Die Bibliothek als kulturelles Zentrum des Museums : die neu eröffnete Gerd Bucerius Bibliothek des Museums für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Der Artikel gibt einen Überblick über die geschichtliche Entwicklung der Bibliothek des Museums für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. Die Wiedereröffnung wurde zu einer Neuorientierung der Bibliothek genutzt mit zukünftiger aktiver Teilnahme am Programm des Museums. Es wird das neue Konzept, die bisherige Umsetzung mit allen entstandenen Problemen, die Beschäftigung von ehrenamtlichen Mitarbeitern und die Aktivitäten der Bibliothek beschrieben

Engagement, Identifikation und Fachkompetenz. Zum Einsatz von Freiwilligen in der Museumsbibliothek

Die Arbeit von Ehrenamtlichen oder Freiwilligen in Bibliotheken wird in Deutschland mit Zurückhaltung betrachtet, vor allem in wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken. Dagegen setzt Angela Graf ihre Erfahrungen mit Freiwilligenarbeit in der Bibliothek des Museums für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. Ausgangspunkt für die Anwerbung von Freiwilligen war die Neueröffnung der Museumsbibliothek nach dem Umbau: ein großer, sehr alter Bestand, neue Räume über zwei Stockwerke mit Magazinen, einem Leseraum und räumlich entfernten Mitarbeiterräumen - und viel zu wenig Personal, um das alles zu bespielen. Der Artikel gibt Auskunft über die verschiedenen Aspekte der Freiwilligenarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek: von der Frage, wie finde ich Freiwillige, über rechtliche, soziale und organisatorische Aspekte bis hin zur alltäglichen Praxis der Arbeit mit rund 50 Freiwilligen

Quantitative Assessment of Children with Osteogenesis Imperfecta

Assessments of children with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) are typically limited to a physical exam and observations from a clinician during a hospital visit. Often quantitative information such as bone mineral density and outcome questionnaires is obtained, but with the increasing prevalence of motion analysis and other performance type laboratories, there are many other tools available, which could be beneficial to this patient population. These laboratories can provide date supplementary to morphologic and radiographic data that is helpful in tracking changes in the patient’s functional abilities, recover from fracture, and treatment outcomes. This chapter will cover some useful evaluation methods for children with the most commonly seen types of OI and provide some examples of their test results

The organization of higher education:An overview of sociological research into universities as organizations

Sociologists are turning to organizational concepts instead of exclusively focusing on political influences or “grand theories” (Mills, 1956/2000) that used to be dominant in sociological approaches to the educational sector (Bourdieu, 1988, 1998; Davies & Guppy, 1997). This paper provides an overview of theoretical perspectives on higher education, applied within, or relating to, organizational sociology

The organization of higher education:An overview of sociological research into universities as organizations

Sociologists are turning to organizational concepts instead of exclusively focusing on political influences or “grand theories” (Mills, 1956/2000) that used to be dominant in sociological approaches to the educational sector (Bourdieu, 1988, 1998; Davies & Guppy, 1997). This paper provides an overview of theoretical perspectives on higher education, applied within, or relating to, organizational sociology

Reworking boundaries:a qualitative case study on engineers’ professional identity and habitus in the face of digital transformation

Digital transformation has the potential to fundamentally change organizations, and to alter both working conditions, and core employee competencies. Such changes bring about novel dynamics between employee groups. In our study, we focus on engineers as a professional group that is particularly affected by these changes and analye emerging group dynamics in response to digital transformation. Using a qualitative approach, we investigate how engineers construct group identities and status vis-à-vis the increasing importance of software experts. We show that engineers experience digital transformation as an identity threat that leads to a pronounced awareness of their professional habitus and an identity (re)negotiation. If not handled carefully, digital transformation can trigger adverse group dynamics and jeopardize the organizational change process

Designing the organizational future::how German universities anticipate governance changes by means of corporate design

Purpose: Over the last decades, universities in general have seen an increase in managerial top-down policies, often pertaining to strategic organizational communication. This paper, in addressing such managerial policies, does focus on German universities as they provide an interesting context to explore the rise of strategic organizational communication as a managerial practice. German universities grant full legal autonomy to their chairholders, and thus, faculty compliance with top management policies cannot be exacted. From there, it seems worthwhile exploring how university management tries to initiate compliance by communicative means. One prominent communication strategy pertains to Corporate Design (CD): university administrations disseminate guidelines as to the use of all forms of planned, visual communication. With this managerial practice in view, we explore arguments employed in exemplary CD guidelines. The overall aim is to show how management attempts to initiate faculty compliance via rational and persuasive communication.Frame: This case study combines Bourdieusian field theory with neo-institutionalist and narratological approaches. In order to explore how university leadership tries to assert governance claims, we refer, in particular, to the concepts of field struggles, isomorphic change, and legitimacy.Approach: Our case study concentrates on the attempted implementation of CD in German universities. Our sample comprises 40 CD manuals, most of them with official prefaces by university presidents. In order to detect dominant themes in these manuals we employ thematic analysis.Findings: We find that CD policies are being used, by management, as a strategic marketing instrument for external communication, as well as a soft, internal governance instrument. We identify two dominant themes: First, university leadership argues in favor of CD by referring to external and internal stakeholders (legitimation). With a view to external stakeholders, management argues that CD is an important communication instrument of differentiation in a perceived university ‘market’. As to internal stakeholders, CD is intended to integrate both individual scholars, as well as scholarly sub-units into an overarching organizational structure. Second, we find different persuasive management strategies supposed to actually make faculty employ the new CD (governance). Here, we identify highly different communication strategies, ranging from direct orders to appeals. The variety in strategic communication reveals the organizational paradox of restricted legal governance options, and the new managerial claim to governance.Implications: We contribute to higher education and organizational communication research by revealing homogeneic rationales for an isomorphic change process that are being described as differentiation. We alert that legal professorial autonomy may slowly be eroded by means of consistent strategic communication.<br/

Designing the organizational future::how German universities anticipate governance changes by means of corporate design

Purpose: Over the last decades, universities in general have seen an increase in managerial top-down policies, often pertaining to strategic organizational communication. This paper, in addressing such managerial policies, does focus on German universities as they provide an interesting context to explore the rise of strategic organizational communication as a managerial practice. German universities grant full legal autonomy to their chairholders, and thus, faculty compliance with top management policies cannot be exacted. From there, it seems worthwhile exploring how university management tries to initiate compliance by communicative means. One prominent communication strategy pertains to Corporate Design (CD): university administrations disseminate guidelines as to the use of all forms of planned, visual communication. With this managerial practice in view, we explore arguments employed in exemplary CD guidelines. The overall aim is to show how management attempts to initiate faculty compliance via rational and persuasive communication.Frame: This case study combines Bourdieusian field theory with neo-institutionalist and narratological approaches. In order to explore how university leadership tries to assert governance claims, we refer, in particular, to the concepts of field struggles, isomorphic change, and legitimacy.Approach: Our case study concentrates on the attempted implementation of CD in German universities. Our sample comprises 40 CD manuals, most of them with official prefaces by university presidents. In order to detect dominant themes in these manuals we employ thematic analysis.Findings: We find that CD policies are being used, by management, as a strategic marketing instrument for external communication, as well as a soft, internal governance instrument. We identify two dominant themes: First, university leadership argues in favor of CD by referring to external and internal stakeholders (legitimation). With a view to external stakeholders, management argues that CD is an important communication instrument of differentiation in a perceived university ‘market’. As to internal stakeholders, CD is intended to integrate both individual scholars, as well as scholarly sub-units into an overarching organizational structure. Second, we find different persuasive management strategies supposed to actually make faculty employ the new CD (governance). Here, we identify highly different communication strategies, ranging from direct orders to appeals. The variety in strategic communication reveals the organizational paradox of restricted legal governance options, and the new managerial claim to governance.Implications: We contribute to higher education and organizational communication research by revealing homogeneic rationales for an isomorphic change process that are being described as differentiation. We alert that legal professorial autonomy may slowly be eroded by means of consistent strategic communication.<br/