Protecting children in 21st century Ireland: Integrating learning from policy, international evidence and multi-level implementation perspectives - Implementation of the Local Area Pathway as part of the proposed National Service Delivery Framework

Librarians in the 21st centuries need knowledge of innovative thinking to able to be relevant in their profession. Can they compete, survive, and thrive successfully in the midst of 21st century technological advances? All over the world, libraries are facing challenges. Already, there are reports of closures of public libraries. Many libraries are becoming underutilized while quite a number have to deal with stagnant or dwindling budgets. In order to adequately formulate workable solutions to these challenges, librarians need to consider new perspectives of offering services to their user communities. Also, libraries as living agencies are not to be stagnant but change and grow with the trends and their user communities. Innovations need to be introduced in the design and service delivery of libraries.

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Exploring E-governance Service Delivery Dimensions: A Study of Registrar of Companies

Indian Journal of Public Administration ◽

10.1177/0019556117726711 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 63 (4) ◽

pp. 557-566

Author(s):

Amandeep Kaur ◽

Harpreet Kaur

Keyword(s):

Service Delivery ◽

21St Century ◽

State Level ◽

Four Dimensions ◽

The World ◽

The Future ◽

Government Project ◽

Almost All ◽

The Impact

E-governance is becoming a phenomenon that is catching the attention of government as well as the citizens across the world. Lately, the governments of almost all the countries of the world made huge investments in implementation of e-government projects including India. There have been a number of centre- and state-level projects launched in the recent years. Hence, it becomes all the more important to assess the impact and viability of such projects. A number of studies have been undertaken in this area. It is observed that most of the studies in this field have focused on exploring e-governance service delivery dimensions in government-to-citizen (G2C) context; however, a few studies are carried out in government-to-business (G2B) context. Hence, the present study is an attempt to bridge this gap. The study aims to explore e-governance service delivery dimensions as perceived by the employees of Registrar of Companies (ROC), North Region. Ninety employees of ROCs were surveyed to know about their perception about the pioneer e-government project named Ministry of Corporate Affairs of 21st Century (MCA21) launched in 2006. Results of the study identified four dimensions as perceived important by the employees. To improve the services provided by the employees to the users, it would be useful to be aware of these dimensions in the future.

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Impact on alcohol-related mortality of a rapid rise in the density of private liquor outlets in British Columbia: a local area multi-level analysis

Addiction ◽

10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03331.x ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 106 (4) ◽

pp. 768-776 ◽

Cited By ~ 55

Author(s):

Tim Stockwell ◽

Jinhui Zhao ◽

Scott Macdonald ◽

Kate Vallance ◽

Paul Gruenewald ◽

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Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

Local Area ◽

Rapid Rise ◽

Multi Level ◽

Level Analysis ◽

Related Mortality

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The Role of the 21st Century Female Librarian for Service Delivery in Nigeria: Case Study of Academic Libraries in Rivers State, Nigeria

Journal of Library and Information Sciences ◽

10.15640/jlis.v7n1a11 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Blessing E. AHIAUZU ◽

Mercy E. ECHEM

Keyword(s):

Service Delivery ◽

21St Century ◽

Academic Libraries ◽

Rivers State

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Unbalanced Development – Regional Disparity Analysis in Serbia

Economic Themes ◽

10.2478/ethemes-2021-0003 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 45-60

Author(s):

Emilija Manić ◽

Đorđe Mitrović

Keyword(s):

Regional Development ◽

21St Century ◽

Malmquist Productivity Index ◽

Productivity Index ◽

Socioeconomic Indicators ◽

Dynamic Component ◽

Multi Level ◽

Almost All ◽

Regional Imbalance ◽

Usage Efficiency

Abstract The unbalanced regional development is one of the biggest socioeconomic challenges in Serbia. It is a multidimensional and multi-level regional imbalance that, according to almost all socioeconomic indicators, shows a growing trend in the first decades of the 21st century. This paper presents an analysis of the selected demographic, social, and economic indicators by using DEA methodology. The dynamic component of the studied imbalance was taken into account by calculating the Malmquist Productivity Index. The calculated index undoubtedly shows that there are differences between regions (not only between the northern and southern regions, but also within the regions themselves). The results also point out that the changes of the input usage efficiency have strongly influenced the ranks of the districts within the national territories.

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