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Data disaggregation: the case of Asian and Pacific Islander data and the role of health sciences librarians

Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2022
Health disparities within Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities are often masked due to aggregated data. Lack of adequate data limits required health care services for these communities.
Seema Bhakta
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A weighted decision matrix for outsourcing library services [PDF]

, 2003
A study, funded by Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, was undertaken in 2000-2001 to give an up-to-date view of the current experience of outsourcing and externalization in libraries, museums and archives.
Ball, David
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Marketing library services to children and young people [PDF]

, 2006
This paper discusses the future of Schools Library Services in the North West region of England based on a research project recently undertaken by the Centre for the Public Library and Information in Society at the University of Sheffield on behalf of ...
Train, B., Wilson, K.
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Built to last! Embedding open science principles and practice into European universities

Insights: The UKSG Journal, 2020
The purpose of this article is to examine the cultural change needed by universities, as identified by LERU in its report 'Open Science and its role in universities: a roadmap for cultural change'.1 It begins by illustrating the nature of that cultural ...
Tiberius Ignat, Paul Ayris
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‘A Work from an Unknown Member of the Proletariat’: Digitising and Re-examining Vere Gordon Childe’s ‘Dawn of European Civilization’.

Archaeology International, 2017
This article presents a detailed examination of Gordon Childe’s 'The Dawn of European Civilization', one of the best known books in European Archaeology.
Katie Louise Meheux
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High-performance computing service for bioinformatics and data science

Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2018
Despite having an ideal setup in their labs for wet work, researchers often lack the computational infrastructure to analyze the magnitude of data that result from “-omics” experiments.
Jean-Paul Courneya, Alexa Mayo
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Towards a conceptual framework for communicating library training to students in South African university libraries: A literature review

Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023
Developing conceptual frameworks to improve library training among librarians in South African university libraries is not common. The purpose of this article was to assess, synthesise and critique available literature to determine the extent to which ...
Mahlaga J. Molepo, Sihle Blose
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Mixed mode education: implications for library user services [PDF]

, 1999
The Faculty of Information Technology at QUT does not formally carry out distance education for any of its courses. However, it has pursued a number of initiatives that have made it possible for students to carry out an increasing proportion of their ...
Middleton, Michael R., Peacock, Judith A.   +1 more
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Social justice and the medical librarian

Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2019
This lecture discusses social justice and the role that medical librarians can play in a democratic society. Social justice needs to be central to the mission of medical librarianship and a core value of the profession.
Elaine Russo Martin
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Methods and Practices for Institutional Benchmarking based on Research Impact and Competitiveness: A Case Study of ShanghaiTech University

Journal of Data and Information Science, 2019
To develop and test a mission-oriented and multi-dimensional benchmarking method for a small scale university aiming for internationally first-class basic research.
Chang Jiang, Liu Jianhua
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