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Perceptions of Female Students Safety: The Buddy System
Get PDFWhat are the factors that effect the perceptions of safety at night of female undergraduate students who live on-campus? The purpose of this study is to investigate the perceptions of safety of female undergraduate students living on campus and their relationship to their going out behaviors. There was 84 respondents of the survey, which yielded a sample size of 37 female undergraduate students who lived on campus. An 18 item survey was administered to measure age, "going out" behaviors, and perceptions of safety. Running t-Tests to test if walking with a friend or walking alone affects students perceptions of safety and if walking with a male or female friend also has an influence
Engagement, Effectiveness & Efficiency: Energize Your Personal Librarian Program
No full textMiami University Libraries created a Personal Librarian program to supplement our liaison system in support of student success and information literacy advancement. Our program was designed to integrate into university curriculum and build toward connections with subject librarians. The program was designed to be efficient by use of a project management tool and to be assessed by mostly existing data. Participants can expect to learn how a Personal Librarian program can be integrated into a first-year university course, how to utilize a project management tool to administer a program, and methods for assessment. Our target audience includes those who want to start a program or improve their program with new ideas and methods of assessment
Visual Literacy Assessment: Engaging Students to Improve Success
Get PDFDoes library engagement of students contribute to their success? This poster will highlight our study of the impact of library services on the development of visual literacy skills. Our research process and results will be shared, including next steps to promote use of services that directly impact visual literacy
Promoting the Use of the Library Science Collection for Professional Development
No full textAs librarians, we understand and appreciate the value of reading for professional development in order to meet the needs of our faculty and students, learn something new, and to spark innovation and forward-thinking. As the selector of Library Science titles, I recognize the need to proactively encourage use of the collection. Busy schedules and work demands often push reading for professional development to the bottom of our priority list. Gone are the days when we had time to browse the physical stacks to find inspiration. I will share how I created a digital, browsable representation of our collection on LibGuides. The primary goal was to promote new acquisitions in the collection on a quarterly basis and offer an easy method to browse and link directly to catalog records and ebooks. The format has been positively received and shown increased usage of the collection
Ecology and place in homesteading principles
Get PDFHomestead, as a dictionary definition,
consists of a dwelling and property where a
family resides. However, the fundamental
principles of sustainability, stewardship
and engagement with the land plays an
important role in human health and
development. I grew up playing in the dirt,
hearing the dinner bell ring and smelling
fresh cut alfalfa. These sensations resonate
meaning; for rural communities’ these
experiences are self-defining providing
identity and the creation of place. Nature of
place refers to the human feeling of
belonging to a given area. Farming, family
and faith defines a culture that works and
lives closely with the land. The physical,
cognitive and spiritual relationships
develop a value system that defines culture
and identity despite today’s globalizing
capital and synthetic environments.
Self-sustaining, ecological farmsteads are
the main focus of this paper. The antithesis
considers two current issues: the threats of
global society on place identity and the
consequences of material/artificial
dependency on human health. This leads
me to question the meaning of selfsustainability.
Why should a person be
connected to his or her life source - the
land - and experience nature at an intimate
level? Investigation contains the values
earned and defects of sustainable
lifestyles. Living harmoniously with the
environment is key in understanding
human relationship with natural
surroundings.
What is the value of having connectedness
to the land verse interconnectedness within
global economics? Through a series of
interviews and observation, I’m learning
how localized sustainable agriculture
systems, such as organic farming and
permaculture, are rooted in environmental
ethics aimed at teaching, improving and
connecting people to our natural resources.
These homestead principles contribute to
the identity of environments by reflecting
locality through materiality, sensory
engagement and hands-on education.
With ever-increasing virtual practices,
human perceptual engagement shifts our
communication standards. Dependency on
material culture and lose of identity have
created a new movement of modern
homesteading and organic farming. These
explorations question how place and values
create an authentic, healthy environment
Public transit systems and community planning: Reconnecting the city
Get PDFHow do you get from point A to point B within
a city? The most obvious answer would seem
to be to get in your car and simply drive there.
This works for many commuters and seems to
do well enough. But what if you don’t have a
car or traffic is a burden to navigate? You
could go by walking, biking, bus or rail,
depending on distance to the destination.
However, these options rely on major urban
planning in order for the systems to be an
attractive option. Why does it matter that we
rely on systems beyond cars? This essay will
delve into the benefits of a well-integrated city
transit plan as well as propose a new plan for a
typical sprawled Midwest American city - in this
case, Cincinnati, OH. Problems arise from the
disconnection of communities and overreliance
on cars. Neighborhoods become
isolated and priorities are set for cars rather
than people. This study looks to overcome
these issues by researching the successes and
failures of different city transit means as well
as the community and city plan integration into
the systems. Studies include American
systems, such as the Chicago transit systems,
as well as more creative answers, like the
Medellin gondola system, the Metrocable.
From these case studies and urban planning
research, I will synthesize a community
planning method that could be applied to
update an existing one. I will then design
specific community and transit plans for a
portion of Cincinnati to show how the plan
would work in action. With a revitalized transit
and community plan ideology, Cincinnati could
flourish equally for all its citizens, and this
study could help get it there