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[Purpose/significance] This article introduces the establishment and development of the Illinois Firefighter Line of Duty Deaths Digital Image Collection Database (IFLODD) at the Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI) Library. [Method/process] The article introduced the functions and services of IFLODD from its creation, data collection, data processing, users, maintenance, and improvement. [Results/conclusion] IFLODD reflects the user-driven management of the IFSI library and serves as a reference for other special libraries for improving user services and knowledge management services.

In the over three decades since its establishment in 1990, the Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI) Library has been a leader through taking the initiative in developing and maintaining partnerships for the benefit of its primary user community: the firefighters of Illinois. Partnerships at the local, state, national, and international levels have allowed the IFSI Library to respond to the unique information needs of firefighters through the creation and continued use of services and programs which have been created specifically to meet these unique needs, and the IFSI Library's place within the Illinois state fire academy allows these services and programs to be promoted and made available to firefighters across the state. By taking the initiative to create partnerships for the benefit of firefighters, the IFSI Library has established itself as a leader in partnership with both the library and information science field as well as to the fire service. The services and programs made possible through the IFSI Library's partnerships have contributed to Illinois firefighters' ability to access the information and resources that they need to continue keeping their communities safe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hwa-Wei Lee, former chief of the Library of Congress's Asian Division and dean emeritus of Ohio University Libraries, was born in China, did his undergraduate studies in Taiwan, and completed [...]

This article is an introduction to a special issue of Library Trends that focuses on cultural heritage and digital scholarship in China. It highlights the richness and diversity of China's cultural heritage, including well-known sites like the Great Wall and Forbidden City, as well as the artifacts and knowledge of ethnic minority and underserved communities. The article emphasizes the importance of preserving and protecting cultural heritage, as well as the innovative use of digital scholarship in this endeavor. The special issue covers a wide range of topics, including international collaboration, technology, diversity, and access to cultural heritage resources. It concludes by calling for continued efforts to safeguard and share Chinese cultural heritage for the benefit of the world. [Extracted from the article]

Early triage of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is pivotal in managing the disease. However, studies on the clinical risk score system of the risk factors for the development of severe disease are limited. Hence, we conducted a clinical risk score system for severe illness, which might optimize appropriate treatment strategies. We conducted a retrospective, single-center study at the JinYinTan Hospital from January 24, 2020 to March 31, 2020. We evaluated the demographic, clinical, and laboratory data and performed a 10-fold cross-validation to split the data into a training set and validation set. We then screened the prognostic factors for severe illness using the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) and logistic regression, and finally conducted a risk score to estimate the probability of severe illness in the training set. Data from the validation set were used to validate the score. A total of 295 patients were included. From 49 potential risk factors, 3 variables were measured as the risk score: neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (OR, 1.27; 95% CI, 1.15–1.39), albumin (OR, 0.76; 95% CI, 0.70–0.83), and chest computed tomography abnormalities (OR, 2.01; 95% CI, 1.41–2.86) and the AUC of the validation cohort was 0.822 (95% CI, 0.7667–0.8776). This report may help define the potential of developing severe illness in patients with COVID-19 at an early stage, which might be related to the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio, albumin, and chest computed tomography abnormalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]