Journals Under Attack: Faculty and Researchers\u27 Creative Solutions to Access Problems (or, Theft is the answer. What was the question?)

Escalating journal subscription costs and concurrent library and institutional budget cuts have precipitated the cancellation of journal subscriptions by many research and academic libraries. How does the faculty and research community obtain the information no longer provided for them by their university libraries? Resource sharing among libraries has been a traditional solution to this dilemma, but is not the only solution employed by researchers and faculty. Part of a study conducted at Utah State University (USU) examines the methods faculty and researchers use to obtain access to materials not held by the University Libraries, focusing on identifying unique or unconventional methods of access already in place that might be developed for broader, more efficient use of institutional resources

The University Library as Information Provider and Communication Facilitator: A Faculty Research Database

The current information explosion, coupled with rapid electronic developments and pervasive economic constraints, is forcing academic communities and their libraries to refine and rethink their policies and services in order to increase efficient dissemination of information. This requires close monitoring of and quicker response to the changing needs of their own user communities. This collaborative project addresses these issues by collecting and correlating information obtained directly from university faculty and research units, tracking elements such as research interests, projects, patents, funding sources, publications, and courses taught. Preliminary findings and the significance of providing wide electronic access to the results are discussed

Paired and altruistic kidney donation in the UK: algorithms and experimentation

We study the computational problem of identifying optimal sets of kidney exchanges in the UK. We show how to expand an integer programming-based formulation [1, 19] in order to model the criteria that constitute the UK definition of optimality. The software arising from this work has been used by the National Health Service Blood and Transplant to find optimal sets of kidney exchanges for their National Living Donor Kidney Sharing Schemes since July 2008.We report on the characteristics of the solutions that have been obtained in matching runs of the scheme since this time. We then present empirical results arising from the real datasets that stem from these matching runs, with the aim of establishing the extent to which the particular optimality criteria that are present in the UK influence the structure of the solutions that are ultimately computed. A key observation is that allowing 4-way exchanges would be likely to lead to a significant number of additional transplants

З листування Л. Биковського з Є. Бачинським

У статті надається листування видатного бібліографа, історика Л. Биковського з визначним українським громадським і церковним діячем Є. Бачинським. листи написані в 1947–1952 рр.В статье представлена переписка выдающегося библиографа, историка Л. Быковского с выдающимся украинским общественным и церковным деятелем Е. Бачинским. Письма написаны в 1947-1952 гг.The article consists of correspondence of the outstanding bibliographer, historian L.Bykovskyi with the outstanding Ukrainian public and church figure Ye. Bachynskyi. Letters are written in 1947–1952