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‘Alive’ on the internet: A user‐centred evaluation of BIS‐online (1999)
Journal Article
Gillham, M., & Hall, H. (1999). ‘Alive’ on the internet: A user‐centred evaluation of BIS‐online. New Review of Academic Librarianship, 5(1), 61-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614539909516790

Recent UK government initiatives have encouraged academic staff to consider using IT to enhance students' experience of higher education in terms of its quality, flexibility and effectiveness. In 1999 second year undergraduate students studying Infor... Read More about ‘Alive’ on the internet: A user‐centred evaluation of BIS‐online.

Navigating business information sources: a practical guide for information managers. (1998)
Book
Burke, M. E., & Hall, H. (1998). Navigating business information sources: a practical guide for information managers. Library Association

During the last decade technical advances, deregulation, accountability and increased trade freedom have had a profound impact on the business world. In addition, improved customer proximity means that competitive firms must gauge performance and ben... Read More about Navigating business information sources: a practical guide for information managers..

Networked information: dealing with overload. (1998)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hall, H. (1998). Networked information: dealing with overload. In Information for Scotland IV : proceedings of a conference organised by the Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland, the Library Association Information Services Group (Scottish Branch)

In support of peak performance all organisations require optimal information: information that arrives at the right time and in the right format, matching the quality requirements of its potential users (Marcusohn, 1995). In contrast to this, a super... Read More about Networked information: dealing with overload..

Resetting the compass for the business information landscape (1998)
Journal Article
Hall, H., & Burke, M. E. (1998). Resetting the compass for the business information landscape. Business Information Review, 15(1), 22-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266382984236605

Kaye (1991) recognised the crucial importance of providing new business information managers with an understanding of business per se, as well as the actual sources used in its support. He set the context for the early 1990s in Information and busine... Read More about Resetting the compass for the business information landscape.

You'll wish it was all over: the bibliographic control of grey literature with reference to print football fanzines (1997)
Journal Article
Hall, H., & Smith, N. (1997). You'll wish it was all over: the bibliographic control of grey literature with reference to print football fanzines. Serials, 10(2), 189-194. https://doi.org/10.1629/10189

Since the mid-1970s there has been a growth in the availability of self-published serial material for fans of football teams, science fiction series and bands. Typically, dissemination of these publications is through specialised channels in low prin... Read More about You'll wish it was all over: the bibliographic control of grey literature with reference to print football fanzines.

Resource management in an electronic environment: company library Web pages and collection development principles (1996)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hall, H., & Russell, A. (1996). Resource management in an electronic environment: company library Web pages and collection development principles. In D. I. Raitt, & B. Jeapes (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Online Meeting (471-475)

Traditional information services provision relies on the systematic and rational building of a collection to meet current and future user information needs. This is achieved through the acquisition and discarding of material, which might ideally be b... Read More about Resource management in an electronic environment: company library Web pages and collection development principles.

Java: an explosion on the Internet. (1996)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Read, T., & Hall, H. (1996). Java: an explosion on the Internet. In D. I. Raitt, & B. Jeapes (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Online Meeting (49-55)

Summer 1995 saw the release, with considerable media attention, of draft versions of Sun Microsystems' Java language and the HotJava browser. In the past few months Java has been heralded as the latest "killer" technology in the Internet explosion. L... Read More about Java: an explosion on the Internet..