The dramatic price increases in journals subscriptions over the past 30 years have undermined the ability of academic libraries to sustain their collections development a t the level necessary to support educational and ...

The European Documentation Centers EDCs are considered to be the voice of the official Documents in the European Union. Each EDC has its own priorities depending on its structure, but they all serve the information needs ...

Editorial. Describes several papers presented at the Second European Conference on Digital Libraries held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece from September 21 to 23, 1998. `Building HyperView Wrappers for Publisher Websites,' by ...

Presents a study which examined the characteristics of digital library systems and identified some of its human-computer interaction (HCI) challenges. Implications of digital libraries on HCI design; Discussion; Summary ...

This paper will explore, with examples, various aspects of the evidence based approach to performance assessment of the academic library which may be applied to charting the level to which the library is succeeding and to ...

Purpose - The purpose of the present study is to measure levels of burnout among Greek academic librarians and to assess its relation with certain background characteristics. Design/methodology/approach - The Maslach Burnout ...

We present the results of a questionnaire survey for the access and reproduction policies of 67 digital collections in 34 libraries (national, academic, public, special etc) from 13 countries. We examine and analyze the ...

This paper describes the challenge, development and pilot implementation of the Institutional Repository (IR) at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). It portrays the vision of the Central Library of NTUA, ...