B. Gajdzik, A. Wyciślik, The Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Katowice, Poland The publication characterises the quantity and quality methods applied in the assessment of the environmental aspects. The method of cumulated environmental loads is particularly interesting, where the network of process connections within an enterprise and between it an...

This paper examines how materials libraries are used as tools for interdisciplinary collaboration in 3 research projects that inhabit a disciplinary triangle between materials research, design and user needs: PhysFeel, which explores how materials collections can be used in psychological therapies; Light.Touch.Matters, a design-led project to develop new smart materials; and Hands of X, which u...

BACKGROUND The Center for Disability Resources (CDR) Library is the largest collection of its kind in the Southeastern United States, consisting of over 5,200 books, videos/DVDs, brochures, and audiotapes covering a variety of disability-related topics, from autism to transition resources. The purpose of the library is to support the information needs of families, faculty, students, staff, and ...

This study was conducted in December 2010 to find out students perception and attitude toward vandalism in the library. To gather the required information, a questionnaire was distributed to 1400 randomly selected students of university libraries in the South-South zone of Nigeria out of which 718 responded. Results of their responses revealed that vandalism of library materials in the form of ...

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS & METHODS: TABLE OF CONTENTS I. PRIMARY DATA GENERATION .........................................................................................3 Cell Culture and Cell Lines Assayed .....................................................................................................................................3 Sub-cellular Fractionation and RNA Isolation (CSHL)......

The European Library provides access to research materials from the collections of Europe’s national and research libraries, representing members from 46 countries. This paper presents the current status, on-going work, and future plans of the resource dissemination services provided by The European Library, covering resources such as national bibliographies, digital collections, full text coll...

Yuji Tosaka is Cataloging/Metadata Librarian and Cathy Weng is Head of Cataloging at The College of New Jersey Library; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]. We would like to thank Jeffrey Weng for his editorial assistance and the anonymous reviewers for their invaluable comments and suggestions. © Yuji Tosaka and Cathy Weng Content-enriched metadata in bibliographic records is considered hel...

Megan Gaffney is Coordinator, Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services, at the University of Delaware Library; e-mail: [email protected]. © Megan Gaffney Several studies have researched the reasons and patterns for academic library users’ interlibrary loan requests for materials already available at their college or university library. This study examines interlibrary loan statistics at...

This study attempts to discover the pattern of rural library usage among rural youth in Malaysia and to determine the problems that are associated with such usage. The findings of this study provide an insight into youth usage of rural library services. The most obvious pattern that resulted from the findings is the connection between library usage and the availability of reading materials. Fur...