Implementing a resource list management system in an academic library

Implementing BRICKS, a Digital Library Management System

Digital Libraries (DLs) play a central role in the way information is produced, accessed and used in the Internet era. While the Web provides a universal access to uncontrolled information resources, DLs allow large, distributed repositories of multimedia content, annotated with possibly rich semantic structures and regulated by digital rights, to be created and managed to satisfy the needs of ...

Academic Information Services: A Library Management Perspective

AELSTRACT USINGNETWORKED INFORMATION RESOURCES to communicate the results of scholarship has great potential value for academic libraries. This development, here called “academic information services,” will require collaboration among libraries, scholars, computing centers, and university presses. Three barriers to collaboration are discussed: (1) clashes of organizational cultures, (2) persona...

Implementing a Next Generation Library System

Implementing the National Incident Management System as a Framework for Travel Medicine in Haiti

Introduction: For the past 7 years, a nursing school has conducted biannual medical missions in a virtually inaccessible area in Haiti. Each medical mission team provides primary care, pediatric and gynecological examinations for up to 6 days in the impoverished island nation. Methods: To improve the safety of participants engaged in this humanitarian tra...

Implementing Activity-based Costing in an Enterprise Resource Planning System

The main objective of this study was to examine how activity-based costing would be carried out by a standard Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. According to Cooper and Kaplan the requirements for operational-control and ABC systems have fundamentally different purposes and a single, fully integrated approach cannot be adequate for both of these. Nevertheless, the purpose was to extend ...