Proceedings of an international conference held on 19-23rd September 2003, organized by the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management (CERLIM), Manchester Metropolitan University.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction / Peter Brophy, Shelagh Fisher and Jenny Craven -- 2. Keynote paper : beyond the mainstream of library services / Peter Brophy -- Theme 1, The integration of library services and virtual learning environments -- 3. Staff without walls : developing library and information staff for e-learning / Coral Black and Sue Roberts -- 4. Supporting information-based networks in higher education / Jan Kooistra... [et al.] -- 5. Library services and virtual learning : the DEViL project / Non Scantlebury and Liz Stevenson -- 6. Virtual learning and teaching resources : the library as a collaborator / A. Anneli Ahtola -- 7. Virtual learning environments and Greek academic libraries / Emmanouel Garoufallou, Rania Siatri and Dick Hartley -- Theme 2, The relationship between user needs, information skills and information literacies -- 8. Embedding information skills in the subject-based curriculum / Kay Moore -- 9. Ways to engage widening participation students / Lynne Rutter and Penny Dale -- 10. Information literacy and learning / Sirje Virkus -- 11. Information literacy : who needs it? / Gill Needham -- Theme 3, Usability and accessibility of digital library services -- 12. An incremental usability and accessibility evaluation framework for digital libraries / Neil King... [et al.] -- 13. Overcoming barriers to library use by Nigerian professionals / Oluwatoyin O. Kolawole -- 14. Digital library services at the Italian National Health Institute library / Franco Toni -- 15. The information-deprived continent : can we do something? / Marié Botha -- 16. Optimizing resource discovery service interfaces : the Library of Texas challenge / William E. Moen, Kathleen R. Murray, and Irene Lopatovska -- Theme 4, Designing the information environment : national and institutional perspectives -- 17. Supporting learning, teaching and research at Manchester Metropolitan University / Caroline Williams -- 18. Disintermediation via web services in Portuguese public libraries / Maria Carla Proenca and José Miguel Baptista Nunes -- 19. Denmark's electronic research library : from national project to permanent activity / Bo Öhrström -- 20. Research resources and the academic researcher / Margaret Wallis and Julie Carpenter -- Theme 5, The creation of digital resources by user communities -- 21. Cultural objects in networked environments (COINE) / Michelle Kelly and Geoff Butters -- 22. The DAEDALUS project : an open archiving initiative / Susan Ashworth and William Nixon -- 23. Librarians in digital communities of practice / Andrew Cox and Anne Morris -- 24. X4L : exchange for learning / Susan Eales and Andrew Comrie