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A comparative study of marketing management in British and German university libraries (PhD Thesis)
Get PDFWithin the last decade, the environment in which university libraries operate has dramatically changed. The rise of Conservative Governments in both Britain and Germany and the resulting shifts in public policy as well as the declining economic situation have led to a drastic decrease in resources. Librarians have had to find ways to cope with fewer funds in an environment which is growing ever more competitive. A useful tool for increasing the effectiveness of a library is marketing management. Marketing management is a means to achieve effective financial management, to use existing resources more efficiently and to create new resources in a customer-centred and market-oriented
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Dundee College’s Literacy Information Skills Project
Get PDFIn 2009, Dundee College libraries had no formal literacy skills program despite having trained library staff with a variety of abilities and backgrounds. At the same time, the curriculum manager for Special Programs was keen to improve the information and digital literacy skills of specific groups within this area, but was unsure where to find support. Through open discussion with the library team, the possibility of using specialist library skills to develop an information literacy program was considered, with the official launch of the Literacy Information Skills project in the same year.
The project has been very successful in both discrete areas and across the student population. The development of materials for the course has provided a bank of information literacy materials for the College and led to the development of further sessions on a variety of study and soft skills. Outcomes of the project have included both improved literacy skills and improved confidence and social skills
Older people, information, and social networks in rural Cumbria: doctoral research in progress.
Get PDFDespite there being larger numbers of older people in
rural populations in the UK, there has been very little
research undertaken with this group. The research
uses a social ethnographic approach grounded in
information and social network theory. The paper
describes the progress so far, places the research
within a theoretical context, describes the way stage
one fieldwork was undertaken and identifies the
themes that emerged to inform stage two design. The
second stage fieldwork is described using some of the
initial findings from the observation, interview and
participant diary data collected. The paper concludes
that the research will provide a unique insight into the
social networking of information amongst active older
people in a very rural community in the rural North
Pennines and inform the planning of service provider
information provision for this population group
Book Reviews
Get PDFWALTON, Graham and BOOTH, Andrew (eds.). Exploiting knowledge in health services
BR0PHY,Peter (ed.),The New Review of lnformation and Library Research,Volume 9, 2003
BAKER, Dovid. The strategic management of technorogy: a guide for library and information services
Booth, Andrew ond BRICE Anne. (eds.) Evidence-based practice for information professionals
Framing the subject: a subject indexing model for electronic bibliographic databases in the humanities.
Get PDFThis article reviews in detail an MA dissertation to
assess the scope and value of electronic bibliographic
databases in the humanities. A model is developed and
demonstrated to determine essential and desirable
indexing terms and to highlight some inherent
complexities. Features of commercially available
databases are assessed against this model. The author
concludes with some personal observations on the
dissertation experience and on prospects for further
research in this area
Book Reviews
Get PDFHuman aspects of library automation
Anne Morris and Hilary Dyer
Electronic resources: access and issues
Mary Beth Feck