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Mission-Oriented Management: Librarian-Trained Directors in Nonlibrary Settings
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1996: Collection Development and the Charleston Conference Expand to Include the Wide Wide World of Electronic Options
Serials Automation: Fact or Phobia - A Progress Report
Even with the myriad of technological achievements in the computer industry and the advancements in software development, the library profession has not widely accepted the automation of the serials processing activities. Only a small number of organizations have successfully or fully automated serials. The Univeristy of California, Los Angeles, has one of the largest and most successful online serials processing systems in operation in North America. With their nineteen libraries containing some 70,000 serial titles, the computerization of serials processing is technologically sound and cost effective. A discussion of the system features, the technological issues that were addressed, and the design philosophy will be discussed. In addition, subscription agents are beginning to provide serials processing services such as check-in, and claiming. A comparison of features and design philosophies between the UCLA ORlON system and the LlNX system at Faxon will be presented. A brief look at some microcomputer options will be provided along with some new trends in electronic publishing/subscribing to the electronic form of the serials
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Surveillance of Vermont wildlife in 2021–2022 reveals no detected SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA
Abstract Previous studies have documented natural infections of SARS-CoV-2 in various domestic and wild animals. More recently, studies have been published noting the susceptibility of members of the Cervidae family, and infections in both wild and captive cervid populations. In this study, we investigated the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in mammalian wildlife within the state of Vermont. 739 nasal or throat samples were collected from wildlife throughout the state during the 2021 and 2022 harvest season. Data was collected from red and gray foxes (Vulpes vulples and Urocyon cineroargentus, respectively), fishers (Martes pennati), river otters (Lutra canadensis), coyotes (Canis lantrans), bobcats (Lynx rufus rufus), black bears (Ursus americanus), and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Samples were tested for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 via quantitative RT-qPCR using the CDC N1/N2 primer set and/or the WHO-E gene primer set. Surprisingly, we initially detected a number of N1 and/or N2 positive samples with high cycle threshold values, though after conducting environmental swabbing of the laboratory and verifying with a second independent primer set (WHO-E) and PCR without reverse transcriptase, we showed that these were false positives due to plasmid contamination from a construct expressing the N gene in the general laboratory environment. Our final results indicate that no sampled wildlife were positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA, and highlight the importance of physically separate locations for the processing of samples for surveillance and experiments that require the use of plasmid DNA containing the target RNA sequence. These negative findings are surprising, given that most published North America studies have found SARS-CoV-2 within their deer populations. The absence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in populations sampled here may provide insights in to the various environmental and anthropogenic factors that reduce spillover and spread in North American’s wildlife populations