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"I'm Prepared for IP Rights Governance": Creative Commons Licensing, Media Assets Management, and the Role of Technical Services as IP Rights Administrator
Get PDFIntellectual Property Rights Governance (IPRG) is fast becoming an important part of both
education and enterprise-based activities (i.e. multimedia-based student portfolios, library
learning commons, media assets development/production/management). Creative Commons
(CC) is a nonprofit corporation which provides free licenses and legal tools to allow a creator of
a media asset to “mark [the media asset] with the freedom the [media asset] creator wants it to
carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.” (Creative
Commons - About, 2010). This session will discuss IPRG and Creative Commons licensing as it is
currently being used (or has the potential to be used) to manage media assets primarily in K-20
educational settings which serve students ages 6 and above – with an emphasis on how K-12
school and higher education-based libraries serving students of these ages have the unique
opportunity to serve as the school’s IPRG/CC policy and information center
Demystifying Measurement, Valuing Narrative
Get PDFCharlie Blaich, Director, Center of Inquiry, Wabash College, and the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium.
Respondent: John Jeep, German, Russian, and East Asian Languages Department, Miami Universit
Workshop on Assessment in the Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Arts
No full textWorkshop on Assessment in the Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Arts presentation slides and supporting documents
The Library and the Campus Visit: Communicating Value to Prospective Students and Parents
Get PDFSuccessful undergraduate admission and recruitment efforts are vital to every university. A strong student body improves the quality of academic programs and the prestige of the institution. Since most colleges depend heavily on tuition revenue, good recruitment ensures that the university has enough funding for services and staff. How does the academic library contribute tostudent enrollment? Is the library a factor in a student’s college choice? This paper will suggest best practices for library involvement in recruitment and enrollment and how these efforts not only help the university but further the goals of the library and demonstrate its value in higher education
Evaluation of Ohio's Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
Get PDFIn 2011, the Ohio Legislature asked the Scripps Gerontology Center to evaluate Ohio's two PACE sites and make recommendations for further expansion. This report describes the findings from that evaluation
Bridging the Aging Network and the Medical Community: Survey Results
No full textRecent federal and state initiatives such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have expanded the opportunities for Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) to be partners in acute care and health system coordination. With a grant from the Administration on Aging (AoA), the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) partnered with the Scripps Gerontology Center to conduct the 2012 Bridging the Aging Network and Medical Community AAA Survey. Results describe programs with the health care community, partners, barriers to such programs and technical assistance and training needs
Coming of Age: Tracking the Progress and Challenges of Delivering Long-Term Services and Supports in Ohio
Get PDFIn sixteen years of tracking utilization trends for institutional and home-and community-based services and supports, we learned that Ohio has made considerable changes in its approach to delivering and funding long-term care. For example, in 2009 more than four in ten older people on Medicaid received services in a non-institutional setting
Cross-tolerance in larvae of the goldenrod gall fly, Eurosta solidaginis: rapid desiccation increases organismal and cellular freeze-tolerance
No full textA number of similarities exist that support the idea of cross-tolerance between low temperature and desiccation stress responses. Freeze-tolerant larvae of the goldenrod gall fly, Eurosta solidaginis, are exposed to extremely dry and cold conditions when they overwinter and serve as a useful model for cross-tolerance of these two stresses. To determine if mild, rapid desiccation can improve freeze-tolerance at the organismal and cellular levels, we assessed survival, hemolymph osmolality, and glycerol concentration of control and desiccated larvae. Desiccated larvae lost 6-10% of their body mass and, to our knowledge, this is the lowest amount of water loss reported to increase freeze-tolerance. Organismal survival significantly increased with mild, rapid desiccation treatment prior to freezing for 24 h at -15°C in September (33.3 ± 6.7 to 73.3 ± 12% ) and at -20°C in October (16.7 ± 6.7 to 46.7 ± 3.3%) collected larvae. Similarly, desiccation in as little as 6 h improved in vivo survival at -20°C for 24h in fat body, Malpighian tubule, salivary gland, and tracheal cells by ~34%, ~43%, ~38%, and ~17% , respectively. Desiccation treatment induced intracellular changes because improved freeze-tolerance occurred in midgut cells frozen in vitro (38.7 ± 4.6 to 89.2 ± 5.5 %). Whereas hemolymph osmolality increased significantly with desiccation treatment (720 ± 26 vs. 544 ± 16 mOsm), glycerol concentration did not differ between control and desiccated groups. The rapidity with which the sub-lethal desiccation stress increased freeze-tolerance resembles the rapid cold hardening (RCH) response that occurs when sub-lethal cold exposure for only minutes or hours enhances freeze-tolerance, and suggests that there may be a link between rapid environmental changes and cold hardening
Always Further: Following in the Footsteps of La Salle
No full textMy honors thesis project focuses not only on the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, but also looks at three modern men who strive to capture some aspect of La Salle's legacy. La Salle was the first explorer to sail a ship through the Great Lakes after building a fort in what is now Kingston, Ontario. He was also the first European to travel to the end of the Mississippi, and in doing so claimed for France the land that would one day become the Louisiana Purchase. The men who are interested in La Salle now look at numerous aspects of his life. Steve Libert works in intelligence and scuba dives in the Great Lakes. His passion was always searching for "Le Griffon," the ship La Salle used to travel the Great Lakes which sunk and was never recovered. In 2001 Libert found a wreck that matched descriptions of "Le Griffon" and since then he has been doing archaeological work to confirm whether or not the ship is La Salle's. Reid Lewis is a schoolteacher who organized a re-enactment of La Salle's trip down the Mississippi. In 1976 he and 22 other men (16 of whom were recent high school graduates) took off in handmade canoes and period clothing, equipped with food they themselves prepared, ready to spend a year traveling by canoe down to the Gulf of Mexico. Since then Lewis has used his trip as material for motivational speeches in schools and businesses around the world. Finally, Rich Gross is trained as a biologist but is passionate about the history of La Salle. After taking part in Reid Lewis' voyage as a high school student, Gross decided to devote all his free time to the pursuit of La Salle's history. He is working now to prove that one of La Salle's forts, Fort Crevecoeur, was located not in Peoria, IL (as previously believed), but in Beardstown. This project tackles ideas of the tangibility of history, the desire to escape the present, and the longing for adventure