Library Association

Library Association Staff: Roles, Responsibilities, Relationships

THEWORK OF MANY LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS would be constrained, some of it even impossible to accomplish, without the efforts of their employees. Staff create and carry out programs for association membership and assure continuity for the organization. Issues relating to staff roles and the responsibilities they have in associations are explored and reasons for their sometimes conflicting relationsh...

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Introducing altmetrics to the Journal of the Medical Library Association

Most readers of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) are well aware of the inappropriateness of evaluating individual journal articles by their journals’ impact factors. This is because, among other reasons, a journal’s citations are not evenly distributed across its articles. Rather, a small proportion (20%) of articles often accounts for most (80%) of a journal’s citations [1...

Design of a Class Library for Association Relationships

Association is an important relationship that is supported in both UML and entity relationship database modeling tools. However, there is no language or library support in current object-oriented languages for implementing an association relationship. Instead, a complex implementation using references or collections of references must be handcrafted and laboriously maintained each time an assoc...

The Medical Library Association Guide to Data Management for Librarians