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Welche Bedeutung hat das Ehrenamt für öffentliche Bibliotheken hinsichtlich des demografischen Wandels und dem damit verbundenen Fachkräftemangel?
No full textDer demografische Wandel bringt Nachwirkungen mit sich, auf die es zu reagieren gilt, wie den Fachkräftemangel und die Frage nach der Versorgung älterer Menschen. Dabei geht es nicht nur um die Pflege und Betreuung im klassischen Sinne. Die geburtenstarke Generation der Babyboomer, welche laut dem Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (vgl. 2025a) die Geburtsjahre von Mitte der 1950er bis Ende der 1960er Jahre umfasst, geht in den Ruhestand oder ist bereits in den Ruhestand eingetreten. Dabei ist die angegebene Zeitspanne sehr weit gefasst und wird von den nachfolgend berücksichtigten Quellen nicht übereinstimmend abgegrenzt. Für die einheitliche Einordnung orientieren sich die Aussagen zu der Generation Babyboomer in der vorliegenden Arbeit an der Einteilung von Klaffke (2014). Er schreibt der Generation in Deutschland die Geburtsjahrgänge 1956 bis 1965 zu (vgl. Kap. 3.2). Die „Babyboomer“ sind 2025 demnach zwischen 60 und 69 Jahren alt und so agil wie keine Generation vor ihnen (vgl. Haist et al. 2023, 6). Sie wollen ihren Ruhestand aktiv gestalten, sich einbringen und weiterbilden. An dieser Stelle werden öffentliche Bibliotheken relevant. Mit ihren immer umfassenderen und vielfältigeren Angeboten unterstützen sie nicht nur das lebenslange Lernen, sondern agieren auch als Treffpunkte und Aufenthaltsorte und fördern das gemeinsame Miteinander. Gleichzeitig muss auch weiterhin für hochbetagte oder immobile Menschen gesorgt werden. Ohne ehrenamtliche Unterstützung wären bereits aktuell viele Angebote nicht in dem angebotenen Umfang realisierbar. Bei der Umsetzung neuer Angebote ist das Einbeziehen von bereits erfahrenen Ehrenamtlichen, sowie die Gewinnung neuer ehrenamtlicher Mitarbeiter*innen unverzichtbar. Inwiefern ehrenamtlich tätige Menschen den drohenden Fachkräftemangel entkräften können und ob es zielführend ist die meist starre Grenze zwischen Haupt- und Ehrenamt in Bibliotheken aufrecht zu erhalten, ist Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit
French Type Vertical Flow Constructed Wetland as a Sustainable Solution for Domestic Sewage Treatment
No full textIn order to mitigate the risk posed by discharge of untreated wastewater and enhance the quality of wastewater prior to its release or reuse, it is important to adopt nature based treatment technologies. The current study was performed with objective to treat the primary treated sewage collected from a traditional Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) based Sewage treatment plant (STP) by using a two-stage French Type Vertical Flow Constructed Wetland (FVFCW). This pilot-scale study was undertaken in Banaras Hindu University Campus Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. The wetland unit was a two-stage Vertical Flow Constructed Wetland system (VFCW) filled with two different filter media gravel & sand and planted with two different macrophytes Canna indica and Typha latifolia which was operated for Sustainable treatment of primary sewage. The VFCW was operated at three different Hydraulic loading rate (HLR) i.e. 1800, 2700, 3600 L/day for nine months. The VFCW performed for the treatment of different physicochemical parameters at given loading rates. The maximum removal efficiency of 72.37, 76.47, 100, 87.23, 41.41, 40.77 27.07% was recorded for COD, BOD, Turbidity, TSS, TDS, Phosphate and Ammonia respectively. Most of the Parameters showed maximum removal efficiency at HLR 2700 L/day. The study suggested that Experimental VFCW can be a sustainable solution for wastewater treatment in remote and rural areas of India as well small colonies due to its eco-friendly, cost-effective, low maintenance cost and lack of operational expertise
Shaping Digital Cultural Policy Strategically
No full textThe “digital condition” (Stalder, 2018, 8), the new conditio sine qua non of today’s lifestyle in modern societies, not only influences all modes of production and reception both in the publicly funded as well as in the commercial cultural sectors, but also regarding how humans perceive, consume and participate in a digital society and its culture. Cultural policy under the digital condition has been recently described as a “contingent, complex, and convergent policy area field” by cultural policy researchers Ole Marius Hylland and Jaka Primorac (Hylland/ Primorac, 2024, 15). Although the term digital cultural policy “remains to be fully unravelled” according to Roberge and Chantepie (2017, 295), its scope manifests itself “in an intersection between sectorial and culture-specific policies and cross-sectorial policies relevant to all sectors, including general regulation of digital infrastructure”, say Hylland/ Primorac (2024, 193). In a field where “literature that is explicitly relating digitalization to cultural policy is still quite sparse” (ibid., 12), Hylland and Primorac offer a new working definition. They understand digital cultural policy as “the part of cultural policy that explicitly relates to digital production, distribution or consumption of cultural expressions” (Hylland/ Primorac, 2024, 14) and that is explicitly “treating the nexus created by digitalization, culture, and
policy” (ibid., 15)
Cross-linguistic comparison of color word learning in German and Japanese children shows universal and language-specific processes
No full textThis study examines how German- and Japanese-speaking children acquire the meanings of color words, focusing on two theoretically distinct processes: centroid mapping and boundary delineation. While previous cross-linguistic studies have typically addressed these aspects in isolation, this paper explicitly investigates both processes simultaneously, assessing language-specific and perceptual factors contributing to lexical acquisition. Using previously collected Japanese data (re-analyzed here for comparative purposes) and newly collected German data, we explore how input frequency, naming inconsistency, category size, and perceptual saliency influence these processes. Our findings show that centroid mapping in both languages is primarily shaped by input frequency, that is, children learn prototypical meanings by hearing the respective color words often. In contrast, boundary delineation is predicted by naming consistency in adult speakers, that is, children’s differentiation of color categories is based on the consistency with which adults refer to the same color with the same word. The structural characteristics of each language’s lexicon affect these qualitative aspects, highlighting an interplay between perceptual constraints and language-specific lexical structures. This comparative approach provides novel insights into lexical and conceptual development, contributing to broader theoretical debates on continuity and discontinuity in semantic acquisition and informing computational models of lexical development