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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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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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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.     

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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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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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.     

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Heylicken Moreno reviews Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums: How to Clean, Link and Publish Your Metadata; Trina Boykin Nolen reviews Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners; Stephanie Rosenblatt reviews Records and Information Management.     

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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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.     

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.     

Improving dispersion tests by symmetrization

Comparing the variances of several independent samples is a classic problem and many tests have been proposed in the literature. Conover et al. [Conover, W.J., Johnson, M.E. and Johnson, M.M., 1981, A comparative study of tests for homogeneity of variances with applications to the outer continental self bidding data. Technometrics, 23, 351–361.] and Shoemaker [Shoemaker, L.H., 1995, Tests for difference in dispersion based on quantiles. The American Statistician, 49 (2), 179–182.] find that the existing tests lack power for skewed sampling distributions. To address this problem, we studied the effect of an a priori symmetrization of the data on the performance of tests for homogeneity of variances. This article also updates the comprehensive comparative study of Conover et al.     

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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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.     

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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.     

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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.     

Life spans of Library Journal's “Best Magazines of the Year”

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An annual column published in Library Journal reviews the best new magazines of the previous year. Despite being chosen for their quality, a portion of them fail at a rate described in this study. Reasons for failure and characteristics of ceased titles are described, as are difficulties in determining end dates from records in OCLC, Ulrich's, and the Serials Directory. This study reveals that OCLC records had not been closed for 30 percent of the ceased periodicals. A list of successful and widely held “best of” magazines is appended.     

Reviews and Miscellany

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Notes on Vital Statistics: Ville de Bruxelles. Service d'hygiène, son organisation, et son mode de fonctionnement. By Dr. E. Janssens. Brussels, 1898. Pp, 52; diagram and plates.

Notes on Vital Statistics: Marriages, Naissances et Décès en Suisse, 1871-90. Deuxième Partie: les Naissances. Published by the Bureau of Statistics, Federal Department of the Interior. Berne: 1897.

Notes on Vital Statistics: The Therapeutische Monatschefte for September, 1898, contains an an article on Serum Statistics by Dr. Josef von Körösy, Director of Municipal Statistics of Budapest.

Notes on Vital Statistics: Fifth Annual Report upon the Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths in the State of Maine for the year ending December 31, 1896. Augusta, 1898. Pp. 238.

Labor Inquiries: Labor Copartnership. Notes of a Visit to Coöperative Workshops, Factories, and Homes in Great Britain and Ireland, in which Employer, Employee, and Consumer share in Ownership, Management, and Results. By Henry Demerest Lloyd. Illustrated. New York. 1898. Pp. 351.

Finance and Commerce: The Bureau of Statistics of the United States Treasury Department has published a useful compendium entitled National, State, Private, and Savings Banks; Bonds, Paper Currency and Coin; Production and Value of Precious Metals; Coinage, etc., 1789–1898.

Finance and Commerce: Thirteenth Annual Report of the Kansas Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1897. W. L. A. Johnson, Commissioner. Topeka, 1898; pp. 400.

Miscellaneous: Die Zahl im Kriege. Statistische Daten aus der neueren Kreigsgeschichte in graphischer Darstellung. By Otto Berndt. Publishers, Freytag and Berudt. Vienna, 1897. Pp. 174; folded map.

Miscellaneous: A Statistical Account of the Seven Colonies of Australasia, 1897-98. T. A. Coghlan, Government Statistician of New South Wales. Seventh issue. Sydney, 1898. Pp. xiii, 543.