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Clark, James Henry | 3-D Design of free-form B-Spline surfaces (CSTD-74-005) | This report describes an experimental system for designing free-form B-spline surfaces using a head-mounted display. In this system, the interaction with the surfaces takes place in three dimensions as the designed object's shape Is updated in real-time. The report also examines some of the problems... | Computer animation | 1974-09 |
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Catmull, Edwin | A subdivision algorithm for computer display of curved surfaces (CSTD-74-006) | This report presents a method for producing computer shaded pictures of curved surfaces. Three-dimensional curved patches are used, as contrasted with conventional methods using polygons. The method subdivides a patch into successively smaller subpatches until a subpatch is as small as a raster-elem... | Computer animation | 1974-12 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: [readers' survey] | In preparation for a discussion at the Charleston Conference, I am asking librarians, vendors, publishers, and system vendors who read Against the Grain to answer a survey about how services and products that support information delivery and dissemination are developed and change over time. For exa... | Reader surveys; Libraries; Acquisitions; Vendors | 1993 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: a glimpse of paradigms | Acquiring Minds Want to Know column: "The concept of the paradigm, as generally cited in the literature, derives from the work of Thomas Kuhn in the 1960's. Kuhn, an historian of science, set out to explore how science, and scientists, actually worked. Kuhn found that scientific activity tends to be... | Thomas Kuhn; Paradigms; Librarianship, trends; Librarianship, Philosophy; of | 1993-04 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: acquisitions and new technology | An Acquiring Minds Want to Know column: "Acquisitions as a function faces two major challenges. One is the general lack of an automated system that manages complicated acquisitions processes, provides interfaces to vendors, publishers, and institutional financial departments, and gathers significant... | Automated library systems; Acquisitions | 1994-06 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: cloth - paper-still, an issue | Acquiring Minds Want to Know column: "In the last issue of Against the Grain, I presented some ideas about the possible assumptions about obligations that underlie the scholarly paperback market. This article gets a little more practical and presents some figures from Yale for your consideration." | Books, paperback; Books, hardback; Acquisitions, libraries | 1994-11 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: educational opportunities | Acquiring Minds Want to Know column: The fourth ALCTS Business of Acquisitions Institute will be held in Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University June 3-4, 1993. These instituties are designed to teach a basic understanding of the complex function of acquiring materials for libraries to beginnin... | Acquisitions, Educational opportunities; Association for library collections and technical services | 1993-02 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: is full text half full or half empty? | Fulltext has become a more prevalent offering in electronic resources. In some cases the original publisher may produce material both in print and electronic form or in electronic form only, while maintaining control over the contents. In other cases, another party may obtain the rights from the pu... | Full text; Digital libraries; Electronic information | 1996 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: plagiarism- a victim speaks out | Acquiring Minds Want to Know column: "With all the talk of plagiarism lately, I thought it was time to hear the story of an author who was a victim of plagiarism, a viewpoint that has yet to be presented in ATG. | Plagiarism; Authors, ownership; Publishing | 1992-11 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: smart systems, smart books | This article will outline a specific suggestion both to aid some basic acquisitions functions and their management. It will focus primarily on use of vendors, vendor performance and business terms. I have several suggestions for improvement, which were touched on briefly in the first article, based... | Libraries; Acquisitions; Vendors | 1994 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: the art vs. the business of librarianship | Acquiring Minds Want to Know column. "The current discussions of outsourcing, re-engineering, and doing more with less demonstrate the fundamental shift in the way that librarians are being asked to provide their services. | Librarians; Business; Paradigm | 1995-06 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: the future of technical services | Recently I was asked to speak on the topic of the future of technical services departments. Just being asked to address such a topic seemed to affirm that there was going to be a future, contrary to the fears expressed by many folks in the trenches. So I approached the topic with great hope, and thi... | Technical services; Libraries; Future | 1996 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: what are our obligations? | Acquiring Minds Want to Know column: "Are there rules that govern the practices of librarians, vendors and publishers? Clearly there are ethical considerations that guide our behavior as individuals. Acquisitions librarians are in the midst of making formal their code of ethics. But what other, perh... | Acquisitions; Vendors; Publishers | 1993-11 |
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Landesman, Margaret M. | Acquisitions preconference 3: the summary | The Acquisitions for the Eighties Preconference, sponsored by the Association of American Publishers and R.T.S.D., was intended to bring together publishers, wholesalers and acquisitions librarians to explore the issues that will affect acquisitions in the coming decade and to consider ways in wh... | | 1980 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquisitions, up, up and away: Yale University?s new acquisitions department | As of July 15, 1991 Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library began reconstituting an acquisition's department under Technical Services. In these days of bad news about closing departments, budget cuts and escalating serial prices, it's nice to be able to report some good news! | Yale University; Sterling Memorial Library; Acquisitions | 1991 |
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Silverman, Randy | Bernard C. Middleton, MBE (1924-2019): | Bernard Chester Middleton was born in London in 1924 to Doris Hilda Webster, a secretary to a well-known barrister, and Regent Marcus Geoffrey Middleton, a talented bookbinder. At the age of thirteen in 1938, Bernard earned a trade scholarship to attend the Central School of Arts and Crafts in Londo... | | 1995 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Bit by bit: CAUSE, The Association for the Management of Information Technology in Higher Education | Bit by Bit column: "A few columns ago we wrote about EDUCOM, an important player in the education and computing arenas. This column describes CAUSE, another player in this arena, which is probably less well known than EDUCOM." | Information Technology, management; Academic Libraries, information technology; Computing and information technologies, evaluation | 1991-11 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Bit by bit: communicating voucher information to the accounting department from automated library systems(pt. 1) | Bit by Bit column: "This is the first of a two-part article. Part I presents general considerations involved in the automation process while Part II will discuss technical issues with examples from the NOTIS and INNOVACQ systems. | Library automation; Library information systems; Library acquisitions | 1991-02 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Bit by bit: communicating voucher information to the accounting department from automated library systems(pt. 2) | Bit by Bit column: "This is the second of a two-part article. Part 1 (ATG Feb. 1991) presented some general considerations about the value of the automation process, the time and effort saved and the improved accuracy achieved by eliminating redundant data entry. Part II will present the rudiments o... | Library automation; Library information systems; Library acquisitions | 1991-06 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Bit by bit: digitizing information | Bit by Bit column: "Librarians began to explore the technologies that allow printed materials to be converted to a digitized form in the 1980's. This technology essentially turns a printed original work into a computerized image. Although the technology is not new, it is only recently that it has be... | Digital technology; Digital holdings, libraries | 1992-04 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Bit by Bit: EDUCOM (Electronic connection for higher education) | Bit by Bit column: "This is a new column which will address technical issues including networking, consortia activities, electronic resources, and access. This column is on EDUCOM-The Electronic Connection for Higher Education. | Educational computing; Education technology; Electronic resources; Networks; Datafiles; EDUCOM | 1990-09 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Bit by bit: electronic data interchange (EDI) and the X12 format | Bit by Bit column: "Do you remember when you were trying to buy those socks, but had to wait at the cash register because the scanner would not read the barcode? You wondered why the clerk couldn't just ring up the price that was clearly marked on the tag and take your money. Welcome to the world of... | Computers; Electronic data transfer; Libraries | 1992-02 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Book repair program at Brigham Young University: an institutional profile | Brigham Young University's (BYU) Harold B. Lee Library (HBLL), situated in the arid Intermountain West, is a research library containing slightly more than three million volumes. The library consists of a main library, as well as separate business, museum, and learning resource center libraries. The... | | 1992 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Business of acquisitions 1991 | The third ALCTS Business of Acquisitions Institute was held in Boston at Emmanuel College on June 6-7,1991. These institutes are meant to convey some basic understanding of the complex function of acquiring materials for libraries to beginning acquisitions librarians or professionals with other bac... | Acquisitions; Vendors; Libraries | 1991 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Carol Twombly on type | The appeal of an inviting building begins with its solid architectural space. So too with typography, that all-too-often unnoticed "architecture" implicit in the conveyance of the printed word. Viewed under magnification, bold, vertical stems clearly support cross bars like studs; spherical bowls op... | Typography; Type designer; Typeface | 1994 |
