...Kawther Dhifi; Ghazi Zouari Purpose This paper aims to investigate the potential role of integrated reporting ( IR ) in mediating the association between board gender diversity ( BGD ) and firm performance in the context of UK companies. Design/methodology/approach Using a quantitative...

...Verity Orme Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate what employers seek when recruiting library and information professionals in the UK and whether professional skills, generic skills or personal qualities are most in demand. Design/methodology/approach A content analysis...

... Research Library in a Decade of Change Reg Carr Chandos Publishing Oxford 2007 237 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐84334‐246‐5, ISBN 978‐1‐84334‐245‐8 hardback, paperback, £57.00, £39.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Librarianship UK History Libraries and information Librarianship history...

... 2007 --> Public libraries Government policy Leadership UK The Arts and Humanities Research Board is to be congratulated for the foresight in granting funding to enable Anne Goulding to undertake a major investigation into the state of UK public libraries. The findings clearly...

...: Proceedings of the International Seminar, Parma, March 18, 2002 . 2002 . 122+129pp. , ISBN: 88‐85297‐56‐0   Unpriced Casalini Libri, Fiesole Also available at: http://www.casalini.it © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Information and library science education UK Italy...

...J.D. Hendry The decline in public libraries in the UK during the years of the previous Conservative Governments is demonstrated and its legacy of neglect and low morale described. The policies of the Labour Government since 1997 are discussed and initiatives of relevance to public libraries...

... and Innovation Report 117 Children Public libraries UK Reading This book has been needed for a long time, surveying and summarising what is going on in public libraries where children’s services are concerned and identifying key areas of future professional growth and research. It is based...

... of mankind is man”. Such in literature was the inevitable masculine prejudice, of those times. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Publishing Literature Books History UK Inevitably, of course, the pervasive and well‐focused cult of printed books – on the part of most of the Victorian “elite”, from...

...J.D. Hendry Many imaginative outreach schemes, backed by ample financial and political resources, were an inspiration to an emerging generation of young librarians in the UK. The efforts of these young radicals, and the political chords which they sounded in the political processes of the time...

... pp , ISBN: 1 85739 179 9   No price British Library Research and Innovation Report 49 ion Policy UK ...

... and Information Statistics Unit (LISU)   1998 . ii + 42 pp , ISBN: 1 901786 02 1   £17.50 LISU Occasional Paper 17, British Library Research and Innovation Report 93 ibraries Secondary school UK Under funding′′ the most common budgetary spend was between 4,000 and 6,000 (11 only received less...

... Strategic planning UK Defining moments in the history of our profession have, appropriately, often been signalled by a printed publication. That is now true even of a defining moment which formally signals a digital future for public libraries. UK university libraries had the Follett Report...

...Stuart Hannabuss Public libraries Schools Statistics UK The aim of LISU is to act as the UK national centre for the collation, analysis, and dissemination of statistical data relating to library and information activities, and, as a result, encourage good practice in librarians...

... with the British Library. Finally, Henry Heaney’s character and characteristics are discussed. In 1978, Glasgow University had the difficult task of finding a successor to one of the most respected, far‐sighted and influential of University Librarians in the UK, Ogilvie MacKenna, University Librarian and Keeper...

... libraries UK These two seminars were held within a few weeks of each other. Both topics reflect the issues of the day, yet both were relatively poorly attended. In each case there were 21 attendees, of which five or six were chairmen, speakers or represented the organisation. Clearly...

..., Lincolnshire, 12 June 1996 . Bruton : Capital Planning Information   1996 . 38 pp , ISBN: 1‐898869‐26‐X   £17.50 Finance Public libraries UK ...

...Marilyn Rogerson Reference Libraries and Information Services: Technological Change and Financial Pressure . London : Insight Research   1997 . 64 pp   £195 (£25 to public libraries) Public libraries Reference services UK This report purports to have surveyed all...

...Graeme Muirhead Electronic publishing Public libaries UK No one working in the public library sector in the UK can fail to be aware of (or affected by) the collective gloom that hangs over this sector. It is easy to list reasons for the low morale ‐ local government reorganisation...

... Libraries UK Over the years, Capital Planning Information has acquired a well‐deserved reputation for scratching precisely where it itches. These two publications focus on subjects which are as topical and, in their own ways, as important as anything CPI has published. Strategies for Managing...