Workshop Area Research Articles

The Development of the Narrative of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

On 19 April, 1943, two Jewish fighting organizations in the Warsaw Ghetto began armed resistance against the German attempt to liquidate what remained of the ghetto after the mass deportations to t...

EBLIG Report: Interest Group Meets in Atlantic Canada and New Co-convenors are Chosen

May was a month of travel for many Evidence-Based Librarianship Interest Group (EBLIG) members. From May 6 – 11, the 4th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice conference was held in Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina. From May 22 – 26, EBLIG members attended the Canadian Library Association (CLA) conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland. As the second anniversary of the formation of EBLIG has come around, the inaugural co-conveners, Lyn Currie and Virginia Wilson, are wrapping up their two-year term. Congratulations to Sue Fahey of Memorial University of Newfoundland and Renée deGannes, Canadian Dental Association, Ottawa, who have taken over the reins and accepted a two-year term as EBLIG’s new co-conveners.
 
 EBLIG has been active this past year, mainly in the area of conference workshops and sessions. At the organizers’ invitation, we successfully submitted and presented a half-day post-conference workshop for the 4th International Evidence Based Librarianship Conference. How to Assess the Evidence: A Critical Appraisal Tool for Library and Information Research, facilitated by Lindsay Glynn, of Memorial University of Newfoundland, was an extremely well-received session with nearly 30 participants in attendance.
 
 Virginia Wilson and Stephanie Hall created a practical toolkit on evidence-based library and information practice specifically for public librarians: http://ebltoolkit.pbwiki.com/. This toolkit was unveiled at the 2007 CLA conference in St. John’s by Stephanie Hall. 
 
 A wiki was launched in 2007 entitled eblibrarianship: the Wiki of the Evidence Based Librarianship Interest Group (EBLIG) to facilitate interest group collaboration, sharing, and information access, as well as a means of communication: http://eblibrarianship.pbwiki.com/ 
 
 EBLIG members are active in the EBLIP community and beyond: 
 
 EBLIG members edited and contributed to an EBL-themed issue of Feliciter.
 EBLIG members are participating as editors, on the editorial advisory board, and on the evidence summary team of the open access journal, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.
 As a result of a posting on the eblibrarianship wiki for the CLA conference session, Evidence-Based Librarianship: A Toolkit for Public Libraries, Virginia Wilson and Stephanie Hall have been invited to present a 1-hour audio conference for the Education Institute in the fall of 2007. 
 
 International membership to the interest group is available without having to become a full member of CLA. For only $30 CAD, people residing outside of Canada can join EBLIG and take advantage of networking and continuing education opportunities. More information on international membership is available at http://www.cla.ca/about/igroups/evidence_based.htm. 
 
 The past two years have been challenging and exciting. An active and engaged membership goes a long way in making this interest group vital and productive.

Using collections for counting and sorting

A well organised early years setting should include a clearly labelled maths workshop area in which children can find resources to support their independent learning. These will include a wide variety of collections for sorting, classifying, ordering and counting.

Cardiac Damage Secondary to Occupational Exposure to Tin Vapor

Tin is commonly used as a coating on copper kitchen appliances, and “tinsmithing” as a trade is common in many non-Western countries, where cooking utensils are re-tinned when the cooking surface wears thin. Tinsmiths, or “tinkers,” are commonly exposed to the following fumes during their work: stannic [tin(IV)] oxide, ammonium chloride, and hydrochloric acid. In this study we assessed workers from tinsmith workshops of our province for signs, symptoms, and laboratory evidence of cardiac end-organ damage. Between June 2002 and March 2003, researchers went to the main tinsmith workshop area of our province to interview tinsmiths in their workplaces and to gather addresses of their “traveling tinker” colleagues, who work with portable equipment. All workers were interviewed and underwent a complete physical examination, blood testing for lipid parameters, and echocardiography. Twenty-six tin workers (mean age 49± 10 y) and 25 control patients (convenience sample of hospital employees) were included in the study. Tobacco use, incidence of hypertension, and serum lipid parameters were not significantly different between the two groups (p < .05). The differences in myocardial performance index, systolic function, and mitral flow A velocity were also nonsignificant. However, the mitral inflow E velocity in the tinsmiths was significantly less than in controls (0.71± 0.1 vs. 0.95± 0.1 m/s, p < .001). The mitral deceleration time was also much longer in the tinsmith group (216± 71 ms vs. 143± 14 ms, p < .001). Eleven of the tinkers (23%) were found to have aortic valve sclerosis (severe in one, moderate in another, mild in the other nine), but aortic valve sclerosis was found in none of the control subjects. One tinsmith was found to have three-vessel coronary disease on angiogram. Another tinker with “myocarditis” in the past, and slow flow on angiography, had normalization of his cardiac tests after refraining from tin exposure for 6 mo. Thus, occupational exposure to heavy tin fumes is associated with left ventricle diastolic dysfunction and sclerosis of the aortic valve. Tin workers should minimize their exposure to tin fumes, and physicians should monitor tinsmiths closely for signs of heart disease.

Use of the Internet Technology to the Production Support

Information is becoming a more important factor of production than raw material, energy and work. It is decisive for a smooth production flow, to provide the correct information at the right time for the right partner. By the use of Internet technology, every network capable component can almost be tied into the operational flow of information in the production area.New software tools offer the possibilities to develop solutions for the workshop area. Over a PC computer the worker can dial on-line catalogs, request technology data or replace machine- and production data. A further aspect is the combination of machine tools with the remote diagnosis.As a rule, small and average businesses don't have any computer specialists. Nevertheless the software must be able easily enough to be adapted for the respective requests of the production, to win the acceptance of the worker

Participatory Education for Sustainable Agriculture: Everyone a Teacher, Everyone a Learner

ABSTRACT Education in sustainable agriculture is an increasing priority for farmers and others in the food system. For Cooperative Extension, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and other information providers to give useful advice, it is essential that their educators have relevant recommendations and up-to-date teaching methods. Everyone a Teacher, Everyone a Learner was the title for two workshops in 1995 designed using the criteria that training in sustainable agriculture (1) must be viewed in a complex framework of social, economic, and environmental factors, and (2) must be inclusive in terms of trainers and audience. Workshops in Nebraska and Indiana, planning and evaluation workshops in Iowa and Illinois, and national distribution of comprehensive training materials, reached more than 750 people in 50 states and several countries. From more than 1,000 individual evaluations of training sessions, we found that the most important topics were planning learning activities, economics of sustainable systems, constraints to adoption of sustainable practices, and resource materials. The most effective learning methods were one-on-one evaluations at the conclusion of the workshops, farm tours, decision cases, and panel discussions or farmer listening sessions. We learned to involve all participants in the program, through discussions, small group work, or presenting and leading sessions. It was essential to make learning goals explicit, design programs to meet people's expectations, and establish an environment of trust. Educators appreciated moving beyond the normal lecture and slide-show format and welcomed innovative learning methods. Training events on farms provided context and added immensely to the learning process. People need to be challenged, have fun, and help others have a positive learning experience. Time for individual discussions and reflection were highly valued, as well as topics that explored natural history or socially-oriented projects in the workshop area. We concluded that evalution should be an integral and ongoing part of the training sessions, and that more emphasis on leadership models was needed in future workshops.

Model Of Material Supply Control In Shipyards

Shipbuilding is an activity aimed at assembling many thousands of elements in one very complicated object. The many different components and materials are kept in shipyard depots. Supply, storage and delivery of materials from those depots at the workshop level are the material procurement activity area. The related material costs influence strongly the general cost of ship production. This paper presents the industry's material procurement control model. The material flow in the production depends on the transfer of information. The efforts have been made to diminish the reserves in depots. That means ordering of the material in the , Just-In-Time mode of operation. It is the organisation system which exactly controls the deliveries of necessary materials and parts according to an immediate order from a factory to the workshop area in the shipyard. The discussed material procurement control system relates to: 1. Diminution of depots reserves in shipyard, 2. Diminution of depots area. 3. Reduction of ship production cost.

Urbanism and Economy at Euesperides (Benghazi): preliminary report on the 1999 season

AbstractThis paper reports on the first season of a new project at Euesperides (Benghazi) aimed at studying the urban development and economy of the city. Two area excavations were started, the first on the site of early Hellenistic pebble and tessellated mosaics discovered in 1998, and the second in what appears to be an area of houses and workshops built against the city wall on the east side of the mound of Sidi Abeid. Geophysical survey and surface prospection was also undertaken; it appears that the lower-lying extension to the city was much larger than previously thought, and several modifications are necessary to previously published plans of the site. Much of the lower city is covered with large spreads of deliberately crushed shells of Murex trunculus, indicating the production of purple dye on a significant scale. Other evidence of urban production was also recovered, notably metal-working, while study of the ceramic assemblage shows widespread trading connections, with significant imports of coarsewares besides the expected fineware and amphora imports.

Fouilles sur le forum de Bavay (1993-1998). III. Habitat, voirie et stratigraphie au sud au forum

Patrick Thollard, in collaboration with Sabine Groetembril, Excavations of the Bavay forum (1993- 1998). III. Habitat, street grid and stratigraphy south of the forum. Following works carried out on the monumental centre of the city, a series of excavations was performed on the block located south-west of the Bavay forum. It concerned the north-east angle of the block, the remaining part of the area being covered with the earth-work of the mediaeval fortification. On the western part of the area explored, two dwelling rooms, whose latest state probably dates back to the middle of the Ilnd century A.D., have been identified : a vast half-buried room and a cellar, built along a classical plan but with a vaulted ceiling in brickwork ornemented with a partially preserved painted coating. These two rooms, in direct alignment with the street, belong to a set that no doubt develops far to the south. Stratigraphical diggings carried out in the north-east of the block allowed to identify previous levels whose oldest belongs to a workshop area dedicated to iron working. Finally, this led to adding more accuracy to the history of the evolution of the street network. The pavement that runs along the cardo has known three stages, that along the decumanus only two. Only the latest stage displays a tiling made of blue limestone slabs. Chronology confirms the anteriority of the cardo and shows that the development of the decumanus, which takes place in the third quarter of the 1st century A.D., is one of the direct consequences of the construction of the first stage of the forum.

Extractive Strategies at Peoria Quarry, Ottowa County, Oklahoma

The Peoria Quarry complex was first recognized as representing prehistoric activities by geologist Walter P Jenny in 1891. Jenny, who was studying the zinc and lead mines in southwestern Missouri and adjacent areas, made collections from the Peoria extractive area and submitted these specimens along with an introductory letter to Mr. G. K Gilbert of the United States Geological Survey. The latter contacted William H. Holmes, who visited the location in late October of that year (Holmes 1894:7-8). Prior to the evaluation of Jenny, the site was referred to as "old Spanish mines" because the local populace could not attribute such extensive digging to prehistoric peoples. Some early accounts of the Peoria Quarry area greatly exaggerated the vertical and horizontal extent of excavations. For example, Nieberding mentions that John P. McNaughton visited these "mines" in 1877 and concluded that at least 500 to 1000 men must have been engaged in digging pits over an extended period of time in a 40 acre area. According to McNaughton, some of the shafts were 250 to 300 feet in depth, and it amazed him that the pits apparently had been excavated using stone tools. He did not mention the great quantities of lithic debitage which surrounded each pit Holmes, while admitting that digging at the site had been extensive, estimated that chert had been extracted from an area of no more than four or five acres and stated that the greatest depth of pits in 1891 was about five feet. He did mention that a few trenches of 100 feet or more in length could be found along the margins of the site, but stated that most evidence of digging consisted of round pits up to 40 feet in diameter. His sketch map depicts the approximate extent of quarry pits and associated workshop areas.

Mid-Level Student Affairs Administrators

The authors conducted a survey of mid-level administrators to ascertain the importance of particular management skills and the administrators’ self-perceived need for further development of these skills. Although personnel management and leadership skills were rated the most important skills, the respondents expressed a need for further development only in the area of fiscal management, with conferences and workshops cited as the preferred professional development methods.

Changes of the Land Use Pattern of Hachinohe before Its Industrialization

As a result of the growth of modern industries since 1937, Hachinohe developed rapidly and became one of the industrial cities in Tohoku. The 1990 census recorded about 241, 000 inhabitants. Until the advent of industrialization, however, Hachinohe city mainly consisted of five historic cores: Hachinohe, which originated from a small castle town during the Edo period, Konakano, Minato, Shirogane and Same, which were the fishing and trade ports at distances of one to five kilometers east of Hachinohe. Its total population together with the port towns in 1935 was about 62, 000.The purpose of this paper is to explain the changes of urban land use pattern of Hachinohe during the pre-industrial stage, between the Edo period and 1936, and the economic forces which operated in shaping the land use pattern.By the mid-1930s, shopping streets, mixed commercial and workshop areas and residential areas were formed in and around each historic core and the zones of dispersion tended ultimately to coalesce into a single urban complex. These changes were due to the economic advances during the period since 1920. Hachinohe had good fortune not only as a fishing port but as a shipping port for ores carried from its hinterlands, and increased the industrial outputs of marine-products and cement. Among these activities fishery has exerted the most important influence on the emergent land use pattern, because Hachinohe has not replaced a mercantile city by an industrial one.

A New Look at Stone Drills of the Indus Valley Tradition

ABSTRACTDrilling technology of the Indus Valley Tradition was highly specialized and various types of chert and jasper were used to drill different types of materials. Earlier studies used primarily macroscopic observations to define features such as the manufacturing technique of drills, the raw materials and the mechanics of drilling. These generalizations can be revised given the discovery of important workshop areas and the availability of SEM, XRD and electron microprobe analysis. This paper will summarize the current state of. drilling research and define two categories of drills that were used in antiquity; tapered cylindrical drills and constricted cylindrical drills. Directions for future research on the relationship between drilling and other contemporaneous technologies are discussed.

Répertoire décoratif de l'Afrique proconsulaire : deux thèmes répandus sur la côte, leur évolution et leur diffusion

The being, the distribution and the diffusion area of cutter's workshops in Africa Proconsularis are very little known. Here are examined two decorative motives often carved in marble. The analysis of their variations and diffusion through the province of Africa points to the being of workshops or, at least, of sculptor shifts using their own catalogue ; it seams to depend upon the political, social and administrative personality of the financers.

A Beaker workshop area in the rock shelter of Son Matge, Mallorca

Abstract The results of recent investigations in the Balearic Islands offer a great deal of new artefact and chronological information concerning the islands’ early settlement and the external cultural and trade influences that affected them, along with the development of the indigenous technological, economical, social and religious activities during prehistoric times. The current article presents some of the new information emerging from a Beaker workshop area in the Rock Shelter of Son Matge (6°’ 25’ E, 390 35’ N), Valldemosa, Mallorca, which is pertinent to early metal working in the Balearics during the second and first millennia B.C. It also presents chronological evidence in the form of a series of fifteen radiocarbon dates for the local Pretalayotic Period (culture of the caves) from c. 2700 b.c. to 1400 b.c., thirteen of which concern local Beaker contexts. Also included are the first results of electron microscopic analysis on samples of Balearic bronzes, part of a proposed series of some two hu...

Reflections on training in orthopaedic techniques/1

When considering the present state of orthopaedic provision worldwide, crass differences can be observed which can often only be eliminated by the training of suitable personnel. These include those who are needed for medicotechnical measures within the framework of rehabilitation of the physically handicapped and disabled. In connection with the setting up of comprehensive training prog<ammes, designed to meet the actual situation, three questions are of paramount importance : a) What type of personnel are required? b) How many personnel are required? c) How should they be trained? In order to answer the first question it is appropriate to divide those employed in Technical Orthopaedics into two groups who differ characteristically with regard to features of their activity. One group consists of skilled personnel who exclusively m predominantly are employed in the workshop area with the execution of manual tasks connected with the production of orthopaedic-technical remedial aids and do not normally come into contact with patients except in an assisting function. They bear such professional titles as, journeyman, specialist or technician. The other group is composed of the most highly-qualified people who bear the main responsibility for the execution of a11 measures concerned with the preparation and fitting of remedial aids, as well as for instruction and training as part of the treatment, and who moreover issue the appropriate instructions to those employed in the workshop area and, if necessary, supervise them. Beyond this they may be entrusted with the training of trainees.