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Provides an overview of cataloguing, in particular Machine Readable Cataloguing (MARC). Considers some of the reasons why users should understand the way information is used in what way in which indexes. Briefly discusses Anglo‐American Cataoguing Rules, 2nd ed. (AACR2), decoding MARC, tips for using PRISM. Finally offers some recommended reading.

Congratulations are in order! There's a new arrival in my house. My husband and I have welcomed into our lives an active, fully operating, 386DX 40MHz computer. Don't laugh, I'm serious. We built it from the mini‐tower and motherboard on up. We planned for months which components we wanted, what peripherals, and how much memory. We purchased furniture for its own little corner in the living room. It is beautiful. It has a modem, two disk drives, a hard drive. We are very proud techies.

Reviews some of the day‐to‐day benefits of introducing the PRISM interlibrary loan system to a college reference library. Discusses the editing of workforms, main and copy displays, creating a “new” request from a recently produced “pending” one, searching the transaction and message files, system changes, database choices, as well as the helpful advice offered in the Interlibrary Loan User Guide.

Consider the prospects for keyword searching with the advent of user‐access to PRISM interlibrary lending system in December 1992. Offers some helpful avice for starting out with PRISM. Considers restrictions to using keyword searching for CAT ME Plus and CAT CD450 users. Outlines keyword commands, keyword searches, character masking, HRR prompt and revise features, error messages and Help as well as Internet access.

In Part 1 of my “Authors and Titles and MARC – Oh My!” (Fall 1993) I asked if you wanted me to do a similar article on the Authority File format. Well, there was a resounding reply to the affirmative. Well, maybe not resounding, but it was definitely a reply, more than one, even. Don′t laugh, I welcome all communication on this side of the column. It gets lonely facing these deadlines alone. You, the reader, have the luxury of reading this column whenever you want (well, within the parameters of routing it in a timely manner – I know). I, on the other hand, have to produce, on demand, an interesting, up‐to‐date, pithy expose on a PRISM/PASSPORT‐type topic that will grab your attention. Since I left AMIGOS and moved to this very quiet, private college, I′ve been wondering if anyone is out there...there...there... I′m feeling a little out of touch, so keep those electronic cards and letters coming in. That address: parkercc@class.org.

So, did anyone miss me from the last issue? Were you anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Winter issue so you could see how the ending of my article turned out? Did you anxiously turn to the table of contents only to discover ...it wasn′t there? No? You didn′t notice? Gee, after all these issues, I′d like to think I was missed. Oh well...[sigh]. Anyway, I missed the deadline.

Considers some of the characteristics and potential problems of PASSPORT software and the PRISM service in use. Describes the system as a whole, installation including configuration and log‐on values, PASSPORT script files, and how to link a laser printer with the software in cases of difficulty.

Knowledge is a key success factor in achieving competitive advantage. The purpose of this paper is to examine how mobile health technology facilitates knowledge management (KM) practices to enhance a public health service in an emerging economies context. Specifically, the acceptance of a knowledge-resource application by community health workers (CHWs) to deliver breast cancer health care in India, where resources are depleted, is explored.

Fieldwork activity conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with frontline CHWs, which were analysed using an interpretive inductive approach.

The application generates knowledge as a resource that signals quality health care and yields a positive reputation for the public health service. The CHW’s acceptance of technology enables knowledge generation and knowledge capture. The design facilitates knowledge codification and knowledge transfer of breast cancer information to standardise quality patient care.

KM insights are provided for the implementation of mobile health technology for frontline health-care professionals in an emerging economies context. The knowledge-resource application can deliver breast cancer care, in localised areas with the potential for wider contexts. The outcomes are valuable for policymakers, health service managers and KM practitioners in an emerging economies context.

The legacy of the mobile heath technology is the normalisation of breast cancer discourse and the technical up-skilling of CHWs.

First, this paper contributes three propositions to KM scholarship, in a public health care, emerging economies context. Second, via an interdisciplinary theoretical lens (signalling theory and technology acceptance model), this paper offers a novel conceptualisation to illustrate how a knowledge-resource application can shape an organisation’s KM to form a resource-based competitive advantage.

Discusses the change in the search‐to‐produce ratio from 3:1 to 1.5:1 free searches for every produce or update command. Explains what the OCLC considers to be on the ′search′ side and what activities are on the ′produce′ side of the ratio, focusing on numeric and derived keys, title browse, search history, and the use of microenhancers and CD450 searches.

The provision of home and community supports can enable people to successfully age-in-place by improving physical and mental health, supporting social participation and enhancing independence, autonomy and choice. One challenge concerns the integration of place-based supports available as older people transition into affordable housing. Sustainable solutions need to be developed and implemented with the full involvement of communities, service organizations and older people themselves. Partnership building is an important component of this process. The purpose of this paper is to detail the intricacies of developing partnerships with low-income older people, local service providers and nonprofit housing associations in the context of a Canadian housing development.

A community-based participatory approach was used to inform the data collection and partnership building process. The partnership building process progressed through a series of democratized committee meetings based on the principles of appreciative inquiry, four collaboration cafés with nonprofit housing providers and four community mapping workshops with low-income older people. Data collection also involved 25 interviews and 15 photovoice sessions with the housing tenants. The common aims of partnership and data collection were to understand the challenges and opportunities experienced by older people, service providers and nonprofit housing providers; identify the perspectives of service providers and nonprofit housing providers for the provision and delivery of senior-friendly services and resources; and determine actions that can be undertaken to better meet the needs of service providers and nonprofit housing providers in order to help them serve older people better.

The partnership prioritized the generation of a shared vision together with shared values, interests and the goal of co-creating meaningful housing solutions for older people transitioning into affordable housing. Input from interviews and photovoice sessions with older people provided material to inform decision making in support of ageing well in the right place. Attention to issues of power dynamics and knowledge generation and feedback mechanisms enable all fields of expertise to be taken into account, including the experiential expertise of older residents. This resulted in functional, physical, psychological and social aspects of ageing in place to inform the new build housing complex.

The time and effort required to conduct democratized partnerships slowed the decision-making process.

The findings confirm that the drive toward community partnerships is a necessary process in supporting older people to age well in the right place. This requires sound mechanisms to include the voice of older people themselves alongside other relevant stakeholders. Ageing well in a housing complex requires meaningful placemaking to include the functional, physical, psychological and social aspects of older people’s everyday life in respect to both home and community.