The hybrid librarian: the affinity of collection management with technical services and the organizational benefits of an individualized assignment

Collection management and technical services have a natural affinity that is not reflected in the organization of many academic libraries, where subject librarians are often aligned with reference. This article examines organizational and individual approaches to librarian assignment, along with the place of collection management in the organization.     

Les six étapes de l'apprentissage des structures

Sans résuméPublié, avec illustrations, sous forme d'un petit livre, par O.C.D.L., Paris.     

College Recruiting a Portfolio of Expectations

Each year America's industries and colleges join forces in an action aimed at converting the engineering student into an engineer employee. Principals in this operation are the company recruiter and the college placement director. Through the years each member of this unique alliance has come to learn the strength and weaknesses of his partner; each has profited and suffered through the other; each has developed his own ideas on how the other should operate. IRE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION recently asked a number of executives on company recruiting staffs and college placement offices for their opinions on the current state of college recruiting, and for suggestions on improving the operation in future years. This two-part article presents excerpts from some of the replies received.     

Improved van der Pol Oscillators

This paper brings together and discusses some useful oscillator models. A unified approach is used to present different models in an evolutionary succession of ascending complexity. The presentation applies a rather informal physical viewpoint without stressing mathematical rigorosity. Applications of the models are also mentioned.