A Holistic Assessment of Spanish Gift Books

Library gifts-in-kind are a mixed blessing: their potential utility must be weighed against the resources required to add them to a collection. Understanding the value such materials can bring to the library is essential. In academic libraries, donations from faculty members may be assumed to be more appropriate and useful additions to the collection. This evaluation used multiple methods to assess the value of several hundred gift books donated by a professor in support of the Spanish program at Concordia University. Parameters examined include age, language, subjects and their relation to the curriculum, usage, and availability in other libraries

Discovering Jewish Studies Collections in Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide

The U.S. colleges and universities offering non-sectarian educational programs in Jewish Studies rely on the support of their academic libraries for research materials and library services. For college libraries which use Library of Congress Classification scheme, it is a common practice to integrate studies resources into their general library collections. Since Jewish Studies sources span a vast number of subjects within all major disciplines, shelving integration leads to the dispersion of all relevant sources and such dispersion in turn leads to a variety of problems for library professionals and library users. For collection development librarians the problems range from lack of information about collection\u27s size, strengths or weaknesses, and for library users interested in browsing the collection, dispersion of subjects creates a major roadblock. This practical guide aims at providing a solution to such problems. By identifying all relevant Library of Congress call numbers and the corresponding Library of Congress subject headings, the guide offers a simplified access to Jewish Studies sources in general library collections. It is arranged by four major discipline: Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, and General Works & Bibliographies. Within each discipline, specific LC call number ranges and corresponding subjects are listed. The subjects are further subdivided and precisely identified. The guide will assist collection development librarians, library liaisons, grants and fundraising professionals and especially the Jewish Studies faculty and students, in identifying and locating relevant sources

Annual Report 1998-1999

An administrative report of statistics and information pertaining to the University of North Florida Thomas G. Carpenter Library for the years 1998-1999.The report includes summaries and charts on library budgets, library collection, serials and cataloging workloads, circulation, interlibrary loan, and public services

Boise State University Undergraduate Catalog: 1995-1996

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The Kantele Traditions of Finland

The present study deals with the basic problems of what the kantele is and how it is played, and the more complex problem of the meaning of tradition in our modern world. Among the Finns, the kantele manifests itself as a musical instrument, a motif of folklore, and a symbol of identity. The structure of the instrument has changed radically over the course of its history, so that today there are many different kinds of kanteles falling into three broad categories: those which have bodies carved from a single piece of wood, those built from separate pieces of wood, and those using a reverse-curve shape to improve the tonal qualities across a wider range. Kantele builders were and are influenced by matters of function, fashion and tradition in developing its structure. The kantele is played in folk music, art music and popular music, in a wide variety of styles appropriate to these contexts. Various groups, and various geographic areas of Finland, maintain different playing traditions which exist simultaneously in the music culture. The concept of tradition is as central to folkloristics as the concept of culture is to anthropology. Folklorists and ethnomusicologists may study tradition as the materials, the symbols, and the learning processes of a culture, which produce a dynamic balance of stability and change

Pliocene and Pleistocene Marine Ostracoda of the Limon Basin, Costa Rica: A Record of Paleoenvironmental Change.

Late Pliocene (3.8-3.6 Ma) and early Pleistocene (1.5-0.9 Ma) marine ostracodes of the Rio Banano, Quebrada Chocolate and Moin Formations (Limon Group) provide a detailed paleoenvironmental record for the Limon Basin, Costa Rica. The marine ostracode assemblages recovered from the Limon region do not provide evidence that the tropics cooled dramatically during the late Pliocene when the Northern Hemisphere was entering the Modern Ice Age. Paleoenvironmental interpretations are based on cluster analyses and a modern tropical ostracode analog analysis. Diverse ostracode assemblages of the middle Pliocene Rio Banano Formation are dominated by genera typical of the inner to middle neritic zone (e.g., Basslerites, Pellucistoma, Puriana, and Radimella). The constancy of the ostracode assemblages suggests that environmental conditions did not change greatly during deposition. A shift in dominance of ostracode species, however, suggests that whereas no major environmental disturbances occurred, subtle change(s) in environmental conditions took place during deposition. The Assemblages of the Quebrada Chocolate formation document ostracodes coexisting with some of the oldest identified coral reefs in Costa Rica. These late Pliocene ostracode assemblages, occurring in a series of stacked coral reef buildups in this formation are characterized by unusually low simple diversity. The sediments of the Moin Formation contain ostracode assemblages representative of several environments of deposition. An assemblage of bathyal and neritic ostracodes is interpreted to indicate the presence of a coastal upwelling system active during the early Pleistocene (the Cangrejos Creek section). Previously, the mixed microfossil assemblage was interpreted to be the result of downslope transport. However, many of the same ostracodes that are common in the bathyal and outer neritic environments (e.g. Bradleya, Krithe, and Echinocythereis) are also found in the coral- and mollusk-rich Lomas del Mar section that caps the ridge near Limon. A modern ostracode analog analysis identified the closest match to these Moin samples to be Venezuelan continental shelf, where modern coastal upwelling brings cooler, nutrient-rich waters up onto the shelf. Ostracodes recovered from the Empalme Mollusk are interpreted to represent a shallow lagoonal environment and are dominated by Reussicythere reussi, Pellucistoma howei and Puriana aff. P. matthewsi

Maize adoption, biodiversity conservation and poverty in Mexico

Improved maize varieties adoption impact assessment on poverty reduction in 325 small-scale farmer households in Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Mexico