scholarly journals Too Big for the Library

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-109
Author(s):  
Terra Rogerson ◽  
Monica Ruane Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Academic Departments ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Campus Community ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Chat Reference ◽  
The Cost

Outreach is necessary to further the visions and missions of many university libraries, including Manderino Library at California University of Pennsylvania. Organizing events has been used to firmly cement the library’s place in the campus community. However, in the library’s efforts to be part of the larger campus, it has collaborated with other academic departments to create and hold large, well-attended events that require a lot of manpower and hours. After analyzing chat, reference, gate counts, and database usage, librarians found that large and successful events do not increase usage for other library services. This article explores whether the cost is equal to the gain for taking on events that eventually leave the library once they become popular. Results seem to indicate the library might better utilize time and efforts to hold small, focused events, even if attendance is low. Since the bump to actual library services is negligible, the library may want to look at other ways to increase funding instead of continuing to seek out collaborations to offset the cost of attractive events for students. Additionally, we found that while the relationships librarians forge with fellow academic departments are extremely valuable, larger events and collaborations generally relegate librarians to organizer roles that do little for the library’s bottom line.  

scholarly journals Embedded Librarianship is Not Well Understood by Librarians at Chinese Universities, but Represents a Promising Service Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-167
Author(s):  
Judith Logan
Keyword(s):  
Academic Departments ◽  
Library Services ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Service Model ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Adopted Model ◽  
Library Websites ◽  
Participation In Research

A Review of: Sun, H., Liu, Y., Wang, Z., & Zuo, W. (2019). Embedded librarianship in China: Based on a survey of university libraries. The Library Quarterly, 89(1), 53–66. https://doi.org/10.1086/700663 Abstract Objective – To determine the extent to which embedded librarianship is understood and implemented with a focus on service models, best practices, and barriers. Design – Survey questionnaire with follow up interviews. Setting – Provincial and ministerial university libraries in China. Subjects – Subject or liaison librarians from the 84 institutions with science and technology “information searching and evaluation centres” called S&TNS (p. 56). Methods – The authors identified potential participants through the eligible institutions’ library websites or by contacting the library’s managers. Then they randomly selected three librarians (n = 252) from each library to be invited to participate. 56 responded from 41 unique institutions. When respondents indicated that their library had embedded library services, the authors contacted them for follow up interviews. Main results – Results of the questionnaire revealed that most respondents were unclear about the concept of embedded librarianship with many mistaking traditional models of librarianship as embedded. Roughly half (n = 21) of respondents reported embedded librarians at their institution. Follow up interviews revealed five models of embeddedness: (1) subject librarianship, (2) teaching information retrieval or library orientation sessions, (3) participation in research teams, (4) co-location with academic departments, and (5) assisting university administration with decision-making. Only half of these libraries (n = 11) conducted some form of assessment. Conclusion – Embedded librarianship is a promising, but not yet widely adopted model in Chinese university libraries. More should be done to advocate for its implementation or libraries risk obsolescence.

scholarly journals In The News

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
David Free
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Campus Community ◽  
Essential Function

Welcome to the March 2018 issue of C&RL News. Providing library services and collections that reach all members of the campus community is an essential function of today’s academic library. Rebekah Scoggins writes about taking on a project to increase the Lander University library’s LGBTQIA collections in her article “Broadening your library’s collection.”

Collaboration between Academia and Industry

2011 ◽  
pp. 177-188
Author(s):  
J. McAvoy ◽  
E. Van Sickle ◽  
B. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Storage System ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Innovation Theory ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation Theory ◽  
Storage Technology ◽  
Knowledge Barriers ◽  
The Cost

In industry, up to 40% of an IS budget can be spent on Storage technology, making it the fastest growing segment of IT/IS. While industry has recognised the need to diffuse this technology, academia has been slow to respond to this diffusion need. Universities are not teaching courses in this area and a variety of reasons are presented ranging from lack of skills, to bureaucratic delays, to cost (the cost of installing a Storage system for use by students is a massive expenditure well beyond the budgets of most IS academic departments).This chapter concentrates on the lack of skills (knowledge barriers in the parlance of diffusion of innovation theory) and examines ways to overcome this. The knowledge skills are present in industry, so collaboration between industry and academia is a suggested solution. Collaboration between industry and academia, though, is fraught with problems. The aim of this research therefore is to examine how this collaboration can be effective. Interestingly, the result of this research suggests true collaboration is not the solution, but a win-win situation is still possible for all stakeholders.

scholarly journals Towards Enhanced Tax Compliance in Kenya

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
SAN LIO ◽  
JOHN MIRICHII
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Tax Compliance ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Tax Revenue ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
County Governments ◽  
Tax Returns ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Cost

Tax is the bottom line source of revenue for the world’s governments. Taxation is the only known realistic means of collecting resources to finance public expenditure. This study aims at unraveling efficient mechanisms to be employed in Kenya to enhance income tax compliance to boost tax revenue for the current and future governments. With the new governance structure of forty seven county governments in place following the promulgation of the new constitution 2010, this exercise is timely. The study will make use of both secondary and primary sources of data in eliciting the required information necessary for the research findings.  The sample size will be made up of twenty companies drawn from different sectors of the Kenyan economy operating within the Nairobi County.The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20is used in the data analysis and presentation of findings.  The overall finding is that a tax system should be simple, withstraightforward rules for lay citizens to understand and at the same time guarantee that the cost of tax collection and administration is not higher than the actual tax revenue raised.The research findings lead to a conclusion that multiple rates of income tax, varied dates of making tax returns and a bulky legal tax framework make income tax compliance unforeseeable in Kenya.

The Excavations at Ur, 1924–1925

1925 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Leonard Woolley
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
British Museum ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Card Index ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

The Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania restarted its excavations at Ur on 1st November 1924 and closed down on 28th February 1925 after a most successful season. For the epigraphical side of the work I had associated with me this year Dr. L. Legrain, of the University Museum, to whose help I owe much more than I can express: even in this preliminary report it will be clear how greatly our discoveries gained in interest and value from his study of the inscriptions. Mr. J. Linnell, who was in the field for the first time, assisted on the general archaeological side and kept the card index of objects. Unfortunately there was no architect on the staff, and we had to make what shift we could without, in a campaign peculiarly rich in architectural results; all the time I had reason to regret the loss of Mr. F. G. Newton, whose skill and experience had proved invaluable in former years. The main reason for the lack of an architect was shortness of funds: the British Museum was unable to provide from its own resources its due half of the cost of the Expedition, and we could not have taken the field at all but for the generous help given by friends in London; and even so I should have been obliged to bring the season to a premature end in January had not the British residents in Iraq come forward with subscriptions for the British Museum's side of the work which, met by Philadelphia with an equal sum, enabled me to carry on for another month. To all these I wish to acknowledge my gratitude.

A New Approach to the Control Design of Fuzzy Dynamical Systems

2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye-Hwa Chen
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
Optimization Problem ◽  
Closed Form Solution ◽  
Control Design ◽  
Form Solution ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Fuzzy Dynamical System ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Fuzzy Dynamical Systems

A new approach to the control design for fuzzy dynamical systems is proposed. For a fuzzy dynamical system, the uncertainty lies within a fuzzy set. The desirable system performance is twofold: one deterministic and one fuzzy. While the deterministic performance assures the bottom line, the fuzzy performance enhances the cost consideration. Under this setting, a class of robust controls is proposed. The control is deterministic and is not if-then rules-based. An optimal design problem associated with the control is then formulated as a constrained optimization problem. We show that the problem can be solved and the solution exists and is unique. The closed-form solution and cost are explicitly shown. The resulting control is able to guarantee the prescribed deterministic performance and minimize the average fuzzy performance.

Regulatory non-compliance and performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismaila Yusuf ◽  
Damola Ekundayo
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Economy ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Correlational Research ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Nigerian Banking ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine regulatory sanctions from an emerging economy perspective and analyzing the impact of regulators imposed monetary sanctions on banks’ performance. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted correlational research design to examine the effect of regulatory penalties on the performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria. This study used panel data from a sample of 15 deposit money banks in Nigeria for the period of 2006-2015. Multiple regression analysis was carried out. Findings Results showed that penalties imposed by regulators in the Nigerian banking industry have no significant impact on the bottom line of the defaulters. Penalties imposed on foreign exchange and international trade related infraction showed that the cost of penalties is below the benefits enjoyed from such infractions. Practical implications The insignificant impact of penalties on performance implies that deposit money banks have considered penalties imposed by regulators as operational expenses and transferred such to customers. Originality/value The study differs from other studies that examined regulatory penalties on performance by focusing on financial performance and using data from an emerging economy perceived to have weak regulatory environment.

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