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.     

Reimagining Newsroom Collaboration: How Two European News Nonprofits Are Inviting Citizens In

ABSTRACT

News nonprofits in the U.S. have been proliferating over 15 years as a way of addressing troubles in the business model for news. For these newsrooms, collaboration, with each other and with mainstream news, has emerged as a key way to build readership and attain relevance in a crowded media space. Still, past research has told us that the strong connection to mainstream news has constrained these organizations’ critique of journalism. In Europe, nonprofit news remains nascent and represents a response to declining trust in and engagement with journalism, and rising populism across the continent. Against this very different context, this study examines two players at the forefront of the European news nonprofit movement. It demonstrates the path dependency inherent in the origins of these organizations: In Europe, they are a response to a different societal change, and thus developed rather differently than did their peers in the United States, with a focus on redefining the idea of collaboration and the role of their audiences by seeing citizens as collaborators, both in the creation and in the dissemination of news. By seeing citizens as collaborators, not just readers, they work to empower and build news audiences as well as participants.     

Beyond traditional collaborative search: Understanding the effect of awareness on multi-level collaborative information retrieval

Although there has been a great deal of research into Collaborative Information Retrieval (CIR) and Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS), the majority has assumed that team members have the same level of unrestricted access to underlying information. However, observations from different domains (e.g. healthcare, business, etc.) have suggested that collaboration sometimes involves people with differing levels of access to underlying information. This type of scenario has been referred to as Multi-Level Collaborative Information Retrieval (MLCIR). To the best of our knowledge, no studies have been conducted to investigate the effect of awareness, an existing CIR/CIS concept, on MLCIR. To address this gap in current knowledge, we conducted two separate user studies using a total of 5 different collaborative search interfaces and 3 information access scenarios. A number of Information Retrieval (IR), CIS and CIR evaluation metrics, as well as questionnaires were used to compare the interfaces. Design interviews were also conducted after evaluations to obtain qualitative feedback from participants. Results suggested that query properties such as time spent on query, query popularity and query effectiveness could allow users to obtain information about team's search performance and implicitly suggest better queries without disclosing sensitive data. Besides, having access to a history of intersecting viewed, relevant and bookmarked documents could provide similar positive effect as query properties. Also, it was found that being able to easily identify different team members and their actions is important for users in MLCIR. Based on our findings, we provide important design recommendations to help develop new CIR and MLCIR interfaces.     

略论现代体育教学过程中学生创新能力的培养

体育与健康课程教学以“健康第一”为核心，以全面提高学生素质为目标，是培养学生创新能力的重要环节。创设体育课堂教学的民主协作氛围，保障学生心理的自由和安全，构建以人为本，以动机、兴趣、情感、意志为基本内容的激励体系，为培养和发展学生的创新能力提供良好的心理环境。     

从竞赛的规则谈竞技健美操艺术分变化的特点

国际竞技健美操规则的每次修改都会对竞技健美操的发展和与之相对应的训练方法带来变革。运用文献资料法和专家访谈法,通过对2001～2004年和2005～2008年的国际竞技健美操评分规则的比较分析,探讨竞技健美操艺术分变化的特点,旨在为健美操的训练提供思路与借鉴。     

浅谈影响竞技体操裁判客观公正的若干因素及改进意见

文章分析论述了影响竞技体操裁判工作客观公正的若干因素及其改进意见.利用高科技手段,完善现代化的裁判系统,建立比赛规则模式系统是解决体操裁判工作客观公正的必由之路和最终目标.     

新规则实施后中国女排与世界强队得失分之比较

以最新排球竞赛规则为依据，运用录像观察法，对’99世界杯女子排球赛中国女排与世界强队的攻防得失分情况进行了统计，比较分析了新规则实施后中国女排和世界强队的技战术表现特点，重点剖析了中国女排适应新规则过程中的滞后因素和环节，旨在为中国女排克服薄弱环节，提高训练针对性提供参考。     

圈操器械技术运用规律的研究

以文献资料、图像解析、统计分析法为主要研究手段,在对近3届奥运周期艺术体操国际评分规则比较研究的基础上,针对圈操器械技术的运用趋势与规律作了较深入的探寻.结果表明,器械技术在成套动作中的数量与类型大幅增加;在与不同类型的身体难度动作结合中呈现出不同的规律.     

运动后恢复过程规律的生化研究进展（未完待续）

运动后恢复过程长期以来一直是运动生物化学研究的重点,总结近50年来的研究成果,介绍运动与身体生化适应的基本特点及身体运动能力提高的基本规律,为科学训练提供应用性理论基础。     

新规则对乒乓球运动员体能的新要求

在认识体能的基础上，分析和总结了新规则对乒乓球运动员速度、力量和耐力等体能的新要求，以期为科学地进行乒乓球体能训练提供参考。