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Publication date: 1 October 1973

G.R. Cliffe

Surveys carried out in the UK have shown that only about 10% of University graduates in Chemistry have received formal training in the use of the chemical literature and in the…

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Surveys carried out in the UK have shown that only about 10% of University graduates in Chemistry have received formal training in the use of the chemical literature and in the case of extra‐mural graduates only 2%. This is not the place to investigate the reasons for, or the desirability of, this state of affairs but it leaves us in no doubt that as Information Managers we must make some attempt ourselves to educate the users of the information services.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 25 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 October 1973

A.R. Haygarth Jackson

Communication is really the essence of information science. The best information service in the world has no meaning unless it is used. So the information scientists and…

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Communication is really the essence of information science. The best information service in the world has no meaning unless it is used. So the information scientists and librarians must communicate with their users and sell their service.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 25 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 February 1980

G.R. Cliffe

‘Information management will be to the next half century what steam, coal and electricity were to the 19th century.’ This quotation, which admittedly appeared as an inducement to…

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‘Information management will be to the next half century what steam, coal and electricity were to the 19th century.’ This quotation, which admittedly appeared as an inducement to buy a book, carries I am sure more than a modicum of truth. We have all heard, far too often, of the so called information explosion of the post war years, although there are many who deny that there is any such explosion and who say that it is merely a natural exponential growth which has taken place over possibly hundreds of years. Whether it is a ‘big bang’ or an expansion phenomenon does not alter the fact that we are faced today with a mass of information of a size which could not be envisaged a generation ago. Until the advent of on‐line systems the size was possibly no problem to most people, in that the majority of the information was inaccessible or completely unknown, but we are now faced with a situation where the mass can be made accessible and known to all at the pressing of a switch or the lifting of a telephone. To continue the explosion analogy—up to now we have only seen the explosion, now we will feel the blast.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 32 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 December 1961

Winter meetings will be held at 5.30 for 6 p.m. on Tuesday 23rd January and Wednesday 21st February at Aslib. On 23rd January Mr Clifford Hatts, a Senior Designer in the BBC…

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Winter meetings will be held at 5.30 for 6 p.m. on Tuesday 23rd January and Wednesday 21st February at Aslib. On 23rd January Mr Clifford Hatts, a Senior Designer in the BBC Television Design Department, will speak about his work, with special reference to transmission of information by visual means. On 21st February Mr C. W. Hanson, Head of Research Department, Aslib, will report on work in progress in information and library research, other than that being carried out by Aslib.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 13 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 January 1975

Hannelore B. Rader

Following is an annotated bibliography of materials published in 1974 on orienting the users to the library and instructing them in the use of library resources. Since this is a…

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Following is an annotated bibliography of materials published in 1974 on orienting the users to the library and instructing them in the use of library resources. Since this is a continuation of last year's review of the literature, some 1973 publications are included because they were not available for last year's perusal. Even though only English language materials are included in this review, it should be noted that library instruction has become a concern in many other countries which reported many surveys, program reports, and recommendations in their national library literature in 1973–74. Such publications have appeared in East and West Germany, Sweden, Finland, Japan, Rumania, Norway, France, Soviet Union, South Africa, Czechoslovakia, etc.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 3 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 1 October 1978

Clive Bingley, Sarah Lawson and Edwin Fleming

WENT TO Brittany in July for a week's holiday with my dear wife, and found it agreeaby empty of both tourists and the flood of crude oil which had enveloped the coast a few months…

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WENT TO Brittany in July for a week's holiday with my dear wife, and found it agreeaby empty of both tourists and the flood of crude oil which had enveloped the coast a few months ago when the tanker Amoco Cadiz broke up. Plenty of rain, though, so we spent the week perambulating between restaurants, and returned lighter of pocket and heavier of tum, to find a charming letter from a librarian in Hong Kong, who said he had met my sister there recently and she had expressed great admiration for me. I replied that in that case it couldn't have been my sister and would he please send a photo of the lady.

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New Library World, vol. 79 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 5 May 2023

Alireza Ahmadsimab, Mahdi Tajeddin and Russell Fralich

The purpose of this study is to describe how Zoom became the tope video conferencing service across the globe.

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Purpose

The purpose of this study is to describe how Zoom became the tope video conferencing service across the globe.

Research methodology

This case was developed from secondary sources including industry reports, academic, newspaper, periodical sources, company annual reports, social media sites and company websites. This case has been classroom tested with undergraduates in a strategic management course as a capstone course.

Case overview/synopsis

The case study describes the rapid growth of Zoom Communications Inc., a San Jose based publicly traded video conferencing company founded in 2011 by Eric Yuan. It illustrates the competition in the online meeting solutions industry in late 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown. To explain how Zoom became the top video conferencing service across the globe, the case highlights the attractiveness of the market and the competitive advantage of Zoom over its rivals. Students can evaluate the internal capabilities and competencies of Zoom as well as identify key challenges in the external environment for sustaining Zoom’s competitive advantage.

Complexity academic level

This case study is suitable for strategic management classes for upper-level undergraduates and at the graduate level for MBA and/or master students. It prepares students to discuss core concepts in strategy, such as competitive strategy and competitive forces that shape strategy.

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The CASE Journal, vol. 19 no. 6
Type: Case Study
ISSN: 1544-9106

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Publication date: 1 April 1972

Language may be a treasured heritage of small comunities, all that is left to bind them together. It is often a matter of national or regional pride, keeping alive a tongue dead…

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Language may be a treasured heritage of small comunities, all that is left to bind them together. It is often a matter of national or regional pride, keeping alive a tongue dead centuries past everywhere else; in an area of the Grisons forty thousand Swiss speak the Latin Romansch, the tongue spoken by the citizens of ancient Rome, and nowhere else in the world is it heard. There are so‐called official languages; in the councils of Europe, it has always been French, which is the official language of the European Economic Community; this means, of course, that all EEC Directives and in due course, judgments of its courts, will be first delivered in French.

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British Food Journal, vol. 74 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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Publication date: 28 May 2019

Joanne Cliffe

Schools are placed in ‘special measures’ in England if they are deemed to be under performing by failing to provide their pupils with an acceptable standard of education. This…

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Schools are placed in ‘special measures’ in England if they are deemed to be under performing by failing to provide their pupils with an acceptable standard of education. This chapter explores one female headteacher’s emotional experiences as she coped in difficult circumstances during an intense period of scrutiny as she led her staff towards school improvement and out of special measures. The headteacher regulated and utilised her emotions intelligently to deliberately enhance the performance of others at work and in doing so she addressed and changed the localised culture of the school. Data are drawn from a series of interviews with the headteacher and her self-reported responses to an ‘EQ Map’ (Cooper & Sawaf, 1997). Using the EQ Map as the conceptual framework, findings show a sense of work satisfaction emerged as a result of tackling challenging situations. An increased awareness of one’s emotions led to being mindful regarding the emotional state of others, as the headteacher sought opportunities to bring about school improvement and address challenges presented by being placed in special measures. A distinctive list of 21 key features of emotional management emerged from the scales of the EQ Map capturing a model in relation to coping under internal and external pressures.

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Emotion Management and Feelings in Teaching and Educational Leadership
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78756-011-6

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Publication date: 1 February 1972

The pattern of food prosecutions in more recent times has remained relatively unchanged. Most have been taken under Section 2, Food and Drugs Act, 1955, even for foods which have…

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The pattern of food prosecutions in more recent times has remained relatively unchanged. Most have been taken under Section 2, Food and Drugs Act, 1955, even for foods which have obviously been unfit for human consumption. The Section because of its wider application has distinct procedural advantages. A few local authorities routinely use Section 8 successfully; it probably depends upon a more liberal interpretation and understanding by local justices. The five‐year study of food prosecutions, (BFJ 1971, 73, 39), separated them into a number of well‐defined groups and showed that those for the presence of foreign material were the majority and remained fairly constant throughout the period; mouldy foods increased during the five years and then remained steady as the second largest single group. The foods most commonly affected and the foreign matter commonly present could be seen; neither changed much during the period of the survey.

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British Food Journal, vol. 74 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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