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Interface, Spring 2012, School Of Information Sciences

Interface Newsletter

Behind the unflagging spirit of SIS there are three themes that resonate throughout this issue of Interface. First, the School continues to be client-centric and is working hard to reach out to all of its constituencies—the students, the alumni and to its many friends and partners. Second, we have become more focused setting priorities and aligning our resources to achieve our goals and outperform as never before in research, teaching and service. And third, how we look is part of who we are—professional, innovative, and successful. You will discover these themes as you read about personnel changes that have occurred …

The Library Development Review 2011-2012, University Of Tennessee Libraries

LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT REVIEW

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Developing Comic Book And Graphic Novel Collections In Libraries, Sara Dianne Ray

Masters Theses

This research study has several objectives. The first is to research graphic novels and comic books, their history and the issues this visual and literary medium has had with censorship, with preconceived notions that the medium is only meant for a juvenile audience, and with the development of rating standards. The second objective is to study current literature that has been written by scholars and librarians on this medium. This exploration of graphic novels and comic books and the scholarship and collection development efforts related to them provides a foundation for considering the issues and challenges which current and future …

Interface, Spring 2010, School Of Information Sciences

Interface Newsletter

What do the information- seeking habits of children with Asperger’s syndrome, classes integrating Web 2.0 technologies into the curriculum, and development of scientific tools for sharing knowledge have in common? These are prime examples of how SIS faculty are pioneering new thinking in their classrooms and in their research.

University Of Tennessee Library Lectures, 1973-1975 (No. 25-27)

University of Tennessee Library Lecture Series

In 1973, the University of Tennessee Library departed from the tradition of inviting a distinguished librarian or library educator to deliver the annual Library Lecture. To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the series, a distinguished library user was asked to address the library community from the viewpoint of one whom the library serves. Historian Robin W. Winks of Yale University presents an eloquent, even classic argument for the library's role as collector and repository of society's records.

Dr. Morris Philipson, publisher and scholar, assesses the complex economic and intellectual interdependencies of scholar, publisher, and university administrator in the twenty-sixth lecture. …

University Of Tennessee Library Lectures, 1952-1954 (No. 4-6)

University of Tennessee Library Lecture Series

Dr. Robert B. Downs, Director of the Library and of the Library SchOOl at the University of Illinois and at that time president-elect of the American Library Association, spoke on April 21, 1952. A recognized authority on library resources, he was the logical choice to speak on the development of research collections in university libraries.

Dr. Lester Asheim, Dean of the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago, spoke on the study of reading effects for the fifth lecture, Monday, March 23, 1953. Still most timely in its relation to the problems of intellectual freedom and censorship, it presents …