Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to review UK government policy on public libraries since 2003, and to examine its relationship to other forms of demand for public libraries Design/methodology/approach – The published literature from government and professional bodies is reviewed, alongside published statistics on library use. Findings – Since 2003 public libraries have been the subject of...

The general practitioner working in his consulting room or his patient's home has a strictly limited range of diagnostic facilities available to supplement his clinical skills and experience. As long ago as 1946 the Annual Representative Meeting of the British Medical Association recommended that wherever possible, hospital departments of pathology and radiology should give direct access facili...

BACKGROUND Clinicians, nurses, and managers in hospitals are continuously confronted by new technologies and methods that require changes to working practice. Quality systems can help to manage change while maintaining a high quality of care. A new model of quality systems inspired by the works of Donabedian has three factors: structure (resources and administration), process (culture and profe...

Bitexts collected from web-based materials that are officially published on government websites can be used for a variety of purposes in language analysis and natural language processing. Mining officially published web pages can thus be an invaluable undertaking for translators in government departments who are producing the translations, and for machine translation researchers who are studyin...

Marine Geomatics Research Lab, Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada, Centre for Fisheries and Ecosystem Research, Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada, Marine Habitat Mapping Group, Departments of Geography and Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada, Department ...

Academics are now expected to acquire new pedagogical concepts and maximize the potential of new learning technologies to demonstrate that they understand the latest teaching principles in higher education in Hong Kong. Th is research explores practices at departments and their eff ect on academics adopting innovative practices with learning technologies. Semi-structured interviews were conduct...

This paper brings together resource-based theory and contingency theory to analyse organizational capability in the public sector. Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis is used to identify configurations of organizational attributes (department size, structural complexity, agencification, personnel instability, use of temporary employees), associated with high and low organizational capabi...

The success of governments in combating corruption or delivering public services efficiently relies on positive and accurate identification of their citizens and the ability to cross-reference databases and information across government departments and agencies. This is only possible if a national system that allows individuals to be uniquely identified exists. Unfortunately, this is not the ca...

This study assessed knowledge of health inequities, importance and benefits/barriers of addressing inequities, and ways of communicating information about inequities among municipal officials. Five focus groups (N=47) were conducted with officials from economic development, land use and housing, public safety, education, and environment departments. Discussions were recorded, transcribed and an...

Five agencies providing home health care to indigent populations in New Orleans, Louisiana were evaluated in terms of emergency planning and implementation. This was to help improve response to community disasters for indigent populations. Preparation for Hurricane Katrina was examined looking at interaction with local and state departments of health. It was found that the state dept of health ...