KBART – improving content visibility through collaboration

In recent years, link resolver technology has become integral to ensuring successful institutional access to electronic content. The corresponding take-up of OpenURL compliance amongst content providers in response has resulted in a global solution to the ‘appropriate copy’ problem. However, this solution is only effective if the knowledge base behind the link resolver is up to date, accurate and comprehensive and this is a factor that is often overlooked in establishing OpenURL compliance.This article explores the importance of OpenURL and knowledge bases to the information community as a whole and provides an overview and update of the role that the KBART (Knowledge Bases and Related Tools) project has to play in improving knowledge base metadata

Driving usage – what are publishers and librarians doing to evaluate and promote usage?

Although a relatively recent phenomenon, measuring the usage of published research has rapidly become one of the most important ways to evaluate the relative value of different publications. Libraries and publishers are also investigating the impact of interface and technology provision in improving resource discovery and content usage. Demand for such data is increasing throughout the industry, partly in response to greater scrutiny of return on investment. As a result the techniques used by publishers and librarians to promote and evaluate usage are also developing. This paper looks at some of the methods currently adopted and examines the issues faced by the industry in driving forward the application of usage data

How low should you go? Neighbourhood level interventions in the crime and community safety theme of New Deal for Communities

Neighbourhoods are viewed by policy makers as key to the renewal of citizen engagement and improvements in the delivery of services. The national evaluation of the New Deal for Communities offers empirical evidence of the possibilities and limitations of neighbourhood level service delivery. A review of crime and community safety initiatives in six case study NDC Partnerships suggests that neighbourhoods have been appropriate spaces in which to address some key issues, in particular property related crime and anti-social behaviour. NDC Partnerships have brought together communities and agencies to focus on local needs. But there have also been tensions: NDC Partnerships have struggled to maintain community participation and some agencies do not engage at the neighbourhood level. There are issues which require interventions at different spatial scales and sometimes neighbourhood level priorities are out of step with other initiatives and strategies. There is a need for neighbourhoods to be integrated into wider governance arrangements

Interviews with Sarah Pearson, Effie May Sullivan, Sherry Lou Stephen, Clella Berry, Mrs. Fullbright, A.J. Ives and family, Otto Schook, Normandine Reese, and others.

Interviews with Sarah Pearson, Effie May Sullivan, Sherry Lou Stephen, Clella Berry, Ella Brooks, A.J. Ives and family, Otto Schook, Normandine Reese, and others. 00:00:00 - Recording begins with Sarah Pearson singing a song. The beginning of the tape has been lost. 00:00:07 - Kansas, a poem. Recording is muffled but quality improves. 00:05:12 - Song, Skip To My Lou played on accordion 00:05:49 - Song, The Lazy Polka played on accordion 00:06:27 - Birth and the wagon train trip to Kansas 00:09:14 - Experience with Indigenous Americans 00:09:48 - Quality of recording degrades and is unintelligible 00:10:47 - Quality of recording recovers 00:11:36 - Marriage and life with her husband 00:14:07 - Moving from the dug-out to the soddie 00:15:00 - Trip to Oregon to bury her mother-in-law 00:16:50 - Unidentified female contributor, move to Kansas from Iowa in 1878 in a covered wagon. 00:17:53 - Homesteading in Norton County in 1879 00:18:05 - Family make-up and first school in 1887 00:18:52 - Difficulties of frontier life 00:19:27 - Marriage at the age of 20 and family life 00:20:48 - Raising chickens on the prairie 00:21:23 - Availability of medical care for sickness and childbirth 00:21:52 - Available entertainment 00:22:41 - Clella Berry, poem When I drove my kiddies to town one day . . . 00:23:22 - Poem, The Old Wooden Rocker 00:22:44 - Unidentified male contributor, the world\u27s largest kite in 1899 00:29:12 - Sarah Pearson, 19th Kansas Cavalry volunteers rescuing two women from and Indigenous Americans in 1868. 00:34:35 - Homesteading near Logan, KS in 1878 00:35:44 - Ella Eileen Meadows Brooks, move to the United States from England in 1944 and life in England 00:38:08 - Experience in England during WWII 00:39:00 - Her parents and marriage to an American soldier 00:40:18 - Her children, the end of the war, and moving to the United States 00:42:40 - A.J. Ives and family singing The Old Time Religion 00:43:45 - Otto Schook, the stations of the cross 00:51:14 - Biographical information 00:51:40 - Normandine Reese and Others, Cinderella Dressed in Yellow (jump rope rhyme) 00:52:07 - Mother, Mother, I am Ill (jump rope rhyme) 00:52:35 - Mother, Mother, Can I Go? (jump rope rhyme) 00:53:15 - Untitled poem and jokes 00:53:46 - Peas Porridge Hot (jump rope rhyme) 00:54:03 - Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn Around (jump rope rhyme)https://scholars.fhsu.edu/sackett/1074/thumbnail.jp

Stellar Streams, Dwarf Galaxy Pairs, and the Halos in which they Reside

In this Dissertation we explore how the nature of tidal interactions tear gravitationally bound systems apart into distinct morphological and kinematic structures. We use the properties of these structures, persisting for billions of years, to investigate the potential of the Milky Way Galaxy and to disentangle the baryonic evolution of gas in dwarf galaxy interactions. We approach these problems through a combination of observations, and simulations, as well as comparisons between the two. In particular, we use the properties of the thin, curved stellar stream emerging from the old, Milky Way globular cluster, Palomar 5 (Pal 5) to show that its mere existence can rule out a moderately triaxial potential model of our Galaxy. Pal 5-like streams on appropriate orbits diffuse much further in space from the orbital path (dubbed “stream-fanning”) in this triaxial potential than in the oblate case. We further show that torques from the Milky Way’s Galactic bar, can create ever-widening gaps in stellar streams. The fact that the bar can create such under densities, demonstrates that we should be careful when interpreting gaps in stellar streams as indirect evidence of the existence of dark matter subhalos in our Galaxy. We carry out a systematic study of resolved neutral hydrogen (HI) synthesis maps of 10 interacting dwarf galaxy pairs. The pairs are located in a range of environments and captured at various interaction stages. We find that the neutral gas is extended in the interacting pairs when compared to non-paired analogs, indicating that gas is tidally pre- processed. Additionally, we find that dwarf-dwarf interactions enable the “parking” of gas at large distances to serve as a continual gas supply channel to the dwarfs until accretion by a more massive host. We model a specific dwarf pair in our sample, NGC 4490/85, which is an isolated analog of the Magellanic Clouds and is surrounded by a ∼50 kpc extended HI envelope. We use hybrid N-body and test-particle simulations along with a visualization interface to simultaneously reproduce the observed present-day morphology and kinematics. Our numerical results con- firm that encounters between two dwarf galaxies can “park” baryons at very large distances, without the aid of environmental effects. The extended tidal features will continue to evolve over several billion years which will affect the efficiency of gas stripping if such dwarf pairs are accreted by a massive host. In contrast, in isolated environments dwarf-dwarf interactions can create a long-lived supply mode of gas to the merger remnant potentially explaining the population of dwarfs in the field with large gas envelopes, but limited star formation. All of these topics share the common theme of utilizing morphological and kinematic structures left behind from ongoing gravitational interactions on various scales