Online educational counselling in Denmark. eCounselling (eVejledning) at the Uddannelsesguiden internet portal

In Dänemark wird seit 2011 Bildungsberatung online angeboten. Diese eBeratung (im Originalwortlaut eVejledning) erfolgt durch E-Mail, Chat, Telefon, Webinare und Facebook, ist kostenlos und anbieterneutral. Kann aber ein digitales Angebot die Bildungsberatung tatsächlich zugänglicher machen? Wer nützt sie wann, in welchem Ausmaß und in welcher Form? Der vorliegende Praxisbeitrag beschreibt die Verwirklichung der Online-Bildungsberatung in Dänemark mit besonderem Fokus auf die Erwachsenenberatung. Vorgestellt wird auch das von den eBeraterInnen entwickelte 4K-Modell (Kontakt, Kontrakt, Kommunikation, Konklusion). Die eBeratung versteht sich nicht als Ersatz, sondern als Ergänzung zu den übrigen Angeboten: Online-Beratung macht andere Beratungsformen nicht überflüssig. (DIPF/Orig.)In Denmark educational counselling has been offered online since 2011. This eCounselling (eVejledning in the original Danish) takes place via e-mail, chat, telephone, webinars and Facebook and is free of charge and independent of provider. But can digital offerings actually make educational counselling more accessible? Who uses it, to what extent and in what form? This article describes the practice of implementing online educational counselling in Denmark with a special focus on counselling adults. It also presents the K model (contact, contract, communication, conclusion) that was developed by eCounsellors. eCounselling does not aim to replace but rather to complement the standard offerings. Online counselling does not make other forms of counselling superfluous. (DIPF/Orig.

Combining in situ measurements and altimetry to estimate volume

From 1994 to 2011, instruments measuring ocean currents (Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers; ADCPs) have been moored on a section crossing the Faroe–Shetland Channel. Together with CTD (Conductivity Temperature Depth) measurements from regular research vessel occupations, they describe the flow field and water mass structure in the channel. Here, we use these data to calculate the average volume transport and properties of the flow of warm water through the channel from the Atlantic towards the Arctic, termed the Atlantic inflow. We find the average volume transport of this flow to be 2.7 ± 0.5 Sv (1 Sv = 106 m3 s–1) between the shelf edge on the Faroe side and the 150 m isobath on the Shetland side. The average heat transport (relative to 0 °C) was estimated to be 107 ± 21 TW (1 TW = 1012 W) and the average salt import to be 98 ± 20 × 106 kg s−1. Transport values for individual months, based on the ADCP data, include a large level of variability, but can be used to calibrate sea level height data from satellite altimetry. In this way, a time series of volume transport has been generated back to the beginning of satellite altimetry in December 1992. The Atlantic inflow has a seasonal variation in volume transport that peaks around the turn of the year and has an amplitude of 0.7 Sv. The Atlantic inflow has become warmer and more saline since 1994, but no equivalent trend in volume transport was observed

Working for a better world: the librarian as a change agent, an activist and a social entrepreneur

For many years, the social role of librarians has been a topic of heated debates, both within the library field and within library research. Such debates have traditionally been about questions of neutrality and the professional identity in librarianship. Recently, visions of librarians as radical positive change agents (Lankes 2016) have influenced and shaped this debate, raising new questions about neutrality or “post-neutrality”, professional agency and personal and political ideologies. However, what does it mean to be a radical positive change agent? To expand our understanding of the librarian as a radical positive change agent, this paper introduces the concepts of activism and social entrepreneurship. By highlighting similarities and differences between the concepts of the change agent, the activist and the social entrepreneur, this paper aims to inform future discussions about the proactive role of librarians working for change. The current focus on how librarians should act as agents for change in relation to the UN sustainability agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) serves as an example throughout. The paper concludes by posing questions for further discussions of how the concepts of the change agent, the activist and the social entrepreneur might expand our understanding of the proactive librarian and how they might translate to the practice of librarianship in the era of “post-neutrality”