Marinating over the Anti-Ebony Tower: An Academic ‘Grammar Book’

Auditing an Academic Library Book Collection

Book Availability: Academic Library Assessment

In the climate of increasing calls for academic assessment, the authors undertook a study to ascertain book availability in an academic library. The study described here uses the methodology pioneered by Tefko Saracevic, W. M. Shaw, Jr., and Paul Kantor and is a follow-up of earlier research reported in College & Research Libraries in 1987. The authors designed the study to identify any improve...

Preferred book formats in an academic medical center.

Learning more about when and why medical students, faculty, and clinical staff use e-books, as opposed to print books, is an expanding area of research for health sciences librarians. Several studies have highlighted the heavy use of health sciences titles in campus e-book collections [1–5] and the book format preferences of medical and other health sciences students [2, 6, 7]. A recent case st...

Book Reviews A Grammar Writer's Cookbook

Grammar writers sometimes approach g rammar writ ing as if the language being described were the only language in the world. In contrast, this book reports on the parallel deve lopment of computat ional grammars for three languages: English, French, and German. At the time the book was written, the "ParGram" (Parallel Grammars) project included researchers f rom the Xerox Palo Alto Research Cen...

Annotating ebony on the fly.

The distinctive black phenotype of ebony mutants has made it one of the most widely used phenotypic markers in Drosophila genetics. Without doubt, ebony showcases the fruits of the fly community's labours to annotate gene function. As of this writing, FlyBase lists 142 references, 1277 fly stocks, 15 phenotypes and 44 alleles. In addition to its namesake pigmentation phenotype, ebony mutants af...