Tools of the Serials Trade

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Trina Nolen reviews Rethinking Information Literacy; Elizabeth Parang, Fundamentals of Managing Reference Collections; Ann Roll reviews Building and Managing E-Book Collections; and Sarah Tusa reviews HR: A Human Resources Handbook for Academic Library Staff.     

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Beth Ashmore reviews The Purpose-Based Library: Finding Your Path to Survival, Success and Growth; Scott Johnson reviews Metaliteracy in Practice; Catherine Johnson reviews Teaching Information Literacy Reframed: 50+ Framework-Based Exercises for Creating Information-Literate Learners; Adolfo G. Prieto reviews Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries.     

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Heather Baker reviews The no-nonsense guide to leadership, management, and teamwork; Elizabeth Parang reviews Systematic searching: Practical ideas for improving results; Anne Washington reviews Digital preservation in libraries: Preparing for a sustainable future.     

The Read Feed - Reviews

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Elizabeth Parang reviews Guide to Streaming Video Acquisitions; Jill M. Church reviews Electronic Resources Librarianship: A Practical Guide for Librarians; Robert T. Wilson reviews Using Digital Analytics for Smart Assessment.     

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Michelle DeMars reviews The Indispensable Academic Librarian: Teaching and Collaborating for Change; Norma Durian reviews The Library Outreach Casebook; Trina Boykin Nolen reviews Licensing Digital Content: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Third Edition.     

Editorial Peer Review: Its Strengths and Weaknesses

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Michelle DeMars reviews Emerging Strategies for Supporting Student Learning: A Practical Guide for Librarians and Educators; Elizabeth Parang reviews Shared Collections: Collaborative Stewardship.     

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Jill M. Church reviews Exploring Discovery: The Front Door to Your Library's Licensed and Digitized Content; Scott Johnson reviews Now You're a Manager: Quick and Practical Strategies for New Mid-level Managers in Academic Libraries.     

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Trina Nolen reviews Rethinking Information Literacy; Elizabeth Parang, Fundamentals of Managing Reference Collections; Ann Roll reviews Building and Managing E-Book Collections; and Sarah Tusa reviews HR: A Human Resources Handbook for Academic Library Staff.     

AACR2 and the New York State Library's CONSER Project

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Daisy P. Waters reviews Using Microsoft Access XP, Hazel Cameron reviews Business Statistics on the Web, Elizabeth Parang reviews JSTOR: A History, and Sheila Corman reviews MARC21 for Everyone.     

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Elizabeth Parang reviews Reengineering the Library: Issues in Electronic Resources Management. Scott Johnson reviews Academic Library Management: Case Studies.     

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Rachael Green Clemens reviews Usage and Usability Assessment: Library Practices and Concerns, James T. Deffenbaugh reviews Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians, and Marguerite E. Horn reviews The Accidental Systems Librarian. Serials Review 2003; 29:325–329.     

The Read Feed: Reviews

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Michelle DeMars reviews Academic Libraries for Commuter Students: Research-Based Strategies. Hayley Moreno reviews Coding with XML for Efficiencies in Cataloging and Metadata: Practical Applications of XSD, XSLT, and XQuery.     

The Quintessential Searcher: The Wit and Wisdom of Barbara Quint

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Teresa Malinowski reviews The 2003 Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition: A Report to the OCLC Membership.     

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Trina Boukin Nolen reviews Dancing with Digital Natives, Stephanie Rosenblatt reviews The Embedded Librarian and Sarah D. Tusa reviews Collection Development in the Digital Age.     

Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop: A Step-by-Step Guide

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Marguerite E. Horn reviews What They Don't Teach You in Library School, Betty Landesman reviews Introducing RDA, and Sarah D. Tusa reviews Coaching in the Library.     

The Read Feed—Reviews

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Beth Ashmore reviews More Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data; Michelle DeMars reviews Library Consortia: Models for Collaboration and Sustainability; Sarah Tusa reviews Library Management in Disruptive Times: Skills and Knowledge for an Uncertain Future.     

A NOTE ON ESTIMATING LINEAR TREND IN A REGRESSION MODEL WITH SERIALLY CORRELATED ERROR COMPONENTS

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We consider a linear trend regression model when the disturbances follow a serially correlated one-way error component model. In this model, we investigate the performance of the Ordinary Least Squares Esitmator (OLSE), First Difference Estimator (FDE), Generalized Least Squares Estimator (GLSE) and the Cochrane-Orcutt-Transformation Estimator (COTE) of slope coefficient in terms of efficiency. The main findings are as follows: (1) when the autocorrelation is close to unity, then the FDE is approximately the GLSE; (2) the OLSE is better than the COTE; and (3) when the value of the autocorrelation is kept constant and T → ∞, the OLSE, COTE and GLSE are asymptotically equivalent whereas the FDE is worse than the other estimators in terms of efficiency.     

Fisher Information for a partially observable simple birth process

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In this paper, we study the Fisher Information for the birth rate of a partially observable simple birth process involving n observations. We suppose that at each observation time, each individual in the population can be observed independently with known fixed probability p. Finding an analytical form of the Fisher Information in general appears intractable. Nonetheless, we find a very good approximation for the Fisher Information by exploiting the probabilistic properties of the underlying stochastic process. Both numerical and theoretical results strongly support the latter approximation and confirm its high level of accuracy.     

A study of generalized skew-normal distribution

Following the paper by Genton and Loperfido [Generalized skew-elliptical distributions and their quadratic forms, Ann. Inst. Statist. Math. 57 (2005), pp. 389–401], we say that Z has a generalized skew-normal distribution, if its probability density function (p.d.f.) is given by f(z)=2φ _p (z; ξ, Ω)π (z?ξ), z∈? ^p , where φ _p (·; ξ, Ω) is the p-dimensional normal p.d.f. with location vector ξ and scale matrix Ω, ξ∈? ^p , Ω>0, and π is a skewing function from ? ^p to ?, that is 0≤π (z)≤1 and π (?z)=1?π (z), ? z∈? ^p . First the distribution of linear transformations of Z are studied, and some moments of Z and its quadratic forms are derived. Next we obtain the joint moment-generating functions (m.g.f.’s) of linear and quadratic forms of Z and then investigate conditions for their independence. Finally explicit forms for the above distributions, m.g.f.’s and moments are derived when π (z)=κ (α′z), where α∈? ^p and κ is the normal, Laplace, logistic or uniform distribution function.