The City University of New York: 24 Colleges, 5 Boroughs, 1 Collection

The City University of New York (CUNY) is the third largest public university system in the United States. It consists of 11 senior colleges, seven community colleges, the Macaulay Honors College, and five graduate and professional schools located throughout the city’s five boroughs. Though they have their own budgets and report up through separate academic structures, the 21 libraries in the CUNY system are tied tightly together by shared students, shared resources, and shared systems. This paper describes how the campus libraries and the central Office of Library Services work collaboratively to build a collection of electronic resources using different models to align with local and systemwide needs. The benefits and the drawbacks of this hybrid system will be discussed. Special attention will be paid to CUNY’s efforts to use the power of the system as a negotiating tool with vendors for better pricing, to develop methods for the selection of various electronic resources, and its use of several years of cost-per-usage data to aid in retention decisions. Technical services/access, collections development, and the new legal and operational aspects of New York State procurement will also be covered

Talk Back: Summon / 360 Q&A

In theater, a \u27Talk Back\u27 is a lightly moderated session held post-performance where an audience can ask the cast members and directors questions about what they just saw. Here, that audience is our customer base. Back by popular demand, this customer-driven event facilitates an open exchange of questions and ideas between our Summon and 360 communities and Ex Libris Product Management. Think of it as a live version of what often occurs on our listserv, as the session will offer a unique opportunity to interact in real time with both our peers and our vendor. The questions that informed this discussion were contributed directly from the Summon and 360 Communities and are representative of North American and International customers

Managing licensed E-Resources : techniques, tips, and practical advice

Pacific University Libraries:https://commons.pacificu.edu/work/sc/4612bd8c-18da-4f4f-8e4e-b38475bed4a

Variable-ratio schedules of timeout from avoidance: effects of d-amphetamine and morphine.

Rats were trained on concurrent schedules in which pressing one lever postponed shock and pressing the other lever produced periods of signaled timeout from avoidance on variable-ratio schedules. These procedures generated high rates of timeout-reinforced responding and provided a baseline for studying the effects of drugs on behavior maintained by different types of negative reinforcement (shock postponement vs. timeout). Morphine (2.5 to 10.0 mg/kg) reduced behavior maintained by timeout at doses that increased or had no effect on avoidance responding. In contrast, d-amphetamine (0.125 to 2.0 mg/kg) produced large increases in timeout responding at doses that had minimal effect on avoidance in rats trained on variable-interval and variable-ratio schedules. Thus, the event-dependent effects of morphine, observed in previous studies in which timeout responding was maintained at low rates by interval schedules, were replicated with high timeout rates maintained by variable-ratio schedules. The effects of d-amphetamine could also be described as "event dependent" because timeout responding was stimulated more than avoidance regardless of the maintenance schedule or baseline rate

A Functional Analytic Approach To Computer-Interactive Mathematics

Following a pretest, 11 participants who were naive with regard to various algebraic and trigonometric transformations received an introductory lecture regarding the fundamentals of the rectangular coordinate system. Following the lecture, they took part in a computer-interactive matching-to-sample procedure in which they received training on particular formula-to-formula and formula-to-graph relations as these formulas pertain to reflections and vertical and horizontal shifts. In training A-B, standard formulas served as samples and factored formulas served as comparisons. In training B-C, factored formulas served as samples and graphs served as comparisons. Subsequently, the program assessed for mutually entailed B-A and C-B relations as well as combinatorially entailed C-A and A-C relations. After all participants demonstrated mutual entailment and combinatorial entailment, we employed a test of novel relations to assess 40 different and complex variations of the original training formulas and their respective graphs. Six of 10 participants who completed training demonstrated perfect or near-perfect performance in identifying novel formula-to-graph relations. Three of the 4 participants who made more than three incorrect responses during the assessment of novel relations showed some commonality among their error patterns. Derived transfer of stimulus control using mathematical relations is discussed