http://www.e-space.mmu.ac.uk/e-space e-space captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material. Search the Channel search http://www.e-space.mmu.ac.uk/e-space/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/2173/94121 Title: The electronic library<br/><br/>Authors: Rowley, Jennifer<br/><br/>Abstract: This textbook, the fourth edition of "Computers for Libraries", has been compl etely revised to incorporate the massive changes wrought by technological progress in libraries. It aims to provide a broad overview of information systems as they impact on the library and information professional. The book has been significantly revised throughout with updated and expanded sections on human-computer interaction, information system methodologies, information retrieval incorporating multimedia databases, development in natural language searching and the changing role of the information professional, access to online hosts and the effect of the Internet and text information systems. Entirely new sections have been added including: contextualizing information systems in libraries; multimedia databases and object oriented databases; the changing roles of library networking; the Internet; and OPAC access to the Net. This edition also features a series of short interviews with practioners. It is organized around an active learning approach and includes learning outcomes for each chapter, points for reflection, review questions and chapter summaries. http://hdl.handle.net/2173/94120 Title: Managing information services<br/><br/>Authors: Roberts, Sue; Rowley, Jennifer<br/><br/>Abstract: This sophisticated primer draws together in an accessible form the principles of management as they need to be understood by library and information professionals.Written by a practising library manager and a management academic, the text introduces and applies the latest management concepts to library management practice. Since most libraries are part of a wider organization, their management practice will be influenced by that organizational setting, whether the setting be a university, a local authority or a business. Responding effectively within this organizational context is a key theme that runs through this text. Library management is concerned with managing collections, people, services, resources, information and finance, but managers also need to work beyond the confines of the library. They need to understand and influence their environment, to respond to the power and politics of a situation, to contribute to strategic direction in arenas related to knowledge management, learning and information, and to promote their own careers.The scene is set through the first two chapters, on management and organizations respectively. The first chapter covers the nature of management, management roles and competencies, and reviews the range and scope of library management. The second chapter focuses on the organizational context in which management is performed. The core of the book is a series of chapters in some of the key areas that constitute the management role: people, and their behaviour and management, marketing and user relationships, quality management, finances and resources, environment and context, and strategy and planning.Each chapter is well illustrated with relevant examples, checklists and models. Chapters conclude with a list of further reading, and a list of review topics, which can be used as the basis for revision for study purposes, or as a prompt to encourage reflection on the content of the book, for the professional reader. Key areas covered:•management and managing organizations;•people in organizations;•human resource management;•marketing and user relationships;•quality management;•finance and resources;•environment and context;•strategy and planning.This book will be a key text for students of library and information management, designed to introduce them to the practice, experience and theoretical principles of library management. In particular it should prepare them for their first posts as library managers, and alert them to the challenges and rewards of management. Practising library managers will also benefit from revisiting some of the topics covered in the book. http://hdl.handle.net/2173/94118 Title: Information marketing<br/><br/>Authors: Rowley, Jennifer<br/><br/>Abstract: The nature of the information marketplace is under continual evolution and all organisations in the information industry need to form new strategic alliances, identify new market segments and evolve new products, employing a full armoury of marketing tactics to succeed in the changing environment. In this fully revised second edition of Information Marketing Jenny Rowley explores the impact of globalization, digitization, connectivity and customization in the information marketplace. She introduces a number of new topics and a shift of emphasis which reflect both the changing nature of information services and also practical and theoretical perspectives on marketing. As well as being thoroughly revised and updated, themes that are more fully developed include: e-service, self-service, customer relationships, online branding, online marketing communications, measuring online activity and customer relationship management systems. This book's unique perspective makes it essential reading for professionals in information services as well as students in information management, library and information studies, business information, marketing, e-commerce and communication studies Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Marketing; The information marketplace; Customers; Information products and services; Building customer relationships; Branding and corporate identity; Marketing communications; Price and pricing policy; Collecting marketing data; Marketing strategy and planning; Index. http://hdl.handle.net/2173/94117 Title: E-business: principles and practice<br/><br/>Authors: Rowley, Jennifer<br/><br/>Abstract: This book offers an accessible overview of key concepts in e-business at an introductory level, and is illustrated with case studies throughout. It combines this accessibility with rigour and is informed by research and practice from marketing , information technology, strategy and organisational studies. This book has been designed to develop the necessary analytical skills for students to evaluate e-business models and issues that will enable them to identify, analyse and evaluate future technologies. Also available is a companion website with extra features to accompany the text, please take a look by clicking below - http://www.palgrave.com/business/rowley/ http://hdl.handle.net/2173/94112 Title: Operations research: tool for library management<br/><br/>Authors: Rowley, Jennifer; Rowley, P.J http://hdl.handle.net/2173/94111 Title: Public access interfaces to database resources<br/><br/>Authors: Slack, Frances; Rowley, Jennifer<br/><br/>Abstract: Public access systems are destined to become a more and more familiar part of everyone's life and managers responsible for installing them must understand how to set them up correctly if they are to keep their customers satisfied. Whether it's the cash machine, the traveller's information point, information on the Internet or the computerized library catalogue, they must be designed so that what users require from them is easy to ask for and easy to get. This book applies the principles of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to the design of public access systems, guiding the reader step-by-step through key issues to ensure that the interface between the user, the system and the vast database of information stored within it really works. Focusing specifically on the needs of the wide variety of public rather than office users, particularly within the library and information sector, the book explains how to evaluate the suitability of the interface design (including screen and text presentation, keyboard layout, input devices, online help information), gives checklists for guidance and appraises users and user environments, search strategies and interaction styles. Interactive exercises in each chapter encourage the reader to pose and resolve problems for themselves. Real-life examples and illustrations show why successful systems have worked well and how pitfalls can be avoided. The book explains the relevant technical background in a way which non-technical readers should find accessible and straightforward. http://hdl.handle.net/2173/94116 Title: Disposable highly ordered pyrolytic graphite-like electrodes: tailoring the electrochemical reactivity of screen printed electrodes<br/><br/>Authors: Choudry, Nadeem A.; Kampouris, Dimitrios K.; Kadara, Rashid O.; Banks, Craig E.<br/><br/>Abstract: We demonstrate that the electron transfer properties of disposable screen printed electrodes can be readily tailored via the introduction of a polymeric formulation into the ink used to fabricate these electrochemical platforms. This approach allows the role of the binder on the underpinning electrochemical properties to be explored and allows the electrochemical reactivity of the screen printed electrodes to be tailored from that of edge plane to basal plane of highly ordered pyrolytic graphite.<br/><br/>Description: Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Electrochemistry Communications, published by and copyright Elsevier. http://hdl.handle.net/2173/94114 Title: Metallic impurity free carbon nanotube paste electrodes<br/><br/>Authors: Merisalu, Maido; Kruusma, Jaanus; Banks, Craig E.<br/><br/>Abstract: Electrodes modified with carbon nanomaterials find wide ranging applications in electrochemistry such as in energy generation and storage through to applications in electroanalysis. A substantial limitation is the presence of metallic impurities which vary between batches and can produce erroneous results. Consequently we have explored the electrochemical properties of metallic impurity free carbon nanotube paste electrodes using potassium ferrocyanide and hydrogen peroxide as model compounds. In terms of the latter utilising cyclic voltammetry, a linear range from 0.75 to 3 mM with a limit of detection of 0.19 mM is possible using the electrochemical oxidation of hydrogen peroxide while using the electrochemical reduction of the target analyte, a linear range from 0.5 to 249 mM is possible with a detection limit of 0.43 mM.The ultra-small size of the carbon nanotubes and fabrication methodology result in a tightly bound carbon nanotube electrode surface which does not exhibit thin-layer behaviour resulting in highly reproducible electrodes with the %RSD found to be 5.5%. These analytical ranges, detection limits and reproducibility are technologically useful.The carbon nanotubes utilised are completely free from metallic impurities and do not require lengthy processing to remove impurities and consequently have no variation in the purity of the nanomaterial between batches as is commonly the case for other available carbon nanotube material. The impurity free nature of this nanomaterial allows for highly reproducible and intelligent sensors based on carbon nanotubes to be understood and realised for the first time.<br/><br/>Description: Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Electrochemistry Communications, published by and copyright Elsevier. http://hdl.handle.net/2173/94109 Title: The Welsh wife of Malcolm, Earl of Fife (d.1266): an alternative suggestion<br/><br/>Authors: Hurlock, Kathryn<br/><br/>Description: Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in The Scottish Historical Review, published by and copyright Edinburgh University Press. http://hdl.handle.net/2173/94105 Title: Domestication of a laptop on a wireless campus<br/><br/>Authors: Hynes, Deirdre; Vuojärvi, H; Isomäki, H.<br/><br/>Description: Poster presentation at the Learning in Digital Worlds conference. CAL, March 23-25, 2009. Brighton, U.K.