L’objectif de l’U.P.S. est d’assurer une preparationa la sortie du detenu par une meilleure connaissance des institutions ou des dispositifs d’insertion et par une preparation d’un projet professionnel. Cette unite a ete mise en place a la Maison d’Arret de Strasbourg en fevrier 1992. En integrant ce dispositif, le detenu devient stagiaire de la formation professionnelle pendant douze semaines, il est remunere. Pendant ce stage, il rencontre des acteurs de differentes institutions ou association qui peuvent devenir des referents exterieurs. La preparation du projet professionnel comprend la valorisationd es competences, les techniques de recherche d’emploi, la connaissance du marche de l’emploi et un stage de six semaines en entreprise. Le suivi en entreprise doit permettre de confronter le projet a la realite du terrain.
Échange de lettres (2000-2003) entre Henry Bauchau et le poète Emilio Araúxo, qui évoque sa traduction des poèmes en galicien. Dossier constitué par Catherine Mayaux ([email protected]).
Using the nationally representative, cohort-based data of the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:02), this study employs multiple regression to examine the effects of exit exams on student achievement and school completion. This study finds that exit exams as a whole do not have substantial effects on student achievement in mathematics, twelfth grade GPA, or school completion. Standards-based exams are a positive predictor of dropping out of school but lose their predictive power once GED recipients are coded as completing school. Exit exams do not affect GED seeking and acquisition. When exit exams are disaggregated by type and students are sorted by ninth grade GPA quartiles, end-of-course exams have some negative effects on mathematics test score gains. Students in the bottom two quartiles see reduced test score gains of 28% and 29% of a grade level equivalency (GLE). These effects disappear when students in North Carolina are coded as taking a different type of exam. Standards-based exams had a small positive effect, about 37% of a GLE, on the top quartile of students. Overall, the findings showed no results for school completion and mixed results for test score gains. The article concludes that policymakers looking to boost high school achievement would be better served by working to boost student accomplishments before high school. Normal.dotm 0 0 1 214 1224 cmc 10 2 1503 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false
Through evidence based practice implementation, autonomous practice and innovation strategies can stimulate workplace empowerment, providing a framework for retention and recruitment within rural healthcare organizations. This pilot study determined the relationships that exist between evidence based practice use and workplace empowerment among rural Registered Nurses. Forty-two rural Registered Nurses completed an online survey examining their level of evidence based practice use and workplace empowerment. A Spearman’s rho found a strong, positive correlation between overall evidence based practice use and workplace empowerment ( r = 0.648, p < .001). Through regression analysis, educational background was determined to be a confounding variable for overall evidence based practice utilization and perceived level of workplace empowerment. While the resultant small sample size negates generalization of this pilot study to a larger population, the results uphold the premise that organizational support of innovation, as evident within the tenets of evidence based practice, can potentially impact nurses’ sense of empowerment in the workplace. The results are valuable to healthcare administrators, quality and risk professionals, professional development educators, and direct care nurses when determining the needs of RNs for evidence based practice education, mentorship, and advancement of organizational empowerment structures. Future studies should examine rural Registered Nurses’ workplace empowerment levels as a source of innovation, which can be a direct result of evidence based practice utilization. Evidence based practice, in conjunction with similar empowering work structures, can enhance rural nurses’ ability to implement highly reliable, quality healthcare services in an environment conducive to learning, autonomy, productivity, and innovation. Keywords: Evidence-based practice (EBP), Rural, Healthcare, Empowerment, Nursing, Workplace
selected portions of the world's scientific literature on alcohol. Known as the Classified Abstract Archive of the Alcohol Literature # Grateful acknowledgment is extended to John A. Carpenter, Marilyn Carpenter, Mark Keller, Penny B. Page and Adeline Tallau for their help in researching material for this manuscript. 1 Nathan, Peter E. "Reports from the research centres — 1. Rutgers: the Center of Alcohol Studies." B ritish Journal of Addiction. 82: 833-840. 1987. 8 T H E J O U R N A L O F T H E ( C A A A L ) , the index of 1029 original subject headings used a punched card manual retrieval system.2 Jellinek also brought his research staff from the New York Academy of Medicine to Yale, and the original Documentation and Information Divisions of the Section of Studies on Alcohol were put into place at that time.3 National requests for research information began to move efficiently through the Section's Information Division, which developed a symbiotic relationship with the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. The staff of the Information Division continued to collect, index and abstract the international alcohol literature; the abstracted results were added to the C A A A L , and each issue of the Quarterly Journal featured a section of selected abstracts as a current awareness service for its readers. The Information Division was also able to provide tailored subject bibliographies to its clientele, using the C A A A L as a finding aid.4 Mark Keller, Managing Editor and then Editor of the Quarterly Journal! Journal of Studies on Alcohol from 1950 through 1976, oversaw the continuous process of identifying, processing and disseminating alcohol studies information. In 1972 he outlined a model of a special library using the Library-Documentation-Information-Publication Division of the Center of Alcohol Studies as his example. Here, . . the specialist documentalists or information scientists . . . process'the literature,' convert it into the classified informational bits, and, on request from anywhere, provide very specific answers to most specific questions, mostly in the form of bibliographies and photocopies of abstracts."5 Yet there was not a distinctly separate library at Yale until some time in 1958, and that library did not absorb the information responsibilities of Keller's multifaceted Information Division until well after the Section, now known as the Center of Alcohol Studies, moved to Rutgers University in 1962. 2 Page, Penny B. "The origins of alcohol studies: E. M . Jellinek and the documentation of the alcohol research literature." British Journal of Addiction. 83: 1095-1103. 1988. * Keller, Mark. "Mark Keller's history of the alcohol problems field." The Drinking and Drug Practices Surveyor. No. 14: 1, 22-28. 1979. 4 Jellinek, E. M . "The Abstract Archive of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol." Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 2: 216-222. 1941. 5 Keller, Mark. " A special-library information-center model for a societal-problem field." Pp. 121-129. In: Israel Society of Special Libraries and Information Centers. ISLIC International Conference on Information Science, Tel Aviv, 29 August-3 September, 197 / : proceedings. Vol. i. Tel Aviv : National Center of Scientific and Technical Information; 1972. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 9 We know that by March 1959 the Yale Center had designated a separate physical space in its headquarters for a library. The library's primary responsibility was to serve as a departmental information center. The fledgling library contained bound volumes of 91 periodicals dealing primarily with alcohol, over 75 file boxes of material published by regional organizations dealing with alcoholism and alcohol abuse, and additional books, reports, and reprints on subjects, other than alcoholism, related to beverage alcohol.6 In support of the work of the Information Division, Esther Henderson initiated an effort to collect full text copies of every document cited in the Classified Archive.7 Most of the books had been acquired to support the course work of the Summer School of Alcohol Studies, which held its first session in 1943 and continues to run every summer. (The Summer of 1990 will bring three separate sessions of this continuing education program to the Rutgers New Brunswick campus: the 1990 Summer School of Alcohol Studies, the 1990 New Jersey Summer School of Alcohol and Drug Studies, and the 1990 Advanced School of Alcohol and Drug Studies.) Additional monograph material in the collection included review copies of books highlighted by the Quarterly Journal. Further library collection development efforts do not appear to have been made. However, there was now one location where all the diverse items identified by the Documentation Division could be organized, stored, and made available to the visiting researcher. The new library was also able to provide copies of the items abstracted in the C A A A L via phone or mail request. Adeline Linton was the first to supervise the collection in its new format. The Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers ( 1962-1971) In 1962 the Center of Alcohol Studies moved to the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University. This move was funded with support from the National Institute of Mental Health and the Christopher D . Smithers Foundation. Selden D. Bacon, Director of the Center at Yale since Jellinek's departure in 1950, continued in that role at Rutgers.8 The Center's Information, Publication and Documentation offices, in6 Bacon, Selden D . "Communication of research: role of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies y Alumni News of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies. 15: 1-3. 1959. 7 Bacon, Selden D . "The McCarthy Memorial Collection in 1 9 7 1 Q u a r t e r l y Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 32: 472-477. 1971 . 8 Milgram, Gail G. "The Summer School of Alcohol Studies: an historical and interpretive review." Pp. 59-74. In: Strug, D . L . , Priyadarsini, S. and Hyman, M . M . , eds. Alcohol Interventions: Historical and Sociocultural Approaches. New York: The Haworth Press; 1986. 10 T H E J O U R N A L O F T H E eluding the library, were transferred to what is now the headquarters of the Methodist parsonage on Easton Avenue in New Brunswick. Librarian Adeline Tallau arrived in June of 1962 and discovered the Yale library distributed among various rooms of the old house on Easton Avenue, with most of the journals and non-book materials packed away in boxes in the attic. An additional number of biochemical journals were stored at the offices of David Lester and Leon Greenberg on Busch campus in Piscataway. Books from the Yale Summer School were scheduled to arrive at a later date. Very little of the monograph material was cataloged, and there was only a partial printed list of available journal titles. Tallau reports that her first bit of business as Librarian was to requisition a typewriter, a Kardex, and an electric eraser. She then had to immediately organize the collection for the 1962 Summer School of Alcohol Studies, which was held at Douglass College that year. A portion of the library was moved to Douglass Campus in New Brunswick for a six-week period and then returned to Easton Avenue. A second shipment of books soon arrived from Yale, namely, the Anne Roe collection of textbooks on alcohol education. By this time Tallau had managed to set up a system of shelving in the living room of the Easton Avenue house. She had also inventoried the boxes of journals stored in the attic, and produced a holdings list. Monograph material was being systematically cataloged and entered into the Rutgers University Union Catalog. In 1964 the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies moved at last to Christopher D. Smithers Hall on Busch Campus, with the formal dedication occurring on April 2, 1964. The different divisions were reunited from their temporary offices on the Busch and College Avenue campuses in the spacious new building. Tallau supervised the arrangement of the Library's physical space, the selection of library furniture and permanent shelving, and the transfer of the reorganized collection.9 The Information Division remained the primary resource for alcohol information requests for the public at that time. The Center's Information specialists continued to prepare and distribute subject specific research bibliographies using the C A A A L system, which was maintained in full operation until 1978. The Library was the organized repository for printed materials, primarily the full text documents identified in the Classified Archive. In 1965 these documents were designated the McCarthy Memorial Collec9 Adeline Tallau. Rutgers Library of Science and Medicine, Piscataway, NJ. Interview, 1 March 1988. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 11 tion in honor of Raymond G. McCarthy, one of the Center's illustrious alumni. Center Director Seldon Bacon described the McCarthy Collection in 1971 : "The Collection is . . . the most superb organization of scholarly materials in the field. It is growing. It is useful . . . It is a memorial which we are sure would please Ray and in which the contributors and workers may feel a justifiable pride."1 0 In 1990 the McCarthy Collection is still growing and still useful. It is the core of the modern Center of Alcohol Studies Library. The Library was also a place where visitors could pursue their own research in 1964. The shelves of books and journals, all related in some way to the study of alcohol and alcohol problems, were recognized as an important compilation. The Library continued as a departmental information resource for the Center's faculty and staff. Adeline Tallau began a Master Catalog of all items collected by the Library for the Journal abstracting service, C A A A L , and the International Bibliography of Studies on Alcohol IÇOI-IÇ^O (Mark Keller, ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies; 1966). This catalog contains a single first author entry for each item stored in the Library, as