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Friending Our Users: Social Networking And Reference Services, Cliff Landis

University Library Faculty Publications

Social networking sites are changing the way that libraries engage their users. Sometimes called social networking software or social networking services, these Web sites are designed to let users share their lives with friends, family, and the general public. Many librarians immediately saw the possibilities in the proliferating social networks--by connecting with our users in "their space," we are making ourselves readily available and removing many of the obstacles to their information needs. As reference librarians, our first reaction to new technology is to "set up desk"--to provide the same services we have traditionally offered, only in a new medium. …

Classroom Performance Systems, Library Instruction And Instructional Design: A Pilot Study, Barbara Petersohn

University Library Faculty Publications

To explore how effective CPS (Classroom Performance Systems) are in the classroom, specifically for library instruction, this pilot study considered the question: "Does the use of CPS improve student retention of information presented in class as measured by pre-and posttest scores?" The use of pretest and posttest measurements for the retention of information attempted to assess the impact of instruction using CPS for a single session and the usefulness of CPS for the delivery of instruction, generally. The data collected included the results of a five-item pretest and a six-item posttest, completed by 48 freshmen college students. Although scores improved …

Employee Development Using Webct Vista, Jennifer Link Jones

University Library Faculty Publications

In an effort to make required training easily available to academic library employees, the author used the campus course management system (CMS), WebCT Vista, to create online learning modules for the library. Also discussed are general benefits of online learning, the technology competencies that prompted the development of the learning modules, and the design and components of the learning modules.

Making It Happen: Librarian-Faculty Collaboration To Improve Student Learning, Tammy Sugarman, Mary Lyn Thaxton

University Library Faculty Presentations

Presenters offer ways to initiate, improve and sustain productive collaborative efforts between teaching faculty and academic librarians, taking into account the similarities and differences of the personality types of these two groups. Tips for achieving faculty buy-in and marketing basics are included.

June/July 2008, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

No abstract provided.

Tools For Evaluating And Strengthening Collaborative Partnerships, Mary Ohmer, Maureen Wilce

Social Work Community Forum 2008

Topics for Today’s Workshop • Building capacity in Community Collaborations through Evaluation: Discussion • Tools for Evaluating and Strengthening Collaborative Partnerships: How the CDC uses evaluation to build capacity –Background –CDC Framework for Program Evaluation –Hands-on Exercise • Review of Evaluation Tools handout

Msw Community Projects, Fred Brooks, Megan Anderson, Amber Harris, Shadonna Davis, Mehala Smith, Harriet Kuhr, Elaine Connally, Yvette Anderson

Social Work Community Forum 2008

Outline For Panel Discussion -Introduction of the Panel -Background/Context on MSW Community Projects (CP) -Sponsors - Why they applied for a CP, What was accomplished, ongoing impact -Students – How they selected a project, what was accomplished -Everyone – keys to success, lessons learned, suggestions for improvement

Keep All The Wells Full: A Metaphor For Understanding Community Partnerships, King Davis

Social Work Community Forum 2008

Clean water from the community well gives and sustains life, growth, and commerce. Its absence through waste, monopoly, drought, or scarcity leads to sickness, fear, and death. What then is the cost to the community of scarcity or a drought in leadership, healthy children, opportunity, stable families, safety, homes, literacy, timely justice, quality education, income, health care, jobs, hope, motivation, or wealth. It is the wise and caring community that keeps all of its wells full. King Davis, 2008

Bulldozed: Innovative Strategies For Addressing The Mental Health Consequences Of Gentrification, Vanessa Jackson, Lionel Scott

Social Work Community Forum 2008

A stick on its own is easily broken but if you put sticks in a bundle that bundle becomes very strong, so strong that you cannot break it. A spirit on its own can be easilybroken. But bundled together we will not break. That is our power and our strength. Malawian Proverb

April/May 2008, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

No abstract provided.

An Introduction To Restorative Justice, King Davis

Social Work Community Forum 2008

The legal system assumes that the best way to achieve “justice” is through a regulated conflict.

March 2008, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

No abstract provided.

February 2008, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

No abstract provided.

It's All In The Marketing: The Impact Of A Virtual Reference Marketing Campaign At Texas A&M University, Karen I. Macdonald, Wyoma Vanduinkerken, Jane Stephens

University Library Faculty Publications

Current information science literature says that library services need to be marketed to users. While the literature has lots of advice on how to develop a marketing plan, there have been few reports on the actual implementation of a marketing campaign and the resulting impact on academic library services. This case study describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a marketing campaign to promote the use of a new virtual reference service at Texas A&M University. The overall impact of the marketing campaign on the use of the service is discussed.

Subnational Taxes In Developing Countries: The Way Forward, Roy W. Bahl, Richard M. Bird

ECON Publications

Both theory and experience in a variety of circumstances around the world suggest strongly that if fiscal decentralization is to produce sustainable net benefits in developing countries, subnational governments require much more real taxing power than they now have. Students of public finance have studied the subject, and practitioners in developing countries have installed many different versions of subnational government tax. In most developing countries there are potentially sound and productive taxes that subnational governments could use: personal income tax surcharges, property taxes, taxes on the use of motor vehicles, payroll taxes, and even subnational value-added taxes and local ‘‘business …

“Crick”? “Crack”! Jeweled Peacock Stories, Janice Fournillier

Educational Policy Studies Faculty Publications

This paper discusses the challenges faced and the lessons learned in bringing forth mystory (Ulmer, 1989). The ‘Author’ a self identified native anthropologist having had an experience of the ‘peacock stories’ 3 years after her dissertation field work, finds herself caught in the third space. She returns home to the stories and chooses to use frames drawn from poststructural analytic approaches, hermeneutical phenomenology, and performance theories to make meaning of her experience via its performative representation (Denzin, 2003). She examines the metadiscursive practices (Briggs, 1993) in which she participates and explores how she constitutes and is constituted by the text …

The Property Tax In Developing Countries: Current Practice And Prospects, Roy W. Bahl, Jorge Martinez Vazquez

ECON Publications

Over the past two decades there has been an unprecedented move toward decentralized governance all over the world. The changes have taken on special significance in many developing and transitional countries where centralized systems were perceived to have failed to deliver improved general welfare. The promise of political, administrative, and fiscal decentralization is that it can strengthen democratic representative institutions, increase the overall efficiency of the public sector, and lead to improved social and economic welfare for countries that decide to adopt it. One critical assumption behind those expectations is that decentralized governments will generally be more accountable and responsive …

The Evolutionary And Developmental Foundations Of Mathematics, Michael J. Beran

Language Research Center

No abstract provided.

Discrimination Reversal Learning In Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus Apella), Michael J. Beran, Emily D. Klein, Theodore A. Evans, Betty Chan, Timothy M. Flemming, Emily H. Harris, David A. Washburn, Duane M. Rumbaugh

Language Research Center

Learning styles in capuchin monkeys were assessed with a computerized reversal- learning task called the mediationaJ paradigm. First, monkeys were trained to respond with 90% accuracy on a two-choice discrimination (A+B-). Then the authors examined differences in performance on three different types of reversal trials (A-B+, A-C+, B+C-), each of which offered differing predictions for performance, depending on whether the monkeys were using associative cues or rule-based strategies. Performance indicated that the monkeys mainly learned to avoid the B stimulus during training, as the A-C+ condition produced the best performance levels. Therefore, negative stimuli showed greater control over responding after …

“A Kiss For Mother, A Hug For Dad”: The Early 20th Century Parents’ Day Campaign, Ralph Larossa, Jaimie Ann Carboy

Sociology Faculty Publications

Father’s Day and Mother’s Day occupy sacred positions in American society—at least today. Unbeknownst to many, however, there was a campaign in the 1920s and 1930s to change Father’s Day and Mother’s Day to Parents’ Day, so that fathers and mothers would be honored on the same day. The campaign, based in New York City, was essentially a debate about the cultural position of parents in American society. How the campaign came to be—and why, in the end, it failed—illustrate the political maneuvering that characterizes people’s efforts to draw symbolic boundaries around fatherhood and motherhood.

"I Don't Mean To Be Defiant Or Anything...": Instructional Films For Girls, 1945-1960, Jill E. Anderson Phd

University Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Teaching Group Counseling As A Graduate Student: What Works And What We Will Never Do Again!, Amy L. Mcleod, Chinwe J. Uwah, Erin Mason

Counseling and Psychological Services Faculty Publications

As graduate students, the opportunity to teach one of the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) core courses is an honor. Being selected for this opportunity means that professors have confidence in your ability to successfully impart information and influence student learning. At the same time, the challenges associated with this experience can evoke extreme anxiety! Using our experiences as instructors for a masters level group counseling class as an example, the authors highlight common obstacles faced by doctoral students who teach counseling courses. In response to these challenges, we provide examples of teaching strategies …

The Briefing, Research 2008, Andrew Young School Of Policy Studies

The Briefing at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

No abstract provided.

The Briefing, Winter 2008, Andrew Young School Of Policy Studies

The Briefing at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

No abstract provided.

The Principles As The Foundation Of Emergency Management, William Waugh

PMAP Publications

No abstract provided.

Age And Body Satisfaction Predict Diet Adherence In Adolescents With Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Christina H. Vlahou, Lindsey L. Cohen, Amanda M. Woods, Jeffrey D. Lewis, Benjamin D. Gold

Psychology Faculty Publications

The aim of the current study was to determine whether age and body satisfaction predict dietary adherence in adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), and whether older females are less adherent than younger males and females. Forty-four participants aged 10-21 with IBD were recruited. Participants provided informed consent and demographics. Body satisfaction was measured by a questionnaire and a task in which participants selected their current and ideal body image out of silhouettes depicting bodies ranging from underweight to obese. Adherence was measured by marking a 100mm visual analog scale, the 1-week completion of a dietary log, and a questionnaire …

Chimpanzee Autarky, Sarah F. Brosnan, Mark F. Grady, Susan P. Lambeth, Steven J. Schapiro, Michael J. Beran

Psychology Faculty Publications

Background: Economists believe that barter is the ultimate cause of social wealth—and even much of our human culture—yet little is known about the evolution and development of such behavior. It is useful to examine the circumstances under which other species will or will not barter to more fully understand the phenomenon. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are an interesting test case as they are an intelligent species, closely related to humans, and known to participate in reciprocal interactions and token economies with humans, yet they have not spontaneously developed costly barter.

Methodology/Principle Findings: Although chimpanzees do engage in noncostly barter, …

A Developmental Examination Of Amygdala Response To Facial Expressions, Amanda E. Guyer, Christopher S. Monk, Erin Tone, Eric E. Nelson, Roxann Roberson-Nay, Abby D. Adler, Stephen J. Fromm, Ellen Leibenluft, Daniel S. Pine, Monique Ernst

Psychology Faculty Publications

Several lines of evidence implicate the amygdala in face-emotion processing, particularly for fearful facial expressions. Related findings suggest that face-emotion processing engages the amygdala within an interconnected circuitry that can be studied using a functional-connectivity approach. Past work also underscores important functional changes in the amygdala during development. Taken together, prior research on amygdala function and development reveals a need for more work examining developmental changes in the amygdala’s response to fearful faces and in amygdala functional connectivity during face processing. The present study used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare 31 adolescents (9–17 years old) and 30 adults …

Recognition Of Facial Emotions Among Maltreated Children With High Rates Of Post–Traumatic Stress Disorder, Carrie L. Masten, Amanda E. Guyer, Hilary B. Hodgdon, Erin B. Mcclure, Dennis S. Charney, Monique Ernst, Joan Kaufman, Daniel S. Pine, Christopher S. Monk

Psychology Faculty Publications

Objective. The purpose of this study is to examine processing of facial emotions in a sample of maltreated children showing high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Maltreatment during childhood has been associated independently with both atypical processing of emotion and the development of PTSD. However, research has provided little evidence indicating how high rates of PTSD might relate to maltreated children’s processing of emotions. Method. Participants’ reaction time and labeling of emotions were measured using a morphed facial emotion identification task. Participants included a diverse sample of maltreated children with and without PTSD and controls ranging in age from …

Amygdala And Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Function During Anticipated Peer Evaluation In Pediatric Social Anxiety, Amanda E. Guyer, Jennifer Y. Lau, Erin B. Mcclure, Jessica Parrish, Nina D. Shiffrin, Richard C. Reynolds, Gang Chen, R J.R. Blair, Ellen Leibenluft, Nathan A. Fox, Monique Ernst, Daniel S. Pine, Eric E. Nelson

Psychology Faculty Publications

1. Context. Amygdala and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex dysfunction manifests in adolescents with anxiety disorders when they view negatively-valenced stimuli in threatening contexts. Such fear-circuitry dysfunction may also manifest when anticipated social evaluation leads socially anxious adolescents to misperceive peers as threatening. 2. Objective. To determine whether photographs of negatively-evaluated smiling peers, viewed during anticipated evaluation, engage the amygdala and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex differentially in adolescents with and without social anxiety. 3. Design. Case-control study. 4. Setting. Government clinical research institute. 5. Participants. Fourteen adolescents with anxiety disorders associated with marked social concerns and 14 diagnosis-free adolescents, matched on sex, age, …