THEAUTHOR DESCRIBES FOUR SUCCESSIVE library retreats held by the Bowling Green State University library staff from 1995 to 1998. The retreats reflect the changes that have occurred in library work and in management theory since the early 1990s. The importance of technology to library work is recognized, but there is also a growing realization that developing a flexible staff-capable of learning...

Computer mediated communication technologies such as instant messaging, blogs, wikis, and podcasts provide new avenues to foster communication and collaboration in the academic library environment. These tools provide innovative ways to reach new technologically savvy academic library users, highlight library services, and allow the library to remain the intellectual center of the academic comm...

Overall, judicial libraries play a critical role in supporting the legal profession, promoting access to justice, and preserving history of law system. Therefore, major aim this research was investigate problems being faced by library users Malakand division KPK. To meet objective research, researcher employed quantitative design with closed-ended survey questionnaire for purpose collecting dat...

For years libraries have hired hundreds of student workers to maintain crucial functions in the library. Without student workers, libraries cannot provide essential services to the university community. Yet limited research exists on how libraries have developed professional career tracks for student workers and library staff. Investigators from Carbondale developed a survey to determine what p...

Like all institutions across North America, The University of Alberta Library has experienced dramatic impacts on our services and collections due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Students at large research institution have historically relied heavily Library’s extensive reserve collection textbooks other required course materials, lending which was suddenly suspended during a mid-term emergency closu...

Background. Care home managers’ leadership is recognised as directly influencing the care received by people living with dementia. What enables managers to promote and sustain person-centred for residents less well understood. Method. A mixed-methods systematic review synthesised evidence on delivery of Electronic databases (PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, Google Scholar) were searche...

introduction: the purpose of this study was determine the application of knowledge management among the staff members of central, faculty, and hospital libraries at tabriz university of medical sciences (tabriz, iran), based on hissig model. hissig model consists of four processes including knowledge creation, storage, sharing, and application. methods: this descriptive survey included all of t...