Volume 15, Number 2: April/May 2009

Page 2: Vice Provost for University Libraries recounts the Libraries' accomplishments made in the face of a challenging economy. Page 3: Veteran writer and editor Alexander Gavitt Jr. from UConn's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources donates his papers to the Dodd Research Center. Page 5: The late animal cloning pioneer Jerry Yang is remembered by a former graduate student.

Independent review of ACT Corrective Services Alexander Maconochie Centre [Interim Report]

Under a Services Agreement dated 16th April 2010 the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) engaged Knowledge Consulting Pty Ltd to conduct an independent review of operations at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) in the ACT. The Review was commissioned following a motion passed in the ACT Legislative Assembly as follows: “That this Assembly: (1) notes: (a) concerns regarding the operation of the AMC; (b) the unanimous findings of the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety report, Inquiry into the delay in the commencement of operations at the Alexander Maconochie Centre; and (c) the Government’s intention to have a review into the operation of the AMC after its first year of operation; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) commission an independent reviewer to conduct the one year review into the AMC; (b) ensure that the review be open and transparent and public, and include input from community and non-government groups with an interest or involvement in the AMC, including on the terms of reference for the review; (c) ensure the review is completed in a timely manner and be tabled in the Legislative Assembly immediately upon completion; and (d) report upon the progress of the review in August 2010;”

Book Review: "Mark Considine, Jenny Lewis and Damon Alexander Networks, Innovation and Public Policy : Politicians, Bureaucrats and the Pathways to Change inside Government Houndsmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009"

Having wrung the most from workforce and workplace productivity initiaitves, innovation has come to the fore as a key goal and directive for public sector organisations to become more efficient. This clarion call for innovation can be heard all around the world, with public services everywhere taking up the message to develop better, smarter, novel, more innovative processes, programs and policies. In the current push for innovation, networks are considered to be a superior vehicle through which collective knowledge can be shared and leveraged; replacing or at least supplementing the role function previously provided by inventive leaders...

Portrait of Alexander Moissi in costume Portraits Men

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Kisch family portrait; Alexander, Mizzi, Charlotte, Guido and Bruno (l-r); Prague.

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Portrait of Alexander Moissi in costume Portraits Men

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Michael Hays' agreement with Alexander Zuntz regarding house owned by the Congregation

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Inventory of K.K.S.I. chest, receipted by Alexander Zuntz, with note by Isaac H. Levy

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Promissory note of Alexander Barent

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Application of Alexander Harris to be shochet at $5 per week

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[Sehr verehrte Frau Alexander] 1935-1995

Two letters from Rabbi Leo Baeck in London to Mrs. Fred Alexander in Belmont, MA pertaining to common acquaintances in Theresienstadt; Dec. 10, 1945 and Jan 3, 1947.

Alexander Agassiz, 1835-1910

Biography with photograph