Outputs (61)

'An absolute prerequisite': The importance of user privacy and trust in maintaining academic freedom at the library (2010)
Journal Article

This research investigated the importance of user-library trust in ensuring vital freedom of inquiry in academic libraries, exploring its strength through comparison with attitudes towards the National Identity Card Scheme (NICS) within the various l... Read More about 'An absolute prerequisite': The importance of user privacy and trust in maintaining academic freedom at the library.

Beyond Google: helping library/ information professionals work with the Google generation (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

“E-books are good if there are no copies left”: a survey of e-book usage at UWE Library Services (2009)
Journal Article

This article outlines research carried out with students and academic staff at a large UK university library on how e-books are being used for learning, teaching and research. It was discovered that e-books are meeting many of users’ needs,especially... Read More about “E-books are good if there are no copies left”: a survey of e-book usage at UWE Library Services.

The emergence of psychoecology: the new nature writings of Roger Deakin, Mark Cocker, Robert Macfarlane and Richard Mabey (2009)
Journal Article

Friends of our captivity: nature, terror and refugia in romantic women's literature (2008)
Book Chapter

This essay explores the way that four Romantic women writers confronted perilous situations involving physical captivity, personal trauma and depression through engagement with the natural world. Mary Robinson and Charlotte Smith accompanied their hu... Read More about Friends of our captivity: nature, terror and refugia in romantic women's literature.

Librarianship education, employability and equality (2007)
Journal Article

Five hundred into 4 won't go - how to solve the problem of reading list expectations (2005)
Journal Article

GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceuticals research and development: Document delivery in a global corporate environment (2003)
Journal Article

Since merging in December 2000, GSK's information management group has continued to build on the great efforts of both GlaxoWellcome and SmithKline Beecham in provision of document delivery and access to published information. This article describes... Read More about GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceuticals research and development: Document delivery in a global corporate environment.

Virtual Learning Environments - overview and issues for institutional managers (2003)
Journal Article

Make your own luck: A study of people changing career into librarianship (2001)
Journal Article

Studies the reasons why people have changed career in order to become members of the library profession. Focuses on the career change decision process. This includes discussion of drift versus active choice, previous career experiences, context of li... Read More about Make your own luck: A study of people changing career into librarianship.