“Serials at Warp Speed: Navigating Transitions,” the 2007 North Carolina Serials Conference

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Reports on four major serials conferences, the 2007 North Carolina Serials Conference, the 2007 meeting of the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians, the Canadian Library Association’s 2007 Pre-Conference, and the 2007 North American Serials Interest Group Conference.     

Fifth North Carolina serials conference: “ Serials at the speed of write—Coping,” Burlington,NC, April 4–5, 1996

Abstract

The Pacific Rim Library (PRL) is an initiative of the Pacific Rim Digital Library Association (PRDLA). The project began in 2006 using the OAI-PMH paradigm and now holds over 300,000 records harvested from OAI data provider libraries around the Pacific. PRL's goal is to enable the sharing of digital collections amongst PRDLA members and the world, but greater unexpected benefits have been discovered. Through mirroring their metadata, PRL increases the chance that their data will be discovered in Google and other general search engines. With its many disparate collections, PRL is not a repository for traditional information discovery and retrieval. Initially users will bounce from a Google hit to the PRL metadata record in Hong Kong and then begin an intensive search on the original site which hosts the full digital object, in Vancouver, Honolulu, Wuhan, Singapore, or other PRDLA member location.     

Comments on “Testing for NBUL using goodness of fit approach with applications” (Statistical Papers (2010) 51: 27–40, DOI 10.1007/s00362-007-0113-0)

We comment on a new testing procedure for testing exponentiality against NBUL alternatives. We show that the proposed test is inappropriate and point out the subtle flaw in the argument. The other deficiencies in the paper are also highlighted.