Camfield, Graham(INFLIBNET Center, February 25, 2009)
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Abstract:
The paper describes some recent projects and developments at the Library of the London School of
Economics and Political Science (LSE).
To support and assist learning and research the Library has introduced new resource discovery
services, the Beta Catalogue and Cross Searcher federated search engine. There is close collaboration
between the Library and LSE Centre for Learning Technology to provide online information skills
training via Moodle. The LASSIE project has investigated the use of social software in libraries. LSE
Library staffs are gradually introducing social software into their work. The LSE Institutional
Repository, LSE Research Online, is managed by a team of Library staff. Two projects, VERSIONS
and VIF, have explored the issue of uncertainty around different versions of an academic paper. The
NEEO project has developed an open access repository for the research output of European
economists. The digitisation of print collections is at an early stage.