Publisher's Synopsis
Traditional Functions of Libraries: Branch Library Book-selection Subject: Book Selection Book-Order Supply of Standing Order Periodical Publications Accessioning Preparation of the Books Maintenance Work Open Access Without Guides Used Books Damaged Books Specification for Reinforced Library Binding Finance and Accounts in Libraries Building and Stores Opening Routine Preventive Injuries - Management, Information and Development: On the Librarianship of Poverty Information Work and Poverty The Pattern of Information Services must Reflect the Resources of the Country The Role of Information Workers The Existing Social Factors and their Implications for Information Workers Infrastructure for the Development of an Information Policy Objectives of the Information Policy and Evaluation of its Practical Results - Approaches in Library Management: Management and Administration Library Management Taking Economic Factors into Account Managerial Functions The Library Manager Management and the Information Service Delegation of the Power of Decision Management Training and Background - Computer Library Management: The Workings of Library Supply of Computers to Members Integrating Knowledge Management Technologies in Organizational Business Processes Disconnects between Disruptive Information Technologies and Relevant Knowledge Decreasing Utility of the Technology-push Model Strategic Execution: The Real Driver of Business Performance Will the Real Knowledge Management Please Stand-up? Real Time Strategic Execution: the Real Enabler of the RTE Gaps in KM Implementation Research and Practice Coming of the Real Time Enterprise: the New Knowledge Management RTE Business Models: Function should Drive the Choice of Form Enabling the RTE: Ends should Drive the Choice of Means Why do Some RTE Businesses Succeed (where others fail)? GE: RTE Automation for Operational Efficiencies Cisco: Real Time Enterprise Technology Troubles Enron: Destroyed in Real Time Computer Science Education for Library Services The Mainframe Era Minicomputers and the Rise of UNIX The Case of 8-bit Home Computers and Game Consoles The Personal Computer Era: Apple, PC/MS/DR-DOS and Beyond... -