scholarly journals The development of a model for assessing the level of impact of information and library services

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (93) ◽  
pp. 43-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Brophy
Keyword(s):  
Library Services ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Over Time

This paper describes the background to the development and application of a model of Levels of Impact of innovations in information and library services. The model is based on earlier work in the eLearning field and provides a tool for comparing the different effects of a service on individuals, either within a particular community or over time. The paper suggests that there is scope for further development and testing of the model to refine its application.

scholarly journals New Consortial Model for E-Books Acquisitions

2016 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Swindler
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Electronic Environment ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Oxford University Press ◽  
Library Collections

E-books constitute major challenges for library collections generally and present fundamental problems for consortial collection development specifically. The Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) and Oxford University Press (OUP) have created a mutually equitable and financially sustainable model for the consortial acquisition of e-books coupled with print titles needed to support instruction and research across the disciplinary spectrum within a transitional framework that is acceptable to users while moving both libraries and publishers to a decidedly electronic environment for monographs. Working with YBP Library Services, TRLN and OUP developed a flexible vending model for systematically increasing e-books acquisitions in tandem with reducing print intake over time and keeping net costs constant that other consortia and publishers would find useful. This article focuses on creating an acceptable and sustainable model that allows libraries to shift to e-books and the implications for traditional cooperative collection development. The research reports on the principles undergirding the pilot, how it developed, challenges encountered and lessons learned, librarian and user reactions to this format shift, and resulting philosophical and practical evolutions in consortial approaches to monographic acquisitions and understandings of what constitutes cooperative collections success in a digital environment.

scholarly journals GEOECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE MONETARY GLOBALIZATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (Vol 19, No 3 (2020)) ◽  
pp. 395-408
Author(s):  
Oleksandr SHAROV
Keyword(s):  
Economic Globalization ◽  
International Level ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
Monetary System ◽  
The World ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Qualitative Changes

Author defines monetary globalization and examines the historical process of spreading money and cash nexus across the globe. It is stated that money developed almost simultaneously in three great civilizations (Europe, India, China), but over time the Hellenistic form of money absorbed and universalized all other forms of money. The author examines in detail the process of distribution of metallic and then credit form of money and their impact on economic globalization. All these processes occurring both in the markets of separate countries or small regions and at the international level (where money started to act as global currency almost immediately after its appearance) constitute the essence of the monetary globalization. The author dwells on the post-Bretton Woods period of development of the World Monetary System, believing that the extensive phase of monetary globalization has come to an end at this stage and its further development will be caused by fundamental qualitative changes.

Peaceful Revolutions in Algeria and Sudan: the Factor of the Coronavirus Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Nailia Fakhrutdinova
Keyword(s):  
Driving Forces ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Long Period ◽  
First Time ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Over Time

The article deals with the problem of the post Arabic spring situation. Only three Arab countries remained unchanged in Africa: Morocco, Algeria and Sudan. After a long period of time their protesters remained outside the zone of active action, but over time they appeared in the streets again. The circumstances forced people to take to the streets. Moroccans were in a better situation, but gradually the population of Algeria and Sudan where the situation was especially serious began to criticize the policy of the authorities, although they did it exclusively peacefully. For the first time in Russian African studies, the author assesses all the driving forces of the events at the end of 2020 and early 2021 and, emphasizing the complications brought by the coronavirus pandemic, makes an analytical forecast for the further development of the situation.

Pressure and experimentation

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-132
Author(s):  
Lucy Atkinson ◽  
Andrew Blick ◽  
Matt Qvortrup
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
European Community ◽  
Common Market ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Community Or ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Over Time

Chapter 2 covers 1945–1979, a period during which referendums progressed from being relatively neglected as a concept in Britain to actually being deployed. Between 1945 and the early 1970s, the idea of holding a major referendum was absent from the forefront of the UK political agenda. But as we will see, the proposition simmered and revived over time. Then between 1973 and 1979, four such votes took place: on the constitutional status of Northern Ireland (1973); on whether or not the UK should continue to participate in the European Community (or ‘Common Market’, in 1975); and on whether or not devolution should be implemented in Scotland and Wales (both 1979). The chapter considers why referendums occurred, and their implications for British politics and for the British constitution.

Microcosm assessment of potential molluscicides for control of the rice snail Isidorella newcombi sens. lat. (Gastropoda: Basommatophora: Planorbidae)

1996 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 673 ◽  
Author(s):  
MM Stevens ◽  
RJ Faulder ◽  
NE Coombes
Keyword(s):  
Field Conditions ◽  
Initial Screening ◽  
Screening Rate ◽  
Irrigated Rice ◽  
Fish Toxicity ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Delayed Exposure

Twenty-seven pesticides were evaluated for their toxicity to mature Isidorella newcombi (Adams & Angas), a serious pest of irrigated rice in NSW, Australia. Evaluations were conducted using microcosms in which typical field conditions were simulated. Only 3 compounds, niclosamide, n-tritylmorpholine, and nicotinanilide, provided >95% mortality at an initial screening rate of 3 mg/L. These compounds were assessed at a range of rates using both immediate and delayed-exposure bioassays to determine LC values and comparative persistence. Niclosamide (as Bayer Bayluscide� 250 g/L EC) and n-tritylmorpholine (as Shell FresconB 165 g/L EC) were the most toxic (LC90, immediate exposure, 0.19 mg/L for both compounds), whilst the corresponding LC90 value for nicotinanilide (laboratory grade in DMSO) was 0.53 mg/L. Persistence (reflected by a slower increase in LC90 values over time in delayed exposure bioassays) was strongest in nicotinanilide and weakest in n-tritylmorpholine. Although niclosamide is the most promising compound for the control of I. newcombi, further development of nicotinanilide is also recommended, as it represents a potentially valuable tool for use in situations where low fish toxicity is required.

The Topography of Historical Contingency

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Inkpen ◽  
Derek Turner
Keyword(s):  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Historical Contingency ◽  
Scaling Effects ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Complex Landscape ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Starting with Ben-Menahem’s definition of historical contingency as sensitivity to variations in initial conditions, we suggest that historical events and processes can be thought of as forming a complex landscape of contingency and necessity. We suggest three different ways of extending and elaborating Ben-Menahem’s concepts: (1) By supplementing them with a notion of historical disturbance; (2) by pointing out that contingency and necessity are subject to scaling effects; (3) by showing how degrees of contingency/necessity can change over time. We also argue that further development of Sterelny’s notion of conditional inevitability leads to our conclusion that the topography of historical contingency is something that can change over time.

The Application of Modern Metallurgical Principles And Knowledge to the Manufacture of Mokumé Gane (Wood-Grain Metal) Decorative Alloy

2004 ◽  
Vol 852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian T. Ferguson ◽  
Brian Derby ◽  
G. E. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Aluminium Alloys ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
Hot Press ◽  
Visual Effects ◽  
Roll Bonding ◽  
Solid State Bonding ◽  
New Type ◽  
Wood Grain ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Over Time

ABSTRACTMokumé Gane layered metal is a 300-year old decorative metal laminate technique peculiar to the isolated culture of the Japanese Shogunate. Like many complex craft practices handed down through individual experience, the manufacture and development of Mokumé Gane has changed minimally over time. The application of contemporary metallurgical knowledge and solid state bonding techniques such as Hot Press Diffusion Bonding and Hot Roll Bonding provide for further development of Mokumé Gane: bonding success rates are improved, and manufacturing times are reduced. In addition, the range of possible metal combinations is substantially increased; 42 different combinations to date have been successfully bonded, including a new type of Mokumé Gane employing aluminium alloys. This research has allowed a very large increase in the variety of colours, patterns, and visual effects, available to contemporary metalsmiths and jewellers.

The Atlantic Slave Trade: A tentative economic model

1974 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry A. Gemery ◽  
Jan S. Hogendorn
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Labour Supply ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Labour Shortage ◽  
Supply Pattern ◽  
Derived Demand ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Over Time

Two necessary conditions for the existence of New World slavery and the slave trade are an acute labour shortage and an elastic supply of coerced labour. Though the former condition has been the mainstay of hypotheses on slavery where high land/labour ratios were viewed as causal determinants, less attention has been given to the role of labour supply responses. This paper joins these conditions in a model which postulates that labour demand stemming from open resource pressures induced a politico–economic supply response in West Africa. The model shows a derived demand for labour evolving over time into a specific demand for slaves as entrepreneurs sought the lowest cost method of expanding the production of agricultural staples. Free and indentured labour were both characterized by inelastic supply, but the supply of slaves was elastic due to factors discussed within a vent for surplus framework. African governments and private traders responded to the new effective demand from the Americas with improved organization which widened the pre-existing market for slaves. The desire for imported goods, with firearms especially significant, plus various technical changes in transport, money, and credit all combined to ensure the further development of the slave trade and the continued maintenance of a longrun elastic supply pattern

scholarly journals Auto Whatsapp Sebagai Alternatif Layanan Perpustakaan pada Masa Pandemi Covid-19 di IAIN Curup

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Maisonah Maisonah
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Alternative Service ◽  
The Government ◽  
Further Development

Library is  to develop knowledge and information. Every information and knowledge in a library is obtained from several media; such as books; magazines; brochures; computers use networks and journals. Library services are management to manage all media information and knowledge. In March 2020 the Covid-19  enter Indonesia. One way to assist the government in preventing the spread of Covid-19 is to eliminate face-to-face lectures. In addition; library services are removed. Therefore; in order to keep library services running; one alternative is to use Auto WhatsApp. This application helps students in obtaining library services especially in obtaining a Fractivator-Free Library Information (CFL). The results of large-scale trials of SKBPP services with autowhatsapp to 73 users' responses resulted in 98.6% stating that users were satisfied with the service; 95.9% of users stated that SKBPP services with autowhtasapp were effective; 97.3% users easily used the application; 95.9% users stated that the information on the service was clear; and 97.3% of users stated that the use of sentences in autowhatsapp was easy to understand. From the research; it is concluded that Auto WhatsApp can be used as an alternative service during the Covid-19 pandemic and further development is needed

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