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Henry Fayol's 14 Principles of Management: Implications for Libraries and Information Centres

  • Uzuegbu, C.P.;Nnadozie, C.O.
    • Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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    • 제3권2호
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    • pp.58-72
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    • 2015
  • This paper focuses generally on the ‘fourteen principles of management’ by Henri Fayol. However, it specifically analyses their application to and implications for libraries and information centres. An extensive review of published works on management generally, and library management in particular, was conducted. This yielded vital insights on the original meaning and later modifications of these principles, as well as their application in the management of various organisations. Consequently, the strengths and weaknesses of these principles were examined to determine their suitability in libraries and information centres. Inferences, illustrations, and examples were drawn from both developed and developing countries which gives the paper a global perspective. Based on available literature, it was concluded that Fayol’s principles of management are as relevant to libraries as they are in other organisations. The paper, therefore, recommends that in addition to modifying some aspects to make these principles more responsive to the peculiar needs of libraries, further research should be undertaken to expand the breadth of these principles and ascertain their impacts on the management of information organisations.

Feasibility of Community Information Centres and The Implications for Technological Innovations in Afikpo, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

  • Kingsley N. Igwe;Elizabeth O. Ndubuisi-Okoh;Patience Odenigbo
    • International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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    • 제13권2호
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    • pp.7-22
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    • 2023
  • The development of rural areas is expected to be holistic covering all essential infrastructure. Community information centres (CICs) are agen- cies that should be part of the infrastructures for rural development. Unfortunately, these centres are hardly seen in rural communities in Nigeria, including Afikpo in Ebonyi State. Thus, this study was conceived to explore the perceptions of citizens towards the establishment of CICs in the locality. It adopted survey research method with questionnaire as instrument for data collection, which was self-developed and validated by experts with a pre-texted reliability index of 0.72. A total of 399 copies of the questionnaire were distributed, out of which 267 copies were properly completed, representing 67% and were used for analysis. Findings revealed that the citizens have overall positive perception to- wards establishing the CICs; they are also knowledgeable of the benefits of such centres. Furthermore, there are workable suggestions on ways of establishing, funding and managing CICs in Afikpo. In addition, about 65% of the respondents indicated interest to assist and support the funding and management of the CICs when established. However, the challenges of inadequate funding and support as well as the possible politics of where to site/locate the CICs in Afikpo, are likely impediments to the project. The study concluded that citizens have strong and positive disposition towards establishing CICs in Afikpo. The implications of such CICs for technological innovations were analysed. The study recom- mends, among others, that government should see the establishment of CICs as priority projects that would significantly contribute to the growth and development of rural communities in Nigeria; communities in Afikpo should explore self-help approach to development; and political representatives from Afikpo should take advantage of establishing CICs as constituency projects for the citizens.

다양성을 전망한다 : 독일의 과학과 과학정보 (A Landscape of Diversity : Science and Scientific Information in Germany)

  • Christel, Mahnke
    • 정보관리연구
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    • 제32권2호
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    • pp.72-89
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    • 2001
  • 본고는 독일에 있어서의 과학기구와 과학기술정보유통의 최신 진전상황을 개관한다. 정보시대에 있어서 도서관 및 정보센터는 산업계, 일반회사를 비롯하여 과학계 어디에서도 지식관리의 중심적 존재가 되고 있다. 정보의 공정한 거래에 관한 적절한 해결책이 필요하다. 정보전문가는 디지털도서관과 새로운 메타데이터 체계를 구축하고 있다. 정보의 최신 과학정책과 관민(民官)의 협력에 의한 발의에 의해 이 진전은 가속화되고 있다.

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학교도서관 공간계획 방향에 대한 연구 - 프랑스 고등학교의 지식정보센터(CDI)를 중심으로 - (A Study on the space organization of the CDI in $Lyc\acute{e}es$)

  • 김경호;염대봉;김종석
    • 교육시설
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    • 제13권2호
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    • pp.42-49
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    • 2006
  • We have analysed the use and organization of space in the Centres des Documentations et de Informations(CDI) in lycees in France with the equivalent information centres. The majority of CDI are located in close proximity to the Academic staff and provide easy student access. The CDI provide not only books but also reviews, magazines and CD-Rom. This information is very important to pupils both in the pursuit of their higher studies and also with their future professional life as there is also careers information available to be discussed regularly with the careers advisor. The function of the CDI is not only to provide information. As part of the curriculum there are classes on how to access the information available in the CDI as well as Seminars and Audio-Visual courses. This management makes it possible for the CDI to operate, not only as a school library but also as a multi-function centre of documentation and information; a variety of spaces are also available: a room for private/small group study. A computer room (as well as a research corner), a reading room, monthly review room, photocopy room, rest room, exhibition room, careers information room, audio visual room etc. The results of this study can be used as essential information during the space planning of Korean school libraries in the future.

Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives of Five Laws of Libraries and its Influence on the Library Profession: Issues and Challenges

  • Krishnamurthy, M.
    • 한국문헌정보학회지
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    • 제45권4호
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    • pp.271-286
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    • 2011
  • The role of information in knowledge society has changed. Library refers to information centre, which is actively involved information collection and promoting use of for the development of individual and society. Modern libraries are the centres of interaction for all interested in accessing information and in participating in the marathon of the present competitive age. Information and a conducive environment of its free flow is a vital tool in all forms of human endeavour. It is the link pin of national development. For a nation to develop it needs to have and provide relevant, updated and adequate information on food security, health, democracy, population, education, family planning, youth empowerment, gender quality, environment etc. The information intermediaries are the persons to modulate these complexities and find match between the information sources and users needs to satisfaction of Ranganathan's law: Books are for use; Every reader his/her book; Every book its reader; Save the time of the reader; Library is a growing organism. The relative importance of these norms in modern context has been evident from experience, study, observations, discussions, etc., and only by scientists and technologists, but also by managers, planners, and policy makers. They recognize the usefulness of information in the performance of their needs information needs. Libraries are therefore proper management, provision and dissemination of such information. It is clearly visible in the contemporary context, that the libraries in the knowledge society are much more than the book depositories This article looks at the theory/practice divide in library and information science and particularly Ranganathan's contributions, basic statements remain as valid in substance if not in expression as -to-day as when they were promulgated, concisely representing the ideal service and organizational philosophy of libraries today.

중진국의 정보유통체제 연구 (A Survey of the Current Information Activities in the Advanced Developing Countries)

  • 최성진
    • 한국문헌정보학회지
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    • 제7권
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    • pp.89-195
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    • 1980
  • The advanced developing countries including Korea are assumed to have reached a developmental stage which necessitates them to formulate and implement a plan for a national information network. Most of the governments in the advanced developing countries are well aware of the necessity for such a plan and some of them have actually commenced their studies on the feasibility of a national network of their own hoping to achieve maximum utility of their limited information resources. Two urgent problems facing planners in the design of a national information network are identified. One is lack of an optimum organisational model to enable them to meet their own situations, and the other is lack of a guideline to help designers evaluate the alternative structures and models when they are available. In resolving these two problems, network planners in the advanced developing countries would benefit from the achievement of the objectives of the present study. The major objective is to elicit and describe common information needs, desires and value of the people using information, and other common factors which are responsible for the present information services in the advanced developing countries and which have implications for the basic structure of the national information network. The value of this study is to aid administrators in Korea and those in the other advanced developing countries who are responsible for making national policies and who are now beginning to recognise the need for information services with the planning of economic and social development so as to enable all the groups in the community to have access to the information which are essential for decision making, research work, studies and even for recreational reading. This recognition will hopefully give them a rational basis for formulating right policies on information services. The methodology utlised for collecting the required data in this study falls under the category of observation and largely consists of the two techniques: literature review and postal questionnaire. Background information on the individual advanced developing: countries was gathered from monographic and periodical literature. and country reports presented at the various international conferences were analysed for other relevant data. For most of the data needed for the present study, a questionnaire on 'Library and Information Services as They Are Available in the Selected Countries' was formulated. This questionnaire was designed to be completed without help, by an expert who was well informed of the library and information services in his or her country. The questionnaire was intended to look in details at what information services in the advanced developing countries were doing-whom they were serving, in what way, and how well and establish to what extent they were meeting the nation's information requirements. It was also intended to ascertain the respondents' ideas on possible future developments in information provision in their countries, that is, in the advanced devanced developing countries. The questionnaire was posted to a total of 63 natinal librarians, directors of national information centres and those of other major libraries or information centres in 21 selected countries. Complete usable responses were received from 34 persons in 14 countries. In order to identify common characteristics of the information needs and desires in the advanced developing countries and the present situation of the information services to meet them, and the requirements and constraints peculiar to those countries which bought to be considered in the design of a national information network for advanced developing countries, an individual report on the current status of information activities for each of the fourteen countries chosen for this study, was presented. The procedure used was to arrange the data acquired in the questionnaire responses and other sources, in the form of fifteen country reports to be summarised by cross-section characteristics later.

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한국초록집의 특성 (Some General Characteristics of the Abstracting Journals Published in Korea)

  • 최성진
    • 한국비블리아학회지
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    • 제7권1호
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    • pp.5-22
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    • 1994
  • 1984년에 발행된 本誌 第6輯에 필자는 당시의 한국초록서비스의 技術現況에 대하여 조사한 결과를 발표한 바 있다. 그로부터 10년이 지난 금년에 필자는 다시 類似한 範圍와 內容의 조사를 행하여 한국초록서비스의 變化 또는 발전의 實相을 밝혀 보려고 한다. 금년 조사의 실제적 意圖는 초록서비스의 주요 道具인 이 나라 초록지의 발전과정을 10년이라는 비교적 긴 기간에 걸쳐서 觀察하고 그 持續的 특성이 어떤 것인지를 定義하려는 데 있다. 한 나라 초록지의 일반적 특성을 어느 해에 實行한 한번의 조사결과에 기초하여 定義하기는 어렵다. 韓國抄錄서비스의 기술현황을 조사한 결과 부분은 금년 여름 "한국문헌정보학회지" 발표하였으므로(최성진, 1994) 여기서는 지난 10년 동안에 관찰된 한국초록지의 일반적 특성에 대해서만 制限的으로 살펴보려고 한다. 그러나 本稿의 論議가 대부분 위의 記事와 같은 資料에 根據한 것이므로 그것을 참고하면 이해에 도움이 될 것이다. 硏究開發投資가 해마다 증가하여 최근 한국에는 많은 연구보고문헌 이 생산 축적되고 있지만 그것을 각분야 연구자와 기술자들에게 신속히 알려서 효과적으로 이용하게 해야 할 초록지는 그 種數도 적고 내용 또한 贊弱한 형편이다. 한국초록지의 내용을 충실히 하고 이용자 들에게 硏究速報媒體로서 더 유용하게 하려면 먼저 그 일반적 특성이 어떤 것이며 長點과 短點은 어떤 것인지를 定義할 필요가 있다. 本稿는 그러한 定義를 試圖하려는 것이다. 情報奉仕는 그것을 출현시킨 국가의 전통과 관습에 따라 조금씩 다른 모양으로 발전한다. 결과적으로 각국의 정보봉사나 그 도구인 초록지의 형태에도 多少間에 差異가 나타난다. 本稿는 그러한 觀點에서 世界의 普遍的 抄錄誌 形態에서 벗어나는 韓國抄錄誌의 特性을 밝히는 데 論議를 集中시키려고 한다.

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