Libraries are an essential part of the community. However not all societies have libraries. Libraries require centralized populations, economic development and political stability for their survival. Libraries exist in places where peace exists. They cannot exist in places with full of conflicts. Libraries have different missions and serve different communities differently. People and organizations establish libraries with different missions. Historical overview shows that libraries have always had missions. The earliest mission of libraries was to maintain an archive for records. There is not information that shows when the first library was established. In the past, temples, municipals and governments had libraries. These libraries stored business records, deeds, tax lists, contracts and marriage records. Secondly, libraries had religious and practical missions. These were missions attached to early Egyptian libraries. Egyptian libraries were associated with temples that were cultural centers. Therefore, they provided an archive and functioned as places for learning. They stored medical collections. They also functioned as extensive private collections among wealthy Egyptians. Thirdly, at around the eighth century B.C, libraries started working as centers for storing reference materials for the education of future generations. This way it served with a mission of scholarship and research, for instance, the library of Ashurbanipal, in Mesopotamia (Rubin 35). Fourth, in the early times libraries served the missions of personal status and public use. The rise of the Roman Empire came with a shift of missions of libraries. This gave rise to libraries, such as Aristotle’s library. Cicero and Lucullus also opened libraries to people... ... middle of paper ... ...aries serve students irrespective of race (Rubin 61). For libraries to exist and continue serving their missions, they needs public positive attitude towards government agencies, education, service to all segments of the society, importance of reading, literature and positive attitude towards technology (Rubin 68). In conclusion, different libraries exist, for instance, school libraries, social libraries, circulating libraries and public libraries. All these libraries serve several missions. These missions include maintaining archives, supporting teaching and research, providing entertainment and serving the public among other missions. Libraries require public goodwill, for their existence. Therefore, governments, organizations and the public must support libraries through funding and using them effectively. They function as an essential part of the society.
Librarians are defined as “a person, typically with a degree in library science, who administers or assists in a library.” In truth, they are much more than that. In a recent interview with Traci Glass, the Teen Librarian at the Eugene Public library, we explored her personal story with becoming a librarian, including how it has benefitted and affected her life.
Breathing is the most important AL (Roper et al, 1998). A detailed assessment of her airway would be performed because protection of the airway throughout anaesthesia is essential (Yates, 2000). This does not just include recording of respiration rate and oxygen saturation (SpO2) but also noting any use of accessory muscles, shortness of breath, auscultation of chest and lungs areas for wheezes/crackles and asking patient about history of any respiratory illness/smoking (McArthur-Rouse, 2007).
Who can resist a book with a chapter titled, "Labia Lumps, Chunky Discharge, and Other Things They Never Taught Me in Library School"? Released this past summer, Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out takes no prisoners as its contributors ponder everything from the backtracking of '60s values by ALA's baby boomers to librarian imagery in erotica. This edited volume is a sequel to a 1972 self-published book titled Revolting Librarians. The original is worth checking out for its historical value alone. The editors of the 2003 volume, Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West gathered essays from ten of the original writers from the 1972 book for this version and it is interesting to see what thirty years has done to these radical librarians.
When starting off the day I did use the 60 second assessment tool to ensure there were no abnormalities with my patient. I looked for any IVs the patient many of had, there was one but no fluids were attached. I also looked for urine output from the patient because the patient did have a catheter in place. I also checked to ensure safety precautions were in place because the patient was a fall risk, the reason why he was here in the first place. I think this tool can for sure help to pick out the priorities of your patient with just a quick glimpse.
Moreover the patient needs time to provide a complete history. It is best to avoid technical terms that the patient may not be able to understand. It is important for the nurse to express herself clearly to avoid confusion. Before starting the process, patient consent is required. It is also important to ask the patient about health beliefs and practices.
What are the elements of a valid medical consent (consent)? Under what clinical situations is consent not required? Discuss using any relevant SA or NT legislation, or common law principles.
Describe how the client was monitored by the anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist during the procedure. Include what type of anesthesia the client received and how the airway was maintained and monitored.
If people were asked to define the importance of the books they would probably state that books are dead or will be dead soon. In “books a dying are? don’t believe it”, Anne Proulx expressed her views books. She suggests “every other week someone says that books are dead or dying”. By analyzing which will focused on a meaning, a form and the style of the essay well reveal that books are not on the way to extinction.
Lonestar Montgomery is no doubt one of the best institutions in America, and the best of library facility is highly required. Library is a place or building where books are kept and read. “The library is a researching place where most, if not all the information needed on any subject matter can be gotten.” (Odunayo 2014). It will be generally accepted that library is one of the key facilities that propel standard education in any institution, and Lonestar is not an exception in this case. Therefore, in order to boost the morale and courage of the students of Lonestar, a world class library well equipped with modern and sufficient textbooks and journals has to be provided on
Arist (2007) chose three outstanding examples of libraries—academic, special, and public---that demonstrate how to provide information, technology, programming, and services to their communities. Her purpose is to encourage every library to do the same.
The article “The North West London Blues” argues that public libraries still remain an important part of the society and should be preserved. There is no doubt that she is, in fact, a part of the minority who has the same opinion due to the reason that most people tend to prefer electronics over physical copy of books, especially the younger ones. Therefore, it is important for the author to use persuasive methods to gain more support. The author, Zadie Smith, uses evidence, reasonings, and stylistic elements in order to gain support.
According to the ANA, nurses are constantly caught between conflicting value systems. A nurse’s day-to-day practice involves ethical influences which determines how a nurse handles the patient. In order for a nurse to be committed to their patients or community, they have to be able to speak out in case a patient isn’t being cared for right or if the other nurses aren’t doing what they are supposed to. One major ethical dilemma for nurses is informed consent. Informed consent is when a patient or the patient’s family is able to completely understand and know what is being done to treat the patient. Informed consent poses a dilemma because it is a major concern for nurses if patients and their families are not fully informed about their treatments.
“Can we keep our libraries?” Smith takes the position on behalf of all of the library activists, stepping out of his point of view, and assimilating his viewpoint to speak for the people’s as well. She specifically uses the word “we” to make the audience feel included and apart of the movement to keep libraries. Rather than only referring to only statistics and evidence, Smith appeals emotionally to the audience, emphasizing that we are humans, not robots, and there is something intrinsic about the library that should not be taken away. Additionally, she utilizes a literary technique of allegory to portray an abstract idea as a form of character, illustrating Mr. “Notmytaxes” as the notion of people that do not want to pay for libraries because they do not use them in the first place. She brings out a “call to action”, asking the authorities to think more seriously about the consequences and bring more weight into their
A library or information unit must have a dedicated plan on having an organized Collection Development Policy, represents the guideposts of all types of library institutions. Collection development is the process of planning, selecting, acquiring and evaluating the library collections’ convenience to print and electronic collection developments. Thus, it is essential to have a written collection development policy, a statement of general collection building principles with desalinating the purpose and content of a collection in terms of relevance and internal audiences (Clayton and Gorman 2007). Broadly, the international and local libraries have sketched written collection development policies which they are aware of its uses. Recently, the written policies consistently renewed with the rise of digital collections. However, the value of the written collection development plan shakes with the complexity of managing electronic resources, funding and time considerations, criticism on how it written and also its inflexibility. This essay will examine the arguments for having the advantages of the written collection development policy (CDP) and the issues evolve which against the latter.
The total number of books is increasing day by day and also the readers. Youth and elders contribute greatly to this number. Print media is also linked as a STATUS SYMBOL.