Methodological problems of librarianship in N. S. Kartashov’s heritage

Leadership in Librarianship

Two SURVEYS WERE ADMINISTERED to library professionals holding titular headships in order to develop a list of perceived library leaders. This list was used to learn the locus (subfield) of leadership and the degree of fieldwide integration as evidenced by the extent of shared perceptions by respondents. Results revealed that leaders tend to be associated most strongly with a category labeled “...

Methodological problems of clinical trials in dementia.

Methodological problems in defining cost s used in industrial management decision models

Articles dealing with industrial management decision-making generally rely on a cost system to establish a global indicator and identify the best solution. Cost accounting is based on a number of assumptions as to production system operation that may be quite remote from those used in decision modelling. Our paper points out the origin of this inconsistency and that it may lead to irrelevant de...

Microbial communities affecting albumen photography heritage: a methodological survey

This study is one of the few investigations which analyze albumen prints, perhaps the most important photographic heritage of the late 19(th) and early 20(th) centuries. The chemical composition of photographic samples was assessed using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray fluorescence. These two non-invasive techniques revealed the complex nature of albumen prints, which are comp...

Librarianship in Israel

Snunith Shoham is the Chair of the Department of Information Science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She received her Ph.D from the School of Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Dr Shoham has published many professional articles and three books, the newest one, Library Classification and Browsing: The Conjunction of Books and Readers, is scheduled to be published dur...