The Federal Register: Origins, formulation, realization, and heritage

The Federal Register Act statutorily mandated an official gazette for the Federal Government to provide better accountability for administrative regulations, rules, and orders, and greater transparency in the creation of such law. The later establishment of the Code of Federal Regulations and the enactment of the Administrative Procedure Act added enhancement and incentives to the original act. The National Archives and Record Administration recently celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of this publication. The overview of the origins, development, and legacy of the Federal Register provided here was prepared as a background text for an invited lecture by the author at National Archives headquarters marking the creation of the Register and its heritage.     

Blue-Collar Employees' Work/Life Metaphors: Tough Similarities,Imbalance, Separation,and Opposition

Research examining the relationship between work and life is permeated by metaphors (balance, conflict, spillover, etc.). However, these metaphors are often used interchangeably and with limited conceptual development. Moreover, current research tends to focus solely on white-collar experiences with work and life without taking into consideration how other professions negotiate these spheres. To account for this discrepancy, we examined the metaphors used by those employed in a blue-collar profession (i.e. custodians). A grounded metaphorical analysis revealed the following metaphors: tough similarities, separation, imbalance, and opposites. Implications of these metaphors, limitations and directions for future research are discussed.     

Education for health sciences/biomedical librarianship: past, present, future

This paper offers an analysis of and some predictions for the fields of library education and medical librarianship. The recent past of education for medical/health sciences librarianship is outlined, with emphasis on the changing nature of the library school, its faculty, and its students. The present situation is described, with specific reference to faculty, curriculum, and accreditation issues. A future agenda is proposed, identifying the need for interdisciplinary and cooperative efforts within the larger realms of medical informatics, high technology, a variety of health professions, and the community of contemporary library practice.     

Woeginger's axiomatisation of the h-index and its relation to the g-index, the h-index and the R-index

Recently Woeginger [Woeginger, G. H. (2008-a). An axiomatic characterization for the Hirsch-index. Mathematical Social Sciences. An axiomatic analysis of Egghe's g-index. Journal of Informetrics] introduced a set of axioms for scientific impact measures. These lead to a characterization of the h-index. In this note we consider a slight generalization and check which of Woeginger's axioms are satisfied by the g-index, the h⁽²⁾-index and the R²-index.     

Contract acquisitions: Change,technology, and the new library/vendor partnership

This paper outlines some of the technological and other changes affecting library/vendor relations. It explores in particular one possible result of these changes, contract acquisitions, i.e., libraries contracting with private sector vendors to provide traditional acquisitions services. This article enumerates some of the issues to be considered and urges libraries and vendors to collaborate more closely than ever before.