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Universalbibliothek der Trivialliteratur', 1800-1830: Castle Corvey and the Distribution of Circulating-Library Fiction in English (1998)
Journal Article
Skelton-Foord, C. (1998). Universalbibliothek der Trivialliteratur', 1800-1830: Castle Corvey and the Distribution of Circulating-Library Fiction in English. Library and Information History, 14(2), 117-132. https://doi.org/10.1179/lib.1998.14.2.117

Surprising as it may seem, the library of a castle in northern Germany contains one of the best extant collections outside the United Kingdom of early nineteenth-century novels of the kind found so frequently in circulating libraries of the period. A... Read More about Universalbibliothek der Trivialliteratur', 1800-1830: Castle Corvey and the Distribution of Circulating-Library Fiction in English.

An Information Audit of National Westminster Bank Uks Learning and Resource Centres (1998)
Journal Article
Theakston, C. (1998). An Information Audit of National Westminster Bank Uks Learning and Resource Centres. International Journal of Information Management, 18(5), 371-375. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0268-4012%2898%2900026-7

The purpose of the information audit was to carry out a survey of the stock, services and performance of National Westminster Bank UK’s open-learning resource centres (OLRCs) and the resource centre at it’s management training college, Heythrop Park... Read More about An Information Audit of National Westminster Bank Uks Learning and Resource Centres.

To Buy or to Borrow? Circulating Libraries and Novel Reading in Britain, 1778-1828 (1998)
Journal Article
Skelton-Foord, C. (1998). To Buy or to Borrow? Circulating Libraries and Novel Reading in Britain, 1778-1828. Library Review, 47(7), 348-354. https://doi.org/10.1108/00242539810233477

What access did readers have to fiction in Britain during the Romantic period? To what extent might the fiction market have been segmented into readers who borrowed their novels from libraries - sometimes stealing or failing to return them - and thos... Read More about To Buy or to Borrow? Circulating Libraries and Novel Reading in Britain, 1778-1828.

Major journals in sociology. (1997)
Book Chapter
Speight, S. (1997). Major journals in sociology. In C. Ballard, J. Gubbay, & C. Middleton (Eds.), Blackwell's Student Companion to Sociology, (331-333). Blackwell

Durham University Business School Library : An Example of How Academic Business School Libraries May Move into the 21st Century (1997)
Journal Article
Theakston, C. (1997). Durham University Business School Library : An Example of How Academic Business School Libraries May Move into the 21st Century. International Journal of Information Management, 17(2), 139-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0268-4012%2896%2900055-2

Durham University Business School Library (DUBS) is one of 92 such academic institutions in the United Kingdom offering the degree of Master of Business Administration. This is the fastest growing degree in Britain. This article focuses upon the scop... Read More about Durham University Business School Library : An Example of How Academic Business School Libraries May Move into the 21st Century.

The Issues Facing Academic Libraries in the North East of England as the 21st Century Approaches (1996)
Journal Article
Theakston, C. (1996). The Issues Facing Academic Libraries in the North East of England as the 21st Century Approaches. International Journal of Information Management, 16(5), 391-395. https://doi.org/10.1016/0268-4012%2896%2900025-4

With increasing numbers of students going to university, pressure on academics to 3e more research active, information and teaching materials proliferating in scope and format, library sites becoming ever more over-crowded, university librarians are... Read More about The Issues Facing Academic Libraries in the North East of England as the 21st Century Approaches.