objectives: this research is a comparative study of the level of social capital in tehran university and sharif university of technology libraries.method: the research method is composed of survey and comparative study. statistical population included all librarians affiliated to central and college libraries of sharif university of technology together with librarians affiliated to central libr...

Because of the historical value of email in the late 20 and 21 centuries, Harvard University Libraries began planning for an email archiving project in early 2007. A working group comprised of University archivists, curators, records managers, librarians and technologists studied the problem and recommended the undertaking of a pilot email archiving project at the University Library. This two-y...

ing demands and expectations of users with those of staff and supervisors and, in some cases, the demands of the tenure process as well. The fourth section discusses managing change in library services. Topics covered include recommendations for managing change within a reference department such as defining the collection, analyzing user behavior and expectations, using staff skills and talents...

A 35-day experimental study consisting of 28-day growth and 7-day calcium (Ca) balance periods was conducted to assess the effects of fibre and N ratios on growth and Ca balance of rats. Growth and Ca balance of rats (45-80g) fed mixtures of cooked (CS) and uncooked (RS) sdrghurn and dehulled (DB) and undehullcd (UB) bean were studied. The diets contained 10% protein. Casein served as the contr...

Twenty four male rats (45-65g) were used to determine the nutritional responses to mixed plant and animal protein diets. Rats were fed various mixtures of sorghum (S), pigeon pea (PP). bread fruit (TAP) plus crayfish (CR) to provide 1.6g N/100g of daily diet for a 35-day study period. Three dilrerent diets were fed to 6 rats assigned to each diet on the basis of body weight. Combination of PP:C...

Job autonomy is a topic that should be of concern to both library managers and employees because job autonomy may predict job satisfaction and retention. This article describes job autonomy among public and academic librarians using data reported by respondents to the Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science (WILIS 1) Research Project1 survey. The authors extracted a subset of the LI...