A Moveable Feast - Law Librarianship in the Noughties

A moveable feast.

Tracking the moveable feast: sonomicrometry and gastrointestinal motility.

Ultrasonomicrometry measures distance between piezoelectric crystals based on transmission time of ultrasound bursts. It allows monitoring of coordinated motion of small and delicate tissues, including gastrointestinal sphincters. Its suitability for motility studies in small animals such as mice suggests that its use in gastrointestinal studies will increase in coming years.

Miles O. Price and Education for Law Librarianship

Vision: The Essence of Professionalism and Key to the Future of Law Librarianship as a Profession*

* © Dennis S. Sears, 2006. ** Senior Law Librarian, Howard W. Hunter Law Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. 1. See E.A. Feazel, The Status of the Law Librarian, 2 LAW. LIBR. J. 21 (1909). For a more recent perspective, see Richard A. Danner, Redefining a Profession, 90 LAW. LIBR. J. 315 (1998). 2. “‘[T]he calling or occupation which one professes to understand and follow; a vocatio...

A Moveable Feast1

A basket of grapes painted by Zeuxis more than 2,000 years ago was so realistic, the grapes so enticing, that birds flew down from the sky to peck at the picture, wrote Pliny the Elder in The Natural History. Food imagery, around since antiquity, expanded and flourished during the 17th century, as part of renewed interest in still-life painting in the Netherlands but also among German, French, ...