Special collections in the classroom: embedding special collections in an undergraduate history writing class     

Teresa Gray 《Public Services Quarterly》2020,16(2):139-145

Abstract

This article describes a 12-year collaboration between a special collections librarian and history faculty for an undergraduate history writing course at Vanderbilt University. Originally taught as a one-shot session, the final 9 years of the course embedded the class into Special Collections for 10 weeks of primary source research. This article describes the evolution of the course from a one-shot session to full embedding, the mechanics involved in managing the sessions in Special Collections, student support considerations, and tips for other librarians offering such sessions.  相似文献   

医学情报人才培养目标与知识生态系统的构建     

王萍  牟冬梅  法慧  邵琦  靳春妍  杨鑫禹 《图书情报工作》2019,63(19):81-87

[目的/意义] 基于当前大数据环境下，医学情报领域对知识服务的需求，探索医学情报人才的培养目标及与知识生态系统的构建。[方法/过程] 首先，从医学情报人员提供知识服务的视角出发，探索从多角度分析用户的需求、用户需求与资源多层次的匹配以及多渠道提供知识服务的能力培养目标。然后，依据知识生态系统的构成要素和运行机制，分别从知识资源、知识服务活动和知识创新活动三个视角，构建医学情报人才培养模式的专业课程体系、教学实践平台和教育激励机制的知识生态系统。最后，以吉林大学医学信息学专业进行的课程体系的改革、教学实践平台的设置和知识创新活动的培养方案为例，解析知识生态系统在医学情报人才培养过程发挥的作用。[结果/结论] 研究构建创新能力驱动下医学情报人才培养的目标和知识生态系统，促进情报学研究理论和方法在医学情报领域的应用。  相似文献   

Service Blueprinting: A Method for Assessing Library Technologies within an Interconnected Service Ecosystem     

Scott W. H. Young  Sara Mannheimer  Doralyn Rossmann  David Swedman  Justin D. Shanks 《Public Library Quarterly》2020,39(3):190-211

ABSTRACT

Service blueprinting is a method for designing, assessing, and improving services. This article provides a practical overview of the service blueprinting process for library technology services. We begin by outlining the recent conversation around library technologies, service design, and service blueprinting. We then detail an iterative case study for the creation process of a service blueprint, followed by a discussion of the service insights and improvements that resulted from this activity. We conclude by offering a set of recommendations for creating and analyzing service blueprints. Ultimately, the service blueprint is a useful tool for understanding the operation of a service, and for situating that service within a broader and interconnected library ecosystem.  相似文献   

Jobs and Changes in the Technological Age     

《图书馆管理杂志》2013,53(1-2):47-57

No abstract available for this article.  相似文献   

Why support students? Using the past to understand the present     

Janette Myers 《高等教育研究与发展》2013,32(4):590-602

This paper examines why students are supported, taking an historical approach to analyse the influence of former, or longstanding, practices on current practice and to identify repeating themes. Documentary evidence shows that students have been supported because they are young, vulnerable or because studenthood is considered to make unique demands on individuals. Ideas of danger and the need for protection are persistent and can have effects that contradict the educational purposes of higher education. Underpinning rationales result in particular forms of student support, each with its own intended and unintended consequences.  相似文献   

The impact of support services on students’ test anxiety and/or their ability to submit assignments: a focus on vision impairment and intellectual disability     

Poulomee Datta  Joy Talukdar 《International Journal of Inclusive Education》2017,21(2):160-171

This study investigated the influence of the support services on the test anxiety of students and/or their ability to submit assignments in each of the two disability groups, those with vision impairment and those with intellectual disability, who were placed in specialist and mainstream educational settings in South Australia. Interviews were conducted with 14 students with vision impairment and 9 students with intellectual disability, as well as a total of 10 parents and 8 teachers. The findings unfolded that the support services were found to influence positively the test anxiety experienced by students with vision impairment and/or their ability to submit assignments, but appeared to help students with intellectual disability to a much smaller extent. These findings have implications for mainstream teachers and school support staff working with students with vision impairment and those with intellectual disability, to determine what type and kind of support works for these students and helps them to alleviate their test anxieties.  相似文献   

A survey on evaluation practices in teaching and learning centres     

Klodiana Kolomitro  Lauren M. Anstey 《International Journal for Academic Development》2017,22(3):186-198

There is general consensus that teaching and learning centres have a positive impact on promoting and supporting a culture that values teaching and learning, yet there is limited evidence on how centres evaluate their work. For this purpose, a survey was developed and administered to the directors of 88 Canadian centres; 46 of which completed the survey. In this paper, we share centres’ approaches to evaluation that emerged from the survey findings and the artifact analysis. By raising awareness of evaluation approaches, we are better positioned to identify further opportunities to develop a more systematic and coherent approach to evaluation.  相似文献   

Organizational climate, services, and outcomes in child welfare systems     

Glisson C  Green P 《Child abuse & neglect》2011,35(8):582-591

Objective

This study examines the association of organizational climate, casework services, and youth outcomes in child welfare systems. Building on preliminary findings linking organizational climate to youth outcomes over a 3-year follow-up period, the current study extends the follow-up period to 7 years and tests main, moderating and mediating effects of organizational climate and casework services on outcomes.

Methods

The study applies hierarchical linear models (HLMs) analyses to all 5 waves of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being (NSCAW) with a US nationwide sample of 1,678 maltreated youth aged 4–16 years and 1,696 caseworkers from 88 child welfare systems. Organizational climate is assessed on 2 dimensions, Engagement and Stress, with scales from the well established measure, Organizational Social Context (OSC); youth outcomes are measured as problems in psychosocial functioning with the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL); and casework services are assessed with original scales developed for the study and completed by the maltreated youths’ primary caregivers and caseworkers.

Results

Maltreated youth served by child welfare systems with more engaged organizational climates have significantly better outcomes. Moreover, the quantity and quality of casework services neither mediate nor interact with the effects of organizational climate on youth outcomes.

Conclusions

Organizational climate is associated with youth outcomes in child welfare systems, but a better understanding is needed of the mechanisms that link organizational climate to outcomes. In addition, there is a need for evidence-based organizational interventions that can improve the organizational climates and effectiveness of child welfare systems.  相似文献   

Predictors of placement for children who initially remained in their homes after an investigation for abuse or neglect     

Horwitz SM  Hurlburt MS  Cohen SD  Zhang J  Landsverk J 《Child abuse & neglect》2011,35(3):188-198

Objective

To examine the frequency and predictors of out-of-home placement in a 30-month follow-up for a nationally representative sample of children investigated for a report of maltreatment who remained in their homes following the index child welfare report.

Methods

Data came from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being (NSCAW), a 3-year longitudinal study of 5,501 youth 0-14 years old referred to child welfare agencies for potential maltreatment between 10/1999 and 12/2000. These analyses focused on the children who had not been placed out-of-home at the baseline interview and examined child, family and case characteristics as predictors of subsequent out-of-home placement. Weighted logistic regression models were used to determine which baseline characteristics were related to out-of-home placement in the follow-up.

Results

For the total study sample, predictors of placement in the 30-month follow-up period included elevated Conflict Tactics Scale scores, prior history of child welfare involvement, high family risk scores and caseworkers’ assessment of likelihood of re-report without receipt of services. Higher family income was protective. For children without any prior child welfare history (incident cases), younger children, low family income and a high family risk score were strongly related to subsequent placement but receipt of services and case workers’ assessments were not.

Conclusions/practice implications

Family risk variables are strongly related to out-of-home placement in a 30-month follow-up, but receipt of child welfare services is not related to further placements. Considering family risk factors and income, 25% of the children who lived in poor families, with high family risk scores, were subsequently placed out-of-home, even among children in families who received child welfare services. Given that relevant evidence-based interventions are available for these families, more widespread tests of their use should be explored to understand whether their use could make a substantial difference in the lives of vulnerable children.  相似文献   

基于Lib2.0的图书馆服务模式创新应用     

相国萍 《云南电大学报》2011,13(4):90-93

随着Web2.0网络技术在图书馆的应用,结束了单向的、只读的网络时代,创造了一个互动的、双向的、可读写的网络平台。如果说Web1.0是以数据为核心的网,Web 2.0则是以人为出发点、以人为核心线索的互联网,因此,图书馆将直面在网络环境下如何更好拓展图书馆信息资源内容、延伸图书馆信息服务方式范围、提升图书馆服务理念等的变革,提升图书馆服务工作质量。  相似文献