Are Best Practices Really Best? A Review of the Best Practices Literature in Library and Information Studies

Teaching the Library: Best Practices

Whether it is called bibliographic instruction, library instruction, or an information literacy program, the teaching of library and research skills to college students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels is a hot topic. There is much debate both in the literature and in the classroom about how best to engage the students’ attention and ensure that they understand what is being taught...

Are Java Programming Best Practices Also Best Practices for Android?

1998 CR Categories: D.1.5 [Programming Techniques] Object-oriented Programming; D.2.2 [Software Engineering] Design Tools and Techniquesobject-oriented design methods; D.2.3 [Software Engineering] Coding Tools and Techniquesobject-oriented programming; D.3.3 [Software Engineering] Language Constructs and Featuresclasses and objects, dynamic storage management; D.4 [Operating Systems] Storage...

Supporting Best Practices and Standards for Information Technology Infrastructure Library

Problem statement: There are several IT best practices and IT standards, which are independently supporting enterprises. Some of them have similarities and other differ from each other. This study discusses these best practices and standards in contrast with ITIL. Approach: CMMI, CobiT, eTOM, ISO 9000, ISO/IEC 17799, Malcolm Baldrige and Six Sigma will be introduces along with ITIL. Results: Th...

What are the Best Practices of QFD?

What are the Best Practices of QFD? This was the driving question approx. a dozen experienced users of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) wanted to answer during various two-day workshops. The QFD Institute Germany e.V. (QFD-ID) had invited to come up for discussion on the Best Practices of QFD. The QFD-ID exists for almost 10 years now, but the origins of QFD and its successful application worl...

A Best Practices Framework