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Purpose: This paper aims to provide an overview of collection assessment techniques useful for libraries. Main advantages, disadvantages and procedures for applying each assessment technique are explained.
Methodology/approach: The author performs a content analysis to understand how evaluators assess library collection.
Findings: Detailed descriptions are examined of the methods to develop guidelines necessary to evaluate library collection in support of their mission.

The effect of the present global economic factors facing the Nigerian nation will no doubt, make any right thinking citizen to be more reasonable, to nurture the process of discovery; to develop the class of education that will serve the supply of trained and authentic workforce to develop the economy. Functional education does not entail expertise in abstract and theoretical knowledge of a discipline, rather a selection of knowledge that is concrete, usable and which can be translated into action.

Social security is an investment in human resources, which can provide overall security for a person within the family, workplace, and society. The right to social security is an indispensable human right and an essential precondition for the realization of all human rights, which also represents an essential transformation from needs-based charity to rights-based social justice.

The article deals with Benin's place in the African touristic space. Reflection is centered on the potential at the country’s disposal to deal with African and West African competition. The demonstration is based on the use of statistical data from 1972 to 2000 and the opinion of foreign tourists visiting the country. The results and analyzes show modest tourist inflow and revenues: some delay related to certain factors which include the weak economy and the very low standards of living of the population.

Spontaneous biliary fistulae are encountered, not very rarely, in one’s surgical practice. These fistulae are of three types, Internal, External and Combined. Internal spontaneous biliary fistulae are commonest. External fistulae could be spontaneous or because of Therapeutic, Iatrogenic or Traumatic reasons and are very very rare. Spontaneous cholecystocutaneos fistula (SCCF), secondary to calculous cholecystitis is an extremely rare presentation in the present day scenario.

Introduction: association between oral and general health is relevant to the medical and dental communities. Different types of arthritis present manifestations in the oral cavity (infectious or inflammatory processes, and immunophatogenic mechanisms) involving both hard and soft oral tissues, which leads to problems such as difficulty for chewing and swallowing of food.
Objective: to determine decayed-missing-filled index in arthritic patients attended in the Faculty of Dentistry of the Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico, 2015. 

This study seeks to investigate the role of price information in reducing the price disparities of Irish potatoes among small scale farmers in Musanze, Rwanda. A baseline survey is first undertaken to establish the characteristics of the farmers as well as the degree of price disparities. It then applies a pilot randomized control experiment using three treatment and three control groups where the intervention is sending price information to farmers via the mobile phone.

The purpose of the study was to investigate the in-vitro antimicrobial activity of aqueous crude extract, of Sudanese Solanum dubium seeds, Sudanese Sunnut honey, combination S. dubium seeds and Sunnut honey and combination S. dubium seeds and Sunnut honey fresh. The aqueous crude extract, of S. dubium seeds, combination S. dubium seeds and Sunnut honey, Sunnut honey and combination S.

Groundnut grown under rainfed and irrigated conditions is subject to various diseases among which, Macrophomina phaseolina causing dry root rot is an important pathogen causing considerable yield loss. Management of M. phaseolina using chemical fungicides has been the prevailing control method for over fifty years. But the pathogen was reported to have developed resistance to fungicides and the pathogen is very difficult to be destroyed by drenching the soil with fungicides.

Co-operative sector has played a significant role in the development of rural economy of our Country. The Royal Commission on Agriculture (1927) has also pointed out that if cooperative fail there will be a failure of the last hope of rural India. The operation of this sector during the last hundred years has proved that it can fulfill the dreams and needs of common rural people in India. In the context of Andhra Pradesh cooperative has also been recognized as a pioneer institution for credit as well as supply of essential commodities to the people of the state.