PurposeThe paper seeks to provide an overview of innovative high school to college collaborations and initiatives at Kent State University Library. These collaborations and initiatives may serve as models and resources for future academic library high school to college programs.Design/methodology/approachNew and innovative collaborations and initiatives aimed at fostering successful high school to college student transitions are discussed.FindingsProvides overview of the K‐12 educational environment in Ohio, the collaborative environment, and opportunities for outreach and collaborative information literacy programming with high schools. Discusses new and innovative initiatives, lessons learned and provides practical considerations.Practical implicationsThis paper may serve as a guide and point out considerations and resources to both academic and high school libraries interested in exploring, expanding or establishing high school to college transition programming.Originality/valueAcademic and high school libraries will find value in this paper's discussion of the K‐12 educational environment, which identifies strong points of alignment and potential opportunities for collaboration. In addition, these libraries will find value in this paper's discussion of lesson learned and its overview of model programs and freely available online resources.

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Information literacy (IL) is a critical component of a 21st century education. Education professors are confronted with the responsibility of teaching information literacy on two levels since pre-service teachers need to become proficient in IL skills for their own success and also need to learn how to teach their future students to become information literate (Branch, 2003;Carr, 1998; Hinchcliffe, 2003). In an effort to determine the extent to which teacher education programs incorporate information literacy instruction, researchers at a large midwestern university conducted a survey of teacher education faculty in selected states. The survey sought to gather data related to faculty knowledge, inclusion, and assessment of information literacy in teacher education programs, and the degree to which there was collaboration between librarians and faculty in the teaching of information literacy skills. 145[ARTICLE]

Danish Holstein dairy cows in late lactation and milked in the morning only were used as a model for dry pregnant cows to determine the effect of oral drenching with zeolite A and zinc oxide, respectively, on total serum calcium. Ten cows were assigned randomly to two groups of five cows each, given either synthetic zeolite A (group A) or zinc oxide (group B). Blood samples were drawn daily at 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. during the whole experiment, and total serum calcium was determined. Daily fluctuations in blood calcium were recorded, with morning values being consistently lower than evening values. Oral drenching with a single dose of zinc oxide of 100 mg/kg of body weight as well as with zeolite in doses of 500 g of zeolite/cow twice a day for 2.5 d was reflected in serum calcium levels. In the group given zeolite A, there was a depression in evening values of total serum calcium although the difference did not reach statistical significance. It was followed by an increase above baseline level ("overshooting"). This was interpreted as a response from the calcium homeostatic mechanisms. In the group given a single dose of zinc oxide, a decrease in total serum calcium occurred. This decrease was not followed by overshooting, indicating that the single treatment with zinc oxide did not stimulate the calcium homeostatic mechanisms. The perspective of this first attempt to reduce dry cow ration calcium availability may be seen in relation to difficulties in formulating dry cows rations from home grown forage sufficiently low in calcium to elicit a hypocalcemia protective response at calving.

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More than 20% of the patients evaluated or treated by our service have pathological processes involving the extracranial head, neck, or skull base. Endovascular techniques have proved effective in provocative testing of regional blood supply, presurgical embolization of vascular tumors, palliation fbr conditions such as epistaxis, arid, potentially, cure of cutaneous vascular lesions. This article describes some of the more common abnormalities that the interventional neuroradiologist may encounter and outlines the therapeutic strategies arid techniques used at our institution.Guiding catheters are required as part of the coaxial system used in the small vessels. These catheters range in size from 5F to 1OF and are usually thin walled and nontapered. The tip is positioned in the parent artery, where it acts as an introducer for the smaller microcatheter, which passes through a rotating hemostatic valve connected to the guiding catheter hub. The dead space is continuously flushed with heparinized saline to prevent clot formation. A threeway stopcock on the rotating valve sidearm allows the injection of contrast material through the guiding catheter for serial angiograms or roadmapping while the microcatheter is in place.Available microcatheters are either steerable with the use of a guidewire or are flow directed. The steerable systems are most frequently used in the treatment of head and neck lesions because: (1) the evenly distributed blood flow throughout the external carotid system makes flow-directed catheters impractical;(2) the external carotid vessels have mnultiple side branches and curves requiring a steerable system for selective catheterization;(3) the lumen is of sufficient size to accept a variety of embolic agents including particles, gelatin sponge pledgets, platinum microcoils, and liquid agents; and (4) detachable or hand-tied niicroballoons can be mounted on the distal tip for temporary or permanent vascular occlusion.Other catheters are available for special uses, including a double-lumen test occlusion catheter used in t.emporary occlusion testing of larger arteries (see Provocative Testing section below).

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