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Tobacco use by Massachusetts public college students: long term effect of the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program.

OBJECTIVE To assess tobacco use among Massachusetts public college students and compare students who attended high school in Massachusetts and were exposed to the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program (MTCP) with students who attended high school outside Massachusetts and were unexposed to the programme. DESIGN Analysis of the 1999 Massachusetts College Alcohol Survey. SETTING Four year pub...

Implementing the Junior College Library Standards

I P L E M E N T A T I O N of the Junior College Library Standards is one of the important tasks facing junior college librarians, administrators, and instructors in the 1960's. Even as the members of the ACRL Committee on Standards were finishing their work at the ALA Midwinter meeting in January 1960, they realized that completed standards are only a beginning, that the most difficult task sti...

College of Library and Information Services University of Maryland College Park, Md

This paper surveys techniques for applying data mining techniques to large text collections and illustrates how those techniques can be used to support the management of science and technology research. Specific issues that arise repeatedly in the conduct of research management are described, and a textual data mining architecture that extends a classic paradigm for knowledge discovery in datab...

"I Am More Productive in the Library Because It's Quiet": Commuter Students in the College Library

College students' misunderstandings about copyright laws for digital library resources

Purpose—This study has two primary purposes: (1) exploring common copyright-related problems that arise when librarians promote the use of digital library resources, and (2) investigating college students’ misconceptions of copyright laws that arise when the students use these resources. Design/methodology/approach—(1) Focus-group interview of librarians: four librarians in charge of the manage...