试论图书馆员国际交流项目及其评估——以四川大学和亚利桑那州立大学图书馆员交流项目为例

[目的/意义] 针对图书馆员国际交流项目缺乏评估研究的现状,提出一种有借鉴意义的测量工具来评估其实际效果和价值。[方法/过程] 以四川大学和亚利桑那州立大学图书馆员交流项目为例,参考D. Bachner和U. Zeutschel对国际青年交流项目的测量和评估方法确定评估标准,引入李克特五分量表,结合要求详细阐述的开放式问题,形成一个定性和定量相结合的评估工具。[结果/结论] 通过评估,对馆员交流项目进行全面审视,确定其在个人、机构、制度层面的影响和效果,发现项目决策、实施过程中的亮点与不足,提出促进馆员国际交流项目进一步发展的建议。     

Developing Peer Mentoring through Evaluation

Peer mentoring programs are an important component in the strategy to enhance the first year undergraduate experience. The operation of these programs needs to be informed by evidence as to their effectiveness. In this article we report on a six-year study of the development of a peer mentoring program in which feedback is used to improve program implementation. Evidence from surveys of participants in the program shows that this process has significantly enhanced their experiences and that the effects of these benefits have increased throughout the life of the program. Moreover, participation in the program enhanced the leadership, communication, and organizational skills of the peer mentors.     

Integrating environmental sustainability into universities

Universities play a fundamental role in addressing global environmental challenges as their education, research and community involvement can produce long-lasting environmental effects and societal change. By demonstrating best practice in their operations, research and teaching, universities have both multiple and multiplier effects on society. For universities to comprehensively address sustainability, a ‘learning for sustainability’ approach needs to be embedded across every aspect of institutional operations in a synergistic way. Using semi-structured interviews, this research explored the factors that influence the integration of sustainability into the operations, teaching and research activities of universities in Australia and England. The research found that individuals, committed to the goal of a more sustainable world, play a vital role in the success of integrating environmental sustainability into universities. The factors critical to enabling universities to undertake the transformational changes necessary to embed environmental sustainability into all university areas included: a strong policy environment, resourcing of strategies, and encouragement of leaders and environmental sustainability advocates. Educating and building the awareness of university staff of the importance of environmental sustainability to future generations was key to a successful strategy.     

Designing an “Architecture of Information”— The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

For the permanent exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum the design approach was minimal and transparent, and the designers were in dialogue only with the story — not with the history of design or the conventions governing most museum presentations. We reached for a sense of immersion by trying to erase the seams between exhibits and architecture. Display strategies included the removal of conventional barriers of certain glass-encased vitrines: some objects can be touched, and reactions sought are as visceral as they are intellectual. We tried above all to see that people leave the museum not profoundly dejected but with some other feeling evoking the resilience of life and hope. The design intended to make the environment so united with its subject that memory of the museum experience and the sharing of memory through discussion will carry on in the lives of the visitors.