Teen Services at Baltimore's Pratt Library: A Long History and Sustained Emphasis     

Deborah Taylor 《Public Library Quarterly》2013,32(4):326-335

This article is a first‐person account of the development of teen services at Pratt Library in Baltimore, MD. The piece places special emphasis on the development of public access computing, particularly of computing by children, especially teens.  相似文献   

Succession Planning for Libraries     

Deborah H. Charbonneau  Jacqueline L. Freeman 《图书馆管理杂志》2013,53(7):884-892

ABSTRACT

It is imperative for libraries of all types to be responsive to the forecasted changes in the demographics of the library workforce. Succession planning is a key strategy for ensuring that libraries are prepared to meet changing and emerging organizational needs. Succession planning is broadly defined as a range of activities focused on both internal and external talent development to fill anticipated needs for library leadership and other key personnel. The aim of this article is to offer a number of recommendations relevant for LIS education to help build an awareness of succession planning for future library managers. In particular, practical ideas for course-related activities and assignments that may help to incorporate succession planning more fully into the LIS curriculum are discussed.  相似文献   

Past Its Shelve by Date? United Kingdom Research Reserve (UKRR): A Twenty-First-Century Strategy to Protect Our Research Information for the Future     

Deborah Shorley 《New Review of Academic Librarianship》2013,19(1-2):115-120

By the end of the twentieth century higher education libraries across the United Kingdom were struggling to find room for their ever expanding collections. In 2007 the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) provided funding for the establishment of United Kingdom Research Reserve (UKRR) Phase One—a partnership between six university libraries and the British Library (BL). This project initiated a systematic approach to the deduplication of low use research material which was also already available in robust electronic form.

Following the success of Phase One HEFCE has now made a grant of nearly £10m for Phase Two—a much more ambitious scheme open to all HE libraries working in partnership with the BL. This radical new approach to collection development represents the beginning of an important cultural change. It will see the replacement of the “just in case” model of information provision for UK researchers with a “just in time” model to release valuable space while safeguarding the national research information infrastructure.  相似文献   

An analysis of benefits and risk information on pharmaceutical web sites for the treatment of menopause     

Deborah H. Charbonneau 《Health information and libraries journal》2013,30(3):212-219

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Frictionless Sharing and Digital Promiscuity     

Robert Payne 《传播与批判/文化研究》2013,10(2):85-102

This article analyses the recent Facebook innovation of “frictionless sharing”, a term which describes a smoother and wider distribution of content by individual users and a less overtly acknowledged but more efficient instrumentalization of users' immaterial labour within a structure of corporate monetization. It builds on my recent work on “the sharing subject” of contemporary digital media, in which I argue that current online social networking practices, in their emphasis on “sharing” content with networks of contacts, construct and validate the networked subject according to a version of neoliberal individualism. Moreover, the construction of this subject position implicitly recalls the heteronormativity of AIDS panic, through an unlikely rebranding of promiscuity as a desirable and successful mode of interactivity. If the new rhetoric of “sharing” erases the riskiness of circulation previously encoded in dominant images of virality, notably behaviours associated with HIV, then what is the relationship of the projected potential of “frictionless sharing” to existing normative frames of ethics and morality? In approaching this question, I revisit significant queer interventions into concepts of community and risk that emerged in the post-AIDS context, notably Tim Dean's recent examination of the barebacking subculture to which mediations of an idealized frictionlessness are also central.  相似文献   

Data Retention and the Panoptic Society: The Social Benefits of Forgetfulness     

Jean-François Blanchette  Deborah G. Johnson 《The Information Society》2013,29(1):33-45

Modern information systems not only capture a seemingly endless amount of transactional data, but also tend to retain it for indefinite periods of time. We argue that privacy policies must address not only collection and access to transactional information, but also its timely disposal. One unintended side effect of data retention is the disappearance of social forgetfulness, which allows individuals a second chance, the opportunity for a fresh start in life. We examine three domains in which social policy has explicitly recognized the importance of such a principle: bankruptcy law, juvenile crime records, and credit reports. In each case, we frame the issue in terms of the social benefits of forgetfulness, rather than in terms of individual privacy protection. We examine how different policy approaches to privacy might handle the retention of data and propose a comprehensive policy that includes a variety of strategies. The broad conclusion of the article is that data retention and disposal should be addressed as a part of a broader and comprehensive policy approach, rather than in a piecemeal fashion or as an afterthought.  相似文献   

VIII. Health Behaviors     

Daniel R. Anderson  Aletha C. Huston  Kelly L. Schmitt  Deborah L. Linebarger  & John C. Wright 《Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development》2001,66(1):100-107

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Psychosocial Adjustment Over a Two–Year Period in Children Referred for Learning Problems: Risk,Resilience, and Adaptation     

Lisa G. Sorensen  Peter W. Forbes  Jane H. Bernstein  Michael D. Weiler  William M. Mitchell  Deborah P. Waber 《Learning disabilities research & practice》2003,18(1):10-24

Children with learning difficulties have an increased prevalence of psychosocial adjustment problems. We hypothesized that within the context of a risk and resilience model contextual variables influence adjustment, over and above any effects of academic performance. The Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC) was used to evaluate the relationship between psychosocial adjustment, changes in academic skills, and contextual factors longitudinally over a two–year period in 100 children (ages 7 to 11) referred for learning problems. Although there was little improvement in academic skills, contextual factors contributed to observed psychosocial outcome. Different factors were salient for parents, teachers, and children. Context–derived vulnerability and protective factors can be important determinants of adjustment in children with learning problems, even though the academic difficulties can remain chronic.  相似文献   

Launch of EarlyView     

Deborah J. Pogson 《科学教学研究杂志》2004,41(6):537-537

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A Synthesis of Morphology Interventions and Effects on Reading Outcomes for Students in Grades K–12     

Deborah K. Reed 《Learning disabilities research & practice》2008,23(1):36-49

This article synthesized the morphology intervention studies conducted in English with students in kindergarten through 12th grade between 1986 and 2006. Seven studies were identified as focusing primarily on morphology instruction, including roots and affixes, and measuring one or more reading‐related outcomes (e.g., word identification, spelling, vocabulary, reading comprehension). Of those studies meeting the criteria, three studies were focused on word identification, three were focused on vocabulary acquisition, and one was focused on spelling. Although there was a wide range in effect sizes computed for the various outcome measures (?.93 to 9.13), findings indicated that stronger effects were associated with root word instruction (as opposed to affixes alone) and with morphology instruction that targeted students' reading developmental level in an age of acquisition pattern. In addition, results suggested that morphology could successfully be combined with training in other skills without adding instructional time.  相似文献