Qualitative Content Analysis: A Reflection

Like many public services librarians, we spend much of our time focused on improving service quality. We think of excellent service quality as meeting or exceeding customer expectations consistently over time. One approach for fostering consistent service delivery for libraries is to implement standards like those found in a service philosophy statement. A service philosophy statement communicates directly to users what they can—and should—expect from library services. We decided to study service philosophy statements in a formal way using qualitative content analysis to learn how one might benefit our own public services units. This chapter addresses key questions we had about our research project: Where do we begin? What method or approach is most appropriate to answer our research question? How will we learn to use this method? This chapter describes the challenges we faced while simultaneously learning and applying the method of qualitative content analysis to our study of service philosophy statements

A search for X-rays from UV Ceti flare stars

A search of MIT/OSO-7 data was made for evidence of X-ray emission from flares of UV Ceti flare stars. Observations from McDonald Observatory were used to identify the times of optical flares. The only instance of coincident coverage occurred on 1974 January 21 UT at 03:43:26 GMT for delta m(u)=0.86 flare of YZ CMi. No radio coverage of this particular event was obtained. Upper limits (3 sigma) of 0.8, 1.0, and 0.7 photons/sq cm-sec on the observed X-ray flux were set for the energy ranges greater than or approximately equal to 15, greater than or approximately equal to 3, and 1-10 keV, respectively

Multifrequency Radio Observations of the Crab Pulsar

Previously unseen profile components of the Crab pulsar have been discovered in a study of the frequency-dependent behavior of its average pulse profile between 0.33 and 8.4 GHz. One new component, 36 degrees ahead of the main pulse at 1.4 GHz, is not coincident with the position of the precursor at lower frequencies. Two additional, flat-spectrum components appear after the interpulse between 1.4 and 8.4 GHz. The normal interpulse undergoes a transition in phase and spectrum by disappearing near 2.7 GHz, and reappearing 10 degrees earlier in phase at 4.8 and 8.4 GHz with a new spectral index. The radio frequency main disappears for frequencies above 4.8 GHz, even though it is seen at infrared, optical, and higher energies. The existence of the additional components at high frequency and the strange, frequency-dependent behavior is unlike anything seen in other pulsars, and cannot easily be explained by emission from a simple dipole field geometry.Comment: 13 pages. Source is single LaTeX file with 3 figures, using aaspp and epsf style files (included). To appear in The Astrophysical Journal, September 1996. Paper can also be found at http://www.ee.nmt.edu

Rough rice for fattening cattle, sheep, and hogs

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Making Room for Innovation: Using Systematic Random Sampling to Quickly and Efficiently Obtain Shelf Occupancy Data

This poster was peer-reviewed for inclusion at the Association of College and Research Libraries' 2015 Conference in Portland, Oregon. Date of presentation is March 26, 2015.Are you preparing to renovate space currently occupied by the stacks to construct a new cafe? A collaborative learning space? A technology-rich environment? If so, data is needed about the collection. How much shelf space is currently occupied by monographs? By serials? How much is empty? How much space would be available if serials were relocated or withdrawn? Find out how to use systematic random sampling to quickly and efficiently obtain shelf occupancy data

Wheat as a cattle feed

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Yearling heifers and steers for beef production

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