Status and prospects for the libraries of academic research institutes (as the case study of SB RAS Novosibirsk Scientific Center libraries). Part 1

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-57
Author(s):  
O. L. Lavrik ◽  
I. G. Yudina ◽  
T. A. Kalyuzhnaya
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Scientific Center ◽  
Academic Administration ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
The World

The role and tasks of academic libraries are changing due to external factors, and among them is the atrophy of their function as the only information source. The authors analyze the survey of the Novosibirsk Scientific Center’s libraries related to the relevant services provided by academic libraries. The study goal is to determine the balance of traditional and innovated tasks being accomplished by the libraries. The idea of the survey was conceived in 2019 before the pandemic. In Part One, the authors describe the methods and methodology of their study. The key method is the survey questionnaire. The findings are analyzed and the conclusions are presented: to solve new problems (like establishing and maintaining the systems for monitoring researchers’ publication activity, maintenance of institutional data repository, preparation of reviews and analytical surveys, advocating institutes through social media, users support on copyright and plagiarism, consulting on grant selection and application), academic administration bring the expertise of librarians, or establish new structures; however, the librarians are insufficiently engaged in solving the new tasks of science support. The authors suggest that their findings reflect the activities of academic libraries, however after the pandemic, the situation may change with the world.

scholarly journals Status and prospects for the libraries of academic research institutes (as the case study of SB RAS Novosibirsk Scientific Center libraries). Part 2

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-36
Author(s):  
O. L. Lavrik ◽  
I. G. Yudina ◽  
T. A. Kalyuzhnaya
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Library Directors ◽  
Scientific Center ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Survey Results

The authors analyze the survey of the Novosibirsk Scientific Center’s libraries related to the relevant services provided by academic libraries. In Part 2, the authors discuss the findings for traditional and innovative services; attitude of library directors toward the newest services, and the latest developments. On the whole, the libraries of SB RAS research institutes enforce the widest range of activities and services based on the newest technologies. However, to offer modern information services, the librarians have to interact with researchers (experts) as their obvious partners. Through analyzing the survey results, the authors came to the following conclusions: all libraries have been accomplishing their traditional tasks; despite their adaptation to a new environment, as far as implementation of information services is concerned, they have remained at the level 1990s – early 2000s; library top managers demonstrate interest toward new knowledge and skills needed to offer innovative services to their users.

Excavating Repositories: Academic Research Projects Using Archaeological Collections

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola A. Schiappacasse
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
World Archaeological ◽  
Archaeological Collections ◽  
The World ◽  
Beneficial Approach

ABSTRACTAround the world, archaeological collections are curated in museums, universities, foundations, government agencies, and other organizations. Some are carefully documented and readily accessible, while others are languishing in substandard conditions as a direct result of the curation crisis. This article highlights the value of collection-based research. It encourages the mutually beneficial approach of training students in both collection preservation and collection-based research and demonstrates other ways to obtain data for research projects, aside from excavation. Using my collections-based research carried out in Puerto Rico and the continental United States as a case study, I draw attention to the valuable information that can be derived from acquisition and accession documents and offer ways to incorporate new datasets. This allows for more accurate narratives of collections’ historiographies.

Managerial Studies and Perceived Job Performance: An Israeli Case Study

1994 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haim H. Gaziel
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
The Public ◽  
Know How ◽  
Managerial Training ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

This paper was designed in order to know how far skills needed for the future manager (according to the literature) correspond to what managers' students perceive as important, and how courses of a management training program perceived contributing in performing a managerial job effectively. Data were collected from a sample of 190 managers from the public sector, who participated in the Bar Ilan University (Israel), managerial training program, from 1986/87 to 1989/90. The participants were requested to complete an attitude survey questionnaire. Findings largely reflect the world of the future manager mentioned in the literature. As regarding the usefulness of the managerial training program to job performance, findings indicate that the management training program correspond only partially to what is needed for performing one's job effectively. Too much time was devoted to transmitting knowledge rather than indoctrinating skills.

Advocacy in Academic Libraries: A Case Study of Selected Academic Libraries in Southwest Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-20
Author(s):  
R. A. Olurayi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Library Users ◽  
The World ◽  
Southwest Nigeria ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Ibadan ◽  
Selection Of

This study investigated advocacy in selected academic libraries in the southwest in order to ascertain methods used and challenges faced in the course of advocating for their libraries with possible solutions. It has become necessary to create awareness and also make our libraries visible to the world so that they can be supported in cash and kind. This enables librarians provide the necessary service hence patronage is encouraged. The study adopted a survey research design with two sets of questionnaire(s) which had 34 and 25 items respectively and interview. Random selection of the population comprised of two hundred and seventy seven (277) librarians (professionals and paraprofessionals) and library users mostly lecturers’ from different departments from the University of Ibadan, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Ogbomoso, Obafemi Awolowo, University Ile Ife and Lead City University Ibadan respectively. Results showed that all the academic libraries in this study have not started advocacy, do not have advocacy plan in their strategic objectives. Therefore, librarians and other library personnel ought to be sent for trainings, workshops and seminars to equip them for advocacy activities. The study recommended that similar study be carried out in other academic libraries across Nigeria to enable librarians understand its importance.

scholarly journals An assessment of the expansion strategy followed by Avianca Airlines: Period 2008-2012

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Mauricio Emboaba Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Model ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Expansion Process ◽  
Expansion Strategy ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Expansion Strategies

Purpose: This article aims to apply to the case of Avianca Airlines the Analytical Model for the Assessment of Airline Expansion Strategies developed by Moreira (2014) in order to explain the rationale of the expansion strategy followed by this airline and indicate other possible expansion strategies. Design/methodology/approach: This article is a case study in the sense that it aims to arrive to broad generalizations based on the collected evidences, focusing on one of the most traditional airlines in the world. This article is a positivist case study, based in the positivist understanding; because it is supported by objective facts of the situation which are informed by the researcher’s interpretive understanding according to it is recommended for this type of study.Findings: The application of the Analytical Model for the Assessment of Airline Expansion Strategies above referred was successful, considering that the model was able to explain a wide range of complex aspects of the Avianca’s development. Thus, being one of the oldest airlines in continued operation in the world, the expansion process of this airline is connected to many political, sociological and economic facets - ie., its general environment - of its mother country, Colombia. The analytical model offered the opportunity to explore these issues in a detailed manner, adding a broader comprehension of this airline that goes beyond its operating and economic analysis.Originality/value: They reside on the fact that this is the first time that this analytical model is applied to study extensively an actual situation. Besides, airlines in Latin America have not been widely covered by the academia and this is an opportunity to begin to fill this gap. Furthermore, the referred analytical model is applicable to organizations or firms that operate in other industries if the proper adjustments are made.Implications: The implications for the academic research are to understand that the reasons for the success or failure of an airline in an expansion process may be explained by the suitability between the expansion strategy followed by this airline, its business model, its operating environment and its general environment. Moreover, this article demonstrates that the analysis of the suitability of the expansion strategy followed by a specific airline may be made in the light of a solidly founded analytical framework.

Using Analysis of Quotations for Optimization of Research Studies (Case study of the Research Institute Library)

2009 ◽  
pp. 125-128
Author(s):  
Yulia V. Mokhnacheva ◽  
Tatiana N. Kharybina
Keyword(s):  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Research Center ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Research Institute

The use of a citation-analysis method for optimization of information-bibliographic service at libraries in academic research institutes is considered in detail. The results of scientometric studies carried out in the Central library of Pushchino research center of the Russian Academy of sciences have been provided. In library science the citation-analysis method is used extremely rare, so the paper on the essence of this method and technology of its use may be used by library scientists.

scholarly journals The Gibco™ CTS™ Rotea™ system story—a case study of industry-academia collaboration

Gene Therapy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anqi Li ◽  
David James ◽  
Rebecca Lim
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Manufacturing Cell ◽  
The World ◽  
Thermo Fisher Scientific ◽  
Origin Story ◽  
International Sales ◽  
Processing Device ◽  
Fisher Scientific

AbstractThe Gibco™ CTS™ Rotea™ Counterflow Centrifugation System is an automated cell processing device developed for manufacturing cell therapy products. The developer (Scinogy Pty Ltd) collaborated with Thermo Fisher Scientific to successfully launch the product in late 2020, completing product development from concept to international sales in <3years. This article describes the origin story of the Rotea system and how a chance meeting between a co-inventor of the Rotea system and an academic cell biologist took the invention from a garage workshop to the world stage. We describe the contribution of academic research to the innovation value chain and importance of academic institutions being industry-ready to support such collaborations.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

Evaluating the Cognitive Interviewing Reporting Framework (CIRF) by Rewriting a Dutch Pretesting Report of a European Health Survey Questionnaire *The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the policies of Statistics Netherlands.

Methodology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Vis-Visschers ◽  
Vivian Meertens
Keyword(s):  
Health Survey ◽  
Cognitive Interviewing ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Reporting Framework ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
European Health ◽  
Original Report ◽  
Minimal Standard ◽  
Exhaustive List

We used the Cognitive Interviewing Reporting Framework (CIRF) to restructure the report of a pretest on a European health survey questionnaire. This pretest was conducted by the Questionnaire Laboratory of Statistics Netherlands, and the original report was written according to a standard Statistics Netherlands format for pretesting reports. This article contains the rewritten report with highlights from the case study. The authors reflect on the process of rewriting and the usefulness of the CIRF. We conclude that expanded use of the CIRF as a reporting format for articles on cognitive pretests would enhance international comparability, completeness, and uniformity of research designs, terminology, and reporting. A limitation of the CIRF is that it does not provide an exhaustive list of items that could be included in a report, but it is more a “minimal standard”: that is a report on how a cognitive pretest was conducted should at least contain a description of the CIRF items.

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