Tom Kmetz and Ray Bailey
To examine the issues involved with migrating an academic library's web site to a commercial content management system (CMS) within a campus‐wide implementation.
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Purpose
To examine the issues involved with migrating an academic library's web site to a commercial content management system (CMS) within a campus‐wide implementation.
Design/methodology/approach
The old and new web sites are described in terms of their histories, technologies, and structures. Key issues relating to the migration are identified and some concerns and benefits are listed.
Findings
Although proprietary systems are restrictive in some ways, the technological, organizational, and work flow advantages to the CMS which was employed are significant. An entirely different set of issues emerge when a library participates in a campus‐wide implementation as opposed to one which is librarywide.
Originality/value
This may be the first case study of a CMS migration that is both campus‐wide and using a commercially available system. The current trend in academic libraries toward home‐grown systems could some day be reversed as the commercial CMS market evolves.
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To introduce the special theme issue on “Content management systems”.
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Purpose
To introduce the special theme issue on “Content management systems”.
Design/methodology/approach
Each of the articles in the theme are described in brief.
Findings
The articles cover a range of topics from implementation to interoperability, object‐oriented database management systems, and research about meeting user needs.
Originality/value
Libraries have only just begun to realize that their web presence is potentially as rich and complex as their online catalogs, and that it needs an equal amount of management to keep it under control.
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Metaphors are revelatory of the perceptions, values and behaviors of school administrators. Through transfer of meaning, metaphors attempt to broaden perspectives, enhance…
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Metaphors are revelatory of the perceptions, values and behaviors of school administrators. Through transfer of meaning, metaphors attempt to broaden perspectives, enhance understanding and provide insight into the organization, operation and administration of school. What effect do metaphors, whether verbalized openly, expressed symbolically, or camouflaged in organizational structures and behaviors, have on schools and their operations? What influences, if any, are there if school administrators liken the activities and administration of their schools to an assembly line operation? A ticking clock? A garden? A mirror of society? A museum? Or, candy machine? The purpose of the paper is to address these two questions by: presenting a variety of images, similes, metaphors, and analogies used to describe the purposes of and the organization, operation and administration of public schools; examining what six particular metaphors contribute to an understanding of various characteristics and dimensions of schools; and finally, analyzing what these metaphors mean in terms of how educational administrators conceptualize schooling, interpret their administrative role, and put their knowledge, skills, attitudes and values into practice. The paper includes a discussion of the potential of metaphor in terms of its implications for the practice of administration in schools, for the training of educational leaders, for the construction of theory, and for the development of a philosophy of educational administration.
Through a survey of 200 employees working in five of the thirty establishments analysed in previous research about the microeconomic effects of reducing the working time (Cahier…
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Through a survey of 200 employees working in five of the thirty establishments analysed in previous research about the microeconomic effects of reducing the working time (Cahier 25), the consequences on employees of such a reduction can be assessed; and relevant attitudes and aspirations better known.