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1 – 10 of over 24000Flavia Curvelo Curvelo Magdaniel, Alexandra Den Heijer and Monique Arkesteijn
This paper aims to underpin the importance of the availability (or absence) of campus management information (CMI) in supporting universities’ goals.
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Purpose
This paper aims to underpin the importance of the availability (or absence) of campus management information (CMI) in supporting universities’ goals.
Design/methodology/approach
Four perspectives of campus management were used to develop a structured survey enquiring campus managers about universities’ goals, finances, users and spaces. Its descriptive analysis distinguishes two domains: campus strategy and CMI.
Findings
A total of 14 participant universities in nine countries provided substantial data, increasing the available CMI in each of the four perspectives compared with previous research. Three goal-related patterns driving the strategies of universities and their campuses were identified across competitive, social, economic and environmental performance aspects. Accordingly, particular CMI is discussed.
Research limitations/implications
The paper’s overarching approach in four perspectives challenged the collection of data, which needed to be retrieved from different departments in the organisation, with different domains (human resources, finance, facilities and organisational strategy), lingo and accountability cultures.
Originality/value
These findings improve the current understanding of university campuses as strategic resources enabling a variety of university goals and missions in today’s knowledge-based economy, society and cities. Moreover, the authors discuss that a more structural approach to collecting CMI may benefit universities to identify critical aspects of campus management supporting their strategies from which performance indicators can be derived and shared among campus managers with similar strategies to make better future decisions.
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Suggests that many universities and their libraries are not prepared to meet the expanding costs for computing and networking required in today’s technologically‐oriented…
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Suggests that many universities and their libraries are not prepared to meet the expanding costs for computing and networking required in today’s technologically‐oriented environment. Southern Methodist University is attempting to do something about this problem. It began with hiring of consultants to help the campus plan for upgrading both administrative and academic computing and equipping the campus for improved electronic communications and networking within and outside the campus. This “re‐engineering” process included development of the mission and principles of computing, compiled with the help of the campus community. Focus groups set priorities and a structure has been put in place to address some of the priority administrative needs of the campus for the immediate future. Part of the process was to identify computing expenditures across the campus over a three year period so that future funding needs could be anticipated. Discusses the campus planning process and places some emphasis on how the process related to central university libraries, its planning process, expenditures, problems to address, and future needs.
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Juha Kettunen and Ismo Kantola
This study seeks to describe the planning and implementation in Finland of a campus‐wide management information system using a rigorous planning methodology.
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Purpose
This study seeks to describe the planning and implementation in Finland of a campus‐wide management information system using a rigorous planning methodology.
Design/methodology/approach
The structure of the management information system is planned on the basis of the management process, where strategic management and the balanced scorecard approach have important roles.
Findings
The balanced scorecard approach is useful not only in accomplishing the objectives, measures and targets of the institutional strategy but also in the planning of the management information system.
Practical implications
The findings of the study are useful for educational administrators, project managers, software developers and usability specialists.
Originality/value
This study contributes to the knowledge and practice of campus‐wide information systems applying the balanced scorecard approach as a basis for the management information system to translate the strategy into action.
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This study aims to explore the current Green practices implemented in Malaysia higher education institutions toward sustainability attainment by developing a multi-disciplinary…
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Purpose
This study aims to explore the current Green practices implemented in Malaysia higher education institutions toward sustainability attainment by developing a multi-disciplinary comprehensive policy framework to further extend the collaboration among sustainability practitioners in providing integrated data on Green indicators linked to economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability in higher education institutions.
Design/methodology/approach
Primary data which comprises of sustainability archival documents from sixteen universities in Malaysia was used to explore the extent of Green practice for sustainability. In addition, this study also used secondary data from existing literature on sustainable development in Malaysia higher education institutional context.
Findings
Findings from the examined 16 universities and prior sustainability studies in Malaysia universities suggest that higher education institutions in Malaysia are presently implementing Green practices in their university campuses toward attaining sustainability.
Research limitations/implications
Qualitative data is only collected from higher education institutions in Malaysia. Hence, findings from this study cannot be generalized to universities in other countries.
Practical implications
This study provides insights toward infusing Green campus paradigms from a technological perspective to facilitate the exchange of information between sustainability practitioners to produce innovative solutions for addressing sustainability challenges.
Social implications
This research developed a policy framework that provides trans-disciplinary approach to be adopted by higher education institutions in Malaysia and further beyond toward attaining sustainability. Socially, this study provides Green indicators that act as a reference manual and road map toward sustainable development in higher education institutions.
Originality/value
A novel multi-disciplinary comprehensive policy framework is developed grounded on identified Green indicators integrated to provide information on how sustainability practitioners can implement Green practices paradigms across universities. Furthermore, the Green indicators can be used as metrics to provide data for Green practice measurement and monitoring in higher education institutions.
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Mary M. Somerville, Lynn D. Lampert, Katherine S. Dabbour, Sallie Harlan and Barbara Schader
The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance to those contemplating or preparing to administer a large scale information literacy assessment such as the ETS ICT assessment…
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The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance to those contemplating or preparing to administer a large scale information literacy assessment such as the ETS ICT assessment instrument. The case studies and literature review provide real life examples of how to consider implementing the ETS ICT instrument with special attention to issues such as collaboration, timing, marketing, budgeting, and developing a strategy that includes a discussion of how testing results will inform campus information literacy curriculum development and programming.
Design/methodology/approach
The planning and implementation by two California State University campuses that administrated beta test versions of the ETS ICT assessment instrument are documented. Background about ICT and guidance for future administrations of large scale assessments on university and college campuses are discussed.
Findings
The paper provides background information, techniques and guidance for academic librarians contemplating future administrations and usages of large scale assessments of student information and communication technology skills, like the ETS ICT assessment. Examples of necessary planning stages and collaboration are provided as well as a discussion of the value of large scale assessments for students, campuses and information literacy programs.
Practical implications
This paper offers guidance for academic librarians and libraries interested in assessing their information literacy programs and/or working within their university to conduct a large scale assessment of student ICT literacy skills using the ETS ICT assessment instrument.
Originality/value
The strategies and ideas presented in this paper will help inform other academic libraries and librarians faced with administrating and implementing a large scale assessment instrument such as the ETS ICT instrument.
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This paper aims to forecast the changing roles of librarians – especially catalogers and metadata specialists – in today's technology‐driven research, teaching, and learning…
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This paper aims to forecast the changing roles of librarians – especially catalogers and metadata specialists – in today's technology‐driven research, teaching, and learning environments, in which information seekers behave more and more self‐sufficiently and move well beyond library collections in their pursuit of information.
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Places the roles of librarians and library collections in the larger context of knowledge management and campus information network processes, which occur in every knowledge community, with or without a library. Explores and provides examples of how knowledge creators can collaborate with information technology experts and librarians to transform how faculty members teach and conduct research; how students learn; and how libraries support these activities.
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Librarians need to make their collections and services much more visible through human and technological interconnections and greatly improved delivery of information content. Metadata and metadata specialists are strategic assets for libraries, but the service model for cataloging faces critical challenges. Two tables list these challenges and the implications for metadata specialists.
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Offers new observations and insights into how librarians can continue to contribute to saving information seekers' time and advancing the state of knowledge in the increasingly interconnected world of the web. Drawing from the larger context of the global infosphere, information‐seeking behavior, and changing roles for library collections and information systems, forecasts the role of metadata and metadata specialists in libraries.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the assertion that, because library‐managed institutional repositories (IRs) have successfully created specific collections of…
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the assertion that, because library‐managed institutional repositories (IRs) have successfully created specific collections of self‐archived textual papers produced by researchers in Higher Education organisations, the entire digital content of a university's network space can be managed by libraries as successfully as the contents of an IR. The system for achieving this is called a “digital asset management” system (DAMs).
Design/methodology/approach
The approach takes the form of a review of some recent writing on this topic combined with observations from library and information management practice.
Findings
The paper finds that “DAMs” systems are in reality very under‐developed. Libraries cannot implement ready‐made “DAMs” for universities in the same way that they can implement a library management system. However, they are well placed to use their institutional repository and general information management expertise to improve the DAMs practices of universities and should gradually start to promote better practice in this area.
Research limitations/implications
Further investigation into the concept of DAMs is necessary to see how software innovations can push the idea forward.
Practical implications
Given that DAMs are underdeveloped relative to their potential, practitioners should adopt a gradualist and incremental approach to the implementation of DAMs ideas.
Originality/value
The paper tries to present the concepts of DAMs against a background of everyday library and information practice.
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Public universities in eastern and southern Africa have for a long time depended largely on grants from national governments for most of their recurrent and capital budgets…
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Public universities in eastern and southern Africa have for a long time depended largely on grants from national governments for most of their recurrent and capital budgets. Statutes of various universities also allow them to get external aid and donations mainly for capital developments, technical assistance and staff training. In the last decade, there has been pressure on public universities in the region to cut back on their budgets as a result of declining government grants occasioned largely by political and economic structural changes. Universities are responding by putting in place a wide range of programmes to generate their own income to augment the dwindling allocation from national governments. This paper discusses current developments within universities in eastern and southern Africa in an environment of rapid technological developments.
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This paper aims to survey the current landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in higher education institutions (HEIs) and recommend future directions.
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This paper aims to survey the current landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in higher education institutions (HEIs) and recommend future directions.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper reviews the recent trends, showcases the applications and provides future directions through a review of current uses of AI in HEIs.
Findings
The results of this study highlight successful applications of AI technologies in three main areas of college operation: student learning experience; student support; and enrollment management.
Research limitations/implications
This review has important implications for early adopters of AI by HEIs in providing a competitive advantage. The limitation lies in the scope of the review. It is not comprehensive and does not cover other areas of college operations.
Originality/value
This is the first review about AI in higher education. It is of value in building future research and serving as a framework for AI applications in HEI.
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Reports on sessions at the 1992 American Society for InformationScience annual conference, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Includesrecent developments in electronic refereed…
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Reports on sessions at the 1992 American Society for Information Science annual conference, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Includes recent developments in electronic refereed journals and the future of electronic publishing. Considers some of the implications for libraries of the growth in full‐text electronic publications and strategies for implementation and access. Finally, looks at future roles for academics, publisher and other users.
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