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  • 5 - Managing volume in discovery systems

  • Edited by Louise F Spiteri
  • Book:
    Managing Metadata in Web-scale Discovery Systems
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2016, pp 113-136

  • Summary

    The well established measures of recall and precision are becoming increasingly relevant in web-scale discovery systems. Given the way that most people search, which is by using the simple keyword box that searches all text anywhere in the record, web-scale discovery systems will lead to increasingly large recall as we provide access to more linked items. Using the environment of academic libraries, this chapter will explore the following questions: Do we need to be careful about the sheer volume of items to which we can provide access via web-scale discovery systems? Do we want these systems to become another Google, where precision of results is not always as accurate as we would like? Are we too obsessed with the notion of providing access to everything at the expense of the quality of the results?

    Introduction – the promise of the one search

    ‘The Library with a Thousand Databases’ was the amazingly evocative title of a talk given by Matthew Reidsma as part of NISO's Virtual Conference on Web-Scale Discovery in 2013 (Reidsma, 2013). Drawing on Joseph Campbell's work on myth, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Campbell, 1968), Reidsma drew a parallel between Campbell's ‘hero's journey’, where the aspiring hero ventures from the normal world (use of Google) to the special realm (use of specialized databases), and the experiences first time users face as they start a piece of academic research. A similar idea can be seen in the series of videos The Adventures of Sir Learnsalot, where academic research is depicted as a hero's journey (Tolly, 2013). The use of a library web-scale discovery system, Summon, was then proposed by Reidsma as a partial solution to keep users in the ‘normal world’, at least as much as possible. This is an interesting analogy, though I would argue that the challenge a first time user faces when starting an academic research project goes beyond just using databases, but there is no doubt that web-scale discovery does make things easier from the point of view of searching.

  • Crown Dependencies

  • Edited by Karen Attar
  • Book:
    Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2016, pp 529-536

  • Summary

    Guernsey

    The Greffe, Royal Court, St Peter Port, Guernsey. the Royal Court House, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 2NZ.

    TEL 01481 725277.

    Email mgreffier@ guernseyroyalcourt. gg.

    Web www.guernseyroyalcourt.gg/ article/ 1654/ Greffe.

    The Royal Court was established in the 13th cent. The Bailiff is its President. Guernsey's deliberative and legislative assembly, The States, meets here also, but administrative departments of The States are housed elsewhere.

    The Greffe is the official archive repository of the Royal Court and The States. It also has other record office functions, being the registry of births, marriages and deaths, and a repository for private deposited papers.

    List of Records in the Greffe, Guernsey, 2 v. (1969– 78); v. 3, Guernsey, The Royal Court (1983)

    Greffe Records. The official court registers date from 1526 (mostly MS) with some earlier documents.

    Greffe library. Official printed documents of the Court and the States, including Actes des Etats (1605–1845),1851, 8 v., and the earlier occasional Billets (agendas for States’ meetings and associated material); Recueil d'ordonnances de la Cour Royale (from 1533), 1852– ; Recueil des Ordres de Conseil (from 1803), 1903–.

    Deposited collections. Deposited collections of MSS are numerous, and some include printed works. The papers of George Metivier (17890–1881), the poet and compiler of the Dictionnaire franconormand, 1870, the MS and slips of which are included, together with other printed papers, and a genealogical collection which includes printed pedigrees. Part of the collection of the family de Sausmarez, including important naval documents of the 17th cent. and later (the family library and some papers remain at Sausmarez Manor, St Martin's). A collection deposited by B. M. M. Gosselin-Lefebvre, mainly on the Carey family and the Fief de Blanchelande, formed by Admiral Nicholas Lefebvre (1803–84).

    Guille- Allès Library, market Street, St Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 1HB.

    TEL 01481 720392.

    Email ga@ library.gg.

    Web www.library.gg.

    *The Guille-Allès Library was until 1981 a subscription library. Owned by a trust, it is funded by the States of Guernsey at a level to provide a free library service to the people of Guernsey. The founding collection is the library of Thomas Guille (1817–96), donated to the people of St Peter Port in 1856 and supplemented in 1869.

  • Northern Ireland

  • Edited by Karen Attar
  • Book:
    Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2016, pp 407-420

  • Summary

    Armagh

    Armagh Public Library, 43 Abbey Street, Armagh Bt61 7DY.

    TEL 028 3752 3142.

    Email admin@ armaghpubliclibrary.co.uk.

    Web http:/ / armaghpubliclibrary.arm.ac.uk/.

    Armagh Public Library is the oldest public library in Northern Ireland, founded in 1771 by Archbishop Richard Robinson as part of his plans to establish a university and to improve Armagh City. The basis for the collection was Archbishop Robinson's own library, which contains 17th- and 18th-cent. books on theology, philosophy, classics and modern literature, travels, history, medicine and law. The collection consists of MSS, incunabula, periodicals, books and pamphlets from the 12th cent. to the present day. The predominant subject is history, with an emphasis on Ireland and Britain. Current acquisition areas are: Saint Patrick, Jonathan Swift, local history (Armagh City and County), church history. The library holds 25,196 early printed works, including 7 incunabula, 510 16th cent. works, 5,767 17th cent., 11,068 18th cent., and 8,046 19th cent. Main languages are English, Latin, and Greek. A copy of Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) contains emendations in his own hand.

    J. Dean, Catalogue of the Books in the Keeper's Room (1924)

    J. Dean, Sketches of Primate Robinson, His Library and Armagh History (1930)

    G. McKelvie, Early English Books in Armagh Public Library: a Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed before 1641 (1977; mounted on website)

    W. Reeves, A Memoir of the Public Library of Armagh (1886)

    G. O. Simms, ‘The Founder Of Armagh's Public Library: Primate Robinson among his Books’, Irish Booklore, 1 (1972), 17–20

    D. R. M. Weatherup, ‘The Armagh Public Library, 1771–1971’, Irish Booklore, 2, 2.5 (1975), 269–99

    Belfast

    Belfast Central Library, Libraries NI, Royal Ave., Belfast, Bt1 1EA.

    TEL 028 9050 9150.

    Email belfast.central@ librariesni.org.uk.

    Web www.librariesni.org.uk.

    Belfast first adopted the Public Libraries Acts in 1882, and the Central Library was opened 6 years later in 1888. The present special collections fall into 2 groups: the Heritage collection, and a general ‘fine books’ collection. The Heritage collection owes much of its size and quality to 2 substantial private collections, that of Francis Joseph Bigger (d.1926), c.3,000 v. presented by his brother in 1927, and the bequest of John Smyth Crone (d.1945). Many of the early printed books in the general collection were given by Canon John Grainger shortly before he died in 1891.

    H. Frazer, ‘Local History Collections in Belfast’ (London, LIS MA thesis, 1976), 48–61

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Karen Attar
  • Book:
    Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2016, pp xi-xvi

  • Summary

    ‘The basic aim of the Directory is to bring to the notice of scholars and researchers the location of rare book collections in libraries in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, and to provide such information about their nature, size and importance as will enable them to assess whether or not further investigation is likely to be to their benefit.’

    Thus Wrotemoelwyn I. Williams, editor of the first edition of the Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (1985), in his introduction to that work (p. ix), and the aim holds good for the third edition in 2016. The Directory brings together descriptions of collections of at least 50 items based on the printed word across all sorts of repositories throughout the British Isles: national libraries; academic libraries; public (i.e. local authority) libraries; subscription libraries; professional and other independent libraries; company libraries; libraries in trusts, staTELy homes, London clubs, cathedrals, churches, monasteries, schools, archives, museums, and even a prison. It answers such questions as: ‘Where do I find 16th-century French imprints? / Civil War pamphlets / a concentration of Kelmscott Press books / Victorian books about railways?’, and assists researchers to plan their work: ‘Must I go to London for a concentration of Penguin books, or can I go to Manchester or Edinburgh?’ ‘Is Thomas Carlyle's library preserved intact and available in the public sphere?’.

    It is a directory of collections, not a catalogue of individual books: it is anticipated that anybody seeking for specific titles will look in the usual sources, such as the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC), the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) (both of which contain books not catalogued online by particular libraries), Copac, and the catalogues of specific libraries. Information will sometimes be far less detailed than that given on the websites of individual contributing repositories; what the Directory does is to bring everything together.

    The continued need for a directory of collections, as more and more books are catalogued online, is clear partly from interest in features which do not readily emerge from catalogues, with their traditional emphasis on finding specific titles or works by a particular author or on a particular subject, and especially not from union catalogues: provenances, bindings, publishers, and so forth.

  • 3 - Managing linked open data across discovery systems

  • Edited by Louise F Spiteri
  • Book:
    Managing Metadata in Web-scale Discovery Systems
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2016, pp 57-90

  • Summary

    Introduction

    This chapter examines and explores linked open data in the context of the current digital data landscape, drawing on recent developments associated with digital data: big data, research data, open data and web of data. A specific goal of this chapter is to draw attention to the importance of the ways in which linked open data can provide libraries with opportunities to enhance the findability of their data and information resources, and to support seamless and unified access in heterogeneous content repositories, such as digital libraries and integrated discovery systems. The first part of the chapter addresses the key concepts of big data, research data, the Semantic Web and open data. The second part of the chapter focuses on the definition and importance of linked data and its current applications in various settings. Specific examples of libraries and major projects associated with using and implementing linked open data are briefly reviewed. BIBFRAME is reviewed as a popular framework to support the transformation of library data into linked open data. An overview of publishing linked data is presented, along with a reference to useful resources for publishing, browsing and linking linked open data tools.

    Big data

    The vast volume, variety and complexity of digital data available on the web has resulted in the emergence of what is called ‘big data’. Digital libraries, search engines, social media sites, cloudbased computing infrastructures, as well as virtual collaboratories, e-science, e-humanities and e-social-science projects produce massive volumes of data that call for proper management and preservation planning approaches and strategies in order to provide users with effective and efficient data access. Many terms used in the literature refer to, or are associated with, the phenomenon of big data, including ‘digital data’, ‘research data’, ‘linked data’, ‘open data’, ‘web of data’ and ‘data repositories’ (Borgman, 2012; Hodson, 2012; Lyon, 2007; National Science Foundation, 2012). The availability and discourse of these data types presents new research and development opportunities as well as challenges. To provide a coherent and contextualized understanding of big data, one approach would be to place big data in the context of digital libraries, as the latter have been well researched and share a number of similarities with big data.

Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland
  • Edited by Karen Attar
  • Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2016
  • This directory is a handy on-volume discovery tool that will allow readers to locate rare book and special collections in the British Isles and has been fully updated since the second edition was published in 1997.

The Innovative School Librarian
  • 2nd edition
  • Edited by Sharon Markless
  • Elizabeth Bentley, Sarah Pavey, Sue Shaper, Sally Todd, Carol Webb
  • Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2016
  • This book takes a strategic approach to the leadership of school libraries and will inspire and enable school librarians to think creatively about their work and the community in which they operate. The Innovative School Librarian raises important questions about the functions of the school librarian and sets out to encourage the reader to re-examine their own professional values, assumptions and practices. This has led to the inclusion of a new chapter on using evidence, a large number of new vignettes to illustrate responses to challenges as well as a significant re-structuring of other chapters.Written by current leaders in the field, each chapter addresses the practical issues facing school librarians. This new edition has been fully updated In the light of curriculum revisions, resource changes, developments in the use and integration of technology and new routes into the profession.Key topics covered include:the librarian's philosophy and professional identitybridging the gap between different visions for the school libraryidentifying and understanding our communitymaking a positive response to changekeeping inspired and inspiring others integrating the library into teaching and learning.This is an essential, thought-provoking book for all school librarians, practitioners in schools library services, and students of librarianship. It has plenty to interest school leadership, headteachers, educational thinkers, public library managers and local government officers.

  • 6 - Generating and using evidence of impact

  • from PART 2 - YOUR COMMUNITY: FROM PERCEPTIONS TO PRACTICE
  • Edited by Sharon Markless
  • Elizabeth Bentley, Sarah Pavey, Sue Shaper, Sally Todd, Carol Webb
  • Book:
    The Innovative School Librarian
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2016, pp 87-104

  • Summary

    Evaluating what we do is a crucial part of our professional practice. We work as librarians in order to make a difference for others but how do we know if we are succeeding if we do not evaluate? How can we persuade others of the value of our work without having evidence to support our claims? For example, head teachers want to see a return on the investment made in the library and evaluation evidence helps to make its impact visible. Practice that is evidence-based has credibility in the eyes of others and enables us to demonstrate the library's strategic role and improve services. In addition, active use of evidence reflects the wider move across education towards evidence-based practice. We need to be seen working at that level.

    It is important not only to generate our own evidence, but also to keep up to date and actively use published research to raise awareness of the possibilities that school librarians can offer and the conditions most likely to make any initiative effective. This chapter will look at using both published evidence and standards, and evidence we generate ourselves.

    Using published evidence

    Some useful examples of published evidence

    There is now a good body of published evidence from which the school librarian can draw to inform a course of action they are considering, or to support a case they are trying to make.

    One useful source is a critical review of the published evidence on the impact of school libraries (Williams, Wavell and Morrison, 2013), which brought together a range of studies from different countries. It is important that school librarians know about, and use, this type of material because of its credibility. Williams and her colleagues cited a well known series of large-scale statistical studies conducted in a number of American states and a Canadian province, from Colorado (Lance, Rodney and Hamilton-Pennell, 2000) to New York (Small et al., 2007), which found a direct correlation between a well staffed and resourced school library and higher test scores for all student grades (Scholastic Research Foundation, 2008).

  • 8 - Becoming integral to teaching and learning

  • from PART 3 - MOVING FORWARD
  • Edited by Sharon Markless
  • Elizabeth Bentley, Sarah Pavey, Sue Shaper, Sally Todd, Carol Webb
  • Book:
    The Innovative School Librarian
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2016, pp 129-142

  • Summary

    We believe that becoming an integral part of the teaching and learning process is an important goal for school librarians. However, in the literature of school librarianship, and indeed the whole field of librarianship, integration is presented as the Utopia, which implies that we may aspire to but never achieve it. We believe, on the contrary, that becoming integral to teaching and learning within schools is not only a valid aspiration for school librarians but achievable. It is the process of working together with members of our school community to achieve integration that gives real purpose to our work.

    Integration is also the process whereby the librarian and the library become essential parts of the school at all levels. As we have said already, this is part of serving the community in which we work, a core part of any librarian's role. Becoming integrated involves:

  • • looking at structure and staffing

  • • considering where the librarian sits within the internal management of the school

  • • making constructive relationships within the school community

  • • thinking about the place the library and the librarian occupy within teaching and learning

  • • working to be a visible part of the solution to the students’ learning needs. (Streatfield and Markless, 1994)

    • We recognize that integration may take place at different points along a continuum from working with an individual teacher to whole school involvement. Levels of integration fluctuate over time, as the school's management structure, curriculum and personnel change.

    Although our aim of supporting the core purposes of the organization should be constant, we need to determine what form integration might take according to context.

    We each need to build a vision of what integration looks like in our workplace. There will be a range of possibilities, which need to be linked to the librarian's capabilities, opportunities and aspirations to create a dynamic response to the teaching and learning culture of the school.

    How, then, do we achieve integration with the rest of the school? It can be done in any of the following ways:

  • • through becoming an integral part of the teaching team

  • • through forging constructive relationships

  • • by sustaining integration into teaching and learning

  • • by being innovative with physical and virtual library space

  • • by using the virtual library

  • • by playing a role in the management of the school.

  • Wales

  • Edited by Karen Attar
  • Book:
    Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2016, pp 503-528

  • Summary

    Aberystwyth

    Aberystwyth University, The Hugh Owen Library, Information Services, Aberystwyth University, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth SY23 3DZ.

    TEL 01970 622400.

    Email is@ aber.ac.uk.

    Web www.aber.ac.uk/ en/ is/ index.html.

    Aberystwyth University was founded in 1872. The Library has existed primarily to support teaching and research within the University. Special collections in the library have come into being in 2 ways: by individuals’ bequests which have been retained as a collection or eventually collected together, and by bringing together related material from various sources within the library.

    Early Printed books collection. C.800 separate works, 1501–1700; 93 STC and 294 Wing items. A mixed collection with a good deal of theology and classical texts, some early scientific material and 15 pamphlets relating to the Popish Plot of 1678.

    Books Printed before 1701 in the Library … (1972). Additions have been made since.

    books Printed between 1701 and 1800. C.5,000 v., covering mainly theology, history, classics, English and French literature and law. A number have interesting ownership associations, e.g. ownership by Sir Isaac Newton, Horace Walpole and Daniel Rowland.

    Rare books Printed after 1800. C.13,000 v. Particular col lections include:

  • Castle Cottage gift. 109 items presented by

  • Gwyn and Mair Jones, concentrating on private

  • presses (e.g. Golden Cockerel, Nonesuch) with

  • which G. Jones was associated. Also c.200 items

  • from modern private presses including all

  • books from the Gregynog Press (1923–1940)

  • and the Gwasg Gregynog (1976–).

  • Challinor gift. C.800 items, 18th–20th cent.,

  • chiefly of important texts in British geology and

  • natural history.

  • Duff Pamphlet collection. C.1,000 pamphlets

  • and offprints, chiefly later 19th cent. – early

  • 20th cent., on classical subjects.

  • John Camden hotten collection. Publications

  • by John Camden Hotten, publisher in London

  • 1856–1873. Collection built up since 1971; currently

  • numbers c.130 items.

  • S. h. f. Johnston gift. C.2,000 v., with particular

  • emphasis on British military history and

  • regimental histories, the Peninsular War and

  • 18th-cent. Scottish history. Mainly late 18th

  • cent.–1914.

  • Scotland

  • Edited by Karen Attar
  • Book:
    Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2016, pp 445-502

  • Summary

    Aberdeen

    Aberdeen Art Gallery And Museums, James Mcbey Memorial Print Room And Art Gallery, Schoolhill, Aberdeen AB9 1FQ.

    TEL 01224 523700.

    Email info@ aagm.co.uk.

    Web www.aagm.co.uk/ Venues/ AberdeenArtGallery/ aag- overview.aspx.

    This is the working library of the Art Gallery and Museum, and has been developed since the present accommodation was provided by the widow of James McBey in 1961. The library holds c.10,000 books and some 5,000 exhibition catalogues, the majority of which are art-related. Collection covers the whole field of art, with emphasis on 20th-cent. British work. There is a special collection of c.200 books and memorabilia that belonged to James McBey (1883–1959), etcher and artist, presented in 1960 by his widow.

    Aberdeen University Library, Special Collections Centre, the Sir Duncan Rice Library, Bedford Road, Aberdeen AB24 3AA.

    TEL 01224 272598.

    Email speclib@ abdn.ac.uk.

    Web www.abdn.ac.uk/ library/ about/ special.

    King's College, founded in 1495, and Marischal College, founded in 1593, were separate universities until ‘fusion’ in 1860. Each had its own library, and each attracted gifts and bequests of books over the centuries, a practice of acquisition which has continued since 1860. In 2011, special collections were relocated from long-term accommodation at King's College to the newly-opened Sir Duncan Rice Library. The printed book collections in the Special Collections Centre extend to c.230,000 v., 15th–21st cent.

    I. Beavan, P. Davidson and J. Stevenson (eds), The Library and Archive Collections of the University of Aberdeen: an Introduction and Description (2011)

    J. R. Pickard, A History of King's College Library, Aberdeen, 3 v. (1987)

    alford Mutual Improvement association library.

    C.1,700 v., mainly 19th cent. Founded 1839, with further additions made in 1920s. Good example of a 19th-cent. rural county library. Particular concentrations in popular Victorian literature (esp. novels), geology and natural history.

    bernard C. lloyd Walter Scott collection. C.6,000

    v. written, edited or with contributions by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). Primarily 1st edns of all Scott's writings in English and other European languages, together with secondary biographical and critical literature, 18th–21st cent., and other works, ranging from operatic libretti to comic strips, adapting or inspired by Scott.

    A. Lumsden, ‘The Bernard C. Lloyd Walter Scott Collection’, in Beavan, Davidson and Stevenson (see above), 278–279

  • Republic of Ireland

  • Edited by Karen Attar
  • Book:
    Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland
    Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    08 June 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2016, pp 421-444

  • Summary

    Armagh

    Armagh Public Library, 43 Abbey Street, Armagh Bt61 7DY.

    TEL 028 3752 3142.

    Email admin@ armaghpubliclibrary.co.uk.

    Web http:/ / armaghpubliclibrary.arm.ac.uk/.

    Armagh Public Library is the oldest public library in Northern Ireland, founded in 1771 by Archbishop Richard Robinson as part of his plans to establish a university and to improve Armagh City. The basis for the collection was Archbishop Robinson's own library, which contains 17th- and 18th-cent. books on theology, philosophy, classics and modern literature, travels, history, medicine and law. The collection consists of MSS, incunabula, periodicals, books and pamphlets from the 12th cent. to the present day. The predominant subject is history, with an emphasis on Ireland and Britain. Current acquisition areas are: Saint Patrick, Jonathan Swift, local history (Armagh City and County), church history. The library holds 25,196 early printed works, including 7 incunabula, 510 16th cent. works, 5,767 17th cent., 11,068 18th cent., and 8,046 19th cent. Main languages are English, Latin, and Greek. A copy of Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) contains emendations in his own hand.

    J. Dean, Catalogue of the Books in the Keeper's Room (1924)

    J. Dean, Sketches of Primate Robinson, His Library and Armagh History (1930)

    G. McKelvie, Early English Books in Armagh Public Library: a Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed before 1641 (1977; mounted on website)

    W. Reeves, A Memoir of the Public Library of Armagh (1886)

    G. O. Simms, ‘The Founder Of Armagh's Public Library: Primate Robinson among his Books’, Irish Booklore, 1 (1972), 17–20

    D. R. M. Weatherup, ‘The Armagh Public Library, 1771–1971’, Irish Booklore, 2, 2.5 (1975), 269–99

    Belfast

    Belfast Central Library, Libraries NI, Royal Ave., Belfast, Bt1 1EA.

    TEL 028 9050 9150.

    Email belfast.central@ librariesni.org.uk.

    Web www.librariesni.org.uk.

    Belfast first adopted the Public Libraries Acts in 1882, and the Central Library was opened 6 years later in 1888. The present special collections fall into 2 groups: the Heritage collection, and a general ‘fine books’ collection. The Heritage collection owes much of its size and quality to 2 substantial private collections, that of Francis Joseph Bigger (d.1926), c.3,000 v. presented by his brother in 1927, and the bequest of John Smyth Crone (d.1945). Many of the early printed books in the general collection were given by Canon John Grainger shortly before he died in 1891.

    H. Frazer, ‘Local History Collections in Belfast’ (London, LIS MA thesis, 1976), 48–61

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