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Identifying The Core Periodical Literature Of The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Joseph Zumalt Dec 2006

Identifying The Core Periodical Literature Of The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Joseph Zumalt

Joseph R. Zumalt

Agricultural communications" is an emerging field which is naturally both part of the "agriculture" and "communications" literature. However, it is much broader than just a subset of each. The coverage of standard databases such as CAB Abstracts and Communication Abstracts, while a good start, does not sufficiently cover the field. The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has, over the last quarter century, worked to help define and collect this literature, by identifying relevant documents and entering them into a Web-searchable Microsoft Access database. An analysis of this database reveals important clues concerning the …

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What Can I Expect To Earn: Information Sources For Library Salary Negotiations, Joseph Zumalt Dec 2006

What Can I Expect To Earn: Information Sources For Library Salary Negotiations, Joseph Zumalt

Joseph R. Zumalt

Finding salary information about individual library positions is a difficult but not impossible task. There are sources available for free and for fee which tell someone what salary to ask for in a given location. Commercially available tools are also available over the Internet. Two Internet-accessible salary tools, from Salary.com and SalaryExpert.com, were reviewed for library positions in the immediate Champaign-Urbana (IL) area. To test the accuracy of these tools, a file was created to compare salary, years of experience and level of responsibility. While requiring a considerable effort, this level of detail provides a better sense of library salaries …

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