The purpose of this paper is to encourage caution when considering plans to migrate from physical materials to e‐materials.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to encourage caution when considering plans to migrate from physical materials to e‐materials.
Design/methodology/approach
The author's argument to encourage caution when considering plans to migrate from physical materials to e‐materials is based on published statistics and personal observation.
Findings
When considering current usage of e‐books in comparison to physical materials, the usage of e‐books is statistically insignificant.
Originality/value
Offers statistical evidence that e‐books will not supplant, now or in the foreseen future, the demand for physical materials.
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The purpose of this article is to encourage public librarians to consider replacing two service desks with one.
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The purpose of this article is to encourage public librarians to consider replacing two service desks with one.
Design/methodology/approach
The author interacts with his experience of providing library services from a two‐story Carnegie library and a multi‐desk one‐story library to make an argument for a single service desk.
Findings
Providing one service point creates a seamless experience for patrons and necessitates teamwork from all service staff – professional and non‐professional.
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Offers a “common‐sense” perspective on providing reference and circulation services.
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The purpose of this article is to consider alternative qualifications for professional public library positions.
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The purpose of this article is to consider alternative qualifications for professional public library positions.
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The author reflects on the necessary qualifications for professional public library positions following a recent library clerk recruitment.
Findings
The paper finds that credentialed professionals in other fields may serve the mission of the public library equally or better than credentialed librarians.
Originality/value
The paper offers a practical commentary on changes that may necessitate a redefinition of who is needed to fill professional positions in public libraries.
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The purpose of this paper is to encourage annual dramatic visual change.
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The purpose of this paper is to encourage annual dramatic visual change.
Design/methodology/approach
The author incorporates principles of retail merchandising and his experience in retail grocery to make the argument for annual dramatic visual change.
Findings
A recent reset of the children's collection led to increased circulation, improved staff contact with patrons, and a project narrative to share with elected officials.
Originality/value
The paper offers anecdotal evidence from a unique experience as a grocery retail clerk that annual dramatic visual change boosts the library's status in the community.
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The purpose of this paper is to encourage substantive personal interaction with public library patrons.
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The purpose of this paper is to encourage substantive personal interaction with public library patrons.
Design/methodology/approach
The argument for implementing a service model based on personal interaction is presented.
Findings
By using the story of a library cat, library staff can replicate a similar emotional bond and loyalty with its patrons.
Originality/value
Affectionate animals can teach us a lot about ourselves and help to improve service to library patrons.
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The purpose of this article is to encourage public librarians to reconsider the future value of their paper book collections.
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The purpose of this article is to encourage public librarians to reconsider the future value of their paper book collections.
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The author interacts with developing trends to make an argument for supporting paper book collections in the digital age.
Findings
The liquidation of Borders Group Inc. provides the public library with an opportunity to market its paper collections to publishers and paper book buyers.
Originality/value
The article offers a contrarian perspective on the enduring value physical book collections will play in the digital age.
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To examine the impact of the philosophical sources on Herbert Simon's Administrative Behavior, a central work in the management canon.
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Purpose
To examine the impact of the philosophical sources on Herbert Simon's Administrative Behavior, a central work in the management canon.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper uses a conceptual approach, tracing the influence of the major philosophers – William James, John Dewey and the logical positivists (A.J. Ayer and Rudolph Carnap) – cited in the book.
Findings
An understanding of the philosophical platform supporting Administrative Behavior is crucial to a more complete reading of the book and to furthering research in the area.
Practical implications
Future research focused either on extending Herbert Simon's work or, more generally, on advancing the study of management, will benefit from deeper consideration of the implications of the chosen philosophical platform supporting the endeavour.
Originality/value
The paper provides the reader a means for better understanding the contributions of a key work in management, with implications that extend to its overall study.
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Karina V. Kuznetsova, Elena N. Klochkova, Tatiana L. Lukyanchikova and Mikhail S. Shmarkov
The purpose of this chapter is to determine the basic characteristics of information economy, including consideration of the theoretical features and distinguishing the analytical…
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Purpose
The purpose of this chapter is to determine the basic characteristics of information economy, including consideration of the theoretical features and distinguishing the analytical aspects of functioning of this phenomenon under modern conditions. The authors offer a hypothesis that basic characteristics of information economy are transformed under the influence of digitization and the change in telecommunication interaction.
Methodology
The following methodological tools were used: analytical introspection (determining estimate phenomena of the studied object with the help of practical materials analysis), theoretical cognition (grouping and synthesis of scientific studies of foreign and Russian scholars in the sphere of information economy), and group evaluation of phenomena (studying the modern regularities of information economy development).
Results
The following conclusions are made: the theory of information economy is based on presenting information as a tool of economy management (information is the main economic value that creates national wealth); the modern idea of information economy is connected to the aspects of digital and telecommunication interaction; the information economy of the twenty-first century is aimed at monetization of information on households; and a new basic direction of information economy is information and program economy.
Recommendations
The sphere of application of the received results is rather wide. They will be of interest for practitioners, government employees, and researchers in the sphere of macro-economic development of the country during the period of transformation of the paradigm of economic growth. The main direction of future research is substantiation of approaches to formation of a new economic thought based on information and digital technologies.
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In the multiplicity of facts and factors which bear upon the feeding of nations the question of transport is the predominant partner.