Community College Student and Faculty Information Needs and Information Seeking: an Ethnographic Study

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.

Assessment as Engagement, Assessment as Outreach: Understanding Student Learning About Research at the Trinity College Library

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.

Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Student Looking at Plans

A student from the New York Trade School in the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Dept. looks at plans on top of a building. Black and white photograph contains some damage from adhesive and writing on the front.

Student at work with closed-circuit TV

A student in the Closed-circuit TV Dept. at the New York Trade School is shown working. Black and white photograph.

Closed-circuit Television Student Working

A student is show working with closed-circuit television at the New York Trade School. Black and white photograph.

Data Processing Student Working

A student from the Data Processing program at the New York Trade School is shown working. Black and white photograph with some edge damage due to writing in black along the top.

Professor and Student in Piano Crafts Department

Here a professor in the Piano Crafts Department at the New York Trade School is shown helping a student. Black and white photograph.

Welding Student at Work

A student in the Welding Department at the New York Trade School is pictured working. Notice the sparks that are being emitted from the equipment. Black and white photograph.

Sign Painting Student Working Outside

A Sign Painting student from the New York Trade School is pictured working outside on scaffolding on an AMOCO sign. Black and white photograph.

The Impact of the NIHERST/NGC National Science Centre, Trinidad and Tobago on Visiting Student Groups

The aim of this study was to asses the impact of a visit to the NIHERST/NGC National Science Centre in Trinidad on four different school-age visitor groups. The research was conducted through the administering of a post-visit questionnaire immediately upon completion of each visit by each group, and via visitor feedback obtained in post-visit or pre-visit activities conducted within two weeks of the visit for three groups. Teachers/instructors who accompanied the groups on their visit also completed post-visit questionnaires and provided additional information on follow-up activities via an interview. The results of this investigation suggest that the visit to this science centre provided entertainment/enjoyment value and potential educational value to most individuals. The nature of this enjoyment was noted for various age groups and genders in this study. Quantification of the educational impact was not possible within the constraints of this study, which was unable to capture long-term effects of the supply of ‘new knowledge’ to visitors which the visit to the science centre had provided.

Informationssäkerhet inom grafiska företag

The study shows the current need for security solutions concerning work with information in different areas.Investigations will show important solutions for printers’ needs to meet the increasingly harder demands forfast and safe digital communications. Important factors to be analyzed in the investigations are: access todifferent types of information, workers authority of information, access to the data base register internallyand externally, production solutions for an effective fault detection and data base solutions fororders and distribution.Planned and unplanned stops result in a standard of value in interruptions. Internal data bases areprotected by so-called “Fire Walls”, “Watch Dogs” and Virtual Private Networks. Offset plates are locked infor a definitive range of time. Subsequent destruction and remaining sheets are shredded and recycled. Alldocumentation is digital, in business control systems, which guarantees that no important documents arelying around in working places. Fault detection work is facilitated by the ability to fully track the order numberson incoming orders.

Omläggning av skiftgång

The digital printing market is changing faster now than before and the ability to adjust to newsituations has become more importat to a printing company. An efficient internal communicationis essential. At Elanders Digitaltryck a decision was made in august 2002 to look over the shiftworking system for the printer operators. In this paper, an investigation of the possibilities tochange the existing system to a better one was made.The project resultet in four different timetabels. The construction was based on theoretical studiesand an analysis of the current situation at the workplace. The analysis showed that a strong resistanseagainst a change of the working hours exists among the workers and that this should beconsidered before a decision is made. An analasys of the printers counters shows that they areused more efficient during shorter shift periods compared to the longer ones. A closeer look at theabcense due to sickness shows that it is relatively high but no connection between abcense andworking hours could be made.Working hours is a sensitive issue and should be treated with care. It is important that the workersare well informed and preferly involved in the development of a new timetable.

Task assignment optimization in SAP Extended WarehouseManagement

Nowadays in the world of mass consumption there is big demand for distributioncenters of bigger size. Managing such a center is a very complex and difficult taskregarding to the different processes and factors in a usual warehouse when we want tominimize the labor costs. Most of the workers’ working time is spent with travelingbetween source and destination points which cause deadheading. Even if a worker knowsthe structure of a warehouse well and because of that he or she can find the shortest pathbetween two points, it is still not guaranteed that there won’t be long traveling timebetween the locations of two consecutive tasks. We need optimal assignments betweentasks and workers.In the scientific literature Generalized Assignment Problem (GAP) is a wellknownproblem which deals with the assignment of m workers to n tasks consideringseveral constraints. The primary purpose of my thesis project was to choose a heuristics(genetic algorithm, tabu search or ant colony optimization) to be implemented into SAPExtended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) by with task assignment will be moreeffective between tasks and resources.After system analysis I had to realize that due different constraints and businessdemands only 1:1 assingments are allowed in SAP EWM. Because of that I had to use adifferent and simpler approach – instead of the introduced heuristics – which could gainbetter assignments during the test phase in several cases. In the thesis I described indetails what ware the most important questions and problems which emerged during theplanning of my optimized assignment method.

Gapet mellan en ledares självuppfattning och medarbetarnas uppfattningar

Leadership is about synchronizing people into doing actions together to reach a common goal. To be able to do such thing you have to be a good leader. A mutual feature between good leaders is a good self awareness in order to be able to lead others. By letting others evaluate the features of a leader it can give a good self image of the leaders’ leadership. This is for seeing if there is a gap between the leaders own and the co-workers opinions about the leaders’ leadership. The purpose is to analyze if there could be a gap between a leader and its co-workers opinions about the leaders’ leadership and also to analyze why such a gap could exist.The method that has been used for analyzing the leadership is a 360 degree evaluation. The 360 degree evaluation is used in such way that the chosen leader, beyond its self assessment, is getting evaluated by its co-workers closest to him or her. This was implemented by questionnaires and interviews. The questionnaires are made after Adizes leadership roles and Hersey and Blanchards’ situational leadership.A leader often has different features, these does not accentuate because of the organizational structure and the position of the leaders in the organization emphasizes different features.