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Publication date: 1 June 1996

Anne Goulding and Evelyn Kerslake

Describes the extent of flexible working practices in library and information services (LIS) in the UK, drawing on a recently completed study. Outlines concerns about training…

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Describes the extent of flexible working practices in library and information services (LIS) in the UK, drawing on a recently completed study. Outlines concerns about training expressed by managers in case study organizations and in the literature. Investigates gender and equal opportunity implications in training flexible workers when LIS continue to be dominated numerically by women, yet hierarchically by men. Discusses examples of gender‐based discrimination in training provision and allocation taken from the literature in women’s studies and business studies. Considers the potential of National Vocational Qualifications and the Library Association’s framework for continuing professional development in relation to flexible workers. Outlines the British Library Research and Development Department‐funded study investigating training for flexible LIS workers.

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Librarian Career Development, vol. 4 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0968-0810

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Publication date: 1 March 1996

Anne Goulding and Evelyn Kerslake

Flexible workers are a growing part of the library and information sector, as they are in the service sector generally. Yet their specific needs and requirements have been greatly…

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Flexible workers are a growing part of the library and information sector, as they are in the service sector generally. Yet their specific needs and requirements have been greatly ignored. Outlines increasing flexibility in the labour market generally and discusses flexibility in library and information services. Discusses the incidence of established flexible working patterns such as part‐time, job‐share, temporary and flexi‐time working, and also of newer work forms such as homeworking and annualized hours. Uses data from a survey of 475 library and information services with a staff of 38,008 individuals. Examines the advantages and disadvantages of flexible working, and outlines the solutions worked out by case study organizations and managers. Suggests that effective use of flexible workers in library and information services necessitates the updating of management techniques and organizational strategy.

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Library Management, vol. 17 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-5124

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Publication date: 1 August 1996

Evelyn Kerslake and Anne Goulding

A variety of rising tensions have accompanied the development of the UK's flexible workforce and the debate around training for these workers is located among these competing…

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A variety of rising tensions have accompanied the development of the UK's flexible workforce and the debate around training for these workers is located among these competing demands. As the proportion of flexible workers in the labour market has increased, their systematic exclusion, in comparison to permanent full‐time workers, from certain types of training has been documented. This has been accompanied by widespread calls for the UK to develop a better qualified and skilled workforce. This tension — affecting in different ways the labour market, employers and workers — now has legislative equal opportunities implications. These issues are explored in a case study of the library and information sector.

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Equal Opportunities International, vol. 15 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0261-0159

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Publication date: 1 November 1997

Gillian Coker, Jennifer Drury, Anne Goulding and Evelyn Kerslake

Discusses the results of three studies investigating the reception of Scottish/ National Vocational Qualifications (S/NVQs) in the information and library sector. Examines the…

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Discusses the results of three studies investigating the reception of Scottish/ National Vocational Qualifications (S/NVQs) in the information and library sector. Examines the views of managers and workers towards the qualifications. Although managers generally feel that S/NVQs are a useful way of accrediting the skills of those without professional library qualifications, concerns remain about their bureaucratic and time‐consuming nature. Among library workers, a considerable lack of knowledge still exists although there is enthusiasm for a flexible and accessible qualification that can be acquired on the job. The evidence suggests that attitudes towards S/NVQs in the information and library sector remain equivocal and that a degree of confusion and lack of understanding prevails.

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Library Review, vol. 46 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 1 December 1999

Evelyn Kerslake and Ann O’Brien

The film Storm Center was released in 1956, featuring Bette Davis as a librarian in small town America. The narrative is a parable of anti‐communism in the McCarthy era where the…

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The film Storm Center was released in 1956, featuring Bette Davis as a librarian in small town America. The narrative is a parable of anti‐communism in the McCarthy era where the town council tries to remove a book on communism from the library. The librarian opposes this and is fired. The details and consequences provide a rich framework for a discursive approach to the text. A discursive approach is chosen because of the film’s extensive use of thematic oppositions around the central concern of censorship and freedom of information. A number of discourses are briefly explored including: femininity; the individual and the group; emotion and scientific rationalism. Concludes that qualitative work in library and information studies might benefit by considering the type of questions posed by discourse theory, as outlined here.

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Library Management, vol. 20 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-5124

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Publication date: 1 May 1997

Evelyn Kerslake and Anne Goulding

Reports findings of research investigating the training needs and opportunities of flexible information workers. Concludes that unless positive action is taken to address the…

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Reports findings of research investigating the training needs and opportunities of flexible information workers. Concludes that unless positive action is taken to address the needs of flexible information workers, they have fewer training opportunities than other workers, which has negative implications for overall levels of skill in the information labour market. Draws on quantitative data from a survey of 551 UK library and information services, and qualitative data from focus groups with flexible information workers and interviews with their managers. Argues that there are legislative, quality and workforce planning imperatives urging managers to address the needs of flexible information workers. Illustrates the differentiation in training offered to flexible and permanent full‐time workers using both quantitative and qualitative work. Presents examples from the case study organizations to offer ways to counteract these difficulties.

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Library Management, vol. 18 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-5124

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Publication date: 1 January 1998

Heather Watkins

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Librarian Career Development, vol. 6 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0968-0810

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Publication date: 1 August 1996

Discrimination matters Volume 22 Number 2 of Health Manpower Management contains an article with this title by Catherine M. Prest, which outlines the changes in legal restrictions…

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Discrimination matters Volume 22 Number 2 of Health Manpower Management contains an article with this title by Catherine M. Prest, which outlines the changes in legal restrictions on the eligibility of dismissed employees to pursue unfair dismissal claims. Includes a discussion of recent decisions in this area and assesses the impact of these decisions on personnel practice and disciplinary procedures.

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Equal Opportunities International, vol. 15 no. 8
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ISSN: 0261-0159

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Publication date: 1 August 2001

David Gerard

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Library Review, vol. 50 no. 6
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ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 1 May 1905

With the beginning of the twentieth century, preventive medicine is entering upon a new era. We are now confronted by a set of problems which are different in many respects from…

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With the beginning of the twentieth century, preventive medicine is entering upon a new era. We are now confronted by a set of problems which are different in many respects from the problems so successfully attacked by the great masters of preventive medicine of the last century, and which call for the application of different preventive measures. The objects which Edwin Chadwick, John Simon, and our other great forerunners of the last century, sought to attain, and which to a large extent they did attain, may, I think, not unfairly be described by the phrase “ civic cleanliness.” They sought to provide pure water supplies ; to remove refuse and filth from the vicinity of human beings by establishing improved systems of drainage and sewerage, and better methods of dust collection ; to provide open spaces and wider streets; to pave streets, yards, etc.; to raise the sanitary standard of building construction; to provide proper burial grounds ; to regulate offensive trades ; and to abate the smoke nuisance and the pollution of rivers. Of course we all know that they did very much more than this. Their work was too great and its effect too far‐reaching to be described by any single phrase. Still, I think it not unfair to say that, broadly speaking, we may regard the attainment of civic cleanliness as the great object of cur public health administration in the nineteenth century. It cannot be said that this object has been wholly attained. In a country whose capital is still supplied with something like filtered sewage as drinking water, it is obvious that there is much yet to be done to secure civic cleanliness. But the point is that any further progress in this direction must, or should, take place on the lines already laid down by our predecessors. Their methods of civic sanitation have stood the test of experience, and all that is wanted is a further development on existing lines. It is otherwise with the new problems that now press for solution. These are problems of a different nature, and demand new methods of treatment, although the principles underlying the methods will be found, probably, to be the same. Preventive medicine in the nineteenth century was chiefly occupied with problems of civic cleanliness ; in the twentieth century we are confronted with the problems of personal hygiene, and the three problems of this kind which appear to me to call most urgently for solution at the present time are: (1) The problem of infantile mortality; (2) The problem of school hygiene; (3) The problem of the milk supply.

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British Food Journal, vol. 7 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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