Turning the library upside down: Reorganization using total quality management principles

Professional staff at Samford University's Davis Library began to plan for vast organizational changes in the summer of 1990. This article describes their application of TQM principles to preparing for and implementing a restructuring of the Library and discusses the results of this reorganization.     

FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR CENTRAL AGENCIES OF JEWISH EDUCATION

There is an ancient Chinese saying: “May you live in interesting times.” While some would classify this as a blessing, others would perceive it as a curse. The topic for this morning's discussion arises from a comparable state of ambiguity in regard to Jewish education, for these are certainly the most interesting times for us. Some voices are heard decrying the sorry state of Jewish education in North America and projecting a weakening of Jewish life because of the failures of Jewish education. Others are pointing to the extraordinary potential of Jewish education in the service of Jewish continuity, if we are willing to think about Jewish education in new ways. For those of us who tend the vineyards of Jewish education and maintain the institutions which have served Jewish education, we see great opportunity and serious challenges to existing assumptions in these interesting times. It is in this context that I share some observations about the implications for the future of central agencies of Jewish education.     

我国职业教育学科自觉的思考

我国职业教育学科自觉的缺乏使职业教育研究存在研究成果理性水平低,简单地以行政推动实践代替学理研究,照搬国外职业教育理论,以普通教育理论演绎职业教育理论等问题,职业教育改革与发展实践呼唤职业教育的学科自觉。对此,职业教育理论工作者应自觉地肩负起学科建设的使命,确立职业教育学科的源概念,形成独立的学科基本概念;明确职业教育学科定位,确立学科建制;克服"学术自由主义",凝练职业教育学科方向。     

Parallel realization of systems,using factorizations and quotients in categories

A general theorem concerning the parallel representation of systems is proved, using the also general notions of terminal factorization situation and quotient in a category. Applications are given to the decomposition and synthesis of a number of kinds of systems.