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Mission College, Thailand, Assignment: October 26 - November 8, 2000, Keith Clouten Nov 2000

Mission College, Thailand, Assignment: October 26 - November 8, 2000, Keith Clouten

Faculty Publications

This report tells the story of a library consultation visit to Mission College, a new Adventist post-secondary school situated in the hill country northeast of Bankok, Thailand.

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The Cover Design, Thomas D. Walker Oct 2000

The Cover Design, Thomas D. Walker

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A Library ‘Teens’Cape’ Against The New Callousness, Anthony Bernier Aug 2000

A Library ‘Teens’Cape’ Against The New Callousness, Anthony Bernier

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The Cover Design, Thomas D. Walker Jul 2000

The Cover Design, Thomas D. Walker

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Digital Image Managers: A Unique Partnership, Samantha K. Hastings Jun 2000

Digital Image Managers: A Unique Partnership, Samantha K. Hastings

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The University of North Texas and the African American Museum in Dallas are partners in a program designed to produce expert managers of digital images and information. The School of Library and Information Sciences in cooperation with the School of Visual Arts received a 1998 National Leadership Grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services to build a collaborative program that includes a digital imaging laboratory and fellowships for students in a Certificate of Advanced Study Program. The work of the digital image manager includes the production of visual images, the creation and management of databases, and the …

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Using Implicit Feedback For User Modeling In Internet And Intranet Searching, Jinmook Kim, Douglas W. Oard, Kathleen Romanik May 2000

Using Implicit Feedback For User Modeling In Internet And Intranet Searching, Jinmook Kim, Douglas W. Oard, Kathleen Romanik

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Powerize Server 1.0, developed by Powerize.com, is a content-based information filtering and retrieval system that presently uses a manually constructed user model known as a search profile. User modeling captures a user’s information needs. A user model can be constructed explicitly by the user or implicitly by exploiting feedback from the user about which documents are relevant. Implicit feedback can be inferred from user behavior without any additional work on the part of the user. The study reported in this paper investigates a way of implementing the implicit feedback technique of user modeling for the Powerize Server 1.0. Previous studies …

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Young Adults, Rituals, And Library Space, Anthony Bernier Feb 2000

Young Adults, Rituals, And Library Space, Anthony Bernier

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Looseleafing The Flow: An Anecdotal History Of One Technology For Updating, Howard T. Senzel Jan 2000

Looseleafing The Flow: An Anecdotal History Of One Technology For Updating, Howard T. Senzel

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This work will show that there is a great gulf between the culture of lawmakers and the culture of those who comply. Lawmakers - legislators, administrators, and especially judges - function by producing primary authorities in law. The texts of these authorities are the law itself. Because they were created in the course of deciding actual cases - cases which produced insights to a truth of lasting value, these texts have an authority equal to all the other insights produced down through the ages. The excitement that accompanies such insights tends to blind lawmakers to the chore of compliance. Those …

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In The Trenches: Transferring User Skills From School To College And Beyond, Diane Duesterhoeft Jan 2000