Lending Library
NYSID is proud to introduce a new facet of the Training and Information Program (TIP): Publications and resources that are available on loan. Complete the Lending Library Form to borrow materials from NYSID's current collection.
5 S Factory Makeover, by Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Video)
Starting with an explanation of why a company should keep its manufacturing areas clean, this program shows you an actual Five S training event at two different manufacturing companies. You see a Five S factory Makeover of Symmons Industries in Braintree, MA. and at Affordable Interior Service in Hudson, MA. Recorded during training classes on Five S, you will see the kinds of things that were changed to improve productivity and make the work simpler and easier. The clean up teams are first taught the Five S Principles and are than unleashed to go forth and make improvements.
America , Working: 1938-1998 The Javits-Wagner O’Day Program , by NISH (Book)
This book tells stories of sixty American with disabilities who found work because of the JWOD program and whose lives are better as a result of it. In this the sixtieth year of the Javits-Wagner-O’Day Program sixty voices retells its story.
“Benchmarking: A Practitioner’s Guide for Becoming and Staying Best of the Best” By Gerald J. Balm (Book)
This is a how-to book which complements and expands upon prior books on benchmarking. It’s about the benchmarking experience at IBM’s Rochester, Minnesota site, which is responsible for product development and U.S. manufacturing of intermediate computer systems. Benchmarking is an important element in IBM’s total quality management system. IBM Rochester was a 1990 winner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Modern-day Benchmarking is a technique for comparing an organization’s processes, products or services with the world’s best. It aids the discovery of ways to do things faster, better, and at less cost. It’s a technique that you can put to work in your organization, with the help of this book.
“Building Customer Loyalty, The 21 Essential Elements…In Action” by JoAnna Brandi (Book)
Building Customer Loyalty should be at the heart of every organization’s business practices. It’s just common sense. The money you save by keeping customers drops right to the bottom line. That’s good news! When the bottom line is thriving, there’s no need for constant cost cutting; there’s more job security; and there’s extra money to buy the equipment you need.
“Cleaning Basis A to Z” by Cleaning Consultant Services, Inc (Video)
“Custodial Skills for Adults with Special Needs” by Cleaning Consultant Services, Inc (Training Manual)
“Cleaning Colleges and Universities” by Daniels Associates (CD Rom)
“Cleaning Office Buildings” by Daniels Associates (CD Rom)
“Cleaning Schools” by Daniels Associates (CD Rom)
“Fish, Catch the Energy, Release the Potential” by Charthouse Learning (Video)
“Gifts Differing; Understanding Personality Type” by Isabel Briggs Myers with Peter Myers (Book)
Gifts Differing explains the essential personality types described by the MBTI and their practical significance in your daily life. Drawing on concept originated by Carl Jung, this book distinguishes four categories of personality styles and show how these qualities determine the way you perceive the world and come to conclusion about what you've seen. It explains what they mean for your success in school, at a job, in a career, or in your personal relationships.
“Good to Great” by Jim Collins (Book)
For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. After sifting thorough mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinant of greatness-why some companies make the leap and other's don't.
“How to Coach a Successful Team” by Manage Men (Action Kit)
“How to be a Light Duty Specialist” by Manage Men (Action Kit)
“How to be a Rest Room Specialist” by Manage Men (Action Kit)
“How to be a Vacuum Specialist” by Manage Men (Action Kit)
“I’m Not Crazy; I’m just not You, The real Meaning of the Sixteen Personality Types” by Roger R. Pearman & Sarah C. Albritton (Book)
This book does away with our common misconceptions about what is "normal". It explains, for instance, why certain people thrive on ambiguity while others want clarity and definition, why some people are friendly and uninhibited while others are restrained and fastidious. Connecting these insights to the everyday situations of working, loving, parenting, and communicating with friends and colleagues, psychologists and authors Roger Pearman and Sarah Albritton show how our individual difference often produce interpersonal blind spots that lead to misunderstandings. They teach how to recognize and value difference without letting them get in the way of our relationships, and how to communicate successfully with other whose ways of looking at the world and relating may be far different from our own.
“Labor of Love” Music Video by NISH (Video)
Lean Manufacturing for the Small Shop, by Gary Conner (book)
This book is the winner of the 2001 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing. Companies of all sizes are in a desperate race to remain competitive and profitable. the steps outlined in the book will help small organizations shorten delivery times, improve quality, and reduce cost. Written with Lean implementers in mind, this text is designed to help companies and change agents apply the tools of Lean quickly. Much has been written about larger companies and a original equipment manufacturers (OEM) who have implemented the Lean techniques perfected at Toyota . However, less attention has been given to the special needs of smaller companies, job shop and "mom and pop" shops. The principles of the Toyota production system are sound and proven. They are effective in any industry and within any company. The challenge is to apply the right tool, at the right place at the right time, while maintain the flexibility and nimble nature required of smaller shops.
“Learning Lean through Simulation” by Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Video)
“Mapping Your Value Stream” by Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Video)
“Mission-Based Management, Leading Your Not-for-Profit in the 21 st Century” by Peter C. Brinckerhoff (Book)
“Mission-Based Management, An Organizational Development Workbook” by Peter C. Brinckerhoff (Workbook)
“Motivation Is An Inside Job” by Norm Crouse (Book)
This book is a practical, hands-on guide for any manager facing the tough day-to-day challenge of motivating today's workforce. Moving beyond theory to application, author Norm Crouse shares proven tools learned in over twenty seven years experience as a consultant, trainer, and a business coach. In straight-forward, down to earth language, Crouse presents a no nonsense approach to diagnosing and solving workplace performance problems.
“No Excuses!”, Jay Rifenbary (Book)
This book helps organizations and individuals return to this sense of ownership. You will learn how to live the “No Excuse” lifestyle built on a solid foundation of self-responsibility, purpose, and integrity. Then you will discover the secrets of the THESAURUS Factor – twelve key principles for personal and professional success.
“Orbiting the Giant Hairball”, Gordon MacKenzie (Book)
Gordon MacKenzie worked at Hallmark Cards for thirty years, where he inspired his colleagues to slip the bonds of Corporate Normalcy and rise to orbit to a mode of dreaming, daring, and doing above and beyond the rubber-stamp confines of the administrative mind-set. In his deeply funny book, exuberantly illustrated in full color, he shares lessons on awakening and fostering creative genius. He teaches how to emerge from the “giant hairball” – that tangled, impenetrable mass of rules, and systems, based on what worked in the past and which can lead to mediocrity in the present.
“Please Understand Me; Character & Temperament Types” by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates (Book)
Professor Keirsey is a long time clinical psychologist of the gestalt-field systems school. After 30 years of treating hundred of teaching, parenting, marriage and management problems, Dr. Keirsey now challenges the reader to "ABANDON THE PYGMALION PROJECT", that endless and fruitless attempt to change the Other into a carbon copy of Oneself. "It's OK," he says, "to marry your opposite and beget children who are far from being chips off the old bloc, but it is not OK to take marriage and patentage as license to SCULPT spouse and child using yourself as a pattern to copy. Put down your chisel. Let be. Appreciate."
“Rehabilitation for the New Century” by NISH (2 copies) (Video)
“Supervising An Employee With A Disability” by Irene M. Ward and Associates Production (Video with instructor’s guidebook and handouts)
“The Corporate Mystic” by Gay Henricks, PhD and Kate Ludeman, PhD (Book)
The authors have distilled the secrets of the hundred wisest businesspeople they know into nuggets of just-in-time wisdom you can put to work today. You will discover the twelve qualities of twenty-first-century leaders, how to make breakthrough decision with intuitive ease. The Corporate Mystic is a book to nourish your soul and light your path to success.
“The Dilbert Principle” by Scott Adams (Book)
In a world of TQM, reengineering, and empowered secretaries, Dilbert has become the poster boy of corporate America. Millions of office dwellers tack Scott Adams’s comic strip to their walls when murdering the boss is not an acceptable option. After seventeen years of working in a cubicle and reading thousands of e-mail messages from readers who’ve been “downsized”, “rightsized”, “flattened” and put in charge of “quality teams”, Scott Adams can no longer restrict himself to a single artistic medium.
“The Eternally Successful Organization” by Philip B. Crosby (Book)
This is not a book that dishes out principles in charts and lists. It is a book about change, and how executives and managers can introduce it into the workplace for long-term, vigorous growth. Crosby’s straight-from-the-shoulder style and common-sense approach encompass not just theory, but a unique, engaging and often humorous narrative of a fictional company that brings his message dramatically to life. The company could be any company in the nation.
“The Power of the Powerless”, by Christopher de Vinck (Book)
This book is a doorway into the deep lessons of life, love and faith Christopher de Vinck learned from his brother Oliver, who laid in the same bed for 33 years unable to see, walk, communicate or feed himself. The immobile child who touched the lives of hundred and taught them the true meaning of courage and perseverance.
“The Ten Commandments of Communicating with People with Disabilities” by Irene Ward & Associates (Video)
“Visual Controls” by Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Video)
“Who Moved My Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson, M.D.
This book is a simple parable that reveals profound truths about change. It is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a “Maze” and look for “Cheese” to nourish them and make them happy. In this story, the characters are faced with unexpected change. Eventually, one of them deal with it successfully, and writes what he has learned from his experience on the maze walls. Written for all ages, the story takes less than an hour to read but its unique insights can last for a lifetime.
“Work it Out; Clues for Solving People Problems at Work” by Sandra Krebs Hirsh (Book)
Work It Out uncovers the mysteries of how best to work together. Using a mystery theme to uncover how different personalities operate, personality type experts Sandra Hirsch and Jane Kise demonstrate the effects of different personalities at work and how to use this understanding to facilitate more effective work relationship, whether with co-workers, the boss, your team, or subordinates. Especially valuable for any manager responsible for helping individuals and groups work together and who must deal with the fallout when they don't. Work It Out will help you identify the strengths of employees, recognize areas of potential conflict. And bridge the gap when personality differences arise.
“Working Relationships” by Richard G. Luecking, Ellen S. Fabian, George P. Tilson (Book)
This book is a must-have guide for all employment service providers seeking to foster strong partnerships with employers and to start people with disabilities on the path to a rewarding career. Filled with helpful case studies and examples, this invaluable resource gives readers spefic perspective, guiclines, and strategies.
“World Wide Work Loading” by Daniels Associates (2 copies) (CD Rom)