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Digital disaster management in libraries in India
Authors: Zaveri Parul 
Published: June 2015

Purpose– Disaster management is an issue that has received relatively little attention in libraries, particularly in India. With the growth in digital resources in libraries, it is necessary for librarians to understand and apply the ways of protecting digital data and the related equipment from disaster. The purpose of this paper is to address the issues related to digital data protection in libraries in India. It aims to investigate the perceptions of librarians about the probability of digital disasters happening in their libraries, and to assess the level of digital disaster preparedness among libraries.Design/methodology/approach– A questionnaire based survey of 276 libraries in the Western region of India was conducted to find out the digital data protection measures taken by them. The paper provides an overview and analysis of the general trends in digital data protection in these libraries.Findings– The research results indicate that due to lack of knowledge about handling of digital data, and inadequate digital infrastructure setup in organizations, the chances of loss of digital data are high. However, common measures like taking backup of data manually are mostly followed by all libraries. The paper has identified the trends in protection of digital data, as well as the lacunae, in Indian libraries. Basic guidelines on digital data preservation are also presented in the paper.Practical implications– The guidelines provided in the paper will be useful to any libraries to take measures for protection of the digital data. The libraries will be able to prepare their digital data protection plan and train the staff accordingly.Originality/value– This paper is the first to address the issue of digital disaster management in libraries in India. It provides a detailed analysis of digital data protection measures taken by Indian libraries currently.
An analysis of file format control in institutional repositories
Authors: Termens Miquel , Ribera Mireia , Locher Anita 
Published: June 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to analyze the file formats of the digital objects stored in two of the largest open-access repositories in Spain, DDUB and TDX, and determines the implications of these formats for long-term preservation, focussing in particular on the different versions of PDF.Design/methodology/approach– To be able to study the two repositories, the authors harvested all the files corresponding to every digital object and some of their associated metadata using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) protocols. The file formats were analyzed with DROID software and some additional tools.Findings– The results show that there is no alignment between the preservation policies declared by institutions, the technical tools available, and the actual stored files.Originality/value– The results show that file controls currently applied to institutional repositories do not suffice to grant their stated mission of long-term preservation of scientific literature.
A semi-automatic indexing system based on embedded information in HTML documents
Authors: Vállez Mari , Pedraza-Jiménez Rafael , Codina Lluís , Blanco Saúl , Rovira Cristòfol 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the tool DigiDoc MetaEdit which allows the semi-automatic indexing of HTML documents. The tool works by identifying and suggesting keywords from a thesaurus according to the embedded information in HTML documents. This enables the parameterization of keyword assignment based on how frequently the terms appear in the document, the relevance of their position, and the combination of both.

Design/methodology/approach
– In order to evaluate the efficiency of the indexing tool, the descriptors/keywords suggested by the indexing tool are compared to the keywords which have been indexed manually by human experts. To make this comparison a corpus of HTML documents are randomly selected from a journal devoted to Library and Information Science.

Findings
– The results of the evaluation show that there: first, is close to a 50 per cent match or overlap between the two indexing systems, however, if you take into consideration the related terms and the narrow terms the matches can reach 73 per cent; and second, the first terms identified by the tool are the most relevant.

Originality/value
– The tool presented identifies the most important keywords in an HTML document based on the embedded information in HTML documents. Nowadays, representing the contents of documents with keywords is an essential practice in areas such as information retrieval and e-commerce.
Academic library leadership in the digital age
Authors: Le Binh P. 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to focus on academic library leadership in the digital age. Primarily, the goals are to identify: first, the top five major challenges facing academic library leadership; second, the top five most important leadership skills required for effective academic library leadership; and finally, the top five best ways to develop these academic library leadership skills.

Design/methodology/approach
– A survey was conducted to elicit responses from individuals who hold senior library leadership positions in American academic libraries throughout the USA. The participants were identified through several means: the web sites of the ALA and its divisions; the web sites of American universities; referrals; and the author’s professional contacts. To simplify the survey research process, e-mails including the survey research questions were sent to potential participants. In all, 38 invitations (n=38) were sent out to large and medium-size academic libraries throughout the USA. Over 36.8 percent (n=14) of the participants returned the survey. The participants represent a wide spectrum of libraries.

Findings
– The top five major challenges are how to: demonstrate the library values to the university community, operate the library under fiscal uncertainty, retrofit outdated library facilities to accommodate new services, strike a balance between digital and print materials, and keep the library staff trained and current. The top five essential academic library leadership attributes are: vision, integrity, management skills, collaboration skills, and communication skills. The top five best ways to acquire these skills include the need to have mentors, to attend leadership development programs, to gain practical library leadership experience, to seek leadership roles, and to know oneself.

Originality/value
– Research in this area is rather limited. As a result, this study will contribute to the academic library leadership literature and help current and aspiring academic library leaders worldwide with insightful leadership lessons needed to lead academic libraries successfully in this transformational era.
To seize the emerging historical opportunity of the networked knowledge
Authors: Lu Kai , Shen Beijun , Ju Dehua 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore a new way for knowledge services of the digital library which can transform knowledge resources into real social value.

Design/methodology/approach
– The “Internet of Knowledge” approach was proposed for the first time as an intentional means to organize “Too Big” and scattered knowledge resources into high-efficiency fuels for driving purposeful knowledge works.

Findings
– It is a new methodology and insight proposed for building digital libraries which stresses on active and diligent services with linked and shared resources rather than resource ownership.

Research limitations/implications
– The proposed knowledge organization is based on domain-specific body of knowledge. The engagement of domain experts is the key success factor.

Practical implications
– The whole design framework has been adopted in constructing the new Zhoushan Ocean Digital Library to support sustainable development of marine economy.

Originality/value
– The proposed knowledge cloud services will be pave a knowledge superhighway to help millions Chinese professionals stepping toward the technology peak.
Policy framework on social welfare information management and services for Nigerian public libraries
Authors: Abdullahi Jamilu 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– Looking at the present Nigeria’s quest to become one of the top 20 economies of the world by the year 2020, the purpose of this paper is to propose that Nigerian public libraries, as key players in community development, should provide resources and services for the promotion of social welfare sector of the country by introducing relevant key information management and service policies. These strategic policies should include identification of various user groups, deployment of specialized information professionals, provision of adequate financial resources, social welfare information resource development planning, effective information service delivery system, partnership arrangements and adaptation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

Design/methodology/approach
– Essential to this paper is to take into account the importance and relevancy of policies, strategies and procedures of information management and services to Nigerian public libraries.

Findings
– There is continuous rising concerns about the current situation of the country’s socio-economic problems and challenges. However, despite the problem of poor and inadequate ICT facilities in Nigerian public libraries, the ICT infrastructure including the internet will significantly enhance the social welfare information service process in these libraries, if fully adopted. Also very important here is that, the libraries should support community awareness programs on local radio stations or local television channels to compliment the collection of materials in the library.

Originality/value
– Nigerian public libraries should be seen as places for all; and participants in community activities must therefore provide relevant data and information to social welfare workers for effective policy/decision making. It is also important that the libraries should help in the identification of areas of welfare that require urgent attention or thorough investigation, examination and analysis.
Library as knowledge ecosystem
Authors: Ju Dehua , Shen Beijun 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to develop a network-based approach for doing active knowledge services in the coming networked knowledge era.

Design/methodology/approach
– A novel solution so-called “Internet of Knowledge (IoK)” is proposed in this paper, which can be used to organize scattered resources into a value-added knowledge asset for serving any specific objective through internet connection.

Findings
– It enables the public library to be an attractive habitat for both knowledge consumers and contributors to share and co-create knowledge works. It will be an ideal ecosystem for supporting the growth of knowledge-intensive industries.

Research limitations/implications
– A pilot system has being developed to promote the development of marine economy.

Practical implications
– The IoK-based approach is expected to be applied to more domains in the next China’s five-year plan.

Originality/value
– The main contribution is to integrate many great ideas from world gurus into a single solution framework, in other words, an integration innovation.
Challenges in the digital information era
Authors: Tran Hoan Anh Thi 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to reveal a practical situation at a public library as General Sciences Library (GSL).

Design/methodology/approach
– The effects of the digital information environment to activities of public library how to deal with this challenging based on the situation of the GSL of HoChiMinh City. The process of changing from traditional services to modern services the difficulties that GSL has experienced and lesson-learns.

Findings
– The difficulties during the period of changing the library is just the challenges to help GSL improves our position in the community of users.

Originality/value
– This is a conceptual paper which is presented at the Shanghai International Library Forum on July 2014.
Promotion and tenure: Carnegie reclassification triggers a revision
Authors: Shropshire Sandra , Semenza Jenny Lynne , Kearns Karen 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive assessment of promotion and tenure for librarians in light of increased scrutiny and expectations by the administration of Idaho State University (ISU). This increased rigour was prompted by a move up in the Carnegie Classification System.

Design/methodology/approach
– A literature review was performed using library databases, as well as assessing peer institution promotion and tenure documents. Additionally ongoing feedback from University administrators was solicited. The process took for the creation of a new promotion and tenure document for ISU library took two years from the beginning of the project to the final approved document.

Findings
– The study found a dearth of performance benchmarks in both literature and peer institution policies and required the authors, along with other library faculty, to create evidence based benchmarks for ISU aligned with traditional standards of teaching, research and service.

Originality/value
– This paper is an inclusive assessment of the literature on faculty promotion and tenure, the policies of ISU’s peer institutions, and the change of Carnegie Classification’s impact on the ISU policies.
Managing library innovation using the lean startup method
Authors: Bieraugel Mark 
Published: June 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to argue the case that libraries should use the lean startup method for developing, managing and launching radically innovative services or products.Design/methodology/approach– Libraries need to innovate but do not have the management structure to handle the extreme uncertainty in implementing radical innovations. This paper examines the lean startup method for managing innovation, explores how it differs from traditional management tools, outlines the reasons for and barriers to innovation in libraries and highlights the new tools required to manage innovation. This paper also discusses the culture of innovation in libraries and how libraries innovate. The lean startup method is examined through the lens of a variety of innovation models.Findings– The lean startup method for managing radical innovations is shown to be a sound alternative to traditional library management methods.Originality/value– This paper is one of the few to examine a practical method for librarians to manage radical innovations in academic libraries.
Debt seniority and mergers
Authors: Sverdlove Ronald 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to show how corporate policy with respect to the seniority structure of debt changes after a merger.

Design/methodology/approach
– The author uses data on the seniority and other properties of outstanding bonds of acquiring and target firms before mergers and of the combined firm after the merger. The author tests whether a combined firm that has acquired junior debt in the merger attempts to move toward the senior-only structure of the acquiring firm before the merger.

Findings
– The author finds that acquiring firms do not rapidly move back toward that structure after acquiring senior debt.

Research limitations/implications
– The results of this study are consistent with those of many recent studies on capital structure, which find that changes in capital structure tend to persist, and that firms are slow to revert to previous structures aftershocks, such as those that may result from mergers.

Practical implications
– The paper suggests that there may be an advantage for firms to sell off acquired junior debt after a merger.

Originality/value
– This paper extends previous studies of capital structure to the more detailed level of debt seniority structure.
An assessment of the risk and return of residential real estate
Authors: Domian Dale , Wolf Rob , Yang Hsiao-Fen 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– The home is a substantial investment for most individual investors but the assessment of risk and return of residential real estate has not been well explored yet. The existing real estate pricing literature using a CAPM-based model generally suggests very low risk and unexplained excess returns. However, many academics suggest the residential real estate market is unique and standard asset pricing models may not fully capture the risk associated with the housing market. The purpose of this paper is to extend the asset pricing literature on residential real estate by providing improved CAPM estimates of risk and required return.

Design/methodology/approach
– The improvements include the use of a levered β which captures the leverage risk and Lin and Vandell (2007) Time on Market risk premium which captures the additional liquidity risk of residential real estate.

Findings
– In addition to presenting palatable risk and return estimates for a national real estate index, the results of this paper suggest the risk and return characteristics of multiple cities tracked by the Case Shiller Home Price Index are distinct.

Originality/value
– The results show higher estimates of risk and required return levels than previous research, which is more consistent with the academic expectation that housing performs between stocks and bonds. In contrast to most previous studies, the authors find residential real estate underperforms based on risk, using standard financial models.
Review of websites of particular use to social work students and social workers
Authors: Clink Kellian 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– This paper aims to provide a rationale for seeking out and making federal, state and non-governmental Web sites available to social work students and social workers and describe a number of valuable resources, primarily from the non-governmental agencies, as they can be more difficult to identify.

Design/methodology/approach
– Resources included here include those that illuminate policy issues in general followed by those dealing with specific populations or issues. They have been identified both by systematic study and the serendipity that results from 27 years of experience seeking resources for undergraduate and graduate students in social work.

Findings
– These Web sites provide timely and authoritative information of particular interest to social work students or practitioners: first, Web sites that help illuminate policy and practices related to supporting low income people; and then, Web sites focusing on specific (geographically or topically) information needs.

Research limitations/implications
– The author is most familiar with sources that have been useful to undergraduate social work students and graduate students in a program that focuses on rural social work.

Practical implications
– The information in the Web sites described is timely and authoritative and should be part of the resources that are made known to students, faculty and practitioners in this discipline to inform their work.

Social implications
– Not every library can afford to subscribe to the valuable research presented in social work journals. Nor can they afford to purchase every book that might be valuable to social workers. They can, however, be knowledgeable about Web sites that present good, data-rich information as well as models of successful programming and services. In addition, it seems valuable for social workers in one state to build on the ideas that other practitioners are utilizing in another state. These Web sites often provide that kind of cross-pollination.

Originality/value
– While the organizations that create these Web sites have been around for decades, the literature in library science focuses primarily on collection development activities around books, electronic books and journals, while the Web sites which are free, authoritative and timely get a lot less attention.
Impacts of adaptive collaboration on demand forecasting accuracy of different product categories throughout the product life cycle
Authors: Nagashima Masayasu , Wehrle Frederick T. , Kerbache Laoucine , Lassagne Marc 
Published: June 2015

Purpose
– This paper aims to empirically analyze how adaptive collaboration in supply chain management impacts demand forecast accuracy in short life-cycle products, depending on collaboration intensity, product life-cycle stage, retailer type and product category.

Design/methodology/approach
– The authors assembled a data set of forecasts and sales of 169 still-camera models, made by the same manufacturer and sold by three different retailers in France over five years. Collaboration intensity, coded by collaborative planning forecasting and replenishment level, was used to analyze the main effects and specific interaction effects of all variables using ANOVA and ordered feature evaluation analysis (OFEA).

Findings
– The findings lend empirical support to the long-standing assumption that supply chain collaboration intensity increases demand forecast accuracy and that product maturation also increases forecast accuracy even in short life-cycle products. Furthermore, the findings show that it is particularly the lack of collaboration that causes negative effects on forecast accuracy, while positive interaction effects are only found for life cycle stage and product category.

Practical implications
– Investment in adaptive supply chain collaboration is shown to increase demand forecast accuracy. However, the choice of collaboration intensity should account for life cycle stage, retailer type and product category.

Originality/value
– This paper provides empirical support for the adaptive collaboration concept, exploring not only the actual benefits but also the way it is achieved in the context of innovative products with short life cycles. The authors used a real-world data set and pushed its statistical analysis to a new level of detail using OFEA.
Does implementing social supplier development practices pay off?
Authors: Sancha Cristina , Gimenez Cristina , Sierra Vicenta , Kazeminia Ali 
Published: June 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is twofold. First is to investigate the impact of social supplier development practices on the suppliers’ social performance. Second is to analyze if the implementation of supplier development practices by Western buying firms pays off in terms of operational and economic results.Design/methodology/approach– Hypotheses are tested in a sample of 120 Spanish manufacturing firms using Path Analysis.Findings– The results suggest that while supplier development practices help to improve the suppliers’ social performance and the buying firm’s operational performance, they do not pay off in terms of economic performance.Research limitations/implications– The paper shows that supplier development practices help to improve the suppliers’ social performance while improving the operational performance of the buying firm. The study has two main limitations. First, because cross-sectional data are used, possible recursive relationships could not be accounted for. Second, the study is limited to the Spanish scope and, as such, results need to be interpreted in that context.Practical implications– The results of this study provide insights to managers with respect to the implementation of supplier development practices to make their suppliers more socially responsible. Furthermore, managers are shown the implications of implementing such practices in terms of operational and economic outcomes.Originality/value– This paper contributes to the existing literature on the effectiveness of sustainable supplier development practices by including the suppliers’ performance, which has been generally neglected. Objective measures for economic performance are also included.