Database administration has gained an essential role in the management of new database technologies. Different data models are being created for supporting the enormous data volume, from the traditional relational database. These new models are called NoSQL (Not only SQL) databases. The adoption of best practices and procedures, has become essential for the operation of database management syst...

The George T. Harrell Health Sciences Library at Penn State Hershey initiated its participation in institutional research data management activities by coordinating and hosting a well-attended data management symposium. To maximize relevance to clinical and basic sciences researchers, a planning committee of faculty and administrators assisted in defining important topics for the event. This ar...

As the need for research data management grows, many libraries are considering adding data services to help with the research mission of their institution. The Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries created a position and hired a director of research data management in September 2013. The position was new to the libraries and the university. With the backing of the library administrat...

Outsourcing their voluntary products to thirdparty administrators (TPAs) to support key administrative business functions seems to be the most obvious choice for insurers to overcome the impediments for a quick entry into the voluntary market. However, what’s also needed is a strategy for optimizing TPA usage and bringing voluntary products back in house once the anticipated performance thresho...

A recent study indicated that Bacillus subtilis catabolizes acetoin by enzymes encoded by the acu gene cluster (F. J. Grundy, D. A. Waters, T. Y. Takova, and T. M. Henkin, Mol. Microbiol. 10:259-271, 1993) that are completely different from those in the multicomponent acetoin dehydrogenase enzyme system (AoDH ES) encoded by aco gene clusters found before in all other bacteria capable of utilizi...

We examined ACoA patients regarding their susceptibility to a range of false memory phenomena. We targeted provoked confabulation, false recall and false recognition in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott-paradigm (DRM-paradigm) as well as false recognition in a mirror reading task. ACoA patients produced more provoked confabulations and more false recognition in mirror reading than comparison subject...

The questions of whether chat reference service is beneficial enough to users to justify the costs of offering it, and how valuable it is to users in fulfilling their information needs, have been primary concerns for librarians providing the service, for library administrators managing the service, and for funding agencies paying for it. The present study combines a traditional evaluation of th...

Image: Stockbyte/Artville W HEN THE National Commission on Excellence in Education submitted A Nation at Risk to Secretary of Education Terrel Bell on 26 April 1983, there was little to suggest that this report would shine a spotlight on education that would last a quarter of a century. Indeed, not long after the release of this document, critics were already downplaying its recommendations. “T...

Finmarksbibliotheket (“The Finnmark Library”) was established in the municipality of Vadsø 1892, by central representatives town. It intended to be a systematic collection “of books and manuscripts related history, ethnography, language, natural statistics County,” especially “to collect everything written about Sámi.” Its stock increased steadily, 1926 library moved into its own building. In s...

By spring, 2003, The Wonder of Reading, a non-profit organisation, had partnered with 100 Los Angeles area elementary schools to implement their 3R Programme: Renovate, Restock, and Read. study examined the impact Reading Programme in selected as perceived by administrators, teachers, library staff, parent. Further, variations perception role school characteristics. Participants that project le...