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Item Book Review of The Guadalupe Mountains of Texas by Alan Tennant(1980) Sandy, John H.; University of Alabama TuscaloosaBook review. This book is about Indians, cattle barons, and Mexican salt miners, during past decades, and modern-day inhabitants of and visitors to Guadalupe Mountains National Park. Includes an account of the region’s natural history.Item Book Review of Mountains and Man: A Study of Process and Environment by Larry W. Price(1981) Sandy, John H.; University of Alabama TuscaloosaItem Book Review of Mountain Islands and Desert Seas: A Natural History of the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands by Frederick R. Gehlbach(1981) Sandy, John H.; University of Alabama TuscaloosaA Book review: This book explores an area stretching from the lower Rio Grande to the Sonoran Desert. The author describes ecological issues, natural plant and animal communities, and man’s impact on the region. Conservation and diversity are major themes.Item Book review of Extragalactic Adventure: Our Strange Universe by Jean Heidmann(1982) Sandy, John H.Item ONLINE DATABASES VITAL FOR SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1982) Sandy, J; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Alabama TuscaloosaItem Bibliography of Nebraska Geology 1843-1976(1983) Sandy, John H.; Fussell, Jay; University of Alabama TuscaloosaItem The Complexities of Serials Costs Resist a Supply-Side Solution(1993) Sandy, John H.; University of Alabama TuscaloosaItem Book review of Management of Training and Staff Development by June Whetherly(1994) Sandy, John H.; University of Alabama TuscaloosaItem Basic Tenets of Library Service(1995) Sandy, John H.; University of Alabama TuscaloosaItem Le Délégué de la Compagnie: Claude E. Boillot and the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956-57(1995-08) Gilstrap, Donald L.; University of Alabama TuscaloosaFor 90 years the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez played an integral role in the economic development and stability of the world. The Suez Canal connects the western world to the eastern, and, consequently, a vast majority of the world's imports and exports reach their destinations via the canal. However, on July 26, 1956, President Gamul Abd'ul Nasser of Egypt nationalized both the canal and the company, and the world was thrown into political and economic chaos. The majority of the Suez Company information utilized in the writing of this work focuses on the Claude E. Boillot collection, which has recently been opened at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas. During the crisis, Boillot served as a bi-lingual intermediary between the company's New York and Paris offices. Due to his presence in New York, Boillot was able to meet and interact with various international businesspersons and delegates to the United Nations. As a result of Boillot's actions during the crisis, the company was able to preserve some rights which would later be significant in reaching a settlement between the Egyptian government and the Suez Company. Throughout the crisis, Boillot argued the illegality of the Egyptian nationalization among the international politicians and the American public. When the canal was blocked by President Nasser, Boillot helped to facilitate immediate deblockage efforts to avoid a global economic catastrophe. And finally, Boillot repeatedly demanded rights for the company and its pensioners and stockholders from the nationalization in 1956 until the canal settlement in 1958. It is the purpose of this work to provide further insight into the role of the company as well as the successes and failures of the international diplomats during the crisis.Item By Any Other Name, They're Still Our Customers(1997) Sandy, John H.; University of Alabama TuscaloosaItem By Any Other Name, They're Still Our Customers(1997) Sandy, John H.; University of Alabama TuscaloosaA close examination of names that librarians have used to describe people who use library services.Item Preparation for Sci-Tech Librarianship: Results of a Survey(1998) Sandy, John H.; Lembo, Mary Frances; Manasco, James E.; University of Alabama TuscaloosaItem Managing World Wide Web Information in a Frames Environment: A Guide to Constructing Web Pages Using Frames(1998) Gilstrap, Donald L.; University of Alabama TuscaloosaThis article serves as a guide for building World Wide Web pages using frames-based HTML. It covers the basic of frames tags and provides descriptions and examples for writing frames HTML code. Advanced concepts are included, as well as additional techniques for home page design.Item XML and Better Web Searching(1999) Gilstrap, Donald L.; Jackson, Joe; University of Alabama TuscaloosaThis article addresses the implications of the new Web meta-language XML for World Wide Web searching. Compared to HTML, XML is more concerned with structure of data than documents. These XML data structures, especially when declared in document type definitions, should prove conducive to precise, context rich searching. Some of the directions the XML language is intended to move are briefly covered. Additionally, trends in World Wide Web development with respect to beta versions of the XML language are discussed.Item New Rates of Exchange: Technological Integration and University Libraries in Central and Eastern Europe(2000) Gilstrap, Donald L.; University of Alabama TuscaloosaOver the course of the past ten years, Central- and Eastern-European Countries have seen significant changes in virtually all sectors of society. Higher education has been transformed, bringing western philosophies to the discussion table and introducing technology into areas once devoid of this medium. University libraries have also undergone fundamental philosophical and organizational changes while integrating and utilizing technology to perform many of the functions that were once labor intensive. In this paper, I would like to provide a brief analysis of the overall progress that has been made so far in regard to technological integration within C&EE university libraries and then present possible scenarios and models for technology and information infrastructure development for C&EE universities moving into the 21st century.Item Mining the Internet With Domain Names(2000) Sandy, John H.; University of Alabama TuscaloosaDomain names are a major asset for navigating the Internet. The top-level domain (TLD) .gov when combined with search terms retrieves only government information, effectively “hiding” millions of less important or perhaps irrelevant Web sites. In the commercial sphere, a 2nd level domain, combined with an established TLD, such as in gold.org, is very effective in helping users locate relevant information. International country code TLDs (ccTLD), often tightly controlled, limit retrieval if so preferred, the country code for Germany, dot DE, is an example. High interest is pushing Web organizers to build out the Internet with less generic TLDs. The TLD dot arts is a domain name considered in the next expansion.Item Developments in Central and Eastern Europe: The Alliance of Universities for Democracy and Higher Education Reform(2000) Gilstrap, Donald L.; University of Alabama TuscaloosaThis article highlights the tenth conference of the Alliance of Universities for Democracy (AUDEM) held in Budapest, Hungary. Over the past ten years, AUDEM members have been instrumental in the reform of higher education in Central and Eastern Europe based on democratic principles. This year, government officials, college administrators, faculty members, and academic librarians from around the world met to foster continuing discourse on the direction higher education might move in the future and the implications this presents for all of us in a global society.Item Connecticut Community Colleges Join Forces to Share Library System(2001) Gilstrap, Donald L.; University of Alabama TuscaloosaLibraries of the twelve community colleges in the state of Connecticut recently joined together to purchase and share the Endeavor Voyager integrated library management system.Item Recruiting Entry-Level Sci-Tech Librarians: An Analysis of Job Advertisements and Outcome of Searches(2002) Sandy, John H.; Baker Jones, Mary Lou; Lembo, Mary Frances; Manasco, James E.; University of Alabama TuscaloosaThis research reports on the recruitment of entry-level, sci-tech librarians. Data was collected from 167 sci-tech job ads published in professional publications. Required and preferred qualifications listed in job ads were analyzed as well as the outcome of searches.