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Correlation of transient spectra with performance in coaxial plasma guns
Two channel transient voltage digitizer for correlation of transient spectra with performance in coaxial, argon plasma gun
Theoretical investigation of the lowest five ionization potentials of uranium
Quantum mechanical determination of lowest five ionization potentials of uraniu
Analytical study of hydrogen turbopump cycles for advanced nuclear rockets Progress report, Sep. 15, 1964 - Sep. 15, 1965
Hydrogen turbopump cycles for obtaining high engine inlet pressures in advanced nuclear rockets, and data on gaseous nuclear reactors and heavy gas containmen
Digital Faith: Law, Ethics, and Theology for the Online-Engaged Church
Keynote Address at the 2015 CSIR ConferenceAfzal (2012) defines āinformation organizationsā as āorganizations that engage in all or one of the activities involving acquisition, organization, preservation, processing, recording, creation, assimilation, packaging, repackaging, presentation, dissemination, transfer, and access of informationā (p. 102-103). Libraries, museums, publishers, music companies, and news channels are all examples of information organizations. I propose that North American Christian churches are information organizations. Weekly they create and present information in the forms of sermons, classes, bible studies, and music through organized events and activities. To support these activities they produce documents like newsletters, bulletins, and reports in print and increasingly digital formats. Churches are preservers of social and cultural data such as births, deaths, marriages, baptisms, and community events. Churches are voracious consumers and disseminators of educational, evangelistic, and worship materials that support a thriving publishing industry. Churches want to reach out to their wider communities, historically adopting new communication technologies like television and radio, and now using the power of the Internet and social media. Hutchings (2015) offers a contemporary overview of the many ways that Christian churches are engaging with technology to mediate faith and to evangelize their communities
The Use of People as Information Sources in Biblical Studies Research
In this exploratory study, I examined the role that people play as informal information sources in biblical studies research. Using semi-structured interviews, I asked a group of seven biblical studies researchers specific questions about their information-seeking behaviour. The study demonstrated that the majority of the researchers regularly used people as information sources in their research. Sometimes they sought factual information from these sources but most frequently they sought affective information; they sought evaluation and affirmation from their colleagues regarding the direction of their research
SAILing through Law School: Assessing Legal Research Skills within the Information Literacy Framework
In this study I ask the question: Can standardized information literacy tests help assess and benchmark the learning of information skills by Canadian law students? This study replicates an earlier study that found that a standardized test of information literacy competencies, SAILS, was not an effective measure of law student information literacy levels. By applying the same test under similar conditions to another group of law students, I found that while the test did not measure legal research competencies, it was effective in measuring basic information literacy skills in law students with often surprising results. I argue that legal research training programs cannot assume students have achieved competency in information literacy skills
Away From the Library
I use Google for my research, I don\u27t use the library. Can you teach my students to do legal research only with tools they can access after they leave University? This paper is about me, the librarian, irritated by the assertion and puzzled by the request. It captures just two of many events on a long and incomplete journey of reimagining librarianship and my changing role as librarian. I would test the assertion, plan the classes, and share those experiences. However, I would be dishonest if I did not also share that I am apprehensive about the results of my tests. What might it mean for me if my clients could be just fine without the library
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