Using Research to Promote Literacy and Reading in Libraries: Guidelines for Librarians. IFLA Professional Report No. 125.
The publication is aimed specifically at librarians and related organisations who want to find ways to foster literacy within the global society. It focuses on the importance of wisely consuming, conducting and applying research conducted by librarians and their partners in order to promote literacy and reading.
Readers, reading and librarians
* Introduction: Remembrance of Things Past--and Future * Reading, Books, and Librarians * Making Choices: What Readers Say About Choosing Books to Read for Pleasure * The Book's Remarkable Longevity in the Face of New Communications Technologies--Past, Present, and Future * Some Speculation on the Future of the Book * The Meaning of Reading: Fiction and Public Libraries * Books Are for Use? Keeping the Faith in Reading * A Librarian's Thoughts on Reading * Readers' Advisory * From Reading Words to Reading the World: Readers' Advisory for Adult Literacy Students * Reading the Future of the Public Library * Reaching Library Patrons with Special Services and Materials * Flow: The Benefits of Pleasure Reading and Tapping Readers' Interests * Children and Reading * Clues from Conversations: An Overview of Research in Children's Response to Literature * "The Heart's Field": Landscapes of Children's Literature * Librarians in Fiction * From Cosmo and Alec to the Tallest Man in the World: Some Fictional Librarians and Their Patrons * Best Books and the Canon * Best Books and Readers * A Prevalence of Lists * Index * Reference Notes Included
Vertebral Fusion in Two Early Jurassic Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs from the Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, China
Here we describe two instances of pathological vertebral fusion in two genera of sauropodomorph dinosaurs from the Early Jurassic Lufeng Formation in Yunnan, China. The first is a specimen, of Lufengosaurus huenei with two fused cervical vertebrae, and the other is a specimen of the Lufeng basal sauropod, with two fused caudal vertebrae. Both pathologies are consistent with spondyloarthropathy and represent the earliest known occurrence of that disease in dinosaurs. The two specimens affirm that early dinosaurs suffered from the same bone diseases as living vertebrates. Spondyloarthropathy in these dinosaurs may have been induced by long-term mechanical stress, such as weight bearing, and/or limited motion at the joint that would otherwise have inhibited such remodeling. In both cases, surface remodeling suggests that the animals survived well beyond the initiation of spondyloarthropathy.