Academic librarian salaries, 1987-1988

Academic and Public Librarian Salaries and Library Staffing Expenditures Trends, 2000-2009

Tracing the Archetypal Academic Librarian

A century of phenomenal advances in information technology has resulted in the exponential growth of information, and there is no end in sight. The modern world, what communications theorist Daniel Bell (1973) dubbed the post industrial “knowledge society,” has become so swamped with information, misinformation, and propaganda that neologisms like “information explosion” and “infoglut” have bee...

The 1987 Life-Sciences Articles Most Cited in 1987 and 1988

This essay continues a series begun over a decade ago: our armual study of the mostcited papers in the life sciences. 1-11In this installment, Bernard Dixon, former editor of New Scientist and currently contributing editor to Biotechnology, examines the most-cited papers published in 1987, listed in the Bibliography at the end of this essay. Dixon has contributed previously to these pages—most ...

Social environment and height: England and Scotland 1987 and 1988.

This study was designed to investigate the social characteristics associated with the height of primary schoolchildren aged from 5 to 11. Data were analysed for 8491 representative sample children measured in England and Scotland in 1987 and 1988 and 3203 inner city children measured in England in 1987. Height was negatively associated with social class but the association was not significant a...

Fidia Research Foundation Neuroscience Award Lectures. Volume 3, 1987-1988

The initial edition of this book was published in 1974, as one of the first textbooks that tried to teach modern biochemistry with a clinical perspective. The recently revised fifth edition continues to be one of the few textbooks in biochemistry that focuses primarily on clinical aspects of biochemistry and thus remains a useful book for health science students. Interestingly, the first chapte...