Cards and Reflections: The Eugene Gros Collection of Sputnik-Era Technical Literature at Texas A&M University

ABSTRACT

British translator and publisher of Russian technical literature Eugene Gros, evidently of Czech origin, collected over two thousand titles published in the Soviet Union from approximately 1945 to 1965. These books are now at Texas A&M University library, which introduced the books into the OCLC online union catalog from Library of Congress catalog cards while updating name entries, series, subject headings, and classification numbers. Publishers, notable authors, and titles in the Gros collection are surveyed, proceeding from power, mechanical and civil engineering, metallurgy and defense (e.g., aerospace and electrical engineering) to Academy of Sciences and popular publications on science and technology. Book title imagery and style are another perspective on the collection.     

元数据记录的自动翻译:德州历史数字图书馆个例分析

对Google、Systran和Bing三个在线翻译系统在德州历史数字图书馆元数据翻译性能上的表现进行人工评价,评价指标包括:流利程度、充分程度、误译数目和漏译数目.分析得出Google和Bing在没有经过任何语料训练的情况下均达到或超越"非母语中文"的翻译水平,最后提出利用在线翻译系统实现数字图书馆多语言信息存取的几...     

Toward a Model ILL and Document Delivery Automated System: A Case Study

SUMMARY

The state of Illinois funded a large scale Ariel project. This is a report of the project's successes and shortcomings. Although widely successful, additional training in the use of sophisticated hardware, primarily Minolta scanners, is needed. Data on sending and receiving is included.     

Electronic Interlibrary Loan Delivery with Ariel and ILLiad

SUMMARY

Ariel files are the starting point for electronic delivery of interlibrary loan articles through ILLiad, Virginia Tech's interlibrary loan system. Despite some advantages to electronic delivery of articles to their desktops, a large majority of ILL customers continue to prefer print on paper delivery rather than electronic delivery. This fact has implications for introducing additional electronic services. Correctly choosing what services to impose on library customers, and what services to offer as value-added options, is fundamental to maintaining the credibility of libraries during these times of rapid change.     

电子信息资源采访工作的新思考

计算机和网络技术的快速发展给图书馆电子信息资源采访工作带来了许多新问题。本文借鉴美国得克萨斯理工大学图书馆电子信息资源的采访经验，对国内电子信息资源采访工作提出若干建议。     

Revisiting an Abandoned Practice: The Death and Resurrection of Collection Development Policies

Academic libraries have a long tradition of endorsing and creating written collection development policies to communicate, both internally and externally, their dynamic collection practices. As revealed by a literature search, academic libraries, over time, appear to have abandoned this practice. This article documents how Texas A&M University Libraries embraced the ambitious task of resurrecting written collection development policies and, as part of this process, assessed the current state of collection development, systematically planned for future collection growth, and identified emerging fields of research requiring additional collection support. This process also undertook the integration of collection development into the organizational culture of the libraries. Reflecting on this process, the authors present the case for creating and maintaining written collection development policies in academic libraries.     

Effects of knowledge of semantic roles on summarizing written prose

College students wrote summaries of eight short passages as a test of their ability to identify important information. After pairing naive summaries according to length and original passage, those summaries which judges identified as “better” were found to contain significantly more of the major semantic roles, such as Agent and Instrument, than did summaries judged “not as good.” It was also found that students wrote significantly better summaries when instructed to base the summaries on the major semantic roles within the passage. These summaries were significantly better than summaries based upon the traditional paragraph analysis of “topics” and “main ideas,” and they were significantly better than summaries written without any special instructions.     

Earnings, rates of return to education and the earnings distribution in Pakistan

Utilizing data from a survey of 1000 households in Rawalpindi, this study presents estimates of the rate of return to schooling and differences in these rates of return by schooling level and sector of employment. The major finding reported is that the rate of return to schooling in one of Pakistan's major urban areas is low, both in relation to the rate of return on physical capital and in relation to the rates of return to schooling in other developing countries. These low rates of return appear to be a result of a conscious government policy which drastically compressed the skill-wage structure.     

The use of signal properties for signal representation

An efficient procedure for signal representation, based on known signal properties, is presented. The representation minimizes the maximum of the ratio of the error and the signal norm, the per cent error. Signal classes are specified by normalized quadratic functionals. These results are contrasted with the theory of n-widths of signal classes, and several applications are developed.     

学区学校质量管理的一种有效尝试:标准、理论与实践——以美国得克萨斯州布拉索斯伯特独立学区为例

公立学校的质量问题一直困扰着美国历届联邦、州政府以及基础教育界。作为对学校质量最具效率、最直接的学区来讲,如何领导区内学校走出困境、减少科层制的弊端、提高管理效率是摆在学区领导面前的一个难题。这不仅需要政策的支持,更需现代管理理论的指导以及相应的国家级学校质量评价标准的驱动,当然,还需要学区学校领导与教师的智慧与勇气。在日益强调学校管理权下移的今天,关注并做好学区层面学校管理的规划和实施将是一个研究亮点或是焦点。而美国得州BISD的成功实践已经为我们做出了很好的示范。