Meeting Information Needs through Global Partnerships: A Roadmap to Becoming a Global Health Sciences Library

Abstract

Supporting global health priorities through the development of robust health science librarianship partnerships is of significant importance. Increased demand for synthesizing evidence-based information, collating quality resources, and increasing research productivity to improve human health requires integration of library and information science skills and expertise. The Health Sciences Library (HSL) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), exists to be an indispensable partner in health information and knowledge, teaching and learning, and research. As global efforts at UNC expanded, the HSL sought to ensure that our global engagement strategy and integration were aligned with campus priorities and partner needs. The HSL created a global research partnership plan: identify resources that improve efficiency, increase access to information, build in-country capacity and expertise—all while strengthening collaborations across multiple countries. Creating a meaningful and sustainable engagement strategy was central to envisioning our path forward and can be used as a framework for consideration by librarians in similar settings.     

Applying a family systems perspective for understanding parent—professional relationships: a study of families located in the Anglo‐Jewish community

Under current government directives, parents, along with professionals, are ascribed a central role in contributing to the processes associated with meeting their children's special needs. Yet many obstacles continue to hinder the achievement of good working relationships between parents and professionals. For parents located within minority ethnic communities, however, it is known that the challenges to attaining partnership working are often further heightened. Drawing on the day‐to‐day experiences of six families located in one minority ethnic context ‐ the Anglo‐Jewish community ‐ the author uses family systems theory as a useful lens through which parents' understandings of, and responses to professionals can be further interpreted and understood. All the names used in this article are pseudonyms.     

Perspectives on inclusive education: learning from each other

Many courses of study are currently available that address inclusive education and, increasingly, distance education is seen as a flexible and appropriately inclusive way to deliver such courses. In this article a team of colleagues, Kieron Sheehy, Jonathan Rix, Melanie Nind and Katy Simmons, discusses the development of an Open University course, E243 Inclusive Education: Learning from Each Other, which was launched in February 2004. The team reflects on their own process of learning from each other and from the rich network of people involved, mirroring some of the course themes in their own journeys. Collaborative learning became a key theme within the course, both as a method for teaching within the ‘inclusive classroom’ and also as the process for producing a course in a contested and challenging area. This experience allowed the team to change and develop their own perspectives on important issues and, it is suggested, allowed the course to include ways in which students could be supported in having the same opportunity.     

基于属性值偏好矩阵的协同过滤推荐算法

传统的协同过滤推荐算法面临用户评分数据稀疏性和冷启动问题的挑战.针对上述问题,提出了基于属性值偏好矩阵的协同过滤推荐算法,首先采用奇异值分解(SVD)对用户-项目评分矩阵降维得到目标用户的初始邻居用户集,生成新的用户-项目评分矩阵;然后将用户评分映射到相应的项目属性值上,生成每个用户的属性值偏好矩阵,并基于属性值偏好矩阵进行用户相似性度量,从而缓解了评分数据稀疏性;将新项目的属性值与用户的属性值偏好矩阵进行匹配,从而找出匹配度最高的前N个用户作为新项目的推荐受众.实验结果表明了该算法的有效性.     

基于组合加权评分的Item-based协同过滤算法

针对Item-based协同过滤算法中用户评分数据稀疏性严重影响推荐质量的问题,提出一种基于组合加权评分的Item-based协同过滤算法,以用户评分项并集作为用户相似性计算基础,并提出一种组合加权评分方法来对并集中的未评分项进行计算和填补,从而降低了数据稀疏性。实验结果表明该算法能有效提高推荐质量。     

现代图书馆的协同服务

在简述现代图书馆的特征和服务模式的基础上，论述了现代图书馆的各类协同服务，并从三个方面简要描述了协同服务的行为评价。     

"一站式服务"与图书馆信息咨询服务的优化

在数字图书馆和参考咨询迅速发展的今天，“一站式服务”作为图书馆参考咨询服务的新理念和追求目标，对馆员的要求是贯彻首问责任制，对资源的要求是要有效整合图书馆的献资源，对服务模式的要求是引进合作数字参考服务，建立多层次的信息咨询服务模式。     

A review of parent–professional partnerships and some new obligations and concerns arising from the introduction of the SEND Code of Practice 2015

This article contributes a current thematic review of literature about the challenges of productive parent–professional partnership working relating to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). It also reports on an empirical project which explored early experiences of professionals working under the newly statutory SEND Code of Practice 2015 and asks what new challenges have emerged for SEND parent‐partnerships. Particular consideration is given to the language of choice and preference in the Code, the new focus on outcomes in the place of specified provision, and the problematic construction of compliant partners.     

2CUL Slavic: The View So Far

In fall 2016, the Columbia-Cornell collaboration in the area of Slavic & East European resource coordination and sharing celebrated its sixth year. The author reviews particulars of the development, implementation, and function of this program as well as some of the challenges that face such cross-institutional efforts.     

Defining the family: towards a critical framework for families of children with disabilities

ABSTRACT

Family‐centred approaches are widely recognized internationally as the most ecologically appropriate way of working with families of children with disabilities. Pivotal in this approach is its focus upon the needs of the whole family, rather than only the needs of the child (with a disability). It places a significant emphasis on flexible and responsive transdisciplinary service delivery and upon parent choice and decision‐making. For the family‐centred approach to become truly effective, then, we must define what constitutes a family. Or rather ask families how they define themselves. Alongside an exploration of traditional and non‐traditional family roles, this paper challenges stereotypical notions of the family, and seeks to establish the family as the core element in any service team.