Chris Armstrong and Ray Lonsdale have recently completed an eLib supporting study
(Armstrong and Lonsdale, 1998) covering electronic
scholarly monographs and textbooks and Chris Armstrong (in association with Alan Wheatley) has also completed an eLib MODELS supporting
study on the content and characteristics of electronic abstracts
(Wheatley and Armstrong, 1997). As a part of the "monographs" project a survey
of users was administered using the SCONUL mailing list to determine the degree of interest that existed in electronic monographs. Chris Armstrong,
through his consultancy and research company (IAL) has worked consistently in the area of electronic databases and Internet resources, specifically
through a series of annual reviews of CD-ROMs and through the World Databases project which analysed electronic resources
worldwide and produced a database and series of 12 directories. He is member of the Management Committee of the UK Online User Group (UKOLUG)
and edits the UKOLUG Newsletter.
Contact Chris Armstrong by e-mail.
Ray Lonsdale is a Senior Lecturer in the Department and is responsible for the teaching and research in collection management and research methodology.
He specialises in the collection management of electronic formats. He is author/editor of several books and of numerous academic and professional articles.
Over the past ten years he has been the director of a number of funded research projects, including four British Library and BNB Research Fund projects,
the most recent in collaboration with the Universities of Loughborough and Central England, Birmingham. In 1997/8, he co-directed the eLib project, The
Publishing of Electronic Scholarly Monographs and Textbooks, with Chris Armstrong.
Contact Ray Lonsdale by e-mail.
Christine Urquhart has been involved, as researcher and project director, on several major BLRIC research projects into information seeking
behaviour of particular user groups (including academic medical researchers and nursing students). She has prepared open/distance learning modules
for research training in information and library studies, for use by postgraduate research students in the department. Teaching responsibilities include:
user needs studies; organisational behaviour; information systems analysis and project methodologies. Previous posts include work as an academic librarian,
and an information scientist in the pharmaceutical company. Her research interests include information user behaviour and associated research methodologies,
user acceptance of technology, and the value and impact of information services. She contributes to the Current Literature section of the
UKOLUG newsletter.
Contact Christine Urquhart by e-mail.
Rhian Thomas has been involved in research on several projects
over the last three years, including a couple of BLRIC projects;
the eLib project on Electronic Scholarly Monographs and
Textbooks; a survey of General Practitioner networking behaviour
via electronic discussion groups, and a study of an NHS Trust
information system. Recently, she has been involved in the
distance learning study school for Health Information
Management. Previously, she had worked as a system tester for
an online information service at News International in London
and spent twelve years in the publishing and recording arms of
the music industry.
Contact Rhian Thomas by e-mail.
Roger Fenton has been a staff researcher at IAL since 1992, working
on the World Databases project, various BLRIC-sponsored research,
including A Place for Children, and the eLib Electronic Scholarly Monographs
and Textbooks project. He has also been an agricultural librarian and a
librarianship lecturer in New Zealand. Other research interests include
Maori and Pacific Islands culture, and adoption. He is the author of the
Famous Adoptees, Foster
Children and Others: a Biographical Directory, published in
installments since 1993 in Adoption UK.
Contact Roger Fenton by e-mail.
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