Automated Control of Subject Headings at the OSU Libraries

As more libraries acquire online catalogs, the interest and attention given to automated authority control continues to increase. Baer and Johnson recently did a survey of the authority control literature produced since 1974. They found that most of it (some seventy references) did not support the idea that advanced computer-searching capabilities are making authority control less necessary in online catalogs. In addition, their survey of the uses of authority control in American college and university libraries inspired "a number of comments to the effect that maintaining authority control online was just as time-consuming as maintaining authority control manually."(1). If automation has not made authority control unnecessary or even less time-consuming, what has it done in this area? Baer and Johnson express the hope that automation has enabled libraries to provide better authority control even if it has not allowed them to save time.(2). Such has been the case at the Ohio State University Libraries (OSUL). What follows is a description of how automation has recently been used to improve authority control of subject headings in the online catalo

Electronic Journal Usage at Ohio State University

E-journal, printed journal, and database usage data from campus polls conducted annually, 1998-2000, at one large research university show increased use of e-journals and decreased use of printed journals by faculty and graduate students as the number of available e-journals increased from two hundred to more than three thousand. Little or no statistical correlation between age and frequency of use was found. The majority of frequent users of all three types of resources were from departments in the sciences. Transcripts from the 1998 poll provided insights into attitudes toward replacing printed journals with e-journals. The advantages and disadvantages mentioned were consistent with previous studies

Automated Workstations for Professional Catalogers: A Survey of ARL Libraries

A survey of ARL libraries was conducted in the spring of 1988 to determine how many libraries had, or soon would have, individual automated workstations for their professional catalogers. The number of libraries expecting to acquire these workstations at some future time was determined as well. The study also covered: (1) costs and types of equipment being used or considered for this purpose, (2) current and projected uses of automated workstations, and (3) their impact on cataloger productivity, processing costs, and the quality of catalog records

New Directions in Library Education: A Young Practitioner's View

Over the past several years library literature has included a number of articles concerning proposed changes in library education programs in the United States. Two-year master's degree programs have received the most attention, and some library schools have already revised their curricula to allow for increased specialization and to provide opportunities for students to acquire practical experience through internships. Many of the articles regarding these new directions in library education have been written by library educators and administrators. As a recent graduate of a one-year master's degree program with several years of professional experience, I would like to express some of my views concerning these proposed change

The ecological basis for tee conservation of thorne waste, Yorkshire

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Telehealth for expanding the reach of early autism training to parents.

Although there is consensus that parents should be involved in interventions designed for young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), parent participation alone does not ensure consistent, generalized gains in children's development. Barriers such as costly intervention, time-intensive sessions, and family life may prevent parents from using the intervention at home. Telehealth integrates communication technologies to provide health-related services at a distance. A 12 one-hour per week parent intervention program was tested using telehealth delivery with nine families with ASD. The goal was to examine its feasibility and acceptance for promoting child learning throughout families' daily play and caretaking interactions at home. Parents became skilled at using teachable moments to promote children's spontaneous language and imitation skills and were pleased with the support and ease of telehealth learning. Preliminary results suggest the potential of technology for helping parents understand and use early intervention practices more often in their daily interactions with children

Developing an Institutional Knowledge Bank at Ohio State University: From Concept to Action Plan

The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.There is a growing interest among academic institutions in collecting, preserving, and creating value-added services from digital content. Ohio State University plans to build on existing initiatives to create an institutional repository called the Knowledge Bank