The Records of the Colorado Flower Growers Association (CFGA) is an archival collection documenting the association prior to its 1979 name change. The CFGA was founded in 1928 to support the production and marketing of greenhouse flowers grown commercially in the state. In 1979, the organization changed its name to the Colorado Greenhouse Growers…

Implementing a complex business intelligence (BI) system at a small school or one with limited resources can seem daunting. For small to midsize schools and community colleges, a strategic BI initiative may still be an elusive goal. This article discusses how schools with limited resources are making the dream a reality.

The age of networked research and networked data analysis is upon us. "Wired Magazine" proclaims on the cover of their July 2008 issue: "The End of Science. The quest for knowledge used to begin with grand theories. Now it begins with massive amounts of data. Welcome to the Petabyte Age." Computing technology is sufficiently complex at this point…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the quality of jobs in call centres by focusing on the opportunities for promotion in this sector. More specifically, the research questions focus on discovering whether promotion is common practise in the call centre sector and on identifying the factors that affect this.…

While mission statements for various libraries and information centers necessarily vary, all librarians face "two very pressing charges: make voluminous numbers of electronic resources as visible as possible in a landscape of multiple access points and simultaneously manage all the technology, tasks, and data necessary to facilitate such…

Colleges and universities can never be too prepared, whether for physical attacks or data security breaches. A quick data slice of over 7,000 US higher ed institutions, using the Office of Postsecondary Education's Campus Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool Website and cutting across public and private two- and four-year schools, reveals some…

One of the challenges facing those responsible for service provision in universities is ensuring that service is provided at the right point in the organisation. Service delivery points can exist at the school/department level, faculty/division level or central unit/university wide level. This does not always follow organisational logic, common…

Purpose: This study aims to explore the simultaneous impact of employees participation in non-technical training, technical training, and coaching on subsequent job performance, job involvement, and job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach: The present study was based on a sample of German call center employees and on a longitudinal,…

Describes the functions and activities of the International Bureau of Education in Geneva, which is devoted to promoting the flow of educational information between countries. (Author)

This inventory of information centers and service centers in the language sciences was compiled by the project staff of the LINCS program at the Center for Applied Linguistics during the period 1966-1968, and it is planned to update the listing in the near future. Eighty-four centers in all parts of the world are listed. Each entry contains the…

Primarily a review A Language-Teaching Bibliography," (1968) prepared by the Centre for Information on Language Teaching and The English-Teaching Information Centre of the British Council, and An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Language Teaching, Books and Articles 1946-1967," (1969) by Janet O. Robinson. Includes brief discussions of other…

Presents a brief historical summary of library development in Islamic culture, describes the present status of libraries and information centers, and outlines overall problems, specifically the absence of national planning, trained local staffs, library legislation, library associations, an advanced book trade, and an effective national library.…