The View from a Special Library

A New Library Consortia: a view from Ireland

The MIS (Management Information Systems) Project, is a national initiative installing a common Library and Academic Management system in fifteen Institutes of Technology in Ireland.1 Its role is to manage the selection, implementation, and development of software installations in key business areas. These areas include student registration, personnel, financial administration and library manage...

Puzzling Peptides from a Phage Display Library

The commercial availability of random peptide libraries displayed on the M13 phage is increasing their use forstudies on epitope identification, enzyme inhibitors, receptor ligands, etc. In this study two experimentswhere planned for selection of peptides. First with sheep antibodies, the positive selector was IgG, preparedon Protein G column from a pool of 11 sheeps immunized...

Knowledge Mobilization in Healthcare Organizations: A View from the Resource-Based View of the Firm

This short literature review argues that the Resource-Based View (RBV) school of strategic management has recently become of increased interest to scholars of healthcare organizations. RBV links well to the broader interest in more effective Knowledge Mobilization (KM) in healthcare. The paper outlines and discusses key concepts, texts and authors from the RBV tradition and gives recent example...

(special) library services of the future

the future of library services must be considered against the background of a new self-conception of libraries and their definition and of a changing information society. in future, traditional library services will no longer be sufficient to ensure the survival of libraries. they will be required as a basic routine, but the proactivity of the library and its contribution to the overall enterpr...

Book Review: Digital Library Development: The View from Kanazawa