President\u27s Column A New Year: New Challenges, Abundant Opportunities Vol. 55, No. 4

Greetings my fellow jurists and Court Review readers, I am overjoyed to begin my term serving as the 60th president of the American Judges Association. It is the rich history of this Association that humbles and makes me feel honored to lead at this challenging juncture in our journey. I view it as a privilege to be given the opportunity and responsibility to protect and preserve our legacy. I stand on the shoulders of 59 other AJA presidents who have guided this Association thus far, five of which hail from my great state of Louisiana: Judge G. Randall Whitmeyer, Judge Oliver S. Delery, Judge James F. McKay III, Judge Toni M. Higginbotham, and Judge John Conery. Realizing that the success of the American Judges Association is the result of the tireless efforts of so many others, I salute them for their tenacity and leadership. Their leadership is a model for us all. Our accomplishments of yesterday can only be sustained by the vigilance of today; therefore, we must all labor incessantly to sustain our beloved AJA

Running hot and cold: Bhutan-India-China relations

What will the new year bring for the three countries? Even though the Doklam issue was solved peacefully, its occurrence shows that a frozen conflict can run hot now and again. Looking ahead, the new year may bring new challenges, a continued status quo, and/or new opportunities writes Sarina Theys

Which Office Essentials are Actually Essential? I Relocated to the Conference Room to Find Out!

Hello and Happy New Year from my office home office temporary office/library conference room! January always brings new opportunities and challenges, but over here in NYC those challenges began at the end of 2022 when on Christmas Day three pipes burst at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, causing significant flooding throughout the building including—where else—the law library. And my office. What’s the saying? New Year, new temporary workspace? Something about this feels vaguely early-pandemic to me

Editorial: Transactions on Education in the New Decade

A new year always brings new challenges and opportunities, and 2020 is no different for the IEEE Transactions on Education. In keeping with the start of a new decade, some of the changes are quite major

Great teaching, inspired learning

This paper looks at learning in the 21st century and the new challenges and opportunities it presents. New technologies are breaking down classroom walls and creating global virtual classrooms. As technology improves and new discoveries are made, our students will have unprecedented access to information and they will be judged by how they use what they know. Students starting school this year will probably be working until the 2070s. We know that the rate of change in technology and in society is so fast that if we are going to prepare young people to live, work and be successful in the 21st century, they will need the ability to think both creatively and critically, problem solve and work collaboratively

Academic Support at Leeds Metropolitan Library

Leeds Metropolitan’s Library Academic Support Stream is made up of Academic Librarians and Information Services Librarians who provide academic support to the university’s six faculties. The team use innovative methods of working together to engage students and enhance their experience. The team only formed a year ago so this is a good time to reflect on our success so far. The library service at Leeds Met is continually developing and offers new challenges and opportunities for staff providing library academic support. Innovation has even become part of our new name – ‘Libraries and Learning Innovation’. We still offer all the traditions types of library academic support, but there is an increasing emphasis on finding innovative ways of supporting students and publicising what we can offer. This year the Library Academic Support Stream won a University Attitude Character and Talents Award for Future Focus

How Is That Going to Work?: Part II – Acqusitions Challenges and Opportunities in a Shared ILS

Building on a presentation given at the 2013 Charleston Conference, this article continues the discussion about acquisitions policies, workflows, and consortial collaboration in a next‐generation shared ILS. The Orbis Cascade Alliance is a consortium of 37 public and private academic institutions in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. In January 2013, the Alliance began a two‐year process of migrating all 37 institutions (in 4 cohorts, with a new cohort going live every 6 months) to Ex Libris’s Alma and Primo in order to realize efficiencies and increase collaboration within the consortium. The authors, who represent institutions in the first and third cohorts, offer perspectives on new consortial structures stemming from changing workflows, policy issues to consider from a consortial viewpoint, challenges and opportunities for the new system, partnering with vendors, and ongoing considerations for large‐scale cooperative collection development and assessment

Health and independence report 2014

An overview of the public health system performance and the current state of health in New Zealand. Purpose of this report The Health and Independence Report gives an overview of the public health system performance and the current state of health in New Zealand. The report fulfils the responsibility of the Director-General of Health under section 3C of the Health Act 1956 to report annually to the Minister of Health on the current state of public health in New Zealand. The report accompanies the Ministry of Health’s Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2014. This year’s report contains the following sections: Health system performance Changing health needs Non-communicable diseases Risk factors for non-communicable diseases Infectious diseases. Summary of findings from this year’s report This year’s report includes a wealth of information about the health of New Zealanders and the performance of the health and disability system. Some highlights, challenges and opportunities are presented below