escaso
light ; low ; meagre [meager, -USA] ; poor ; scant ; scarce ; slight ; slim ; scanty ; sparse ; little in the way of ; thin ; skimpy .
Light use of library information resources raises the concern that students are developing an inadequate base of retrieval skills for finding information on new procedures, diseases and drugs.
Carlton Duncan discussed the difficulties built into the educational processes which led to under-performance at school and the resulting low representation in higher education and low entry into the professions.
Soon, however, the collection outgrew its meagre quarters and a full-fledged library occupying a 40x60 foot area came into being.
Examples are generally poor or obscure (often in Latin or German).
Scant attention is paid to evaluation and the needs of users.
If staff time and expertise for initial evolution of the thesaurus are scarce, the system can usually function with a less thoroughly refined thesaurus.
The ISBD(CP)'s recommendations are very similar in principle to those for AACR2's 'in' analytics, except for slight changes in punctuation and order.
Abstracting journals vary enormously in scope ranging from vast publications covering an entire discipline, to slim volumes centred on a relatively narrow topic.
However, in producing a bulletin one is often torn between including the scanty, undigested and possibly inaccurate details of a new proposal and holding fire until fuller information is available, and thereby missing a publication deadline.
The popular libraries in Lima are sparse and lack the technology and the cultural and information instruments popular in Italy.
Without any significant restructuring, the LIS programme in Iran will provide little in the way of riding out the rapid transition that the field is currently experiencing.
Although it may be a bit thin in its use of standard academic sources of information, it is exceedingly strong on insider information and personal interviews.
Often times new graduate job-seekers produce skimpy resumes because they fail to include all of their relevant experience.
andar escaso de
be short of
Libraries are ordinarily short of space for collections, staff, and readers = Generalmente, las bibliotecas andan faltas de espacio para las colecciones, el personal y los lectores.
andar (muy) escaso de dinero
be strapped for + cash
be (hard) pressed for + money
be (hard) pushed for + money
Public school, strapped for cash, find offers from advertising revenue hard to turn down.
In these difficult times, we all find ourselves hard pressed for money every once in a while.
The mortgage carried him on for seven months, but at the end of that time he was hard pushed for money again.
andar (muy) escaso de tiempo
be (hard) pressed for + time
be (hard) pushed for + time
Spring is the most important planting time here in the west, and nurserymen are hard pressed for time to fill all the orders.
This short adventure is designed for those who are hard pushed for time and want to do something active during their time off.
bien escaso
scarce commodity
The author asserts that information is not a scarce commodity.
con medios muy escasos
on a shoestring (budget)
Many information agencies exist on a shoestring budgets find it financially impossible to extend their hours.
escasa comunicación
poor communication
There are also language differences and poor communication.
escasa probabilidad
slim chance
The article 'Slim chance for ethnic funding' explains how funding for library projects to provide assistance to ethnic minorities has almost dried up.
escaso de dinero
cash strapped
financially strapped
short of money
strapped
As a result, the society's publishing programme went from cash strapped to thriving, even while making the periodical free online.
Many of our group are financially strapped, and that presents a problem but I'm game.
This brings me to the third factoid, the most important of the three: most Americans are more aware of being short of time than short of money.
This open source book is a welcome relief for strapped college students who are paying $100 and more for textbooks.
escaso de ideas
short of ideas
It is clear that the author is not short of ideas and the book contains plenty of nuggets of wisdom and suggestions for improvements.
escaso de tiempo
time-strapped
short of time
Computers can help teachers accomplish many of their tasks more efficiently and effectively, but how can a time-strapped teacher determine which pieces of technology are likely to be most helpful?.
This brings me to the third factoid, the most important of the three: most Americans are more aware of being short of time than short of money.
evidencia + ser + escasa
evidence + be + slight
Evidence is slight that books ever helped spread the epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, and scarlet fever that raged in US and European cities at the turn of the century.
hacerse escaso
become + scarce
The implications are that as resources are become scarcer, librarians will need to adopt more forceful attitudes.
ser escaso
be few and far between
Good bookshops are few and far between and the kind to be found in most towns are as educationally healthy as a river rich in industrial effluent is physically salubrious.
ser muy escaso
be at a premium
Mini-abstracts are particularly important where currency is paramount or abstracting time is at a premium.
ya de por sí escaso
already-scarce
The resulting duplication can be seen as a waste of already-scarce resources.
