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Publication date: 1 July 1970

James Kidd

THE POPULARITY of Hamewith and its author was quite phenomenal in the north‐east of Scotland. It is a significant mark of the affection in which the author was held by the…

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THE POPULARITY of Hamewith and its author was quite phenomenal in the north‐east of Scotland. It is a significant mark of the affection in which the author was held by the community at large that he was soon popularly known as ‘Hamewith’ himself, in the same way as a farmer in that airt comes to be known by the name of his place. Hamewith was first published by Wyllie & Son, Aberdeen, in 1900. By 1909 a new and more elaborate edition was called for, with an introductiion by Andrew Lang, then Scotland's leading littérateur, and published by Constable in London. By 1912, when he was entertained to an official public dinner in Aberdeen, Charles Murray, who had emigrated to South Africa in 1888 at the age of 24, was then Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa. It is important to note that Murray spent practically the whole of his working life (1888–1924) in South Africa, and wrote practically all his verse in exile. He is by no means the only Scottish writer to have seen his native land more clearly from a distance. One thinks, for example, of Stevenson in Samoa, Grassic Gibbon in Welwyn Garden City, and George Douglas Brown in London.

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Library Review, vol. 22 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 1 May 1966

James Kidd

THIS DOES NOT PURPORT TO BE an apologia for the old guard‐book style name‐catalogue, but, forgetting mere canons of stream‐lined efficiency, let us admit that there is some…

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THIS DOES NOT PURPORT TO BE an apologia for the old guard‐book style name‐catalogue, but, forgetting mere canons of stream‐lined efficiency, let us admit that there is some character, some romantic appeal about it that a card catalogue cannot rival. Cards just haven't got personality or colour: they are unitary and strictly functional, a jumble of unconnected parts without a common link to make them a homogeneous entity. The guard‐book catalogue, for all its problems of maintenance and often cumbersome inefficiency, does, I contend, make life more interesting for the cataloguer—and the imaginative user.

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Library Review, vol. 20 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 1 March 1967

James Kidd

EPPIE ELRICK, William P. Milne's Aberdeenshire tale of the '15, first appeared in serial form in the Buchan Observer, running from 19 October 1954 to 6 September 1955. It was then…

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EPPIE ELRICK, William P. Milne's Aberdeenshire tale of the '15, first appeared in serial form in the Buchan Observer, running from 19 October 1954 to 6 September 1955. It was then published by Scrogie of Peterhead, as a book of 284 pages, before the end of the year. Another impression was issued in the following year.

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Library Review, vol. 21 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 1 February 1999

James Kidd

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Reference Reviews, vol. 13 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0950-4125

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Publication date: 1 March 2005

Karen G. Lawson

To demonstrate that adult learning can be improved through the use of eclectic digital resources to enhance instructional methods rather than through learning skills in isolation.

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Purpose

To demonstrate that adult learning can be improved through the use of eclectic digital resources to enhance instructional methods rather than through learning skills in isolation.

Design/methodology/approach

During the past two decades, a significant research has focused on adults as learners. Many adults take classes for skills improvement, job advancement, and personal understanding. The demand for training programs to help workers keep current and competitive is growing. It is likely that more adults from all walks of life will be continuing their education in a variety of settings. For example, librarians do instruction for their communities in the areas of internet searching, electronic database use, and personal computing skills. Many of their students are adults, including other library staff members, community members, and non‐traditional students.

Findings

A learning program that includes digital resources helps provide the opportunity for instructors to help their students make connections and form relationships across the boundaries of classroom, discipline, skill, and background. By incorporating an eclectic assortment of digital resources into computer/internet‐related training an instructor ensures that adult learners are better able to connect what they have learned in life and are learning in the classroom.

Research limitations/implications

Relies on availability of internet access.

Practical implications

Librarians are frequently in the position of providing computer/internet‐related training for a wide variety of audiences, including adults.

Originality/value

Librarians are perfectly poised to combine sound pedagogy with their expert knowledge of available digital resources to promote adult achievement in technology education. An instruction program integrated with evocative digital resources provides the opportunity for instructors to reduce anxiety and to help their students make connections and form relationships across the boundaries of classroom, discipline, skill, and background.

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OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, vol. 21 no. 1
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ISSN: 1065-075X

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Publication date: 1 January 1901

IN order to be able to discriminate with certainty between butter and such margarine as is sold in England, it is necessary to carry out two or three elaborate and delicate…

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IN order to be able to discriminate with certainty between butter and such margarine as is sold in England, it is necessary to carry out two or three elaborate and delicate chemical processes. But there has always been a craving by the public for some simple method of determining the genuineness of butter by means of which the necessary trouble could be dispensed with. It has been suggested that such easy detection would be possible if all margarine bought and sold in England were to be manufactured with some distinctive colouring added—light‐blue, for instance—or were to contain a small amount of phenolphthalein, so that the addition of a drop of a solution of caustic potash to a suspected sample would cause it to become pink if it were margarine, while nothing would occur if it were genuine butter. These methods, which have been put forward seriously, will be found on consideration to be unnecessary, and, indeed, absurd.

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British Food Journal, vol. 3 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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Publication date: 1 February 2018

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Industrial and Commercial Training, vol. 50 no. 2
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ISSN: 0019-7858

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Publication date: 1 March 1967

Moira Burgess

ONE GROWS UP, so to speak, with the jargon of the profession: soon there is nothing odd in describing a morning‐and‐evening turn of duty by the phrase, ‘I'm split today’…

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ONE GROWS UP, so to speak, with the jargon of the profession: soon there is nothing odd in describing a morning‐and‐evening turn of duty by the phrase, ‘I'm split today’. (‘Horizontally or vertically?’ my family used to inquire.) It needs no highly original thought to deduce that librarians abroad have their shop‐talk too, and no doubt all sensible exchange candidates go primed with the word ‘overdue’ in the language of their choice. It was not so with me. I could count and sing and tell the story of the Three Bears in Norwegian, but I could not, with any hope of being understood, say to a borrower, ‘Sorry, it's out’.

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Library Review, vol. 21 no. 3
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ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 1 April 1973

Jack Dove

I SET OUT on my five weeks' visitation to libraries in North America on Easter Monday 1972, having been granted the Mature Librarians Award of the London and Home Counties Branch…

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I SET OUT on my five weeks' visitation to libraries in North America on Easter Monday 1972, having been granted the Mature Librarians Award of the London and Home Counties Branch of the Library Association. My first port of call was Toronto, a city I had been in five years before on a private visit, and here I saw the College Bibliocenter at Don Mills, ordering headquarters for the stocks of fifty‐six college libraries; the Audio‐Visual Materials Center of the Toronto libraries; and the Learning Resources Center at Forest Hills, in an attractive building housing a new branch library and everything one could name in the audio‐visual field. The person in charge of the Resources Center is an audio‐visuals technician on the library staff and it houses a large exhibition‐area and a very pleasant theatre seating two hundred.

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Library Review, vol. 24 no. 4
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ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 1 May 1966

Alison Douglas

The characteristics of the so‐called Kailyard school of Scottish novelists are similar to what may be found in Catherine Sinclair, Norman Macleod and the short stories of Mrs…

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The characteristics of the so‐called Kailyard school of Scottish novelists are similar to what may be found in Catherine Sinclair, Norman Macleod and the short stories of Mrs Cupples: close observation of persons and traditions in a well‐known, confined locality, a good deal of humour and a good deal of pathos, sometimes deteriorating into sentimentality. None of the most typical Kailyard books was meant for children, but the three principal authors—S. R. Crockett, Ian Maclaren and J. M. Barrie—all wrote at least one juvenile book of some merit.

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Library Review, vol. 20 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

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