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Computer simulation and library management

Journal of Information Science, 1987
In 1975 Bommer said that computer simulation models had remained on the fringes of library science because too much attention has been devoted to the construction and solution of complex mathematical models, and too little attention to the implementation aspect. Nine years later, in 1984, Simonton makes the same point, substantially reflecting the lack
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Knowledge management in public libraries

Aslib Proceedings, 2002
Knowledge management as a business concept has been traditionally applied to money‐making organisations with the aim of enhancing and improving operations to gain competitive advantage and increase profits. Knowledge management can also be applied to non‐profit organisations such as government bodies and statutory boards.
Sharon Teng, Suliman Hawamdeh
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Library Management [PDF]

, 2002
U radu se sustavno obrađuju pitanja iz upravljanja knjižnicama.
Aparac-Jelušić, Tatjana, Petrak, Jelka
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Informatics in Compound Library Management

2009
The ability to accurately and efficiently manage inventory is critical to ensure cost-effectiveness and guarantee integrity of samples in drug discovery. While many large companies utilise both customised and off-the-shelf automated systems for compound library management, these systems do not come cheaply. Without doubt, for large pharma the return on
Mark, Warne, Louise, Pemberton
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Library Management Systems in Legal Libraries

Legal Information Management, 2003
Legal libraries, by their very nature, have highly specialised requirements when it comes to library automation. A traditional library management system, which will simply catalogue books and provide the means to issue them to borrowers for a defined period, will not provide the flexibility required by a modern legal information centre.
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Building and managing software libraries

Proceedings COMPSAC 88: The Twelfth Annual International Computer Software & Applications Conference, 2003
The authors present material on software classification, survey existing techniques, describe research on faceted classification, contrast the different approaches, and describe the process of constructing a faceted classification scheme. They describe an automated library system based on faceted classification that is being prototyped. Some management
Gerald Jones, Rubén Prieto-Díaz
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Modeling for the Management of Library Collections

Management Science, 1976
This paper presents a general model for approaching the problem of control of the active collection of a library through the acquisition and weeding processes. It assumes that age of book and size of holding are important in this process and recognizes constraints related to shelf space and the acquisitions budget.
Bani K. Sinha, Richard C. Clelland
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Management issues for the virtual library

The Electronic Library, 2001
This paper takes a superficial look at the technologies that are impacting society to create a series of discontinuous social changes. These impacts are affecting all social institutions and giving rise to a phenomenon called The New Economy. After discussing some of the New Economy thinking and the expectations people have of businesses and management,
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Programs for reference library managing

Bioinformatics, 1989
The software described in this paper was developed under Unix, but has also been ported to IBM PC computers. As the data format is the same as used by the Unix bibliographic database programs, many bibliographic applications can be ported directly from Unix to PC-DOS. The database is organized as a collection of individual ASCII files.
A. Suitsu, Raivo Vilu, U. Jarv
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Preparing Tomorrow's Library Managers

2014
This chapter reports on a study of leadership development and succession planning at The University of the West Indies Libraries. The research shows that in the absence of formal succession planning, leadership training takes place in tandem with the staff appraisal and career development process. The annual appraisal and assessment system provides the
Evadne McLean, Mark-Shane Scale, Margaret D. Rouse-Jones   +2 more
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