Academic achievement following childhood brain disease: implications for the concept of learning disabilities.

The present study examined three hypotheses regarding the consequences of early brain damage for academic achievement: First, early brain insults will have a negative impact on achievement, even in children with normal intelligence. Second, underachievement in these children will be at least partially independent of IQ (i.e., not fully accounted for by a lowering of IQ within the average range). Third, normally intelligent children with histories of brain insult will also manifest selective cognitive dysfunctions. To test these hypotheses, we compared two groups of children who had recovered from Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis. The "complicated" group consisted of children who, as a consequence of having sustained neurologic complications during their illness, were more likely to have had brain insults. Children in the "uncomplicated" group did not have complications with their illness and were regarded as having escaped significant central nervous system (CNS) pathology. Only children with normal hearing and a prorated Full Scale IQ of at least 80 (WISC-R) were considered. Group differences on the Wide Range Achievement Test-Revised were consistent with the first two hypotheses. Although the two groups had similar Verbal IQs, the complicated group also had a lower mean Performance IQ and performed less well on perceptually demanding neuropsychological tasks. Findings suggest that learning disabilities may have selective, brain-related cognitive antecedents; but they challenge the practice of using IQ criteria for clinical diagnosis.     

Medical Librarianship in Nigeria--a review of the literature and comments on some problems and prospects.

The literature of medical librarianship of Nigeria is reviewed. The staff structure of Nigerian univeristy libraries and, in particular, of the medical libraries attached to them is restrictive, unprogressive, and unconducive to the development of medical librarianship in Nigeria. These medical libraries should cease to be administered and regarded as just unavoidable appendages of the main university libraries. They should be independent, full-fledged libraries of their own, recognixed as full academic departments of their respective colleges or faculties, with their heads being in no way inferior in status to other heads of academic departments.The granting of faculty status to Nigerian unviersity librarians should go the whole way and let the principle of multiple professorships be applied to the staff structure of unviersity libraries. Efforts are being made to effect bibliographic organization of Nigerian medical literature. A national library of medicine for Nigeria, however, humble its beginning, should be established.     

高校评估档案管理规范化的探索

高校评估档案是全面展示学校工作成就与办学特色的信息窗口,是开展教育评估的重要基础和依据。为了更好地发挥评估档案的作用,必须从档案观念、管理措施和制度建设等方面加强评估档案的规范化建设与管理。     

网络环境下图书馆随书附盘的科学管理和利用

本文介绍了附盘图书的种类和作用,分析网络环境下图书馆附盘图书的几种管理模式的利弊。从规范著录、分类标引、典藏和借阅管理等方面,探求一种能全面揭示随书附盘文献的主题内容及外部特征,进行科学管理,并最大限度地提高随书附盘利用率的新方法和理论支持。     

企业竞争情报系统中的跨界合作

从企业竞争情报系统的应用现状分析出发，指出企业竞争情报系统需要在多方协作的环境下才能真正有效发挥作用。提出由企业、竞争情报系统提供商、情报信息提供商、图书馆、顾问咨询公司、高校等联合建立企业竞争情报协作环境，描述该环境下竞争情报工作各环节的合作模式，并分析用于支撑跨界合作的CCIS软件系统的实现要求。     

基于知识组织的中国科学院学位论文应用系统的设计框架

主要介绍基于知识组织的“中国科学院学位论文应用系统”的设计与实现，通过构建学位论文的实用分类体系，主要完成了系统的功能分析和用户界面设计，并提出了系统可行性实施方案。