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  • Education of American research astronomers, 1876-1941

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    Hall, Robert Dale, 1947-
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    The education (particularly graduate education) of Americans who were active in astronomical research between 1876 and 1941 is assessed for its effectiveness in preparing the astronomers for careers in research. This period contains three dynamic changes: the growth of American astronomy in becoming the world's leading community of astronomers, the...
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    education) of Americans who were active in astronomical research between 1876 and 1941 is assessed for its

  • Libraries and the community college baccalaureate : meeting the challenge

    Creator:
    Coslor, Melinda McCormick
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    The community college baccalaureate movement has shown strong growth across the country as a strategy to meet workforce shortages. A variety of forces are driving the movement including (a) employer demand for higher credentials; (b) geographical access to education; (c) lower cost education; (d) a trained workforce to compete in...
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    libraries throughout the literature (Association of College and Research Libraries, 1994; Hisle, 1989

  • Survey of collection analysis practices in public and academic libraries in the United States, and the effect of automation thereon

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    Cochrane, Linda Louise Loomis
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    This study investigated the practices public and academic library administrators find useful and utilize in analyzing use of collections. The study also investigated administrators' satisfaction with their collection use analysis practices, and the impact they perceived automation to have upon collection use analysis practices. A survey developed for this study...
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    to the administrators of public and academic libraries. The largest component of most library

  • Leading the comprehensive community college library : defining, aligning, and supporting innovation and change

    Creator:
    Reed, Donna L.
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    The purpose of this multi-case study was to describe how library deans and directors at large comprehensive community colleges strategically advocate for and support instructional and technological innovation despite the reality of limited resources and the stress caused by recurring funding crises in higher education. It further sought to examine...
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    opinion about the content of that information (Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), 2007

  • Boundaries of research : civilian leadership, military funding, and the international network surrounding the development of numerical weather prediction in the United States

    Creator:
    Harper, Kristine C.
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    American meteorology was synonymous with subjective weather forecasting in the early twentieth century. Controlled by the Weather Bureau and with no academic programs of its own, the few hundred extant meteorologists had no standing in the scientific community. Until the American Meteorological Society was founded in 1919, meteorologists had no...
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    . Weather Bureau Chief Francis W. Reichelderfer encouraged von Neumann, with Office of Naval Research

  • Academic libraries at the center of instructional change : Faculty and librarian experience of library leadership in the transformation of teaching and learning

    Creator:
    Gilchrist, Debra L.
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    This phenomenological inquiry explored the experiences of library leaders and discipline faculty members engaging in a collaborative instructional change initiative focused on a process-based learning pedagogy and led by an academic library. The investigation’s purpose was providing insight and understanding concerning the: (a) library’s role in instructional leadership; (b) experience...
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    decisions and engage in a lifetime of learning (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2000

  • Mars and Popular Astronomy, 1890-1910

    Creator:
    Simpson, Emily M.
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    Beginning in the late-nineteenth century, several dialogues emerged concerning life on Mars. Some supported the notion of an inhabited Mars, citing recent observations of the planet, while others, pointing to a lack of concrete evidence, denied the validity of such a bold hypothesis. The dialogues within and between different...
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    archives housed at Lowell Observatory, Caltech, Huntington Library, and University of California, Santa

  • Onset of symbiosis in a cnidarian-dinoflagellate association

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    deBoer, Melissa L.
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    Scleractinian corals, like many other cnidarians, engage in intracellular symbiosis with dinoflagellates belonging to the genus Symbiodinium. This association makes invaluable structural and energetic contributions to the marine environment and to the coral reef ecosystem in particular. While many aspects of the cnidarian-dinoflagellate relationship have been well studied, nothing is...
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    the association during the onset of symbiosis (infection) between the scleractinian coral Fun gia

  • Breaking silos : interdisciplinary research in kinesiology

    Creator:
    Schary, David P.
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    With the growing popularity of kinesiology at the undergraduate level, one would expect the field to be influential. Kinesiology, however, appears to be in a paradox. The undergraduate popularity is not reflected in the rest of academia, or even the general public, many of whom feel kinesiology is not a...
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    research (IDR) as a viable path to the field’s re-unification. Despite all of the discourse about this

  • Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

    Creator:
    Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
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    L. C. Dunn (1893-1974) spent most of his scientific career conducting research in developmental genetics as a member of the Zoology Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. He had an accomplished scientific career researching mutations in mice, which earned him respect from other geneticists and scientists....
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    : Mary Jo Nye L. C. Dunn (1893-1974) spent most of his scientific career conducting research