Sign Redesign: Applying Design Principles to Improve Signage in an Academic Library

Applying Psychological Principles to Improve Hand Hygiene

Hand hygiene occurs at the intersection of habit and culture. Psychological and social principles, including operant conditioning and peer pressure of conforming social norms, facilitate behavior change. Participatory leadership and level hierarchies are needed for sustainable patient safety culture. Application of these principles progressively and significantly improved hand hygiene compared ...

Applying DEA Technique to Library Evaluation in Academic Research Libraries

INCREASINGLY, their use of resources IBRARIES A R E ASKED T O JUSTIFY in terms of producing meaningful services and impacts to the users and the parent organizations. This study applied an analytical technique called Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to calculate the relative technical efficiency of ninety-five academic research libraries that are members of the Association of Research Libraries....

Applying Lean Principles to Improve Healthcare Quality and Safety Applying Lean Principles to Improve Healthcare Quality and Safety

The Monte Carlo Approach to Library Design and Redesign

12.1 INTRODUCTION Once a high throughput laboratory has the ability to synthesize and screen for figure of merit large numbers of compounds, the question naturally arises as to what compounds should be made. This question exposes the basic feature of HTE, which is that only an infinitesimally small fraction of the space of possible chemical compounds can actually be explored. To search a system...

Applying User-Centered Design Principles to Redesign the Interface to the Portal to Texas History: The IOGENE Project

The IOGENE project at the University of North Texas Libraries applied user-centered design principles to redesign the interface to a unique digital library of cultural heritage materials, the Portal to Texas History. Since its launch in 2004, the interface had become dated and implementation of new functionality was constrained by the underlying technical infrastructure. Genealogists, a signifi...