Nonbook Materials in a Teachers College Library

Ranking library materials

Purpose: This paper discusses ranking factors suitable for library materials and shows that ranking in general is a complex process and that ranking for library materials requires a variety of techniques. Design/methodology/approach: The relevant literature is reviewed to provide a systematic overview of suitable ranking factors. The discussion is based on an overview of ranking factors used in...

Access to Nonbook Materials: The Limits of Subject Indexing for Visual and Aural Languages

There are instances where a message expressed in one medium cannot adequately be transposed to another. A recent review of the opera Mrs. Dalloway reflects upon the impossibility of creating an opera (or in the case of Orlando, a movie) out of Virginia Woolfs mature novels, insofar as these novels do not “speak about reality so much as mirror it in complexity of form” (Griffiths, 1993, p. 113)....

Matriarch: A Python Library for Materials Architecture.

Biological materials, such as proteins, often have a hierarchical structure ranging from basic building blocks at the nanoscale (e.g., amino acids) to assembled structures at the macroscale (e.g., fibers). Current software for materials engineering allows the user to specify polypeptide chains and simple secondary structures prior to molecular dynamics simulation, but is not flexible in terms o...

Changing role of medical college teachers.

Recent Trends in Academic Library Materials Expenditures

LIBRARY EXPENDITURES HAVE INCREASED faster than inflation over the last six years. Ironically, libraries are losing ground economically in several key areas. How can this be? Claims on the library dollarnot only unit prices but the full spectrum of library budgetary demands-are growing even faster than the library budget. Not only have the prices of monographs and serials increased, but journal...