introduction: intellectual capitals in an organization are assets that their value is increased over time and with sharing with others. since hospitals are dominant in providing medical services, management of intangible assets could be very important for them. to avoid the waste of costs and efforts, it is necessary to identify the priority and importance of each dimension of intellectual capi...

DIFFERENT CULTURES AND value systems that are brought into libraries by different types of professionals can create problems, tensions, and conflicts between nonlibrary professionals and professional librarians in library organizations. This article offers some solutions from the organizational perspective as well as the reward systems that can be used at their individual levels. INTRODUCTION A...

various view points of the library planners about the future’s library buildings have been explained in this paper. with the advances in information technology, some librarians believe that modern and well planned library buildings are not so necessary in the future. on the other hand, many others believe that more modern and well technologically equipped library buildings should be built to fu...

This paper reports on research into the professional needs of those embarking on impact evaluation in the museum, archive and library sector. The research used a web portal providing impact evaluation research findings and examples of methods and toolkits as a means of facilitating response and discussion about practitioner attitude to, and resource needs for, impact evaluation in their own org...

Research summary International alliances facilitate learning among firms by providing access to knowledge embedded in different countries, yet we do not know how the partnering firms' distinct national contexts shape their alliances. This study brings together research on and innovation systems examine policies respective home countries of focal partners can increase effectiveness acquisition O...

Top Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) experts, during a January 1999 American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter meeting, identified a number of important future trends for technologies in libraries1. Trend1 ”library users who use the Web, expect customisation, interactivity and customer support” deals directly with issues related to library portals. The group emphasised th...