Urban Gardening und Öffentliche Bibliotheken: Konzeption einer Veranstaltungsreihe in der Stadtbibliothek Bad Oldesloe

Urban Gardening ist mehr als ein Trend. Öffentliche Bibliotheken sollten sich diesem in der Suche nach einem neuen Selbstverständnis und ihrer Rolle in einer digitalen Gesellschaft nicht verschließen. In der Stadtbibliothek Bad Oldesloe wurde eine ganze Veranstaltungsreihe rund um dieses Thema organisiert und in Form eines Makerspaces mit modernen Formen des gemeinschaftlichen Lernens verknüpft. So konnte sich die Stadtbibliothek als moderner und innovativer Lernort positionieren und neue Initiativen in der Stadt anstoßen. Urban Gardening is more than a trend. Public Libraries should not ignore this in their search for a new understanding and their role in the digital age. The Public Library of Bad Oldesloe created a series of events around that topic and combined it with a makerspace with new forms of learning in communities. By that, the Public Library presented itself as an innovative learning space and helped to engage some initiatives in the city itself

„It‘s the end of the world as we know it“

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Urban Gardening und Makerspaces als neues Arbeitsfeld Öffentlicher Bibliotheken und Beitrag zur Stadtentwicklung

Die Master-Thesis untersucht das Potential von Urban Gardening Makerspaces für Öffentliche Bibliotheken. Die Arbeit steht im Kontext der Neuentwicklung bibliothekarischer Dienstleistungen in der digitalen Gesellschaft. Ausgangspunkt der Thesis stellen die aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen zum Do-it-Yourself (DIY), zum Sharing und der Maker-Bewegung dar. Diese Entwicklungen üben großen Einfluss auf die Debatte um den Wandel von Bibliotheken aus und legen die Grundlage, Makerspaces und Community Building als zentrale zukünftige Arbeitsfelder für Öffentliche Bibliothek zu betrachten. Dem wird der Trend zum Urban Gardening gegenübergestellt. Zentral ist die These, dass Urban Gardening keine Abkehr von der digitalen Gesellschaft darstellt, sondern vielmehr eine Ausprägung des DIY und der Maker-Bewegung ist. Diese Sichtweise ermöglicht es, Parallelen zwischen Urban Gardening und Makerspaces abzuleiten, was die Grundlage für die Einbindung von Urban Gardening Makerspaces in eine bibliothekarische Praxis darstellt. Urban Gardening Makerspaces werden zudem mit der Idee der grünen Bibliothek sowie der sustainable library verknüpft, wofür die Thesis eine Begriffserweiterung zur ökologisch und sozial nachhaltigen Bibliotheksarbeit anbietet. Anschließend werden die Potentiale von Urban Gardening und Öffentlicher Bibliotheken im Rahmen aktueller Tendenzen der Stadtentwicklung beleuchtet. Ein abschließender Leitfaden soll Öffentlichen Bibliotheken als Vorlage dienen, eigene Ideen zu entwickeln und Urban Gardening Makerspaces einzurichten.In the context of the development of new library services in the digital age, this Master’s thesis investigates the potential of Urban Gardening Makerspaces in public libraries. It is argued that current trends in society like DIY, sharing or the maker movement have huge influence on the discussion of public library services in the digital age. They also provide the groundwork for makerspaces and community building as one of the main parts of future library services. This development is combined with the urban gardening trend. One main aspect of this thesis is the understanding, that urban gardening is an essential part of the digital age and not its counterpart. Urban gardening has lots of characteristics of the DIY and maker movement. Regarding urban gardening and community gardens as makerspaces gives the basis to combine them with library services. Urban gardening makerspaces are embedded in the ideas of the green library and the sustainable library. Therefore, this thesis proposes a definition for ecological and societal sustainable library services. Afterwards the potentials of urban gardening and public libraries and their role in urban development are highlighted. A guideline for public libraries for creating their own urban gardening makerspaces completes this thesis

Competition In The eLearning Industry: A Case Study

This paper highlights the structural attributes of the eLearning Industry.  The case presents details regarding the evolution of the eLearning market and provides the opportunity for students of strategic management to build critical industry analytical skills by applying a variety of techniques highlighted in the accompanying case teaching note.  To obtain a copy of the teaching note, contact the corresponding author by email. The analytical techniques applied include the identification of the chief economic characteristics of the industry, Porter’s five force model of competition, the impact of driving forces on industry structure, and the identification of necessary competitive capabilities (success factors) for success in the eLearning industry

Tool Support for Parametric Analysis of Large Software Simulation Systems

The analysis of large and complex parameterized software systems, e.g., systems simulation in aerospace, is very complicated and time-consuming due to the large parameter space, and the complex, highly coupled nonlinear nature of the different system components. Thus, such systems are generally validated only in regions local to anticipated operating points rather than through characterization of the entire feasible operational envelope of the system. We have addressed the factors deterring such an analysis with a tool to support envelope assessment: we utilize a combination of advanced Monte Carlo generation with n-factor combinatorial parameter variations to limit the number of cases, but still explore important interactions in the parameter space in a systematic fashion. Additional test-cases, automatically generated from models (e.g., UML, Simulink, Stateflow) improve the coverage. The distributed test runs of the software system produce vast amounts of data, making manual analysis impossible. Our tool automatically analyzes the generated data through a combination of unsupervised Bayesian clustering techniques (AutoBayes) and supervised learning of critical parameter ranges using the treatment learner TAR3. The tool has been developed around the Trick simulation environment, which is widely used within NASA. We will present this tool with a GN&C (Guidance, Navigation and Control) simulation of a small satellite system

Libraries4Future – über die Initiative und Best Practices

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Bericht zum „Hands-on-Lab analog: Bibliotheken auf dem Weg zur ökologischen und sozialen Nachhaltigkeit“ auf dem Deutschen Bibliothekartag in Berlin am 15. Juni 2018

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The Grizzly, March 24, 1997

Alternative Spring Break Unites Students, Charity • Author Ntozake Shange Reads, Lectures in Olin • New Chair of Campus Ministries Committee • Wicks House to Open in Fall • Ursinus is Ranked Among Best Science Schools • Opinion: Some Advice to Mr. Leahy; All Good Things; Liberal Arts Education Part II, Awareness Weeks; Letters from Great Britain; Let\u27s Get it Straight; A Tree or not a Tree, That is the Question • Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blur • The Tempest: Wayfaring Weather • Lady Bears Lose ECAC Championship • Baseball Starts Season at 4-7 Pace • Women\u27s Lacrosse Wins Year\u27s First Contest • Men\u27s Tennis Falls to Moravian • Rhodenbaugh and Minnich Honored as SAAC Chairs • Softball Off to 10-4 Start • Torsone an All-American • Gymnastics Team Places 8th at Nationals • Women\u27s Tennis Wins • USA Wrestling Lineup Announcedhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1400/thumbnail.jp

'Objects in transition: the puppet and the autistic child'

Abstract Although claims for the efficacy of puppetry in therapeutic contexts lack extensive academic research, some published evidence does exist. A phenomenological and embodied approach is used here beginning with the writer’s own experience as a mother to theorize on the puppet’s role as a surrogate communicator and facilitator with children who lack communication skills. Instead of foregrounding language difficulties (as is often the case in writings on autism), this article focuses on the physical reality of a puppet. The writer explores notions of embodiment where neurological patterns are established through physical interaction with the world, and suggests ways in which this patterning may be interrupted or disturbed, and how puppets, as safe and to some extent controllable physical objects, may act therapeutically to re-establish some of these patterns. It is further suggested that puppets may work in similar ways to Winnicott’s ‘transitional objects’ in babyhood, operating in a ‘transitional space’. Winnicott claims that in a psychologically healthy adult, the comfort of infantile transitional objects and phenomena is transferred to religion, art and creativity – activities that provide a bridge between the inner world that we totally control and the external world, which we do not. Such activities are linked to a creative ‘space’ of mind and are psychologically necessary. Puppets operate in this space. Overall, stress is laid on the importance of the material reality of the puppet and its ‘objectness’ to help explain its particular efficacy