Cathedrals of Learning: Great and Ancient Universities of Western Europe provides a conspectus of the great Western European universities, pithily tells their life stories, showcases their architectural heritage, and describes the art, literary, and natural history collections they have accumulated over the centuries. This book profiles the ancient universities and their distinctive organizational cultures, reveals their customs, ceremonies, and traditions, their quirks and quiddities, recounts their complicated histories, describes their architectural wonders (libraries, museums, anatomy theaters, botanical gardens) and treasures (rare manuscripts, antiquities, paintings, and objects d'art of all kinds), and introduces their famous alumni, distinguished scholars, Nobel Prize-winning scientists, and famously eccentric personalities. It is a book for scholars, researchers, and anyone interested in these ancient institutions that remain centers of learning in the contemporary world.

Vorwort Informationsmanagement ist seit wenigen Jahren zum Inbegriff der Bemuhungen urn einen verbesserten Einsatz der Ressource Information zur Starkung der Leistungs-und Wettbewerbsfahigkeit in der Industrie wie auch in der oeffentlichen Verwaltung 1 geworden. Ziel des vorliegenden Sammelbandes ist es daher, Notwendigkeit und Chancen des Informationsmanagements fur Wissenschaft und Forschung, die Bereiche der Wissens- und Informationsverarbeitung par excellence und zugleich Schlussel- bereiche zur Erlangung von Wettbewerbsvorteilen, deutlich zu machen. Anhand von Anwendungsbeispielen aus Universitaten, aus dem Bibliotheksbereich und diversen Forschungseinrichtungen solI der Stand der Praxis dargestellt werden. Zugleich werden Entwicklungsmoeglichkeiten von Informationssystemen zur Steigerung der Wettbewerbsfahigkeit und zur Verbesserung von Dienstleistungsangeboten im Wissen- schaftsbereich diskutiert. Durch das breite Spektrum der Beitrage wird ein 'rich picture' des Informationsmanage- ments gezeichnet. Die Zweisprachigkeit der Beitrage ist Ausdruck eines grenzuber- schreitenden Dialogs, bei dem die jeweils nationalen Besonderheiten bewuBt kontrastiert werden. Gerade die recht unterschiedlichen Perspektiven der verschiedenen Disziplinen und Domanen von der Informatik, uber Informationswissenschaft bis hin zu den Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, aber auch der diversen Anwendungskontexte, Unterstut- zung am Forscherarbeitsplatz, Informationsstelle, Leitungsinformation unterstreichen den notwendig interdisziplinaren Ansatz des Informationsmanagements. Die bestehen- den terminologischen und konzeptionellen Defizite machen deutlich, daB das Informa- tionsmanagement als Paradigma erst langsam an Konturen gewinnt, und verweisen auf einen entsprechenden Bedarf an fundierten Theorien.

'One of the noblest views in the world...' In rain-splattered, flower-powered Westport you'll hear William Makepeace Thackeray's fulsome words intoned more often than the Rosary. The much-feted town, nestling at the edge of majestic Clew Bay and overlooked by conical Croagh Patrick-that most holy of holy mountains-is as tiny as it is tidy, as cute as it is cosmopolitan. Westport is the Koh-i-Noor in Connaught's crown, a magnet not only for tourists but also writers, artists and musicians from all corners of the globe. Tarry a while and you'll soon be ensorcelled by the friendly banter, cheerily painted houses, music-filled pubs and traditional shop-fronts. It's Ireland, as it ought to be. And it is here, a mere sling shot from the wild Atlantic, that Botox-the needle-propelled elixir of youth, the Finn McCool of facial treatments-is manufactured. One way or another, Westport will get under your skin.

The Fake's Regress is the sequel to The Fake's Progress. Shortly before 9/11, Sebastian Conyers washes up in a remote corner of Ireland. Neither bowed nor chastened, he happy-go-luckily hitches his wagon to an unheard-of technical college with delusional aspirations to make a name for itself in Saudi Arabia. Though, like every Irishman, Sebastian knows the quote `To Hell or Connaught,' he is about to learn that the two are not mutually exclusive. One minute he's engaged to marry a colonel's daughter, the next he finds himself trussed and gagged in a wooden crate destined for clandestine shipment to Riyadh. And all because his alcohol-stained lips grazed those of a young Saudi student. Will this be the final installment in the picaresque life story of Castletownmorris's most libidinous, most narcissistic son?

Sebastian Conyers emerged from the womb at a time when sex did not exist in Ireland. At age twenty-one he thought that a clitoris was a flower. When he eventually broke his duck, it was with the panache of an inebriated sumo wrestler. Women took an interest in the young professor as he cruised the conference circuit. If pressed, he would have described himself as an accidental philanderer. Others would have been less charitable: an inveterate womanizer, a priapic narcissist. His career took him to the Grubb Business School, where many a feather would be ruffled. Sebastian was cavalier, sardonic and libidinous. His new colleagues were of a different kidney: politically correct, sanctimonious and litigious. The scuzzy semen trail that had begun in Ireland would end in Iowa amid potentially ruinous accusations of sexual harassment, racial insensitivity and misogyny. Would Sebastian's luck hold, or had he finally flown too close to the sun?

A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact. Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available tools and data that can reveal patterns of intellectual activity and impact that were previously invisible: mentions, acknowledgments, endorsements, downloads, recommendations, blog posts, tweets. This book describes recent theoretical and practical advances in metrics-based research, examining a variety of alternative metrics-or "altmetrics"-while also considering the ethical and cultural consequences of relying on metrics to assess the quality of scholarship. Once the domain of information scientists and mathematicians, bibliometrics is now a fast-growing, multidisciplinary field that ranges from webometrics to scientometrics to influmetrics. The contributors to Beyond Bibliometrics discuss the changing environment of scholarly publishing, the effects of open access and Web 2.0 on genres of discourse, novel analytic methods, and the emergence of next-generation metrics in a performance-conscious age. Contributors Mayur Amin, Judit Bar-Ilan, Johann Bauer, Lutz Bornmann, Benjamin F. Bowman, Kevin W. Boyack, Blaise Cronin, Ronald Day, Nicola De Bellis, Jonathan Furner, Yves Gingras, Stefanie Haustein, Edwin Henneken, Peter A. Hook, Judith Kamalski, Richard Klavans, Kayvan Kousha, Michael Kurtz, Mark Largent, Julia Lane, Vincent Lariviere, Loet Leydesdorff, Werner Marx, Katherine W. McCain, Margit Palzenberger, Andrew Plume, Jason Priem, Rebecca Rosen, Hermann Schier, Hadas Shema, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Mike Thelwall, Daril Vilhena, Jevin West, Paul Wouters

Frat boys who think Mario Lanza is an Italian sports car; journalists who consider "Man arrested for blowing mucus from nose at an officer" a news story. Welcome to Bloomington: a world of grey cells and limestone, catfish and cheerleaders, binge drinking and bigots, Ockham's razor and buzz cuts. This is the tiny college town where Alfred Kinsey catalogued gall wasps before stinging a nation into belated sexual awareness. If you're gay or Greek, love opera or hoops, Bloomington is heaven on earth; we have as many same-sex couples as sorority sisters, as many divas as athletes. Welcome to my home, a quixotic mix of small-town life and larger than life campus, squirreled away in the flatlands of Middle America, where torpor is sometimes mistaken for nirvanic serenity, irony for insult and "ethnographic dazzle" for deep differences.

An autobiographically indulgent reflection on the goalie's eccentric art.