Patron Driven Acquisitions: Integrating Print Books with eBooks

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“Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees”: Using a Data-Driven Review Process to Add New Resources With No Budget Increases

At Drake University’s Cowles Library, increasing budgetary pressures, combined with improvements in gathering and analyzing usage data, compelled the library in 2014 to reassess its collection development philosophy and approach. This new philosophy—that the value of a resource is directly related to its usage—necessitated a more systematic and analytical process. The library has developed an annual review process that uses data-driven decision making for canceling and acquiring electronic resource subscriptions. The steps in this process are as follows: • Reviewing cost-per-use data • Generating candidate deselection lists (“watchlists”) • Soliciting faculty feedback via a library liaison process • Communicating and marketing • Canceling low-use items • Identifying and acquiring new resources on a yearly cycle With a more deliberate process, the library was able to save $175,169 over a three-year period. Combined with reallocated book acquisition funds, these savings allowed for the coverage of inflationary costs and the acquisition of new electronic resources requested by faculty for unmet curricular needs. This process, including both the challenges and the timeline, will be covered in this paper

Changing practice in dementia care in the community: developing and testing evidence-based interventions, from timely diagnosis to end of life (EVIDEM)

Background Dementia has an enormous impact on the lives of individuals and families, and on health and social services, and this will increase as the population ages. The needs of people with dementia and their carers for information and support are inadequately addressed at all key points in the illness trajectory. Methods The Unit is working specifically on an evaluation of the impact of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, and will develop practice guidance to enhance concordance with the Act. Phase One of the study has involved baseline interviews with practitioners across a wide range of services to establish knowledge and expectations of the Act, and to consider change processes when new policy and legislation are implemented. Findings Phase 1, involving baseline interviews with 115 practitioners, identified variable knowledge and understanding about the principles of the Act. Phase 2 is exploring everyday decision-making by people with memory problems and their carers

Behavioral psychological symptoms of dementia and functional connectivity changes: a network-based study

Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are commonly observed since the early stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD) associated with structural brain changes. It is conceivable that they may also relate to functional brain changes. This resting-state functional MRI (RS-fMRI) study investigated the alterations within functional brain networks of a cohort of AD patients at different clinical stages who presented with BPSD. One hundred one AD patients and 56 patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment underwent a neuropsychological evaluation including the Neuropsychiatry Inventory-12 (NPI-12). All patients and 35 healthy controls (HS) underwent 3T-MRI. Factor analysis was used to extract the principal factors from NPI-12, while RS-fMRI data were processed using graph theory to investigate functional connectivity. Five factors were extracted from NPI-12. Sixty-two percent of patients showed BPSD and functional brain connectivity changes in various networks compared to those without BPSD and HS. These changes contributed to account for patients' BPSD. This work opens new perspectives in terms of nonpharmacological interventions that might be designed to modulate brain connectivity and improve patients' BPSD