Creative library marketing and publicity: best practices

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...

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...

Promoting Open Scholarship in Africa: Benefits and Best Library Practices

Establishing library publishing: best practices for creating successsful journal editors

Library publishing is a hot topic. We compiled the results of interviews with librarians and editors who are currently publishing journals with the Digital Commons platform. While the research and illustrations in this paper originate from Digital Commons subscriber interviews, we think the lessons and trends we’ve identified can serve as a roadmap for all librarians looking to provide successf...

Advances in Marketing: Going Green - Best Marketing Practices for a Global World

Millennials (persons born after 1977) have just recentlybegun to enter the workplace and by most estimates currentlymake up about ten percent of U.S. employees. Companies willincreasingly rely on the skills and competencies of this age cohortas more mature workers exit the workforce. Businesses should befocused now on the preparation of younger generations to fill suchvo...