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Ex Libris, Fall 2019, West Virginia University Libraries

Ex Libris: The WVU Libraries Magazine

Focus on the Past - Carte de Visite; The Structure of History - defining the legacy of Dr. Emory L. Kemp; A Renewed Commitment to Veterans; Academic Publishing Evolves.

'Tomboy' Is Anachronistic. But The Concept Still Has Something To Teach Us, Lynne Stahl

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This article explores the tomboy trope in film and literature and the "taming" that characterizes it, framing both in relation to contemporary debates about gender and sexual identity as well as cultural anxieties around queer, trans, and nonbinary identity. Examining texts from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women to the 1980 film Little Darlings, the article argues that even while the term tomboy may be obsolete, tomboy narratives document processes of rebellion that hold continuing value.

Wvrhc Newsletter, Spring 2019, West Virginia & Regional History Center

West Virginia & Regional History Center Newsletters

Picturing West Virginia: Early Photography in the Mountain State, 1840-1915; MARAC Visits Morgantown

Problem-Based Learning And Information Literacy: Revising A Technical Writing Class, Kelly Diamond

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This chapter discusses the collaboration between a librarian and faculty member to revise an online technical writing course using the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy, problem-based learning, and instructional design principles. The chapter outlines three components of course revision: 1) re-design online course to be more engaging to students as well as easier to navigate; 2) create assignments and activities to mirror actual workplace writing tasks; 3) develop research assignments focused on information literacy skills used in the workplace. Using elements from ADDIE (Analyze; Design; Develop; Implement; Evaluate) and Backward Design, the course …

Mad Max Fury Road Introduction, Lynne Stahl

2019-2020

Transcript--Introduction to Mad Max: Fury Road

Lynne Stahl, WVU Libraries

9/4/2019

The Big Short, Wvu Humanities Center, Wvu Libraries

2019-2020

Poster for film aired November 6, 2019 as part of the Local to Global 19-20 Film Series.

Local To Global Film Series 19-20, Wvu Humanities Center, Wvu Libraries

2019-2020

The WVU Libraries and WVU Humanities Center are partnering up to bring a curated lineup of films to the WVU Campus. Spanning multiple genres and regions, each film will be introduced by WVU speakers.

Mad Max Fury Road, Wvu Humanities Center, Wvu Libraries

2019-2020

Poster of film aired September 4, 2019 as part of the Local to Global 19-20 Film Series

Touki Bouki, Wvu Humanities Center, Wvu Libraries

2019-2020

Poster for film aired December 4,, 2019 as part of the Local to Global 19-20 Film Series.

Snowpiercer, Wvu Humanities Center, Wvu Libraries

2019-2020

Poster for film aired October 2, 2019 as part of the Local to Global 19-20 Film Series.

The Phonetics And Phonology Of Lenition: A Campidanese Sardinian Case Study, Jonah Katz, Gianmarco Pitzanti

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This paper gives a detailed description of the consonant system of Campidanese Sardinian and makes methodological and theoretical contributions to the study of lenition. The data are drawn from a corpus of field recordings, including roughly 400 utterances produced by 15 speakers from the Trexenta and Western Campidanese areas. Campidanese has a complex lenition system that interacts with length, voicing, and manner contrasts. We show that the semi-automated lenition analysis presented in this journal by Ennever, Meakins, and Round can be fruitfully extended to our corpus, despite its much more heterogeneous set of materials in a genetically distant language. Intensity …

Appalachian Futures Introduction, West Virginia University Libraries, West Virginia University Humanities Center, West Virginia University Reed College Of Media, West Virginia Library Commission, Appalachian State University Libraries, Marshall University Libraries, Arts Monongahela

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Appalachian Futures is a look at how people in our region envision a better future for themselves, their communities, and their environment. By thinking about the issues that occupy discussions of Appalachian identity through the eyes of its scholars, writers, workers, and artists, Appalachian Futures wants you to think, “How can optimism about the diversity of our region, our industry and education, our traditional culture, and our most forward-looking arts help us make for better lives?”

Future Of Appalachian Culture, Emily Hilliard, Travis Stimeling, Michael Kline, Carrie Kline, Trevor Mckenzie, Nancy Abrams, Torey Siebart, Chris Haddox, Mehmet Oztan, West Virginia University Press

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Appalachia is often associated with its traditional arts and culture, but that does not mean that we are stuck in the past. Local traditions often play a crucial role in galvanizing forward-thinking cultural institutions, involving artists and workers alike in making new futures that are still distinctively Appalachian. This section of the exhibit highlights this kind of work from the West Virginia Humanities Council, Arthurdale Heritage, and more, connecting to a traditional past to new traditions yet to be forged.

“Trespassers Will Be Persecuted”: Oil And Property Law In Ben Okri’S “What The Tapster Saw”, Rose Casey

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

A movement appears to be underway in certain areas of property jurisprudence to recalibrate property law for more equitable and life-sustaining ends. For many legal theorists working from a Global South, indigenous, or minority perspective, international legal frameworks seem increasingly receptive to reformulating laws regulating property ownership to better protect frequently dispossessed communities and sustain ecological, animal, and human life. Perhaps the most promising such example of a potentially substantial change to prevailing formulations of property ownership is found in the area of indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights. Since 2007, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has been working …

Big Green Data: Herbals, Science, And Art, Lara Farina

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

With environmental concerns looming large, the question of how we count and account for biodiversity is an urgent one, but we are not the first people to wrestle with it. Earlier cultures developed tools of categorization that set templates for those of today. By drawing connections between discrete things -- whether those be individual organisms, or parts of an organism, or particular qualities like color and size – both premodern and modern peoples use(d) categories as conceptual tools for studying the world and understanding their place in it.

This exhibit shows some of the ways in which plant life was …

The Question, Sharon Ryan

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The Question is a project designed to inspire inquiry and respectful discussion about big ideas. WVU Libraries collaborates with The Question to bring relevant interactive elements to the Art in the Libraries exhibits.

thequestion.wvu.edu

Speculative Futures And Futurism In Appalachia, Liz Pavlovic, Jamie Banks, Nicholas D. Bowman, David Smith, Baaria Chaudhary, Ben Babbitt, Jake Elliott, Tamas Kemenczy, Daniel Boyd, West Virginia University Press

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What if we thought of Appalachia as futuristic? Could the mountains be the setting for imagining better, maybe weirder, futures? Artists, writers, and game designers have been asking just those questions, speculating through science fiction, fantasy, and magic realism to rethink the ways cultural traditions in wildly creative ways. From folktales to videogames, cryptozoology to underground highways, this section asks what a future Appalachian utopia (or dystopia) might look and feel like?