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Report of the ALCTS Collection Management and E-Resources Interest Group meeting. American Library Association midwinter meeting, Atlanta, January 2017
The Collection Management and Electronic Resources Interest Group (CMERIG) held a one hour meeting at the 2017 ALA Midwinter Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday January 22, 2017, from 3-4 pm. Chair Sunshine Carter ... -
Implementation of the 2016 Ohio Nursing Home and Residential Care Facility Family Satisfaction Surveys
This report summarizes the implementation process and results from the 2016 Family Satisfaction Surveys conducted in Ohio nursing homes and residential care facilities. Psychometric properties of the instruments and survey ... -
The Probate Courts, Guardianship, and Guardians: Findings from a Survey of Adult Guardianship in Ohio
This brief report highlights findings from a 2014 statewide survey on adult guardianship practices (see Reece & Roberts, 2017 for the full report). Our focus is on the approaches used by counties to manage their guardianship ... -
Policy Does Matter: Continued Progress in Providing Long-Term Services and Supports for Ohio's Older Population | Report
Report tracks use long-term services and supports utilization trends from 1993 to 2015. Findings show that Ohio has made considerable progress in creating a more balanced system of long-term services and supports. However, ... -
Policy Does Matter: Continued Progress in Providing Long-Term Services and Supports for Ohio's Older Population
Brief Report tracks long-term use in Ohio from 1993 to 2015. -
Investigation of Library Research Strategies in an Undergraduate Biochemistry Project
This paper investigates the use of Miami University Library resources and services in undertaking a Biochemistry research project spanning the author"s entire undergraduate career at Miami University. -
Some unwritten rules of graduate school, written down
An informal set of of advice, expectations, and “unwritten rules” slightly modified from a version for graduate students in my lab that I prepared for 2 incoming students in the fall of 2017. (The version they got included ... -
Simply Analytics overview
This is an overview of the SimplyAnalytics online resource, prepared for Miami University's libguides and website. Script: Hello, this is Eric Johnson. Today we’re going to be looking at the Simply Analytics ... -
Rubrics and Decision Matricies
Designing rubrics for informed decision making How often do committees spend an inordinate amount of time nit-picking a trivial issue and fail to discuss the heart of a problem? Do you find yourself constantly busy, ... -
The initial applications of the unconsciousness on design
The "Unconscious Design" is a design concept first proposed by Naoto Fukasawa. The concept, also called "intuitional design," advocates to convert the unconscious ideology into visible objects. It is a concept aimed to ... -
Mars habitation: Design for extreme condition
We landed on the Moon a little less than fifty years ago, and human beings will potentially colonize a second planet in near future. The most possible option is Mars. NASA and some private organizations are presently ... -
Empowering the architect to achieve sustainability
On their current trajectory, the paths of sustainability and economics are set to collide. An architect needs to be the salesperson, rather than an advocate, of net-positive design. In order for sustainability to succeed, ... -
The identity of contemporary society:Digital age utopia
This is a futuristic, anti-heroic and pro-consumerist architectural dialog. My understanding of architecture is solely expressed through hypothetical project in this thesis in an attempt to reveal the reality of living ... -
Transformational urbanism: A revitalized view for the 21st century city
The city can no longer be seen statically. The world is rapidly changing and solutions to urban sprawl need to be adjusted to the 21st century. Can 21st century cities expand and contract based on political ideals and ...