/information/authors . The
deadline for copy for the next issue has been extended to 31 October
2007. For this issue, we particularly welcome submissions on the theme
of Web 2.0 and social media.
Louise Cooke (Loughborough University), Miggie Pickton (Northampton
University), and Colin Johnston (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Editors, Library and Information Research
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