Reserve Textbooks: To Buy, or Not to Buy?

There is convincing evidence that academic libraries are used less frequently for research than in the past, due to the advent of the Internet. This begs the question: what role does the current library have for students? It can be argued that we simply need to convince students and faculty of library viability, or, another route would be to give students what they are asking for. And textbooks, via course reserves, are what they request most at Grossmont College. Collection development policies typically contain some verbiage that equates to “the library does not collect textbooks, unless they are donated by faculty.” Grossmont College Library, however, recently reexamined its philosophical approach to reserves and refined its collection development policy and reserves policies and procedures as a result. The end product was a much more user-friendly, viable, and timely reserves collection that included onthe- spot service. Getting to that result was not without its challenges, however. Many policies and procedures had to be rethought and revised in tandem with these changes

To Buy or Not to Buy: Family Dynamics and Children's Consumption

This article draws on data from a qualitative study of children living in families with either low or high levels of household income and outlines the intrafamilial dynamics that surround young children's relationships to contemporary consumer culture. The motivation for parents to provide their children with particular commodities, how parents prioritised children's requests and the rationale they used to buy or not to buy certain items was much more complex than parents simply 'giving in' to pester power. In the main, parents were making very considered judgements based on a range of factors. Wider social changes were seen as being contributory to new forms of consumption and thus new experiences of childhood which meant parents having to deal with an aspect of their children's lives that was much more problematic than they had experienced in their own childhoods.Children, Consumption, Families, Inequalities, Pester Power

Climate-friendly Products – to buy or not to buy?

Although climate change is reported to be an important issue for European citizens, market relevance of climate-friendly labelled products remains limited. Various barriers such as low knowledge, distrust in labels, time preference and uncertainty/risk prevent consumers from acting according to their ethical attitudes. The aim of this contribution is to better understand the factors which influence consumers’ purchase behaviour of climate-friendly labelled products with emphasis on knowledge, trust in labels and time preference. Based on the data obtained by an online survey with 6007 respondents in six European countries (DE, ES, FR, IT, NO, UK) in July 2015 a multinomial regression was conducted. Dependent variable was the actual buying frequency of climate-friendly food. Higher subjective knowledge had a positive impact while lack of trust in labels negatively influenced the probability of purchasing climate-friendly products. Test persons with higher time preference were less likely to buy climate-friendly products and vice versa. This is in line with theoretical considerations according to which the present saving of money and pleasure gains are valued higher than the possible benefits resulting of less future impacts of climate change. In contrast, the effects of different indicators of risk attitudes were ambiguous

To Buy or Not to Buy: The Ethics of College Clothing

Look back and consider your past and current wardrobe. If you are a college graduate, most likely along the way you owned an article of college apparel. It could be something as simple as a pair of socks with your school’s logo on it. Have you ever considered where you received that piece of clothing from? Have you considered who made it for you? In this essay, research will be conducted to figure out and establish where the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference colleges source their clothes from, how ethically made they are, and suggest sustainable alternatives

To Buy or not to buy the equity of Nestle Malaysia Berhad

Amira Lee has been newly appointed as a financial analyst for Melati Investors Berhad.Being an analyst, she is given a task to provide recommendation whether to buy or not to buy the equity of Nestlè Malaysia Berhad.Amira’s consideration whether to buy Nestlè’s equity or not, was not quite straightforward task because she might have to look at more than one year financial statements and apply dividend discount model to value the equity.If she could not made her decision within a week, Melati Investors Berhad may lose the opportunity to buy equities of Nestle (i.e. larger and long-established companies that would have probably paid higher dividends) given that the closing date of trading the equities will be due in next seven days

To buy or not to buy: Factors influencing life insurance purchase intention

The purpose of this thesis paper is to investigate the influence of five factors namely Word-of-mouth, Trust, Reputation, Loyalty, and Customer Satisfaction on life insurance Purchase Intention. Existing customers in Great Eastern Life Assurance (M) Berhad, Alor Setar were chosen as samples of this study. A survey using 400 questionnaires was distributed to the respondents and 327 of them were returned and usable. Correlation and regression analysis were adopted to analyse all data. The findings indicated that all the independent variables (Word-of-mouth, Trust, Reputation, Loyalty, and Customer Satisfaction) had a certain degree of relationship with Purchase Intention. The results showed that customer satisfaction had the strongest significant positive relationship with purchase intention with correlation value of 0.796, followed by reputation with correlation value of 0.774. Only two variables which are reputation and customer satisfaction influenced purchase intention. The findings suggest that reputation of the company can be an important factor that influences customers’ purchase intentions. In other words, good reputation of an insurance company brings good impact in terms of image to customers. Customers will feel confident towards the insurance company and increase their intention to purchas

To Buy or Not to Buy: Rolling Into the Future With ILLiad

Librarians at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) have spent a lot of time over the past few years eliminating paper waste and encouraging the use of digital forms for many library services. One such service is the library’s suggest-a-purchase program. When the database that held our previous online form was dismantled, paper forms and e-mails starting coming in. Most of those e-mails were printed out by library staff. The previous acquisitions librarian retired soon after, leaving behind mountains of papers and no real idea for how to proceed. This paper presents how we solved this problem with ILLiad addons and Web pages from the IDS Project and how we hope to assess our print collection going forward