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Role of Library Associations in Supporting the Library Sector during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa

International Information and Library Review, 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the library sector, library associations are playing an important role in the promotion of librarianship as a profession vital to informed and knowledge...
Antonin Benoit Diouf
exaly   +2 more sources

The development of self‐assessment tool‐kits for the library and information sector

Journal of Documentation, 2000
The article considers methodological issues which arose in undertaking a two‐year British Library funded research project – Assessment Tools for Quality Management in Public Libraries – jointly managed by the Department of Information Science, Loughborough University and the Department of Information Studies, Sheffield University and discusses the ...
Margaret Kinnell, Bob Usherwood
exaly   +2 more sources

Inviting and/or inclusive: A study of the Flemish public library sector

IFLA Journal, 2021
Comparing the results of two large-scale user surveys conducted in Flanders in 2004 and 2018 shows that the Flemish public library sector has successfully adapted to challenging circumstances, such as increasing budgetary stringency and the pervasive digitalization of society.
Dennis Mathysen, Ignace Glorieux
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Sector Spin Coating for Fast Preparation of Polymer Libraries

Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry, 2005
The feasibility of sector spin coating (or combinatorial spin-coating) is demonstrated (i.e., spin coating of various samples onto one single substrate using a metal template to divide the substrate into sectors). Film thickness increases in an angular direction against the sense of rotation.
Gans, de, B.J., Wijnans, Sanne, Wouters, D., Schubert, U.S.   +3 more
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Model Municipal Libraries. From the Project to the Modernization of the Library Sector in Russia

Bibliotekovedenie [Russian Journal of Library Science], 2023
The 10th All-Russian Forum of Public Libraries “Model Libraries and Modernization Quality Standard” was held on November 18—19, 2022 at the National Library of Russia (St. Petersburg). More than 600 participants registered to attend the forum in 2022 (in offline and online format). More than 230 people attended the forum in-person. The forum considered
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Marketing development in the public library sector: an empirical analysis

Journal of Information Science, 1995
Most studies of market development have concentrated on the private sector. This paper, in contrast, focuses on the not-for-profit sector by analysing market development in the British public library sector. This paper firstly presents a summary of the nature and extent of marketing develop ment in the library services sector.
Neil F. Doherty, J. Saker, I. G. Smith
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Digitized content in the UK research library and archives sector

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2006
A study of the current provision of digitized collections for researchers in the UK higher education sector was carried out through desk research, a Web-based questionnaire of research libraries and interviews. The study identified a great deal of digitized material in the sector and there has been considerable expenditure of UK public funds in the ...
Barbara Bültmann, Rachel Hardy, Adrienne Muir, Clara Wictor   +3 more
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