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Fy2009 Fiscal Close Report From Innovative Interfaces Acquisitions Module

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Fiscal close report produced by the Acquisitions module of the University of Rhode Island's Innovative Interfaces Millennium integrated library system.

Indicates total spending on library materials from July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009.

Specifically, provides appropriations, final expenditures, and encumbrances for monographs by fund code, including approval plan orders, firm orders, standing orders.

Also provides expenditures for serials and other subscriptions by fund code.

This year's data does not include expenditures from endowment funds.

Other years are found in Digital Commons@URI as supplementary files to the annual report of the library acquisitions department.

Embedded Librarian: Meeting Users On Their Turf, Brian Vetruba

WashU Libraries Presentations

With a decline in reference desk visits now evident at many academic libraries, librarians are experimenting with new ways to provide reference and other library services to faculty and students. Besides virtual reference and other online services, a growing trend is to provide alternative venues for librarian and patron interaction outside the library. By “setting up shop” in student unions, dormitories, and academic departments, either throughout the year or during specific times in a term (e.g. exam week), many librarians are answering patron queries in a timelier manner and in more convenient settings to the user. In short, they have …

Weather Derivatives As A Potential Risk Management Tool For Irrigators, Ray Supalla, Christopher L. Thompson, Brooks Neely

Cornhusker Economics

Irrigators in the Republican Basin and in parts of the North Platte Basin must learn to incorporate multiple year drought risk into their management plans, as they adapt to the limitations imposed by five-year pumping allocations. A major concern involves the implications of being water-short during the later years of the allocation period, because of an accumulative rainfall shortage or drought. Currently, producers can either ignore the risk of substantially lower incomes if their allocation is exhausted too soon, or reduce the risk by using less water early in the allocation period. The latter approach, however, may substantially reduce the …

Social Cost Of Gambling, Douglas Walker

UNLV Gaming Podcasts

At the 14th International Conference on Gambling and Risk-Taking, Dr. Schwartz interviews Dr. Walker, getting his perspective on the applicability of "social cost of gambling" studies, casinos and crime, his latest book, and more.

Evaluating The New Fema Post Pkemra, Christine G. Springer

Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Presentations

In 2002, with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and more than 20 other agencies/entities became part of a new organizational entity. Subsequent performance failures by FEMA, specifically preparation for and response to Hurricane Katrina, led to a number of internal and external reviews and investigations to determine the causes of these failures and to identify potential solutions. Congressional concern led to the passage of PL109-295, the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006, which set in motion a series of expectations and provided considerable resources for FEMA’s ‘transformation’. Since then, …

June 9 Faculty Workshop On Copyright And The New Usg Copyright Policy, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• June 9 Faculty workshop on copyright and the new USG Copyright policy

Service-Learning In Tourism, Denis Simond

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

Service-Learning as a teaching methodology is categorized as experiential education, or learning by doing. Projects aid the development of local community infrastructure and/or conservation.

By involving a diverse range of people in experiential education, knowledge, skills and motivation needed to understand culture differences and foster environmental and community awareness are gained. Structured opportunities are created to evaluate the service experience, allowing participants to be constantly aware of the impact of their work.

The presentation includes Odyssey’s Service-Learning Guidelines and features the following examples:

• Seniors – Research & Service Projects
  
• Intergenerational – Lingnan University Students & Seniors
  
• USA Fulbright / Hayes …

Cross-Countries Experiences In Organizing Service-Learning Programs, Kano Yamamoto

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

The purpose of my presentation is to conceptually clarify the role of Service-Learning (S-L) in establishing mutual trust, peace and security under the globalized today’s world. Through our experiences, it has become evident that the international S-L is a powerful means in overcoming cultural diversity thereby building peaceful world. The globalization, beside its positive aspects, brings serious problems such as market failures, identity crisis, fundamentalism, inequity, etc., which brings uncertainty and human insecurity. To deal with these problems, we need to emphasize very basic human values universally found in most communities; “Back to Basics”. S-L is quite powerful where participants …

Promoting Service-Learning In China : Historical, Cross-Cultural, And Interdisciplinary Issues And Perspectives, Sheying Chen

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

The motto “serve the people” tended to yield lip service under the politicization and de-politicization of the Chinese economic state (Chen, 2004). Recent change in China’s general public policy (GPP) has shown a growing commitment to service as a government function and social aspiration. Higher education as a social institution has also experienced dramatic changes, from “serve proletarian politics” to “serve modernization construction”. “Serve the people” is now paid new attention in Chinese higher education policy. Although Chinese institutions of higher education have long engaged students in “practical learning”, promoting service as a learning activity and pedagogy requires a more …

Ifrt, Elizabeth Buchanan

West Bend Community Memorial Library (Wisconsin), 2009

Document originated from Open Records Request by Ginny Maziarka

Library Board Rejects Restrictions, Don Behm

West Bend Community Memorial Library (Wisconsin), 2009

No abstract provided.

West Bend Library Board Hosts Open Forum And Vote? Tonight, Ginny Maziarka

West Bend Community Memorial Library (Wisconsin), 2009

No abstract provided.

West Bend Library Board - Lies, Anger, And Vengeance, Ginny Maziarka

West Bend Community Memorial Library (Wisconsin), 2009

No abstract provided.

If You Don't Agree With Ginny Maziarka, You Must Be Crazy, Concerned West Bend Citizen

West Bend Community Memorial Library (Wisconsin), 2009

No abstract provided.

West Bend Library Board Unanimously Rejects Censorship Attempts, Concerned West Bend Citizen

West Bend Community Memorial Library (Wisconsin), 2009

No abstract provided.

West Bend Library Board Rejects Restrictions, Michael Zimmer

West Bend Community Memorial Library (Wisconsin), 2009

No abstract provided.

It’S So French, Paul French

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Five foreign correspondents of the past I never tired of reading while doing my research for this book:

1) JOP Bland – the man who (about 1906) complained there were too many books on China being written and then promptly wrote about half a dozen himself (can’t not feel a kindred spirit there).

2) BL Putnam Weale – who decided mocking the pompous was not enough and dedicated his life to getting involved in one warlord intrigue after another until he got himself butchered and assassinated in Tianjin in some dodgy deal.

3) Aleko Lilius – who came to China …

Do I Still Love China?, Xujun Eberlein

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

In Sunday’s New York Times, Ha Jin reflected on his decision to remain in the West after graduate school and to write primarily in English:

That was when I started to think about staying in America and writing exclusively in English, even if China was my only subject, even if Chinese was my native tongue. It took me almost a year to decide to follow the road of Conrad and Nabokov and write in a language that was not my own. I knew I might fail. I was also aware that I was forgoing an opportunity: the Chinese language had …

Key Curriculum For Developing World-Class Patient Centered Care Teams, Linda Bauermeister

Theses and Graduate Projects

According to the National Coalition on Health Care (2007), the health care industry is in a state of crisis. It is not as safe as it could be, it is not affordable for many people, and it is full of waste. There seems to be a consensus that reform is needed. One option for transforming health care is to focus on and develop the small units of people who actually do the work (Quinn, 1992 and Nelson et al, 2007). This Leadership Application Project addresses the question: what are the key curriculum elements needed to transform, develop, and sustain a …

Case Study: Saving Money Through Alternative Disposal Of Street Sweeping Debris, Town Of Natick, Massachusetts, Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center For Public Management, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Edward J. Collins Center for Public Management Publications

In 2004, Natick submitted a Beneficial Use Determination Application for a restricted use determination by the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for a pilot project to demonstrate that debris collected from sweeping Town roads could be reused to the benefit of the Town. By doing this, the Town would avoid the associated high landfill disposal costs of the sweeping debris, as well as of the cost of disposing excess compost that the Town could now mix with the debris. The majority of the “sweeping debris” is sand the Town uses on its roads during the winter. This pilot tested …

Why Economic Performance Has Differed Between Brazil And China? A Comparative Analysis Of Brazilian And Chinese Macroeconomic Policy, Fernando Ferrari-Filho, Anthony Petros Spanakos

Department of Political Science and Law Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This paper addresses a specific question: why has China grown so rapidly and Brazil not? To answer this question, it (i) establishes the basis for comparison between China and Brazil by contextualizing these countries within the BRICs concept, and (ii) presents a comparative analysis of Brazilian and Chinese reforms focusing only on the issue of macroeconomic policy, especially the monetary and exchange rate regimes, and its effect on growth.

L'Enquête De Satisfaction Comme Outil Pour Identifier Les Innovations Nécessaires : Exemple Des Changements Apportés Suites À L’Enquête 2006 En Bst Et Comparaison Avec Libqual+, Frédéric Brodkom

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Quality Management @Aut University Library, Gillian Barthorpe, Eamon Wright

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Library Quality Assessment Through Libqual, Martha Kyrillidou

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Letting The Genes Out Of The Bottle: Making The Most Of Free Bioinformatics Information, Don Macmillan

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Le Statu Quo N'Est Pas Une Option!, Richard Dumont

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Tictocron: An Automatic Solution For Propagating Quality Metadata To Scholarly Rss Toc Feed Metadata, Santy Chumbe

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

The Pulling Power Of Marquee Courses: The Changing Curriculum And Quality Reference Services, Maureen Cech, Nevenka Zdravkovska, Robert Kackley

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

La Médiation En Bibliothèque Universitaire De Sciences : Le Cas De Clermont-Ferrand (France), Fabrice Boyer, Florence Alibert, Gaël Bourdet

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Initiatives And Experiences Of The Liber Division On Library Management And Administration, Jolanta Stepniak

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.