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A description is given of the system produced by the Irish Meteorological Service Library for computerised cataloguing and retrieval, linked to an automated loans/returns system. The programs have been written entirely in FORTRAN 77 for the DEC 20–50 mainframe computer. Users can access the system through their own terminals, and may create retention files of records retrieved. In this system rapid retrieval is effected through a simple command language. Any number of keywords (which may be general keywords, authors' names or UDC subject classification numbers) can be combined in a single command by using the logical boolean operators AND, OR, NOT. Display is by a menu offering various formats on screen or on file. Online help is provided. The techniques used are discussed and indications are given of file structure, storage requirements and running speeds.

This research explores how skill proficiencies are distributed between low-income and not-in low-income groups using the results of a highly complex survey of the information-processing skills of Canadians between the ages of 16 and 65. We find that having measures of skills enhances our understanding of the correlates of low income. Skills have an independent effect, even when controlling for other known correlates of low income, and their inclusion reduces the independent effect of education and immigrant status. This result is relevant for public policy development as the knowledge of the skills profile of the low-income population can inform the design of efficient and effective programmes.

The law-oriented short stories and novels of lawyer/English professor John William Corrington are receiving increasing attention from legal scholars. However, no one has analyzed the science fiction screenplays he co-wrote with his wife, Joyce, from a legal perspective. This article analyzes two such screenplays and concludes that they are “Socratic” texts whose narrative structures and epistemological processes work in much the same way that the traditional participatory exchange works in law school. My analysis explores the links between law, allegory and science fiction as intersecting methods to imagine the possibilities for the future.

The purpose of this paper is to examine recovery through lived experience. It is part of a series that explores candid accounts of addiction and recovery to identify important components in the recovery process.

The G-CHIME model comprises six elements important to addiction recovery (growth, connectedness, hope, identity, meaning in life and empowerment). It provides a standard to against which to consider addiction recovery, having been used in this series, as well as in the design of interventions that improve well-being and strengthen recovery. In this paper, a first-hand account is presented, followed by a semi-structured e-interview with the author of the account. Narrative analysis is used to explore the account and interview through the G-CHIME model.

This paper shows that addiction recovery is a remarkable process that can be effectively explained using the G-CHIME model. The significance of each component in the model is apparent from the account and e-interview presented.

Each account of recovery in this series is unique, and as yet, untold.

People with disabilities have been called “the sleeping giant in our midst” (Zola 1993) because of their vast numbers and relative isolation from the American mainstream. Usually, discussions of this isolation are framed in terms of higher rates of unemployment, lower levels of educational attainment, lower incomes and lower rates of community participation (Louis Harris & Associates 1986, 1994). However, this characterization of people with disabilities as a huge, unrealized force may be especially apt in the context of electoral politics. In this paper, we review some of our recent research that has begun to shape our understanding of the role of people with disabilities in the American political system. This review of our prior work includes empirical tests of the “conventional wisdom” regarding the factors that influence electoral participation as well as a discussion that reflects recent theoretical developments in disability studies and political science. While in this review we do not provide an exhaustive summary of our prior work, we do provide an overview of this long-term research agenda. Finally, we conclude with many unanswered questions and ideas for future research.

The car is a room stimulating particular senses and emotions.(Urry, 2007, p. 127)

This chapter explores practices associated with musical listening within the car. It embraces DeNora's approach to the social study of music in conjunction with symbolic interactionism. I focus on musical elements partnered with social interaction that commonly occur in automobile commuter situations. Music is deployed as an environmental feature of automobile commuting that transforms the physical space of the car into a symbolic social space where those that occupy this context are afforded experiences of comfort and control. I conclude with a discussion of perceptions of public and private dimensions of car travel.

The purpose of this research is to address an important gap in identity research – how does consumer identity affect satisfaction following an unambiguous product experience.

Two experiments were conducted involving a product experience scenario and a service recovery encounter.

Study results demonstrate that experience valence moderates the impact of identity on customer satisfaction. Specifically, we find that identity improves satisfaction with a positive (but does not increase dissatisfaction with a negative) experience, and this effect arises via enhanced performance perceptions under positive experience rather than expectations.

Our research investigates whether the prior research argument that identity is a powerful and “sticky” source of brand evaluation is robust to product experience. Specifically, we extend the disconfirmation paradigm of satisfaction by identifying identity as a driver of satisfaction and by testing whether identity effects emerge via biased perceptions of performance or altered expectations.

Our findings offer interesting managerial implications in terms of using identity marketing to enhance customer satisfaction with positive experiences and to increase the effectiveness of recovery from brand failures, but identity marketing cannot shield a brand from negative product experience.

To our knowledge, this research is first to demonstrate the joint effects of identity and experience information on satisfaction using two different identities and settings.

While research on digital dangers has been growing, studies on their respective solutions and justice responses have not kept pace. The agathokakological nature of technology demands that we pay attention to not only harms associated with interconnectivity, but also the potential for technology to counter offenses and “do good.” This chapter discusses technology as both a weapon and a shield when it comes to violence against women and girls in public spaces and private places. First, we review the complex and varied manifestations of technological gender violence, ranging from the use of technology to exploit, harass, stalk, and otherwise harm women and girls in communal spaces, to offenses that occur behind closed doors. Second, we discuss justice-related responses, underscoring how women and girls have “flipped the script” when their needs are not met. By developing innovative ways to respond to the wrongs committed against them and creating alternate systems that offer a voice, victims/survivors have repurposed technology to redress harms and unite in solidarity with others in an ongoing quest for justice.