This paper examines the characteristic elements of various organizational factors to identify whether a favorable climate for implementing and sustaining knowledge management existed in Banaras Hindu University Library System (BHULS). The findings of the study show that there are fairly favorable conditions for adopting knowledge management practices in BHULS. Staff in the library that particip...

The Wessex Medical Library of the University of Southampton is one of an increasing number of institutions that now provide online information retrieval for its medical, research, and teaching staff. The British Library Automated Information Service (BLAISE) is not the only system that provides medical publication citations online, but my aim is merely to give medical and paramedical readers an...

Hannah Golan Burnett has recently joined the Library as a volunteer. Hannah will be initially working in the Chifley Library alongside Luciana who along with other Chifley staff members has been working on a project to deselect the Beta and U-matic videos that have been in storage on Level 1. Hannah has previously undertaken volunteer work in school libraries and her available hours for volunte...

COMPETITIVE providers; widely PRESSURES FROM DIFFERENT INFORMATION available information resources; rising costs of books, serials, and electronic resources; and emerging new technologies and services providing information to potential library users raise questions about the role of academic libraries in present times. There has been some deliberation about the necessity to better understand an...

The setting for this case study is the Dolph Briscoe, Jr. Library, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, a health sciences campus with medical, dental, nursing, health professions, and graduate schools. During 2008-2009, major renovations to the library building were completed including office space for a faculty development department, multipurpose classrooms, a 24/7 study ...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 61, No. 4, 2013 (“The Impact of Gaming on Libraries,” edited by Scott Nicholson), pp. 802–813. © 2013 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract Academic libraries not only need to focus on instructing students about library resources but also need to actively reach out to them. One way to accomplish this is to integrate gaming into library programming and instr...

The eBetharké Syriac Digital Library Portal is a collaborative effort between the libraries at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; and the Beth Mardutho Syriac Institute, a traditional library of texts; to create a specialized digital library collection online. This digital library features content in and relating to Syriac, an Aramaic dialect spoken in the 1 century A.D. and for which...

THISARTICLE INTRODUCES THE CONCEPT of the virtual library and also explores how the increasing reliance on computers and digital information has affected library users and staff. In particular, technology has created an expectation for full-text information delivered to the desktop at the user’s convenience. As the technologies used by libraries have evolved, library jobs, organizational struct...

In 1997 the University of Queensland Library carried out an internal review of shelving operations and benchmarked with other libraries. The results indicated there were a number of problems, both in efficiency and in health and safety. In the year following, an external consultant was employed to assist with developing a solution. After some industrial challenges, the majority of full time she...

This poster reports on a study of 18 libraries in two public library systems in central Oklahoma. The project sought to gain an in-depth understanding of how libraries are contributing to health information access and health literacy. The poster reports on preliminary results in regard to three aspects of the study: library personnel’s perspectives on the roles and responsibilities of libraries...