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Pursuing A Return On Technology, Mary Wise Dec 2004

Pursuing A Return On Technology, Mary Wise

Library Scholarship

This article discusses a few emerging technologies and how they could benefit libraries and library users.


The Arc: Preparing To Board, Charles Skewis, Iris Durden, Debra G. Skinner Oct 2004

The Arc: Preparing To Board, Charles Skewis, Iris Durden, Debra G. Skinner

Library Faculty Presentations

Learn how Georgia Southern is preparing collections for an automated retrieval system as part of an expansion / renovation project.


Filter-Tipped Libraries, Mark Y. Herring Sep 2004

Filter-Tipped Libraries, Mark Y. Herring

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

Is it possible to say something positive about Internet filtering in libraries and not have everyone, including your mother, call you a wild-eyed, hidebound, neo-Nazi bashi-bazouk? No, of course not, but I'm going to try to anyway.


Connecting Diversity To Management: A Study Of Career Development Patterns Of Library Managers In Selected Arl Member Libraries And Arl Lcdp Participants, La Loria Konata, Tim Zou Jun 2004

Connecting Diversity To Management: A Study Of Career Development Patterns Of Library Managers In Selected Arl Member Libraries And Arl Lcdp Participants, La Loria Konata, Tim Zou

University Library Faculty Presentations

This study focuses on diversity in library management. The impetus for our study is based on Thomas and Ely’s Paradigms for Managing Diversity. The first paradigm addresses the “discrimination-and-fairness” issues in business management and measures success in diversity initiatives in terms of how well a company does in recruitment and retention of minority employees. This paradigm aims to increase the number of minorities employed and correct any discrimination and unfairness in the hiring and promotion process. The Spectrum Scholars Initiative is a good example of this. The second paradigm focuses on the aspects of “access-and-legitimacy” of workforce diversity. Employees are …


Wsuls 2004 Annual Report, Wayne State University Library System Jan 2004

Wsuls 2004 Annual Report, Wayne State University Library System

Library Publications

2004 annual report includes: A message from Dean Sandra Yee; Library System's new catalog and WILD ILL system; Impact of the US Patriot Act on WSU; In Circulation: Arts and Communication; Jeff Trzeciak appointed Associate Dean; Launch of Mathematics Emporium; Launch of Technology Resource Center; Digital Library Initiatives, Law Library Microform and Herman Miller Consortium Collection; Adaptive Technology Workstations and Wireless Access; IMLS Leadership Grants; Urban Health Partners; Statistics; Donor Spotlight: Norman McRae, Irwin T. and Shirley Holtzman, William J. and Joyce Cunningham; In Memory of Hildegard Joseph; 2004 Donors.


Organizational Cultures Of Libraries As A Strategic Resource, Michelle L. Kaarst-Brown, Scott Nicholson, Gisela M. Von Dran, Jeffrey M. Stanton Jan 2004

Organizational Cultures Of Libraries As A Strategic Resource, Michelle L. Kaarst-Brown, Scott Nicholson, Gisela M. Von Dran, Jeffrey M. Stanton

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

Theorists have suggested that organizational culture is a strategic resource that has value in ensuring the continuing existence and success of organizations (Michalisin, Smith, & Kline, 1997; Barney, 1986, 1991; Hult, Ketchen, & Nichols, 2002; Gordon, 1985). This assertion is supported by various studies that have linked organizational culture to broad strategic outcomes such as an organization’s ability to manage knowledge (Davenport, Long, & Beers, 1998; Storck & Hill, 2000), innovation capability (Hauser, 1998), and strategic management of information technology (Kaarst-Brown & Robey, 1999; Reich & Benbasat, 2000; Schein, 1985). Based on this research, we suggest that there are characteristics …


Maple+Grtensorii Libraries For Cosmology, Dumitru N. Vulcanov, Valentina-Mira Wheeler Jan 2004

Maple+Grtensorii Libraries For Cosmology, Dumitru N. Vulcanov, Valentina-Mira Wheeler

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

The article mainly presents some results in using MAPLE platform for com- puter algebra (CA) and GrTensorII package in doing calculations for theoretical and numerical cosmology.


Public Libraries And People In Jail, Kathleen De La Peña Mccook Jan 2004

Public Libraries And People In Jail, Kathleen De La Peña Mccook

School of Information Faculty Publications

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963. That detention can turn into a horror like that at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison is hard to fathom, but incarceration of any sort always seems to exist on the edge of sanity, ready to transmute into grim, even fatal, encounters.[sup1] The inhumane treatment of prisoners in Iraq or Afghanistan is emblematic of the worst sort of pendulum swing …