The Information Edge - Library Newsletter - Fall 2006 Issue

Centennial Miscellany...p.1 Rey Racelis and Ellen Sowchek Learning Commons Initiative...p.1 David Leighton Excellence in Research Awards....p.2 Sarah Burns-Feyl Faculty Staff Authors Collection Signing....p.2 Harriet Huang Book Review: Edison and the Electric Chair....p.3 Eileen Gatti Systems Updates....p.8 Rey Racelis Subscription Database Changes....p.8 Blogs and the Pace Library....p.9 Brian Jennings Library hours....p.1

The Information Edge - Library Newsletter - Spring 2006 Issue

1. New Quiet Campaign 2. Learning Commons Survey 3. Tell Us with LibQUAL+ 4. Real Email or a Hoax Chain Letter? 5. One-Stop-Shopping: Opposing Viewpoints 6. Bedford Bibliographer 7. Databases Available Freely via the Web 8. Get Connected with Connect NY 9. The Joy of Reading 10.Book Review: The World is Flat 11.Library Systems Updates 12.Podcasting with You in Mind! 13.Centennial Celebration: The Mortola Years 14.Everybody Wins! Power Lunch 15.Pace Community Involvement 16.Images from the Archives: Student Activities 17.HELLO, MY NAME IS

A Home Arranged for Learning

People used to believe that how a child turned out was predetermined. All children do seem to follow the same stages of development and in the same sequence. But, those whose life circumstances have been more favorable, and who have had a more enriched learning environment, progress more rapidly than those whose opportunities for learning have been limited. As evidence accumulates regarding the importance of the early years, there is increasing need to focus attention on the child’s experiences and environment

Understanding the Intelligence Practices of State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies

In addition, the study examined the activities of three fusion centers in order to identify strategies that are successful in increasing the information flow across agencies, the major obstacles to effective intelligence-gathering and information-sharing, and identify key practices for integrating domestic intelligence into the information-sharing environment and overcoming these obstacles. The study found that although significant progress has been made since 9/11 in installing fundamental policy and procedures related to building the intelligence capacity of law enforcement, there is significant room for improvement and a need to move agencies forward to be consistent with key requirements. Also, fusion centers are further along in instituting intelligence policies and practices than are individual law enforcement agencies. This is most likely because there has been a focus on developing fusion center operations and expertise by both the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice. In addition, both samples of respondents emphasized that they have worked at building relationships with a diverse range of agencies, but they also indicated that they are not completely satisfied with these relationships. Further, there is a significant amount of information coming into and going out of these agencies. It is likely that without sufficient analysts within the organizations or poorly trained analysts, there are missed opportunities for strategic and tactical understanding of homeland security and criminal threats. Assessing the performance of analysts is difficult, but respondents emphasized the need to focus on the quality of strategic and tactical products produced

Terrestrial Salts and the St. John’s River, Florida

Source: ICHE Conference Archive - https://mdi-de.baw.de/icheArchiv

Rhythm, Scale, and Liminality: Sonic composition and interdisciplinary artwork developed in response to architectural contexts.

This research explores perceived connections between architecture and music, and considers how these ideas can inform interdisciplinary creative practice that is developed in response to specific architectural contexts. Whilst the relationship between architecture and music can be perceived as an abstract translation between spatial and temporal art forms, this research was established on the premise that the experience of either discipline is necessarily spatial and temporal. As such, a research methodology was selected that aimed to encompass both of these elements. Through an iterative process of inter-related contextual review and practice-based research, a creative approach was undertaken that defined three connected methods, “rhythm”, “scale”, and “liminality”. Within the practical projects, “rhythm” was employed as a tool for engaging with external architectural form, and “scale” as a method for articulating our subjective experience of interior space. The third area of practical research explored the relationship between inside and outside space, and the role of “liminality” in shaping our experience of architectural context. Each practical project aimed to incorporate elements of both aesthetic and numerical interpretations of architectural context, and considered the significance of using digital tools and processes in their creative realisation. Four research findings were derived from a summary of the observations associated with each practical project and its associated contextual review. The first finding proposes that rhythm, scale, and liminality can provide the basis of a transferable framework that can function as a spatial and temporal creative toolset, with the flexibility to incorporate both qualitative and quantitative interpretations of architectural contexts. The second finding concerns the relationship between “openings” and “openness” in both architecture and sound/music, in which the quantitative form provides a frame for qualitative experience. As an extension of this idea, it is proposed that any discrepancy between the range of our visual and acoustic horizons can provide an inconsistent aesthetic experience of “openness”. A third finding relates to the application of digital and mobile technologies in creating this type of work, and how these tools can provide opportunities for audiences to personalise their aesthetic (qualitative) experience, despite using technology that is inherently numerical (quantitative) in its approach to information. Finally, the practitioner experience of applying these methods in multiple projects led to a fourth finding: that using this framework of rhythm, scale and liminality not only provides a method for developing context-specific creative practice, but that it can also function as a valuable practice-based research tool capable of providing additional insight when investigating a specific location or social context

Ariel - Volume 12(13) Number 2

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Addressing Social Inequity: A Case Study of Success

Social equity is relatively easy to define but much harder to accomplish. As a result, achieving social equity continues to be difficult in American society and across the globe. We present a case study of a collaborative effort by two nonprofits to conduct a program for public high schools and local law-enforcement agencies across the United States. The program was designed to acknowledge and address the historic harms that impact police-community relations. Our paper delineates the origins of the problem and our approach, presents data that demonstrate the positive impact the program had on bridging gaps, changing perceptions, and lessening social bias and inequity, and concludes with lessons learned