The Integration of Library, Telecommunications, and Computing Services in a University

Cases on Information Technology Series - Cases on Telecommunications and Networking ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-417-0.ch010 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 156-171

Author(s):

Susan A. Sherer

Keyword(s):

Organizational Structure ◽

Planning Process ◽

Resource Constraints ◽

Chief Information Officer ◽

First Year ◽

Computing Services ◽

Strategic Direction ◽

Telecommunications Services ◽

And Control

This case study describes the process of integrating the library, computing and telecommunications services in a university. Within the last two years, a new manager in the newly created position of Chief Information Officer merged these diverse organizations. We will describe the techniques used during the first year to foster communication, develop new strategic direction, and create and implement a new organizational structure. We will focus on establishing leadership, the organizational change and operational planning process, and the initial implementation of the new organizational structure. We will describe some of the problems and obstacles that needed to be addressed, including new management’s establishment of trust and control, creating an environment for change, managing change amid strong time pressures, human resource issues, and resource constraints. It is expected that many of the issues that arose during this merger will be addressed by organizations in other industries as they attempt to evolve from technical IS groups to more customer oriented organizations.

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The Integration of Library, Telecommunications, and Computing Services in a University

Cases on Information Technology Series - Success and Pitfalls of Information Technology Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-878289-56-8.ch018 ◽

1999 ◽

pp. 200-212

Author(s):

Susan A. Sherer

Keyword(s):

Organizational Structure ◽

Planning Process ◽

Resource Constraints ◽

Chief Information Officer ◽

First Year ◽

Management Skills ◽

University Environment ◽

Computing Services ◽

Electronic Information Resources ◽

Telecommunications Services

Today many IS departments and individuals are attempting to transform from technical groups and specialists to user oriented functions and customer support personnel. The major responsibility of the traditional IS department has evolved from the development, operation, and support of technology to the management of information. In the university environment, managers of information have traditionally been librarians. Librarians have increasingly become users of electronic information resources. A merger of the library with computing and telecommunications brings together technical expertise with information management skills. This case study describes the process of integrating the library, computing and telecommunications services in a University. Within the last two years, a new manager in the newly created position of Chief Information Officer merged these diverse organizations. We will describe the techniques used during the first year to foster communication, develop new strategic direction, and create and implement a new organizational structure. We will focus on establishing leadership, the organizational change and operational planning process, and the initial implementation of the new organizational structure. We will describe some of the problems and obstacles that needed to be addressed, including new management’s establishment of trust and control, creating an environment for change, managing change amid strong time pressures, human resource issues, and resource constraints.

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Analisis Pengelolaan Aset Pemerintah Daerah Kabupaten Bolaang Mongondow

JURNAL RISET AKUNTANSI DAN AUDITING "GOODWILL" ◽

10.35800/jjs.v8i2.17842 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Fitria Ayu Lestari Niu ◽

Lintje Kalangi ◽

Linda Lambey

Keyword(s):

Asset Management ◽

Planning Process ◽

Resource Constraints ◽

Asset Valuation ◽

Study Approach ◽

Depth Interview ◽

Asset Inventory ◽

And Control ◽

Assets Management

Abstract. This study aims to analyze the suitability of the implementation the local assets management with regulations, analyze the constraints faced in the management of local assets and efforts made for better management of regional assets. This is a qualitative study with case study approach. Data were obtained through in-depth interview technique, documentation study and observation. The result of this research shows that the local asset management in Bolaang Mongondow is implemented based on Regulation by Minister of Home Affairs No. 19 of 2016 which covers the process of planning needs and budgeting, procurement, use, utilization, security and maintenance, assessment, deletion, alienation, administration and coaching, supervision and control. But the process of destruction has not been conducted. It is because the local government has judged that there is no property belonging to the region being eligible to be destroyed. Additionally, there are obstacles encountered in asset management that are low compliance of regional apparatuses, lack of local regulations for local asset management, ineffective asset inventories, insufficient human resource competencies, lack of firm leadership commitments and resource constraints in the form of budgets and facilities in local assets management. Efforts have been conducted such as asset valuation, legal audit, asset inventory and improvement in leadership commitment. However, these efforts are required to be strongly supported by the regulation in the form of local regulations, improvement in compliance, attitude, perception, and responsibility for regional apparatus, assertiveness by the leadership, need a reward and punishment strategy for the performance of regional apparatus, involving the steward in the planning process and the use of SIMDA-BMD for the administration process in each regional work unit.Keywords: Local Asset Management, Compliance, Human Resources, Asset InventoriesAbstrak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis kesesuaian pelaksanaan pengelolaan aset daerah dengan regulasi, menganalisis kendala yang dihadapi serta upaya yang dilakukan untuk memperbaiki pengelolaan aset daerah yang lebih baik. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi kasus. Data diperoleh melalui teknik wawancara yang mendalam, studi dokumentasi dan observasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pengelolaan aset daerah Kabupaten Bolaang Mongondow dilaksanakan berdasarkan Permendagri No. 19 Tahun 2016 yang meliputi proses perencanaan kebutuhan dan penganggaran, pengadaan, penggunaan, pemanfaatan, pengamanan dan pemeliharaan, penilaian, penghapusan, pemindahtanganan, penatausahaan serta pembinaan, pengawasan dan pengendalian. Namun proses pemusnahan belum dilakukan karena pemerintah daerah menilai bahwa belum ada barang milik daerah yang memenuhi syarat untuk dimusnahkan. Kendala yang ditemui dalam pengelolaan aset yaitu rendahnya kepatuhan aparatur daerah, belum adanya peraturan daerah yang mengatur proses pengelolaan aset daerah, inventarisasi aset yang belum efektif, kompetensi sumber daya manusia yang belum memadai, lemahnya komitmen pimpinan serta kurangnya sumber daya dalam bentuk anggaran dan fasilitas dalam pengelolaan aset daerah. Upaya yang dilakukan yaitu mengadakan penilaian aset, legal audit, inventarisasi aset dan perbaikan dalam komitmen pimpinan. Namun upaya ini masih perlu didukung dengan adanya regulasi dalam bentuk peraturan daerah, perbaikan dalam hal kepatuhan, sikap, persepsi, dan tanggung jawab aparatur daerah, ketegasan pimpinan, adanya strategi reward dan punishment atas kinerja aparatur daerah, melibatkan pengurus barang dalam proses perencanaan serta penggunaan SIMDA-BMD untuk proses penatausahaan pada masing-masing SKPD.Kata Kunci: Pengelolaan Aset Daerah, Kepatuhan, Sumber Daya Manusia, Inventarisasi Aset.

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Planning for and Managing iPads in a PreK-4th Grade Independent, Co-Educational Elementary School

Tablets in K-12 Education - Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-6300-8.ch011 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 156-174

Author(s):

Natalie B. Milman ◽

Angela Carlson-Bancroft ◽

Amy E. Vanden Boogart

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Elementary School ◽

Classroom Management ◽

Management Practices ◽

Planning Process ◽

The United States ◽

First Year ◽

Management Techniques ◽

Effective Integration

This chapter chronicles the planning and classroom management practices of the first-year implementation of a 1:1 iPad initiative in a suburban, co-educational, independent, PreK-4th grade elementary school in the United States that was examined through a mixed methods QUAL ? QUAN case study. Findings demonstrate that the school's administrators and teachers engaged in pre-planning activities prior to the implementation of the iPad initiative, teachers viewed the iPads as tools in the planning process (iPads were not perceived as the content or subject to be taught/learned), and teachers flexibly employed different classroom management techniques and rules as they learned to integrate iPads in their classrooms. Additionally, the findings reveal the need for continuous formal and informal professional development that offers teachers multiple and varied opportunities to share their planning and classroom management practices, build their confidence and expertise in effective integration of iPads, and learn with and from one another.

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Planning for and Managing iPads in a PreK-4th Grade Independent, Co-Educational Elementary School

Professional Development and Workplace Learning ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8632-8.ch040 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 683-701

Author(s):

Natalie B. Milman ◽

Angela Carlson-Bancroft ◽

Amy E. Vanden Boogart

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Elementary School ◽

Classroom Management ◽

Management Practices ◽

Planning Process ◽

The United States ◽

First Year ◽

Management Techniques ◽

Effective Integration

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Le funzioni metacognitive nei pazienti con disturbi del comportamento alimentare. Uno studio sul trattamento di gruppo psicodinamico

Research in Psychotherapy Psychopathology Process and Outcome ◽

10.4081/ripppo.2009.3 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 12 (1-2) ◽

Author(s):

Claudia Prestano ◽

Viviana Cicero ◽

Salvatore Gullo ◽

Grazia Alcuri ◽

Gianluca Lo Coco ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Group Treatment ◽

Single Case ◽

Mental States ◽

First Year ◽

Control Data ◽

Group Sessions ◽

And Control ◽

The Relationship

There is an emerging empirical evidence that patients with eating disorders have severe metacognitive concerns, i.e. ability to reflect on mental states. This single-case study aims to explore the relationship between limited metacognition and eating symptoms in six patients who attended a long-term group treatment. This study also aims at analysing the change of patients metacognition over the course of treatment. All the patients were female, with a mean age of 17 years. Three patients have a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, and three have a diagnosis of bulimia nervosa. The group treatment was delivered in a outpatient clinic of the hospital of Acireale (CT). The SVaM (Carcione et al., 1997) was used to measure metacognition of patients, by analysing the transcripts of group sessions. The preliminary findings, which included the first year of the group treatment (N=27 group sessions) showed that metacognitive dysfunctions more evident concern Understanding One's Own Mind and Mastery. The first concerns abilities to reflect on the own mental states; the second concerns ability of regulation and control. Data show that patients don't present failures in the Understanding Other's Minds. The study has not identified meaningful differences between anorexic patients and bulimic patients.

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Strategic Management in Education and its Impacts on Service ProvisionHttp://Dx.Doi.Org/10.5585/Riae.V9i3.1682

Revista Ibero-Americana de Estratégia ◽

10.5585/ijsm.v9i3.1682 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 202-223

Author(s):

Carolina Barbosa Montenegro ◽

Kleber Cavalcanti Nóbrega ◽

Tereza Souza

Keyword(s):

Private School ◽

Service Provision ◽

Planning Process ◽

National Level ◽

Point Of View ◽

Formulation Development ◽

And Control ◽

Service Standards

The constant changes in service standards sharply affect private schools, organizations offering services deemed essential. This context promotes, in effect, a new customer profile, demanding better quality of service, and making use of greater autonomy. Thus, these services are affected by strategies established by senior management. This article’s objective is to analyze how strategies developed in a private school reflect on the quality of offered services, according to the managers’ point of view. Focusing on education services, the formulation, development and control of strategies were analyzed using three directors from one school. To undertake the case study, interviews were conducted, using a subsequent comparative analysis. It was revealed that all employees acknowledge the school’s organizational identity, in addition to a strategic planning process performed at a national level, serving as a basis for development strategies. The three interviewed managers serve different functions, yet the results indicate that despite working in different activities, they seek to maintain harmony when conducting scholastic activities, providing support to existing arrangements. Finally, it can be established that each one, within his/her vision and responsibilities, is working strategically to ensure organizational objectives. Arrangements are made to communicate the principal strategies, in addition, seeking to promptly resolve any interference that may affect the smooth progress of established action plans.

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An inevitable crisis? From first to second year in counsellor training

Journal of Psychological Therapies ◽

10.33212/jpt.v5n1.2020.74 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 74-89

Author(s):

Hugh Crago

Keyword(s):

Right Hemisphere ◽

Training Programme ◽

First Year ◽

Training Experience ◽

Counsellor Training ◽

Student Dropout ◽

Second Year ◽

Neurological Research ◽

First Year Of Life ◽

And Control

In a seminal 1973 paper, Robert Clark described the very different “cultures” of the first and second year students in a four year clinical psychology PhD programme. The author applies Clark’s template to his own experiences as trainee or trainer in five different counsellor education programmes, one in the US and four in Australia. Each of the programmes, to varying degrees, demonstrates key features of the pattern identified by Clark, where the first year is “therapeutic” and other-oriented, the second is “professional” and self-focused. The author concludes that all the surveyed programmes exhibited some level of “second year crisis”, in which a significant number of students felt abandoned, dissatisfied, or rebellious. The author extends and refines Clark’s developmental analogy (first year = childhood; second year = adolescence) to reflect recent neurological research, in particular, the shift from a right hemisphere-dominant first year of life, prioritising affiliative needs, to a left hemisphere-dominant second year, prioritising autonomy and control. This shift is paralleled later by a more gradual move from a protective, supportive childhood to necessary, but sometimes conflictual, individuation in adolescence. The first two years of a counsellor training programme broadly echo this process, a process exacerbated by the second year internship/placement, in which students must “leave home” and adjust to unfamiliar, potentially less nurturing, authority figures. Finally, the author suggests introducing more rigorous “academic holding” into the first year, and greater attention to “therapeutic holding” of dissident students in the second, hopefully decreasing student dropout, and achieving a better balanced training experience.

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Participatory Mapping in Browns Canyon National Monument, Colorado (USA)

Case Studies in the Environment ◽

10.1525/cse.2017.000661 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

John Harner ◽

Lee Cerveny ◽

Rebecca Gronewold

Keyword(s):

Land Management ◽

Planning Process ◽

Management Plan ◽

Bureau Of Land Management ◽

National Monument ◽

Resource Managers ◽

Different Types ◽

Us Forest Service ◽

Natural Resource Managers

Natural resource managers need up-to-date information about how people interact with public lands and the meanings these places hold for use in planning and decision-making. This case study explains the use of public participatory Geographic Information System (GIS) to generate and analyze spatial patterns of the uses and values people hold for the Browns Canyon National Monument in Colorado. Participants drew on maps and answered questions at both live community meetings and online sessions to develop a series of maps showing detailed responses to different types of resource uses and landscape values. Results can be disaggregated by interaction types, different meaningful values, respondent characteristics, seasonality, or frequency of visit. The study was a test for the Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service, who jointly manage the monument as they prepare their land management plan. If the information generated is as helpful throughout the entire planning process as initial responses seem, this protocol could become a component of the Bureau’s planning tool kit.

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THE EFFECT OF APPLYING ANIMAL CARTOON PICTURES ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT

10.24114/reg.v6i1.5371 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Hasanul Arifin Zul And Masitowarni Siregar

Keyword(s):

T Test ◽

Narrative Text ◽

Control Group ◽

First Year ◽

Writing Achievement ◽

Control Groups ◽

Post Test ◽

Written Test ◽

And Control ◽

Experimental Group

This thesis is focused on the investigation of the effect of applying animal cartoon pictures on students’ achievement in writing narrative text. This study aims to find whether applying animal cartoon pictures significantly affect the students’ writing achievement or not. The data in this study were obtained by administering a written test. The population was the 2015/2016 first year (grade XI) of SMA Swasta Nusantara Lubuk Pakam and 66 students were taken as the sample by using random sampling. The sample was divided into two groups, experimental and control groups. The experimental group was taught by applying animal cartoon pictures while the control group without animal cartoon pictures (x = lecturing). The data were taken the scores from the pre-test and post-test to both experimental and control groups. These data were analyzed by using t-test. The result of computing the t-test obviously showed that t-observed is higher than t-table (5.21 >1,67) with the degree of freedom 64 (df =N-2) at the level significance 0,05 one tail test. It showed that the application of animal cartoon pictures significantly affected the students of SMA Swasta Nusantara Lubuk Pakam achievement in writing narrative text.

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