Total systems intervention and human inquiry: The search for a common ground

Total Systems Intervention (TSI) is an approach to intervening in problem situations which has much to offer where complex interacting issues need to be addressed by the complementary use of intervention methodologies. That such an approach has much in common with Action Research (AR) has been recognized, with much recent effort being devoted to the relationship between AR and Critical Systems Thinking (CST), the theoretical endeavor underpinning TSI. This paper further develops this line of debate and relates AR or Human Inquiry (HI) more directly to TSI, using an information systems intervention to enhance the study. The outcome is a demonstration of how TSI implicitly uses techniques informed from the field of Action Research, and how a more thorough synthesis of HI with TSI might serve to improve the overall intervention process.     

从著作权角度剖析逢甲大学校园数位内容经营服务管理计画

在数位化与网路化的学术典藏传播大趋势下 ,建构一个完整、方便、迅速与合理使用的校园数位内容经营服务体系 ,是兼具教育与研究两大使命的大学机构必须进行的工作 ,特别是对身负知识典藏与传播责任的图书馆来说 ,更是刻不容缓的任务 .本文介绍逢甲大学图书馆所规划推动的校园数位内容经营服务管理计画 ,探讨其征集服务范围以及提交、互评、加值典藏、传播与版权管理等作业流程 ,并说明所需要的支援团队和人力配置、所产出的产品形式和应用方式 .最后从著作权的角度分析校园数位内容经营服务所涉及的合理使用、著作财产权和著作授权使用问题     

数位时代图书馆馆员专业知能发展之研究——以逢甲大学为例

受到资讯媒体新科技影响 ,图书馆读者使用行为已从单一的馆藏利用 ,转为期望图书馆提供更多元化的服务 ;另外在财政紧缩 资源扩增 人力不足等因素下 ,图书馆提供各类型服务的运作模式也受到相当的冲击 ,图书馆为提供以读者为道向的服务 ,必需付出许多努力并改变服务哲学 ,因而图书馆馆员的专业知能发展要不断提升才能因应数位时代的环境改变 ,并提供读者一个优质的资讯服务 ,发挥图书馆LearningResourceCenter学习资源中心的角色 .本研究主要探讨图书馆如何在有限资源下 ,有系统地规划发展馆员专业知能 ,并且利用那一种方法可以最有效率、花费最少成本达到最大的馆员能力提升效果 ,根据文献探讨以及学习行为方法理论 ,提出一个适合发展馆员专业知能的模式 (Approachmodel) ,通过探讨逢甲大学图书馆的两个专案其馆员专业知能转变的历程 ,检视了此发展模式的成效 ,并提出未来该模式可再改进的方向及建议     

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

Globally, soil organic matter (SOM) contains more than three times as much carbon as either the atmosphere or terrestrial vegetation. Yet it remains largely unknown why some SOM persists for millennia whereas other SOM decomposes readily--and this limits our ability to predict how soils will respond to climate change. Recent analytical and experimental advances have demonstrated that molecular structure alone does not control SOM stability: in fact, environmental and biological controls predominate. Here we propose ways to include this understanding in a new generation of experiments and soil carbon models, thereby improving predictions of the SOM response to global warming.