How Today’s Libraries Can Help to Address Information Gaps for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises: Li Ka Shing Library as an Example

DOI

10.2991/hssmee-18.2018.15How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Library, small and medium-sized enterprises, information gap, business.

Abstract

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can be considered as the backbone of a country’s economy in general, which have been connected with the development of economy in both developing and developed countries directly. Meanwhile, libraries have been an important source of information in modern society. They nowadays emphasized the extended task in offering information services accustomed to the business’s community in local area. They are considered as the primary information resource focuses for business community. In this article, we acknowledge the information gap of SMEs. Putting the Li Ka Shing library in the supply-side of information source and service for SMEs, its role is to bridge the information gap so that parties can reach each other. It is essentially a “broker” bringing SMEs and various information creators of a product or service. Li KA Shing library as a comprehensive business library which equipped with advanced facilities and professional service and management teams, has great potential to bridge the business information gap of SMEs. On top of that, we propose some solution for Li Ka Shing library to better plug the business information gap of SMEs and increase visitorship.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yi Zhou
AU  - Xiaozhu Ma
PY  - 2018/09
DA  - 2018/09
TI  - How Today’s Libraries Can Help to Address Information Gaps for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises: Li Ka Shing Library as an Example
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences, Management and Education Engineering (HSSMEE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 92
EP  - 99
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/hssmee-18.2018.15
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