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, 2015 Public libraries continually struggle to define their social value, and economic or educational rationales are commonly submitted to this end. In contrast to these approaches, public sphere theory emphasizes the political and social justice aspects of ...
M. Widdersheim
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International Journal of Public Sector Management, 2022 PurposeThe research was aimed at gauging the experiences of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) staff working in academic and research libraries across the UK, part of the higher education and public sector significantly under researched.Design ...
Mohammed Ishaq, A. Hussain
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Evaluating the strategic plans of public libraries : an inspection-based approach [PDF]
, 2012 For public libraries, as with most organisations, effective strategic planning is critical to longevity, facilitating cohesive and coordinated responses to ever present and ever changing political, economic, social, and technological (PEST) forces which ...
Buchanan, Steven, Cousins, Fionnuala
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Frontiers in Education, 2022 Social science researchers rarely can repeat a representative empirical study on an essentially identical sample in a relatively short time; to confirm the validity or, on the contrary, the invalidity of initial results.
M. Borbely
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Exploration of ICT Applications in Public Sector University Libraries of Interior Sindh
Journal of Information Management and Practices, 2023 Public sector university libraries in interior Sindh are embracing Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for their technical and routine work.
Ghulam Murtaza Rafique +2 more
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Emergent digital services in public libraries : a domain study [PDF]
, 2012 Purpose: This paper explores the emergence of digital services in the public library domain via an extensive study of the websites of all Scottish public library services Design/methodology/approach: In a 4 month period all 32 of Scotland’s public ...
McMenemy, David
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US government information: selected current issues in public access vs. private competition [PDF]
, 2000 Web information systems are having a profound effect on the way information is being disseminated today. Current technological advances have caused many government agencies to re-evaluate their practice of contracting with private sector vendors who have
McMullen, Susan
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A systematic review of health sector responses to the coincidence of disasters and COVID-19
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background In December 2019, the Chinese city of Wuhan reported a novel pneumonia caused by COVID-19. While the COVID-19 pandemic has been increasingly affecting the world, the occurrence of disasters resulted in complex emergencies.
S. Sohrabizadeh +3 more
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Facilitating a research culture in an academic library: top down and bottom up approaches [PDF]
, 2016 Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to consider why and how a research culture might be established in an academic library and to describe and evaluate efforts to achieve this at the University of Northampton.
Pickton, Miggie
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Identifying customer expectations is key to evidence based service delivery [PDF]
, 2010 As librarians and information professionals we share a common rationale: to deliver enhanced services for our customers. The importance of this is self-evident - if we don’t have customers we don't have a job. We therefore put our services at peril if we
Booth, A, McKnight, S
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