dificultad
difficulty ; rough spot ; snag ; hardness ; hiccup [hiccough] ; crunch ; challenge ; hassle ; rub ; kink ; bind.
UDC is widely used despite the difficulties in keeping the schedules up to date.
But despite the many catalog worlds, and herein lies the rub - or at least a rough spot - we have been proceeding on the assumption that the catalog exists in the form of the data distributed by the Library of Congress.
Another snag was the existence of entrenched divergent cataloguing habits among the multinational staff, not to mention their fear of the unknown = Another snag was the existence of entrenched divergent cataloguing habits among the multinational staff, not to mention their fear of the unknown.
Hardness and the penetration of the ink layer into the paper were also measured = Hardness and the penetration of the ink layer into the paper were also measured.
The book 'The Last Hiccup of the Old Demographic Regime' examines the impact of epidemics and disease on population growth in the late seventeenth century.
The author of the article 'The crunch and academic library services: a personal view' believes that inflation is one of the underlying causes of the crisis in university libraries.
The duration of the cycle varies markedly from institution to institution, dependent upon the adaptability of the institutional structure to challenge and change.
The article is entitled 'How to implement electronic subscriptions replacing the routing list hassle'.
But as elegant and efficient as this seems, this strategy has a rub - you've got to have technology to track shipments, since you're ultimately responsible for purchases, warranties and returns.
However, like any emerging technology, there are still a few kinks in the system.
It should not take an economist or college professor to explain to college students the bind they will be in upon graduating.
afrontar una dificultad
front + a difficulty
face (up to) + a difficulty
You must front the difficulties, whatever they may be, of making proper catalogues.
This has been the case with newspapers which suddenly find that their audiences are both growing older and dwindling in size and they are facing great difficulty appealing to the new electronic generation.
ahí está la dificultad
herein lies the rub
there's the rub
But despite the many catalog worlds, and herein lies the rub - or at least a rough spot - we have been proceeding on the assumption that the catalog exists in the form of the data distributed by the Library of Congress.
And there's the rub, as far as California is concerned we don't stand a very good chance in this competition.
aprobar sin dificultad
sail through + exam
The next morning, she sailed through the exam confidently and scored an A.
avanzar con dificultad
wade through
limp
slog along
plod (along/through)
There seems little point in hundreds of cataloguers in separate locations wading through cataloguing codes and classification schemes in order to create a variety of catalogue records for the same work.
Both elements must be present; having commitment without resources - or the reverse - necessarily results in a lopsided effort that limps along ineffectively.
Ebooks will just have to slog along at lower margins.
He or she has to plod through the menu each time, and so it is useful if mnemonics and/or abbreviated commands can be provided.
avanzar con gran dificultad
grind on
Far more likely is that the session will grind on days, perhaps weeks, before there's a compromise between the Presidente and the Senate.
caminar con dificultad
plod (along/through)
He or she has to plod through the menu each time, and so it is useful if mnemonics and/or abbreviated commands can be provided.
causar dificultad
cause + difficulty
Nevertheless the section 'Export Numbers' is more relevant and goes a long way towards filling the gap between the publication of an item and its recording in a current bibliography which can cause difficulty.
clasificado por nivel de dificultad
graded
Twenty-four languages are covered and material is selective, annotated, and graded.
con dificultad
laboriously
with difficulty
First, 45 or 50 percent of that file consists of Library of Congress MARC records, the integrity of which is laboriously insured by manual methods.
Today's sewage nutrients, dyes and toxic or malodorous substances which can be degraded only with difficulty or very slowly.
con dificultades
in difficulties
Several bodies exist that can provide advice and financial assistance to libraries in difficulties, but there are serious gaps.
conducir o andar con cuidado debido a la dificultad existente
navigate
Peter was trying to convince himself that it wasn't his fault as he navigated the glistening slippery streets.
con gran dificultad
with great difficulty
Alumina is helpful for any stool that is passed with great difficulty.
con mucha dificultad
with great difficulty
Alumina is helpful for any stool that is passed with great difficulty.
conseguir con dificultad
eke out
Let's not squabble about the fact that Bush actually eked out a razor-thin victory in the popular vote.
dificultad + afectar
difficulty + dog
The author describes the many problems and difficulties which dogged the building of the Library right up until the start of construction in summer 75.
dificultad + apremiar
difficulty + dog
The author describes the many problems and difficulties which dogged the building of the Library right up until the start of construction in summer 75.
dificultad económica
fiscal exigency
financial exigency
At present and in the foreseable future, fiscal exigency will cause increasing demands to be made on the library's budget and space.
In recent years, the necessity for development of new managerial skills in a period of financial exigency have created an ever-growing demand for continuing education opportunities.
dificultad + encontrarse
difficulty + lie
The difficulty of timetabling, staffing rotas etc. lies principally in the numerous drafts which usually have to be made to produce the final version.
dificultades
crisis [crises, -pl.]
An I&R service may involve itself in providing 'hotlines', that is emergency help during times of crises or when other services close down, eg evenings, weekends or public holidays.
dificultades + agravarse
difficulties + exacerbate
The report concluded that the problems of rural populations 'do not differ greatly from those of the urban population though the difficulties in obtaining help and relief can be exacerbated by isolation'.
dificultades + aquejar
difficulties + beset
Technical difficulties beset the development of the Monotype through the 1890s, and it was not until 1901 that the English Monotype Corporation could offer American-built machines in quantity.
dificultades de aprendizaje
learning difficulties
Rwanda denies plan to forcibly sterilise people with learning difficulties.
dificultades económicas
fiscal constraints
fiscal adversity
economic adversity
distressed circumstances
Fiscal constraints looming large on the horizon for most libraries.
This paper discusses the fiscal adversities facing East Asian collections in the USA.
The article has the title 'A radical response to economic adversity'.
In these challenging times, the sale of assets or companies often in distressed circumstances has become particularly difficult to execute.
dificultades presupuestarias
budget adversity
Perhaps the most valuable result of budget adversity is in prompting improvements in the US network of research libraries.
dificultad presupuestaria
budget crunch
Public libraries, especially in New York City, are feeling severe budget crunches, because we really haven't been relevant to people and, therefore, nobody uses us = Las bibliotecas públicas, especialmente de la ciudad de Nueva York, están sufriendo graves recortes presupuestarios debido a que la gente no nos ha encontrado necesarios y, por lo tanto, nadie nos utiliza.
dificultad + surgir
difficulty + arise
Difficulties over access to these can arise when research project has been financed by a scientific organization or commercial firm who have an interest in maintaining security.
dificultad técnica
technical difficulty
Technical difficulties and operational costs are out of proportion to the financial gains.
encontrar dificultades
encounter + difficulties
encounter + limitations
This article discusses the terms of reference and aims of the project, the difficulties encountered in the creation of a centre for the whole of Latin America, and growth and termination of the UNESCO Technical Assistance Mission.
The difficulties and limitations encountered in moving from print to electronic publishing are highlighted.
encontrarse con dificultades
run up against + difficulties
Traditional logic-based approaches to legal expert systems run up against difficulties when dealing with conflicts about the rules themselves.
encontrarse en dificultades
find + Reflexivo + in difficulties
Many texts can indeed be edited according to the rules, but some cannot, and the editor may find himself in difficulties.
en dificultades
stranded
struggling
In a flash, without a moment wasted on intelligent astonishment, the poor accosted earthling gives a detailed description of the instrument he apparently assumes without further investigation the stranded space man needs.
Finding the right market and coming up with a kick-butt idea can easily make the difference between a struggling business and a successful one.
enfrentarse con una dificultad
face (up to) + a difficulty
This has been the case with newspapers which suddenly find that their audiences are both growing older and dwindling in size and they are facing great difficulty appealing to the new electronic generation.
entrañar dificultad
present + difficulty
Subjects that can be described only with terms comprising more than one word, e.g. merchant ships, pressure vessels, algebraic topology, present a difficulty.
esa es la dificultad
herein lies the rub
there's the rub
But despite the many catalog worlds, and herein lies the rub - or at least a rough spot - we have been proceeding on the assumption that the catalog exists in the form of the data distributed by the Library of Congress.
And there's the rub, as far as California is concerned we don't stand a very good chance in this competition.
estar en dificultades
be in trouble
The moment we relax on it - we are no longer forced to do it, and it often is not done, and the connection is not made - then we are in trouble.
forma de evitar una dificultad
way (a)round + difficulty
One way around the difficulty is to exploit the flexibility of the Internet and Internet facilities.
fórmula para la dificultad de lectura
reading formula
Reasearchers using reading formulas, the Cloze method, or the Maze method are often interested primarily in assessing the readability of a particular item, such as a text.
funcionar con dificultad
labour [labor, -USA]
Document arrangement labours under some inherent limitations as a document or information retrieval device.
ganar con dificultad
eke out
Let's not squabble about the fact that Bush actually eked out a razor-thin victory in the popular vote.
ganar sin ninguna dificultad
beat + Nombre + hands down
win + hands down
There is no contest in the head-to-head battle for information services supremacy and Google, with its information 'now' and 'fast', beats others hands down.
Candy, soda, pizza and other snacks compete with nutritious meals everyday with the junk food variety winning hands down every time.
hacer Algo con dificultad
muddle through
plod (along/through)
The average user is not only frustrated by a library, but is working under the false notion that most of what he needs can be found by muddling through the card catalog.
He or she has to plod through the menu each time, and so it is useful if mnemonics and/or abbreviated commands can be provided.
indicar las dificultades
note + difficulties
The article 'How Shepard's Citation lost its flock: or, can the police smell probable cause?' notes the difficulties involved in teaching law students the intricacies of research tools such as Shepard's Citation.
insertar con dificultad
squeeze in/into
Indeed, one problem in trying to write within the length agreed with my publisher has been deciding what can be squeezed in and what must be left out.
leer con dificultad
wade through
There seems little point in hundreds of cataloguers in separate locations wading through cataloguing codes and classification schemes in order to create a variety of catalogue records for the same work.
meter con dificultad
squeeze in/into
Indeed, one problem in trying to write within the length agreed with my publisher has been deciding what can be squeezed in and what must be left out.
mitigar una dificultad
alleviate + difficulty
Placing CD-ROM equipment in a reference room poses wiring difficulties that the flexibility of carpet tiles and flat wire installation should alleviate.
pasar dificultades
struggle
be under strain
bear + hardship
have + a difficult time
experience + difficult times
pass through + difficult times
face + difficult times
The chemist, struggling with the synthesis of an organic compound, has all the chemical literature before him in his laboratory.
Sources of domestic supply of periodicals in the socialist countries are also under strain or have collapsed.
So we see extraordinary hardships cheerfully borne (indeed, apparently enjoyed) by zealous mountaineers, earnest single-handed yachtsmen floating round the world, and all-weather fishing-hobbyists sit patiently at the side of, and sometimes in, rivers, undeterred by the paucity of their catches.
Videotext services have had a notoriously difficult time becoming accepted in the US marketplace.
Consumer publishing is experiencing difficult times and there are specific developments which are influencing the market for children's books.
The author discusses the history of and services offered by the Folger Shakespeare Library which has passed through difficult times and emerged with a new building and a new personality.
This may be a reason why the publishing industry is facing such difficult times.
pasar por muchas dificultades
be to hell and back
These wrinklies are the wise men who have been to hell and back.
plantear dificultad
pose + difficulty
An inherent difficulty posed by this, however, is that the flexibility sought in this way is limited by the inflexibility imposed by cables, ducts, etc.
plantear dificultades
raise + difficulties
The terrible difficulties raised when a particular group is offended is painfully evident in the controversy created within the American Library Association.
poner en dificultades
put + Nombre + in difficulties
This situation often puts librarians in difficulties by their reacting to problems, rather than anticipating them.
presentar dificultad
present + difficulty
Subjects that can be described only with terms comprising more than one word, e.g. merchant ships, pressure vessels, algebraic topology, present a difficulty.
progresar con dificultad
thread through
The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
respirar con dificultad
gasp for + breath
wheeze
I hope there'll be air and space in my mind, and that people won't have to gasp for breath when they talk with me.
Children who started wheezing in early life were more likely than the children who never wheezed to have mothers with a history of asthma.
señalar las dificultades
note + difficulties
The article 'How Shepard's Citation lost its flock: or, can the police smell probable cause?' notes the difficulties involved in teaching law students the intricacies of research tools such as Shepard's Citation.
sin dificultad
without difficulty
As it happened, the snowfall was moderate and all the rest of us worked all day and got home without difficulty.
sin dificultad alguna
without a hitch
without a glitch
Should files follow the 8.3 standard or can long file names be used without a hitch?.
Suprisingly, Windows had no boot issues at all, it started up without a glitch.
sin mucha dificultad
painlessly
Without AACR is doubtful whether computerised cataloguing would have been implemented so relatively painlessly and successfully = Sin las RCAA es dudoso que la catalogación automatizada se hubiera implementado tan fácilmente y con tanto éxito, relativamente hablando.
superar una dificultad
overcome + difficulty
get over + difficulty
A first trial gave unsatisfactory results because of flaws in the experimental design, and a second test was therefore planned to overcome these difficulties.
To get over the difficulty of terminology it is best to retain the usage 'chapmens' book' to describe popular works.
surgir una dificultad
arise + difficulty
Greater difficulties arise when there is no plain arrangement which will suit all users.
tener dificultad
struggle
experience + difficulty
be hard pressed
The chemist, struggling with the synthesis of an organic compound, has all the chemical literature before him in his laboratory.
Initially, the library staff experienced difficulties in adjusting to the new service.
Patent lawyers would be hard pressed if they had to operate without abstracts to the millions upon millions of patents issued for centuries all around the world.
tener dificultad de + Infinitivo
have + difficulty + Gerundio
have + difficulty in + Gerundio
The spiral begins its downward swirl very early in life when a child has difficulty learning to read.
The poor public image of library and information work implies that SLIS will continue to have difficulty in securing the resource base to compete effectively.
tener dificultad en + Verbo
be at pains to + Infinitivo
In my previous books on reference work I have been at pains to explain that they were not written as 'how-to-do-it' manuals.
tener dificultades
have + a hard time
have + a tough time
Scholars are going to have a hard time finding that reference.
He had a tough time lugging his lumpy, oversized travelbag onto the plane and stuffing it in the overhead bin.
toparse con dificultades
run up against + difficulties
Traditional logic-based approaches to legal expert systems run up against difficulties when dealing with conflicts about the rules themselves.
tropezar con dificultades
run into + difficulties
If a vendor of a computerised library system runs into financial difficulties, and perhaps goes out of business, this can cause problems for libraries that have chosen to purchase their products.
