The Continuing Debate Over Academic Branch Libraries

Compulsory health insurance. The continuing American debate

to become exclusively a medical institution focusing on curative procedures, and ultimately to expand its clientele to all levels of society. While large-scale involvement of medical men with hospitals doubtless preceded the administrative-institutional transformation of the latter (medical professionalization around the hospital clinic in France following the Revolution may have been one neces...

Assisted dying: considerations in the continuing debate.

Emery and Dr Kevin Connolly have given much pleasure to our readers with their columns on ‘Treatment in Art’ and ‘Conversations with Charles’ respectively. I am also grateful to the many physicians across the country who have selflessly contributed to the quality of Clinical Medicine by refereeing so many of the submitted manuscripts. And in particular, I wish to pay tribute to Diana Beaven who...

The Continuing Debate over Responsibility: An Introduction to Isolating the Condemnation Sanction

The McDonaldization of Academic Libraries?

George Ritzer, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, has proposed an influential thesis that suggests that many aspects of the fast food industry are making their way into other areas of society. This article explores whether his thesis, known as the McDonaldization thesis, is applicable to academic libraries. Specifically, it seeks to determine to what extent academic libraries may be c...

Debate on software reuse libraries

High levels of reuse depend on a source of software to reuse. To meet this need many organizations have based their reuse programs on a centrally managed reusable software library (RSL). However, although the library metaphor has guided early work in classification, retrieval, and other areas of reuse technology, experiences vary on whether a centrally-managed RSL or domain-specific RSL provide...