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Managing Knowledge in Academic Libraries Are we? Should we?

2016

This article gives an overview of the field of knowledge management and suggests how this can be applied to academic libraries. A literature review has been conducted and has been subject to a critical analysis of comparison to IFLAs standard for “Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices” (IFLA, 2015). Here IFLA has identified 10 points of best practice. These 10 points will be measured against the literature in the field of knowledge management to ascertain if academic libraries would benefit from a stronger relation to knowledge management.

Expanding possibilities: Project work using ICT

2005

www.humantechnology.jyu.fi; One of the main findings from the SITES Module 2 study internationally is the increased use of project work connected to the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in many countries around the world. The Norwegian cases presented in this article support these findings, showing that when teachers and students use ICT in school settings, it is most often part of project work. However, there is a need to analyze to a larger degree the project work using ICT. In this article, project work using ICT is analyzed firstly by studying the changes in learning environment that the technology represents or as a catalyst for physical changes in the spaces in…

Using the ITIL Process Reference Model for Realizing IT Governance: An Empirical Investigation

2014

Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITIL is a popular framework for IT governance, but little academic research on ITIL exists. The authors investigate the overlap between ITIL and IT governance practices to illustrate ITIL's potential to stimulate IT governance. A field study shows that IT implementation success is particularly influenced by group efficacy and organizational resources, and, to a lesser extent, senior-management involvement. Findings show that ITIL, as expected, is a framework that contributes to IT governance by stimulating process management practices.

The Ph.D.-candidate as an information literate resource: developing research support and information literacy skills in an informal setting

2013

Published version of an article in the journal Liber Quarterly, Open Access This article aims to suggest a new way of developing research support for PhD-candidates. Previous research on the field of research support is greatly focused on librarians’ competencies and how to assist researchers with what they lack in information literacy (IL) skills. There is little focus on collaboration with researchers to achieve a mutual learning outcome in regard to developing research support and IL skills. A socio-cultural view on IL indicates that IL skills are developed in a context, and therefore are situated. A high level of IL in one situation could be regarded as insufficient in another. Therefor…

Misiņa bibliotēka laiku lokos

2018

DIAMIN: a software library for the distributed analysis of large-scale molecular interaction networks

2022

AbstractBackgroundHuge amounts of molecular interaction data are continuously produced and stored in public databases. Although many bioinformatics tools have been proposed in the literature for their analysis, based on their modeling through different types of biological networks, several problems still remain unsolved when the problem turns on a large scale.ResultsWe propose , that is, a high-level software library to facilitate the development of applications for the efficient analysis of large-scale molecular interaction networks. relies on distributed computing, and it is implemented in Java upon the framework Apache Spark. It delivers a set of functionalities implementing different ta…

Misiņa bibliotēka Latvijas Valsts arhīva materiālos

2018

Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnālam - 80

2017

Latvijas Universitātes Bibliotēkas virtuālās izstādes materiāls. Par godu Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāla 80 gadu jubilejai izveidota virtuālā izstāde atspoguļo izdevuma attīstību no tā pirmsākumiem 1937. gadā līdz mūsdienām. Izstāde iepazīstina ar žurnāla vēsturi, sniedz ieskatu nozīmīgāko personu, kuri veidojuši žurnāla koncepciju un strādājuši pie tā tapšanas dzīves gājumos, aplūko žurnālā publicēto rakstu tematiku un to skaita izmaiņas.

Exploring health information technology implementation success factors: a comparative investigation in Nordic countries

2016

The implementation of health information technology (HIT) can improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare services. There is a gap in terms of generalising and systematising the results of previous research and in understanding HIT implementation worldwide. The majority of studies on HIT implementation have been conducted in North America, most of which are case studies or other qualitative research. In this research, we surveyed IT managers in Nordic healthcare and used factor analysis to uncover success factor groups. Six groups emerged: culture conducive to change, quality of system and service, collaboration, alignment, end-user involvement, and management commitment. We found that…

Reinventing librarians: assistance in the scholarly communication process

2014

Presentation from the workshop "Informational services for research process" (14.-16.04.2014., Riga).