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Publication date: 1 March 1979

Robert Shallow

COME ON then, hands up all you public librarians who have ever toyed with the idea of doing for librarianship what Richard Gordon did for medicine and what James Herriot is doing…

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COME ON then, hands up all you public librarians who have ever toyed with the idea of doing for librarianship what Richard Gordon did for medicine and what James Herriot is doing for vets—to say nothing of the considerable good they have both done for themselves out of it.

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New Library World, vol. 80 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 January 1978

Monica Humphries, Liz Chapman, Barry Bowes, CC Aguolu, Anita Wright and David Radmore

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS subject headings are relatively unusual in this country and they do provide for some relatively unusual headings. ‘Ground effect machines’ and ‘one‐leg resting…

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS subject headings are relatively unusual in this country and they do provide for some relatively unusual headings. ‘Ground effect machines’ and ‘one‐leg resting positions’ are just two examples. ‘Ground effect machines’ refers to such things as hovercraft. ‘One‐leg resting position’ however could cover books on anthropology or art. ‘Negative income‐tax’ sounds like something we would all like to receive but it's not exactly the first term which springs to mind to describe income benefit schemes. However, despite these oddities, our subject catalogue seems to be fairy well used and our new guide cards make it even easier to use.

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New Library World, vol. 79 no. 1
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ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 June 1988

David Fisher

I expect many librarians would sympathise with Mr Lee's predicament. As a profession, we are trying to create a sparkling, technological image. In contrast, public conceptions of…

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I expect many librarians would sympathise with Mr Lee's predicament. As a profession, we are trying to create a sparkling, technological image. In contrast, public conceptions of librarians tend to remain embedded within what might be called the book stamping paradigm. The senior library assistant in Between the Stacks (a satirical novel about library life), shows that he has his finger on the pulse of public opinion, when he says:

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New Library World, vol. 89 no. 6
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ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 July 1979

Clive Bingley, Edwin Fleming and Allan Bunch

I WAS perturbed by a ‘kite’ flown in a national newspaper recently that in its search for economies in public expenditure, the new Conservative government might wield its axe on…

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I WAS perturbed by a ‘kite’ flown in a national newspaper recently that in its search for economies in public expenditure, the new Conservative government might wield its axe on the British Library's proposed erection in the Euston Road. The current cost of the new building is informally judged to have climbed to a total of £300m, but as this expenditure is to be deployed over a decade and more, abandonment is hardly likely to make serious inroads into government expenditure curently running at more than £50,000m annually.

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New Library World, vol. 80 no. 7
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ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 September 1979

David Cheshire

THERE IS yet another film on general release with a librarian as the central figure. ‘Yet another’ as Foul play is only the most recent of a surprisingly large number of films…

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THERE IS yet another film on general release with a librarian as the central figure. ‘Yet another’ as Foul play is only the most recent of a surprisingly large number of films featuring librarians not only as light relief, but also as hero or (more frequently) heroine.

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New Library World, vol. 80 no. 9
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ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 7 December 2020

Silvia Dorado

This chapter explores how hybrid organizations navigate the challenges (and opportunities) associated with advancing unconventional logic combinations. It draws from a study of…

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This chapter explores how hybrid organizations navigate the challenges (and opportunities) associated with advancing unconventional logic combinations. It draws from a study of the 180-year history of sheltered workshops in the United States. Sheltered workshops are hybrids that combine social and commercial logics to provide gainful employment to individuals with disabilities. This chapter theorizes a connection between the governance system – that is, country-based social norms and regulatory settlements – framing hybrids and the agency that allows them the discretion required to advance unconventional combinations. It introduces the term hybrid agency to describe this connection and identifies four types: upstream, midstream, downstream, and crosscurrent. Upstream agency draws from the entrepreneurial vision of charismatic founders. It allows hybrids the discretion to advance unconventional logic combinations in unsupportive times, but it also requires them to observe certain dominant cultural norms. Midstream agency draws from hybrids’ adaptation and advocacy skills and resources in periods of historical change. It allows access to resources and legitimacy for unconventional combinations. Downstream agency draws from organizational slack possible in supportive times. Slack eases tensions and tradeoffs between conflicting logics but may also fuel mission drift. Finally, crosscurrent agency also draws from hybrids’ adaptation and advocacy skills and resources. It provides hybrids with the opportunity to grapple with challenges in periods of contestation.

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Organizational Hybridity: Perspectives, Processes, Promises
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-355-5

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Publication date: 7 August 2019

Hans Kjellberg, Johan Hagberg and Franck Cochoy

This chapter explores the concept of market infrastructure, which is tentatively defined as a materially heterogeneous arrangement that silently supports and structures the…

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This chapter explores the concept of market infrastructure, which is tentatively defined as a materially heterogeneous arrangement that silently supports and structures the consummation of market exchanges. Specifically, the authors investigate the enactment of market infrastructure in the US grocery retail sector by exploring how barcodes and related devices contributed to modify its market infrastructure during the period 1967–2010. Combining this empirical case with insights from previous research, the authors propose that market infrastructures are relational, available for use, modular, actively maintained, interdependent, commercial, emergent and political. The authors argue that this conception of market infrastructure provides a powerful tool for unveiling the complex agencements and engineering efforts that underpin seemingly superficial, individual and isolated market exchanges.

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Publication date: 1 April 1978

D. Barry and J.R. Edwards

The significance of inflation to any economic system results largely from the redistributive consequences induced by unanticipated, or imperfectly anticipated, price rises. Indeed…

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The significance of inflation to any economic system results largely from the redistributive consequences induced by unanticipated, or imperfectly anticipated, price rises. Indeed if all economic agents possessed perfect foresight and all prices were perfectly flexible upwards then inflation would have no redistributive consequences and the accounting system could easily incorporate inflation into its measurement procedures. This would then solve the basic problem associated with the measurement of profit which arises because of the difficulty of estimating the future income earning potential of a particular asset. The implications for measurement procedures of a situation where perfect foresight exists was in fact considered by Professor Lerner as long ago as 1951 who concluded that “It would be somewhat more trouble and involve more complicated book‐keeping, but it is quite feasible.

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Management Decision, vol. 16 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0025-1747

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Publication date: 9 March 2023

Jean Williams

Analysing the intersectional race and gender politics of the England women's national team, this chapter, based on oral history interviews, shows the historical forces shaping the…

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Analysing the intersectional race and gender politics of the England women's national team, this chapter, based on oral history interviews, shows the historical forces shaping the diversity of the squad over time, from 1972 to the present. Class is important here, as many of the first black and mixed heritage England women players were the daughters of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who settled in working-class areas of urban, and to a lesser extent, rural England. In the case of London-based players, this gave a proximity to important development centres, available by public transport. In the case of Kerry Davis, from Stoke on Trent, access to private transport was important. As head coach, Hope Powell oversaw the first Black-British captain of an England women's side, but when succeeded by Mark Sampson much of this development receded, notably as Eni Aluko, a centurion capped star of Nigerian descent was de-selected for ‘Unlioness behaviour’. In the ensuing legal analysis, the FA showed itself to lack awareness of diversity and inclusion issues in its own sport. The chapter analyses the effect of this, on an England team that includes several high profile LGBTQ+ stars, which is diverse in different ways than the England men's team.

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Women’s Football in a Global, Professional Era
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ISBN: 978-1-80071-053-5

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Publication date: 1 March 2002

Jasmine Tata

This study used a critical incidents methodology to examine the influence of accounts on perceived social loafing and evaluations of team member, and to investigate the face…

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This study used a critical incidents methodology to examine the influence of accounts on perceived social loafing and evaluations of team member, and to investigate the face management and responsibility explanations of account‐giving. The results of this study suggest that communicative acts such as accounts may reduce perceived loafing. In addition, perceived loafing and evaluations of the team member were influenced by the type of account provided; concessions were more effective in decreasing perceptions of social loafing and increasing evaluations of the team member than excuses and justifications which, in turn, were more effective than refusals. These findings indicate tentative support for the face management explanation of account effectiveness.

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International Journal of Conflict Management, vol. 13 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1044-4068

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