scholarly journals Programming in Time of Pandemic: The Year Libraries Went Touchless

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Allison Grassel
Keyword(s):  
Children's Librarians ◽  
Shift Gears

From virtual storytimes to contactless pickups, libraries truly had a challenge to remain relevant in spring 2020. When COVID-19 fears caused many nationwide libraries to close in March and April, librarians—especially children’s librarians—had to shift gears to reach patrons who could no longer walk through their doors.

Information Technology as a Service

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin G. Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Enterprise Engineering ◽  
Service Computing ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
The World ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
World Class ◽  
Shift Gears

In this information era, both business and living communities are truly IT driven and service oriented. As the globalization of the world economy accelerates with the fast advance of networking and computing technologies, IT plays a more and more critical role in assuring real-time collaborations for delivering needs across the world. Nowadays, world-class enterprises are eagerly embracing service-led business models aimed at creating highly profitable service-oriented businesses. They take advantage of their own years of experience and unique marketing, engineering, and application expertise and shift gears toward creating superior outcomes to best meet their customers’ needs in order to stay competitive. IT has been considered as one of the high-value services areas. In this chapter, the discussion will focus on IT as a service. We present IT development, research, and outsourcing as a knowledge service; on the other hand, we argue that IT as a service helps enterprises align their business operations, workforce, and technologies to maximize their profits by continuously improving their performance. Numerous research and development aspects of service-enterprise engineering from a business perspective will be briefly explored, and then computing methodologies and technologies to enable adaptive enterprise service computing in support of service-enterprise engineering will be simply studied and analyzed. Finally, future development and research avenues in this emerging interdisciplinary field will also be highlighted.

Information Technology as a Service

2009 ◽  
pp. 261-278
Author(s):  
Robin G. Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Enterprise Engineering ◽  
Service Computing ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
The World ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
World Class ◽  
Shift Gears

In this information era, both business and living communities are truly IT driven and service oriented. As the globalization of the world economy accelerates with the fast advance of networking and computing technologies, IT plays a more and more critical role in assuring real-time collaborations for delivering needs across the world. Nowadays, world-class enterprises are eagerly embracing service-led business models aimed at creating highly profitable service-oriented businesses. They take advantage of their own years of experience and unique marketing, engineering, and application expertise and shift gears toward creating superior outcomes to best meet their customers’ needs in order to stay competitive. IT has been considered as one of the high-value services areas. In this chapter, the discussion will focus on IT as a service. We present IT development, research, and outsourcing as a knowledge service; on the other hand, we argue that IT as a service helps enterprises align their business operations, workforce, and technologies to maximize their profits by continuously improving their performance. Numerous research and development aspects of service-enterprise engineering from a business perspective will be briefly explored, and then computing methodologies and technologies to enable adaptive enterprise service computing in support of service-enterprise engineering will be simply studied and analyzed. Finally, future development and research avenues in this emerging interdisciplinary field will also be highlighted.

It's Time To Shift Gears

1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Howard M. Collett
Keyword(s):  
Shift Gears

A Personalized Theory of Theory Construction

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Wyer
Keyword(s):  
Specific Problem ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Theory Construction ◽  
Personal Approach ◽  
Shift Gears ◽  
Theory Of Theory

This article describes my personal approach to theory construction. I liken the construction of a theory to the solution of a mathematical puzzle in which the answer is not in the back of the book. I touch on (a) the development of a theoretical perspective, (b) the identification of a specific problem, and (c) the development of a theory to address the problem. The article concludes with the view that in the last analysis, any approach is likely to be fruitful so long as one persists in its use and does not shift gears whenever the going gets tough.

Supermoms Shift Gears: Re-entry Women

1976 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Shift Gears
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