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This chapter aims to help librarians understand the underlying rationale for Resource Description and Access (RDA) and recognize the great potential of the Semantic Web for libraries.

It explains the linked data model and Semantic Web technologies in basic, informative terms, and describes how the Semantic Web is constructed. Semantic Web standards and technologies are discussed in detail, including URI, RDF, and ontologies. The study also traces the development of RDA and some of the major library Semantic Web projects. The authors explore how RDA shapes bibliographical data and prepares it for linked data in the Semantic Web. In addition, this study examines what libraries in the United States and the rest of the world have achieved in implementing RDA since its release.

RDA is the correct approach libraries should take.

This is the first and only chapter that covers the development of RDA in other countries as well as in the United States. It is highly informative for anyone who wishes to understand the RDA and Semantic Web and their relevance to libraries in a short period of time.

School-aged children living in Montgomery and Troy located in Central Alabama are particularly vulnerable to food insecurity. This study used a one-group pre-test–post-test research design to investigate if gardening and nutritional activities could be used as effective intervention to reduce levels of food insecurity among school-aged children. Statistical results found that several of the participants live in urban food deserts. Food insecurity scores were higher for participants in Montgomery compared to those in Troy, AL. The relationship between parental income, household size, and location were important indicators for measuring food insecurity among participants. Recommendations for future research include expanding the scope of study to different sites and climates with larger samples to enhance our understanding of gardening and nutritional educational activities on food insecurity among school-aged children.

Business models are constantly innovating to adopt international trends. Business models are shifting toward sustainable practices to meet expectations and standards and keep on with the rest of the competitors in their industries. Recently, sustainability took a greater emphasis, and this chapter seeks to describe the main sustainability initiatives generated in international markets. Through a qualitative study made of secondary sources, strategies aligned to different sustainability initiatives are shown. Interestingly, adopting technology, digital transformation, and blockchain can enhance sustainable development.

The purpose of this chapter is to shed light on humanistic knowledge traditions and highlight their value in informing educational administration and leadership curricula designed for graduate students. We argue that, despite their distinctive features, humanist traditions such as the Confucian, Buddhist, Islamic and European share many core values and practices that should be incorporated into the educational administration and leadership curricula. However, these traditions tend to be overlooked or marginalised by curriculum designers. We argue that incorporating these traditions into educational administration and leadership curricula can contribute to greater internationalisation and achieve a greater diversity. The chapter starts with an exploration of the origins, nature and definitions of humanism. The following parts discuss Confucian, Buddhist, Islamic and European humanist traditions and examine how they can contribute to shaping educational administration and leadership curricula.

Persons with multiple sexual partners forget a significant proportion of their sexual partners when asked to recall them (Brewer, Garrett & Kulasingam, 1999). Similarly, drug injectors forget a large proportion of the persons with whom they inject drugs. Forgetting of sexual and drug injection partners in contact interviews for partner notification and social network research hinders efforts to understand and control the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV. We address this problem by describing the cognitive structures people use to organize their partners in memory and developing interviewing techniques that exploit these structures to enhance recall of partners. One hundred fifty-six persons presumed to be at high risk for HIV freely recalled their sexual and injection partners. These subjects tended to cluster, or mention successively, partners who interacted with each other, partners with whom they had the same kind of role relationship, and partners with whom they interacted in the same type of location. The pauses between adjacently recalled pairs of partners typically correlated moderately negatively with pairs' perceived level of interaction. Subjects tended to list partners with whom they had more frequent sexual or injection contact earlier in recall than those with whom they had less frequent contact, and they also tended to recall partners in rough forward or reverse chronological order. The four supplementary interviewing techniques we developed for enhancing recall of partners involve cues that correspond to the organizing factors of partner memory we identified (network ties, role relationships, locations, and chronology).