THEINTLKLIBK~UIYI OAN PROCESS AT SOLTHERN UNIVERSITY, ILLIKOIS Carbondale, has undergone a major redesign since the late 1980s. Central to the redesign has been a move toward empowering patron3 by providing them with choice arid responsibility. In 1994, the library began facilitating unmediated borrowing from the forty-eight other members of a statewide library consortium through a $hared onlin...

COULD there be anything more exciting than International Accountants Day? Well, perhaps . . . Accountancy, unfortunately has an undeserved reputation for being an uncreative art form, yet November 10 is a hallowed day for an industry which prides itself on the adage ‘everyone counts’. To mark this ‘special event’, we’ve put together a few ‘interesting’ facts about accountancy that may just give...

Late Qing novels abound in situations of transition, where classical antecedents coexist with modern departures. In this period of not-so-sure adjustment, we still encounter the love fantasy of the elite prostitute and her male patron, which has traditionally constituted a home away from the ritually defined home of marriage and family. In the 1892 novel Flowers of Shanghai (Haishanghua liezhua...

Government funding of the arts has received considerable attention in the United States in recent years. Efforts to cut funding to the National Endowment for the Arts and declining budgets for state arts agencies have raised questions about how much individuals value the arts. This paper applies the contingent valuation method to assess this value, using surveys of random households and of arts...

We expose privacy issues related to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in libraries, describe current deployments, and suggest novel architectures for library RFID. Libraries are a fast growing application of RFID; the technology promises to relieve repetitive strain injury, speed patron self-checkout, and make possible comprehensive inventory. Unlike supply-chain RFID, library RFID requires...