The Effects of Technology on Midcareer Librarians

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Motor Performance After Four Kinds of Verbal Pretraining

Four groups of 20 Ss each were given 36 paired-associates trials on each of six random shapes. The four groups learned verbal responses which were, respectively, high in association value and formally distinct (HD), high in association value and formally similar (HS), low in association value and formally distinct (LD), and low in association value and formally similar (LS). An additional group (A) attended to motor task stimuli during 216 nonverbal pretraining trials, while a control group (I) learned medium association value distinct syllables to stimuli different from those which subsequently appeared in the motor task. Errors and correct responses were recorded. Subsequent to verbal or attention pretraining, all Ss were given 36 trials on a discriminative motor task provided by the Star Discrimeter. Errors and correct responses were recorded for each Star trial. A significant interaction on motor performance was found between the distinctiveness and association value variables, indicating that in some manner the association value of pretraining responses is an effective variable. Significant differences among experimental groups HD and HS, LD and LS, and between groups HD and I were taken as compatible with the postulation of a verbally mediated cue for the prediction of differential criterion performance after different kinds of verbal pretraining

Mobilizing Students and Community Partners to Enhance the Health of the Rural Elderly

The Health Enhancement of the Rural Elderly (HERE) project is a federally funded grant project designed to empower the rural elderly in Butler and Edmonson counties to maximize their use of the health care system. This project was developed after identifying the needs of approximately 25% of the population in the U.S. that reside in rural areas. Of this population in rural Kentucky, 14-15% is 65 years or older (U.S. Bureau of Census, 2000). A higher incidence of chronic diseases, disabilities, difficulties with daily living activities, and cutbacks in social services have been identified as factors causing this population to be compromised in their success with health care

Tidal freshwater ecosystems: bibliography

Tidal freshwater ecosystems represent an important transition zone between saline reaches of estuaries and non-tidal riverine environments. Tidal freshwater systems are distributed worldwide, but have been intensively studied in only a few geographic regions, such as the U.S. east coast and western Europe. Typically, tidal freshwater systems are characterized by high physical stress due to sediment instability and tidal action, which results in low species diversity. However, a number of anadromous and resident fish species utilize tidal freshwater reaches of estuaries as a spawning and nursery area, including economically significant species such as striped bass, American shad, and Atlantic sturgeon. Tidal freshwater marshes are a unique wetland community type, and are utilized extensively by migratory and wading bird species. Much of the research conducted in tidal freshwater ecosystems, particularly in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S., has focused on the ecology of tidal freshwater marshes. The existing literature on tidal freshwater ecosystems is scattered among numerous technical journals spanning a variety of scientific disciplines. A considerable body of gray literature, in the form of agency and institutional reports, is available. We have included both the primary and grey literature in our compilation, and indexed the body of work by author and subject. We hope that this resource will benefit current and future scientists and resource managers working in tidal freshwater ecosystems

Designing for Emergence: The McCune Charitable Foundation Grows Agency Across New Mexico

The impact of the inherent power imbalance in the grantmaker/grantee relationship has come into particular focus as equity and justice have become a greater priority for philanthropy. This article looks at the example of the McCune Charitable Foundation, which deliberately designed an emergent strategy approach that establishes clear goals and then created a platform to permit a reversal of that power dynamic, so that leadership for priorities comes from those closest to the work. The authors launched a two-year project to research what emergence might look like in seven complex social-change initiatives, and how the strategy could grow agency and create more sustainable solutions in dynamic environments. When the leaders of these initiatives focused on creating the conditions for local leaders and nonprofits to decide what strategies to pursue, it tended to spur unanticipated approaches that responded to needs and opportunities in diverse, changing environments. At the same time, funders were able to establish goals while promoting “a marketplace of ideas.” The McCune story illustrates how moving from a prescriptive strategy to an emergent one can shift the power imbalance between grantmaker and grantees, expand agency and ownership for complex social change, and potentially create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts

Is Technical Services Being Deprofessionalized? A Report of the ALCTS Role of the Professional in Academic Technical Services Discussion Group Meeting, American Library Association, Washington, D.C., June 1998

Report of the June 1998 meeting of the ALA/ALCTS Role of the Professional in Academic Technical Services Discussion Group.This meeting was focused on answering the question "Is technical services being deprofessionalized?" The speakers also presented their views on the effects that recent trends are having on libraries and the library profession. Speakers included Virginia Gillham, University Librarian at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario; Marilyn Lewis, Director of Library Technical Services for Bryan Wildenthal Library at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas; and Marsha Hamilton, Head of Monograph Acquisitions at the Ohio State University Libraries