Conference Circuit: IFLA ‘96: The Challenge of Change

IFLA Jerusalem Conference , August 2000

Christine Deschamps, IFLA's President, has been the Director of the Library of the University Paris V (René Descartes) since 1993. From 1989 until 1993 she was Chef de Bureau in the Ministère de l'Education Nationale, in charge of all academic libraries' automation, networking, interlibrary loan and union catalogues. In 1988 she was Director of the ISSN Centre. She spent 13 years working as a m...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

The challenge of change.

This chapter introduces the theme of the book (i.e., the challenge of chance) and includes brief surveys of the individual chapters. The collapse of cohesion is one of the features that characterize chance. By sheer accident, or so it seems, something breaks the typical regularity of the natural world, like a comet disrupting the solar system. At a human scale, we find examples like unexpectedl...

The Challenge of Change

hat will the future of clinical engineering look like? The question is an important one for clinical engineers to consider because the answer determines how they should be preparing now for that future. What level of education and what skill sets should be acquired? Anticipating the future enables us to effectively prepare ... to be proactive rather than reactive as changes take place in our in...

The Challenge of Change