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Publication date: 1 March 1986

Marifran Bustion

Milk is big business today in many nations, particularly those in Europe and North America. Thirty‐five countries produce 85 percent of the world's supply; the Soviet Union alone…

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Milk is big business today in many nations, particularly those in Europe and North America. Thirty‐five countries produce 85 percent of the world's supply; the Soviet Union alone produces 20 percent of that total. The cow is the major source of milk, although the milk of sheep, goats, horses, water buffalo, camels, asses, reindeer, and llamas is also consumed by humans.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 14 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 1 March 1986

Harvey Gover

With the start of a new decade in 1980, the public witnessed the arrival of a significant new technology, closed‐captioned television. The culmination of nearly a decade of…

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With the start of a new decade in 1980, the public witnessed the arrival of a significant new technology, closed‐captioned television. The culmination of nearly a decade of research and development, closed‐captioned television opened up a new world for the hearing‐impaired. Closed captioning provides a line of on‐screen, written messages co‐ordinated with the sound of the television program. These captions are “closed” in that they are visible only to viewers who have specially designed adapters, known as decoders, to make the words appear on the screen. More than just subtitles, captioning transcribes narration and sound effects as well as dialog. At last, over sixteen million hearing‐impaired individuals in the United States can read what they cannot hear on television.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 14 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 1 June 1999

Klaus G. Altmann and G.E. Gorman

The usefulness of impact factors as a substitute for conducting a costly local use study was investigated in an Australian university library. The results presented in this paper…

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The usefulness of impact factors as a substitute for conducting a costly local use study was investigated in an Australian university library. The results presented in this paper are consistent with the view that logical deselection decisions can be made only by using the results of a local use study. A number of reasons are advanced for why impact factors are poor predictors of local use.

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Collection Building, vol. 18 no. 2
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ISSN: 0160-4953

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