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From the general to the specific this paper examines the concept of quality as it applies to university libraries by discussing several standards and approaches to quality, the new European space for Higher Education and how it impinges on university library quality, which are considered as supportive of research activities in this new space. The stages of quality assessment -- self-evaluation, external evaluation and final report -- are also discussed. Finally, focusing on those university libraries awarded the 2006 Quality certificate, the improvement actions set by each are analysed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the use of the expression hasta las trancas --originally hasta las trencas-- which is widely used in modern colloquial Spanish in Europe and to a lesser extent in Mexico, but not included in the DRAE nor in most other dictionaries. A corpus of examples has been collected based on questionnaires and sampling in the provinces of Almería, Granada and Málaga, in Internet discussion forums, the daily press and periodicals and literary texts. In the study the different meanings of this expression are listed, and the different uses of each semantic value are tabled (e.g. predicative and attributive verb combinations, and noun and adjective modifications). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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