Libraries Without Walls Reports - The delivery of library services to distant users
The libraries of the University of Central Lancashire, the University of the Aegean and Dublin City University worked together on the BIBDEL Project which was inspired by the need to provide higher education to remote communities throughout Europe. Advanced study requirews access to library materials and services which are not locally available, and the project partners developed demonstarion experiments to exploire ways in which libraries might provide the resources and services enjoyed by students and academic staff in more densely populated areas.
The project produced a series of reports on its work, including a final report on the project as a whole, Proceedings from its conference, and a 'toolkit of techniques' on aspects of managing the delivery of library and information srevices to remote sites: the latter is a World Wide Web document mounted at the following URL:- http://www.dcu.ie/library/bibdel/index.html
Access to campus library and information services by distant users: preliminary studies. Authors: Peter Wynne, Panayoitis Papachiou, Jack Ofarrell ISBN: 0906694 99X, 73pp, Price: £20 The first report investigates appropriate strategies for providing users in remote locations with access to library catalogues and databases, to enquiry services and to documents.
Access to campus library and information services by distant users: the design of three demonstration experiments. Authors: Peter Wynne, Panayoitis Papachiou, Jack Ofarrell ISBN: 0906694 779, 49pp, Price: £20 This report describes the designs of three demonstration experiments, in Greece, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Each demonstration aimed to provide aspects of library and information services to distant users, including access to their online public access catalogues (OPACs).
Access to campus library and information services by distant users: evaluations of three demonstration experiments. Authors: Geoff Butters, Monica Brinkley, Panayoitis Papachiou, Ellie Vlachou, Ann Irving ISBN: 0906694 825, 181pp, Price: £20 This report describes three experiments, in Greece, Ireland and the United Kingdom, which demonstrates the practiocal application of differing IT-based methods of delivering library services to remote users and investigates the problems which arise.
Access to campus library and information services by distant users: general issues. Authors: Geoff Butters, Monica Brinkley, Panayoitis Papachiou, Ellie Vlachou ISBN: 0906694 87 6, 63pp, Price: £20 This report explores the issues surrounding distant access and delivery from the perspectives of users and providers and including the issues of costs, copyright, staff and user training, and library co-operation.
Proceedings of the first "Libraries Without Walls" Conference, Mytilene, Greece, 9-10 September 1995. Authors: Ann Irving (Ed), Geoff Butters (Ed) ISBN: 0906694 973, 91pp, Price: £25 The first "Libraries without walls" conference was held in Greece in September 1995. It brought together speakers and participants from 10 countries, with presentations around a central feature of EC-funded R & D projects for the delivery of library and information services to distant users. A second conference (for Autumn 1997) has taken place.
Access to campus library and information services by distant users final report. Authors: Peter Brophy, Monica Brinkley, Geoff Butters, Alan MacDougall, Panayoitis Papachiou, Ellie Vlachou ISBN: 0906694 922,80pp, Price: £25 The Final Report of the BIBDEL Project provides an overview and synopsis of all the work covered in previous reports, together with recommendations for further work.