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Publication date: 1 February 1981

David D. Ginsburg

It's been three years since my previous survey in RSR. Superb reference books in pop music have been appearing so frequently that I've been having trouble keeping up. Let's hope…

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It's been three years since my previous survey in RSR. Superb reference books in pop music have been appearing so frequently that I've been having trouble keeping up. Let's hope “next year's” survey will only be 12 months in the making and not 36.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 9 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 1 February 1976

Dean Tudor

1. Blount, Gail, comp. Collective Bargaining in Canadian Education: An Annotated Bibliography. (OISE Bibliography Series, 1). Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education…

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1. Blount, Gail, comp. Collective Bargaining in Canadian Education: An Annotated Bibliography. (OISE Bibliography Series, 1). Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1975. 38p. Index. $3.00. ISBN 0‐7744‐0114‐1. This bibliography of 180 items presents “as broad a coverage as possible of past, current, and future developments in collective bargaining, as it relates to Canadian education” (p. vii). The time scope is primarily the last five years; in effect, it updates and extends the Canadian Teachers' Federation Collective Bargaining for Teachers (Ottawa, 1971) and Hazel Roberts Collective Bargaining in Higher Education — A Bibliography (Ottawa, Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada Library, 1974). There are eight sections that follow prefatory matter—professional involvement, history and development of teacher associations, teacher militancy, collective bargaining at elementary, secondary, and university levels, the various documents and legislation for each province, plus 4 bibliographies. Most of the provincial material deals with Ontario. All graphic forms are covered: books, research reports, theses and dissertations, pamphlets, periodicals, speeches, government documents, and ERIC reports as well as videotapes, Each has a clearly written indicative abstract of 50 to 100 words, and most items are in the OISE library (and consequently may be borrowed on OISE's terms [p. ix–x]). One deficiency: the bibliographic data does not contain pagination nor other collation information (except for periodical articles).

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Reference Services Review, vol. 4 no. 2
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ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 1 January 1976

Dean Tudor

1. Encyclopedia Canadiana Kenneth H. Pearson, Editor‐in‐Chief. Rev. ed. Toronto: Grolier of Canada, 1975. 10v. ill. maps, biblio. index. $99.00. ISBN 0–7172–1602–0. Since the…

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1. Encyclopedia Canadiana Kenneth H. Pearson, Editor‐in‐Chief. Rev. ed. Toronto: Grolier of Canada, 1975. 10v. ill. maps, biblio. index. $99.00. ISBN 0–7172–1602–0. Since the first modern edition of the Encyclopedia Canadiana in 1957, it has made a significant contribution to Canadian resource materials. It has extended W. Stewart Wallace's Encyclopedia of Canada (1935–37, in 6 volumes) into contemporary times, and certainly it has always been reasonably priced — enough so as to sell copies in the United States and derive benefits from an overrun. The EC is also one of the few nationalistic encyclopedias in existence. Its main emphasis is as an educational tool to inform, following Barzun's dictum, geared to schools and libraries. It “tells the story of Canada, past and present, in word and picture” through S00 contributors and a library advisory board. Sixteen librarians serve as consultants, and all are either in the government or in education except for one who directs a public library system. Over the years there have been eleven new copyright dates for the updated material. OED spellings, with Canadian variations, have been employed, and the alphabetical arrangement is letter by letter. Some points in common with other types of encyclopedias — the Atlas is found in volume 10, with color maps supplied by Hammond. While these maps are undated, the name changes appear to be up‐to‐date, as in the case of Cambridge, Ontario. But some names no longer used still appear in the index‐gazetteer, such as Galt, Ontario referring the user to a town no longer on the map. The index‐gazetteer itself contains the population figures (which despite the publisher's caption, makes it more than just an index), and of course there are the 1971 figures for Galt which no longer exists. Additionally, there are no population figures for any of the 2700 communities described in the EC, except in the index‐gazetteer, and this is not explained in the EC itself. It is a convenient way of keeping the EC up‐to‐date at minimum cost, for only the index‐gazetteer needs to be revised for population figures, and not all the plates of the EC itself. However, there appears to be no check on cessations. Thus, when towns go out of existence, so should the entries. But with no catches for the towns except new population figures, only the index‐gazetteer will be updated if the town still exists, and name changes or the like will not be pulled from the index file. This leads to the problem of Leaside, Ontario, a town that was annexed by East York in 1967, yet still has an entry in the index‐gazetteer and an entry in the EC, along with a black and white map showing its location. To all intents and purposes, in the one paragraph, the town still exists as there is no mention of the 1967 change. Some provision has got to be made to eliminate such “deaths” from encyclopedias.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 4 no. 1
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ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 1 March 1976

Dean Tudor

1. Buxton, Bonnie and Betty Guernsey. Montreal Inside Out. Enl. and rev. Ottawa, Wax Wing; distr. by Burns and MacEachern, 1976. 282pp. $3.95 paper. ISBN 0‐919988‐01‐6. The first…

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1. Buxton, Bonnie and Betty Guernsey. Montreal Inside Out. Enl. and rev. Ottawa, Wax Wing; distr. by Burns and MacEachern, 1976. 282pp. $3.95 paper. ISBN 0‐919988‐01‐6. The first edition was in 1974, at the same price, but printed on the worst sort of paper imaginable. Buxton and Guernsey at that time merely reprinted their Montreal Gazette columns. This current work, while it has adapted much of the same material, is now a better book for outsiders. Hotels and tourist homes have been added; the restaurant section, while redesigned from expensive to budget (it was formerly “budget to expensive”), still is non‐critical; and purely local references have been deleted, such as “the great Montreal sausage hunt.” As I really love sausages, I simply decided to rip out those particular pages for adding to the second edition. Also odd as it may seem, the YWCA between 1974 and 1976 apparently eliminated its “free” women's toilet (there is no mention of it here), while the YMCA boosted its facilities — probably too many ladies used the john. The book now begins with a general overview that proceeds through the usual guidance of selecting room and board, things to do and to see, entertainment and sports, fashions, shopping, buying food (breads, candy, patisseries, fish, markets, etc.), day trips off the island, and the vital “services, emergencies, and repairs.” Its companion volume is Great Montreal Walks (1976) — both produced in time for the Olympics, but of course current for a few years afterwards.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 4 no. 3
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ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 1 March 1975

Dean Tudor

1. Encyclopedia Canadiana. Kenneth H. Pearson, Editor‐In‐ Chief. Rev. ed. Toronto, Grolier of Canada, 1975. 10v. ill. maps. biblio. index. $106.00. ISBN 0–7172–1602–0. Since the…

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1. Encyclopedia Canadiana. Kenneth H. Pearson, Editor‐In‐ Chief. Rev. ed. Toronto, Grolier of Canada, 1975. 10v. ill. maps. biblio. index. $106.00. ISBN 0–7172–1602–0. Since the first modern edition of the Encyclopedia Canadiana in 1957, it has made a significant contribution to Canadian resource materials. It has extended W. Stewart Wallace's Encyclopedia of Canada (1935–37, in 6 volumes) into contemporary times, and certainly it has always been reasonably priced — enough so as to sell copies in the United States and derive benefits from an over‐run. The EC is also one of the few nationalistic encyclopedias in existence. Its main emphasis is as an educational tool to inform, following Barzun's dictum, geared to schools and libraries. It “tells the story of Canada, past and present, in word and picture” through 800 contributors and a library advisory board. Sixteen librarians serve as consultants, and all are either in the government or in education except for one who directs a public library system. Over the years there have been eleven new copyright dates for the updated material. OED spellings, with Canadian variations, have been employed, and the alphabetical arrangement is letter by letter. Some points in common with other types of encyclopedias ‐ the Atlas is found in volume 10, with colour maps supplied by Hammond. While these maps are undated, the name changes appear to be up‐to‐date, as in the case of Cambridge, Ontario. But some names no longer used still appear in the index‐gazetteer, such as Galt, Ontario referring the user to a town no longer on the map. The index‐gazetteer itself contains the population figures (which despite the publisher's caption, makes it more than just an index), and of course there are the 1971 figures for Galt which no longer exists. Additionally, there are no population figures for any of the 2700 communities described in the EC, except in the index‐gazetteer, and this is not explained in the EC itself. It is a convenient way of keeping the EC up‐to‐date at minimum cost, for only the index‐gazetteer needs to be revised for population figures, and not all the plates of the EC itself. However, there appears to be no check on cessations. Thus, when towns go out of existence, so should the entries. But with no catches for the towns except new population figures, only the index‐gazetteer will be updated if the town still exists, and name changes or the like will not be pulled from the index file. This leads to the problem of Leaside, Ontario, a town that was annexed by East York in 1967, yet still has an entry in the index‐gazetteer and an entry in the EC, along with a black‐and‐white map showing its location. To all intents and purposes, in the one paragraph, the town still exists as there is no mention of the 1967 change. Some provision has got to be made to eliminate such “deaths” from encyclopedias.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 3 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 1 February 1975

Frances Neel Cheney

Access to the Literature of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Proceedings of the Conference on Access to Knowledge and Information in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

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Access to the Literature of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Proceedings of the Conference on Access to Knowledge and Information in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 3 no. 2
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ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 1 March 1990

K.G.B. Bakewell

Resource sharing is an important element inthe national planning of library andinformation services to meet the needs ofinformation, education and culture of thewhole community at…

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Resource sharing is an important element in the national planning of library and information services to meet the needs of information, education and culture of the whole community at all levels. An overview of resource sharing practices is presented, with particular reference to the British scene. It is also argued that, with the approach of the Single Market in 1992, resource sharing should now be considered on a European scale. In conclusion, some problems associated with the practice of resource sharing are considered.

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Library Management, vol. 11 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-5124

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Publication date: 14 March 2016

Andrea Phillips

Most libraries in higher education are facing the challenge of providing valued and improved services with the same or fewer resources. Focussing on the library learning service…

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Purpose

Most libraries in higher education are facing the challenge of providing valued and improved services with the same or fewer resources. Focussing on the library learning service at one university, the purpose of this paper is to consider how libraries can find new service models with contracting resources while aligning with institutional and professional values and providing value-in-use for end users and key stakeholders.

Design/methodology/approach

Following a discussion of sustainability as relevant to library services, the paper presents a case study of one library’s approach to sustaining its library learning service.

Findings

The sustainability of library services is aided by developing a service blueprint that provides direction and structure yet is dynamic and responsive. To be successful the approach should be grounded in resource realities, encourage scalability where possible and address the values and needs of key stakeholders.

Originality/value

The paper presents a workable, integrated approach to managing a library learning service so that it delivers value and is sustainable.

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Library Management, vol. 37 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-5124

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Publication date: 24 April 2024

George (Yiorgos) Allayannis, Paul Tudor Jones and Jenny Craddock

This case invites students to assess the impact that Brexit, the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, might have on a New York–based hedge fund's portfolio…

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This case invites students to assess the impact that Brexit, the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, might have on a New York–based hedge fund's portfolio and, specifically, its UK assets. The case is designed to prompt students to make market assumptions and investment hypotheses based on a combination of numerical data and qualitative information. It requires no numerical computations; instead, it asks the student to interpret both markets' short-term reactions to the Brexit vote and strategy shifts from UK and European business leaders in order to evaluate longer-term implications for the economies of the United Kingdom, Europe, and the world.

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Darden Business Publishing Cases, vol. no.
Type: Case Study
ISSN: 2474-7890
Published by: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation

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Publication date: 15 October 2015

Padmi Nagirikandalage and Ben Binsardi

The purpose of this paper is to explore the challenges and influential factors experienced in the development of public sector accounting reforms in the emerging economy of Sri…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explore the challenges and influential factors experienced in the development of public sector accounting reforms in the emerging economy of Sri Lanka. The reforms aim to improve public governance and transparency while reducing corruption and dishonesty.

Methodology/approach

Qualitative (thematic) analysis has been employed by using both primary and secondary data. Primary data was obtained by interviewing selected respondents from public sector organisations in Sri Lanka. The respondents were selected by using an expert purposive sampling technique. Apart from the primary data, secondary data such as government reports, relevant literature and paper articles was also analysed in order to produce more robust findings.

Findings

The findings indicate that technological and cultural factors have influenced accounting reforms in the public sector in Sri Lanka. In addition, the politicisation and bureaucracy of the public sector as well as sluggish attitudes towards costs have served as prominent barriers to efficient implementation of the reforms.

Research limitations

This study was limited in terms of generalisation because of relatively small sample sizes. A larger sample with more diversity could have enhanced the generalisation of the results which could serve as direction for further research.

Originality/value

This paper is intended to fill a gap in the existing literature on public sector accounting reforms in the context of less developed or emerging countries. It is hopefully valuable for both policy makers and practitioners by allowing them to view the development, challenges and influential aspects of the implementation of New Public Management (NPM) in Sri Lanka in order that they will be able to make informed decisions about adopting more efficient NPM practices to enhance the country’s competitive advantages.

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The Public Sector Accounting, Accountability and Auditing in Emerging Economies
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78441-662-1

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