Service is a component of the job expectations and performance appraisal guidelines in many academic libraries. However, little known from literature librarianship about whether this includes service specifically to local community. The closest it has come are articles librarians serving on boards library-related nonprofits, such as consortium libraries or division library association. In artic...

MODERNSYSTEMS ANALYSIS was conceived and born in the computer field. All computers depend on detailed instructions at the elementary level. Machines built before the mid-1950s had no internal programming aids, so the programmer was forced to think and work at this same elementary level. Even the simplest problem was prone to error as it was being planned and coded. Programmers naturally looked ...

As INSPIRATION FOR DEVELOPING A comprehensive, unified, explanatory theory of librarianship, the author makes an analogy to the unification of the fundamental forces of nature, beginning with the Copernican revolution, followed by the discoveries of Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein, and the unification of electro-magnetism, light, the weak force, the electroweak force, the strong force, an...

This paper discusses library models and user roles in relation to the transformative effects of technology. It explores how these models are changing our conceptualization of library assessment models from a linear to a more cyclical and dynamic perspective shaping relations between input, output, quality and outcome indicators. "Nothing is permanent but change" Heraclitus Do libraries matter i...