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Boise State University

2010

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Splat: Spreading Innovation & Ideas, Amy E. Vecchione, Memo Cordova Oct 2010

Splat: Spreading Innovation & Ideas, Amy E. Vecchione, Memo Cordova

Amy E. Vecchione

Libraries are never short on innovation, especially when budgets are lean. How can staff stay on top of the latest library trends, and empower individuals to think “lean and mean” when times demand creativity? One solution, developed in Idaho during a summit on developing services for digital natives, was to create a Special Projects Library Action Team (SPLAT). SPLAT members act in the crow’s nest capacity of technological change. They search and share innovative ideas, leads on projects, and experiment in social media statewide; vet ideas; and bring ideas back to the local level. Supported by the Idaho Commission for …

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Collaborate To Succeed: Implementing New Reference Services With Splat, Memo Cordova, Amy Vecchione Aug 2010

Collaborate To Succeed: Implementing New Reference Services With Splat, Memo Cordova, Amy Vecchione

Jose Guillermo "Memo" Cordova Silva

Libraries face shrinking budgets, increased use, and user demand for trending resources. This makes it difficult for librarians to find the time to keep up with innovative technological tools and social media (SM) developments. SPLAT (Special Projects Library Action Team) offers up a new model for enhancing library reference services. SPLAT is supported by the Idaho Commission for Libraries (ICFL), the state agency responsible for assisting libraries. The members of SPLAT are innovation representatives, comprised of library staff who search and experiment with SM trends and online tools, learn, and share the best ways to integrate them into the reference …

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Collaborate To Succeed: Implementing New Reference Services With Splat, Amy E. Vecchione, Memo Cordova Aug 2010

Collaborate To Succeed: Implementing New Reference Services With Splat, Amy E. Vecchione, Memo Cordova

Amy E. Vecchione

Libraries face shrinking budgets, increased use, and user demand for trending resources. This makes it difficult for librarians to find the time to keep up with innovative technological tools and social media (SM) developments. SPLAT (Special Projects Library Action Team) offers up a new model for enhancing library reference services. SPLAT is supported by the Idaho Commission for Libraries (ICFL), the state agency responsible for assisting libraries. The members of SPLAT are innovation representatives, comprised of library staff who search and experiment with SM trends and online tools, learn, and share the best ways to integrate them into the reference …

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Making Space For The “Nuances Of Truth”: Communication And Uncertainty At An Environmental Journalists’ Workshop, Jen Schneider Jun 2010

Making Space For The “Nuances Of Truth”: Communication And Uncertainty At An Environmental Journalists’ Workshop, Jen Schneider

Jen Schneider

In 2008, the Society of Environmental Journalists listed nearly 50 science or science immersion workshops for environmental journalists. Yet relatively little is known about the content of these workshops and their impact on participants. This ethnographic study, conducted at a science immersion workshop for environmental journalists, aims to fill this void in our knowledge. Relying on participant observation and depth interviews, the study suggests that such workshops are useful for participating journalists: Reporters feel they leave the workshop better understanding the scientific method and scientific uncertainty. But the findings also reveal that “metacommunication”—communication about communication—is equally as important as science …

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Texting: Leveraging The Statistics To Your Advantage, Amy E. Vecchione May 2010

Texting: Leveraging The Statistics To Your Advantage, Amy E. Vecchione

Amy E. Vecchione

No abstract provided.

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Sources Of Non-Conformity In Phonology: Variation And Exceptionality In Modern Hebrew Spirantization (Dissertation), Michal Temkin Martinez May 2010

Sources Of Non-Conformity In Phonology: Variation And Exceptionality In Modern Hebrew Spirantization (Dissertation), Michal Temkin Martinez

Michal Temkin Martinez

This dissertation investigates the integration of two sources of non-conformity – exceptionality and variation – in a single phonological system. Exceptionality manifests itself as systematic non-conformity, and variation as partial or variable non-conformity. When both occur within the same phenomenon, this is particularly challenging for the linguistic system. Modern Hebrew spirantization provides an apt case study for the investigation of the interaction of these two sources of non-conformity where exceptional (non-alternating) segments are frequent, and variation in alternating segments has been reported (Adam 2002). This dissertation makes contributions in the forms of both data and analysis. Its goals are to …

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An Experimental Investigation Of Variation In Modern Hebrew, Michal Temkin Martinez Feb 2010

An Experimental Investigation Of Variation In Modern Hebrew, Michal Temkin Martinez

Michal Temkin Martinez

This paper reports the results of an experimental rating task testing the acceptability of variation in Modern Hebrew spirantization. Modern Hebrew spirantization is manifested by the alternation of the stops [p], [b], and [k] with their fricative counterparts [f], [v], and [x], in which fricatives occur post-vocalically and root-finally, and stops occur elsewhere, as in (1). (1) /p/ to [f] /pgS/ [lifgoS] [pagaS] ‘to meet’ /b/ to [v] /bgd/ [livgod] [bagad] ‘to betray’ /k/ tp [x] /ktb/ [lixtov] [katav] ‘to write’ Due to historical sound mergers and more recent borrowings, there are acoustically identical stops and fricatives that do not …

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Green Building In The Pacific Northwest: Next Steps For An Emerging Trend, Susan G. Mason, Anthony Marker, Rebecca Mirsky Feb 2010

Green Building In The Pacific Northwest: Next Steps For An Emerging Trend, Susan G. Mason, Anthony Marker, Rebecca Mirsky

Susan G. Mason

This report provides an understanding of why green building is important to our communities, a brief look at the emergence of green building standards, research evidence on the perceived pros and cons of green building, and original research on green building in the Pacific Northwest. The original research is an analysis of perspectives voiced in conversations, focus groups and surveys with both members of the construction industry and local government on the barriers and incentives to green building in their local communities. As nearly 500 construction industry members and just over 300 local governments participated in the research, this report …

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Repositioning The Role Of The Library Through The Institutional Repository: Strategies For Developing An Ir, Michelle Armstrong Jan 2010

Repositioning The Role Of The Library Through The Institutional Repository: Strategies For Developing An Ir, Michelle Armstrong

Michelle Armstrong

No abstract provided.

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Librarians Building Relationships, Amy E. Vecchione, Terry Madden, Barbara Glackin, Richard A. Stoddart Jan 2010

Librarians Building Relationships, Amy E. Vecchione, Terry Madden, Barbara Glackin, Richard A. Stoddart

Amy E. Vecchione

No abstract provided.

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Grappling With Climate Change: Impacts To Heritage Resources, Lauren Meyer, Pei-Lin Yu, Randall Skeirik, Virginia Salazar-Halfmoon Jan 2010

Grappling With Climate Change: Impacts To Heritage Resources, Lauren Meyer, Pei-Lin Yu, Randall Skeirik, Virginia Salazar-Halfmoon

Pei-Lin Yu

17th century adobe walls collapsing at Tumacácori; historic inscriptions rapidly eroding at El Morro; ancestral pueblo field houses at Bandelier impacted by significant soil erosion. Is this deterioration and loss the result of a lack of proper maintenance, a misunderstanding of the needs of fragile site materials, the cumulative effects of 'normal' deterioration, or the result of random and unpredictable natural events and material failures? Could any (or all) of it be related to climate change? As a cultural resource manager, climate change is a difficult matter to grapple with. Can one comfortably say that a wall collapse is the …

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Environmental Crisis And Religious Rhetoric In Is God Green?, Jen Schneider Jan 2010

Environmental Crisis And Religious Rhetoric In Is God Green?, Jen Schneider

Jen Schneider

In the 2006 PBS documentary Is God Green?, Bill Moyers presents the emergence of two key contemporary trends in American political and religious life. The first is the growing popularity of an environmental movement within Christian evangelicalism called 'Creation Care'. Motivated by biblical passages that suggest humans have been 'commissioned' as stewards to care for the earth, or 'God's Body', Creation Care emerged in the late 1970s, gained momentum in the 1990s, and now 'constitutes the "fastest-growing form of Christian ministry"', according to the evangelical publication Christianity Today (Frame 1996:84, see also Psaros 2006:20-32). Is God Green? highlights what …

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