The new ALA Editions title, Transforming Technical Services through Training and Development , collects chapters by practitioners in technical services departments (academic, public, consortia) discussing their approaches to training. Three themes recur many of the thirteen this volume help tie them together: documentation; cross-training engagement; COVID-19. Documentation plays a crucial role...

Health hazards are a neglected public health issue among nursing students indeveloping countries. This has exposed in developing countries to various forms ofhazards which had negative consequences on their wellbeing and performance at work.

Cultivation of wild-harvested plant species has been proposed as a way of reducing over-exploitation of wild populations but lack of technical knowledge is thought to be a barrier preventing people from cultivating a new species. Training programmes are therefore used to increase technical knowledge to encourage people to adopt cultivation. We assessed the impact of a training programme aiming ...