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This article examines salary conditions among the staff of Estonian university libraries. Previous research has shown that academic librarians are not always satisfied with their salaries, whether in developing or developed countries. The data used in this paper are based on a review of relevant literature and on the results of the original online survey created by the paper’s authors and administered in 2011/2012 in Estonian university libraries. The results are interpreted in the light of the literature, the legislation of Estonia, and the authors’ opinions, which are based on long-term working experience in Estonian academic libraries. The study concludes that the biggest challenge today for Estonian university libraries is salary: it is critical that these libraries increase their employees’ salary and thereby improve their economic status. We hope that the issues raised by this research will be helpful not only for library managers but also for library employees generally. 相似文献
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Kate-Riin Kont 《Cataloging & classification quarterly》2013,51(7):825-850
In the current socioeconomic climate, efficiency and performance have become very important in libraries. The need for library managers to justify their costs to their parent organizations has become particularly important. Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) helps libraries to get a better picture of the cataloging activities that they are actually engaged in, and their costs. This article reviews the relevant literature to provide an overview of different cost accounting methods suitable for the measurement of the cataloging process. Then, through a case study conducted among Estonian university libraries, the TDABC approach was used to analyze the activities of cataloging process in two university libraries. 相似文献
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This study examines the job satisfaction of library information technology (IT) workers in relation to demographic, socioeconomic, and work-related variables, such as a sense of belonging, faith in wanting to belong, a feeling of acceptance, paying dues, job autonomy, the broker's role, and promotion opportunities. A total of 443 mail surveys were sent to a sample of IT workers at 30 university member libraries of Association of Research Libraries in the United States. A total of 202 surveys were returned, resulting in a 45.6% response rate. This study found that salary, an MLS degree, a sense of belonging, faith in wanting to belong, a feeling of acceptance, job autonomy, and promotion opportunities were related to job satisfaction of the library IT workers. This study provides some explanations as to why some IT workers are more satisfied with their jobs than others, thereby contributing to improving the quality of their work lives. 相似文献
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《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2023,49(4):102741
Increasingly, organizations are facing turbulent and competitive times. Hence, the need for universities to capitalize on the robustness and diversity of their employees to maximize their success by attracting and developing an engaged, healthy, and high-performing workforce through the provision of stimulating work environments that will promote work-family balance, work motivation, job satisfaction and overall job commitment. This study was designed to investigate the effects of work motivation, job satisfaction, and work-family balance on job commitment as well as work motivation and work-family balance as they affect job satisfaction of library personnel in universities in North-central Nigeria. The total enumeration technique was used to cover all the 926 library personnel in the universities in North-central Nigeria. The validated questionnaire was used to collect data on 926 library personnel out of which 842 responded. The response rate achieved was 91 %. The study found that work-family balance, work motivation and job satisfaction had significant effect on the job commitment of the respondents. Job satisfaction has the most significant effect (41 %) on job commitment. It is therefore, recommended that university administrators, library managers and most especially policy makers in the education sector should give adequate attention to work-family balance, work motivation, and job satisfaction when planning to improve job commitment of their employees. In addition, they should consider work motivation and work-family balance to improve job satisfaction of the library employees. 相似文献
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《Journal of Web Librarianship》2013,7(4):299-321
The transition to a new architecture and design for an academic library Web site does not always proceed smoothly. In this case study, a library at a large research university hired an outside Web development contractor to create a new architecture and design for the university's Web site using dotCMS, an open-source content management system. The library participated in the design and development process along with other campus units. Because the university-wide process focused on marketing the university to prospective students, parents, and donors, the contractor's fact-finding process focused on how the library's site design could incorporate Web 2.0 technologies. The resulting library Web site showcased Web 2.0 technology more than it provided users with access to library resources. The library's users quickly communicated their dissatisfaction and confusion, which led to some immediate changes and a commitment to redesign the site based on expressed and demonstrated user needs. The library then hired another contractor to conduct iterative usability testing on both the new site and prototypes for a redesigned version. The testing showed that Web 2.0 technology that does not meet existing user needs creates obstacles for both novice and experienced users. In collaboration with the university's information technology unit, the library developed and launched a revised Web site, which helped users connect to the resources they needed. In the upgrade, Google Search Appliance replaced the native dotCMS search functionality. The authors of this case study demonstrate that libraries may need to advocate for different Web design priorities than those used at the university-wide level and that working with outside contractors presents different challenges and opportunities depending on the contractor's hiring unit. These experiences also demonstrate that libraries can do a better job learning about their users when they lead the fact-finding process. Following these experiences, the library committed to conducting iterative usability testing on a regular basis. 相似文献
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[目的/意义] 多媒体资源是信息时代高校图书馆重点建设的数字资源之一，针对多媒体资源管理机制的研究对高校图书馆多媒体资源高效全面的管理具有重要意义。[方法/过程] 利用文献调研法、网络调研法、实例分析法，调研国内外高校图书馆以及商业平台的多媒体资源管理现状，通过对比分析发现，当前国内高校图书馆对多媒体资源的管理一直处于初级阶段，存在被严重忽视、资源建设单一匮乏、组织管理不规范、服务功能不完善等诸多问题。[结果/结论] 在调研各类多媒体资源平台的基础上提出以数据管理为基础、以组织管理为统筹、以功能管理为体现、以安全管理为保障的四位一体化管理机制，构建系统化管理架构，同时指出高校图书馆多媒体资源管理中的关键问题，为高校图书馆多媒体资源管理提供重要参考和创新思路。 相似文献
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在图书馆的诸多要素中,馆员是最重要的要素,因为图书馆的各项工作和服务都是由馆员来完成的,也就是说,只有高素质的馆员才能生产出高水平的工作和服务。本文针对高校图书馆馆员素质不高的现状,提出了提高馆员素质的有效途径和方法。 相似文献
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论高校图书馆人力资源管理 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
高校图书馆人力资源管理是决定一个图书馆能否有效地完成任务和目标的关键,是高校图书馆生存发展的生命线。本文论述了高校图书馆人力资源管理的重要性,分析了目前我国高校图书馆人力资源管理的现状和存在的问题,提出了几点具有创新性的对策。 相似文献
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Donald A. Barclay 《Public Library Quarterly》2017,36(4):267-273
In spite of the growth of digital information and the resultant questioning by some of the value of public libraries, library usage data indicate there were 497,600,000 more visits to public libraries in 2013 than in 1993. Why do people still visit public libraries in the digital age? While many factors drive people to visit public libraries, one thing that public libraries offer that cannot be duplicated online is physical space. Over the decades, library space has been the glue holding the library universe together even as the specific activities that take inside libraries have evolved. While public libraries do an excellent job of promoting their important role in providing access to information, educational resources, technology, and a host of valuable services, they must also promote the value of public library space itself. This requires more than trotting out numbers; it requires telling compelling stories of how public library space is used and reminding the public that the kind of spaces public libraries provide are, in fact, a vanishing resource. The post-911 tightening of security in public buildings of all sorts—coupled with the increasing privatization of what were once public spaces—has left public libraries as perhaps the last remaining indoor public spaces where an individual can remain from opening until closing without needing any reason to be there and without having to spend any money. Public libraries should promote the uniqueness of their spaces in much the same way that National Parks promote the unique spaces they preserve and make available to the public. 相似文献
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以56所美国研究型大学图书馆读者隐私政策为研究对象,从读者个人信息收集内容、收集目的、公开条件、读者权利、免责声明、儿童隐私、信息安全技术保障等9个方面对美国研究型大学图书馆隐私政策进行分析解读.从法律基础、图书馆组织作用、政策内容、馆员自律、读者权利意识和技术保障等角度得出美国研究型大学图书馆尊重读者隐私、健全读者隐私保护政策的方法和途径,为我国高校图书馆提供几点启示. 相似文献
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[目的/意义]关系质量是用来衡量用户与图书馆关系强度的指标。本研究试图构建科学的评价指标体系,对图书馆关系质量进行评价研究,进而有针对性地提出提高图书馆关系质量的管理建议。[方法/过程]针对高校图书馆用户进行问卷调研,利用探索性因子分析,总结图书馆关系质量的构成维度;并对用户感知的关系质量进行描述性统计分析、象限分析和方差分析。[结果/结论]实证研究结果显示,图书馆关系质量是由满意、信任和承诺3个维度组成的,用户对其评价总体上偏向于正面。其中,承诺维度评价最高,信任维度评价最低。对图书馆熟悉和非常熟悉的用户对图书馆关系质量的评价显著高于一般熟悉和不熟悉的用户。为了提高用户对关系质量的感知,图书馆应该建立推行图书馆服务的规范准则,提高图书馆员的服务能力,推动资源导向服务向用户导向服务的转变,加强图书馆与用户的互动。 相似文献
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Alex C. Klugkist 《Learned Publishing》2001,14(3):197-204
What is the future for libraries and their librarians? In trying to give an answer to this pressing question we do not deal with utopian libraries of the next century, but with the library and the librarian of the next decade. The emphasis is on libraries within educational and research institutions, especially university libraries. We examine the changes confronting the library of the future and identify four key aspects of the library of the future. It will be (i) a gateway to information, whatever format this information comes in and wherever it is located; (ii) an expertise centre; (iii) a physical entity, not only in the sense of being a social meeting place and place of scholarly interaction, but also as a place where students and other users are provided with modern study facilities and adequate user support; and (iv) a collection centre of printed material. Such libraries can only take on an appropriate shape and will only survive if the institutions that librarians serve in meet the four criteria outlined above. We look at the demands that will be made on professional library knowledge and skills and the new job responsibilities and job attitudes required. 相似文献
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随着就业形势的日益严峻以及金融危机的冲击,大学生就业难问题越来越突出。高校图书馆为大学毕业生就业服务是现代化图书馆服务功能的扩展和延伸。分析了大学生就业难的原因,探讨了高校图书馆开展大学生就业指导服务的优势和策略。 相似文献
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[目的/意义]针对当前移动图书馆服务质量评价的不足,提出一种新的移动图书馆服务质量评价体系,引导移动图书馆提供有针对性、高质量的信息服务。[方法/过程]基于文献研究和专家访谈,结合高校移动图书馆服务特征,构建4个准则维度和13个子维度的高校移动图书馆服务质量多维度评价体系。采用网络分析法(ANP)对各级影响因素的相对重要性权重进行估计。通过问卷调查收集数据,对西安某高校移动图书馆服务质量进行分层次的模糊综合评判,多角度评估该校移动图书馆服务质量水平。[结果/结论]结果表明,信息质量是最重要的准则维度,有用性和丰富性是最为关键的子准则维度。运用ANP和模糊综合评判方法构建高校移动图书馆服务质量评价体系和权重估计具有较好的适用性,同时也可为提升移动图书馆服务质量水平提供借鉴。 相似文献
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Muhammad Yousuf Ali 《图书馆管理杂志》2017,57(1):87-98
Librarians are the custodians of library materials. University libraries have a large number of materials in their collections; these collections have different challenges to maintain their existence and utilization. Security and protection of these resources is a difficult task. Book theft or loss is a phenomenon naturally associated with libraries and librarians. This article is an attempt to provide an overview of existing conditions of theft and loss of library material and to describe a major initiative that has been taken to overcome the situation. This study was designed with survey methodology and circulated to library professionals at 172 university and degree awarding institutions. There were 94 responses (54.65%) received. The study revealed that librarians faced objections from auditors and sometimes paid a penalty for stolen or lost books. The theft and loss of materials are examined critically by university management, library committees, and internal and external auditors. Some library professionals are required to pay from their own pockets for stolen and lost material. However, a few librarians write off library books as per Pakistan's Higher Education Commission (HEC) rule. Research highlighted that most libraries have not used technology such as RFID, 3M, or EM Tags for the security of books. An effective technological book security system minimizes loss and provides relief for librarians from audit issues and financial penalties. 相似文献
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Debora Shaw 《资料收集管理》2013,38(3):117-132
Analysis of twenty-six college and university libraries' monographic holdings in WorldCat shows that university libraries hold radically more rare titles and their collections are seven times larger than college libraries. Language and Literature (Library of Congress [LC] class P) accounts for 30% of university and 27% of college holdings. The number of books held declines and the number owned by only one library increases after the 2000 publication year. Since then, total library budgets have barely kept pace with inflation and book budgets have declined as a percentage of library expenditures. These changes align with current emphasis on priorities other than book collections. 相似文献
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Emmanuel E. Baro Biokuromoye Fyneman Timi Zoukemefa 《Cataloging & classification quarterly》2013,51(6):675-696
The aim of the article is to investigate the level of job satisfaction among cataloger librarians in university libraries in Nigeria. Eighty-six catalogers from 29 university libraries in Nigeria participated in the survey. A questionnaire was used for data collection, which was e-mailed to catalogers. Overall, 86% of the catalogers surveyed were very or somewhat satisfied with their current job. The findings revealed that catalogers in university libraries in Nigeria are dissatisfied with dimensions such as roles and responsibilities, workplace culture, rewards (salaries/benefits), and professional development. On the other hand, they are satisfied with administration and supervision, performance evaluation, and opportunities. 相似文献
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高校图书馆是高校办学的三大支柱之一,其资源状况直接影响着高等教育的办学水平,是实现高等教育公平必不可少的关键因素。通过对广东高校图书馆资源现状及产生不公平现象原因的分析,提出了一些改进措施。 相似文献