Librarians Across Institutions: Establishing Outreach Programs

Inside outreach: a challenge for health sciences librarians.

OBJECTIVE Like medical and health sciences libraries throughout the country, the Lamar Soutter Library (LSL) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School is dealing with ever-increasing outreach needs in times of diminishing funding. With the goal of reshaping the library's outreach program to better serve our patron groups, the Outreach Study Group was formed to investigate existing model...

Establishing Software Measurement Programs

it is to succeed. or successful product and process definition, implementation, and evolution, developers increasingly look to software measurement techniques.1-3 We typically regard measurement as essential for project—but less so for process— management. Yet without adequate quantitative support, we can’t readily comprehend, much less master, the complexities of software structure, testabilit...

DAVID C . WEBER ' ' Tenure ' ' for Librarians in Academic Institutions

THE woRD "TENURE" is used by some academic libraries in the same sense in which it is applied to faculty appointments of professorial rank. A considerable number of directors of other academic libraries would follow the spirit of faculty tenure but would apply the term in a special way to the appointments of librarians. What is the basis for this special meaning of tenure in the case of librari...

Establishing Nontraditional Venture Capital Institutions: Lessons Learned

Outreach, outreach, outreach.

In the warm afterglow of the magnificent Kyoto Congress, readers of Physiology might well imagine the officers and council of IUPS taking a relaxing break. Certainly, some congratulations are in order. As the documentary videos on the IUPS website show, it was a brilliant event, all the way from the opening by the Crown Prince of Japan, through the often amazing quality of the science presented...