Pre- and post- Covid-19 Outreach Experiences at Marshall University Libraries

This article will provide insight into how MU Libraries’ cross-departmental system has evolved over the years, and how the recent finalization of their Outreach Plan led to a successful transition to online outreach during the COVID pandemic. Specifically, the authors will address: the history of library outreach at the university; the formation of the Outreach Librarian position; the audit the Outreach librarian performed on the library’s practices; the creation of an Outreach committee and subsequent Outreach Plan guide; and, how the library adapted their approach during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020.

The Need for a State System of Scientific and Technical Support for Criminal Procedure

The article consistently analyzes the features of forensic expert activities’ emergence and development. It also shows the substantive features of these activities, the reasons, and circumstances of the manifestation of interdepartmental contradictions in the approaches to their organization. The author concludes that it is necessary to form a nationwide (supra-departmental) system of scientific and technical support for criminal proceedings, including forensic expert activities and computer forensics.

Organization of the protected information exchange of the departmental system of electronic document management

A system of formalization the optimization problem of synthesizing the structure of the subsystem of secure information exchange is proposed, analyzes the application of known approaches, identifies the main stages and principles of solution in the interests of a distributed departmental electronic document management system.

The peculiarities of cadets training in Irkutsk Fire Technical School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR: historical-pedagogical aspect

The subject of this article is the peculiarities of process of cadets training in the Irkutsk Fire Technical School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR during the period of 1973–1976. The research covers the instructional-pedagogical transformation of cadets since their enrollment until graduation. The author indicates the organizational-methodological characteristics of the stage of enrollment into Irkutsk Fire Technical School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. The article reviews the subjects taught in each course of study, as well as determines the best training groups in the school. Analysis is conducted on quantitative changes in the composition of cadets by training courses. The article examines the question of professional peculiarities of training, line, service and fighting activities of alternating staff of the school. The scientific novelty consists in analysis of the factors that impacted the transformation of quantitative and qualitative composition of training course under review (1973–197). The article is first to examine archival data of the activity the specific historical-pedagogical object of research, such as the cadets training course of 1973–1976. The specificities of carrying out pedagogical activity as a crucial factor in training of firefighters are analyzed. The research is interesting to a broad audience due to the fact that examination of instructional and training activity of Irkutsk Fire Technical School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR is an important element in studying the establishment and development of departmental system of education of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR in the territory of Baikal Region in the XX century.

Department of fi ne arts and technology in the Imperial Public Library (1850–1930)

A new stage in the life of the Imperial Public Library (now the National Library of Russia) began in 1850, when M. A. Korf, who carried out the organizational restructuring of the Library, became its director for many years and determined the order of its activities. The Library began to function on the principle of separate departments. From the largest meetings in various specialties, the departments turned into stable administrative units. For the fi rst time, the history of the Department of Fine Arts and Technology, containing unique collections of prints, lithographs, notes, and others, was recreated in detail. The activities of V. I. Sobolshchikov, V. V. Stasov, I. I. Gornostaev, N. D. Chechulin, L. A. Sakketti, M. L. Lozinsky, who served in it, are disclosed. The order of preparing its catalogs and the organization of large collections, in particular the Peter the Great Gallery, are analyzed. The reasons for the liquidation of the departmental system of the Public Library and the replacement of its functional one is substantiated.

Multimodal Document Management in Radiotherapy, an Update

Background: In 2013, we presented a study entitled “Multimodal document management in radiotherapy”, demonstrating the excellent routine performance of the system about four years after its initiation by evaluating a sample of n=500 documents. During this time the system saw additional developments and significant improvements: the most important innovative step being the automatic document processing. This has been completely reworked, to minimize staff-machine interaction, to increase processing speed and to further simplify the overall document handling. This improved system has been running practically without any problems for several months. Methods: While reworking the automatic document processing, we have developed algorithms that allow us to transfer documents with varying type, within a single scanning procedure, into our departmental system. The system identifies and corrects for any arbitrary order or rotation of scanned pages. Finally, after the transfer into the departmental system, all documents are in the correct order and they are automatically linked to the respective patient record. Results: According to our surveys, the error rate of the system, as in the previous version, is 0%. Compared to manual scanning and mapping of documents, we can quantify a 30-fold increase in the processing speed. In spite of these additional and elaborate processes, code optimizations yielded a processing speed increase of 20%. Pre-sorting of the documents (e.g., medical reports, or documents of informed consents) can be completely dispensed with the automated correction for jumbled documents or document rotations. In this manner 25,000 documents are automatically processed each year in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Freiburg. Conclusion: With the methods presented in this study, and some additional bug fixes, and small improvements, automatic document processing of our departmental system was significantly improved without compromising the error rate. Keywords: Clinic management, documents, workflow, optimisation, efficiency, automation, Mosaiq, oncology informatics

The Process of Change from Chairs to Departments at Spanish Universities

The transformation of the model of university organization, with the passage of the traditional system of chairs to departmental, began in Spain in the mid-sixties. The educational policy of the regime, taking as reference foreign models such as the German or Anglo- Saxon, introduces via regulations, which are not real and operative, the bases of the new model through the Law of July 17, 1965 on the structure of university faculties and their teaching staff. This article analyses and discusses that initial process of gestation and insertion of the department as a new structure of the hierarchical-administrative organization of the institution, taking the University of Salamanca as an excellent illustration of this case study. For this, the historical method and unpublished printed sources are used – minutes of the Council of Rectors, of Faculty Meetings, correspondence, etc. – as well as legislative sources, which provide us with the basic normative frame of reference. All this allows us to review the main legal milestones and some of the most relevant events that take place prior and subsequent approval of the departmental system, issues that will reveal motivations, points of view and tensions generated among the body of professors before the loss of chairs turned into authentic bastions.

Analysis of the state of learning to communicate in educational institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

Training as a component of training specialists forms an important area of human activity, gradually transforming with the development of the real process of people's life. The training of qualified specialists, adapted to the specifics of the work of the internal affairs bodies and having a legal culture, high communicative skills is carried out in the departmental system of vocational education. Learning to communicate cadets and trainees in specialized educational institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia at the present time can increase the professionalism of an employee of the internal affairs agencies and the effectiveness of his work.

A School in Boniville? Political Skills and ‘Primitives’ in Guyane (1930–1969)

This chapter argues that debates over the construction or non-construction of a school at Boniville between 1930 and the end of the 1960s demonstrate the threefold originality of this colonial space. Guyane was at the same time peripheral, contested, and autonomous. It explores how, for the Boni, the school served as an instrument by which the educative norms of the coastal colonial society could be appropriated. The actions of Gran Man Difou, who initiated the school project in the 1930s, are considered in terms of strategic action and alliances. The chapter considers what material and symbolic advantages were at stake in the school’s construction—and for whom—particularly given the proximity of Dutch state actions across the river. By their support for the school project, I conclude, the Boni were able to reinforce their collective identity during a period marked by great social disruption, as they were gradually integrated into the French departmental system. The chapter, then, sheds light on a space of mediation at the heart of a territory which itself was marginal—even to the ‘peripheral’ colony of Guyane. Via the negotiations between centre and periphery taking place there during this period, this space became the terrain for the construction of both national and regional identities.