美国科罗拉多州的高等教育券计划及其启示

美国科罗拉多州在2005～2006学年正式实施高等教育券计划,政府对高等学校不再直接拨款,进入公立大学的学生可以获得每年2 400美元面值的教育券;申请进入政府指定的3所私立大学的学生,可以得到每年1 200美元面值的教育券。在美国,这是除退伍军人教育券外,第一个针对普通大学生的教育券计划。该计划颠覆了政府对大学的传统的直接拨款模式,一方面促进了公立大学的竞争,充分利用了现有的高等教育资源和经费;另一方面也加大了对私立大学的支持力度。     

美国图书馆联盟的集团循证采购实践研究

[目的/意义] 循证采购模式以用户为导向、以数据为基础,辅以图书馆的专业分析,有利于图书馆馆藏的优化发展,因此对图书馆循证采购模式的实践研究具有重要的参考意义。[方法/过程] 介绍美国两个图书馆联盟电子图书和多媒体资源的循证采购实践情况,包括操作方式、操作流程和实践结果,并对项目的共性问题进行分析。[结果/结论] 图书馆开展循证采购模式需做好数据准备工作、适当的宣传推广、选择适合的资源供应商、提出准确完善的使用量统计需求,并结合多重证据进行决策。同时提出我国图书馆的EBA模式发展思路。     

美国科罗拉多研究图书馆联盟发展现状与启示

[目的/意义]科罗拉多研究图书馆联盟是美国经济危机爆发后,区域性研究图书馆联盟创新快速发展的典范,通过对其详细的调研分析,为我国区域性研究图书馆联盟的建设提供借鉴。[方法/过程]通过对科罗拉多研究图书馆联盟网站、相关文献的调研,对其产品与服务、治理服务机构、工作人员等情况进行详细分析和总结。[结果/结论]调查发现,科罗拉多研究图书馆联盟具有实行分层式管理与服务、重视软件和基础设施建设、重视与联盟外机构的合作、联盟服务对象较广泛、紧跟时代发展潮流5个方面的特点,对我国区域性研究图书馆联盟发展,提出充分调动联盟成员馆的积极性、加强联盟长期发展的意识、深化图书馆联盟的服务、重视图书馆联盟产品的开发、重视扩展图书馆联盟服务对象、重视图书馆联盟间的合作、聘用专门的图书馆联盟工作人员等改进措施。     

All the News That's Fit to Digitize

ABSTRACT

In the second Vision Session of the 2006 NASIG Annual Conference, Brenda Bailey-Hainer gave a presentation on the creation and success of Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection. The presentation began with the details of the project itself, including a demonstration, and then continued with an account of the overwhelmingly positive user reaction to the project. She also described the funding model used to support ongoing work on the project and concluded with future plans.     

Guidelines for the protection and treatment of the abused child

The purpose of this paper is to review ten actions that can be taken by multi- disciplinary child protection teams or individuals in this field to assure that the interests of the abused child are consistently addressed.     

Indian Child Welfare Act: ideas for implementation

The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 was passed to curb the excessive rate of placement of Indian children in non-Indian foster and adoptive homes. Congress concluded that these placements were abusive because of their contribution to the identity confusion of the Indian children who had been placed as well as the disruption of tribal culture. This article includes recommendations about implementation of the Indian Child Welfare Act which are based on a survey of individuals involved in Indian child welfare as well as experiences of the author since completion of the survey in November of 1980. In general, the recommendations are: (1) Tribal and state agencies should make special efforts to coordinate services so that the unique difficulties faced by Indian families will be addressed; (2) Urban social service agencies should assign all Indian child welfare cases to one worker or a group of workers and cooperate with urban Indian associations in the transfer of Indian child welfare cases; (3) Social workers handling cases should be involved in all aspects of transfer and not leave the management strictly to attorneys; (4) Where the act is unclear, particularly in off-reservation emergency placements, the state agency must make the policy clear so that all workers understand how Indian children will be protected in emergencies; (5) In individual cases, as well as when negotiating agreements both tribal and state agencies should avoid compromising the rights of the parties involved or the principles of the act.     

工程教育应培养能造福人类的工程师——美国科罗拉多矿业学院“人道主义工程”副修计划的启示

美国科罗拉多矿业学院从2003年开始实施的“人道主义工程”副修计划,旨在培养能在跨文化、跨地域等复杂环境下开展工程设计和工程服务的骨干人才.该计划重视培养工科生的服务精神、社会环境敏感性、社会责任感等“软”素质,在概念定义、课程设置、服务学习等方面颇具特色,对于工程教育者深入思考如何培养造福社会的工程师具有启发意义.     

Free Books: Loading Brief MARC Records for Open-Access Books in an Academic Library Catalog

Mbooks are open-access, digitized books freely available on the Internet. This article describes the Auraria Library's experience of loading brief MARC records for Mbooks into its online public access catalog and looks at some of the issues that arose from the record-loading project. Despite the low quality of the records, librarians in Auraria Library thought that loading them into the catalog was advantageous because of the rich content in the collection and because many of the records could be improved using the global update functionality in the catalog. Making the records available through the catalog, as opposed to merely linking to the entire collection from the Library's Web page, was considered to be valuable because of the aggregation a catalog provides and because the Mbooks collection helped fill gaps in the Library's physical collections. As more open-access, digitized books become available, libraries will need to plan and manage how best to provide access to them.     

Channel One as a Current Events Medium for Secondary Students

SUMMARY

Setting prices in fee-based information services presents many challenges. Each service and its parent institution have a different definition of “cost recovery” and a different set of local accounting rules and procedures. The manager assesses the organizational goals and strategies, and then reviews the standard pricing models to determine which one best matches local objectives. This paper explores cost accounting methodology to illustrate one method of costing services and determining prices to cover those costs.     

Measuring cross-cultural adjustment: The problem of criteriaLa evaluación del ajuste transcultural: El problema de criteriosL'évaluation de l'adaptation inter-culturelle: Le problème des critères

The nature of the adjustment process for individuals crossing cultural boundaries has not been adequately described in past research, and this leads to difficulty in selection and training of personnel for overseas assignments. This article critically reviews research on criterion measures of overseas adaptation, and raises a series of theoretical issues to be considered in future research. In addition, methods for measurement of cross-cultural adjustment are proposed, and it is suggested that practitioners and researchers in this field could benefit from a careful definition of criteria.