Welcoming Spaces: Supporting Parenting Students at the Academic Library

Academic libraries serve many student constituents, but one often overlooked group is students who are parenting children. Students who, by necessity or volition, bring their children with them to the library have specific needs. Serving these students, who often have difficulty succeeding and graduating at college, should be a priority for academic libraries. Offering assistance can help this group focus on their studies, achieve their academic goals, and thus decrease universities' attrition rates. This article begins by drawing on anecdotal evidence, then reviews existing literature on parenting students. Next, it examines and analyzes policies on children in academic libraries at large American universities. Half of all academic libraries don't have clearly accessible policies, and some have policies that discourage bringing supervised children to libraries, while a few have welcoming policies and facilities. This research shows that academic libraries can still make progress to serve a key constituency. Finally, it offers solutions for how academic libraries can serve parenting students, given varying spatial and financial constraints, as well as diffusing potential concerns that might hold academic libraries back from serving this part of the academic community. This analysis could be supplemented by further inquiry and interviews with libraries on how their policies were developed and are being implemented or with parenting students on what they desire and need from the academic library.     

The Public Library System as an Element in the 2007 and 2015 Electoral Programs of Spain's Political Parties in the Region of Castilla-La Mancha

To assess the relevance of the Public Library System in the political agenda, programs presented by the Political Parties competing in Regional and Local elections in the Spanish Region of Castilla-La Mancha were analyzed and the proposals about these library institutions were identified.

All Regional programs were collected and also an ample sample from the Municipalities for the 2007 and 2015 elections, trying to find the differences influenced by the impact of the financial crisis and recession on the public-library policies.

The conclusion arrived at was that, although the Public Libraries may be reasonably present in the studied programs, there is a low awareness by the Political Parties of the main problems.     

科技政策术语自动识别技术初探

在对科技政策领域术语的特点分析基础上,提出一种适用于科技政策领域的术语识别方法,即结合科技政 策术语的语言特点,采用统计计算的方法进行两次术语过滤过程,实现科技政策术语的自动识别。实验结果表明,本 文提出的基于科技政策术语语言特点和统计计算相结合的科技政策术语自动识别的方法具有一定的可行性,将用于科 技政策词典的构建和科技政策文本内容的深层次语义分析。     

中国现行生育政策的形成及对其未来调整方向的思考

我国现有的生育政策是马克思主义的人口理论与中国的社会现实相结合的产物。以“提倡晚婚晚育,少生优生,提倡一对夫妇只生育一个孩子”为主要内容的现有生育政策的实施有效地遏止了我国快速增长的人口发展势头,有力地推动了我国经济建设的顺利发展。然而我国控制人口增长的工作依然任重而道远。我们要在坚持现有的人口生育政策不放松的前提下,适当调整和缩紧现有生育政策中的不合理、过于宽松的部分,以促进我国社会主义现代化建设的全面、和谐、可持续地发展。     

圣王与暴君:传统政治人批判

圣王与暴君是古代政治人范式的两种典型代表,尽管二者对于政治是否需要道德有着根本性的争论,但是,二者都是私人政治时代特有的政治人性范式设计,其目的都是为了实现政治专制,维护帝王的利益。现代政治本质是公共政治,与私人政治有着本质性的区别。公共政策是公共利益的需要而不是最高统治者的权术的体现。     

加快发展合肥现代物流业的分析与对策研究

现代物流业不仅对促进一国或地区的经济发展具有举足轻重的作用,而且也是衡量一国或地区经济发展水平的重要标志之一。近年来,随着“大发展、大建设、大环境”向纵深推进,合肥工业化、城镇化进程不断加快,经济规模不断扩大,迫切需要包括现代物流在内的现代服务业加快发展。另一方面,随着国家中部崛起战略的实施、合肥现代化滨湖大城市建设初具规模以及独特的区位优势,为合肥现代物流业的发展创造了良好的前提条件。针对目前合肥物流业“散、小、乱、差”的现状,应从加强基础设施建设、优化发展环境、完善政府政策支撑体系、加快培养现代物流专业人才等方面,着力推进现代物流业的大发展。     

教育政策视野下高等教育发展热点探析

近年来,我国高等教育事业飞速发展,从"精英教育"过渡到"大众化教育"阶段,在取得可喜成绩的同时,也面临着一些问题,新世纪我国高等教育发展的热点问题、新政策,包括贫困学生资助政策、师范生免费教育、创新创业教育、"质量工程"等,这些新政从不同侧面巩固了高教发展的成果,促进了高等教育全面可协调发展,开辟了高教事业发展的新途径。     

太阳能建筑一体化探讨

建筑耗能在未来商品总耗能中所占比例将上升到35％左右,专家们预言：我国如不及时加以改善,这个比例将会迅速上升到40％左右。以太阳能利用为核心的可再生能源的利用还尚未成为节能建筑的必要组成部分。综合利用太阳能建筑集成技术的住宅具有良好的经济性和可推广性,将成为面向大众的高节能和高舒适性住宅的典范。     

货币错配对我国货币政策有效性影响的实证检验

货币错配是新兴市场经济国家普遍存在而难以在短期内解决的问题,它可能会导致货币危机,提高化解金融危机的成本,会干扰汇率制度的正常运行,还会影响货币政策的有效性,对宏观经济产生广泛而深刻的影响。我国是新兴市场国家,存在严重的债权型货币错配,并且越来越严重。文章基于我国1987-2006年的数据,实证分析了我国货币错配对我国货币政策有效性——产出效应和价格效应的影响。结果显示：货币错配减弱了我国货币政策的有效性据此提出了从减轻货币错配的角度提高货币政策有效性的对策。     

Competing priorities in professional development: an Australian study of teacher professional development policy and practice

This paper argues that neoliberal and managerial pressures external to the teaching profession, as well as more progressive and democratic approaches internal to the profession, have simultaneously influenced professional development policy and practice in Australia. In making this case, the paper reviews the nature of the teacher professional development that is supported in federal Australian policies associated with the recently defeated Liberal/National Coalition government (1996–2007) and research into how professional development has been enacted in practice in Australia, during this government's tenure. While acknowledging the significant impact of more neoliberal and managerial approaches and how such policy emphases contribute to the continuation of traditional, systemic/employer provided workshops, the paper also provides evidence of competing, more teacher‐centred approaches.