Museums, archives, libraries and other cultural heritage institutes maintain large collections of artefacts which are valuable knowledge sources for both experts and interested lay persons. Recently, more and more cultural heritage institutes have started to digitise their collections, for instance to make them accessible via web portals. However, while digitisation is a necessary first step to...

Teaching Java is more challenging than teaching C++ or C, since instructors must at least survey various bundled and closely-related toolkits, beginning with the JDK API; for example, Swing, AWT, JDBC, JAXP, and the internationalization and collections frameworks, among others. Students of Java must learn when and how to leverage them; no one whose first instinct would be to implement a parser ...

Although on-animal topical treatment with compounds such as imidacloprid has revolutionized the control of the cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis (Bouché) (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae), the development of insecticide resistance is a continuing threat. As part of a highly co-ordinated and unprecedented resistance monitoring programme for C. felis, 1437 flea isolates were collected by veterinary clinics...

A major challenge in the post-genomic era is the development of experimental approaches to monitor the properties of proteins on a proteome-wide level. It would be particularly useful to systematically assay protein subcellular localization, post-translational modifications and protein-protein interactions, both at steady state and in response to environmental stimuli. Development of new reagen...

Joe Lenkart is International Reference Librarian, Thomas H. Teper is Associate University Librarian for Collections and Technical Services, Mara Thacker is South Asian Studies Librarian, and Steven W. Witt is Head of the International and Area Studies Library in the Main Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], mthacker@illino...