Library Management: Volume 40 Issue 8/9

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Contingent appointments in academic libraries: management challenges and opportunities

Marta Bladek

Academia’s overwhelming reliance on non-tenure track, or contingent, faculty is a well-known fact. While the status and working conditions of contingent classroom faculty have…

Digital rights management (DRM) in libraries of public universities in Jordan

Afaf Abu Sirhan, Khalid Mohamad Abdrabbo, Serhan Ahmed Ali Al Tawalbeh, Mustafa Hamdi Ahmed, Mohammad Ali Helalat

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate some methods to protect digital libraries using digital rights management (DRM) technologies and specifically the methods applied at the…

Are they even following us?: Using market research data to understand students’ social media preferences

Mark Aaron Polger, Dan Sich

The purpose of this paper is the exploration of students’ preferred social media (SM) tools for receiving information about their academic library. The authors administered a…

Research on the application of information technology of Big Data in Chinese digital library

Shuqing Li, Zhiyuan Hao, Li Ding, Xia Xu

Through the case analysis of China’s digital library, the purpose of this paper is to make readers understand the development status, achievements and problems of China’s digital…

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Measuring the librarians’ quality of working life in the Iranian public libraries

Hamta Kazemi Koohbanani, Atefeh Zarei, Nasrolah Erfani

The purpose of this paper is to identify the librarians’ quality of working life (QWL) in the Iranian public libraries.

Management of institutional repositories (IR) in higher education perspective

Scholastica Chizoma Ukwoma, Ngozi E. Osadebe, Chibuzor Livina Dim

The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the management of institutional repository (IR) in Nigerian universities.

The transparency of CSUC member university libraries

Carina Rey Martin, Concepción Rodriguez Parada, Enric Camón Luis

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the level of transparency of the libraries of Catalan universities that are members of the Consortium of University Services of Catalonia…

Public libraries, arts and cultural policy in the UK

Richard Fletcher

Public libraries in the UK are increasingly expected to provide arts activities and events as part of their usual operations. The purpose of this paper is to summarise recent…

Research on the impact of academic libraries – areas, methods, indicators

Ewa Głowacka

The purpose of this paper is to indicate the place of assessment of the impact of libraries in the overall quality evaluation of these institutions. In the paper, an attempt has…

A leader’s approaches to fostering a culture of knowledge sharing in an information organization

Zhixian Yi

The purpose of this paper is to look at organizational culture and knowledge sharing, and to explore how a leader fosters a culture of knowledge sharing in an information…

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Quantitative assessment of academic value and demand of journals and determination of core journals for a discipline

Gui Ling Sui, Bin Yao

The purpose of this paper is to propose an approach of quantitative assessment of academic value and demand of journals for a discipline.

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ISSN:

0143-5124

Online date, start – end:

1979

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Mr Steve O'Connor