Not exact matches
These include the criteria that the academic program be at a «postgraduate» level — that is, that students have completed an undergraduate degree; that there be a certain level of
library holdings; that faculty members themselves
hold graduate «
research» degrees; that there be provisions protecting academic freedom such as academic tenure; and so forth.
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Libraries in the past had people doing
research for their homework or
hold lectures.
In the event that you
hold up until the spur of the moment, you may experience issues discovering
library materials, especially if different students are
researching the same theme, and you may be influenced by different assignments.
My very unscientific
research has caused me to wonder how many people know about this technology: Mockingjay in print has 60
holds at my
library system (to be expected), and Mockingjay on CD has 13
holds.
This fee also allows all members of your household to get
library cards, and it includes full
library services, including accessing
research tools from a computer or smartphone, placing interlibrary loan requests, checking out the maximum number of items and placing the maximum number of
holds.
Although I haven't read the work by Carol Dweck (who pioneered much of this
research) I was intrigued enough to watch her in a TED speech online (click to see here) and to place her book «Mindset, the New Psychology of Success» on
hold at our local
library.
Accessing the
research library was critical, just to read and examine why thinkers from the nineteenth and twentieth century
held particular views.
The British
Library in London is the national
library and is one of the world's largest
research libraries,
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats; including around 25 million books.
I completed a collage of my roommate — I had to make a new one for an upcoming exhibition that a couple of students are
holding in the
library during our student
research day.
With nothing to do in the evenings, she camped out in the
library,
researching random topics as the idea for building a lexicon of Xeroxed images took
hold.
She has written articles on the collections and lectured frequently on the
research collections
held in the
Libraries and Archives as well as Brooklyn Museum history.
For copies of catalogues and other records of local organizations with which an artist exhibited, check the
holdings of R&BL and other local
research libraries, as well as Chicago Collections for such materials in manuscript and archive collections.
UCF has added an energy efficiency testing lab to its Florida Solar Energy Center — a 20 - acre complex that already
holds a solar
research library, a photovoltaic (PV) materials lab and a solar thermal testing lab.
Topics include
library holdings and events, legal news, legal history, and legal
research.
In certain cases, the
library may check to see that copies are
held in a regional shared storage facility or that there are at least a given number (say, 5) copies
held in other
research libraries somewhere in the country.
Other
research suggests that up to half of university
library holdings are never used.
If «experiential» means a greater emphasis on practical legal knowledge and skills with the objective of preparing students for professional practice, perhaps an academic
research collection and the
library to
hold it would not be needed.
Several Slaw contributors have written recently about the use of artificial intelligence in law (Tim Knight here, Nate Russell here) with particular reference to the program on «Computers in Legal
Research» at the conference of the Canadian Association of Law
Libraries held in Vancouver this past May, moderated by Slaw's Steve Matthews.
For the growing proportion of readings used in instruction that are published in an online format, which includes most journals and an increasing number of books, why not have students use the
library holding or an open access online version of the reading, either of which they are able mark up and share among their peers, much as their instructors do with their
research colleagues.
While both offer comparable
research libraries and search tools, Fastcase
holds the edge in ease of use and intuitiveness of its features.
Though something like this is extremely rare, how do you think this affects both the way we do
research as well as which books we need to
hold in our
libraries?
Searched databases in order to locate and access material
held by the
library or other institutions to assist the community with their studies and
research.