**Apologies for cross-posting**
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New grants awarded
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Full grant details for four of the projects that were successful under
the recent Information Retrieval call for research proposals are now
available on the LIC website at:
http://www.lic.gov.uk/awards/ir-curpj.html
The grants have been awarded to the following projects:
A multi-disciplinary framework for the evaluation of Internet search
engines
Retrieving multimedia objects: an approach through synchronisation
VIRAMI: Visual Information Retrieval for Archival Moving Imagery
Image indexing and retrieval in the compressed domain
The complete list of successful proposals is available on the website
at: http://www.lic.gov.uk/research/information_retrieval/ir-calla.html
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Research reports
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The Library and Information Commission has recently published two
reports. The details are as follows:
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Public library materials fund and budget survey 1998-2000
compiled by Alison Murphy
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265p
LIC research report 11
ISBN 190178620X
£27.50
Available from: LISU, Publications Section, Loughborough University,
Loughborough LE11 3TU. tel: 01509 223071; fax: 01509 223072; email:
[log in to unmask]
This publication is a compilation of public library authorities' recent
spending results, together with budgets for 1999-2000. It covers all
the key components which affect, and are affected by budgetary changes:
total expenditure; materials expenditure, including books, audio-visual
materials, and CD-ROM and online information sources; staff, service
points and opening hours.
Information on these themes is presented in three main sections: a
commentary, which includes summary tables by "type of authority", for
each theme; summary tables by theme, each table listing every
authority under its sector; authority tables, including all the
information submitted by authority.
Themes are summarised by "types of authority", viz: London boroughs,
metropolitan districts, English unitary authorities, English counties,
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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A survey of NHS libraries: statistics from the NHS Regional Librarians
Group 1997-98
compiled by Alison Murphy
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41p
LIC research report 12
ISBN 1901786218
£17.50
Available from: LISU, Publications Section, Loughborough University,
Loughborough LE11 3TU. tel: 01509 223071; fax: 01509 223072; email:
[log in to unmask]
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the provision of
library services within the NHS and, for each NHS region, includes
information on: expenditure on staff and materials; sources of
funding; provision of services, including interlending, photocopying
and mediated searching; resources and use, including book and journal
stock, acquisitions, loans and end-user searching; breakdowns of
potential and actual user populations; floor space, staffed opening
hours and study space.
Derived statistics such as expenditure per potential user, loans per
actual user, cost per journal title, etc., allow comparisons to be
made between service points and between regions.
Details of all published research reports and forthcoming titles are
available from the website at:
http://www.lic.gov.uk/publications/researchreports/index.html
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Simon Matty
Information Officer
Library and Information Commission
19-29 Woburn Place
London WC1H 0LU
tel: 0171 273 8733
fax: 0171 273 8701
email: [log in to unmask]
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