A DIRECTOR OF A UNIVERSITY LffiRARY has many problems. Besides financial problems, he must decide how to build collections, what resources in the collections can best serve faculty and students, what kind of bibliographical control must be provided, how to cope with the growth of collections and building problems that ensue, how to make more effective public services, how to provide instruction...

Purpose In this paper we report on the adoption and evaluation of a Learning 2.0 program in a pilot program at the Edith Cowan University Library during 2007. Design/methodology/approach We examine the suitability of Learning 2.0 for training eight ‘early adopters’ among our library staff in the new and emerging Web 2.0 technologies. The program was set up and deployed via a blog, which recorde...

A WIDE RANGE OF PEOPLE are just beginning to equate information service in their communities with the institution they once believed served a primarily recreational and educational function-the public library. At present, many rural libraries have inadequate numbers of staff, and many others have staff which are seriously undereducated to meet the expanded information needs of the people in the...

BACKGROUND  In 2005, the University of Calgary entered into a contract to provide library services to the staff and physicians of Alberta Health Services Calgary Zone (AHS CZ), creating the Health Information Network Calgary (HINC). OBJECTIVES  A user satisfaction survey was contractually required to determine whether the new library service model created through the agreement with the Univer...

This article analyses the challenges and tasks of Digital Library. Focus on the library’s internal IT support management and based on the example of Fudan University, the author gives E-Support concept and divides the IT support architecture of digital library into three levels: the reader service and management platform, the library staff IT service platform and the technician service and mana...

purpose: this study examined the performance management component of librarians and library staff using internal valuation models at the central library of astane quds razavi. methodology: this study, based on its nature and the data collection methods, is a descriptive research. the population studied here included public librarians and library patrons at the control library astane quds razavi...

THENAGGING QcxmoivOF WIO DOES wHxr in libraries has been exacerbated in recent years by significant restructuring initiatives, driven by ongoing budgetary pressures and constant technological change. In the study reported here, senior administrators as well as middle managers and frontline librarians in public and academic library settings were asked to describe the nature of organizational cha...

BACKGROUND Nursing is a constant balance between strain and stimulation and work and health research with a positive reference point has been recommended. A health-promoting circumstance for subjective experience is flow, which is a psychological state, when individuals concurrently experience happiness, motivation and cognitive efficiency. Flow situations can be identified through individuals'...

upon how his strategies and recommendations might be different for different types of library systems. For example, the goals, missions, and user groups are different for a public library than they are for an academic library. Still, some of Huber’s ideas are very controversial and thought provoking. Strategy 10, for instance, discusses alternatives to traditional selectors for collection devel...

This article aims to provide a baseline for future studies on the provision and support for the use of digital or electronic information services (EIS) in further education. The analysis presented is based on a multi-level model of access, which encompasses access to and availability of information and communication technology (ICT) resources, access to and availability of EIS resources, and th...