A Coevolutionary View of Information Services Development: Lessons from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 577-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramiro Montealegre ◽  
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Drik Hovorka ◽  
Matt Germonprez ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Services ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Instructing usability evaluation in LIS curriculum: A case of the U.S.

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Kanwal Ameen ◽  
Sanda Erdelez
Keyword(s):  
Usability Evaluation ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Accredited Schools ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
The U.S

Increasing use of websites as vehicles for the dissemination of information services in the digital environment and interaction with users has raised many usability concerns in creating user-friendly digital information services. Hence, it is important to understand if and how the future generations of library and other information professionals learn about usability evaluation through their LIS studies. Guided by this research objective, the authors of this paper reviewed the state of usability evaluation (UE) courses in LIS education. The study used content-analysis method to find answers to the research questions. The sample was purposive consisting only ALA accredited schools in the U.S. Publicly available descriptions of the courses on their websites were accessed to review the UE content offered. The content of these identified course descriptions was downloaded and further analyzed in terms of its format and coverage. Besides, based on the experience of the second author, the paper provides insight into both challenges and opportunities that the instructors of usability evaluation courses face. Findings reveal that LIS education programs have not yet fully accepted UE of digital resources as a standard course in their educational repertory. The study suggests that a systematic exposure to UE can place LIS professionals in a better position to communicate with the information technology staff regarding the specific needs of the users and enhance their chances for a productive professional career.

Advertising America: Official Propaganda and the U.S. Promotional Industries, 1946–1950

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-63
Author(s):  
Inger L. Stole
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The U.S

In the mid-1930s, the notion that the U.S. government would collaborate with the country’s private industries to project official policies and shape public opinion abroad as well as at home would have been controversial and considered a violation of the nation’s democratic values. Yet, by the early 1950s, institutions and practices were in place to make this a regular activity. Much of this ideological work was done surreptitiously, in conjunction with commercial media, and there was little public or news media discussion demanding exposure and accountability for it. What had once been unthinkable had become unquestionable. This monograph chronicles the development of U.S. “information services” in the immediate postwar years. It chronicles the synergetic relationship between government interests, represented by the U.S. State Department, and major American corporations, represented by groups like the Committee for Economic Development and the Advertising Council in portraying the rapidly escalating Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union in a manner that would secure economic world dominance for American interests in the postwar era.

Information Services in the U.S. Economy: Value, Jobs, and Management Implications

2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uday M. Apte ◽  
Uday S. Karmarkar ◽  
Hiranya K. Nath
Keyword(s):  
Information Services ◽  
Management Implications ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Business Separation in Telecommunications: Lessons from the U.S. Experience

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A Jamison ◽  
James Sichter
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Structural Rules ◽  
Behavioral Rules ◽  
The World ◽  
Network Operations ◽  
Retail Services ◽  
The U.S

Structural and functional separation of telecommunications operators is being considered in many parts of the world following the U.K. functional separation of BT into retail and network operations. The attractiveness of separation is understandable due to the problems regulators often experience when regulating a monopoly that is vertically integrated into competitive markets, but separation in practice rarely if ever lives up to its promises. We examine experiences with business separation in the United States to draw lessons about its effects. We consider the separation of local and long distance, separation between telecommunications and information services, and separation between wholesale networks and retail services. These experiences show that business separation lowers efficiency and delays innovation, that adapting separation rules to an ever changing industry is costly and creates controversies, that rivals try to gain strategic advantage through the regulatory process, and that behavioral rules can be more effective in facilitating competition and innovation than structural rules.

Historical Introduction

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 2-5
Author(s):  
R. D. Heidenreich
Keyword(s):  
Electron Emission ◽  
Secondary Electron ◽  
Secondary Electron Emission ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Secondary Emission ◽  
Wave Nature ◽  
Nobel Prize In Physics ◽  
Primary Electrons ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Mutual Agreement

This program has been organized by the EMSA to commensurate the 50th anniversary of the experimental verification of the wave nature of the electron. Davisson and Germer in the U.S. and Thomson and Reid in Britian accomplished this at about the same time. Their findings were published in Nature in 1927 by mutual agreement since their independent efforts had led to the same conclusion at about the same time. In 1937 Davisson and Thomson shared the Nobel Prize in physics for demonstrating the wave nature of the electron deduced in 1924 by Louis de Broglie.The Davisson experiments (1921-1927) were concerned with the angular distribution of secondary electron emission from nickel surfaces produced by 150 volt primary electrons. The motivation was the effect of secondary emission on the characteristics of vacuum tubes but significant deviations from the results expected for a corpuscular electron led to a diffraction interpretation suggested by Elasser in 1925.

Variations in Surface Textures of Quartz Sand using Electron Microscopy

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 494-495
Author(s):  
Eugene J. Amaral
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Glass Industry ◽  
Glass Slide ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Early Paleozoic ◽  
Secondary Effects ◽  
Surface Textures ◽  
High Silica ◽  
Sand Deposit ◽  
The U.S

Examination of sand grain surfaces from early Paleozoic sandstones by electron microscopy reveals a variety of secondary effects caused by rock-forming processes after final deposition of the sand. Detailed studies were conducted on both coarse (≥0.71mm) and fine (=0.25mm) fractions of St. Peter Sandstone, a widespread sand deposit underlying much of the U.S. Central Interior and used in the glass industry because of its remarkably high silica purity.The very friable sandstone was disaggregated and sieved to obtain the two size fractions, and then cleaned by boiling in HCl to remove any iron impurities and rinsed in distilled water. The sand grains were then partially embedded by sprinkling them onto a glass slide coated with a thin tacky layer of latex. Direct platinum shadowed carbon replicas were made of the exposed sand grain surfaces, and were separated by dissolution of the silica in HF acid.

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