This catalogue is one of Eurojust's deliverables, developed by the IPC project, and contains a collection of the judicial libraries of the 27 EU Member States and 13 affiliated Third Countries. This catalogue is an important resource that provides practitioners and legal experts with quick...

Access to useful knowledge is crucial for fostering modern economic growth. We show, for the first time, that knowledge accumulated and stored in monasteries was useful for innovation. In 1866, anticlerical legislation in Italy led to the suppression of religious orders, the expropriation of...

Cities are key to countries' strategies for achieving the UN's sustainable development goals (SDGs). In China, evaluating cities' sustainable development (CSD) processes and abilities requires establishing an indicator library for cities' sustainable development (ILCSD). Based on the SDG...

How to level up to the next transformative phase of publishing—with a critical methodology that transcends the dichotomy of paper and digital media production.Publishing is experiencing one of the most transformative phases in its history. In Tactical Publishing, a sequel to Post-Digital...

This rough guide explores the role of public libraries in citizen engagement processes and, more generally, in the making and nurturing of democratic societies. Citizen engagement generally refers to invited forms of citizen involvement in policymaking and decision-making initiated by public...

Thriving is a great indication that an individual manifests enthusiasm, effective knowledge acquisition, job satisfaction, and commitment. This study was conducted to explore the personal and contextual enablers that serve as predictors of the participants’ thriving at work. This study...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) is playing very important role in Library and Information Centre. The present paper discusses about the different ICT based tools and its usefulness in today’s modern libraries. The importance of these ICT based tools is collecting, storing,...

gingado is an open source Python library under active development that offers a variety of convenience functions and objects to support usage of machine learning in economics research. It is designed to be compatible with widely used machine learning libraries. gingado facilitates augmenting...

Die 7. Ausgabe der "Grundlagen der praktischen Information und Dokumentation" (Erstausgabe 1972) heißt jetzt: „Grundlagen der Informationswissenschaft". Der Bezug zur Praxis und zur Ausbildung bleibt erhalten, aber der neue Titel trägt dem Rechnung, dass die wissenschaftliche theoretische...

Trauma-informed practices have become an increasingly essential part of librarianship since the COVID-19 global pandemic. Trauma can result from a single negative event or repeated exposure to negative events over time and can manifest in many forms. Trauma-informed approaches to leadership seek...

This study aims to determine whether there is an influence of work motivation, job satisfaction, and work discipline on the performance of library and archive employees. The method used in this research is a quantitative approach. The population in this study were employees as many as 50...

The concept of blockchain technology came into existence from the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. It is a very new, complex and trusted technology, and researchers are working continuously to find a way to apply this disruptive technology in different areas. This paper discusses a brief concept...

The purpose of this paper is to point out the possibility of a successful transformation of the traditional library organization within the home faculty into an organization that bases its business on knowledge management. The paper provides an overview of scientific and professional discussions...

Quality and performance of academic library in medium and long term depends on the higher education institution it belongs to, limitations of government as its major source of financing as well as on general development and social trends related to the activities and goals set in the process of...

The accuracy of nuclear data affects the safety of the reactor, which is of great significance in the process of reactor core physical calculation. In order to study the influence of different national nuclear data libraries on the reactor physical calculation results keff, based on the nuclear...

The presented short paper contains follow-ups for the “COVID-19 Library. Filling the Gaps”. The library itself consists of numerous structured references to articles, papers, data, and books relevant to the current discussions regarding the COVID-19 crisis. The principal purposes of this...

This monograph presents the algorithms that are implemented in the Python library CodPy—an acronym that stands for the “Curse Of Dimensionality in PYthon”. This library provides the user with a support vector machine (SVM) and encompasses a broad set of applications. The proposed...

A new brand for an organization is inseparable from organizational identity. The aim of the research is to investigate the positioning strategy in terms of competitiveness and visitors of Kaunas District Public Library (KDPL). Research methodology: analysis of scientific literature and...

The sudden and rapid appearance of COVID-19 surprised many, so the whole world switched to the digital environment at one point. Business meetings, classes, and social events took place via the Internet. In such an environment, e-books have played a major role in responding to distance learning....

A recent policy development has been voluntary self-regulation of internet platforms through the establishment of online ad archives. Since 2018, concern over the potential misuse of platforms has led to calls for reform of online campaign monitoring. In response, Google, Facebook and Twitter...

"The Handbook on Information Sciences provides a comprehensive overview of the core themes within the discipline, including the organisation of information and how to manage data, and outlines avenues for future research. Discussions on the methodological evolution of the field are enriched by...

"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....

The need for decolonizing cultural institutions and their mismanagement practices in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, of First Nations peoples' materials and knowledge has been widely recognised. However, this has not translated into an information systems design, nor a complementary...

Purpose Losing indigenous knowledge is to lose the future and impoverish the societies because indigenous knowledge is considered one of the cornerstones and survival of communities, societies and economies. This study, thus, aims to explore and assess the contextual enablers of indigenous...

The importance of selecting a suitable architect and design team for a library building project has long been stressed. The current intense competition for design work and the resulting large field of good candidates has made the selection process more demanding. This paper describes a typical...

Local governments spend over 12 billion dollars annually funding the operation of 17,000 public libraries in the United States, yet we know little about their effects. We use data describing the near-universe of public libraries to show that public library investment increases children’s...

This paper presents an analytical framework that can be used to analyze the effects of unions on productivity in the public sector. Our initial focus is on public libraries because considerable effort has been devoted to conceptualizing library productivity measures and because of the...

The world is facing the unprecedented consequences of climate change, where the terms pollution, e-waste, and depletion of natural resources has become a part of our daily lives. Libraries of the 21st century have the potential to play the leadership role and address the issue of environmental...

The operations of 31 large public library systems across the country are compared using information from the author' s interview survey. Operations are compared in physical terms: hours of service, materials, locations, and staffing. Differences in operations are found to be associated with...

Criteria for determining the efficient mix of branches, hours, stock, and new acquisitions are developed and applied to the branch operations of the New York Public Library. A method based on traveling costs is used to value library use at each branch. The relationship between library operations...

The paper defines the open access journals and gives a brief description about the open access E-journals gateways available world wide. It also gives a list of open access E-journals produced in India. The paper enumerates the impact factors of open access journals. The authors give an overview...

The current investigation intends to discover the examination on clients demeanor of advanced library in designing school, Coimbatore. An examples of 100 respondents chose arbitrarily were examined. Essential information were gathered by utilizing an organized meeting planned. All the...

Well literate and financially inclusive community can be created through improving financial and banking literacy. This descriptive qualitative research aims to find out practical and strategic benefits of Banking Literacy Park to library users in Library of Universitas Sebelas Maret, with...

Local governments spend over 12 billion dollars annually funding the operation of 15,000 public libraries in the United States. This funding supports widespread library use: more than 50% of Americans visit public libraries each year. But despite extensive public investment in libraries,...

Objectives: The present coronavirus crisis shook the modern world as only the world wars have shaken it before. In this review we analyzed the lockdown-based crisis management which was implemented by nearly all the countries, lessons learned and ways to improve the management of similar events...

This three-part series traces efforts to establish a system of free public libraries in New South Wales, Australia, from the time of publication of the Munn-Pitt Report in 1935 to the passing of the New South Wales Library Act in 1939. The series delves beyond the published accounts of events...

This three-part series traces efforts to establish a system of free public libraries in New South Wales from the time of publication of the Munn-Pitt Report in 1935 to the passing of the New South Wales Library Act in 1939. The series delves beyond the published accounts of events and describes...

Local governments spend over 12 billion dollars annually funding the operation of 15,000 public libraries in the United States. This funding supports widespread library use: more than 50% of Americans visit public libraries each year. But despite extensive public investment in libraries,...

Purpose - There is no proposed solution to address the unresolved issues of constructing the Chinese university intellectual property information service system (IPISS) to promote the whole process service efficiency of IP creation, utilization, protection and management. The purpose of this...

The extent of use of twenty innovations in the operation of public libraries is examined in 31 large public library systems across the country. The innovations include the use of computers in ordering, cataloging, and circulating materials. The pattern of diffusion of the innovations across the...