Leadership challenges and issues facing academic libraries

The main objective is to determine academic library leaders\u27 perspectives regarding the key challenges facing academic libraries and leadership, and how library professionals can meet these challenges effectively. The study explores the leadership development opportunities and challenges for senior library professionals and academic libraries of the future, and what type of skills and abilities they need. A semi-structured, telephone and face-to-face interviews were arranged, the author interviewed library directors, managers and most senior librarians, a total of 16 library leaders and administrators were selected to this study. Results identify that a shared vision is key to leadership in academic library that prepares employees for organizational change and reduces resistance. Skills development is the top priority for library leaders at all levels and how organization can support the leadership development while shrinking budget is main concern for both private and public institutions

Different stages of maturity and their relationship with some of the agronomic traits in corn (Zea mays L.)

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Perceptions of Leadership and Skills Development in Academic Libraries

The purpose of this research is to investigate the perceptions of leadership in academic libraries and how leaders and administrators build their understanding of dynamic and successful leadership. The study examines of nine private and public institutions library director, manager and head librarian were included in order to find dynamic leadership skills, responsibilities at workplace, their satisfaction and institutional support to leadership. The study also focuses on how can leaders update their skills and competencies for the future leadership of academic libraries and what are the challenges and methods to increase leadership abilities. Face-to-face and telephone interviews were conducted to obtain the views, activities and experiences of volunteer participants

Attitude towards Interest-free Financing among Small Traders and Farmers in Multan

It is frequently asked whether the modern economy can function without interest. This question has acquired some urgency in wake of the recent ruling of Supreme Court banning interest in Pakistan. In this respect every expert has his own opinion. Some pronounced that great harm will result from the banning of interest. Others have the opinion that such pronouncement is based on lack of understanding of the modern economic system, as well as the nature of the Islamic prohibition of interest. However, the banning of the rate of interest has affect on the economic activity, i. e. especially on the small traders and farmers. It is commonly argued that this change in capital market has two important effects on the economy. It increased the capital supply while price reduces, thus improving efficiency. And it makes also possible to produce more with relatively less cost, thus has positive effect on the growth of the economy.

Car bomb: from Belfast to Baghdad

Belfast on 21st July 1972 will always be remembered as a black day for those covering the history of the troubles in Northern Ireland, for it is the day that the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) set a precedent which even today is the curse of all urban conflict: The deadly car bomb

Understanding Social and Political Unrest through Fiction: A Study of Selected Novels from Contemporary South Asia

Along with many of its definitions, literature can also be defined as an art of storytelling. And, as writers like Chinua Achebe and olive Senior have inferred, “Storytelling, is essentially a threat [through which] storytellers, poets, writers, have always found ways of confronting tyranny, especially in spaces where such actions are dangerous and deadly.” Aristotle was of the view that Poetry [Literature] is more reliable than the historical method. For Aristotle, Poetry [Literature], in more than one way, orders history in abstract ways, conveying deep truths rather than mere descriptive accounts. The poets function is to “speak not of events which have occurred, but of the kind of events which could occur, and are possible by the standards of probability and necessity.” In this spirit, Lionel Trilling observes that literature is the human activity that takes “the fullest and most precise account of viciousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.” In the contemporary times, Indian subcontinent/South Asia is beset with social and political unrest/s of various kind and nature even long after the decolonization in the form of armed conflicts professing sub nationalism, religious conflicts, class conflicts, caste conflicts, gender oppression, imperial domination, inter-country wars, etal. In fact, the genesis of many of these conflicts dates back to the historical eras of colonization and decolonization. However, historical and political evolution in South Asia has also given rise to these conflicts and unrest/s or it could be argued that these have been reinforced. This has resulted in a discourse which partakes of a whole spectrum of writing - literary and non - literary. Owing to many contending discourses, most of these writings have come up with their own subjective perspectives regarding these conflicts, especially in terms of experience and reality. Written from various positions, both hegemonic and participatory, these writings are preoccupied with rhetoric that results in the non-rendering of many significant aspects of lived experience. However, any site of conflict or resistance does inevitably shape the imaginations and experiences of its people and leads to expression of their situation

A comparative study to estimate the parameters of mixed-Weibull distribution

A mixture of Weibull distribution, involving two shape parameters, two scale parameters, and one proportionality parameter, is simulated through the statistical software MINITAB (1996). The two methods Graphical (John H.K. Kao 1959) and moments based (Lee W. Fall 1970) are applied to estimate the underlying five parameters of mixed Weibull distribution in order to find the accuracy and precision of the estimator

Isolation of a flavone glucoside from Glycosmis mauritiana (Rutaceae)

AbstractFrom the ethyl acetate extract of the roots of Glycosmis mauritiana a flavone glucoside, luteolin 8-C-β-d-glucopyranoside was isolated. The structure was established by UV, IR, NMR and mass spectral studies