I set out to find the people we have neglected and instead found what I think may be the beginnings of a long quiet revolution. A year ago I did not know how many developments and…
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I set out to find the people we have neglected and instead found what I think may be the beginnings of a long quiet revolution. A year ago I did not know how many developments and experiments were taking place in information fields that until recently have not been explored. The title of my paper was often a source of embarrassment as I talked to enthusiastic pioneers who did not consider their clients to be deprived. Nevertheless they were pioneers.
Sally Hodges, Madeleine Cooke and Jack Meadows
Investigates whether public libraries are capable of providing abasic science enquiry service. Examines the range of environmentalenquiries handled by five participating libraries…
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Investigates whether public libraries are capable of providing a basic science enquiry service. Examines the range of environmental enquiries handled by five participating libraries as a part of their everyday business. During the study some 110 detailed enquiries where recorded: somewhat less than 20 per cent of these concerned local environmental questions; the rest related to environmental queries at the national or global level. The three most popular topics were: pollution; names/addresses of environmental organizations and people; and recycling. Enquirers were evenly split between school attenders and adults. Most of the enquiries could be answered by making use of the resources already available in the library; no more than 10 per cent had to be referred elsewhere for an answer.
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Library services to meet the needs of ethnicminority groups are described, along with theguidelines within which librarians operate inthe development of multicultural…
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Library services to meet the needs of ethnic minority groups are described, along with the guidelines within which librarians operate in the development of multicultural library services. The needs of ethnic minority groups are identified and the ways in which these needs can be met by the public library are demonstrated.
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Discusses statistical data of interlending from the EnglishRegional Library System and the other UK national libraries innon‐fiction, fiction, and non‐print material categories…
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Discusses statistical data of interlending from the English Regional Library System and the other UK national libraries in non‐fiction, fiction, and non‐print material categories. Considers UK developments in interlending for languages other than English, fiction, Newsplan, LAWLIP, HIP, the Library and Information Plans for Music and for Visual Arts, and video materials. Summarises that all of these projects have presented difficulties, and should be brought together to pursue mutually beneficial goals.
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New terms of grant for the above period have been offered by OSTI and accepted by Aslib. These grants are in four sections: income‐related grants for support of (a) Aslib's…
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New terms of grant for the above period have been offered by OSTI and accepted by Aslib. These grants are in four sections: income‐related grants for support of (a) Aslib's general range of activities and (b) its general research programme; and expenditure‐related grants for (c) the experimental development and evaluation of new services and (d) contracts for research projects commissioned by OSTI.
Clive Bingley, Edwin Fleming and Sarah Lawson
I WAS lunching recently with a friend who reckons he has about ten more years to go in libraries before retirement, and he raised an interesting question. Given the realisation…
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I WAS lunching recently with a friend who reckons he has about ten more years to go in libraries before retirement, and he raised an interesting question. Given the realisation that one will not, at his age, now be likely to make chief, what can a senior and experienced librarian do by way of interesting alternative to just serving out time?
Susan Albers Mohrman and Stu Winby
We argue that in order to address the contemporary challenges that organizations and societies are facing, the field of organization development (OD) requires frameworks and…
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We argue that in order to address the contemporary challenges that organizations and societies are facing, the field of organization development (OD) requires frameworks and skills to focus on the eco-system as the level of analysis. In a world that has become economically, socially, and technologically highly connected, approaches that foster the optimization of specific actors in the eco-system, such as individual corporations, result in sub-optimization of the sustainability of the natural and social system because there is insufficient offset to the ego-centric purposes of the focal organization. We discuss the need for OD to broaden focus to deal with technological advances that enable new ways of organizing at the eco-system level, and to deal with the challenges to sustainable development. Case examples from healthcare and the agri-foods industry illustrate the kinds of development approaches that are required for the development of healthy eco-systems. We do not suggest fundamental changes in the identity of the field of organizational development. In fact, we demonstrate the need to dig deeply into the open systems and socio-technical roots of the field, and to translate the traditional values and approaches of OD to continue to be relevant in today’s dynamic interdependent world.