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Issues In Vendor-Library Relations, Judy Webster, Barry Fast

Against the Grain

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Not Fit For Print, Tony Leisner

Against the Grain

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Full Page Ads, Editor

Against the Grain

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Fair Use And Unpublished Material, William M. Hannay

Against the Grain

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You Gotta Go To School For That?, Jerry Seay

Against the Grain

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Call For Ideas/Papers/Speakers/Etc., Editor

Against the Grain

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Papa Lyman Remembers-Women In Book Publishing, Lyman Newlin

Against the Grain

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Back Talk, Tony Ferguson

Against the Grain

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Book Pricing Update, Celia Scher Wagner

Against the Grain

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Does Cd-Rom Have A Future?, Julia Gelfand

Against the Grain

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Juris Libris, Jack G. Montgomery

Against the Grain

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Table Of Contents, Editor

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Deadlines, Editor

Against the Grain

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From The Other Side Of The Street, Kathleen Ketterman

Against the Grain

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Book Reviews, Barry Fast

Against the Grain

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Karen Schmidt (Head Of Acquisitions, U. Of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana)

Against the Grain

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Colleagues Remembered, Jack G. Montgomery

Against the Grain

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Books And Letters Vol. 10, No. 1, University Libraries, John A. Harrison, Anne Marie Candido, Michael J. Dabrishus, Juana R. Young, Ethel C. Simpson, Donald W. Batson, Russell Cothren

Books and Letters

Daisy Bates Honored; Director's Column; Reading Room Named for Benefactors; Mullins Expansion: Changing the View

Central Florida Future, Vol. 28 No. 52, April 1, 1996

Central Florida Future

Hitt suspends faculty; Former SG officials create blood bath

The Effect Of An Integrated Library Computer System On Job Characteristics In Public Libraries, Richard J. Harris

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Management

This study investigated the effects of computerization with an integrated library system (ILS) on job characteristics in public libraries.

Two different but complementary research design components were used. One component consisted of a case study of the Norfolk (Virginia) Public Library, where an ILS was implemented between 1988 and 1995. The case study relied on data from interviews, archival sources, and questionnaires. The other component was a mail survey of public library workers across Virginia.

Case study interview data was analyzed by coding. Time series analysis was used to examine trends in budget and staffing. Pattern matching logic was used …

An Exploratory Study Of Gender And The Process Of Negotiating Academic Contracts Among Sociologists, Miriam M. Newton

Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations

Ample evidence supports the existence of the gender wage gap. One explanation for the gender wage gap in academia may be men's and women's different experiences of the process of negotiating academic contracts. Past literature on gender differences in negotiation suggests that males are more likely to initiate negotiations and are more successful in negotiations than women. This study investigates the process of negotiating academic contracts through a survey of recent PhD graduates in sociology. The research is guided by two questions: (1) What are the experiences of new faculty regarding the process of negotiating academic contracts; and (2) What …

A Total Systems Analysis Method For The Conceptual Design Of Spacecraft: An Application To Remote Sensing Imager Systems, Knut I. Oxnevad

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Increased emphasis is being placed on improving the performance of space projects, within tighter budgets and shorter development times. This has led to a need for more efficient space system design methods. The research described here represents an effort to develop and evaluate such a method.

Systems engineering and concurrent engineering together provide the theoretical foundation for the method. The method, derived from both this theoretical foundation and ideas from experts in the space industry, emphasizes a total systems analysis approach, taking into account given mission requirements, and the mathematical modeling of interactions between system variables and between subsystems. The …

Observation Of Shelfwater Overrunning The Southern Slope Sea, Ajoy Kumar

OES Theses and Dissertations

Analyses of two years (1992 and 1993) of high resolution (1.47 km²) sea surface temperature satellite images of the southern Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB), showed that unusually extensive overhang of shelf water occurs episodically, and coherently over along shelf distances of several hundred kilometers. These episodes are dubbed overrunning of the Slope Sea by shelf water. The overrunning volume has a "face" and a "back" (southern and northern limit). It transports substantial quantities of shelf water southward, and does not retreat onto the shelf, but eventually joins the western edge of the Gulf Stream in the vicinity of Chesapeake …

Validation Of Continuous Self Improvement Flow And Individual Commitment As Personality Constructs, Alexia Anne Fink

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Three personality constructs that are hypothesized to be related to desirable organizational outcomes were validated in the present study. The 363 participants included 39 artists, 43 athletes and 281 psychology students, for a total of 363 participants. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed a good fit to the measurement and structural models. The scales were trimmed to maximize discriminative efficacy in an effort to further establish construct validity. The trimmed measures have satisfactory scale characteristics, but their discriminative efficacy is limited.

Affinity-Maintenance Strategies And Relationship Satisfaction, Carla J. Jernigan

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

This study examined the influence of affinity maintenance strategies (i.e., positivity, openness, assurances and sharing tasks) on relationship satisfaction. An individual's perception of his or her partner's affinity-maintenance behaviors was investigated. Gender differences and sex-role attitudes were also examined. Using Stafford and Canary's (1991) Affinity-Maintenance Strategy Measure and Hendrick's (1988) Relationship Assessment Scale, positive correlations were found between the frequency of positivity and relationship satisfaction for males and females. The perception of partner's use of sharing tasks was positively correlated with relationship satisfaction. Gender differences were not found in how frequently males or females utilized affinity-maintenance strategies within their relationship. …

Correlates Of Parental Discipline In Adhd Children, Dawn Marie Powers

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

The present study was designed to examine the parenting of an ADHD child in several important ways. First, it was hypothesized that mothers of ADHD children would report employing harsher, more restrictive disciplinary practices and that more negative interaction patterns, specifically resembling the coercive pattern described by Patterson (1982) would be evident in mother/ADHD child dyads. Second, the present study sought to identify the determinants of disciplinary practices and negative interaction patterns that are believed to exist in mother/ADHD child dyads. It was hypothesized that greater parental stress, difficult child temperament, and less ability to regulate self-control will be positively …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 37 No. 3, Philip K. Jason, Virginia Oakley Beahrs, Stephanie Gauper, Jean Robertson, Craig Mcdaniel, Debra Goodlett, Nicki L. Young, Diane Averill, Cindy Bosley, Sharon Fain, Charles Freeland, Kathryn Hall, William Joliff, Peter Markus, Maggie Mcdowell, Franco Pagnucci, John Piller, Michele Pizarro, William Snyder Jr., Philip Terman, Mary Tompkins, David Tucker, Richard Holinger, Patricia A. Behlar, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

PHILIP K. JASON presents the sounds of the war in Vietnam through the literature that conflict engendered and in doing so makes this experience all the more real and devastating. Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy, Jason's publications include work in two collections of poetry; the Creative Writer's Handbook (Prentice-Hall); the career study of Anais Nin and Her Critics (Camden House); and two books relevant to the topic here, Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature (University of Iowa Press) and The Vietnam War in Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism (Salem Press). He is currently …

Adolescent Satanists In America: Religious Commitment Or Developmental Stage?, Gordon A. Crews

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

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Pluralism, Multiculturalism And Group Rights, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

However prevalent may have been the longing for homogeneity, or at least social unity, in political thinking, the fundamental point which must be recognized is that cultural diversity or pluralism has been the most notable feature of society in the history of human set tlement. "Marginality and pluralism were and are the norm of civi lized existence."1 There are several reasons why this is the pattern revealed by history.2 The first has to do with the ubiquity of military conflict. Even among barbarians ethnic political unity was fragile because military conquests resulted in the mixing of peoples. But throughout history …

The Impact Of Recent Litigation On Interlibrary Loan And Document Delivery, James S. Heller

Faculty Publications

Professor Heller discusses how two recent federal copyright law decisions, Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music in the United States Supreme Court and American Geophysical Union v. Texaco in the Second Circuit, may affect the interlibrary loan and document delivery services provided by libraries.