This article presents the main characteristics and functions of the e-resource management and access tools MetaLib and SFX. Both applications are analysed and their functions and their operating procedures are explained. The article outlines the experience of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC), a member of the Consortium of Catalan University Libraries (CBUC...

A systematic examination of Barbie fashions, accessories, and playsets produced since 1959 reveals several distinct phases in the domestic symbolism associated with Barbie. Today, Barbie grocery shops, cleans house, cares for her young siblings, and assumes careers which fill nurturing and protective roles like those championed in traditional domestic ideology. Yet in the late 1950s, Barbie was...

The methods for estimating the annual global value of imports of parts and accessories are presented in Chapter 8 of the Small Arms Survey 2012, ‘Piece by Piece: Authorized Transfers of Parts and Accessories’ (Grzybowski, Marsh, and Schroeder, 2012, pp. 247–50). This annexe contains additional details on some of the data and estimation techniques used in the chapter, including for the estimate ...

Computer and office equipment .................................................. $11.68 Measuring and controlling devices ............................................. 11.43 Electrical industrial apparatus .................................................... 10.61 Communications equipment ....................................................... 10.23 Electronic components and accessories ..........