Category «Knowledge Management»

Veterans in College Perceive Lower Levels of Campus Support and Interact Less with Faculty than Nonveterans, Survey Finds

News release: “A national survey released [November 4, 2010] finds that student veterans attending four-year colleges and universities in the United States generally perceive lower levels of campus support than nonveterans, and they also interact less often with faculty members. These differences were more systematic among seniors than first-year students. Despite spending more time working …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Zonability: designed to make zoning information useful for owners, renters, investors, watchdog groups

“Zonability is an application designed to make zoning information useful for property owners, renters, sellers, buyers, remodelers, investors, and neighborhood watchdog groups. We make this information useful by providing real world context and easy to use interfaces…Zoning is embedded in a property’s price tag. For the savvy buyer, they know how to mine this value …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Researchers Highlight How Credit Card Payments Increase Unhealthy Food Purchases: Visceral Regulation of Vices

Via SSRN: How Credit Card Payments Increase Unhealthy Food Purchases: Visceral Regulation of Vices (September 1, 2010). Thomas, Manoj, Desai, Kalpesh Kaushik and Seenivasan, Satheeshkumar, Journal of Consumer Research, Forthcoming. “Some food items that are commonly considered unhealthy also tend to elicit impulsive responses. The pain of paying in cash can curb impulsive urges to …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

GAO – EPA Needs to Complete a Strategy for Its Library Network to Meet Users' Needs

Environmental Protection Agency: EPA Needs to Complete a Strategy for Its Library Network to Meet Users’ Needs, GAO-10-947, September 30, 2010 “Although EPA has taken a number of steps to meet the needs of library users, it has not completed a plan identifying an overall strategy for its library network, with implementation goals and a …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Google's Free Election Data Center and Updated Election News Section

“Google Election Center helps you provide up-to-date election information to voters and create custom search tools for your website. You can submit the following kinds of information: Polling place locations; Registration instructions; Ballot information; State and local election office contact information. The Election Center Data Manager will guide you through the process of uploading and …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

New Survey Reveals Extent, Impact of Information Overload on Workers

From Boston to Beijing, Professionals Feel Overwhelmed, Demoralized: “An international survey of white collar workers reveals that information overload is a remarkably widespread and growing problem among professionals around the world, and one that exacts a heavy toll in terms of productivity and employee morale. The survey of 1,700 white collar workers in five countries …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Brookings: The Next Real Estate Boom

The Next Real Estate Boom, Christopher B. Leinberger, Visiting Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program – Patrick C. Doherty, Director, Smart Strategy Initiative, New America Foundation, November 2010 “…the two largest demographic groups in the country, the baby boomers and their childrentogether comprising half the population want homes and commercial space in neighborhoods that do not …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Report – Most employers lacking a strategy for developing women leaders

Most employers lacking a strategy for developing women leaders, October 25, 2010 “Despite organizations efforts to achieve a diverse workforce, the majority 70% do not have a clearly defined strategy or philosophy for the development of women into leadership roles, according to the new Womens Leadership Development Survey conducted by Mercer in conjunction …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Amazing Discoveries in the Amazon: New Species Found Every Three Days Over Last Decade

News release: “Between 1999 and 2009, more than 1,200 new species of plants and vertebrates were discovered in the Amazon biome a rate of one new species every three days confirming the Amazon as one of the most diverse places on Earth, says a WWF report. High-resolution photographs of many of these new …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

'All Facts Considered' By NPR's Longtime Librarian

“Thank goodness for librarian Kee Malesky who, for 20 years, has been saving NPR’s hosts and reporters from themselves. Malesky is the organization’s longest-serving librarian, and [NPR host Scott] Simon says he suspects that she is actually the source of all human knowledge. In her new book, All Facts Considered; An Essential Library Of …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries

ARL 2030 Scenarios: A Users Guide for Research Libraries

News release: “The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released The ARL 2030 Scenarios: A Users Guide for Research Libraries. The package, which contains the ARL 2030 Scenario Set and an accompanying users guide, is the product of a project to promote visioning and scanning activities among research libraries. ARLs Envisioning Research Library Futures: A …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries

Study: Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research

Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research. Gargouri Y, Hajjem C, Larivière V, Gingras Y, Carr L, Brody T, Harnad S. PLoS ONE. 2010;5(10):e13636+. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013636. “Articles whose authors have supplemented subscription-based access to the publisher’s version by self-archiving their own final draft to make it accessible free for all on …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

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