Supporting Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Library

This session discusses Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in the library context. EDI are fundamental values of the library profession and community. The session addresses EDI cases and resources covering various library activities, including library retention, strategies and statements, access services, collection development and metadata creation. It especially focuses on metadata and resource description, as well as introduce the Inclusive Metadata & Conscious Editing Resources List of the Sunshine State Digital Network (SSDN). The purpose is to generate more awareness, interest, and discussion in the library, and create a more inclusive and diversified environment for the library and its served students, faculty members and community at large. It is part of the Stay Savvy with Scholarly Communication Summer Professional Development Series at the University of Central Florida Libraries

Electronic data interchange: If A perspective from Taiwan

This study presents findings about perceptions and use of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) in Taiwan. It was undertaken to help build a framework within which to better understand EDI in a global setting. Findings indicate that there are differences and similarities between perceptions and use of EDI in Taiwan and what we know about EDI use in Western cultures. Possible explanations are offered for these findings. Several research questions arise out of the findings that can guide future research about EDI in a variety of cultures, and sets of propositions for each research question are suggested

Albanian Society in Post communism: “Fear society” or “Free society”

In general a free society is associated with the preservation of the liberties. In contrast, a fear society is a society that the liberties exist in paper, in which dissent is banned. In a free society we can find effective democracy, in a fear society we can’t find this. The concept of effective democracy is related to the possibility that within a country to really function and strengthen the rights of the ordinary citizen, his voice in decision, his role in governance and his treatment as an equal and important. But the simple fact that there are elections where citizens decide and choose their government with appropriate programs, does not achieve this goal. Also only the approval of laws that formally establish civil and political rights is not enough to empower citizens. Precisely this makes this study necessary to measure the level of effective democracy in a society, this mean to understand how much power people have and how democracy is fulfilling its mission as "the power of people". We will measure the level of Effective Democracy in Albania in the years 2002-2012. Secondary resources will help us to measure the Effective Democracy Index (EDI) which emerges as sum of Democratic Rights Index (DRI) and Rule of Law Index (RLI) (Alexander, Inglehart, Welzel, 2012). Then we will try to explain the situation of the Albanian society nowadays, is that a fear society or a free society. Analysis of these data will help us to understand better what kind of society we have, the problems that we can be face and some predictions for the future

Negotiation of Investment Shares in Interorganizational Supply Chains: A Game-Theoretic Approach

In this paper, we analyze negotiations of investment shares in interorganizational supply chains. To formulate the research issue more precisely, we develop a taxonomy of enterprise networks in general. We propose an investment sharing model that makes use of Shapley values as indicators of relative negotiation power in a network. It turns out that a focal buyer (supplier) in a supply chain can reduce investment shares and by that increase profits from the network if the number of non-focal suppliers (buyers) increases. However, this effect is connected with distortions of investment incentives and makes investment decisions difficult to implement. In the presence of additional coordination costs to support a certain supplier (buyer) base, an optimal number of suppliers (buyers) exists. As a large part of investments for interorganizational supply chains often concerns information and communication systems and technologies, these results are particularly important in the field of information management

Translating employee-driven innovation in healthcare: Bricolage and the mobilization of scarce resources

With top-down models of innovation failing to address the entrenched problems of healthcare, policy-makers have proposed that staff working on the frontline might be better placed to innovate solutions. Drawing on a study of employee-driven innovation in UK public healthcare, the authors explore the process through which staff innovate without the resources that support policy implementation, showing how the translation of ideas from problematization to practice is underpinned by ‘bricolage’—the appropriation and repurposing of resources ‘at hand’. IMPACT This paper clarifies how staff innovate services on the ground when resources are scarce. The authors suggest that, where employees—clinicians and practitioners—are driving innovation, they engage in a creative process to mobilize resources; appropriating and repurposing local funding, available space, delivery models and even the labour of staff at all levels. This bricolage provides necessary support to the contingent, and often lengthy translation of employees’ innovation ideas into practice. These insights become more critical in a post-pandemic context that demands innovative solutions to new service delivery challenges

Building partnerships, capacity, and knowledge through a use of newly linked child development and education datasets in Ontario, Canada.

Objectives The objective of this study was to establish a partnership between a university and a jurisdictional education body (Education Quality and Assessment Organization, EQAO) which would allow creation of a linked dataset from kindergarten to later grades in order to examine educational trajectory in mathematics in Ontario. Approach Building on mutual goals of improving the understanding of children’s learning trajectories, we developed a project with an investigator team that included university researchers and representatives of the provincial educational assessment body, to link a database of child development status in kindergarten (Early Development Instrument/EDI data, including neighbourhood socioeconomic/SES index) with academic assessment EQAO data, and received research funding. A deterministic matching process was employed to match the datasets. We examined differences between the unmatched and fully matched cases and constructed a growth mixture model of math scores in grades 3, 6 and 9, with key EDI/SES variables as covariates. Results Despite lacking a common identifier, we successfully matched approximately 50% of the EDI cases from 2002-2014 (n=183,771). Effect sizes indicated negligible differences between matched and unmatched, except for SES and child development status, which were poorer for unmatched group. A 3-class solution was the best fit for a 20,000-person subsample of math trajectories based on AIC, BIC, ICL, and entropy values as well as sufficiently high proportions of posterior probabilities, which indicate confidence in class membership. 61% of sample showed steady moderate-high achievement; 9% started high, but declined, and 30% deteriorated then improved. Males, children in low SES, and those with adequate kindergarten EDI outcomes had better math achievement trajectories than females, children in high SES, and those with poor kindergarten outcomes. Conclusion Given the two datasets were collected without explicit linkage plan, the matching was only 50%, nevertheless resulting in a large database that allows study of early development antecedents of students’ educational trajectories. The partnership between university and EQAO ensures a wide dissemination of results in both academia and policy worlds