Library and Information Research Volume 29, Number 91, Spring 2005


Special issue on the LIRG/SCONUL Impact Initiative

CONTENTS


1 GUEST EDITORIAL
Philip Payne


REFEREED PAPERS

3 Measuring the impact of higher education libraries: the LIRG/SCONUL Impact Implementation Initiative
Philip Payne and Angela Conyers

8 Facilitating the Impact Implementation Programme
Sharon Markless and David Streatfield


OVERVIEW PAPER

14 The LIRG/SCONUL Measuring Impact Initiative: Overview of phase 1 impact projects
Pauline Blagden

REPORTS FROM PARTICIPANTS

16 Birkbeck College
Martin Draper

18 University College Chester
Lisa Peters, Wendy Fiander

20 Glasgow Caledonian University
John Crawford

22 University of Gloucestershire
Darren Bolton

24 University of Leeds
Helen Howard and Martin Gill

26 Leeds Metropolitan University
Katherine Everest, Marie Scopes and John Taylor

28 Northumbria University
Anne Middleton

30 Open University
Kirsty Baker and Gill Needham

32 Teeside University
Sue Myer and Fran Porritt

34 Warwick University
Chris Bradford

BOOK REVIEWS

36 LANKES, R David; McCLURE, Charles R; GROSS, Melissa; POMERANTZ, Jeffrey editors. Implementing digital reference services: setting standards and making it real
38 BECKER, Nancy J, POLLICINO, Elizabeth B and HOLTSCHNEIDER, Dennis H. Challenges in Librarianship – A casebook for educators and professionals
40 Statistics in practice – measuring & managing : proceedings of IFLA satellite conference Loughborough, August 2002 edited by Claire Creaser
42 FEATHER, Ann and STURGES, Paul. International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science. 2nd edition.

Updated: 17 July 2006