Some libraries have the resources to provide all the services necessary for entertainment, cultural, and educational development in their communities, while others are struggling…
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Some libraries have the resources to provide all the services necessary for entertainment, cultural, and educational development in their communities, while others are struggling to keep their doors open. Some have had their budgets frozen or cut. Others have been able to maintain a minimal amount of growth in their budgets. Regardless of circumstance, most libraries have been unable to adjust their budgets to keep up with the inflation of book and journal prices. Now, and in the future, we need to develop cooperative collection plans to address continued pressures on already strained acquisitions budgets.
The Sense‐making approach to studying and understanding users and designing systems to serve their needs is reviewed. The approach, developed to focus on user sense making and…
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The Sense‐making approach to studying and understanding users and designing systems to serve their needs is reviewed. The approach, developed to focus on user sense making and sense unmaking in the fields of communication and library and information science, is reviewed in terms of its implications for knowledge management. Primary emphasis is placed on moving conceptualizations of users, information and reality from the noun‐based knowledge‐as‐map frameworks of the past to verb‐based frameworks emphasizing diversity, complexity and sense‐making potentials. Knowledge management is described as a field on the precipice of chaos, reaching for a means of emphasizing diversity, complexity and people over centrality, simplicity and technology. Sense making, as an approach, is described as a methodology disciplining the cacophony of diversity and complexity without homogenizing it. Knowledge is reconceptualized from noun to verb.
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Life studies are a rich source for further research on the role of the Afro‐American woman in society. They are especially useful to gain a better understanding of the…
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Life studies are a rich source for further research on the role of the Afro‐American woman in society. They are especially useful to gain a better understanding of the Afro‐American experience and to show the joys, sorrows, needs, and ideals of the Afro‐American woman as she struggles from day to day.