Resource Discovery Tools: Supporting Serendipity,
Western Kentucky University
Resource Discovery Tools: Supporting Serendipity, Tammera M. Race
DLTS Faculty Publications
Serendipity, the accidental discovery of something useful, plays an important role in discovery and the acquisition of new knowledge. The process and role of serendipity varies across disciplines. As library collections have become increasingly digital faculty lament the loss of serendipity of browsing library stacks. Resource discovery tools may have features that support serendipity as part of information seeking. A comparison of four commercial Web-scale discovery tools, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) WorldCat® Local1, Serials Solution2® Summon3™, ExLibris4® Primo Central5™, and EBSCO Discovery Services (EDS)6™, links product features to characteristics that support serendipitous discovery. However, having such features is only …
Left Of The Dial: An Introduction To Underground Rock, 1980-2000,
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Left Of The Dial: An Introduction To Underground Rock, 1980-2000, Cassie Wagner, Elizabeth Stephan
Articles
This essay is a brief history of American underground/independent music from 1980 to 2000. The authors examine twenty-one of what they believe are the best and most influential bands of the period and provide an annotated list of representative recordings. These artists provide the inspiration and sonic blueprint for much of today’s cutting edge music. Even so, their recordings are often absent from library collections and many librarians and patrons are unfamiliar with them. The groups discussed are Bad Brains, Beat Happening, Big Black, Bikini Kill, Black Flag, Camper Van Beethoven, Dead Kennedys, Fugazi, Galaxie 500, Hüsker Dü, Melvins, Minor …
Seeing White In Black: Examining Racial Identity Among African American Adolescents In A Culturally Centered Book Club,
Wayne State University
Seeing White In Black: Examining Racial Identity Among African American Adolescents In A Culturally Centered Book Club, Kafi D. Kumasi
School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications
This qualitative, ethnographic study explores the various tensions and struggles around racial identity that thirteen African American youth encounter while participating in a culturally responsive, library-based book club called Circle of Voices. Data were collected twice a week over four months in an after school community literacy intervention program in a public library and a university Black cultural library setting. Thematic analysis of the corpus of data and a micro ethnographic discourse analysis were performed on the data. Whiteness and double consciousness serve as complementary theoretical frameworks. Findings reveal that: a) tension is an integral component in helping African American …
Volume 7, Number 3: September/October 2001,
University of Connecticut - Storrs
Volume 7, Number 3: September/October 2001, Suzanne Zack
UConn Libraries Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Encyclopedic History Of Utah State University,
Utah State University
Encyclopedic History Of Utah State University, Robert Parson
Library Faculty & Staff Publications
From "A-day" to "Women's Athletics", this encyclopedic history of Utah State University by USU University Archivist Robert Parson covers people, buildings, programs, events, organizations, songs, school colors, traditions, and more.
"Our Man Scapin" By Molière. Translated By Brett B. Bodemer,
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
"Our Man Scapin" By Molière. Translated By Brett B. Bodemer, Brett B. Bodemer
Library Scholarship
2012 American translation of Jean Baptiste Poquelin’s Les Fourberies de Scapin. Some liberties taken to mute frequent exclamatory oaths, and no attempt whatsoever to render one character’s dialect into some arbitrarily selected contemporary American equivalent. Any attendant loss of comedic value for some may be seen as a gain in taste by others.
The Quick Response (Qr) Code: Graphic Potential For Libraries,
Boise State University
The Quick Response (Qr) Code: Graphic Potential For Libraries, Memo Cordova
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
The convergences of Web-ready mobile tools and applications have changed how we interact with our physical and virtual environments. Web-ready mobile devices (particularly smartphones, but tablets and Wi-Fi ready MP3 players are also on the increase) have supplanted the traditional desktop computer. According to IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, a February 7, 2011, press release noted that “Smartphone manufacturers shipped 100.9 million devices in the fourth quarter of 2010...PC manufacturers shipped 92.1 million units” (IDC). For the first time ever, smartphones have outsold traditional desktop computers. This is telling on several levels, the most salient being that our …
Talk To Me: Using Ohms To Index An Oral History Project,
Western Kentucky University
Talk To Me: Using Ohms To Index An Oral History Project, Lisa Karen Miller
DLPS Faculty Publications
The presentation discusses using the University of Kentucky's Oral History Metadata Synchronizer to index the interviews comprising the Western Kentucky University Libraries Oral History Project, conducted by Lisa Karen Miller in 2013.
"The Hardest Worked River In The World": The 1962 Bear River Project, Utah An"D Idaho,
Utah State University
"The Hardest Worked River In The World": The 1962 Bear River Project, Utah And Idaho, Robert Parson
Library Faculty & Staff Publications
Arising on the north slope of the Uinta Mountains in northeastern Utah, Bear River travels five hundred miles through three states and ten counties in Utah,Wyoming, and Idaho.The river’s route traverses from mountain slopes, through several valleys, deep canyons and gorges before terminating at the Great Salt Lake, only ninety miles from where it begins.This unique geological and geographical mix, as well as interstate politics have complicated efforts to fully harness its waters.
Appreciating A Pretty Shoulder: The Risquie Images Of Charles Ellis Johnson,
Utah State University
Appreciating A Pretty Shoulder: The Risquie Images Of Charles Ellis Johnson, Daniel Davis
Library Faculty & Staff Publications
Housed in the collections of the Special Collections and Archives at Utah State University is an intriguing set of risqué photographs dating roughly from 1890 to 1910. Some of the images are stereo-views or cabinet card portraits of burlesque actresses either in tights or displaying bare necks, shoulders, and upper bosoms. Other photographs in the collection are even more suggestive with women undressing, lounging about with dresses that reveal their thighs, wearing body suits, and removing one-another’s clothing. By today’s standards they are more comical than pornographic. Considering the conventions of the time, however, especially in conservative, turn-ofthe-century Utah they …
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