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Building and Navigating a Path to Collaborative Digital Platforms for Oregon’s Libraries: There are Many Ways to Get There
No full textOver the last several years, the State Library of Oregon has explored options and supported a variety of projects to promote collaboration among libraries to build and sustain Oregon digital collections. Activities such as hosted meetings, grant funding, and pilot projects have identified both opportunities and roadblocks to collaboration, especially for Oregon’s small public libraries. A clear and distinct path has proven to be somewhat elusive, and the journey itself has demonstrated that a one-size-fits-all solution is unlikely to emerge soon. Multiple pathways to a more robust digital collections platform may not only be inevitable but preferable, given the diversity among the travelers and the complexity of the map. This article will describe the State Library’s efforts to support digital collections in the state and what may be on the horizon for improving access and collaboration
The Identification of Geometric Center of Soft Contact Lenses in Relation to the Visual Axis
No full textPurpose:This study aimed to investigate the geometric center position of soft contact lenses and the influence of the scleral shape on lens position.
Methods:In this study, the geometric center of soft contact lenses were marked with a white cross image. The lenses had an overall diameter 14.5 (mm), and were prism ballasted. The lenses were applied to 60 healthy eyes of 30 subjects (16 male, and 14 female). The mean ± SD age of the subjects was 25.5 ± 3.03 years, and spherical equivalent was (-1.91±1.82 (D)). Vertical and horizontal lens position was measured from the visual axis to the optical center of the lens with the Medmont E300 Corneal Topographer. Scleral sagittal height at a chord of 14.50 mm was measured in eight meridians with Precision Ocular Metrology, LLC sMap3D.
Results:The horizontal contact lens mean decentration was 0.81± 0.35 (mm) temporally in the right eye and 0.67 ± 0.31(mm) temporally in the left eye. The vertical decentration mean was 0.59 ± 0.38 (mm) superiorly in the right eye, and 0.56 ± 0.35 (mm) superiorly in the left eye. The contact lens decentered temporally in both eyes for all 30 subjects. Vertically, the lenses decentered superiorly in 55 eyes and stayed centered in 5 eyes. The lens decentration was not statistically significantly different between the right and left eyes (F= 3.308, P=.079, ES= 0.471). The scleral sagittal height varied between the eight primary segments of the sclera (90°, 45°, 0°, 235°,270°, 315°,180°,135°), and there was a statistically significant difference between the right and left eyes (F= 4.230, P
Conclusions: Soft contact lenses were frequently decentered temporally and superiorly in the primary gaze. The scleral shape was asymmetrical and was not associated with lens decentration in this study.
Keywords: Soft contact lenses, decentration, sagittal height (SAG), scleral shap
Volume 25 Issue 1 Introduction
Get PDFThe issue of OLAQ that you currently hold in your—er—computer screen focuses on the “future organization of things.” I titled this issue not out of laziness or a lack of eloquence, but because I did not want to reduce our work to mind-numbing and siloed verbiage such as cataloging, technical services, metadata, and the long string of jargon that our job titles have become. I wanted this issue to approach current developments and future concerns of technical library work with an ease only accomplished by consulting the humble, articulate colleagues present in this state.
This issue begins with a very succinct, informative overview of current developments in the field through a practical lens. Then, we’ll delve right in to faceted vocabulary, followed by lessons learned in making open electronic resources more accessible in the catalog. In fact, there are a lot of articles dealing with improving our systems and leveraging our collections, because that is what we do. Learn how to evaluate workflows across departments, migrate to more adept systems, automate past practices, and implement a new discovery layer. Last but not least, we’ll consider some personal insight on developing technical training within a tight budget.
I hope you enjoy reading through the experiences of your technical colleagues and learn to appreciate the important, yet oftentimes invisible, work of organizing things
The Rewards of Belonging: Community as a Social Determinant of Health
Get PDFThrough evidence-based research, and the use of personal stories, the author proposes that experiencing a sense of community and belonging is a basic human need. The argument presented suggests that community as a social determinant of health has tremendous effects on the health of those who are part of one such environment. It also discusses ways in which communities function, and how members of a community can benefit from each other and the community itself
Sciences and Technology Open Resources: A Collaborative Effort Between Libraries and Faculty
Get PDFOpen Oregon Educational Resources (2018) researched the changes open educational resources have had on textbook affordability in community colleges in Oregon between 2015 and 2017. One comparison in the report is the number of hours a student working minimum wage would need to work to afford course materials. In 2017, at a two-year college that was 176 hours of work. While similar data is not yet available for Oregon four-year universities, one may assume it is near to double or more, topping 300 hours of work.
Open access is in relation to the license type of a text or material. A copyright license such as Creative Commons attribution allows people to use materials without the traditional barriers of the publishing industry. Add to this the wide accessibility of the internet, and there is a new model for creating and sharing of information that many can use. For the Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech), this does not only mean easier access for students across socioeconomic barriers, but also the ability of the library to publish materials created by faculty, and for faculty to work with other services such as OpenStax and LibreText to publish materials on a larger scale. This paper seeks to provide two views of the process at Oregon Tech. First, the library sponsored a pilot to support use and creation of open materials. Second, the paper gives one faculty member’s experience in the creation and use of such resources
