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Automating gift and exchange operations (G & E) has been part of the general trend toward automating library operations. Automation was virtually nonexistent in G & E during the implementation of cataloging utilities and the automation of acquisitions, circulation, and other library operations. But with the advent of microcomputers and the Internet, automated G & E processes are becoming commonplace. Areas affected include gift acknowledgments; gift and exchange records; duplicate exchanges; selling duplicates through the Internet; Web guides to G & E as a whole; G & E operations at individual institutions; book sales; electronic mailings lists; communication with exchange partners via E-mail; and mounting exchange publications directly on the Web.

(1999). This Just Makes Sense: Yearlong Experiences in a High School Professional Development School. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 74, No. 3-4, pp. 310-318.

What is the utility of the concept of social capital? The quest for illusive social capital may not be for the practitioner to find the single culprit responsible for a decline in social capital or...

The Sophists, and the Socratic response they provoked, are considered in order to elucidate issues raised by present-day skill-talk. These issues include: whether skills avoid questions of ends and truth; the existence of general skills, such as critical thinking; the importance of knowledge; skills and the personality; and some implications for teaching and philosophy.

The concepts of core, generic or key skills are now ubiquitous in educational discourse and an integral part of recommendations for education and training programmes from school to university. It is our contention that ‐‐ in the sense of free‐standing, context‐independent abilities ‐‐ such skills are without philosophical or empirical support and are entirely illusory. Although the ideas of integrated core units or common learning experiences underpinning the post‐school curriculum have some educational justification, the pursuit of general transferable core/key skills is a wasteful chimera‐hunt and should now be abandoned.