Research within the Department

Contents

• General Overview
• Research Reports for 1994
• Current Student Research
• DECIMAL: Decision-making in Libraries

General Overview

The Department is building up a strong research base, and has a developing research focus in such areas as end-user access to electronic information, information management, decision-making and user studies.

The current Research Coordinator/Research Degrees Coordinator is AJ Oulton.

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Research Reports

Information Management

Access to Electronic Information

User Studies

Current Student Research

Typical student research projects currently being undertaken:

• The use of information in Sino-British business initiatives.
• Specification for a full-text CD-ROM user interface.
• Library networking in Pakistan.
• The value of hypertext in facilitating the use of AACR2.
• Teleworking.
• Resource based and student centred learning.

• Leisure use of public libraries before 1914. (PhD)
• OPACS: using enhanced transaction logs to achieve more effective on-line help facilities for subject searching. (PhD)
• Provision of materials for multi-cultural library services. (MPhil)
• Anti-racist awareness in libraries. (MPhil)
• Unobtrusive testing of reference services. (MPhil)

DECIMAL: Decision-making in Libraries

• Decision-making in libraries: decision research for the development of integrated library systems.