Paul A. Herbig and Robert Milam
Fifty years after Pearl Harbor, Japanese economic arrogance is becomingwidely apparent. Argues that the cultural and economic homogeneity whichformed the basis of Japan′s economic…
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Fifty years after Pearl Harbor, Japanese economic arrogance is becoming widely apparent. Argues that the cultural and economic homogeneity which formed the basis of Japan′s economic success will eventually lead to its downfall. Examines the fallacies of economic arrogance and what lies in the future after the inevitable fall.
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MADAM PRESIDENT, I ESTEEM it a compliment of a very high order that one of your first acts on assuming the high office which you hold was to ask Mr. Milam to transmit to me as…
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MADAM PRESIDENT, I ESTEEM it a compliment of a very high order that one of your first acts on assuming the high office which you hold was to ask Mr. Milam to transmit to me as President of the sister Association in Great Britain an invitation to be present at, and to address, this Conference. It was a most gracious act on your part, and a gesture of friendliness which the Carnegie Trustees whom I serve and my colleagues of our own Association very highly appreciate. There are inevitably subjects which lead to differences of opinion between our two great countries,—differences, however, which, under Providence, we shall continue to solve by amicable discussion,—but in the field of knowledge, for which the library service performs a function of ever‐growing importance, our aims and ideals are the same. We are able freely to exchange opinion on occasions like this and the Edinburgh Conference of 1927 at which so many of your colleagues were welcome guests. We are able to render to each other services which are invaluable not merely in the technique of librarianship, but also in the causes of the higher learning and international friendship. Community of knowledge is the surest guarantee of mutual respect and goodwill.
Robert Parent, Joanne M. Roch and Julie Béliveau
The purpose of this paper is to suggest the use of a new action research methodology, the learning history, to study knowledge transfer initiatives.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to suggest the use of a new action research methodology, the learning history, to study knowledge transfer initiatives.
Design/methodology/approach
An overview of the literature on learning histories is followed by the results of a case study, where a learning history is used to transfer humanistic practices from an American health care model to a Quebec setting.
Findings
This study demonstrates how the learning history method can act as a catalyst to accelerate the knowledge transfer process. It has helped researchers and practitioners recognize and address the challenges involved in implementing change and transferring new knowledge in an organization.
Research limitations/implications
Although the learning history provides a fresh and effective way to study learning and knowledge concepts, the potential of this new methodology in studying knowledge transfer activities has not been fully explored. The limitations are primarily those associated with the amount of work involved in a developing a learning history as well as the courage and honesty it requires.
Practical implications
Approaches to improving learning from experience and descriptions about how to capture and disseminate knowledge within organizations are somewhat limited. The findings of this study offer practitioners and researchers guidance on how to accelerate the implementation of future initiatives knowledge transfer.
Originality/value
By linking learning histories to knowledge transfer, this article provides a fresh new approach to studying how knowledge can be transferred from researchers to practitioners and bridging what some have called “the great divide” between these two communities.
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Robert Hurst and Chathurika Kannangara
The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of existing literature on post-traumatic growth (PTG), particularly in the ways that it relates to grief.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of existing literature on post-traumatic growth (PTG), particularly in the ways that it relates to grief.
Design/methodology/approach
This narrative literature review brings together 125 sources and presents them in a readable way.
Findings
There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that PTG can come from grief. This is not always the case, however.
Research limitations/implications
This review presents only a selection of the existing literature – the review is not systematic. However, this allows for a narrative to be crafted, to aid readability.
Practical implications
Suggestions for future research are made throughout, and potential therapeutic applications are mentioned.
Social implications
This paper discusses stigma, in the form of “disenfranchised grief”. In this, social pressures and expectations affect how a person processes their grief psychologically. While movements to increase discourse and reduce stigma are on the rise, more is needed.
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This review guides readers through existing literature, providing a wide overview of the topic of PTG in grief.
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THE publication last month of the long‐anticipated Report of the Departmental Public Libraries Committee is, of course, the principal recent event. It is too long to allow us to…
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THE publication last month of the long‐anticipated Report of the Departmental Public Libraries Committee is, of course, the principal recent event. It is too long to allow us to give a full account of its arguments and conclusions, and in common with all who work for libraries we must return to it again and again in the future. It may be said, however, that it will allay the fears of those who thought that one result of the Committee's deliberations would be to support and to suggest the implementing of the Report of the Adult Education Committee of the lamented Ministry of Reconstruction, which would have handed over the public libraries of the country as a gift to the directors of education. This report does nothing of the kind; it even suggests that as public opinion is clearly opposed to such a course, the libraries should remain in the hands of those who made them an admitted success even under the adverse conditions of the limited rate. Thus the way is open to real progress, and the very confined conditions which would be a necessary result of the absorption of libraries in the official education machinery are not immediately to be dreaded.
Before January 1938, no major journal in any of the three disciplines most concerned—English, Education, Library—had a department regularly devoted to Reference Book Review. Only…
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Before January 1938, no major journal in any of the three disciplines most concerned—English, Education, Library—had a department regularly devoted to Reference Book Review. Only those of us dedicated to the practice and teaching of Reference can experience the exhilaration of having, at last, not only a department, but an entire journal committed to Reference Book Reviewing, as is RSR. This editorial begins with a salute to the founders of Reference Services Review, continues with a condensed chronicle of a four‐decade crusade for the recognition of a Literature of Reference; and concludes with a statement on the art and science of Reference Literary Criticism today.
IN the nature of things the Library Association Conference this year cannot have the spectacular character of the jubilee one of 1950; but that does not mean it will be less…
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IN the nature of things the Library Association Conference this year cannot have the spectacular character of the jubilee one of 1950; but that does not mean it will be less effective or less useful. Edinburgh is the second city of the United Kingdom, at least in appeal to bookmen, and probably Scots would object to our order of the hierarchy. Apart from the public libraries, a place that has the National Library of Scotland, the Advocates, the Signet and the University libraries, to name only the principal ones, with many associations and treasures, must have great attractions. On looking over conference reports generally, one can infer that the one institution in a town that is not frequented by librarians in the week is the public library. The obstacle is no doubt occupation with the meetings, which many delegates are naturally unwilling to miss. But we do suggest that library visits by newcomers to Edinburgh might be quite as important, in present impression and lasting effect, as most ordinary meetings can be. Since it must be admitted that our business at Edinburgh is to attend meetings, restraint is essential, but at least the Central Library and the fine Leith Library should be squeezed into the personal programme.