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Rwu Law Equity Scorecard February 2021, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Disciplinary Measures And Job Performance Of Library Staff In Academic Libraries In Imo State., Adaora Udo-Anyanwu, Linda Ijeoma Uwandu, Doris Chinyere Obiano

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

The paper examined disciplinary measures and job performance of library staff in academic libraries in Imo State. It was guided by five objectives of the study. The survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study is thirty (34) Heads of Departments in the five academic libraries studied. The instrument for data collection was an online questionnaire rated using the four-point scale. Out of the 34 copies of instrument sent, 28 were returned showing 82% return rate. Data generated from the study were analyzed using mean (x) scores. Findings of the study revealed that; indiscipline …

Law Library Blog (November 2020): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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Law Library Blog (August 2020): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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Law Library Blog (March 2020): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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Staff Awareness Of Ergonomics Principles Required At The Computer Workstation: Case Study Of University Of Jos Library, Grace Iyabo Nwokedi Mrs, Gupiyem Gungsat Gupiyem Dr, David Ogbe Agbenu Mr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study was designed to investigate the staff awareness of ergonomics principles required at the University of Jos Library computer workstation. The methodology adopted was the case study. The target population comprised of all the library staff available as at the time of the study. Total enumeration method was used to obtain the relevant data from the respondents because the population was not too large. Out of the 129 copies of questionnaire distributed 119 were filled and retuned. However, only 36(30.25%) respondents indicated that they use the computer to perform library tasks. Therefore only 36 copies of the questionnaire …

Status Of Engineering College Libraries In Bhubaneswar Region Of Odisha, India: A Comparative Study, Bhanu Partap, Payel Saha

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The aim of the present study is to explore the current status of engineering college libraries in Bhubaneswar region of Odisha, India. A questionnaire based survey has been conducted in the selected engineering college libraries in Bhubaneswar region of Odisha and tried to assess the current status of staff, collection, services, Information Technology infrastructure, etc. The copies of well structured questionnaire have been distributed among the ten engineering college libraries in Bhubaneswar in the month of March 2019, out of which, six college libraries have been responded positively. It was found that all the responded engineering college libraries were …

Strengthening Safety Culture By Leveraging The Daily Management System, Suneela Nayak, Mark Parker, Erin Graydon Baker, Amy Sparks, Ruth Hanselman, Stephen Tyzik, Sydney Green

Operations Transformation

STRENGTHENING SAFETY CULTURE BY LEVERAGING THE DAILY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

There is abundant evidence that links a strong culture of safety with improved patient and staff experience. However, there has been no clear avenue identified as to how to achieve this metric.

A team in a large academic tertiary teaching hospital set about leveraging their daily managing system (DMS) to attain improvement in their institution’s safety. The goals of this quality improvement project were to use DMS to identify and report safety concerns and increase frontline team knowledge and comfort with reporting safety concerns during Gemba walks.

A root cause analysis …

Law School News: Roger Williams Celebrates Pride 06-17-2019, Michael M. Bowden

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Attachment And Burnout: Exploring The Predictive Nature Of Self-Efficacy In A Sample Of Direct-Care Staff Members, Eric Jason Camden

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The push for least-restrictive care and associated policies has increased the prevalence of youth with higher levels of acuity requiring admission to residential treatment centers. This increased psychiatric severity of children and adolescents served in residential centers places the largest burden on direct-care staff members. As a result, direct-care staff members experience workplace stressors such as staff-member shortages/unplanned call-outs, poor morale, high stress, and burnout. Burnout is widely recognized as a significant hazard for professional caregivers and is a potent barrier to clinical effectiveness. Extant literature on burnout examines individual and organizational factors that lead to burnout experiences, and this …

Nothing About Us Without Us: The Benefits Of Hiring Staff With A Disability In Libraries., Elaine Chapman, Sarah-Anne Kennedy

Conference Papers

There is a common saying amongst the disability communities in many countries, and that is “Nothing about us without us”. This term is usually used to refer to the making of laws and operation of services without prior consultation with the disability community, including library services.

Employing disabled people as staff ties into some of the core philosophies of libraries: improving access, diversity, democracy, open education, lifelong learning, and social responsibility.

Disabled staff members have the benefit (for us!) of having faced accessibility issues of varying kinds in their own lives. They are often able to use this experience to …

Law Library Blog (April 2019): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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Level Of Awareness And Information Needs On Indiscriminate Dumping Of Solid Waste Among Staff And Students Of Nigerian Universities., Michael Chigozie Nwafor, Josephine C. Igbokwe, Adizetu A. Ali, Chioma C. Onoh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

This work examined level of awareness and information needs on indiscriminate dumping of solid waste among staff and students of Nigerian Universities. The study adopted descriptive survey and was guided by five research questions. Questionnaire, interview and observation were used for data collection. The population of the study comprised four hundred and fifteen thousand, one hundred and twenty eight (415,128) students and staff of federal universities in the six geo political zones in Nigeria. A total sample of six hundred (600) staff and students were used for the study. Convenience sampling technique was employed to select 50 students and …

Law Library Blog (August 2018): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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Charolette Allison, Longtime Ouachita Staff Member, Left Legacy Of Service To Six Presidents, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Charolette Allison, a longtime Ouachita staff member who served 31 years alongside six Ouachita presidents, passed away June 28 at age 74.

Mrs. Allison, a former Ouachita student, served in the president’s office from 1986 to 2017, working in the administrations of Dr. Daniel Grant, Dr. Ben Elrod, Dr. Andy Westmoreland, Dr. Rex Horne, Dr. Charles Wright and Dr. Ben Sells. In conjunction with her retirement last spring, the university’s Board of Trustees named her executive secretary to the president emerita in honor of her years of service.

Law Library Blog (April 2018): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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Jeff Crow Named Director Of Campus Safety And Emergency Management At Ouachita, Trennis Henderson, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Jeff Crow, former director of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, has been named the first director of Ouachita Baptist University’s new Department of Campus Safety and Emergency Management, according to Dr. Wesley Kluck, vice president for Student Development.

Building Expertise From Within: One Department's Look At New Ways To Cultivate Cataloging Knowledge For Their Staff, Becky Skeen, Liz Woolcott

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

USU Cataloging and Metadata Services Unit looked at new ways to cultivate cataloging knowledge for their staff.

Allison Frizzell-Kizer, Former Tigers Volleyball Star, Named Ouachita's Head Volleyball Coach, Trennis Henderson

Press Releases

Allison Frizzell-Kizer, a 2013 graduate of Ouachita Baptist University, has been named Ouachita’s head volleyball coach effective Jan. 15. She succeeds her former coach, Danny Prescott, who served 14 years as head volleyball coach at Ouachita.

Staff Attitude And Staff Academic Profile As Factors Influencing The Use Of Two Special Libraries In Abuja Nigeria., Ekong Eyo Unwana, Joseph Manasseh Men

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study examined the effect of staff attitude and staff academic profile as factors influencing the use of two special libraries in Abuja. The study was anchored by five (5) objectives which among others was to find out the degree usage of available library resources by staff members, to explore options that could improve the quality of service delivery as well as library usage, to find out staff attitude toward service delivery in the library, and to find out if staff academic profile influence library use. The survey research design was adopted and questionnaire was used as instrument for data …

Law Library Blog (August 2017): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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Law Library Blog (April 2017): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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Managing Transitions: Using William Bridges’ Transition Model And A Change Style Assessment Instrument To Inform Strategies And Measure Progress In Organizational Change Management, Julie L. Miller

Scholarship and Professional Work

Purpose:

As academic libraries redefine their services and roles within higher education, library leaders are charged to implement transformative changes. The biggest leadership challenge in effecting change is the human element: helping employees to embrace and implement the changes necessary for transformation. This paper describes the change management process used by Butler University Libraries in 2013-14 to migrate to a cloud-based integrated library system that streamlined workflows and drove reorganization.

Design, methodology or approach:

The library leadership team relied upon two tools to develop strategies for change management and to track progress in employee perceptions of and participation in implementing …

Newsroom: Veteran Projo Columnist To Join Rwu 9/12/2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Ouachita Honors Patty Jones As Support Staff Member Of The Year, Rachel Gaddis, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Ouachita Baptist University’s Staff Development Committee along with interim president Dr. Charles Wright recently named Patty Jones the Support Staff Member of the Year. Jones, who has worked for Ouachita 17 years, is a student account specialist and veterans affairs certifying officer in the Office of Student Financial Services.

The Support Staff Member of the Year Award is presented annually to a member of Ouachita’s support staff who demonstrates outstanding performance in his or her job, relates positively to students, co-workers and the general public and who supports the mission of university. The Staff Development Committee reviews all nominations before …

Overcoming Fraud & Dishonesty In The Hospitality Industry, James Peter Murphy

Conference papers

The licensed industry is an increasingly competitive market place, many bars have responded by empowering staff and undertaking structural and management reforms in recent years. Undoubtedly, these changes have significantly raised the levels of customer service and enhanced customer satisfaction. Paradoxically these changes, combined with the responsibilities allocated to bar staff and management to supervise and manage bars with autonomous control have created more fertile conditions, scope and opportunity for dishonest actions by staff members.

The way licensed premises approach the issue of staff fraud is changing in response to the increased risk. Many bars have historically been anxious to …

An Integrated Model Of Staff Education And Service Support To Strengthen The Efficacy Of Technology-Based Crisis Services, Taneile Kitchingman, Peter Caputi, Ian G. Wilson, Alan Woodward

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Paper presented at the National Suicide Prevention Conference, 24-27 July 2016, Canberra, Australia.

Within Australia, non-clinical telephone and online crisis support services provide readily accessible support without the requirement of referral. Research shows that up to one third of callers to crisis lines and half of all visitors to crisis chat services may be suicidal at the time of contact. Research also shows that contact with these services reduces caller suicidality and facilitates engagement with necessary intervention. The number of contacts to crisis support services in Australia is increasing. An increase in contacts to technology-based crisis services highlights the need …

Facilitating Student And Staff Engagement Across Multiple Offshore Campuses For Transnational Education Using An Immersive Video Augmented Learning Platform, Sasha Nikolic, Wanqing Li

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

Opportunities in transnational education have been growing across the higher education sector. The incentive for institutions to explore opening offshore satellite campuses includes access to more students and building the institutions reputation across the globe. A number of risks are also associated with transnational education, especially in terms of quality. It is important that students across all campuses receive the same high standard of education. That is, students at offshore campuses should not be placed at a disadvantage compared to students studying at the institutions main campus. This paper explores the possibility of providing students from offshore campuses better access …

Team-Based Curriculum Design In Creating Continuing Professional Development For University Teaching Staff, Lisa K. Thomas, Kathryn Harden-Thew, Janine Delahunty, Bonnie Amelia Dean

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

Academic teaching staff are often required to complete a compulsory learning and teaching program for probation. Until recently, the University of Wollongong has offered such a course to their probationary staff which aimed to enhance teaching practice within the institution. However, there was no expectation of further development of learning and teaching practice following probation. During 2014 a new program was developed. The Continuing Professional Development for Learning and Teaching program - CPD (L&T) - is underpinned by a framework of teaching criteria emanating from an extensive review of institutional, national and international benchmarks. For CPD (L&T) certification, staff may …

Rachel Jones Named Director Of Career Services At Ouachita, Trennis Henderson, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Rachel Jones has been named director of career services at Ouachita Baptist University effective Dec. 1. She succeeds Rachel Roberts who had served in that role since 2014.

Jones previously served as marketing director for Sodexo on the Ouachita campus and as a hall director and assistant director of recreational life at Ouachita. She also has held staff positions at Midwestern State University and University of the Ozarks.

As director of career services, Jones will assist students in identifying personal strengths and areas of academic and vocational interest. She will counsel individuals about effective employment search strategies including resume and …