This study bridges a gap between public library and emergency management policy versus practice by examining the role of public libraries in the community resource network for disaster recovery. Specifically, this study identifies the opportunities and challenges for public libraries to fulfill their role as a FEMA-designated essential community organization and enhance community resilience. Th...

The growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web means that users expect access to information and the world’s knowledge regardless of geographic or political boundaries. Some approaches think of geographic distances as the primary barriers and use information and computer technologies (ICTs) to enable knowledge transfer across these distances (MacCormack 2002). The concept of a digital global...

To our traditional library management, pursuing small and comprehensive library blindly or big and comprehensive one, which makes amounts of waste. In information society, people have varied requirements. To meet their requirements, library must positively develop more resources, positively organize the online Chinese information resources, provide effective online video service, greatly cultiv...

Strategic alignment is a conviction that is considered extremely important in understanding how organizations can apply their arrangement of information technology (IT) into substantial boosts in achievement. To attain alignment advantage, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) prepares a framework of best practice approch for IT Service Management in all countries and Control Obj...

Laura Saunders is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2012 Laura Saunders, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) CC BY-NC Reference services are in transition. Impacted by advances in technology, changing user expectations, and the migration to greater prov...

Digital Libraries have been the subject of more than a decade of attention by researchers and developers, and yet in all this time the implementations have not matched the promises. By far the majority of systems have concentrated on content and provided limited or basic functions for users. In this article we offer a new look at what can be expected from a digital library system based on conte...

At the University of Technology, Sydney Library, web 2.0 technologies are being implemented across a range of areas to enhance the information literacy program with the type of dynamic content that clients now expect. This paper will discuss how UTS Library is implementing web 2.0 to transform the traditional program into an entertaining and dynamic set of learning tasks that support teaching, ...