...Quan Hoang Nguyen Tran Purpose This study aims to inspect the organizational culture of academic libraries in Vietnam and China, and the objective was to investigate how the academic libraries in Vietnam and China differ in organizational culture’s task, unity and status orientations. Design...

...Hasan Tinmaz; Viet Phuong Doan Purpose China has been one of these countries that followed glocalization with the establishment of Chinese social media platforms, which adopt global trends and software patterns. WeChat has been a success story that at first emerged as a social communication tool...

...Misbah Jabeen; Yuan Qinjian; Munazza Jabeen; Zhang Yihan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the professional opinion of LIS with reference to open source software (OSS) adoption, status, problems and future measures in research and academic libraries of Beijing, China. Design...

...Yonghe Lu; Xiaohua Liu Purpose Understanding the customers’ habits of getting cosmetic products information is of great importance to enhance the effectiveness of advertising and marketing strategy of cosmetics. In China, as females are the major target customers of cosmetics, this paper aims...

... communication and exchange. Few of the issues and challenges raised in this book are unique to China: developmental imbalance, funding, education of professionals – these are all issues facing libraries globally. What is unique about China is the sheer scale – the number of libraries, the areas served...

... movement Mary Elizabeth Wood devoted herself to a Chinese library career. It was structured according to the following theme: setting up the Boone Library and introducing the modern American public library into China; establishing Boone Library School and initiating Chinese library science education...

...‐4 hardback   US$44.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> China History of publishing Book trade I must break the habit of a lifetime of reviewing and begin my review of this book with superlatives. Brokaw offers here an outstanding work of scholarship based...

...Fan Ka Wai The study of the history of Chinese science has attracted further attention over the past 50 years, with an increasing number of scholars, influenced by Joseph Needham and his project “Science and Civilization in China”, developing ideas in this field. There are a range of Web sites...

... literature in China. Many articles conclude that the digital library is the destination of today’s physical library. © MCB UP Limited 2001 China Libraries Library services Knowledge management Shanghai Library kept monitoring the digital and Internet revolution and their impact upon...

... and so on librarianship are indicated and discussed and the influence of the Cultural Revolution, and recovery after it, analysed. © MCB UP Limited 2001 China Librarians Libraries History Politics On the other hand, because of the long‐term friendship between the Communist Party...

...Jingli Chu As a result of the new reform of the college curriculum in China in 1998, the previously separated five information‐related majors were merged into a new special “information management and systems” curriculum. This change brings about both new challenges and new threats to the old...

...Jingli Chu Gong Yitai, a famous scholar as well as librarian and information specialist in China who works at the Shanghai Documentation and Information Centre of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been very active for many years in the library and information community; he has numerous...

...G.E. Gorman Sharon   Chien Lin . Libraries and Librarianship in China . Westport, CT : Greenwood Press   1998 . 241pp. , ISBN: 0 3132 8937 9   Price not reported Guides to Asian Librarianship series Libraries Librarians China An interest must be declared...

... retrieval China It is a well‐known fact that Chinese text is a sequence of ideological representations with no word delimiters. Thus, unlike English and other European languages, identifying words in Chinese text is a difficult task. Therefore, in Chinese text processing an extra word extraction...

...Jingli Chu In China, library public relations (PR), in a real sense, began about ten years ago, but have since been accepted by more and more librarians. Many papers on PR have been published in the last decade, PR courses are offered in library schools and PR training is given by local library...

...Jingli Chu Since the mid‐1980s public libraries in China have been suffering great physical difficulties. Under these pressures, some libraries wait to be rescued by the government but others endeavour to find new sources of finance at the same time as continuing to strive for more investment from...