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Publication date: 1 January 1992

John Allred

Increasingly, information about a wide range of learning opportunities is being made available on public access computer systems. Allred argues the case for bibliographic‐type…

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Increasingly, information about a wide range of learning opportunities is being made available on public access computer systems. Allred argues the case for bibliographic‐type standards for the control of the information stored and presented by such systems. The aim is to ensure full and comprehensive data, thereby avoiding confusion on behalf of the user, and to facilitate the transfer of information between systems.

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VINE, vol. 22 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0305-5728

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Publication date: 1 March 1973

PETER PLIMSOLL, JOHN ALLRED, ALAN R THOMAS, FRANK JANNOCK, FRANK ATKINSON, COLIN OFFOR, IMOGEN DALEY, MALCOLM CAMPBELL and CLIVE BINGLEY

THE CIVIL CODES of most European countries have, for several decades, required official publication of company details in government gazettes. Thus librarians in each EEC country…

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THE CIVIL CODES of most European countries have, for several decades, required official publication of company details in government gazettes. Thus librarians in each EEC country have enjoyed the availability of an official bulletin, published daily or bi‐weekly: in France, for example, it is called Bulletin officiel des annonces commerciales, a daily document of 70–80 double column pages containing full details of registrations, changes and cessations of all forms of business enterprises, (not only limited companies), together with an index to all personal and business names mentioned. The publication started in 1926 and now costs 50 centimes per issue or Frs 60 in France (c £5) per year. Similar documents at comparable prices are published by the other EEC governments and Denmark too.

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New Library World, vol. 74 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 July 1972

JOHN ALLRED

COMPUTERISATION of a library's circulation system should never be thought of as merely a highly mechanised loan system. Its potential lies in exercising full control over all

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COMPUTERISATION of a library's circulation system should never be thought of as merely a highly mechanised loan system. Its potential lies in exercising full control over all stock movements, to binders, to branch or departmental libraries, as well as to borrowers. In addition, the collection and use of records of these stock movements can provide data to optimise the use of the bookstock and to give sophisticated aid to the provision of new and replacement stock. This process is similar to that already adopted by other stockholding institutions, such as automobile spare parts agencies or supermarkets. The library differs from these in its larger range of items and the re‐use of these items. The technical problems concerned with the collection and deployment of data about stock use are very similar.

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New Library World, vol. 73 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 June 1999

John Allred

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Library Management, vol. 20 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-5124

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Publication date: 1 May 1983

In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of…

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In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.

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Management Decision, vol. 21 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0025-1747

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Publication date: 1 February 1979

John Allred

The thesis of this book is that library measurement needs to move on and away from the idea that it is a process of counting and comparing the resources deployed by our libraries…

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The thesis of this book is that library measurement needs to move on and away from the idea that it is a process of counting and comparing the resources deployed by our libraries. The current emphasis on output measurement is an improvement but not the answer, refreshing as it is to judge a library by the quantity of what comes out instead of by the quantity of what is put in. The author believes that the nature of the library service is that of a “broad aim” social programme, best judged (evaluated) by gathering “politically significant information on the consequences of political acts”. “Political” here implies that the aims and intentions of those funding, organising and using libraries arise from more than one set of social values and from more than one definition of what the library is, and that they differ in priorities even when they do not directly conflict. Information about the library service will be in the form of a spectrum of measures reflecting the inputs, the processes, the outputs and the impact of the library, relating the various values in various ways. The difficulty in measuring library services, it is argued here, arises from the conflicts and lack of clarity about the aims of the service, and from uncertainty about how the process affects the outcomes. The technical problems of measurement are secondary. Chapter One aims to survey the range of measures available, whilst the rest of the book discusses how they might be used.

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Library Management, vol. 1 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-5124

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Publication date: 1 June 1982

Blaise Cronin

I should like to begin with an analogy, which was used originally by Alan Gilchrist in a paper on cost‐effectiveness some years ago. The analogy is repeated almost verbatim…

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I should like to begin with an analogy, which was used originally by Alan Gilchrist in a paper on cost‐effectiveness some years ago. The analogy is repeated almost verbatim because it says precisely what I want to say, better than I could have said it myself.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 34 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 22 June 2012

Erhard K. Valentin and Anthony T. Allred

The reported study was designed to provide insight into gift cards as gifts and their place among gifts of cash and goods. It also was designed to identify promising avenues for…

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Purpose

The reported study was designed to provide insight into gift cards as gifts and their place among gifts of cash and goods. It also was designed to identify promising avenues for further research.

Design/methodology/approach

Data were collected using a structured questionnaire administered to a convenience sample of 317 respondents of both sexes who varied greatly in age.

Findings

Effective liquidity served largely as the basis for categorizing gift cards. The greater a card's effective liquidity, the more its economic impact on the recipient resembles that of cash. The results indicated the following: face value affects recipient preference for effective liquidity; the giver‐getter relationship affects recipient preference for effective liquidity; the gift cards givers give tend to have less effective liquidity than those they prefer to get; some gift cards are more appropriate gifts than others and some, but not all, gift cards are more appropriate gifts than cash; and people feel less guilt when paying for personal luxuries with gift cards than with cash.

Research limitations

The study was largely exploratory insofar as its breadth greatly exceeded its depth and findings derived from a convenience sample.

Originality/value

The study introduced effective liquidity as a basis for assessing similarities and differences between gift cards and gifts of cash and goods. Findings enhance scholarly understanding of gift cards and their place among gifts of cash and goods. Moreover, they afford insights into marketing gift cards and into promising paths for further research.

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Journal of Consumer Marketing, vol. 29 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0736-3761

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Publication date: 1 April 1980

Not many weeks back, according to newspaper reports, three members of the library staff of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London were dismissed. All had…

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Not many weeks back, according to newspaper reports, three members of the library staff of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London were dismissed. All had refused to carry out issue desk duty. All, according to the newspaper account, were members of ASTMS. None, according to the Library Association yearbook, was a member of the appropriate professional organisation for librarians in Great Britain.

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Library Review, vol. 29 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 1 September 1972

OUR EDITORIAL in the January NLW dealt with the terminology for resource centres and their content. Since then we have dipped into Advances in librarianship, vol 1 1970, read…

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OUR EDITORIAL in the January NLW dealt with the terminology for resource centres and their content. Since then we have dipped into Advances in librarianship, vol 1 1970, read Chase Dane's article on ‘The changing school library’, and do not like the term ‘instructional media center’, either. Nor do we like the insistence in the article that the purpose of an imc is different from that of a conventional library. ‘The new facilities it demands’, says Dane, ‘reflect a new approach with emphasis on individualized instruction, and a fresh way of helping students learn’. ‘Always before’, we read, ‘the value of the school library has been limited to students who could read or who liked books or who were able to use them effectively. The imc has changed all this. It appeals to the non‐reader as well as to the reader. A student doesn't have to be a good reader to get help from the library. Even if he is a poor reader, there is now a way, through audio‐visual materials, for him to acquire the knowledge he wants’.

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New Library World, vol. 73 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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