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Review Of The Mirage Of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resources For The 21st Century, Edited By Brian L. Hawkins & Patricia Battin, Joan Giesecke
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
In all, the collection of essays does accomplish the editors' goal of focusing on the issues that are emerging as digital technologies transform our campuses and our libraries. As one might anticipate, the collection is a bit uneven, as some pieces are clearly geared to the novice in the field while others are more useful for experienced administrators. There is also a fair amount of repetition found between the pieces as each author included basic information in their works. For example, the statistics on rising costs of journals and decreasing ability of libraries to purchase monograph and journals appear frequently …
Providing Library Services To Distance Students And Faculty In The College Of Human Resources And Family Sciences, Mary Cassner, Kate Adams
Providing Library Services To Distance Students And Faculty In The College Of Human Resources And Family Sciences, Mary Cassner, Kate Adams
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Library resources and services are an essential component of any educational experience. Guidelines written by the Association of College and Research Libraries serve as a framework for providing library support to distance students and faculty. This article provides a case study of services and resources offered to students and faculty involved in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Human Resources and Family Sciences Interdepartmental Master's Program. Included are results of research studies related to meeting the library and information needs of distance learners and faculty in the college.
Professional Development Grant Evaluative Report, Dana W. R. Boden
Professional Development Grant Evaluative Report, Dana W. R. Boden
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Survey of Chair and Institutional Correlates of Library Faculty Perceptions of Chair Faculty Development Roles and Leadership Practices
The “Lost” U.S. Technical Reports: Obtaining Reports From The 1940s And ‘50s, Robert L. Bolin
The “Lost” U.S. Technical Reports: Obtaining Reports From The 1940s And ‘50s, Robert L. Bolin
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Although centralized distribution of U.S. government technical reports began in 1946, the reports distributed by predecessors of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) for the first 15 years are now effectively “lost.” They are not available from NTIS, and they are not listed in the NTIS bibliographic database. Those reports are available from the Photoduplication Service of the Library of Congress, and many are available from other sources as well. This article describes bibliographic tools and resources available to identify those reports and provides advice on how to obtain them at a reasonable price.
Core Competencies And The Learning Organization, Joan Giesecke, Beth Mcneil
Core Competencies And The Learning Organization, Joan Giesecke, Beth Mcneil
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Designing libraries that can thrive in changing, chaotic environments is a continuous challenge for today's managers. To succeed, libraries must now be agile, flexible, and able to adjust to a world that resembles an amusement park roller-coaster ride or white-water rafting.
One system that can help managers in today's environment is that of the learning organization. A learning organization is an organization that has an enhanced capacity to learn, adapt, and change, and is "skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge and insights." In these organizations, staff are encouraged to continuously learn new skills. For learning to be effective, however, …
The Collegial Environment And The Functional Organization, Mary K. Bolin
The Collegial Environment And The Functional Organization, Mary K. Bolin
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Libraries are generally organized by function in order to carry out their mission efficiently. Academic librarians who are faculty also have a collegial organization that exists apart from any functional arrangement. Public and technical services librarians in this sort of organization are colleagues who have responsibility for the library in the way that teaching faculty are responsible for the programs in their departments. This article discusses the characteristics of the successful collegial organization and the relationship of technical and public services librarians in a collegial library.
Scenario Planning And Collection Development, Joan Giesecke
Scenario Planning And Collection Development, Joan Giesecke
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
In changing times with many uncertainties, managers need planning processes that encourage flexibility and creativity.We can think strategically about the future; we can envision an ideal future. But in the practical, real world of decision-making, we need a system that helps us to both think the unthinkable and plan for multiple options. We can not always guess correctly about the future, so we need to design techniques that let us envision a variety of options and then plan for those possibilities.
One technique that can help managers plan for multiple futures is scenario-driven planning. Scenario planning is a structured, disciplined …
Henry Bryant Bigelow, Sue Ann Gardner
Henry Bryant Bigelow, Sue Ann Gardner
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Over his long career Bigelow contributed substantially to the knowledge of Atlantic marine life, including such divergent forms as plankton, jellyfish, and sharks; completed a comprehensive oceanographic survey of the Gulf of Maine; and helped to establish Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In “The Oceanographic and How It Grew” (in Oceanography: The Past: The Proceedings of the Third International Congress on the History of Oceanography [1980]), Roger Revelle wrote, “Bigelow was certainly one of the fathers of oceanography in the United States in general and of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in particular through his pioneering Gulf of Maine studies, his …
Pisatin Demethylation By Fungal Pathogens And Nonpathogens Of Pea: Association With Pisatin Tolerance And Virulence, Leslie M. Delserone, K. Mccluskey, D. E. Matthews, H. D. Vanetten
Pisatin Demethylation By Fungal Pathogens And Nonpathogens Of Pea: Association With Pisatin Tolerance And Virulence, Leslie M. Delserone, K. Mccluskey, D. E. Matthews, H. D. Vanetten
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Previous studies have indicated that detoxification of their hosts’ phytoalexins is a tolerance mechanism for some true fungi, but not the fungus-like Oomycota, and may be involved in determining the virulence of a pathogen. In the present study, the associations between demethylation of the pea phytoalexin pisatin, tolerance to pisatin, and virulence on pea were examined for 50 fungal isolates which represent 17 species of pathogens and nonpathogens of pea. All isolates of Pythium coloratum and P. irregulare failed to metabolize and were sensitive to pisatin, consistent with previous observations that members of the Oomycota generally lack the ability …
Cataloging Environmental Impact Statements And Related Documents, Mary K. Bolin
Cataloging Environmental Impact Statements And Related Documents, Mary K. Bolin
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) have been published by federal agencies such as the National Marine Fisheries Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Environmental Protection Agency, since the 1970s. These government documents can be an important source of environmental information. Some EISs are depository items, but most are not. Only a small number of each EIS is printed, and they are not always easy to identify and acquire. Their important content and fugitive nature makes it essential to catalog them to make their existence widely known. This article uses the timber sale EISs published by the …
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, Sue Ann Gardner
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, Sue Ann Gardner
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, entomologist and systematic biologist, published nearly 4,000 papers, some of them only a few lines long. Cockerell’s special interest in bees led him to describe and name specimens from the United States, the West Indies, Honduras, the Philippines, Africa, and Asia. He published at least 5,500 names for species and varieties of bees and almost 150 names for genera and subgenera. It has been estimated that this represented over a quarter of all known species of bees during his lifetime. Above all, however, Cockerell was a general systematist. In addition to extensive studies of bees and …
Gail Borden, Sue Ann Gardner
Gail Borden, Sue Ann Gardner
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Gail Borden (1801-1874) was a surveyor and inventor, and also a Western settler, school teacher, customs inspector, land dealer, and politician. He helped compile the first topographic map of Texas, which was completed in 1835. He is credited with attempting to create an amphibious vehicle that he called the terraqueous machine in 1848. He developed a condensed-beef-broth-and-flour concoction that he called a "meat biscuit." In what proved later to be his most successful venture, he created a commercially viable method for producing condensed milk that was consistently pure and long-lasting.