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House Of Cards: The Academic Library Media Center In The Era Of Streaming Video, Rachel King
House Of Cards: The Academic Library Media Center In The Era Of Streaming Video, Rachel King
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
In a time of increasing financial pressures on universities, the expense of library resources—and the potential for cost inflation—threaten the academic library collection. This article asks whether the academic library media center will be able to continue to offer a stable inventory of films, given the legal and commercial structures currently in place. It provides a history of the film industry’s interactions with its intermediaries, forecasts some of the obstacles to ongoing feature film affordability and access in libraries, offers strategies for librarians, and suggests some cause for hope.
Masculine Status, Sexual Performance, And The Sexual Stigmatization Of Women, Brian N. Sweeney
Masculine Status, Sexual Performance, And The Sexual Stigmatization Of Women, Brian N. Sweeney
Faculty of Sociology/Anthropology Publications
Collegiate hookup culture advances ideas of masculinity but contradicts notions of appropriate feminine sexuality. Drawing on focus group and interview data with college students, I examine how a group of class- and race-privileged fraternity men face dilemmas as they enact a group constructed masculinity focused on sexual performance and the objectification of women. I employ a symbolic interactionist framework to illustrate how men, attentive to peer status yet anxious about the sexual stigmatization of women, draw on cultural ideas about appropriate feminine sexuality as they account for their approaches to sex and women (both with whom they interact sexually and …
Party Animals Or Responsible Men: Social Class, Race, And Masculinity On Campus, Brian N. Sweeney
Party Animals Or Responsible Men: Social Class, Race, And Masculinity On Campus, Brian N. Sweeney
Faculty of Sociology/Anthropology Publications
Studies of collegiate party and hookup culture tend to overlook variation along social class and racial/ethnic lines. Drawing on interview data at a “party school” in the Midwest, I examine the meanings and practices of drinking and casual sex for a group of class and race-diverse fraternity men. While more privileged men draw on ideas of age and gender to construct college as a time to let loose, indulge, and explore, men from disadvantaged backgrounds express greater ambivalence toward partying. For these men, partying presents both opportunities and dilemmas and taps into tensions inherent in being upwardly mobile college men. …
Ready Or Not? : An Assessment Of Shelf-Ready Materials Management Practices In Us Academic Libraries, Natalia Tomlin, Irina Kandarasheva
Ready Or Not? : An Assessment Of Shelf-Ready Materials Management Practices In Us Academic Libraries, Natalia Tomlin, Irina Kandarasheva
Post Library Faculty Publications
This paper analyzes results of a survey on shelf-ready materials management and cataloging practices in US academic libraries with various collection sizes. The survey respondents consisted of managers and librarians in technical services operations. Survey questions addressed topics such as the volume of shelf-ready materials, perspectives on shelf-ready expansion, the effect of local cataloging practices on shelf-ready services, the amount of cataloging and processing errors, and quality control. The majority of participants were from small- and medium-size academic libraries, and print materials were the prevalent format for shelf-ready treatment. Two main reasons for shelf-ready implementation across libraries of all sizes …
Good Idea: Instructional Design Model For Integrating Information Literacy, Kim Mullins
Good Idea: Instructional Design Model For Integrating Information Literacy, Kim Mullins
Post Library Faculty Publications
The demand for instructional design librarianship is increasing. The trend is due to higher education’s focus on integrating information literacy content in academic disciplines. The generic ADDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation) design model is traditionally used to develop information literacy instruction and content. The IDEA (interview, design, embed, assess) Model is a library-specific systematic approach to integrating information literacy instruction and resources within academic courses. The process is based upon instructional design best practice and cognitive and behavioral learning theories. Close collaboration between library and academic faculty is evident throughout. Flowcharts, forms, and rubrics guide librarians not formally …
Administrator Interest Is Perceived To Encourage Faculty And Librarian Involvement In Open Access Activities, Eamon Tewell
Administrator Interest Is Perceived To Encourage Faculty And Librarian Involvement In Open Access Activities, Eamon Tewell
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
A Review of: Reinsfelder, T.L., & Anderson, J.A. (2013). Observations and perceptions of academic administrator influence on open access initiatives. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 39(6): 481-487. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2013.08.014
Interdisciplinary Librarians: Self-Reported Non-Lis Scholarship And Creative Work, Susan E. Thomas, Anne Leonard
Interdisciplinary Librarians: Self-Reported Non-Lis Scholarship And Creative Work, Susan E. Thomas, Anne Leonard
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to interpret and discuss survey results of a study of academic librarians’ scholarship and creative work outside of library and information science in order to reveal some librarians’ motivations to perform such work as well as their perceptions of administrators’ attitudes toward it. Design/methodology/approach – The authors published a link to a qualitative survey instrument on COLLIB-L and ULS-L, the e-mail lists for the college libraries section and the university libraries section of American Library Association, asking that only academic librarians engaged in scholarship and creative work outside of library and …
What Stand-Up Comedians Teach Us About Library Instruction, Eamon Tewell
What Stand-Up Comedians Teach Us About Library Instruction, Eamon Tewell
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
In the article, the author discusses the various lessons that could be learned from a performance of a stand-up comedian which can be used for library instruction. The four lessons include knowing how to read an audience, diversifying one's teaching methods, and relating on a personal level. It features the works of comedian and entertainer Joan Rivers as example.
Toward A Kairos Of Library Instruction, Emily Drabinski
Toward A Kairos Of Library Instruction, Emily Drabinski
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
Information literacy instruction in libraries is organized by the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards. Currently under revision, these Standards define a set of external, abstract learning objectives that have been productive of a teaching role for librarians. Simultaneously, the Standards have generated a substantial critical literature that contests the objectives as a “Procrustean bed” that distracts from the particular teaching and learning contexts. This paper offers an alternative organizing heuristic for instruction in libraries. Kairos is an ancient Greek theory of time married to measure. Used by both Plato and the Sophists to understand the emergence of truth from context,kairos …
"Punk-Ass Book Jockeys": Library Anxiety In The Television Programs Community And Parks And Recreation, Eamon Tewell
"Punk-Ass Book Jockeys": Library Anxiety In The Television Programs Community And Parks And Recreation, Eamon Tewell
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
Library anxiety, defined as the fear of using libraries, is a psychological barrier that impedes academic achievement and the development of information literacy. Using key episodes and protagonists from Community and Parks and Recreation, this paper will demonstrate how library anxiety is represented in these series. From the infamously manipulative public librarian Tammy Swanson in Parks and Recreation to the library as pillow fight battlefield in Community, these indications of anxiety towards libraries will be evaluated with the intent of illuminating current discourse in popular television regarding library use.
Tying Television Comedies To Information Literacy: A Mixed-Methods Investigation, Eamon Tewell
Tying Television Comedies To Information Literacy: A Mixed-Methods Investigation, Eamon Tewell
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
Many components of Information Literacy (IL) are too massive to be addressed in a single instruction session, yet an introduction to these concepts is essential for students' academic careers and intellectual development. This study evaluates the impact of applying excerpts from television comedies that illustrate ACRL's Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education to library instruction sessions for first-year students. Pre- and posttest results from 193 subjects and interview data from two focus groups indicate that television comedies can be integrated into one-shot instruction sessions to demonstrate IL concepts in an accessible and dialogue-provoking manner.