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A holistic approach to acquisition of strategic resources
Authors: Andersén Jim 
Published: October 2007

PurposeThe aim of this article is to provide a holistic framework for the acquisition of strategic resources.Design/methodology/approachThe literature dealing with resource creation is reviewed and analyzed from a resource‐based point of view. The major methods of acquiring resources are identified through the literature review and the applicability of the framework proposed is illustrated with an empirical example.FindingsThree ways of acquiring strategic resources are identified – direct investments, organizational processes, and product market positioning. All three ways of acquisition can be intentional or unintentional. Arguments for using this six‐dimension scale are provided through deductive reasoning, literature review, and the empirical example.Research implications/limitationsThe study identifies the six dimensions of strategic resource acquisition. However, integration of these dimensions is not a subject addressed in this study. Cluster analysis of companies according to these dimensions could enhance our understanding of the characteristics of companies regarding resource acquisition.Originality/valueWhereas previous studies have generally used a single‐theory approach, this study highlights the importance of having a holistic outlook when analyzing resource‐based competitive advantages.
Methods to Enhance Student Learning: A Student Appraisal of the 2007 Annual Learning Technologies Showcase
Authors: Thomas Kirstin 
Published: October 2007

PurposeTo highlight the latest technologies that were showcased as this annual event of learning technologies in higher education.Design/Methodology/approachConference report.FindingsSeveral different technologies were emphasized that can be scaled with relative ease and others that require more commitment to learn and use creatively and appropriately. The range included very practical technologies as well as virtual reality platforms such as Second Life, now increasingly used for different collaborative exchanges and learning opportunities that promote visual queues and interactions.Originality ValueMost campuses today have such a technology forum to promote how technology can be used in new instructional and administrative capacities. This showcase emphasized the instructional methods and introduced attendees to podcasting, VOIP and other communication technologies that can be used in the classroom and in distance education programs.
28th Annual IATUL Conference Report
Authors: Trussell Alice 
Published: October 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present a report of the 2007 annual meeting of the International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL) held at the KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.Design/methodology/approach – conference report.FindingsScientific publishing directions are changing the environmental landscapes of science and academic research libraries as well as in how scientists are conducting their work in all disciplines and communicating and collaborating with each other. The increasingly more complex and global environments indicate that access to the scientific literature and information sharing are paramount interests of scientists, national governments, the scientific community at‐large, professional societies and commercial publishing interests.Originality/valueLibraries are evolving into far more than repositories of bound volumes as eScience and eCollections mature. The changing role of librarians and of the physical library to handle and treat much more than books and journals is demonstrated by many addresses at this conference.
New Gadgets Worth Exploring
Authors: Brown Mitchell 
Published: October 2007

PurposeAims to review some new technology “gadgets” and personal electronics that may address work‐related functions and entertainment interests of library service providers and library users.Design/methodology/approachA review with descriptions of new technologies which might impact library services.Findings –Computer technology expanding into everyday life has ensured that gadgets play a significant role in our daily routines. We use them at work, home, and during leisure time. The gadgets range from smartphones, keyboards, headphones, media storage devices, and more. The range of materials, functionality, and application increases every quarter and changes can be seen in many different products. This list of new gadgets is, just that, a demonstration of creative invention at work to make life and work simpler, and more fun.Originality/value – Provides descriptions of some gadgets of value to information seekers.
Riding the Wave to Excellence in Engineering Education: 2007 ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education Engineering) ELD (Engineering Libraries Division) Annual Conference
Authors: Watkins Patricia , Fleming Kathleen 
Published: October 2007

PurposeTo share information about the American Society for Engineering Education Engineering (ASEE) Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Annual Conference on instruction, training and support for engineering education. A conference report that touches on disciplines of engineering, technology education and engineering librarianship.Design/methodology/approachConference report.Originality/valueThe paper provided a review of programs and technology presentations by engineering librarians of interest to libraries and information professionals.
ALA Annual Conference, Washington DC: LITA/IRSIG Program “The Ultimate Debate: Do Libraries Innovate?”
Authors: Brown Mitchell 
Published: October 2007

PurposeTo report the highlights of the 2007 American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, DC.Design/methodology/approachProvides a brief review of the conference program on technology issues in libraries.FindingsThis summary of library program with presentations and information. The presentations focus is on new technologies and their applications in a variety of library environments. The program offered a wide variety of timely presentations that were on new and emerging technologies and the application to the library environment.Originality/valueProvides descriptions of programs and presentation of interest to library and information professionals.
ALA Annual Conference, Washington DC: LITA Top Tech Trends Update
Authors: Brown Mitchell 
Published: October 2007

PurposeTo report the highlights of the annual Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Top Technology Trends program at 2007 American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, DC.Design/methodology/approachProvides a brief review of the conference program on technology issues in libraries.FindingsThis summary of LITA section Top Technology Trends program with presentations and information. The presentations focus is on new technologies and their applications in a variety of library environments. The program offered a wide variety of timely presentations that were on new and emerging technologies and the application to the library environment.Originality/valueProvides descriptions of opinions on technological trends in library and information services from industry professionals.
Games and Learning and Society (GLS) Conference 3.0
Authors: Dieterle Ulrike 
Published: October 2007

PurposeTo share information about this third annual conference on Games, Learning and Society. Increasingly popular and growing in interests among educators and industry leaders who together are trying to develop gaming products that promote learning.Design/methodology/approachConference report.Originality/valveLots of developments and continued growth in the industry and greater interest among educators and academics about the increased value of games for learning.
Shifts in Library and Librarian Roles: ALA/TechSource Gaming, Learning and Libraries Symposium
Authors: Peterman Dana , Grieg Timothy 
Published: October 2007

PurposeAims to review some new developments of virtual online environments and their potential for use in library environments.Design/methodology/approachA review of use of gaming, virtual world simulations and online environments in libraries.FindingsPresentations on the state of gaming in libraries presented by library school faculty, librarian and industry professionals.Originality/valueReports on research and implementation of gaming systems in libraries.
Libraries Get Personal: Facebook Applications, Google Gadgets, and MySpace Profiles
Authors: Harris Andrew , Lessick Susan 
Published: October 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe applications, gadgets, and profiles that libraries have developed and distributed through the Facebook, iGoogle, and MySpace communities.Design/methodology/approachprovides a general review.FindingsGrowing number of libraries and library‐related organizations are creating practical tools using Web 2.0 technologies.Originality/valueLibrarians need to keep abreast of and experiment with these new methods of packaging and delivering information.
Library Toolbars for Use and Development
Authors: Brown Mitchell 
Published: October 2007

Abstract – PurposeAims to review some new developments in browser toolbars to enhance information searching activities.Design/methodology/approachA review with descriptions of new options for developing library‐specific internet browser toolbars to enhance user search options.FindingsSeveral software development coding platforms are available to create toolbars, bookmarklets, browser extensions, and search tools for library applications.Originality/valueThis article provides descriptions of software development for internet browser toolbars and web gadgets.
Internet Use by Research Scholars in University of Delhi, India
Authors: Madhusudhan Margam 
Published: October 2007

PurposeThe paper seeks to examine the use of Internet among the research scholars of the Central Science Library (CSL), University of Delhi, India. The prime objective is to find out the current trends in information search through Internet by the research scholars and type of problems faced by them in their research work.Design/methodology/approachTools used for the study are questionnaire, observation and informal interview using stratified method. Content analysis is used to analyse open‐ended questions. Data were collected from the 51 research scholars in the CSL, University of Delhi. The questionnaire consists of 15 main questions with many of the main questions having a number of subsidiaries. The questions are designed for the research scholars to elicit their experience with the Internet use for their research work.FindingsThe study finds that Boolean logic, truncation and wildcards are the most often used search techniques, web directories, while subject gateways are least used navigational tools, and the researches are beset with the problems of inadequate computers with Internet facilities, slow Internet connection and lack of skills and training. The survey also reveals that 57 per cent of the respondents are facing retrieval problems. Some research scholars lack research techniques and training.Originality/valueThis is the first comprehensive study of the use of the Internet by the University of Delhi science research scholars. Its findings should help CSL, University of Delhi in its plans and programmes related to effective and efficient use of Internet to fulfill information requirements of the research scholars and also proposes proper Internet searching training to research scholars to keep up‐to‐date on harnessing the immense potential of the Internet as a source of information for their research work.
Web 2.0? I am not Finished with 1.0 yet!Back to Basics at the 2007 American Library Association Conference
Authors: Fifarek Aimee 
Published: October 2007

PurposeTo report on the American Library Association 2007 Conference activities and resources available to small and mid‐sized Libraries to aid in technology management.Design/methodology approachConference report.FindingsThe LITA Public Libraries Technology Interest Group was specifically created as a forum for library staff from small and mid‐sized libraries to share ideas and discuss trends.Originality ValueThe PLT‐IG presented a managed discussion at the 2007 conference focusing on the technology successes of the Carroll County (MD) Public Library. The group intends to put on a programme at the 2008 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA that will focus on resources to help smaller libraries manage and improve their technologies.
Making all children winners: confronting social justice issues to redeem America's soul
Authors: Normore Anthony H. , Rodriguez Louie , Wynne Joan 
Published: October 2007

Purpose“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound with mine, then come, let's work together”. These words of Lill Watson, an indigenous activist, frame the context for this article. The purpose of this research was to examine the historical evolution of “grassroots movement leadership” model and its incarnation in the present time. A corollary purpose focused on how this model can transform urban schools by focusing on “movement” efforts of one large urban school district that espouses the values of this form of leadership. As part of a larger reform effort, the district engaged students, parents, teachers, school leaders and communities in becoming equal partners in urban school reform in an effort to co‐create schools and communities that might lead all of us toward liberation and learning.Design/methodology/approachTheory and practice come together through the lens of three researchers who operate from a similar philosophical stance for educational transformation, best described in the words of grassroots leader Ella Baker, who said, “We are the people we have been waiting for”. Qualitative research procedures (i.e. interviews, field notes and observations) were used to generate data on a “movement model” for grassroots leadership. This model is best demonstrated in various youth‐oriented initiatives (i.e. Student Exhibits, Action‐Research Projects, Algebra Project) within a local urban school district. This model, influenced by Civil Rights legend Robert Moses, has implications for educational leadership and urban school reform and simultaneously grounds our scholarship and research in liberation epistemology.FindingsIt is argued that children are often the victims of ideas, structures, and actions that come to be seen by the majority of people as wholly natural, preordained, and working for their own good, when in fact they are constructed and transmitted by powerful minority interests to protect the status quo that serves those interest. The words of Ella Baker epitomize the authors' struggles to steer away from models of hierarchal leadership in education and stay connected to the practice of excavating community wisdom through the “Movement Model”.Originality/valueThis study bears a substantive argument for community leadership efforts that focus on “grassroots leadership”. It further fosters new insights and propositions for future research in the form of a “Movement Leadership Model”.
Looking towards the source – social justice and leadership conceptualisations from Tonga
Authors: Johansson Fua Seu'ula 
Published: October 2007

PurposeThis article aims to explore Tongan conceptualisations of social justice and leadership from a cultural perspective.Design/methodology/approachThe approach taken is from a cultural perspective based on evidence that culture influences our thinking and consequently our behaviours, and the argument that social justice is about recognising our values, philosophies, processes and structures in our education system and that theorising social justice should be founded on our knowledge systems that are embedded in our cultures.FindingsThe Tongan conceptualisation of social justice is based onFaka'apa'apa(respect) while Tongan leadership is based onVa¯(relationships); both concepts converge on the role of leadership. The example of the Tongan conceptualisation is given as a guide for other Pacific countries to consider when confronted with global educational instruments.Originality/valueBy conceptualising social justice from a cultural perspective, an alternative understanding is brought forward and a more global perspective is evident.
Educational administrators' conceptions of whiteness, anti‐racism and social justice
Authors: McMahon Brenda 
Published: October 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the intersections of whiteness, anti‐racism and social justice in educational administration. It is an attempt to understand how white administrators who work in racially minoritized school communities reconcile the moral challenges of articulations of racial equity with the hierarchical institutions of schooling.Design/methodology/approachThis qualitative study asks ten white administrators how they understand themselves as raced, the ways they see race operating at individual and institutional levels in schools and districts, and factors that facilitate and/or hinder social justice work as it pertains to race.FindingsThe data indicates that whiteness is a difficult subject for white administrators, even those who agreed to be interviewed about whiteness, racism, equity and social justice. As agents of the school districts where they are employed, the administrators generally view these issues from an organizational perspective that does not challenge hegemonic structures. They typically understand social justice from non‐critical perspectives, see whiteness at the level of the individual, racism as unacceptable individual acts, and multiculturalism as preferable to anti‐racism.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings cannot be generalized; however, they show that academic education and certification programs need to be revised in order to prepare administrators to deal with issues of locatedness and difference.Originality/valueThe study is set in a Canadian context where, in spite of overwhelming evidence that visible minority students are marginalized in and by school policies and practices, racism is often overtly and emphatically conceptualized as a phenomenon that happens in other times and places.
“She didn't ask me about my grandma”
Authors: Kana Pare , Aitken Viv 
Published: October 2007

PurposeThis purpose of this paper is to describe a collaborative project from the University of Waikato, Hamilton New Zealand, in which the authors used process drama to engage final year teaching students with complex issues of cultural diversity, enabling them to “grow into” different kinds of leadership positions in an imagined educational setting. The paper describes the project and makes a case for process drama as a means of providing opportunities for leadership and as a potent tool for learning about issues of social justice.Design/methodology/approachThe drama was based on a fictional scenario described by Hall and Bishop, where a beginner teacher (of European descent) unwittingly diminishes the experiences of Maori and other non‐European children in her class. Using a three‐phase process planning model and with facilitators in role alongside the students, the drama explored the scenario from all points of view. Students were encouraged to build empathy for the beginner teacher and for the children and also to explore the dilemma faced by the teacher's tutor in deciding whether, and how, to confront the teacher on the issue.FindingsThrough the drama, students built a sense of empathy for all sides of the issue and engaged in deep thinking about the experience of cultural exclusion. The safety and distance provided by the drama “frame” spurred students to take leadership roles and “stand up” for issues of social justice. The authors suggest that through such dramas students gain skills and perspectives that they may carry into their professional lives.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper describes a small project, over one lesson with a specific group of students. More research is needed into the effectiveness of process drama as a sustained strategy for teacher education.Originality/valueThis scenario explored in the drama has currency in Aotearoa New Zealand, where the population is increasingly culturally diverse, where underachievement of Maori students continues to be of concern, and where research has shown the centrality of teacher‐student relations in raising educational achievement for Maori. The authors believe this paper makes a compelling case for the value of drama as a tool for student teachers to encounter social justice issues in a meaningful way, and suggest that the paper is a valuable contribution to more than one discipline, as it straddles the fields of professional practice and drama as pedagogy.
Leadership for social justice in Hong Kong schools
Authors: Ming Chiu Ming , Walker Allan 
Published: October 2007

PurposeThis article aims to instigate a focused dialogue of social justice in Hong Kong schools and of the responsibilities this holds for school leaders.Design/methodology/approachThe authors draw on economic, psychological, and sociological research to illustrate how the unequal allocation of resources and school status hierarchies affects students and challenges leaders' understandings and actions.FindingsThis article identifies several contextual factors prevalent in Hong Kong that maintain inequality and then applies research findings to explain how these discriminate against both disadvantaged and advantaged students. To address social justice issues, school leaders can start by understanding these inequality mechanisms, their own values and beliefs, and those prevalent in their communities. Then, they can introduce structural and cultural changes to reduce inequality.Originality/valueThis article exposes several mechanisms that sustain inequality in Hong Kong schools and suggests how leaders can address them through specific pragmatic actions.