Journal articles: 'Leeds, University of. Library'

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Davies, Rachel, and Barbara Sen. "Overdue books at Leeds University Library." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 46, no. 3 (May 17, 2013): 226–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961000613486826.

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Green, Paul Robert. "Adhesive journal binding — the Remploy trial at Leeds University Library." Aslib Proceedings 48, no. 9 (September 1996): 195–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb051425.

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Green, Paul Robert. "Serials Management at the Science and Engineering Library of Leeds University." Serials Librarian 19, no. 1-2 (December 21, 1990): 161–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j123v19n01_13.

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Bucknell, Terry, and Tracey Stanley. "Design and implementation of a periodicals voting exercise at Leeds University Library." Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community 15, no. 2 (July 1, 2002): 153–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1629/15153.

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Tyson, Diana B. "Three Short Anglo-Norman Texts in Leeds University Library Brotherton Collection MS 29." Nottingham Medieval Studies 52 (January 2008): 81–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.nms.3.429.

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Birch, Katie. "The Documents Direct Project at the University of Leeds: Increasing Access." Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community 12, no. 2 (July 1, 1999): 180–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1629/12180.

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Birch, Katie, and Ian A. Young. "Unmediated document delivery at Leeds University: from project to operational system." Interlending & Document Supply 29, no. 1 (March 2001): 4–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02641610110380881.

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Wilkinson, Jan. "The hybrid libraries programme: Papers from a workshop at the University of Leeds: Introduction." New Review of Academic Librarianship 4, no. 1 (January 1998): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13614539809516762.

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Green, Paul R. "Monitoring the Usage of Science and Engineering Journals at the Edward Boyle Library, University of Leeds." Serials Librarian 25, no. 1-2 (July 12, 1994): 169–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j123v25n01_13.

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Husband, Dorothy, and Valerie Wildridge. "Under One UmbrelLA: a Library Association group training event, 5-7 July 1991, University of Leeds." Health Libraries Review 8, no. 4 (December 1991): 225–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2532.1991.8402232.x.

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Slive, Daniel J. "Richard Landon. A Long Way from the Armstrong Beer Parlour: A Life in Rare Books. New Castle, Delaware and Toronto, Ontario: Oak Knoll Books and Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 2014. 440p. One illustration. ISBN: 978-1-58456-330-3 (Oak Knoll Press) / 978-0-7727-6113-2 (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library). $49.95." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 17, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 86–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.17.1.464.

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Throughout the course of his lengthy and remarkable career, Richard Landon successfully developed and promoted the extensive and renowned collections at the University of Toronto Libraries. After receiving his undergraduate and library school degrees from the University of British Columbia, Landon was hired in 1967 as a cataloguer in the libraries‘ Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. In the academic year 1971–1972 he pursued an advanced degree in bibliography and textual criticism at the University of Leeds, returning to Toronto to serve as Assistant Head and Acting Head prior to his appointment as Head of the department in . . .

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Hewitson, Andrew. "Use and awareness of electronic information services by academic staff at Leeds Metropolitan University: A qualitative study." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 34, no. 1 (March 1, 2002): 43–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961000024245106.

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Hewitson, Andrew. "Use and awareness of electronic information services by academic staff at Leeds Metropolitan University - A qualitative study." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 34, no. 1 (March 2002): 43–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096100060203400105.

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Xu, Lin. "Technological Innovation Leads the Development of University Library Service." Applied Mechanics and Materials 631-632 (September 2014): 1409–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.631-632.1409.

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This article mainly takes technical innovation as the starting point, this paper introduces that the technological innovation leads the development of university library service, including the connotation of service innovation, the innovation of the service content, and the innovation of the service mode. Finally by technological innovation leading services empirical analysis out of the library service innovation and development.

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Wehner, Ralf. ""... das sei nun alles für das Düsseldorfer Theater und dessen Heil..."." Die Musikforschung 55, no. 2 (September 22, 2021): 145–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.52412/mf.2002.h2.753.

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In der Freemantle Collection der Brotherton Library, University of Leeds, befindet sich ein fünfseitiges Autograph von Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, das bisher nicht identifiziert war. Dieses unbekannte Orchesterwerk des Komponisten ist eine kleine Bühnenmusik zu dem Vorspiel "Kurfürst Johann Wilhelm im Theater" von Karl Immermann, mit dem das Stadttheater Düsseldorf am 28. Oktober 1834 eröffnet wurde. Im ersten Teil werden einige Takte aus Mozarts "Don Giovanni" adaptiert, der zweite Teil bildete die Begleitmusik zu einem von Theodor Hildebrandt nach dem Kupferstich von Giovanni Volpato "Der Parnass von Raphael" entworfenen "lebenden Bild", das Schauspieler in Szene setzten.

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Munday, Jeremy. "Jon Silkin as Anthologist, Editor, and Translator." Translation and Literature 25, no. 1 (March 2016): 84–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/tal.2016.0238.

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This article draws on the papers of Jon Silkin (1930–1997) held in the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds, to analyse Silkin's crucial yet neglected role as a commissioner, editor, and translator of modern poetry. Particular attention is given to his work on anthologies of modern Hebrew and Japanese poetry, which remained uncompleted on his death. Silkin closely collaborated with a range of local poets and translators, relying on them as expert informants for the selection of texts and to provide him with literals. This article discusses the complex powerplays that result when the various actors clash over their expectations of such anthologies.

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Lockwood, Tom. "“All Hayle to Hatfeild”: A New Series of Country House Poems from Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt q 44 [with text]." English Literary Renaissance 38, no. 2 (March 2008): 270–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6757.2008.00124.x.

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Alqudsi-ghabra, Taghreed, and Huda H. Mansouri. "Staff Motivation at Kuwait University Libraries." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 09, no. 04 (December 2010): 355–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649210002735.

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Motivation is a force that leads people to act or perform. Motivating staff is a key element in making workers productive. It has the potential to increase incentive, put staff members at ease, and derive some satisfaction from their jobs. Factors that motivate staff vary across the professional, para-professional, and non-professional levels. The research here is a study of motivation techniques used by managers of Kuwait University libraries to improve employees' job satisfaction levels. In the process, it examines techniques and issues that motivate library staff and how these differ among professionals and non-professionals. It appears that high productivity depends on the level of library workers.

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Broadhurst, Dominic. "The direct library supply of individual textbooks to students: examining the value proposition." Information and Learning Science 118, no. 11/12 (November 13, 2017): 629–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ils-07-2017-0072.

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Purpose This paper aims to highlight the value of a library led e-textbook programme at a the UK university. Design/methodology/approach The data for the results were obtained from two surveys of students. First, from an online survey of 575 students who received an individual copy of an e-textbook from The University of Manchester Library. Second, from a face to face survey of 146 students, based on a random sample of students entering the Alan Gilbert Learning Commons at the University. In addition, a series of one-to-one interviews were conducted with 40 members of academic faculty, who were teaching the course modules, on which the students received their own e-textbook. Findings This research highlights the significant benefits a library led e-textbook service can offer to students, academic faculty, the wider University and to the profile of the library. Provision of the e-textbooks leads to higher engagement of learning from students, their increased satisfaction with the University and Library, plus addresses issue of reducing their direct costs. It also leads to enhanced pedagogy from the perspective of academic faculty. Practical implications The paper addresses issues of inequality of provision for individual students and contributes to enhanced learning for all students. Originality/value Library led initiatives are very new in this field and this project is one of the first to both undertake this provision and to undertake extensive research to assess the value of the project.

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Nicholson, Steve. "Bolshevism in Lancashire: British Strike Plays of the 1920s." New Theatre Quarterly 8, no. 30 (May 1992): 159–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00006606.

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In an article in NTQ 29 (February 1992), Steve Nicholson looked at how the Russian Revolution was portrayed in the 1920s by the Conservative theatre establishment. Usually it is the Left that is accused of simplistic theatrical agitation: but in this, the second of two articles about the right-wing political theatre of the 1920s, the author shows how plays about industrial conflict and strikes within Britain demonstrated a level of crude Conservative propaganda that has tended to go unremarked. This article has been researched largely through unpublished manuscripts in the Lord Chamberlain's collection of plays in the British Library, and derives from the author's broader study of the portrayal of Communism in the British theatre between 1917 and 1945. Steve Nicholson is currently Lecturer in Drama at the Workshop Theatre of the University of Leeds.

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Nicholson, Steve. "Responses to Revolution: the Soviet Union Portrayed in the British Theatre, 1917–29." New Theatre Quarterly 8, no. 29 (February 1992): 62–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00006321.

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In theatrical parlance, ‘political’ is often taken to be synonymous with ‘left-wing’, and research into political theatre movements of the first half of this century has perpetuated the assumption that the right has generally avoided taking politics as subject matter. This article, the first of two about British political theatre in the 1920s, concentrates on plays about Communism and the Soviet Union during the decade following the Russian Revolution, and offers some contrasting conclusions. Steve Nicholson, Lecturer in Drama at the Workshop Theatre of the University of Leeds, argues that, whether such plays shaped or merely reflected conventional views, they were used by the establishment for the most blatant and explicit propaganda, at a time when it felt itself under threat from the Left. The article has been researched largely through unpublished manuscripts in the Lord Chamberlain's collection of plays, housed in the British Library, and derives from a broader study of the portrayal of Communism in the British theatre from 1917 to 1945.

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Nicholson, Steve. "Censoring Revolution: the Lord Chamberlain and the Soviet Union." New Theatre Quarterly 8, no. 32 (November 1992): 305–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00007089.

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In two earlier articles, Steve Nicholson has explored ways in which the the right-wing theatre of the 1920s both shaped and reflected the prevailing opinions of the establishment – in NTQ29 (February 1992) looking at how the Russian Revolution was portrayed on the stage, and in NTQ30 (May 1992) at the ways in which domestic industrial conflicts were presented. He concludes the series with three case studies of the role of the Lord Chamberlain, on whose collection of unpublished manuscripts now housed in the British Library his researches have been based, in preventing more sympathetic – or even more objective – views of Soviet and related subjects from reaching the stage. His analysis is based on a study of the correspondence over the banning of Geo A. DeGray's The Russian Monk, Hubert Griffith's Red Sunday, and a play in translation by a Soviet dramatist, Sergei Tretiakov's Roar China. Steve Nicholson is currently Lecturer in Drama at the Workshop Theatre of the University of Leeds.

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Rankin, Carolynn, Avril Brock, and Jackie Matthews. "Why can't every year be a National Year of Reading? An evaluation of the NYR in Yorkshire." Library and Information Research 33, no. 104 (September 24, 2009): 11–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/lirg156.

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An evaluation of the National Year of Reading in Yorkshire was conducted by Leeds Metropolitan University in response to a brief from Museums, Libraries and Archives, Yorkshire. This paper outlines the development and planning of phase one of this small scale qualitative research project and the analysis of the initial results which looks at the impact of NYR on the organisations that delivered the campaign and their work with target groups. The Generic Social Outcomes and the National Indicators were used to develop a theoretical framework. Data were gathered via in depth interviews and focus groups with NYR steering group partners in Calderdale and North Lincolnshire, selected as the two case study authorities. The use of MAXQDA computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) enabled data and coding structures to be stored and will facilitate comparison in this longitudinal study. This evaluation will provide material that local library authorities can use for advocacy with a range of audiences including local and central government.

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Howorth, Peter W. "The treatment of shell-shock." Psychiatric Bulletin 24, no. 6 (June 2000): 225–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.24.6.225.

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“I had a sister first, then a brother, then another brother – he was the one that was killed – and the next brother, who was also in the army, went out, and he got shell–shock. Of course, they didn't understand anything about it at all in those days. He was put on light duty at first, and for, I should think, two–and–a–half years, we had the most terrible life with him. I don't mean because he could help it – he couldn't help it at all – and no doctor seemed to be able to do anything with him at all.About five times a day, he'd say he was going to commit suicide. We knew he wouldn't, but he'd got to be watched, all the time, and he would wake up in the night, screaming – and my mother would go and sit with him – saying ‘Oh, I can't go back to it’ … It was absolutely terrifying when he woke up, screaming and screaming and screaming.” (Liddle Collection, Leeds University Library, further details available from author upon request)

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Izuagbe, Roland, and Sunday Olanrewaju Popoola. "Social influence and cognitive instrumental factors as facilitators of perceived usefulness of electronic resources among library personnel in private universities in South-west, Nigeria." Library Review 66, no. 8/9 (November 7, 2017): 679–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lr-09-2016-0086.

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Purpose The study examined the applicability of TAM2 theoretical constructs of social influence and cognitive instrumental factors vis-à-vis the facilitation of perceived usefulness of electronic resources among library personnel in private universities in South-west Nigeria. Design/Methodology/Approach Descriptive research design of correlational type alongside the single-stage random sampling technique were used to select 212 respondents from a population size of 259 library personnel across the 21 private universities in South-west Nigeria. The instrument used to elicit data was the questionnaire. Of the 212 copies of the questionnaire administered, 181 (85.4 per cent) were found valid for analysis. Findings Social influence and cognitive instrumental factors significantly had relationship with and facilitated perceived usefulness of electronic resources. Similarly, the study revealed that cognitive instrumental factors are stronger facilitators of perceived usefulness of electronic resources than social influence factors among library personnel in private universities in South-west, Nigeria. Practical implications Implementation of electronic resources without ascertaining library personnel usefulness perception leads to resource underutilisation and wastage. Management of private university libraries should, therefore, take into cognisance the usefulness perception of library personnel before the implementation of electronic resources for optimum utilisation. Originality/value There is no known research endeavour within the Nigerian context that examined perceived usefulness of electronic resources among library personnel in the private university domain, using the additional theoretical constructs of TAM2 as our research model suggests. This study is, therefore, a pioneering effort towards ascertaining library personnel’s perceived usefulness of electronic resources prior acceptance and use in private university libraries.

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Elayadom, Smitha C., and A. Thirunavukkarasu. "Using Information Communication Technology to Enhance Knowledge Management in University Libraries in Kerala." Asian Journal of Information Science and Technology 8, no. 1 (May 5, 2018): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.51983/ajist-2018.8.1.172.

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Information and knowledge has gained superiority in the present age where people believe that information is the most powerful weapon that leads a nation to progress. Knowledge is considered as the most important asset that leads a nation to progress and development. The Universities impart knowledge and the University Libraries, the place where knowledge accumulates, support the curriculum. Hence knowledge management gains importance. ICT is the major tool that helps the library professionals to provide better service to the users. The paper examines whether ICT enhances KM in University Libraries and also its effectiveness to the users. It is part of the study conducted to analyze the ‘application of KM in University Libraries in Kerala’.

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Guiter, Gerardo E., Sandra Sapia, Alexander I. Wright, Gordon G. A. Hutchins, and Thurayya Arayssi. "Development of a Remote Online Collaborative Medical School Pathology Curriculum with Clinical Correlations, across Several International Sites, through the Covid-19 Pandemic." Medical Science Educator 31, no. 2 (January 20, 2021): 549–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40670-021-01212-2.

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Abstract Introduction Due to the Covid-19 social distancing restrictions, in March 2020, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar decided to replace students’ clinical instruction with novel online electives. Hence, we implemented an innovative online and remote pathology curriculum, anchored on virtual microscopy and Zoom videoconferencing: ideal tools to support online teaching. Objective To assess a new curriculum implementation at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar. Materials and Methods This for-credit, 2-week elective included 6 synchronous Zoom sessions where complex clinicopathological cases were discussed in small groups. We used open access digital microscopy slides from the University of Leeds’ Virtual Pathology Library (http://www.virtualpathology.leeds.ac.uk/slides/library/). Students independently prepared for these sessions by reviewing cases, slides, readings, and questions in advance (asynchronous self-directed learning anchored on a flipped classroom model), and wrote a final review of a case. An assessment and feedback were given to each student. Results Four elective iterations were offered to a total of 29 students, with learners and faculty spread over 4 countries. During the Zoom sessions, students controlled the digital slides and offered their own diagnoses, followed by group discussions to strengthen autonomy and confidence. We surveyed learners about the elective’s performance (program evaluation). Students conveyed high levels of satisfaction about the elective’s overall quality, their pathology learning and online interactions, with minimal challenges related to the remote nature of the course. Discussion and Conclusions Technological innovations mitigate sudden disruptions in medical education. A remote curriculum allows instruction at any distance, at any time, from anywhere, enhancing educational exchanges, flexibility and globalization in medical education.

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Smith, Crosbie. "Maurice Pierre Crosland (1931–2020): an appreciation." British Journal for the History of Science 54, no. 1 (February 19, 2021): 79–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087420000643.

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Following some years of declining health, Professor Maurice Crosland passed away on 30 August 2020 at the age of eighty-nine. Author of four influential scholarly monographs, Maurice played major roles in the British Society for the History of Science during the 1960s and 1970s as an active Member of Council, Honorary Editor of the British Journal for the History of Science (1965–71) and Honorary President of the society (1974–6). His academic career began in 1963 with his appointment to a lectureship in the History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds. In 1974 the by-then Reader in History of Science secured a £100,000 Nuffield Foundation Grant with which to establish, for the first time, a dedicated history-of-science group at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Appointed Professor of the History of Science and Director of the Unit for the History, Philosophy and Social Relations of Science (known as the ‘History of Science Unit’ or simply ‘the Unit’), his objectives during the five-year Nuffield-funded period were to focus on promoting the research activities of the new group, build up much-needed library resources in a university which was barely ten years old, and effect a transition to a research and teaching Unit that would offer modules to undergraduates in each of the three principal faculties (Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences). His own research centred on French science during and after the Napoleonic period, with particular emphasis on the history of chemistry and the formal institutions and informal networks of Parisian science. In 1984 his work was recognized with the American Chemical Society's award of the Dexter Prize, a rare achievement for a British scholar.

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Mukundan, Ramina, and Nikesh Narayanan. "Research performance of Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi." Performance Measurement and Metrics 21, no. 1 (November 13, 2019): 52–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pmm-06-2019-0022.

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Purpose Khalifa University of Science and Technology (KU) is one of the prominent Universities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), of the Government of Abu Dhabi. The new Khalifa University was re-constituted in the year 2017 by merging three higher education institutions in Abu Dhabi, the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research and the Petroleum Institute. The objectives of these institutions and their research areas were entirely disparate in the pre-merger era and hence the evaluation of the research performance of its pre-merged entities in the past is vital for Khalifa University to plan for the future course of actions. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach This study analyzes and visualizes scholarly publications of Khalifa University of Science and Technology (KU) using SCOPUS data. There are various qualitative and quantitative methods to measure research performance. This study adopted citation analysis, one of the widely recognized quantitative metrics to measure the citation impact of scholarly publications. Findings Khalifa University leads in productivity compared to other UAE universities but the citation impact of its publications is less in comparison to United Arab Emirates University and New York University, Abu Dhabi in terms of citations per publication. The majority of KU publications are not highly cited. The majority of the KU publications (80 percent) received fewer citations and few papers (20 percent of the KU publications) attracted 80 percent of the total citations received for KU publications. Analysis results indicate that publishing in top-ranked journals would improve the chance of getting more citations. On average, eight percentage difference is seen in the h-index of KU authors when removing self-citations. Research limitations/implications The study considered only publications that are indexed in SCOPUS. It covered a limited set of sources as per the SCOPUS editorial policy. Most of the covered sources are journals and conference proceedings. Books’ data coverage in Citation Index is comparatively low, which may affect results regarding social sciences and humanities publications because book publication is more prominent in these subject areas. Khalifa University is a science and technology university, and the majority of its academic departments fall in science and technology domains. Even though there are few arts and humanities departments in the University, it will not affect the overall findings of the results of the analysis. Originality/value This study is original research conducted to study the impact of research publications of Khalifa University using Scopus data.

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Cox, Dennis. "The Leeds Library." Library Review 44, no. 3 (May 1995): 12–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00242539510086276.

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Aghaei, Somayeh, Shafi Habibi, Rahim Khodayari-Zarnaq, and Zeynab Iraji. "Exploring Academic Library Managers Communication Skills and the Effect on Librarians Job Motivation and Satisfaction." DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology 41, no. 5 (August 26, 2021): 339–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/djlit.41.5.16551.

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This study investigated the effect of academic library managers’ communication skills on the librarians’ motivation and job satisfaction. By determining the status and impact of library managers’ communication skills on the librarians’ level of motivation and job satisfaction, it is possible to design the necessary plans to promote librarians’ motivation and job satisfaction. The study population comprised 90 librarians from 20 universities and their branches. Data were collected via a questionnaire, and the relationships between variables were assessed via multiple regression. The average communication skills of library managers in academic libraries were 63.90 per cent and the average communication skills of librarians were 73.06 per cent, higher than the identified average. The library managers’ communication skills did not have a significant effect on librarians’ motivation, but had a significant effect on their job satisfaction. Moreover, effective communication between managers and employees leads to the provision of high-quality services and a better understanding of the tasks assigned to the employees. The results of this study are useful for administrators, librarians, and other university staff.

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Ahmad, Khurshid, Zheng JianMing, and Muhammad Rafi. "Assessing the literature of knowledge management (KM) in the field of library and information science." Information Discovery and Delivery 47, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 35–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/idd-06-2018-0021.

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide a bibliometric analysis of knowledge management (KM) literature published in the field of library and information science. KM is a systematic process of acquisition, extraction, organization and dissemination of knowledge in any organization. This study will help identify trends, emerging concepts and innovations in this particular field. Design/methodology/approach The data set of the study consists of 6,088 published documents the authors obtained from the ISI Web of Science database during 1900 and 2017. The analysis of literature about the library and information science consisted of five categories including productive institutions, prolific authors, annual publications, citations and highly cited articles. The documents included in this study include research papers, conference papers, reviews, book reviews and editorials. Findings The study found that the USA leads the world regarding the number of research publications in the area of KM in the field of library and information science. Considering the publication period, 2007, 2012 and 2016-2017 are the most productive years regarding publications in this particular field; the number of citations has been increasing over the years. The study also found that Nanyang Polytechnic University is the most productive research institution and Blanca Martins from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia is the most prolific researcher in this specific field. Originality/value This study provides a detailed bibliometric analysis of KM literature published in the field of library and information science. This study is an excellent example for researchers who are interested in conducting bibliometric studies.

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Kleut, Marija. "About the origins and destiny of the Erlangen Manuscript." Juznoslovenski filolog 71, no. 3-4 (2015): 29–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/jfi1504029k.

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Erlangen Manuscript of the old Serbo-Croatian folk poems is the most comprehensive and the most important collection of our decasyllable epic poems before the appearance of Vuk Karadzic. It was edited by Gerhard Gesemann in 1925 who also wrote an extensive introduction to the manuscript. This paper focuses on the circumstances under which the manuscript was created and the circumstances that brought the manuscript to the University Library in Erlangen. It has been established that it was created in the period when only one person existed who had a capacity thanks his rank to organize extensive work on recording and/or copying 217 poems that the manuscript contains. That person was General Maximilian von Petrasch who was the commander of the fortress Brod (1708-1723). The arguments that support this conclusion can be found primarily in von Petrasch?s biography (he understood ?Slavonic language?, he was well liked by the grenzen, the soldiers on the Military Frontier), but also in some of the poems - firstly, in the one in which his name is mentioned, and secondly, in those poems that celebrate the battles in which Maximilian von Petrasch participated. The Erlangen Manuscript was inherited by Joseph Petrasch, the philologist and the owner of the vast library who signed his collection of poems with the pseudonym Slavonier. After his death, the library, together with the Erlangen Manuscript, first became the property of The Learned Society in Altdorf and then came into the possession of the University Library in Erlangen. The reconstruction of the journey of the Erlangen Manuscript leads to the conclusion that the famous manuscript was created in the region of Slavonski Brod sometime between 1708 and 1723.

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Ganandran, G. S. B., T. M. I. Mahlia, Hwai Chyuan Ong, B. Rismanchi, and W. T. Chong. "Cost-Benefit Analysis and Emission Reduction of Energy Efficient Lighting at the Universiti Tenaga Nasional." Scientific World Journal 2014 (2014): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/745894.

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This paper reports the result of an investigation on the potential energy saving of the lighting systems at selected buildings of the Universiti Tenaga Nasional. The scope of this project includes evaluation of the lighting system in the Library, Admin Building, College of Engineering, College of Information Technology, Apartments, and COE Food court of the university. The main objectives of this project are to design the proper retrofit scenario and to calculate the potential electricity saving, the payback period, and the potential environmental benefits. In this survey the policy for retrofitting the old lighting system with the new energy saving LEDs starts with 10% for the first year and continues constantly for 10 years until all the lighting systems have been replaced. The result of the life cycle analysis reveals that after four years, the selected buildings will bring profit for the investment.

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Steele, Sarah, Gary Ruskin, and David Stuckler. "Pushing partnerships: corporate influence on research and policy via the International Life Sciences Institute." Public Health Nutrition 23, no. 11 (May 18, 2020): 2032–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980019005184.

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AbstractObjective:There are concerns that some non-profit organisations, financed by the food industry, promote industry positions in research and policy materials. Using Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, we test the proposition that the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), one prominent non-for profit in international health and nutrition research, promotes industry positions.Design:U.S. Right to Know filed five FOI from 2015 to 2018 covering communications with researchers at four US institutions: Texas A&M, University of Illinois, University of Colorado and North Carolina State University. It received 15 078 pages, which were uploaded to the University of California San Francisco’s Industry Documents Library. We searched the Library exploring it thematically for instances of: (1) funding research activity that supports industry interests; (2) publishing and promoting industry-sponsored positions or literature; (3) disseminating favourable material to decision makers and the public and (4) suppressing views that do not support industry.Results:Available emails confirmed that ILSI’s funding by corporate entities leads to industry influence over some of ILSI activities. Emails reveal a pattern of activity in which ILSI sought to exploit the credibility of scientists and academics to bolster industry positions and promote industry-devised content in its meetings, journal and other activities. ILSI also actively seeks to marginalise unfavourable positions.Conclusions:We conclude that undue influence of industry through third-party entities like ILSI requires enhanced management of conflicts of interest by researchers. We call for ILSI to be recognised as a private sector entity rather than an independent scientific non-profit, to allow for more appropriate appraisal of its outputs and those it funds.

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Lewis, Vivian, Steve Hiller, Elizabeth Mengel, and Donna Tolson. "Building Scorecards in Academic Research Libraries: Performance Measurement and Organizational Issues." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 8, no. 2 (June 11, 2013): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8t02z.

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Objective – This paper describes the experiences of four prominent North American research libraries as they implemented Balanced Scorecards as part of a one-year initiative facilitated by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). The Balanced Scorecard is a widely accepted organizational performance model that ties strategy to performance in four areas: finance, learning and growth, customers, and internal processes. Methods – Four universities participated in the initiative: Johns Hopkins University, McMaster University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Washington. Each university sent a small group of librarians to develop their Scorecard initiatives and identified a lead member. The four teams met with a consultant and the ARL lead twice for face-to-face training in using the Scorecard. Participants came together during monthly phone calls to review progress and discuss next steps. Additional face-to-face meetings were held throughout the year in conjunction with major library conferences. Results – The process of developing the Scorecards included the following steps: defining a purpose statement, identifying strategic objectives, creating a strategy map, identifying measures, selecting appropriate measures, and setting targets. Many commonalities were evident in the four libraries’ slates of strategic objectives. There were also many commonalities among measures, although the number chosen by each institution varied significantly, from 26 to 48. Conclusion – The yearlong ARL initiative met its initial objectives. The four local implementations are still a work in progress, but the leads are fully trained and infrastructure is in place. Data is being collected, and the leadership teams are starting to see their first deliverables from the process. The high level of commonality between measures proposed at the four sites suggests that a standardized slate of measures is viable.

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Free, David. "News from the Field." College & Research Libraries News 82, no. 1 (January 8, 2021): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crln.82.1.6.

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Applications, nominations invited for C&RL editorTracing Race at Iowa State UniversityProject Outcome for Academic Libraries releases new case studyDOAJ leads collaboration to improve preservation of OA journalsOCLC, Washington State University creating digital stewardship training coursesProQuest debuts Black Freedom Struggle websiteEBSCO releases 2021 Serials Price Projection Report

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Free, David. "News from the Field." College & Research Libraries News 82, no. 1 (January 8, 2021): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crln.82.1.6.

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Applications, nominations invited for C&RL editorTracing Race at Iowa State UniversityProject Outcome for Academic Libraries releases new case studyDOAJ leads collaboration to improve preservation of OA journalsOCLC, Washington State University creating digital stewardship training coursesProQuest debuts Black Freedom Struggle websiteEBSCO releases 2021 Serials Price Projection Report

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Tzanova, Stefka. "Changes in academic libraries in the era of Open Science." Education for Information 36, no. 3 (September 25, 2020): 281–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/efi-190259.

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In this paper we study the changes in academic library services inspired by the Open Science movement and especially the changes prompted from Open Data as a founding part of Open Science. We argue that academic libraries face the even bigger challenges for accommodating and providing support for Open Big Data composed from existing raw data sets and new massive sets generated from data driven research. Ensuring the veracity of Open Big Data is a complex problem dominated by data science. For academic libraries, that challenge triggers not only the expansion of traditional library services, but also leads to adoption of a set of new roles and responsibilities. That includes, but is not limited to development of the supporting models for Research Data Management, providing Data Management Plan assistance, expanding the qualifications of library personnel toward data science literacy, integration of the library services into research and educational process by taking part in research grants and many others. We outline several approaches taken by some academic libraries and by libraries at the City University of New York (CUNY) to meet necessities imposed by doing research and education with Open Big Data – from changes in libraries’ administrative structure, changes in personnel qualifications and duties, leading the interdisciplinary advisory groups, to active collaboration in principal projects.

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Robinson, Karlene P., Rosemarie Runcie, Tanya Marie Manassi, and Faith Mckoy-Johnson. "Establishing a competencies framework for a Caribbean academic library." Library Management 36, no. 1/2 (January 12, 2015): 23–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lm-10-2014-0123.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reset the performance bar for the Caribbean professional through the identification and classification of core competencies and skills sets for academic librarians at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus. Design/methodology/approach – Competency documents published by various library profession organizations and academic libraries across various geographic regions were content analysed to identify the major skills and competencies of highly skilled professionals. Findings – Core competencies selected for The UWI Mona Library are: first, uses professional knowledge and practice to lead staff and manage resources; second, identifies emerging trends and supports innovations; third, demonstrate willingness to embrace change and utilize best practices in service delivery; fourth, analyses situations for appropriate solutions; fifth, interacts positively and effectively with others; sixth, develops an environment that leads and manages change; seventh, manages and mentors staff; eight, sets clear goals and objectives while providing specific performance and feedback. Research limitations/implications – The competencies profile developed reflects the unique compositions of competencies required by academic librarians working in a twenty-first century, Caribbean, regional, academic/research environment. Practical implications – This framework will effectively guide the exercises of employee selection and succession planning within the library organization. Ensuring that the best employees are selected augurs well for succession planning within an organization. Social implications – A competencies profile provides rationale for the provision of transparent employee selection criteria. The framework is intended to set meaningful professional development goals and align those goals with the vision, mission and objectives of organizations. Originality/value – This paper presents the English-speaking Caribbean context for core competencies formulation and a listing of required competencies for The UWI, Mona Library professional.

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Mohammed, Hikimatu Tuntei-ya, and Zaffar Ullah. "Reducing the unmet needs of family planning among women of reproductive age in Northern Region of Ghana." Journal of Health Technology Assessment in Midwifery 3, no. 2 (November 20, 2020): 99–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.31101/jhtam.1515.

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The recent Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2014, estimated that 30 % of currently married women have an unmet need for family planning services, with 17% having an unmet need for spacing and 13% having an unmet need for limiting. The objective of the study was to review the unmet need of family planning in order to make appropriate recommendation to improve family planning use in the Northern Region of Ghana. A conceptual framework which outlines the factors that interplay to determine the use of family planning services in Northern Region of Ghana was designed and used for the study. The data were sought from unpublished documents from the Regional Health Directorate of Northern Ghana, websites of Ghana Health Service, online international publications and University of Leeds Library. The unmet needs of family planning in the region was found to result from a number of factors including inaccessibility to family planning services, non-availability of some type of contraceptive methods in the communities, religious beliefs that contradict the use of family planning, traditional and cultural belief system which promotes high fertility preferences, high illiteracy level, non-approval of family planning by men who are the decision makers, misconception about the use of contraception and high poverty in the region. The identified possible strategies for tackling the factors responsible for unmet need of family planning in the Northern Region, community-based family planning services, family planning health education outreach, peer education and religious-based education were found to be considerably effective, feasible and sustainable.

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Destenay, Emmanuel. "The impact of political unrest in Ireland on Irish soldiers in the British army, 1914–18: a re-evaluation." Irish Historical Studies 42, no. 161 (May 2018): 50–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ihs.2018.2.

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AbstractIn order better to understand the impact of political unrest in Ireland on Irish troops fighting in the First World War, it is necessary to acknowledge that the role of the 1916 Rising has been significantly overestimated, while the influence of the 1914 home rule crisis and the repercussions of the anti-conscription movement have been underestimated. The 1914 home rule crisis significantly impacted on the Germans’ view of the Irish and conditioned the treatment of Irish P.O.W.s from December 1914 onwards. In addition, the post-1916 Rising executions and the conscription crisis had a severe impact on Irish front-line units, while also sapping the morale of other British combatants. The 1916 Rising might have been dismissed as a military operation conceived by a handful of republicans, with little support from the wider population, but the conscription crisis brought about widespread defiance towards British rule throughout the whole of nationalist Ireland. In line with British public opinion, British front-line officers and men strongly resented Ireland’s refusal to support the war effort at such a crucial moment. The consequence was the widespread targeting and stigmatisation of their Irish comrades-in-arms. Some British officers and men resorted to a form of psychological pressure, aimed at the public shaming of Irish troops. This article draws on new primary sources available at The National Archives in London, Dublin City Archives and University of Leeds Library to argue that the 1916 Rising was not the only political event in Ireland to have repercussions for Irish battalions fighting in the First World War.

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Shin, Yoon Seok, and Gwang Hee Kim. "Analysis on Energy Performance of Educational Facility by Composition of Double Glass." Advanced Materials Research 1119 (July 2015): 756–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1119.756.

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Korean energy consumption accounts for about 40 percent in the architecture. Especially, Heat loss of the windows is about eight times larger than the wall or roof. In addition, the structures older than 20 years were designed with no consideration of the energy perspective, and they have low energy efficiency compared with the newly introduced structures, which leads to extreme energy consumption. Therefore, this study was conducted for the purpose of engergy performance analysis according to window type in educational facilities. This study we medeled the university library in Autocad Ecotect Ananlysis program, 3D modeling. It calcualted data that the air layer thickness has about 3.9 times more impact that the glass thickness in composition of double glass. As the result of this study, the need for the remodeling and renovation of the obsolete library in order to reduce its excessive energy consumption was highlighted.

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Botha, L., S. S. Grobbelaar, and W. G. Bam. "Developing an evaluation framework for university-driven technology-based, innovation for inclusive development (UTI4ID) projects." Research Evaluation 28, no. 4 (August 23, 2019): 326–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvz021.

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Abstract From the evaluation literature related to research and innovation policy, calls have long been made for improved evaluation processes especially where projects and programmes may be evaluated from a systems perspective. Drawing on the literature of innovation systems and innovation for inclusive development (I4ID) this research proposes a state-of-the-art analysis framework, which can be used to evaluate University-driven Technology-based Innovation for Inclusive Development (UTI4ID) projects. In particular, this framework draws on 16 exploratory case studies of UTI4ID that leads to the development of typologies that can be used in future UTI4ID evaluations to better guide such efforts. We thus not only show that advances in the I4ID literature provides an ideal starting point for complexity cognisant evaluations, but also contribute an end-to-end framework to support such evaluations and populate a detailed guide for future UTI4ID projects.

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Moghaddas, Seyedeh Zeinab, Masoumeh Tajafari, and Mohsen Nowkarizi. "Organizational empowerment: A vital step toward intrapreneurship." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 52, no. 2 (May 6, 2019): 529–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961000619841658.

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Intrapreneurship as a transformational strategy in non-profit organizations, including libraries, requires special arrangements through improvement of employees’ cooperation and tendency to entrepreneurial activities. Organizational empowerment is a mechanism which not only influences the staff’s attitude toward the organization through creating/enhancing loyalty, value congruence, and affective commitment but also leads to self-empowerment. Consequently, it seems that organizational empowerment in librarians can be one of the contextual factors which can directly lead to more intrapreneurship in libraries. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the status of organizational empowerment, intrapreneurship and the effect of organizational empowerment on intrapreneurship in the university libraries of Iran. The research population of this questionnaire-based survey consisted of 105 individuals who come from two different classes of librarians in two top universities in Iran. Participants were selected from each class through stratified random sampling. The findings demonstrated that organizational empowerment and intrapreneurship did not enjoy adequate status within these two university libraries. In addition, the effect of organizational empowerment on intrapreneurship was confirmed.

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Baron, Jeremy Hugh. "Patients' library in Leeds 1775." BMJ 331, no. 7510 (July 21, 2005): 215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.331.7510.215.

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Razumova, Irina K., and Alexander Yu Kuznetsov. "World and National Trends in University Libraries Acquisition." Integration of Education, no. 3 (September 28, 2018): 426–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.15507/1991-9468.092.022.201803.426-440.

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Introduction. We investigated the problem of comparative analysis of the world and national trends of development of information support of the university research and education and position of Russia in the world academic community. Materials and Methods. We analyzed international and national surveys with data processing methods. Materials comprise results of the latest survey of the Publishers Communication Group, initial data of annual surveys conducted by Russian National electronic information consortium and the data of the surveys conducted by the Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation in 2016 and 2017. Results. More than 90 % of world and Russian universities report of acquisition of scholarly resources via university consortia, 75 % of university funds are spent on periodicals. All peer groups demonstrate gradual migration to e-resources. In 2016, e-resources comprised 91 % of total acquisition expenses and e-books – 63 % of book acquisition. In Russia, more than 85 % of expenses on scholarly information belong to universities. From 2006 to 2014 average annual expenses on e-resources in Russian universities increased, however since the 2014, due to the economic crisis one can see shrinking of library expenses. This leads to a decrease in a number of acquired resources. Acquisition budgets of Russian leading universities (group 1) exceed budgets of non-leading universities (group 2) by ten times. In 2015, Russian universities spent 57 % of their acquisition budgets on the Elsevier databases. Discussion and Conclusions. Information support at Russian and world universities show common trends and features. The data on the e-resource expenses can be used as indicator of research activity in Russian institutions. It can also affect the information providers and scholarly journal publishers in development of the marketing, subscription and pricing policy in Russia.

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Kirsop, Wallace. "German science in nineteenth-century Australian libraries." Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 127, no. 1 (2015): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rs15003.

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Between Bligh’s disdain for Robert Townson’s books at the beginning of the century and C.W. Holgate’s 1886 commentary on the collections of the Melbourne Public Library, there is evidence of deficiencies in Australian holdings of materials derived from the German states and from the Austrian Empire. Consideration of private collections, of the roles played by individuals in developing research institutes, learned societies and community libraries and ultimately of the efforts made by university leaders to equip and enhance a culture of scientific investigation leads to the conclusion that the German or Prussian model was beginning to dominate by the turn of the twentieth century.

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Ilo, Promise Ifeoma, Margaret Ngwuchukwu, Happiness Chijioke Michael-Onuoha, and Chidi Segun-Adeniran. "Challenges of disaster training: implication for federal and state university libraries in Nigeria." Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal 28, no. 3 (June 3, 2019): 332–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dpm-05-2018-0175.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the challenges affecting disaster training in federal and state university libraries in Southwest Nigeria with a view to finding ways of overcoming them. Design/methodology/approach Having adopted the descriptive research design, 14 university libraries (seven each of federal and state) were selected from the Southwest geo-political zone of Nigeria. The total enumeration sampling technique was employed. Questionnaire and interview methods were used for data collection. The three research questions that guided the study were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation and ranking. Judgments were drawn using real limit of numbers and 2.50 as criterion mean. Findings Results emanated from the study showed that university libraries in the studied region are more equipped to fight fire disaster than any other emergency which is why fire drills and exercises are the prevailing disaster training received by library staff. It was also found that inadequate disaster facilities and equipment as well as poor funding were the greatest challenges confronting disaster training. The provision of adequate disaster facilities and equipment with the constitution of disaster prevention and response team was found as the most potent strategy for addressing the identified challenges. Originality/value The study lends strong empirical evidence for the underlining factors affecting disaster training in federal and state university libraries as well as academic libraries in general. The strategies for addressing the identified challenges are of more significance.

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Gesiot, Jacopo. "Ripensare la lingua del Flos sanctorum catalano." Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 136, no. 1 (March 6, 2020): 25–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zrp-2020-0002.

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AbstractThe article represents an attempt to reconsider the exceptional linguistic status of the manuscript Esp. 44 in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, containing the Old Catalan translation of Jacopo da Varazze’s Legenda aurea. First studied by Joan Coromines, its language appeared remarkably conservative and vernacular to the great philologist, however now, more than a half-century after his judgment, the comparison with other products of what has been defined the earliest Catalan scripta leads to relativize linguistic traits of the Parisian manuscript. In particular, it is shown that the manuscript 713 in the library of the University of Barcelona is also distinguished by its linguistic features, and yet it is studied here for the first time.

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