Now that my ears have been in the radiation port for head cancer treatment, I am fairly certain that my personal biometric has changed - what plans do they have to account for structures that have changed? Do we know that structures don't change over the lifetime, anyway?
Not commenting on the back story of why she was searching in the first place, but if she had used a librarian who knew the correct method of searching that database, she would have located the information she was looking for.
Without libraries and their work, the Internet would be a less information-rich place. If you, like the first poster, have never been inside a library, yet have downloaded scientific journal articles, then you have probably still used a library. The medical library that I work in has a robust online journal and ebook offering due to our VERY expensive subscriptions - most of those journal articles you cannot read in full-text on the Internet without a subscription. These are available to our recognized audiences - students, university and hospital staff, faculty and volunteer faculty. Public libraries have similar offerings for their recognized user groups - those with a valid library card - and some states have statewide access to full-text, such as NebraskAccess and Indiana's Inspire.net. These 'free' full-text access portals would not exist without libraries working as good stewards of tax monies, setting up complicated agreements at the best rate possible for the greatest number of user groups allowed by the publishers' restrictions. Universities have even more expensive agreements to work with as good stewards of tuition monies. If you brag that you never used a library resource (virtual or real) while in university, you have done the equivalent of paying for a house while only living in the entryway. Where do you think your tuition money goes, anyway? I understand the wish to have a physical (and beautiful) library, but I don't know that a virtual library would be so bad. I would welcome the chance to be a roving librarian, showing up at your elbow (where ever you are) when you have a hard time figuring out how to locate that specific bit of information. With the move to more virtual information, there is a greater need for navigators to lead others to the information they seek. But that is what a librarian does and has done for centuries. My job is to keep up with what vendors and publishers have been up to so I can help the next person even better. If you find a librarian that isn't helpful, find another. If I remind you of your second grade librarian and it isn't a great memory, I will find someone else to serve you. Not everyone in a library is a librarian, but everyone in your library should give excellent service - if not, let someone know pronto.
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Now that my ears have been in the radiation port for head cancer treatment, I am fairly certain that my personal biometric has changed - what plans do they have to account for structures that have changed? Do we know that structures don't change over the lifetime, anyway?
Not commenting on the back story of why she was searching in the first place, but if she had used a librarian who knew the correct method of searching that database, she would have located the information she was looking for.
Without libraries and their work, the Internet would be a less information-rich place. If you, like the first poster, have never been inside a library, yet have downloaded scientific journal articles, then you have probably still used a library. The medical library that I work in has a robust online journal and ebook offering due to our VERY expensive subscriptions - most of those journal articles you cannot read in full-text on the Internet without a subscription. These are available to our recognized audiences - students, university and hospital staff, faculty and volunteer faculty. Public libraries have similar offerings for their recognized user groups - those with a valid library card - and some states have statewide access to full-text, such as NebraskAccess and Indiana's Inspire.net. These 'free' full-text access portals would not exist without libraries working as good stewards of tax monies, setting up complicated agreements at the best rate possible for the greatest number of user groups allowed by the publishers' restrictions. Universities have even more expensive agreements to work with as good stewards of tuition monies. If you brag that you never used a library resource (virtual or real) while in university, you have done the equivalent of paying for a house while only living in the entryway. Where do you think your tuition money goes, anyway?
I understand the wish to have a physical (and beautiful) library, but I don't know that a virtual library would be so bad. I would welcome the chance to be a roving librarian, showing up at your elbow (where ever you are) when you have a hard time figuring out how to locate that specific bit of information. With the move to more virtual information, there is a greater need for navigators to lead others to the information they seek. But that is what a librarian does and has done for centuries. My job is to keep up with what vendors and publishers have been up to so I can help the next person even better. If you find a librarian that isn't helpful, find another. If I remind you of your second grade librarian and it isn't a great memory, I will find someone else to serve you. Not everyone in a library is a librarian, but everyone in your library should give excellent service - if not, let someone know pronto.
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2004/April/04_crm_263. htm
But it doesn't say anything about schools...