Children's Librarians and BPH Subregional Librarians     

《Public Library Quarterly》2013,32(2):25-36

Ways are explored in which public library children's librarians can help sighted children increase their understanding of persons with visual impairment and their skills in communicating with them. Interviews were conducted with six children's librarians and six BPH subregional librarians, and searches were made in the public library catalogs and the Regional BPH Library fiche catalog for selected titles. Three areas for discussion emerged: reader advisory and reference questions, collection development, and programming. Public library children's librarians and BPH subregional librarians can jointly coordinate provision of children's services by identifying and building on present strengths in collection development and programming.  相似文献   

Wikipedia as Public Scholarship: Communicating Our Impact Online     

Elizabeth K. Rush  Sarah J. Tracy 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2013,41(3):309-315

Although computer-mediated support groups have been argued to be beneficial for individuals coping with health-related stigma, few studies have explored how communication processes may moderate perceptions of stigma and health outcomes. Increasing our understanding of the relationships among these variables may help to inform social support interventions for individuals facing stigmatized health issues. Drawing from the optimal matching model, the reported study examined the relationships among strong-tie/weak-tie support network preference and health-related stigma for stress and depression among members of health-related computer-mediated support groups. The results indicated that health-related stigma was positively associated with preference for weak-tie support, and preference for weak-tie support was found to moderate the relationship between stigma and both stress and depression. The implications of the findings for the role of on-line weak-tie network supportive relationships in reducing stigma and its application to developing support-focused health interventions and segmenting potential intervention participants are discussed.  相似文献   

Managing Health Care in Oregon: The Search for a Civic Bioethics     

Sharon Bracci 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2013,41(2):171-194

Managed health care deliberations in Oregon point to a "civic bioethics" model to resolve allocation issues through publicly articulated community values and priorities that influence legislative action. Communication practices in the Oregon experiment provide data to develop an evaluative framework to assess public moral deliberation in value-laden contexts such as health care distribution. The Oregon experience also points to dialogical virtues to heighten citizens' ethical sensibilities and political will, discursive tools to inform ethical communication practices in a civic bioethics model.  相似文献   

Collaboration Between the University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library and the University of Michigan Medical School Office of Research     

Christine Black  Bethany Harris  Katy Mahraj  Anna Ercoli Schnitzer 《Medical reference services quarterly》2013,32(2):179-184

Librarians have traditionally facilitated research development resulting in grants through performing biomedical literature searches for researchers. The librarians at the Taubman Health Sciences Library of the University of Michigan have taken additional steps forward by instituting a proactive approach to assisting investigators. To accomplish this, the librarians have taken part in a collaborative effort with the University of Michigan Medical School Office of Research. Through this partnership, both units have created and adopted various techniques intended to facilitate the submission of grants, thus allowing researchers more time to conduct their primary activities.  相似文献   

公共部门信息资源增值开发利用效率研究述评     

刘冰 《中国图书馆学报》2013,39(6):53-62

公共部门信息资源蕴含着极大的经济价值和社会价值,是具有市场开发前景的特殊信息资源。本文以国内外公共部门信息资源增值开发利用效率为研究对象,分析国内外相关研究进展。研究发现,公共部门信息资源增值开发利用效率研究较为全面,包括政策制度、市场机制等宏观层面,以及技术等中观层面和产品与服务等微观层面,具有一定的概括性与普适性。同时发现,基于用户视角的衡量与评价研究,对具体公共部门、具体信息资源类型的针对性研究,系统运用实证研究方法开展的研究是未来的重点研究领域。参考文献59。  相似文献   

A Process for Developing Regional Business School—Business Community Relationships     

《Journal of Marketing for HIGHER EDUCATION》2013,23(2):21-37

ABSTRACT

The relationship between a business school and the local business community can be a mutually beneficial relationship. For the regional business school, building relationships with business executives can be a timely and difficult challenge, which can be compounded by the presence and influence of larger private and state schools. The School of Business Administration at Oakland University (Rochester, MI), faced with these challenges, devised a simple straight-forward process that overcame these challenges and successfully involved 35 local business executives in a mutually beneficial relationship with the School in a very short time. This article describes the process, which can be used by any school or college.  相似文献   

Special section on understanding and improving quality in family child care: Introduction and commentary     

Juliet Bromer 《Early childhood research quarterly》2013

This introduction to the special section on understanding and improving quality in family, child care gives an overview of the eight papers included in the special section with implications for, future research and policy directions.  相似文献   

Drugs and the Brain: Learning the impact of methamphetamine abuse on the brain through a virtual brain exhibit in the museum     

Meng‐Tzu Cheng  Leonard Annetta  Elizabeth Folta  Shawn Y. Holmes 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(2):299-319

Drugs and the Brain: A Serious Game, a prototype museum exhibit, was designed to employ virtual models of the brain into a video game format. It was done to create a fun and engaging way of conveying knowledge and concepts about neuroscience, as well as the impact of methamphetamine abuse on the brain. The purpose of this study is to evaluate this prototype exhibit that promises to educate participants from various age, ethnicity, and gender backgrounds, and to establish a stronger concept of drug abuse prevention among children. A quantitative methodology using the pre‐ and post‐experimental designs was conducted on 175 museum visitors. A series of two‐sample paired t‐tests and subsequent ANOVAs were performed to examine the difference between pre‐ and post‐tests and to determine if there was a difference in the results in age, gender, ethnicity, and race. Results showed that both the understanding and attitudes of the participants toward the impact of methamphetamine abuse on the brain improved significantly (p < 0.01).  相似文献   

Peer relations in peer learning     

Hanne Riese  Akylina Samara  Sølvi Lillejord 《International journal of qualitative studies in education》2013,26(5):601-624

Over the last decades, much research on peer learning practices has been conducted. Quantitative, experimental designs focusing on problems of cause and effect dominate. Consequently, effects on achievement are well documented, as is the influence of different conditions on the effect rate. In spite of the general acknowledgment of the importance of peer learning and a large amount of research on collective learning practices, questions regarding the quality of peer interaction, and how peer relations influence learning, are not well elaborated. This paper complements the discussion on effect focusing on the processes of interaction between peers, and relates these to theoretical perspectives on learning as fundamentally social. Inspired by meta-ethnography an integrative analysis across seven qualitative studies was accomplished. The approach enabled an investigation of peer interactions in different educational settings. The analysis elaborates on how instructional designs and students’ relational knowledge mediate interaction in peer learning. The paper further discusses the potential of approaches synthesising qualitative studies as a tool in qualitative research.  相似文献   

我国高校公共关系专业发展问题探析     

赵红菊 《内蒙古师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2013,(2)

10几年来,我国高校的公共关系专业发展取得了令人瞩目的成绩,但是也存在着一定的问题.未来发展何去何从,急需明确.本文从我国高校公共关系专业现状入手,分析问题,寻求对策,提出明确目标、准确定位以及加强师资力量等是我国高校公共关系专业发展的有效途径.  相似文献