A Resource Center for Developmental Disabilities

ABSTRACT

The Missouri Developmental Disabilities Resource Center (MDDRC) is an information and referral service located within the Institute for Human Development (IHD) at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Through its varied informational services, including its website, the Missouri Developmental Disabilities Resource Center is helping to support the independence, productivity, integration and community inclusion of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.     

A Library Staff Becomes a Team

Abstract

The staff of the Management & Economics Library of the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University used group problem solving techniques developed by The Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) to redesign the floor plan of the circulation, periodicals, and reference areas of the library to best utilize the space. The ToP^tm (Technology of Participation) planning process utilizes visualizing, brainstorming, and clustering of ideas. Its planning process consists of five workshops: mapping out the practical vision; analyzing the underlying contradictions; setting the strategic directions; designing the systematic action plan; and drawing up the implementation timeline. Each of these workshops is described in part one of this article. Part two describes the implementation of the changes and includes a list of changes, their associated costs, and goals they accomplished. The appendix includes before and after floor plans     

Nursing Reference Center: A Point-of-Care Resource

Nursing Reference Center is a point-of-care resource designed for the practicing nurse, as well as nursing administrators, nursing faculty, and librarians. Users can search across multiple resources, including topical Quick Lessons, evidence-based care sheets, patient education materials, practice guidelines, and more. Additional features include continuing education modules, e-books, and a new iPhone application. A sample search and comparison with similar databases were conducted.     

高校学习资源中心门户系统的构建研究

学习资源中心将是高校图书馆新的发展形式,是一种资源共享的多媒体学习环境。它建立了知识与用户之间的联系,以集成的方式向用户提供广泛的知识资源和多种多样的个性化服务,方便用户一站式的知识获取、知识交流。学习资源中心门户系统的三大模块——资源组织模块、参考咨询模块、系统管理模块相互作用、不可分割。在具体应用中,应根据应用背景、主要服务对象的需求逐步加以完善。     

eVenturing Entrepreneur's Resource Center

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The Aurora Public Library Business Resource Center:

The Business Resource Center represents the Aurora, Colorado Public Library's response to a tremendous growth within the business community over the past decade. This essay details what factors led to the decision that a separate service point was needed to meet this growth. Issues discussed include what statistical data proved helpful in developing a plan of action; collection development considerations; analysis of factors concerning library functions and service; and, initial reaction from patrons and staff. The study is also presented as a model for other medium-to-large suburban libraries intending to initiate a similar project.     

Preparing a Holocaust Unit for High School Students

Summary

This article focuses on how teachers in the Social Studies Department at Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, MA constructed, in 1972, a six-week curriculum on the Nazi Holocaust. The unit is considered to be the first formal curriculum on that subject for secondary students. The author of the article, who was a member of the department at that time, explains how she and her colleagues chose the material to be included, which resources were particularly useful and how two of the teachers updated the anthology of readings that had become the basis of the curriculum.

The anthology was published initially by Bantam Books in conjunction with the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith as a trade book in soft cover and was entitled The Holocaust Years: Society on Trial (Chartock and Spencer, eds., 1978). After being out of print for nearly ten years, it was republished in hardcover in 1995, with a new title, Can It Happen Again? Chronicles of the Holocaust(Black Dog and Leventhal) with nineteen additional entries. Since the 1970s the anthology has served as a springboard for other educators interested in developing their own interdisciplinary curriculum on the Holocaust.     

广州大学城图书馆资源共建共享读者意见调查分析

通过问卷调查,对广州大学城高校师生关于大学城图书馆资源共建共享的态度及其理由、存在困难、建议等进行了收集分析.调查对进一步探索资源共建共享策略有重要意义.     

从电大图书馆到学习资源中心

创建全面开放实用的学习资源中心是电大现代远程开放教育个体化学习支持服务体系中的重要工作目标。文章探讨了由电大图书馆升级成为学习资源中心的必要性与可行性，并剖析了实现目标的基本条件。     

从“L itera tu re Resou rce Cen ter”看基于万维网的文学信息资源集成服务

总结了美国盖尔集团(Gale Group) 推出的基于万维网的综合性文学信息数据库“文学资源中心(Literature Resource Center) ”在数据来源、用户界面、检索结果等方面的特点与不足。并在此基础上讨论了基于万维网的文学信息资源集成服务的基本框架。     

调整分工格局建立蜂窝覆盖网开展移动服务

广播电视作为现代化的大众传媒工具，有其他媒体难以媲美的优势。她以先进的技术手段为依托．以生动、快捷、方便的服务方式被人们所广泛接受．发挥出了巨大的作用，最终奠定了今天的地位。     

以人为本搞好高职院校图书馆信息资源建设与服务工作

阐述新形势下的高职院校图书馆要以人为本,努力搞好人力资源建设,建立特色馆藏,做好服务工作,并提出了相应的措施.     

创建学习资源中心是高校图书馆的发展方向

文章介绍了国外高校建设学习资源中心的一些具体做法,分析了目前国内高校图书馆的发展现状,并提出了一些具体措施。     

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — A Dialogue with Memory

This article describes the author's personal/professional experience in designing the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a building that must “fit” in the context of the National Mall, express the spirit of the Holocaust, and become a permanent, living memorial. “The [building] did not pose the familiar problem of the container and the contained. This [must be] a building where the contained (the historical exhibition) works on the container (the architectural shell) and where the container has to join with the contained.”     

Journals indexed by the AHA Resource Center for Hospital Literature Index and HEALTH database

The American Hospital Association (AHA) Resource Center indexes journals for the Health Planning and Administration (HEALTH) database and Hospital Literature Index (HLI). These journals, designated special list health journals, are selected to provide access to a wide and balanced coverage of hospital and health care administration and health policy literature. This article provides background information on HEALTH and HLI and describes special list health journals in detail (including historical information, information sources, and broad subject divisions). It also discusses AHA policies relating to journal and article selection and current subject distribution of special list health journals.     

New library buildings: the University of Michigan Medical Library and Learning Resource Center

The University of Michigan opened a new medical library in July 1980. The five-story structure combines the library with a learning-resources center. Overall, the building has operated smoothly and has been well accepted. The combining of two facilities designed to support the teaching and learning objectives of the health sciences curriculum will ensure long-term cooperation between them.