Bibliographic challenges in historical context: looking back to 1982

Bibliographic challenges in historical context: looking back to 1982

This article comments on a paper written in 1982 in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). The piece describes persistent challenges faced by the cataloging community. It includes comments made during the ALCTS 50th Anniversary National Conference as a means of placing these challenges in historical context.

Looking Back: Historical And

The various social sciences emerged as distinct modes of inquiry in the latter part of the 19th century. Enlightenment thinking about the inevitable march of human progress was coupled with a metaphorical use of concepts and terms from the other established sciences of physics and biology. The transfer of metaphors between areas of inquiry, back and forth and back again, has characterized schol...

Ten years of Chagas disease research: Looking back to achievements, looking ahead to challenges

Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) with a high disease burden in the Americas. It is transmitted primarily by hematophagous triatomine bugs, but alternate transmission routes such as congenital, oral, and transfusional transmission are becoming more relevant in many regions. After a short acute phase, infected patients enter...

Looking Back to Mackenzie.

Looking back to 1952

In a review of the proceedings of the first MT conference, held at MIT in June 1952, it is found that the principal issues discussed have continued to be the focus of MT research to the present day, despite the substantial computational and linguistic advances since the early 1950s.