"Libraries are included in the widely accepted definition of Cultural and Creative Industries together with heritage, performing arts, museums, visual arts, and archives and play an important role in the creative value chain. This book highlights the economic importance of the library sector....

Libraries have traditionally provided free communal access to books, facilitated by the first sale doctrine's (FSD) guarantee that libraries may purchase physical books at consumer prices. Increasingly restrictive ebook access terms may imperil libraries, and we compare the welfare cost of...

Application of Industry 4.0 in the library is still exploratory and despite an increase research on the rising trend, many challenges remain in designing a more packaged and accessible information using industry 4.0 components, especially for the special need library users such as the visually...

Objective – The purpose of this study is to identify the impacts of implementing marketing mix on the usage of library services towards library users’ satisfaction. Methodology/Technique – This study will be conducted in quantitative method. Primary data will be obtained by distributing of...

Das Buch vermittelt anhand praxisbezogener Beispiele grundlegende Kenntnisse für den Einsatz von Marktforschungsinstrumenten in der bibliothekarischen Arbeitspraxis. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei solche Methoden und Anwendungsszenarien, die auf die Optimierung bzw. Erweiterung nutzerbezogener...

Marketing, as a business philosophy, can be applied within the library service in the form of non-profit marketing. In the 21st century the library-information experts strive to establish a dialogue in which, by employing elements of marketing mix, they offer services, aid and time-saving to...

Web-Scale Discovery service is the new buzzword of library service in the current environment. It refers to a group of products that index a wide number of resources in various formats and allows users to search for content in the physical collection, print and electronic journals collections,...

Die "IT Infrastructure Library" (ITIL) gilt heute als weltweit führender De-facto-Standard für das IT-Servicemanagement (ITSM). Obwohl der Standard mittlerweile in der in 2007 veröffentlichten dritten Version vorliegt, haben Datenschutzbelange bis heute kaum Eingang gefunden. Das...

National libraries throughout the world generally hold the strongest collection of publications from their home countries and build a rich variety of information services from the collections. To be sure of developing such a national collection for current and future use, the libraries must...

We study how to promote compliance with rules in everyday situations. Having access to unique data on the universe of users of all public libraries in Barcelona, we test the effect of sending email messages with different contents. We find that users return their items earlier if asked to do so...

Purpose This paper aims to show the importance of the Master’s degree in the library and information sciences in learning the essential values of library and information science culture. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a discussion based upon the author’s decades of experience as a...

Purpose This chapter analyzes the role of public libraries in providing access to information to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria. It examines some of the challenges experienced by the public library system in ensuring equitable access to information to such disadvantaged groups....

This paper presents a simple model in which research universities stock their libraries with academic journals by picking a threshold level of quality below which no subscriptions are ordered. This framework is used to analyze two sets of initiatives aimed at dealing with journal-price...

The interlibrary loan service has a long and commendable history, based on the idea that documents should be accessible to a patron independent from the latter's location. However, when interlibrary loan started developing into the supply of a surrogate copy (a photocopy) of the requested...

Once purchased, information goods are often shared among groups of consumers. Computer software, for example, can be duplicated and passed from one user to the next. Journal articles can be copied. Music can be dubbed. In this paper, we ask whether these various forms of sharing undermine seller...

The concept of distributed leadership within library services is explored in this chapter. It focuses on how this model of leadership, which devolves leadership functions and practice widely throughout organizations, can lead to intra- and interorganizational collaboration as a catalyst for...

This chapter documents the evolution of the application of evaluation methods to public library services for children and teens in the United States. It describes the development of age-specific output measures and the subsequent requirement by funding agencies for outcome evaluations that...

This chapter examines the challenges of developing and implementing a new national evaluation approach in a complex library funding program. The approach shifts a prior outcome-based evaluation legacy using logic models to one relying on nonlinear logic mapping. The new approach is explored by...

Bibliotheken sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil in der deutschen Bildungslandschaft. Eine ihrer Kernaufgaben ist die Vermittlung von Informations- und Medienkompetenz. Bibliotheken entwickeln sich zu Teaching Libraries, da neue Lösungen angesichts vernetzter Informationswelten notwendig sind. Der...

This book integrates traditional map librarianship and contemporary issues in digital librarianship within a framework of a global embedded information infrastructure, addressing technical, legal, and institutional factors such as collection development, reference and research services, and...