Hvordan kan det digitale bibliotek styrke studerendes employability?

I uddannelsespolitikken er der for tiden en stærk ambition om at øge kvaliteten af uddannelserne og skabe en bedre forbindelse til jobmarkedet. De studerendes faglighed skal styrkes, og den skal lettere kunne omsættes til et fremtidigt virke på arbejdsmarkedet. Et nyt DEFF-projekt om employability skal understøtte denne udvikling og sørge for, at der er de kompetencer på uddannelsesbibliotekerne, så medarbejdere her kan bakke proaktivt op om denne målsætning

How can the digital library contribute to employability?

The DEFF project, E-learning, Information literacy and Library services, supports the education policy ambition of enhancing links between education and employment. The project consortium includes libraries from all Danish universities, university colleges and one business academy. Timeframe for the project is 2014-16.The project understands employability as:In close cooperation with study programmes libraries will strengthen students’ abilityto perform independently and critically in a professional context by being able to identify, collect, evaluate, organize and present information via digital platforms.A partnership is made between the digital library (partner libraries involved) and the virtual learning environment (educational institutions), based on the above definition of employability. This is done within the framework of Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The libraries and academic programmes will collaborate to create e-learning objects based on the relevant digital library systems and information resources.Departments from three Danish universities will contribute by strengthening the project participants’ skills in e-didactics and the development of e-learning objects (SDUUP, University of Southern Denmark), developing a range of flexible concepts for the integration of the virtual library into learning environments (IVA, Copenhagen University) and evaluating the project’s activities (E-Learning Lab, Aalborg University).Sustainable results include the training of library staff to work together with academic programmes via the virtual learning environments, the development of flexible concepts for integrating the virtual library with study environments and knowledge on how inputs, created by the project for each study programme, should function

Neuromuscular Effects and Rehabilitation in Guillain-Barré Syndrome Associated with Zika Virus Infection

The 2015–2017 Zika Virus outbreak caused a high increase in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a post infectious autoimmune disease of the peripheral nerves. The severity of GBS can range from mild impairment with fast recovery to complete paralysis including severe respiratory or autonomic failure. Recovery may take months and even years and may be incomplete despite disease modifying treatment with IVIG or plasma exchange. Therefore, optimal supportive care and effective rehabilitation remain crucial. Multidisciplinary rehabilitation is recommended but may be challenging in the acute phase because of limited patient participation due to profound muscle weakness and severe pain. Inactive denervated muscles will inevitably undergo rapid degeneration resulting in wasting, weakness, and contractures as major long-term complications in severely affected patients. In this chapter, the current evidence of rehabilitation on the short- and long-term motor function in GBS is reviewed, including newly obtained experiences with neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES). Rehabilitation remains an area lacking well designed and controlled clinical studies and thus a clear lack of evidence-based guidelines

Poznawanie potrzeb użytkownika — eksperymentalna droga do wprowadzenia w bibliotece innowacji nakierowanych na użytkownika

‘Meeting the User’ is a programme committee under the Danish Electronic Research Library. As a development group at a national level we see our role as facilitating an innovative culture within academic libraries, focusing on users’ needs and the way libraries meet them.In collaboration with a consultancy firm, the committee organized a travelling workshop in four cities in 2010. The workshop introduced practical ways for library staff to get to know their users’ needs for services and was based on anthropological methods. The travelling workshop was part of a larger project called ‘A Journey of Discovery in Danish Library User Land’ (translated from Danish Brugerkaravanen), which also included a national thematic day, a blog and the publication of a method guide.There is an ongoing need for academic libraries to improve their services. One strategy is to become more aware of the users’ needs. On the one hand we have libraries which give access to a lot of information, offer courses in information literacy and strive to be a part of the learning environment. On the other hand we are not always certain of the needs of our users.If libraries want to improve the way they serve their users’ needs, they must innovate their services, facilities and courses by building upon what you could call ‘user logic’ and not upon classical ‘library logic’. ‘User logic’ is that which is meaningful for the user instead of what is traditionally meaningful for a library. Finding out what the users’ needs are, requires methods to study the users. In order to discover the shortest route from knowledge via idea to action, we looked for methods that can be employed by librarians or library information specialists.This article describes how 110 librarians and information specialists acquired such methods in four cities and in four days, by means of a workshop structured like a guided tour through the land of library users. The goal of the article is to give other libraries inspiration for ideas, concepts and concrete tools to study user behaviour and become more aware of the user’s needs for service.The article contains a description of the above-mentioned methods, valuable experiences from the workshop, a presentation of the concept and concrete tools, discussion of the concept of user logic and library services, and the seven principles for human-centred innovation in relation to libraries, a short list of studies carried out by librarians and discussion of further perspectives.„Spotkanie z użytkownikiem” to komitet programowy Duńskiej Elektronicznej Biblioteki Naukowej. Jesteśmy grupą rozwojową działającą na szczeblu krajowym. Naszą rolę postrzegamy jako wspieranie w bibliotekach uniwersyteckich kultury innowacji skupiającej się na potrzebach użytkownika. We współpracy z firmą konsultingową komitet [przyp. od red. programowy Duńskiej Elektronicznej Biblioteki Naukowej] zorganizował w 2010 r. wędrowne warsztaty odbywające się w czterech miastach. Warsztaty opierały się na metodach stosowanych w badaniach antropologicznych i dotyczyły praktycznych sposobów, których bibliotekarze mogą użyć, by poznać potrzeby swoich czytelników. Warsztaty wędrowne były częścią większego projektu „Odkrywcza wyprawa do krainy użytkownika duńskiej biblioteki” (duń. Brugerkaravanen, ang. A journey of discovery in Danish library user land), który obejmował również organizację ogólnokrajowego dnia tematycznego, powstanie blogu i publikację przewodnika metodycznego.Nieprzerwanie istnieje potrzeba, by biblioteki uniwersyteckie poprawiały jakość świadczonych usług. Jednym ze sposobów na osiągnięcie tego celu jest poznanie potrzeb użytkownika. Z jednej strony mamy biblioteki, które oferują dostęp do wielu informacji, organizują kursy z kompetencji informacyjnych i starają się być częścią środowiska edukacyjnego. Z drugiej strony biblioteki nie zawsze są świadome potrzeb swoich czytelników. Jeśli chcą zmienić tę sytuację, muszą wprowadzać innowacyjne usługi, funkcjonalności i kursy, skupiając się nie na bibliotece, a na użytkowniku (tzw. user logic). Dzięki temu biblioteka ma szansę dostosować się do tego, co jest ważne dla jej czytelników, zamiast podążać za tym, co tradycyjnie wydaje się ważne dla biblioteki. Określenie tych potrzeb wymaga stosowania odpowiednich metod badawczych. Szukając najkrótszej drogi od teorii do praktyki, zwróciliśmy się w stronę metod, których mogliby używać bibliotekarze i bibliotekoznawcy.Niniejszy artykuł opisuje, jak 110 bibliotekarzy i bibliotekoznawców nauczyło się takich metod w cztery dni, działając w czterech miastach podczas warsztatów zorganizowanych w formie wycieczki z przewodnikiem po krainie użytkowników biblioteki. Celem tego artykułu jest zainspirowanie innych bibliotek do tworzenia narzędzi niezbędnych do poznania czytelników i poszerzenie świadomości o ich potrzebach. Artykuł zawiera opis wspomnianych powyżej metod oraz doświadczeń z warsztatów, prezentację pomysłów i konkretnych narzędzi, dyskusję nad koncepcją skupiania się na użytkowniku w świadczeniu usług bibliotecznych i wreszcie — siedem zasad wprowadzania innowacji w bibliotece, krótką listę badań przeprowadzonych przez bibliotekarzy i omówienie dalszych perspektyw

International Guillain-Barré Syndrome Outcome Study (IGOS): protocol of a prospective observational cohort study on clinical and biological predictors of disease course and outcome in Guillain-Barré syndrome

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute polyradiculoneuropathy with a highly variable clinical presentation, course, and outcome. The factors that determine the clinical variation of GBS are poorly understood which complicates the care and treatment of individual patients. The protocol of the ongoing International GBS Outcome Study (IGOS), a prospective, observational, multi-centre cohort study that aims to identify the clinical and biological determinants and predictors of disease onset, subtype, course and outcome of GBS is presented here. Patients fulfilling the diagnostic criteria for GBS, regardless of age, disease severity, variant forms, or treatment, can participate if included within two weeks after onset of weakness. Information about demography, preceding infections, clinical features, diagnostic findings, treatment, course and outcome is collected. In addition, cerebrospinal fluid and serial blood samples for serum and DNA is collected at standard time points. The original aim was to include at least 1000 patients with a follow-up of 1-3 years. Data are collected via a web-based data entry system and stored anonymously. IGOS started in May 2012 and by January 2017 included more than 1400 participants from 143 active centres in 19 countries across 5 continents. The IGOS data/biobank is available for research projects conducted by expertise groups focusing on specific topics including epidemiology, diagnostic criteria, clinimetrics, electrophysiology, antecedent events, antibodies, genetics, prognostic modelling, treatment effects and long-term outcome of GBS. The IGOS will help to standardize the international collection of data and biosamples for future research of GBS. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01582763