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Core Competencies And The Learning Organization, Joan Giesecke, Beth Mcneil Jun 1999

Core Competencies And The Learning Organization, Joan Giesecke, Beth Mcneil

University of Nebraska-Lincoln 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, …

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The Collegial Environment And The Functional Organization, Mary K. Bolin Mar 1999

The Collegial Environment And The Functional Organization, Mary K. Bolin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln 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.

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Scenario Planning And Collection Development, Joan Giesecke Jan 1999

Scenario Planning And Collection Development, Joan Giesecke

University of Nebraska-Lincoln 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 …

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Cataloging Environmental Impact Statements And Related Documents, Mary K. Bolin Jan 1999

Cataloging Environmental Impact Statements And Related Documents, Mary K. Bolin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln 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 …

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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 Jan 1999

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

University of Nebraska-Lincoln 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 …

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Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, Sue Ann Gardner Jan 1999

Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln 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 …

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Henry Bryant Bigelow, Sue Ann Gardner Jan 1999

Henry Bryant Bigelow, Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln 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 …

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Gail Borden, Sue Ann Gardner Jan 1999

Gail Borden, Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln 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.

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Head In The Clouds, Feet On The Ground: The 1998 Nasig Conference, Charity K. Martin Sep 1998

Head In The Clouds, Feet On The Ground: The 1998 Nasig Conference, Charity K. Martin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) was established in 1985. Approximately 700 people attended this year's annual conference at the University of Colorado at Boulder on June 18-21. The theme was "Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground." Being new to serials, I made it one of the first professional conferences I attended.

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Instructional Support To A Rural Graduate Population: An Assessment Of Library Services, Mary Cassner, Kate Adams Apr 1998

Instructional Support To A Rural Graduate Population: An Assessment Of Library Services, Mary Cassner, Kate Adams

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

A survey was conducted to assess instructional support by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries to a specialized group of students. Faculty who had taught extended education courses were also surveyed as to the use of library services in support of course delivery to students. Findings provide direction for improving library services to the distant student.

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The Cost Of Interlibrary Loan Services In A Medium-Sized Academic Library, Ted Naylor Jun 1997

The Cost Of Interlibrary Loan Services In A Medium-Sized Academic Library, Ted Naylor

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Interlibrary loan has traditionally been the main access to information beyond the individual library collection. The increase in access to document delivery services and full-text databases, however, has created the need to evaluate interlibrary loan services within the overall access environment. One of the most important factors in this evaluation concerns the cost to provide interlibrary loan. The purpose of this article is to provide the results of a study of one year's interlibrary loan expense at the Library at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. The study was conducted to identify areas of greater and lesser interlibrary loan expense, …

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Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone Like Him: Client-Centered Technical Services, Mary K. Bolin Jun 1997

Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone Like Him: Client-Centered Technical Services, Mary K. Bolin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Academics are being admonished to be "client-centered"--generally used to mean consumer or customer-oriented. This paper looks at the origins of "client-centeredness" in mental health care, and explores the idea of "client-centered" academic institutions, specifically the technical services functions of academic libraries. Philosophical and practical recommendations for a client-centered technical services operation conclude the paper.

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Initiating An Effective Personnel Development Program, Virginia A. Baldwin, William J. Gibbs, Marlene M. Slough May 1997

Initiating An Effective Personnel Development Program, Virginia A. Baldwin, William J. Gibbs, Marlene M. Slough

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

This study identified the educational interests of library personnel and investigated whether level of interest was a valid indicator of program participation. In the fall semester of 1993, Eastern Illinois University’s Booth Library surveyed all administrators, faculty, and staff. The objectives of the survey were to identify: (1) indicators of educational interests of library personnel at a medium-sized university; (2) departmental differences in educational interests; and (3) the relationship between employee interest in educational programs and employee participation in programs developed.

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United States Agricultural Information Network / International, Dana W. R. Boden, Mary Cassner Apr 1997

United States Agricultural Information Network / International, Dana W. R. Boden, Mary Cassner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

General overview of the first ever United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN)/ International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) Joint Conference and Pre-Conference Workshops held April 3-7, 1997, Tucson, Arizona. The conference theme was "The Information Frontier: Linking People and Resources in a Changing World". Representatives from over 35 countries were in attendance.

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Selective Guide To Literature On Aerospace Engineering, Thomas G. De Petro, Ted Naylor Jan 1997

Selective Guide To Literature On Aerospace Engineering, Thomas G. De Petro, Ted Naylor

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The term "aerospace" incorporates all aspects of flight including aviation, aeronautics, and astronautics. This ASEE Selective Guide to Literature on Aerospace Engineering identifies essential sources of information according to their function and format. The Guide will be useful for practicing engineers, engineering faculty, and engineering students and all who need to know where to look for information on a variety of topics in aerospace engineering. Librarians, library and information science students, and other information professionals will find it useful for planning access services and for collection development. From the launching of balloons in the 19th century to the airplane and …

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Judith Sharn Young, Sue Ann Gardner Jan 1997

Judith Sharn Young, Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

From Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary:

Astronomer Judith Sharn Young has been prolific throughout her 15-year professional career, publishing over 100 papers and giving nearly as many talks and seminars. Her interests lie in galaxy formation and evolution, star formation, and interstellar matter (the matter that lies between the stars in galaxies). She has received several professional awards and honors, including, in 1986, the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award of the American Physical Society. Young was the first recipient of this award, which is given to a woman in the early stages of her career who has …

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Booming The Town: Nebraska Newspaper Project, David Harlan, Beth Jedlicka, Katherine L. Walter Jun 1995

Booming The Town: Nebraska Newspaper Project, David Harlan, Beth Jedlicka, Katherine L. Walter

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Since the Nebraska State Historical Society began in the late 1870s, many newspaper editors have served on its Board. Among these was J. Sterling Morton, owner/editor of the Nebraska City News. Morton, and others like him, urged the Society to begin collecting newspapers as early as 1890. The Society's efforts to gather papers from all over the state have resulted in a large and significant historical collection. Researchers use the Society's newspapers today to gather information about historical events, to study the development and demise of communities, and to trace ancestors. Now, the Nebraska State Historical Society and the University …

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"Tax Exempt" Status, Nebraska Sales Tax And The Irs Jun 1995

"Tax Exempt" Status, Nebraska Sales Tax And The Irs

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

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Incremental Re-Engineering: Changes In The Roles Of Technical Services Librarians, Joan Giesecke, Katherine L. Walter Apr 1995

Incremental Re-Engineering: Changes In The Roles Of Technical Services Librarians, Joan Giesecke, Katherine L. Walter

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The role of technical services librarians is being questioned as libraries downsize their operations. Technical services librarians can take a proactive approach to redefining their roles rather than waiting for change to be forced upon them. At one ARL library, technical services librarians initiated discussions with the administration to redefine their roles, increase their involvement in library decision-making, and improve their own career development opportunities. This paper will describe the process used at one library and how this model can be applied in other settings.

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United States Agricultural Information Network (Usain) Fourth, Dana W. R. Boden, Elaine Maytag Nowick, Mary Cassner Apr 1995

United States Agricultural Information Network (Usain) Fourth, Dana W. R. Boden, Elaine Maytag Nowick, Mary Cassner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

General overview of the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) Fourth National Conference held April 26-29, 1995,in Lexington, Kentucky. The conference theme was "Cultivating New Ground in Electronic Information: Use of the Information Highway to Support Agriculture".

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Effects Of Offshore Oil And Gas Development: A Current Awareness Bibliography, Sue Ann Gardner, D. Landry, J. Riley Oct 1994

Effects Of Offshore Oil And Gas Development: A Current Awareness Bibliography, Sue Ann Gardner, D. Landry, J. Riley

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

This bibliography is a compilation of current publications (citations with abstracts) from a wide variety of electronic and print information sources relating to offshore oil and gas development.

Subject categories covered include:
Biology: Ecological, anatomical, and physiological effects of oil and/or gas, Species as biomarkers, PAH uptake and bioaccumulation, etc.
Chemistry/Geochemistry/Geology: Biochemistry, Biodegradation, Bioremediation, Hydrocarbon degradation, Environmental sampling, Soil contamination, etc.
Engineering/Physics: Technological advancements in facility/equipment design and use, Spill response and recovery equipment, Physical properties of oil and gas, etc.
Environment/Ecosystem Management/Spills: Environmental assessment and management, Oil and/or gas spill description and analysis, etc.
Socioeconomic/Regulation/General: Social and economic ramifications, …

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Reorganizations: An Interview With Staff From The University Of Arizona Libraries, Joan Giesecke Sep 1994

Reorganizations: An Interview With Staff From The University Of Arizona Libraries, Joan Giesecke

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The University of Arizona is in the midst of a major reorganization as the library changes from a traditional organizational structure to a team- centered, user-focused organization. At the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Los Angeles, I had an opportunity to meet with a group of librarians from the University of Arizona who are actively involved in the change process. This was not a traditional interview, but more of a conversation with ten members of the library staff who spoke jointly about their experiences with the reorganization of their library. Answers reflect the comments of the group members; individuals are not …

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Profile And The Organization, Kent Hendrickson, Joan Giesecke Sep 1994

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Profile And The Organization, Kent Hendrickson, Joan Giesecke

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

In this article, we describe how we have used MBTI effectively in our organization as a way to understand the overall "personality" of the organization. We also discuss the implications of this profile for managing the organization to achieve organizational goals.

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Effects Of Offshore Oil And Gas Development: A Quarterly Current Awareness Bibliography, July 1994, Sue Ann Gardner Jul 1994

Effects Of Offshore Oil And Gas Development: A Quarterly Current Awareness Bibliography, July 1994, Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The July 1994 issue of Effects of Offshore Oil and Gas Development: A Quarterly Current Awareness Bibliography.

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Recognizing And Managing Multiple Organizational Approaches, Joan Giesecke Jun 1994

Recognizing And Managing Multiple Organizational Approaches, Joan Giesecke

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Organizational theory today includes a number of analytical models which provide descriptions of how organizations function as well as prescriptions as to how organizations should function. Five organizational models seem particularly appropriate to academic libraries. The rational model describes organizations as value- maximizing units which are task oriented. The political bargaining model views organizations as arenas for conflict and bargaining where participants form coalitions and interest groups to achieve their own ends. The garbage can model views the organization as a chaotic mess where independent actors pursue individual, yet changing goals and decisions are mostly a function of timing. The …

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"Introduction" To The Dynamic Library Organizations In A Changing Environment: A Special Issue Of Journal Of Library Administration, Volume 20, Number 2 (1994), Joan Giesecke Jun 1994

"Introduction" To The Dynamic Library Organizations In A Changing Environment: A Special Issue Of Journal Of Library Administration, Volume 20, Number 2 (1994), Joan Giesecke

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The articles in this collection are based on the discussions and work of the 1993 Senior Fellows as they participated in the UCLA Graduate School of Library and Information Science executive development program. The program included a combination of seminars on topics of interest to participants and unstructured time for research and discussion with colleagues on issues of common concern. The 1993 Fellows focused on the enormous challenges that librarians face today as libraries reengineer to meet the needs of patrons while struggling to stay afloat in today's changing environment. The group debated organizational processes, strategies, and structures, exploring how …

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Business & Economic Information On The Internet, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes Jun 1994

Business & Economic Information On The Internet, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Focusing On Quality Reference Service, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes May 1994

Focusing On Quality Reference Service, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Effects Of Offshore Oil And Gas Development: A Quarterly Current Awareness Bibliography, April 1994, Sue Ann Gardner Apr 1994

Effects Of Offshore Oil And Gas Development: A Quarterly Current Awareness Bibliography, April 1994, Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The April 1994 issue of Effects of Offshore Oil and Gas Development: A Quarterly Current Awareness Bibliography.

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Effects Of Offshore Oil And Gas Development: A Quarterly Current Awareness Bibliography, January 1994, Sue Ann Gardner Jan 1994

Effects Of Offshore Oil And Gas Development: A Quarterly Current Awareness Bibliography, January 1994, Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The January 1994 issue of Effects of Offshore Oil and Gas Development: A Quarterly Current Awareness Bibliography.

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