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Finding Aid for Accession Records of the Textbook Library, 1910-1956
No full textAccession records of the Textbook Library of Stout Institute containing a list of textbooks that were added to the collection. Information recorded includes author, publisher and place, date of publication, distributor, cost, and remarks (when books were withdrawn). Records the title, date, cost, and year that books were purchased by textbook services. Around 1956, textbooks were no longer accessioned and were simply assigned copy numbers.This collection includes accession records from the Textbook Library at the Stout Institute
How are technology education teachers learning to maintain technology shop equipment?
No full textPlan BThe purpose of this article is to explore the question of why are technology education teachers not being taught how to maintain shop equipment? To answer this the design and use of a survey questionnaire was planned and implemented. Technology education teachers were asked a number of questions to determine how technology education teachers are being trained, to maintain the wide variety of equipment found in technology education laboratories. The questionnaires were used to statistically show that teachers feel that it is important to be well educated in maintenance and the importance of universities to provide training in equipment maintenance. Maintaining equipment could include, but not limited to adjusting saws, lubricating equipment, changing saw blades, jointer knives, making jigs and fixtures, setting up welding equipment and automotive equipment. Survey responses showed, the need for curricular changes at the university level, to offer courses designed to provide maintenance training. The article has five parts. To supply context for the survey questionnaire, chapter one discusses background for the study, statement of the problem, research purpose and research questions. Chapter two focuses on the history and philosophies of technology education. Reasons are revealed for the absence of maintenance courses, and the decrease in the number of lab courses or skills training courses, being taught at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, St. Cloud State University, Vitter University, and University of Wisconsin-Platteville. The third and fourth parts of the article discuss survey method, instrumentation of the survey procedure, statistical method, and data analysis. Statistical tables are presented and are explained. This information presents proof for the inclusion of courses designed to provide technology education maintenance. Chapter five discusses tentative recommendations for universities to offer courses in equipment maintenance. Topics could include modular equipment maintenance, robotics maintenance, fixtures and jig construction. These courses would need to be set up to give students the opportunity to operate and maintain the equipment found in many school technology education laboratories
The Herman Dooyeweerd Library Collection: Author-Title Citations
No full textThe Herman Dooyeweerd Library Collection represents a portion of the books, journals and ephemera collected by Dr. Dooyeweerd during his lifetime. Arriving in 100 egg crates from Amsterdam in 1978, the final items of this collection were catalogued into the ICS library collection in 2015. There are approximately 4,600 accessioned titles. When marginalia has been discovered in the item, it has been noted in the call number area of the citation
Identifying the movement with no name: an evaluation of the 2000 UW-Stout Body, Mind and Spirit Conference
No full textPlan BThe purpose of this research project was to determine the relationship between the UW-Stout Body, Mind and Spirit Conference and the complementary medicine movement through the use of a formal evaluation. This was the first formalized evaluation performed within the 5 years of the conference’s existence. The present evaluation defines the following: participant demographic information, sources of information on complementary health, reasons for attending the conference, satisfaction with the conference, and experiences and attitudes regarding complementary health practices. Information was gathered from mailed surveys, which were sent to all 190 participants of the 2000 UW-Stout Body, Mind and Spirit Conference. Surprisingly, 123 of these participants completed the survey, establishing a response rate of 65%. The demographics of the participants were comprised of mostly females (76.4%) and those from a Caucasian descent (89.3%). The majority of the participants were between the ages of 36 to 55 (64.7%). 83.4% of the participants reported to have at least four years of education beyond high school. Overall, conference participants reported a wide range of religious beliefs. The evaluation concluded that participants utilized several different sources for attaining information on complementary health practices. The UW-Stout Body, Mind, and Spirit conference was identified as being a source of information for CAM practices. Participants reported that the conference enabled them to meet the specific expectations which are identified within this evaluation. Conference satisfaction was indicated since 39% of the conference participants had attended previous conferences, while 96% of the participants reported that they would recommend the conference to others. It can be concluded that the UW-Stout Body, Mind and Spirit Conference is a successful CAM conference that provides personal growth, professional growth, new ways to enhance one’s own healthcare, new ways to enhance other’s healthcare, and CAM knowledge. The evaluation also identified the participant’s experiences and attitudes towards CAM. There were a wide range of CAM practices that were used by the participants, but overall 77% stated that they had integrated one or more CAM practices into their lifestyle. These findings are higher than the national average, which states that 42% of Americans use CAM (Berman, 2000). The participants also identified that they believed CAM benefits physical health (88.7%), mental health (81.9%), and spiritual health (86.8%). Almost half of the participants (49.6%) responded that they would most likely not consult their medical doctor before using CAM. The evaluation also identified that sex and age was an indicator of several significant differences among the participants. Females were more likely to report that they wished their medical clinic provided CAM. Meanwhile, males were more likely to consult a mainstream practitioner before using CAM. The youngest age group (18-25) reported that they were most likely to have integrated CAM into their lifestyle. Since there is a level of high satisfaction with the UW-Stout Body, Mind and Spirit Conference it is recommended that the conference remain similar in both design and implementation. Future conferences may incorporate discussions on how to improve caring relationships, women’s issues, buying and growing organic food, and ecological/environmental sustainability. It is also recommended that the conference initialize a formalized process to implement a yearly evaluation in order to identify and track the continually growing and changing population within the CAM movement
The once and future publishing library
No full textThis report looks at topic of libraries as publishers, with investigations mainly in the U.S. research institution context.
Specifically, we reviewed existing literature and conducted a survey of members of the Library Publishing Coalition, seeking to learn the kinds of activities they are undertaking as publishing, the business models they are using, their definitions of success, and their attitudes tow ard open access or end-user pay models. Our aim was to better under - stand this emerging sphere of library activity and its possible future in the scholarly communication and publishing sphere. Will library publishing grow and be sustainable? Will libraries play a new and permanent role? If so, in what way and what will be required?
When we refer to libraries as publishers, we consider the range of transactions in which library leaders and staff conceive, evaluate, support, and ultimately produce what we now call content for broad public dissemination, in whatever medium. We say this in full awareness that different observers will draw in different places the line between “publication” and something less structured, coherent, or significant. That ambiguity is an implicit theme of what follows.
We consulted the growing number of articles and other publications (Appendix A) to better understand the range of ideas that underlie library-as-publisher discourse. Distinguishing the different strains of activity and expectation that animate current conversa - tions can help us understand not only the present moment but also the varied possibilities that loom ahead. We also look at the sub-topic of funding the library publishing enterprise, as well as the sustainability of today’s endeavors, so we present results from a small survey of about 50 librarie
A Connectionist and Multivariate Approach to Science Maps: Som, Clustering and Mds Applied to Library & Information Science Research.
No full textThe visualization of scientific field structures is a classic of scientometric studies. This paper presents a domain analysis of the library and information science discipline based on author co-citation analysis (ACA) and journal cocitation analysis (JCA). The techniques used for map construction are the self-organizing map (SOM) neural
algorithm, Ward’s clustering method and multidimensional
scaling (MDS). The results of this study are compared with
similar research developed by Howard White and Katherine
McCain [1]. The methodologies used allow us to confirm that
the subject domains identified in this paper are, as well,
present in our study for the corresponding period. The appearance of studies pertaining to library science reveals
the relationship of this realm with information science.
Especially significant is the presence of the management on the journal maps. From a methodological standpoint, meanwhile, we would agree with those authors who consider
MDS, the SOM and clustering as complementary methods
that provide representations of the same reality from different analytical points of view. Even so, the MDS representation is the one offering greater possibilities for the structural representation of the clusters in a set of variables
A connectionist and multivariate approach to science maps: the SOM, clustering and MDS applied to library and information science research
No full textThe visualization of scientific field structures is a classic of scientometric studies. This paper presents a domain analysis of the library and information science discipline based on author co-citation analysis (ACA) and journal cocitation analysis (JCA). The techniques used for map construction are the self-organizing map (SOM) neural algorithm, Ward’s clustering method and multidimensional scaling (MDS). The results of this study are compared with similar research developed by Howard White and Katherine McCain [1]. The methodologies used allow us to confirm that the subject domains identified in this paper are, as well,
present in our study for the corresponding period. The appearance of studies pertaining to library science reveals the relationship of this realm with information science. Especially significant is the presence of the management on the journal maps. From a methodological standpoint, meanwhile, we would agree with those authors who consider MDS, the SOM and clustering as complementary methods that provide representations of the same reality from different analytical points of view. Even so, the MDS representation is the one offering greater possibilities for the structural representation of the clusters in a set of variables
A pilot study to determine consumer satisfaction in vocational evaluation
No full textPlan BThe purpose of this pilot study was to design a consumer satisfaction survey and to determine the level of consumer satisfaction as it relates to vocational evaluation. Specific objectives addressed included the following: Were participants satisfied with their vocational evaluation experience? Were participants involved in evaluation planning and decision-making? Do the participants have a better understanding of vocational options and knowledge of how to pursue and obtain their vocational goals? This pilot study surveyed individuals with disabilities who participated in vocational evaluations on site at the Stout Vocational Rehabilitation Institute and various counties throughout the state of Wisconsin and South Dakota. The consumers voluntarily completed the survey. The data will be used to determine consumer satisfaction and areas of strengths and weaknesses between participant and vocational evaluator
Communication with customers: a statistical miscellany of a special library
No full textIt is often said that libraries routinely generate lots of statistics, but rarely collect, process and utilise them for improvement and better management. One of the ways of establishing effective communication with library users is to prominently announce and display colourful statistical charts containing feedback message and brief observation/finding on various aspects of use and user interactions with the library as well as general informative statistics on diverse subjects. On an experimental basis, A3-size colour charts generated and printed for the purpose were periodically displayed one at a time on circulation counter of ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) Library during 2002. This incidentally also served another purpose of drawing attention of users on important issues and keeping them engaged for few minutes when they are in waiting line at the counter. Highly compressed statistical data of the library and its users are collected, processed, designed and developed into charts on a PPT document with brief message highlighting the inference. This presentation is a compilation of selected such charts called "Statistical Miscellany of a Special Library". Encouraged by this experiment, number of flip charts of similar nature providing tips for effective use of library and information services including OPAC, Digital Library, the Internet, etc. were also designed, developed and displayed subsequently. In addition, these PPT documents come handy for incorporating into regular user-orientation programmes
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