Information Management and Mediation in a Digital Reference Service Focused in Social Sciences

This paper investigates the current relationship between information management and information mediation along with the digital reference service through a case study which took place in an academic library. The concept of information mediation is herein analyzed, since a conceptual examination provides elements that will help people to comprehend and evaluate the concerned service. The information professional plays a very important role in the mediation aforementioned, which may be directly or indirectly; consciously or unconsciously; by himself/herself or plurally; individually or inserted into a group ? in all such manners that mediator facilitates the acquisition of information, fully or partially satisfying a user?s need of all sorts of knowledge. Meanwhile, we here approach information management from a scope that points out a description over performed activities concerned to policies and procedures put into effect until the service evaluation by proposing a criterion for such point. Finally, we outline a few actions to be implemented in long-term perspective, which goal is to continually ameliorate such assistance, taking in account the human factor

Statistical methods for characterizing similarities and differences between semantic structures

This paper describes a variety of statistical methods for obtaining precise quantitative estimates of the similarities and differences in the structures of semantic domains in different languages. The methods include comparing mean correlations within and between groups, principal components analysis of interspeaker correlations, and analysis of variance of speaker by question data. Methods for graphical displays of the results are also presented. The methods give convergent results that are mutually supportive and equivalent under suitable interpretation. The methods are illustrated on the semantic domain of emotion terms in a comparison of the semantic structures of native English and native Japanese speaking subjects. We suggest that, in comparative studies concerning the extent to which semantic structures are universally shared or culture-specific, both similarities and differences should be measured and compared rather than placing total emphasis on one or the other polar position.

Frieze -- Social Sciences

Frieze located in front of building. Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, architects. W.B. Wood Co., construction

Latin Amercian journals dealing with the social sciences and auxiliary disciplines.

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Inauguration of the schools of philosophy and the social sciences and dedication of McMahon Hall.

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A guide to the microform collections in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the Library of Congress /

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Course and curriculum improvement materials : mathematics, science, social sciences.

Updates and replaces the pre-college portions of NSF 68-24, Released textbooks, films, and other teaching materials.

Standard catalog: social sciences section. About 1300 titles of the most representative and useful books on social, economic and educational questions,

Classified with author and title index.

Columbia studies in the social sciences.

Each no. also has a distinctive title.

Sources of information in the social sciences: an annotated bibliography

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Research product - U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.

Latest issue consulted: 2005/03 (Jan. 2005) (CD-ROM).

Papers and proceedings of the ... annual meeting of the Minnesota Academy of Social Sciences.

Each vol. has also a general topic.

Modern mathematical methods and models; a book of experimental text materials.

v. 1. Multicomponent methods.--v. 2. Mathematical models.

Columbia studies in the social sciences.

Vol. 1-33 lack whole numbering but constitute no. 1-88; no. 89-273 also called v. 34-124.