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Digital libraries: to meet or manage user expectations
Authors: Bawden David , Vilar Polona 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to review the nature of, and rationale for, user expectations in the digital library setting, and ways in which they may best be met and/or managed.Design/methodology/approachAn analysis of the literature, focusing on empirical studies, and bringing out main themes and issues.FindingsUser expectations of digital libraries are often unrealistic, usually unrealistically high, mainly due to the ubiquity of the web search engine as an information environment. Expectations differ between user groups. Both meeting and managing expectations have been promoted as a solution; it is likely that a mix of the two will be most effective. More empirical and conceptual studies are needed. Ways of making the nature of digital library collections and their organisation “visible”, embedded in a natural way within their interfaces, are desirable.Originality/valueThis is the first paper to review the literature of this topic.
Creating a coaching culture
Authors: Megginson David , Clutterbuck David 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThis paper aims to summarise the author's recent research into what is involved in creating a coaching culture.Design/methodology/approachBased on a series of organisation cases six dimensions are identified and four sub‐dimensions within each, and an instrument is developed that assesses the level of development of organisations across these dimensions. More work remains to be done in validating the instrument, but it has already been found to provide a framework for consideration of the issues in creating a coaching culture in a number of international organisations.FindingsThe study finds that addressing the organisational dimension by exploring the agenda for creating a coaching culture is one way to direct attention and energy towards the business benefits. The fuller findings of this study are published as in Making Coaching Work: Creating a Coaching Culture.Practical implicationsThe article provides an agenda for practitioners – both business leaders and development advisors, and also offers a framework for future research.Originality/valueThis article seeks to highlight the paucity of previous research in this area and to outline what can be done in practice to enhance the impact of coaching so that it affects the organisation culture, not simply the behaviour of individual managers.
Team working: part I – an evaluation of current thinking
Authors: McGreevy Malcolm 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThe received wisdom is that team working is a good thing and is spoken about positively as a means of promoting co‐operation and of making the best use of employees' strengths. This article seeks to examine why this may be and to address the four areas highlighted by ACAS where improvements are made, i.e. productivity, quality, the use of new technology, and motivation.Design/methodology/approachThe paper explores here in the light of the current organisational environment.FindingsThe study outlines the lessons learned in introducing teamwork, the need for managerial commitment, the changes in culture that can be promoted by team working and how to go about planning for change.Originality/valueThe paper presents a practical and realistic view. This is the first of two articles on the subject. The second will deal with the issues of establishing and running teams.
Query expansion via conceptual distance in thesaurus indexed collections
Authors: Tudhope Douglas , Binding Ceri , Blocks Dorothee , Cunliffe Daniel 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore query expansion via conceptual distance in thesaurus indexed collectionsDesign/methodology/approachAn extract of the National Museum of Science and Industry's collections database, indexed with the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), was the dataset for the research. The system architecture and algorithms for semantic closeness and the matching function are outlined. Standalone and web interfaces are described and formative qualitative user studies are discussed. One user session is discussed in detail, together with a scenario based on a related public inquiry. Findings are set in context of the literature on thesaurus‐based query expansion. This paper discusses the potential of query expansion techniques using the semantic relationships in a faceted thesaurus.FindingsThesaurus‐assisted retrieval systems have potential for multi‐concept descriptors, permitting very precise queries and indexing. However, indexer and searcher may differ in terminology judgments and there may not be any exactly matching results. The integration of semantic closeness in the matching function permits ranked results for multi‐concept queries in thesaurus‐indexed applications. An in‐memory representation of the thesaurus semantic network allows a combination of automatic and interactive control of expansion and control of expansion on individual query terms.Originality/valueThe application of semantic expansion to browsing may be useful in interface options where thesaurus structure is hidden.
Using OAI‐PMH and METS for exporting metadata and digital objects between repositories
Authors: Bell Jonathan , Lewis Stuart 
Published: July 2006

PurposeTo examine the relationship between deposit of electronic theses in institutional and archival repositories. Specifically the paper considers the automated export of theses for deposit in the archival repository in continuation of the existing arrangement in Wales for paper‐based theses.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents a description of software that makes use of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI‐PMH) as the first stage in the automatic import and ingest of items between institutional and archival repositories. The implications of this approach on the management of the institutional repository are also considered.FindingsThe paper shows that OAI‐PMH is a useful approach to harvesting the metadata for items to be imported into an archival repository. This reduces the difficulty of maintenance of the import and export software components albeit at the possible expense of necessitating certain requirements on the management of the institutional repository.Research implications/limitationsThe research shows that institutions can make use of OAI‐PMH as a part of an automated export/import process, encouraging the preservation of multiple copies of digital items for increased safety of the content.Practical implicationsThe software has been developed and is being tested. It is proving capable of performing the required harvesting but the relative imprecision of searching in OAI‐PMH has implications for the management of the exporting repository. These are discussed.Originality/valueThe paper presents a description and discussion of novel software components that enable the use of OAI‐PMH as the first stage in the export and import of digital items between repositories, independently (as far as is practicable) of the software used by the repositories themselves.
Production system design elements influencing productivity and ergonomics
Authors: Neumann W.P. , Winkel J. , Medbo L. , Magneberg R. , Mathiassen S.E. 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate a strategic change from parallel cell‐based assembly (old) to serial‐line assembly (new) in a Swedish company with special reference to how production system design elements affect both productivity and ergonomics.Design/methodology/approachMultiple methods, including records and video analysis, questionnaires, interviews, biomechanical modelling, and flow simulation were applied.FindingsThe new system, unlike the old, showed the emergence of system and balance losses as well as vulnerability to disturbances and difficulty handling all product variants. Nevertheless, the new system as realised partially overcame productivity barriers in the operation and management of the old system. The new system had impaired ergonomics due to decreased physical variation and increased repetitiveness with cycle times that were 6 per cent of previous thus increasing repetitiveness, and significantly reducing perceived influence over work. Workstations' uneven exposure to physical tasks such as nut running created a potential problem for workload management. The adoption of teamwork in the new system contributed to significantly increased co‐worker support – an ergonomic benefit.Practical implicationsDesign decisions made early in the development process affect both ergonomics and productivity in the resulting system. While the time pattern of physical loading appeared to be controlled by flow and work organisation elements, the amplitude of loading was determined more by workstation layout. Psychosocial conditions appear to be affected by a combination of system elements including layout, flow, and work organisation elements. Strategic use of parallelisation elements in assembly, perhaps in hybrid forms from configurations observed here, appears to be a viable design option for improved performance by reducing the fragility and ergonomic problems of assembly lines.Originality/valueThe interacting design elements examined here pose potential “levers” of control by which productivity and ergonomics could be jointly optimised for improved total system performance.
Vision today for assembly automation
Authors: Braggins Donald 
Published: July 2006

PurposeTo show how advances in machine vision technology are of particular benefit to automated assembly.Design/methodology/approachThe review concentrates on algorithms, cost effectiveness, and communications aspects of currently available commercial systems.FindingsVision is now very robust, affordable, and capable of being used at every stage in the assembly process.Originality/valueThe vision industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace and readers who may have been disappointed when they investigated the technology only a few years ago should learn how today's systems have improved.
Six sigma: effective handling of deep rooted quality problems
Authors: Lee‐Mortimer Andrew 
Published: July 2006

PurposeDetails the implementation of six sigma at one UK based manufacturing company.Design/methodology/approachDescribes how and why one company has introduced six sigma, and looks at a number of specific improvement projects – the approach taken, the common fault causes and the benefits gained from introducing new practices.FindingsSix sigma has enabled the company to eliminate a wide range of long standing process variation problems. The projects undertaken highlight the importance of a structured process and the importance of data collection. Only when working with the facts, rather than on “gut feeling” do the real causes become clear and solutions effective.Originality/valueBrings to the attention of managers how six sigma can be used to enhance existing improvement efforts, and uses specific examples to show how the approach can be used to tackle long standing, and often hidden, quality issues.
Blades for feeding 3D parts on vibratory tracks
Authors: Goemans Onno C. , Goldberg Ken , van der Stappen A. Frank 
Published: July 2006

PurposeProposes a simple bowl feeder primitive, consisting of one horizontally mounted convex polygonal metal “blade” that can feed a broad class of three‐dimensional polyhedral parts by reorienting and rejecting all but those in a desired orientation. Owing to its simplicity, the proposed primitive allows for the development of methods to automate its design process.Design/methodology/approachPresents a computational geometric approach to construct the solution space for a given part and then use this space to report all designs that feed the part.FindingsGiven a polyhedral part and its center of mass as input, the complete algorithm identifies all single blade solutions that feed the part. The output is either the set of all valid blade designs or a notification that the part cannot be fed using a single blade.Research limitations/implicationsAims to take a first step in the design of complete algorithms for three‐dimensional parts in the context of vibratory bowls. Future research encompasses the relaxation of several simplifying assumptions with regard to the physical modeling of the motion and interaction with the part.Practical implicationsAlgorithms like the one proposed can be applied to generate an initial vibratory bowl design. The strength of our algorithm lies in its completeness which means that it identifies the complete universe of all possible designs. Such a rigorous exploration can neither be accomplished through human trail‐and‐error nor through heuristic approaches to automated design.Originality/valueProposes the first complete algorithm for automated design of a 3D part manipulator for vibratory bowls, which may serve as a building block for fully automated bowl design.
Networked embedded automation
Authors: Hayslip Nunzio , Sastry Shivakumar , Gerhardt Jon S. 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThe aim of this research is to investigate whether a collection of tiny, resource constrained, microcontrollers that communicate with each other over wireless links can perform rigorous automation tasks.Design/methodology/approachWe identify three building blocks that are necessary to obtain large conveyor systems. The operation of each building block is regulated by a local microcontroller and the microcontrollers interact via wireless links to coordinate the operations across blocks. We define the actions necessary in each block and discuss two example applications for this method.FindingsIt is necessary to fundamentally revisit how automation applications are engineered to get the benefits of new technologies. We show that the three blocks that we call segment, turnaround and crossover are sufficient to obtain a large variety of conveyor systems. By embedding the blocks in a grid, we can simplify the design of the conveyor systems.Research limitations/implicationsExtensions of this research to identify a set of building blocks for discrete automation applications and motion control applications could provide new insights, architectures and methods for future automation systems.Practical implicationsWhen fully realized, this approach can save engineering costs, commissioning costs and provide new approaches for managing faults in automation systems.Originality/valueThe three building blocks for conveyor systems and the method of programming the blocks that allows the blocks to be configured in a variety of ways to realize conveyor systems for many applications.
Tying collection development's loose ends with interlibrary loan
Authors: Ruppel Margie 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discover the characteristics and quality of interlibrary loan (ILL) titles, and determine whether purchasing ILL titles is a useful collection development method.Design/methodology/approachThe study analyzed document containing 18,322 monographic education and psychology monographs borrowed by Southern Illinois University Carbondale patrons through I‐Share, Illinois' statewide catalog, during the 2004 calendar year. Education and psychology books account for 574 of the 18,322 titles. The study located 132 reviews for 92 of the titles by searching PsycINFO and Education Abstracts. It recorded reviewer recommendation, publication date, publisher, source of review, and list price.FindingsThe paper finds that ILL titles are high quality, inexpensive, new, and easy to obtain. Average list price of education and psychology ILL titles is $48.82. A total of 60 percent of the titles were published in the last three years. Only 7 percent of the titles received negative reviews.Practical implicationsThe paper recommends that Southern Illinois University Carbondale and, potentially, other academic libraries develop books‐on‐demand programs because most of the books in the present study are high‐quality, inexpensive, new, and easy to obtain; ILL titles represent research needs of university community; multiple library patrons will benefit; equity will be added to the library's collection; and ILL titles are likely to circulate again.Originality/valuePrevious studies report results of pilot books‐on demand programs. The current study provides background reasons for a books‐on‐demand program (reading book reviews of titles borrowed through ILL) and presents a new aspect of the relationship between collection development and ILL.
Our digital heritage as source material to end‐users: collection of and access to net publications in the National Library of Norway
Authors: Rustad Kjersti 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThis paper aims to look at the collecting of internet documents in The National Library of Norway.Design/methodology/approachThis paper discusses the collecting of internet documents in The National Library of Norway in accordance with the Norwegian Legal Deposit Act and how these documents will be made available for end‐users.FindingsThe paper finds that this harvesting of the Norwegian internet domain will provide access for users to many documents. The documents will be available via free text search and via a timeline of the history of the document that the user might follow.Originality/valueThis paper discusses the Norwegian experience, which should be relevant to institutions planning similar activities, and also to those who want to know more about harvesting and archiving net publications.
Optimal placement of dampers in structures using genetic algorithm
Authors: Movaffaghi Hamid , Friberg Olof 
Published: July 2006

PurposeThe objective is to study the optimal damper placement of a given number of passive viscoelastic dampers, when the structure (nuclear plant) is subjected to motions from earthquake, in order to reduce the acceleration responses at a particular location, for example, a vibration‐sensitive room (nuclear reactor).Design/methodology/approachThe IDESIGN software including genetic algorithms for the optimisation task has been interfaced with a finite element program, ABAQUS, to create a structural optimisation tool. The tool has been tested on a 3D building structure.FindingsOptimisation results for different constraints on number of dampers shows that eight optimally located dampers results in an overall maximum reduction of 59 per cent of the cost function for the uncontrolled structure. It is also found that six optimally placed dampers are more effective than the fully damped case with 12 dampers.Research limitations/implicationsMore powerful computers are needed in order to reduce the computational time for many engineering models. Especially parallel processing would make more efficient use of the genetic algorithm. It is also necessary to perform stochastic finite element analysis to investigate the impact on the cost function due to different earthquakes.Practical implicationsThe study of vibration reduction by an optimal number and location of viscoelastic dampers indicate that structures subjected to dynamic forces can be designed both safely and economically.Originality/valueThe tool developed is quite general and is believed to be applicable to many types of structural optimisation analyses.
Probability characteristic of perturbing moments in contactless suspension systems for mass unbalance measurement of sphere
Authors: He Xiao‐Xia , Gao Zhong‐Yu , Wang Yong‐Liang 
Published: July 2006

PurposeIt is well known that precision of mass unbalance measurement of sphere is determined by perturbing moments in contactless suspension systems. Therefore, estimating perturbing moment level in those systems is important and necessary to meet the requirements of a specified precision of mass unbalance measurement.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, probability‐theoretic method is employed to determine probability characteristics of the perturbing moments in both electrostatic suspension system and gas suspension system by statistically estimating of the quality of sphere surface. As a result, the relationship between probability characteristics of the perturbing moment and statistical estimates of the quality of sphere surface is established. It is expressed as a simple formula by specifying the correlation function of random field of sphere surface.FindingsNumerical experiments of the perturbing moment calculation in the two suspension systems show that for sphere with small correlation coefficient α, it is better to use gas suspension system for mass unbalance measurement. While for sphere with large correlation coefficient α, electrostatic suspension system is more suitable for its perturbing moment are less than gas suspension system.Originality/valueKnowledge of this relationship is of great theoretic and practical importance, since the probabilistic depiction of the perturbing moments, and hence the accuracy of the mass unbalance measurement systems can be estimated without a detailed roundness measurement of the sphere surface.
Worker morale in Russia: an exploratory study
Authors: Linz Susan J. , Good Linda K. , Huddleston Patricia 
Published: July 2006

PurposeDespite unanimous agreement in the existing literature that morale influences employee performance, no well‐defined measure of morale exists. In Russia, identifying the factors that contribute to employee morale is particularly important since firms face difficult financial challenges imposed by the decade‐long economic and political transition that began in January 1992. The study aims to develop a robust measure of morale and focuses on the factors that influence morale among Russian workers.Design/methodology/approachSurvey data were collected from Russian employees at two different points in time, 1995 and 2002, in five Russian cities (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Taganrog, Rostov and Azov). The study used regression analysis to assess the influence of expected rewards on employee morale.FindingsThe paper finds that among the workers participating in the study, expectation of receiving a desired reward contributes to high morale, with expected monetary rewards having a higher influence that expected non‐monetary rewards, but praise for a job well done and a feeling of accomplishment also contribute positively to employee morale. There is a significant correlation between positive attitudes toward work and morale, and a positive correlation between performance assessment and morale. Demographic characteristics (age and gender) have no discernable influence on morale when controls are included for work experience.Research limitations/implicationsData are cross‐sectional rather than longitudinal and sampling is purposive rather than random.Practical implicationsThe research suggests that if companies are not financially able to provide monetary rewards, managers can focus on developing a work environment that is friendly and fosters mutual respect. Managers have control over praise and it costs nothing to praise employees for a “job well done.”Originality/valueNo study to date has examined Russian worker morale nor tested morale measures developed in developed market economies on Russian workers. The study develops three reliable measures of morale.