Many undergraduate students lack a sound understanding of information literacy. The skills that comprise information literacy are particularly important when combined with scientific writing for biology majors as they are the foundation skills necessary to complete upper-division biology course assignments, better train students for research projects, and prepare students for graduate and profe...

purpose: this research aimed to survey the professional and non-professional information needs of the faculty members of ferdowsi university of mashhad. methodology: out of 664 faculty members in ferdowsi university of mashhad in the academic year of 2010-2011, 242 faculty members were selected by using stratified random sampling method. the data were collected by a researcher made questionnair...

Objectives: Clinical education is an important component of physiotherapy education. The students’ and clinical educators’ viewpoints about different aspects of education are being analyzed worldwide for the promotion of educational services. The aim of this study was to identify the challenges of clinical education based on the experiences of physiotherapy students and educators.&n...

INTHE LAST QUARTER CENTURY, ethnic professional associations have been organized by American librarians of various ethnicities. These associations fill a niche in the profession not met by other associations. This article explores several such organizations to understand their origins and roles among the professional associations in library and information science. The associations examined are...

Lori Mestre is Head of the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champign, e-mail: [email protected]; Lisa Baures is Public Services Librarian/College of Education Liaison at Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, e-mail: [email protected]; Mona Niedbala is Education & Curriculum Materials Librarian at University of Rhode Island, e-mail: [email protected]...

The professional activity of Ewa Mielczarek as a librarian, political scientist, senior curator, head the Publishing Department at Cyprian Norwid’s Provincial and Municipal Public Library in Zielona Góra, is impressive. Since 1999, her life has been associated with where she moved from Jelenia Góra. She an editor, proofreader, hunter gifted authors their texts, friend poets, prose writers, essa...

Last September, the Health Care Financing Adminktration (HCFA) of the US Department of Health and Human Services rewrote the federal requirements for hospitals to participate in Medicare and Medicaid p~ograms. The proposed changes are intended to give hospitals more flexibilhy in delivering quality health care to patients at a lower cost .1 The new rules were published in the Fedeml Register on...

Introduction: Nursing students require highly specialized competencies to accurately determine patients' states and to predict and cope with problems that may occur during nursing care. This study explores the definition, domains, and levels of nursing students' competency. Methods: This study was a systematic review of nursing students’ competencies in E...