Leadership in Career and Technical Education: Beginning the 21st Century is the third edited book published by the University Council of Workforce and Human Resource Education (UCWHRE), formerly the University Council of Vocational Education (UCVE). The previous books, Beyond Tradition: Preparing the Teachers of Tomorrow's Workforce (Hartley & Wentling, 1996) and Beyond Tradition: Preparing Human Resource Development Educators for Tomorrow's Workforce (Stewart & Hall, 1998) reported trends in their respective fields and also addressed issues that are perennial to workforce education. This publication is somewhat different in that it represents a collaborative effort among members of the UCWHRE, the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education and the National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education. This collaboration symbolizes efforts to link theory and research to practice and practice to theory and research.

Presentation discussing the use of special diagnostic records in the context of Z39.50 and online library catalogs.

Photograph of Lamkang traditonal earring known as thlumthler. Thlumthler is worn during the cultural dances, festivities and ceremonies. This piece is beaded by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu of Thamlakhuren village.

Photograph of Lamkang traditional ornament called Kchou worn by men during the Lamkang cultural dance performance. They are worn on the wrist by men during the dance.

Phototgraph of Lamkang Traditional ornaments called Arloo and Kep worn in dancing. This pieces are worn during the cultural dancing in any festivities in the Lamkang community.

Photograph of Lamkang Tradtional necklaces called, [arloa kep haar used in Lamkang cultural dance performances. These are ornaments that are normally handed down from the grandmother to the mother and daughters in the Lamkang traditions. These pieces are of Tony Khular ornaments handed down by her mother.

Photograph of Lamkang traditional ornament called Haar in Lamkang. This is worn by women on the arms while dancing.This piece is handed down to Tony Khular by her mother Sankhil Thampol Khular Thamlakhuren village. Dance ornaments are normally handed down from grandmother to mother and daughters.

Photograph of a bracelet called Chavei in Lamkang. It is worn by women on both hands while performing the Lamkang cultural dance.This piece is handed to to Tony Khular by her mother Sankhil Thampol Khularnu of Thamlakhuren village.

Photograph of Lamkang traditional lace worn around the shin known as saisang In Lamkang. This piece is made by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu of Thamlakhuren village.

Photograph of Lamkang traditonal earring known as thlumthler. This piece is worn during the cultural dances, festivities and ceremonies. This piece is beaded by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu of Thamlakhuren village.

Photograph of Lamkang traditional belt known as Suulpaar. This Suulpaar is made from a grass, and this piece is woven by Thampol Sankhil Khularnu of Thamlakhuren village and handed down to Tony Khular.

Photograph of Lamkang Khunou dancers performing at the Lamkang Snu Lop conference at Mantri Pantha. Here we can see how the women were dancing performing the male dancers role.

Photograph of a necklaces Kep pthxii. The traditional Kep was used in two line string but this is modernized version of the same Kep pthxii.

Photograph of Lamkang tradtional headgear for women called Changbom in Lamkang. This is worn during the cultural dance performances in any community festivities and ceremonies.This piece is handed down to Tony Khular by her mother Sankhil Thampol Khular of Thamlakhuren village.

A souvenir of the reception committee of the 36th Annual conference of Bodo Sahitya Sabha/DDC, held at Barnagaon High school, Odalguri on 06-08 Jan. 2005, and an article on the important of women's education.

A translation of an article on Gustave Courbet in Assamese by Bikash Parasar

Article on an innovative partnership to recruit and educate biomedical information professionals.

Presentation for the 2005 American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting. This presentation discusses an alternative approach to interoperability testing and the use of special diagnostic records in the context of Z39.50 and online library catalogs.

Paper discussing the use of special diagnostic records in the context of Z39.50 and online library catalogs.

This presentation discusses radioactive metadata records and an interoperability testing approach based on metadata utilization. The research is part of Z-Interop, an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences' (IMLS) National Leadership Grant supported project.

This paper reports the authors' TREC 2005 QA participation. The authors' QA system Eagle QA developed last year was expanded and modified for this year's QA experiments. Particularly, the authors used Lemur 4.1 as the Information Retrieval (IR) Engine this year to find documents that may contain answers for the test questions from the document collection. The authors' result shows Lemur did a reasonable job on finding relevant documents. But certainly there is room for further improvement.

This paper discusses Chinese information retrieval using Lemur, a freely available information retrieval toolkit.

This paper describes our participation in the NTCIR-5 CLQA task.

This paper presents an overview of an exploratory research project to identify, describe, and investigate the applicability of the Web services (WS) approach to access legacy data.