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The politics of fulfilling the mission in a private, nonprofit cultural organization an analysis of the management of the Historic New Orleans CollectionBrownlow, Stephanie M. 01 May 2001 (has links)
This report is the result of a three month internship with The Historic New Orleans Collection in Louisiana. The purpose of the internship was to gain an understanding of the projects and strategies used in operating this nonprofit cultural organization. The majority of my time during the three month period was spent working on five tasks assigned to me by the Director of Williams Research Center (WRC), one of the buildings within The Collection. I also attended staff meetings and lectures as if l were a paid employee of the organization. Consequently, l observed the work practices of the statf at WRC. This paper outlines my numerous observations of the operations of THNOC, including board and staff structures, task descriptions, the supervisory approaches of managers, the importance of work environment on productivity, and the acquisitions, purchases, and programs which fulfill the organization's mission.
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The Eye of the ElephantAllen, Lindsay H 18 May 2012 (has links)
No description available.
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A Natural HistoryPipes, Todd David 05 1900 (has links)
A Natural History is a collection of original poetry written over the past three years. This project represents a period of learning and growth, as well as a concentrated effort to develop an individual writing style and voice grounded in the most enduring poetic values of the past.
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Garbage collection in distributed systemsWiseman, Simon Robert January 1988 (has links)
The provision of system-wide heap storage has a number of advantages. However, when the technique is applied to distributed systems automatically recovering inaccessible variables becomes a serious problem. This thesis presents a survey of such garbage collection techniques but finds that no existing algorithm is entirely suitable. A new, general purpose algorithm is developed and presented which allows individual systems to garbage collect largely independently. The effects of these garbage collections are combined, using recursively structured control mechanisms, to achieve garbage collection of the entire heap with the minimum of overheads. Experimental results show that new algorithm recovers most inaccessible variables more quickly than a straightforward garbage collection, giving an improved memory utilisation.
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Balancing space and time for moving garbage collectorsTong, Liangliang., 童亮亮. January 2011 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Computer Science / Master / Master of Philosophy
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The De-selection en-masse at TUT: enabler for implementation of hybrid collectionsAgyei, M V January 2012 (has links)
The de-selection of large numbers of print items was prompted by an institutional decision
to adopt the model of a single faculty per site following the merger in 2004. This implied
having to relocate large numbers of information resources among the nine libraries. The relocation, still continuing, was an opportunity for the libraries to strive to remain with only
relevant, current and physically good items. Previously, each of the three merger institutions
was offering a large variety of programmes which became duplicated as a result of the
merger.
The process of moving collections to new parent (campus) libraries involved lecturers and librarians having to select items for relocation and dispose of the rest. Cataloguers were to
change location of affected items. It became necessary to upgrade certain records and deduplicate
bibliographic records which had not been detected or for which time had not been
made as yet. The whole process took much longer than was planned as some lecturers
took their time to select items they wanted to retain and not all librarians were familiar with
the new subject areas. Moreover, the librarians could not finalise the selection on their own.
The criteria for de-selection were as contained in the policy on acquisition of information resources and that on collection development and management. The de-selection enmasse,
despite its own challenges, created space and a good environment for
implementing plans to increase e-resources.
Print resources will remain part of the TUT library collections. Regular and systematic
weeding of collections is performed to preserve quality, currency and strength of collections.
However, while weeding provides opportunities for replacing some print with e-resources,
considerations for replacement, collection development and management – especially in developing countries – should include preference of some academic departments for print
material; and the implications of increasingly acquiring e-resources for additional funds are required to enable access (e.g. availability of computers and the Internet) to clients who rely mostly on the libraries to provide it.
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How to Collect, Preserve and Identify InsectsLehker, G. E., Deay, H. O. 03 1900 (has links)
This item was digitized as part of the Million Books Project led by Carnegie Mellon University and supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Cornell University coordinated the participation of land-grant and agricultural libraries in providing historical agricultural information for the digitization project; the University of Arizona Libraries, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the Office of Arid Lands Studies collaborated in the selection and provision of material for the digitization project.
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Jensen's Farm: a study in replicated site surface collectionBradford, Sheila E. 02 January 2014 (has links)
In May-June 1978 and 1979 surface collections were undertaken
at Jensen's Farm, an early twentieth century homesteading
site twenty miles north of Dauphin, Manitoba, to
determine the extent to which the results obtained through
site surface collection could: 1) be replicated in terms of
the frequencies and spatial distributions of artifact classes
recovered, and 2) consistently isolate the location,
size, shape, and function of the original features known to
have existed at Jensen's Farm. Frequency tables, chi-square,
and SAS-produced artifact plots were used in conjunction
with scale drawings of Jensen's Farm to assess the
results obtained. The results suggest that, even on a highly disturbed site such as Jensen's Farm, it is possible to
replicate the general rank-order of artifact classes recovered
and the general patterns and dispersions of artifacts
plotted. Acceptable ranges of variation, rather than results
of no significant statistical difference, should be
expected given the indeterminate nature of intervening factors
and the basic incomparability of artifact fragments as
comparative units. Correspondence to the original Jensen's
Farm features proved to be a partial one in terms of both
the artifact content recovered and the spatial distributions
plotted. Based on the results obtained here, it is advocated
that surface collection be conducted wherever irreversible
resource management decisions are to be made or where
time and funding permit the luxury.
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eResource Discovery: A Collection Development Strategy for Engineering eBooksMaddison, Tasha January 2013 (has links)
No description available.
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The Dornie ManuscriptsMcGuire, Nancy Ross January 2001 (has links)
The notebooks and papers of Captain Alexander Matheson (<i>c</i>. 1833-1897), a shipowner from Dornie, Kintail, are commonly referred to as the Dornie Manuscripts. The bulk of the collection consists of Gaelic verse and song taken down from the oral recitation of old people in Wester Ross, and composed, for the most-part, by poets native to that area. The main aim of this thesis is to present a representative selection of Gaelic verse from Alexander Matheson’s collection. Sixteen texts have been selected for full editorial treatment, ten of which are not known from any other written source. These texts are presented in a standardised Gaelic orthography, in chronological order, together with appropriate notes and references. Also included are relevant indexes, appendices, and a glossary. A substantial part of the thesis consists of transcripts of all the Gaelic verse from the Dornie Manuscripts, with cross-references to other versions and appropriate notes. An index of the poets featured in the collection is included. The introduction to the thesis contains a brief biography of the collector, a description of non-verse material in the manuscripts, and an account of previous work based on the Dornie Manuscripts.
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