18 research outputs found
Rethinking Shelving: Making Your Children’s Collections User-Friendly
No full textIt was the princesses that did it. About five years ago it seemed like every day a different little girl would come up to the children’s desk and want help finding picture books about princesses. I could do pretty well with trucks and trains because I knew enough books by author and could jump from Barton to Crews to McMullen until I found one. But I only knew a few princess books, and they were always checked out. And that was the final straw that led us to create our “Picture Book Topics” section. Soon we had a new “Pink” section filled with princesses, mermaids, and stories about girls who like sparkly things. It became and remains one of the most heavily used collections in the library.
We’ve added other new sections to our children’s collection in the past five years, including leveled early readers, a “Non-Fiction Series” area, and fiction staff picks by grade level and genre. All of the changes were spurred by asking a few basic questions about what happens at the Children’s Desk:
• How do kids (and sometimes their grownups) describe the books they want?
• Do we arrange the collection in ways that match those descriptions?
• If our collection arrangement doesn’t match a user’s questions, can we change it
The “Other” Winners: The Excitement of Mock Newberys
No full textAs we look back on one hundred years of the Newbery Medal, it’s fun to revisit the winning titles from past years. Remember when Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper won the 2011 award? And wasn’t it great when Jonathan Auxier’s Sweep was announced as the 2019 Medal winner
Experimental Techniques
No full text. In this course we will give examples for experimental techniques used in particle physics experiments. After a short introduction, we will discuss applications in silicon microstrip detectors, wire chambers, and single photon detection in Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) counters. A short discussion of the relevant physics processes, mainly different forms of energy loss in matter, is enclosed. INTRODUCTION In this course we will not try to reproduce standard text books about detectors (see for example [1,2]) and descriptions of interaction with matter (a good summary can be found in [3]), covering in great details all aspects of experimental high energy physics. Due to the time restrictions (3 \Theta 50 min were assigned by the organizers for this course) we will rather discuss examples on the use of some detector families. The selection is highly biased, since the author decided to use examples he knows best, e.g. he either worked on some of the detectors directly, or they were ..
A mesoscopic approach for draping simulation of preforms manufactured by direct fibre placement
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