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

A construction of Edward Sang's projected table of nine-place logarithms to one million (1872)

This document is a construction of Edward Sang's projected table of nine-place logarithms of which specimen pages were published in 1872

Orígenes y desarrollo de la cardiología en España a través de las publicaciones originales de las primeras revistas especializadas (1920-2000).

RESUMEN La presente tesis doctoral pretende contribuir al conocimiento de los orígenes y desarrollo de la cardiología como especialidad médica en españa a través del análisis de los artículos originales publicados en las primeras revistas españolas especializadas entre los años 1920 y 2000. Siguiendo las líneas de investigación del departamento e instituto de historia de la ciencia y documentación (csic-universidad de valencia) se aborda el estudio a partir de las publicaciones y mediante el empleo de las técnicas bibliométricas. el material de estudio consiste en un total de 5.418 referencias bibliográficas de artículos originales publicados en archivos de cardiología y hematología (431 originales); archivos de las enfermedades del corazón y de los vasos (433 originales) y revista española de cardiología (4.554 originales). se han contabilizado 21.962 firmas que proceden de un total de 6.452 autores con índices de productividad que tienden a ajustarse a las leyes bibliométricas. Los autores que han tenido un mayor protagonismo cubren un período de desarrollo de la cardiología en españa que comienza a principios de la década de 1960 y se mantiene hasta final del siglo xx y son, por este orden: Jordi Soler Soler, Juan Luis Delcán Domínguez, Francisco J. Algarra Vidal, Enric Esplugas Oliveras, Vicente López Merino, Alberto Cabrera Duro, José Luis López Sendón, Manuel Quero Jiménez, José A. Sobrino Daza, Miguel M. Iriarte Ezcurdia, Jaume Candell Riera, Federico Vallés Belsué, Domingo G. Duán Arróm, José Calderón Montero, Felipe Moreno Granado, Javier Suárez de Lezo, Juan Cosín Aguilar, Ramiro Rivera López y F. Javier Chorro Gascó. Cada uno de estos autores ha constituido grupos de colaboración -los denominados colegios invisibles- que integran una media de 141 autores. Se ha encontrado un predominio en las tres revistas de artículos procedentes de instituciones españolas, siendo las áreas geográficas de las instituciones nacionales con mayor producción Madrid seguidas de Cataluña, Andalucía, Comunidad Valenciana y País Vasco. La mayor parte de las materias sobre las que tratan los artículos inventariados corresponden a cardiología en las tres revistas. Entre las materias, las que se corresponden con patología y clínica son las predominantes seguidas de las que se ocupan de terapéutica, siendo los grandes temas que constituyen cuantitativamente el núcleo de los artículos publicados a lo largo de la historia los siguientes: "enfermedades coronarias"; "terapéutica quirúrgica"; "síndromes eléctricos-arritmias"; "enfermedades congénitas"; "enfermedades del endocardio; "terapéutica intervencionista" y "técnicas de diagnóstico por la imagen". la especialización en materias de los autores, grupos de colaboración e instituciones se distribuye de forma diferente sin que exista en todos los casos una clara correspondencia entre ellos. __________________________________________________________________________________________________THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CARDIOLOGY AS A MEDICAL SPECIALITY IN SPAIN THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF THE ORIGINAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE FIRST SPANISH SPECIALIZED JOURNALS (1920-2000) THE CURRENT DOCTORAL THESIS TRIES TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE BEGINNING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CARDIOLOGY AS A MEDICAL SPECIALITY IN SPAIN THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF THE ORIGINAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE FIRST SPANISH SPECIALIZED JOURNALS BETWEEN 1920 AND 2000. FOLLOWING THE INVESTIGATION LINES OF THE SCIENCE HISTORY AND DOCUMENTATION DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA, THE STUDY IS BASED ON THE PUBLICACIONS AND THROUGH THE USE OF BIBLIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES. THE MATERIAL OF THE STUDY INCLUDES A TOTAL OF 5418 BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES OF ORIGINAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN ARCHIVOS DE CARDIOLOGÍA Y HEMATOLOGÍA (431 ORIGINAL ARTICLES); ARCHIVOS DE LAS ENFERMEDADES DEL CORAZÓN Y DE LOS VASOS (433 ORIGINAL ARTICLES) Y REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE CARDIOLOGÍA (4.554 ORIGINAL ARTICLES). THERE ARE 21962 SIGNATURES THAT COME FROM A TOTAL OF 6452 AUTHORS WITH PRODUCTIVITY INDEXES THAT TEND TO FIT THE BIBLIOMETRIC RULES. THE AUTHORS WHO HAVE MORE IMPORTANCE FILL A PERIOD OF THE SPANISH CARDIOLOGY THAT STARTS AT THE BEGINING OF 1960 AND REMAINS UNTIL THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY. THEY ARE, IN THIS ORDER: JORDI SOLER SOLER, JUAN LUIS DELCÁN DOMÍNGUEZ, FRANCISCO J. ALGARRA VIDAL, ENRIC ESPLUGAS OLIVERAS, VICENTE LÓPEZ MERINO, ALBERTO CABRERA DURO, JOSÉ LUIS LÓPEZ SENDÓN, MANUEL QUERO JIMÉNEZ, JOSÉ A. SOBRINO DAZA, MIGUEL M. IRIARTE EZCURDIA, JAUME CANDELL RIERA, FEDERICO VALLÉS BELSUÉ, DOMINGO G. DUÁN ARRÓM, JOSÉ CALDERÓN MONTERO, FELIPE MORENO GRANADO, JAVIER SUÁREZ DE LEZO, JUAN COSÍN AGUILAR, RAMIRO RIVERA LÓPEZ Y F. JAVIER CHORRO GASCÓ. EACH ONE OF THESE AUTHORS HAS CREATED COLABORATION GROUPS INVISIBLE COLLEGES- THAT ARE FORMED BY A MEAN OF 141 AUTHORS. A PREDOMINANCE OF SPANISH INSTITUTIONS HAS BEEN FOUND IN THE THREE JOURNALS, WHERE MADRID FOLLOWED BY CATALUÑA, ANDALUCÍA, COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA Y PAÍS VASCO ARE THE GEOGRAPHIC AREAS WITH THE HIGHER PRODUCTION. THE MOST COMMON SUBJECTS TREATED BY THE ARTICLES STUDIED ARE RELATED TO CARDIOLOGY IN THE THREE JOURNALS. BETWEEN THE SUBJECTS, THE MOST COMMON ARE THE ONES THAT FIT IN PATHOLOGY AND CLINICS FOLLOWED BY THE ONES THAT TREAT THERAPY. THE MOST IMPORTANT THEMES THAT FORM THE CENTRE OF THE PUBLISHED ARTICLES THROUGH THE HISTORY ARE THE FOLLOWING: CORONARY ARTERY DISEASES, SURGYCAL THERAPY, ELECTRICAL SYMDROMES, CONGENITAL HEART DISEASES, ENDOCARDIAL DISEASES, INTERVENTIONAL THERAPY AND IMAGE DIAGNOSIS. THE SUBJECT SPECIALIZATION OF THE AUTHORS, COLABORATION GROUPS AND INSTITUTION IS DISTRIBUTED IN A DIFFERENT FORM WITHOUT ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN THE