Effect of Length of Feeding Period of Performance of British and Exotic Crossbred Yearling Heifers

Producers very often question the additional length of time they should feed exotic-cross cattle as opposed to the feeding period required for the traditional British breeds of cattle. Also implied in this question in this question is the additional amount of feed needed for the exotic-cross animal to attain an optimum weight and an acceptable grade. This trial was conducted in an attempt to help answer these basic questions

"Wasting time on romances" : uncommon ground in reader advisory education and professional practice [paper]

Do we teach our masters' students about reader advisory services? Well, the majority of schools offer a class that is either explicitly oriented toward Reader Advisory or includes Reader Advisory as a significant element. We conducted an informal review of course descriptions at 50 out of 56 LIS programs, and of those 50, 30 programs offered a total of 48 reader advisory or reader-advisory related courses. Eleven of those courses were specifically titled "Reader Advisory," and the 38 "related" courses generally had titles like "Materials and Services for Adults" or "History of the Book."Presentatio

Perception of Romance Readers: An Analysis of Missouri Librarians

PowerPoint presentation presented on the perception of romance readers by Missouri Librarians.PowerPoint presentation related to the perception of romance readers by Missouri librarians

"Wasting time on romances" : uncommon ground in reader advisory education and professional practice [handout]

Two page presentation handout distributed at the Association for Library and Information Science Education Conference in Seattle, Washington on January 16, 2007.Presentation handout for "Wasting Time on Romances": Uncommon Ground in Readers Advisory Education and Professional Practice. Presented on January 16, 2007 in Seattle, Washington, for the Association of Library and Information Science Education Conference

Romance promotion in American public libraries

Almost all libraries collect romance novels, but not all libraries engage in promotion or programming geared toward romance novels. Reader advisory services specific to romance tend to be secondary to general reader advisory services. With the increase in Web 2.0 book promotion, though, the time could be right for promoting the romance genre.Post-printIncludes bibliographical references

Relations between librarians and romance readers: A Missouri survey.

Romance novels have traditionally been derided in academic literature and while recent LIS literature has been supportive of romance, previous articles indicated considerable disdain for the genre. Criticism raised in the literature suggests that romance readers are less educated than other women and that romance novels portray women as passive recipients of men's actions. Do public librarians subscribe to these attitudes? In order to find out, we surveyed public librarians in the State of Missouri to gauge their attitudes and beliefs about romance novels and romance readers.Post-printIncludes bibliographical references

Perceptions of Romance Readers : An Analysis of Missouri Librarians

The romance novel is a form of literature geared toward women, which presents a love story with a central female character and a focus on that character's emotional state. Feminist scholarship and library-related literature from the 1980s and 1990s suggests a bias against romance novels on the part of librarians. Some of the reasons for this opinion include the marketing of romance novels as commodities rather than literature, the presence of sexuality in those novels, and the suggestion that romance novels undercut the goals of feminism by maintaining that the key to women's happiness lies in male domination.PresentationIncludes bibliographical references