Online Catalog Development at the University of Guelph

published or submitted for publicatio

HELIN Consortium LORI Grant Final Report The Reckoner Group

Final report from Ely Beckman of the Reckoner Group on work done under the LORI grant including launching a graphic mock-up of website for the cultural heritage portion of the digital portal and Branding the digital portal

Illumination control system

Experiment, testing effects of constant light intensity on Arabidopsis growth, utilizes wide-spectrum fluorescent lamps monitored by photocell which controls the power supplied to lamp

Implications for academic libraries

This paper may present a more restricted view of the academic library interface with collective bargaining than might have been anticipated, primarily for three reasons. First, I am more familiar with the Canadian academic library situation than with the American, although I have studied the pattern which appears to be emerging in American libraries. In addition, I am convinced that if academic library administrators had realized at any point within the past ten years that library management is a unique and demanding scientific discipline and had borrowed some of the techniques and methodologies being practiced in the business community, they could have been in a position of bargaining from strength rather than from weakness. Finally, I am firmly committed to the belief that academic librarians should achieve their status and any ensuing rights and privileges through their own merit, and not by accepting a system designed for another profession with similar, but not identical, objectives and requirements.published or submitted for publicatio

To Frame or Reframe: Where Might Design Thinking Research Go Next?

Design thinking is gaining widespread attention in the practitioner and academic literature. Successful implementation has been documented, and its value shown in empirical studies. There is little examination, however, of how design thinking practices fit with other approaches from which firms might choose to frame and solve problems such as agile, lean startup, scientific method, Six Sigma, critical thinking, and systems thinking. By digging into the basic capabilities underlying design thinking, academic researchers might better understand problem framing and solving in general and provide insight for practitioners as to where alternative approaches might be applied

Middle Archaic Complex of Northwest Arkansas

After the end of the Wisconsin glacial there occurred an interval called the Neothermal in the southwestern portion of the United States. The Neothermal is comprised of three consecutive tempera-ture intervals: the Anathermal, Altithermal, and Medithermal, re-spectively characterized by rising, maximum, and moderate tempera-ture. The Altithermal was the only period of extreme arid climate which has existed in North America since the Mankato glacial sub-stage (Antevs 1955). During this "long drought " Arkansas developed a typical desert environment characterized by round clumps of rushes which gave rise to prairie mounds (Quinn 1961), and exten-sive alluviation took place. Contained within alluvial material de-posited during the Altithermal are artifacts of the people who lived and hunted in the dry climate of that day. It is through projectile joints collected from the alluvium that an age determination of the alluvium willbe made

US TOMATOES IN JAPAN: EVOLUTION OF A SUCCESS STORY

International Relations/Trade,

Unpacking capabilities underlying design (thinking) process

Engineering graduates must know how to frame and solve non-routine problems. While design classes explicitly teach problem framing and solving, it is lacking throughout much of the rest of the engineering curriculum and is often relegated to capstone classes at the end of the students’ educational experience. This paper explores problem framing and solving through the lens of experiential learning theory. It captures core problem framing and solving approaches from critical, design and systems thinking and concludes with a table of learning outcomes that might be drawn upon in designing an engineering curriculum that more fully develops the problem framing and solving capabilities of its students