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Open Source, Crowd Source: Harnessing The Power Of The People Behind Our Libraries, Cindi Trainor
Open Source, Crowd Source: Harnessing The Power Of The People Behind Our Libraries, Cindi Trainor
Library Faculty and Staff Papers and Presentations
Presented at the Bridging Worlds 2008 Conference in Singapore, this paper was later published in the journal Program: electronic library and information systems in July 2009: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00330330910978581
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into the use of Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 technologies so that librarians can combine open source software with user-generated content to create a richer discovery experience for their users.
Design/methodology/approach – Following a description of the current state of integrated library systems (ILS) and the developments with Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 technologies, examples are given of library suppliers and …
Thomas Cooper Society Newsletter - Fall 2008, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Thomas Cooper Society Newsletter - Fall 2008, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Thomas Cooper Society Newsletter
Contents:
Construction Begins on Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library..... p.1
The Thomas Cooper Society Events, 2007-2008..... p.1
A Word from the Interim Dean of Libraries..... p.2
Thomas Cooper Medal Presented to Janette Turner Hospital..... p.3
"Naturalists in South Carolina: Audubon in Context"..... p.3
Tributes to Dr. Matthew J. Bruccoli..... p.4
"Victorian Writers Remembered and Forgotten", Exhibit Mounted for Victorians Institute..... p.5
In Memoriam: Matthew J. Bruccoli..... p.5
"Pages from the Past" Exhibit Goes on the Road..... p.6
Exhibits at the Thomas Cooper Library..... p.6
Roys Augment the University's Robert Burns Collection..... p.7
News Brief..... p.8
In Memoriam: Charles J. …
Vulnerability To Climate Change In South Africa’S Limpopo River Basin, Sharon Shewmake
Vulnerability To Climate Change In South Africa’S Limpopo River Basin, Sharon Shewmake
Economics
This paper uses farmers' responses to exogenous weather shocks in South Africa's Limpopo River Basin to gauge how farmers are apt to respond to future climate change-induced shocks, in particular drought. Droughts are expected to increase in both frequency and intensity as a result of climate change. This study examines the costs of drought today and who it affects the most, in an effort to guide policy adaptations in the future. A combination of descriptive statistics and econometric analysis is used to approximate the potential impact of droughts on rural South African households. This paper also estimates household vulnerability. After …
Priming Presidential Votes By Direct Democracy, Todd Donovan, Caroline J. Tolbert, Daniel A. Smith
Priming Presidential Votes By Direct Democracy, Todd Donovan, Caroline J. Tolbert, Daniel A. Smith
Political Science Faculty Publications
We demonstrate that direct democracy can affect the issues voters consider when evaluating presidential candidates. Priming theory assumes that some voters have latent attitudes or predispositions that can be primed to affect evaluations of political candidates. We demonstrate that: (1) state ballot measures on same sex marriage increased the salience of marriage as an issue that voters used when evaluating presidential candidates in 2004, particularly those voters less interested in the campaign and those likely to be less attentive to the issue prior to the election; and (2) that the printed issue (gay marriage) was a more important factor affecting …
Made To Stick : The Book By Chip And Dan Heath, Adapted To A Library Audience, Samantha Hines
Made To Stick : The Book By Chip And Dan Heath, Adapted To A Library Audience, Samantha Hines
Mansfield Library Faculty Publications
Presentation of ideas from the book "Made to Stick" outlining the five steps to SUCCES which include Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional, and Stories.
Review Of The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of Folktales And Fairy Tales, Amy R. Hofer
Review Of The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of Folktales And Fairy Tales, Amy R. Hofer
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
The article reviews the book "The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales," edited by Donald Haase.
Speaking The Truth In Love, Susan E. Murray
Secular Spirituality/Mundane Media: One Newspaper’S In-Depth Coverage Of Buddhism, Rick Clifton Moore
Secular Spirituality/Mundane Media: One Newspaper’S In-Depth Coverage Of Buddhism, Rick Clifton Moore
Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations
This paper addresses Mark Silk’s theory of "unsecular media" through a case study of a visit the Dalai Lama made to the United States. Silk contends the themes (what he calls "topoi") media use to cover religion are derived from Western faiths. Thus, according to Silk, when Western religious principles are used to write about Western religious practices, those practices are generally evaluated positively. In the analysis that follows I examine the extent to which Silk’s topoi were used to report about Buddhism, an obviously "Eastern" religion. The basic findings suggest that Silk’s topoi were readily applied in the stories …
Daily Devotions For The Deaf, October-November-December 2008
Daily Devotions For The Deaf, October-November-December 2008
Daily Devotions for the Deaf
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Breaking The Silence Surrounding Hepatitis C By Promoting Self-Efficacy: A Study Of Hepatitis C Public Service Announcements, Jean Grow, Stephanie Christopher
Breaking The Silence Surrounding Hepatitis C By Promoting Self-Efficacy: A Study Of Hepatitis C Public Service Announcements, Jean Grow, Stephanie Christopher
College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications
Hepatitis C (HCV) is the most common chronic blood borne virus in the United States. Despite this fact, there is a startling lack of awareness about HCV among individuals who may have contracted the virus. This study, grounded in self-efficacy theory, analyzes public service announcements (PSAs) for HCV. Using focus groups to contextualize the responses of individuals living with HCV, the authors conclude that stigma and structural barriers pose the greatest challenges for health communicators trying to reach at-risk populations. The findings suggest that expanded use of celebrity appeals, realistic drug portrayals, more extensive use of social networking in tandem …
2008 All-Amc Women's Cross Country Team, Cedarville University
2008 All-Amc Women's Cross Country Team, Cedarville University
Women's Cross Country Rosters
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2008-2009 Women's Cross Country Schedule, Cedarville University
2008-2009 Women's Cross Country Schedule, Cedarville University
Women's Cross Country Schedules
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2008 Women's Soccer Roster, Cedarville University
2008 Women's Soccer Roster, Cedarville University
Women's Soccer Rosters
No abstract provided.
Review Of Chickasaw: Unconquered And Unconquerable By Jeannie Barbour, Amanda Cobb, And Linda Hogan, Donna L. Akers
Review Of Chickasaw: Unconquered And Unconquerable By Jeannie Barbour, Amanda Cobb, And Linda Hogan, Donna L. Akers
Great Plains Quarterly
This stunningly beautiful work by the Chickasaw Nation relates the fascinating story of the Chickasaw people, from ancient to contemporary times. Packed with simply gorgeous photographs and illustrations, it evokes the strength, endurance, courage, and determination of the Chickasaws in the face of relentless American colonization. The Chickasaw story of survival and persistence in the face of this aggression is an inspirational tribute to the ancestors, who not only endured dispossession and permanent exile but flourished in spite of the terrible tragedy of removal. This book addresses a popular audience, not an academic one, beginning with an overview of Chickasaw …
Review Of Rosie Sandifer: Language Of Art. By Rosie Sandifer., Peter S. Briggs
Review Of Rosie Sandifer: Language Of Art. By Rosie Sandifer., Peter S. Briggs
Great Plains Quarterly
Painter and sculptor Rosie Sandifer, native of Lubbock, Texas, past resident of Colorado, arid present resident of New Mexico, penned her own memoir, "Language of Art," the principal text of this book. Her modest eight-page autobiography skips from chronological outline to assessment of favored artists, teachers, and museums, to appreciation for parental lessons which, in the author's words, inspired her "discipline, drive, and direction." Two shorter opening essays by Tuck Langland, a sculptor, and Robin Salmon, curator of sculpture at Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina, carefully guide Sandifer into her artistic niche as a figurative sculptor. There is no independent …
Review Of Forty Years A Legislator: Elmer ThomasBy Elmer Thomas, Suzanne Jones Crawford
Review Of Forty Years A Legislator: Elmer ThomasBy Elmer Thomas, Suzanne Jones Crawford
Great Plains Quarterly
Written between 1951 and 1954, this autobiography covers the career of Elmer Thomas as a state senator from 1907 to 1920, as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1922 to 1928, and as a U.S. senator from 1928 to 1950. Editors Richard Lowitt and Carolyn Hanneman deserve a hearty round of applause for having converted Thomas's original, meandering four-hundred-page-plus manuscript to an intelligible, readable work. Especially valuable to the reader are the editors' end notes, identifying figures and issues whose political significance has dimmed and offering suggestions for further reading.
Despite his popularity among Oklahoma Democrats …
Review Of Beyond Madness: The Art Of Ralph Blakelock, 1847-1919 By Norman A. Geske, Abraham A. Davidson
Review Of Beyond Madness: The Art Of Ralph Blakelock, 1847-1919 By Norman A. Geske, Abraham A. Davidson
Great Plains Quarterly
No one has studied the art of the American painter Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919) for as many years and as intensely as Norman A. Geske. After a telephone call from the artist's great-grandson in 1966, Geske was on board. In 1969, while Director of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, he launched the Nebraska Blakelock Inventory. This was to hold all known information on the artist-photographs of paintings and drawings, previous ownerships, prices paid, letters of family members and others, publications of scholars and notations of collectors, and so on. In 1969 and 1974 Geske directed four examination seminars to separate …
Review Of Axes: Willa Cather And William Faulkner By Merrill Maguire Skaggs, Ed Folsom
Review Of Axes: Willa Cather And William Faulkner By Merrill Maguire Skaggs, Ed Folsom
Great Plains Quarterly
Merrill Skaggs explains in her introduction that we are to hear her provocative title, Axes, in at least two ways: as the intersecting axes of these two writers' very different careers (as when Joseph R. Urgo termed Cather and Faulkner as "the horizontal and vertical axes of American literature"), but also as actual weapons, "battle-axes." Skaggs reads these authors' novels and stories as word-weapons they wielded at one another, hoping to wound. They may ultimately have judged each other worthy opponents, but they never laid down their arms, remaining combative until Cather's death and even after (her posthumously published story …
Review Of Texas Quilts And Quilters: A Lone Star Legacy By Marcia Kaylakie With Janice Whittington, Virginia Gunn
Review Of Texas Quilts And Quilters: A Lone Star Legacy By Marcia Kaylakie With Janice Whittington, Virginia Gunn
Great Plains Quarterly
This beautiful book showcases thirty-four Texas quilts, selected by Marcia Kaylakie from the hundreds she saw in public and private collections during a decade of documenting quilts throughout the state of Texas. It is a visual delight that adds to the body of work on Texas quilts and quiltmakers. Marion Ann Montgomery's foreword helps set the book in context. Janice Whittington worked with Kaylakie to shape the interesting human stories behind the quilts. We learn that a simple Dutch Doll quilt became known as "The Sick Quilt," as a mother entertained her ill children with stories about each doll. We …
Review Of Policing The Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, And The North American Frontier, 1875-1910 By Andrew R. Graybill, Michael Hogue
Review Of Policing The Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, And The North American Frontier, 1875-1910 By Andrew R. Graybill, Michael Hogue
Great Plains Quarterly
At opposite ends of the Great Plains, the North-West Mounted Police and the Texas Rangers emerged in the mid-1870s as key instruments in the extension of state power over distant frontiers. Policing the Great Plains reveals how these famous rural constabularies implemented policies designed in Ottawa and Austin to promote the settlement and economic development of the Great Plains. Andrew Graybill argues that these shared political and economic goals ensured that Mounties and Rangers, despite their many differences, helped bring about strikingly similar transformations in Texas and the Canadian Prairies.
By placing Mounties and Rangers in this common history of …
Review Of Lakotas, Black Robes, And Holy Women: German Reports From The Indian Missions In South Dakota, 1886-1900 Edited By Karl Markus Kreis, Joshua M. Rice
Review Of Lakotas, Black Robes, And Holy Women: German Reports From The Indian Missions In South Dakota, 1886-1900 Edited By Karl Markus Kreis, Joshua M. Rice
Great Plains Quarterly
The literature on Native American dispossession grows with every year, and there are times when the historiography of the American West seems in danger of becoming repetitive. Lakotas, Black Robes, and Holy Women addresses this problem by revealing untapped sources and new perspectives on the West as the Great Plains increasingly fell under US. control.
This monograph focuses on the Catholic missions in South Dakota-the Holy Rosary Mission on the Pine Ridge Reservation and the St. Francis Mission on the adjoining Rosebud Reservation-during the critical years of 1886-1900. Staffed by a handful of Jesuits and Franciscan sisters, many of whom …
Review Of Gall: Lakota War Chief By Robert W. Larson, Herman Viola
Review Of Gall: Lakota War Chief By Robert W. Larson, Herman Viola
Great Plains Quarterly
Dubbed the "Fighting Cock of the Sioux" by the U.S. soldiers he confronted, the Hunkpapa warrior Gall has at last found his rightful place on the book shelves of Great Plains history. A major challenge for any biographer is the lack of primary source material about Gall's early life, a typical problem for anyone attempting a scholarly study about someone who flashes in and out of the historical record the way Gall does. Given the challenge he faced, Robert W. Larson has done a commendable job in compiling a plausible account of Gall's movements and actions before he took up …
Review Of Diaspora In The Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities And Mid~Twentieth~Century Rural Disjuncture. By Royden Loewen, Hans Werner
Great Plains Quarterly
Royden Loewen's recent book displays all the insights and delicious ironies we have come to expect from him. In this study, Loewen compares the Kleine Gemeinde Mennonites of the Rural Municipality of Hanover, Manitoba, with those of Meade, Kansas, during a time of dramatic change in rural life. Loewen begins with an analysis of what historian John L. Shover termed "the Great Disjuncture" itself, the fragmentation and scattering between the 1930s and 1980s of a once unified rural society, followed by a chapter focusing more specifically on the environment: the image of the snowdrift for Manitoba and the dust bowl …
Reviews Of Hunger For The Wild: America's Obsession With The Untamed West By Michael L. Johnson And Frontiers: A Short History Of The American West By Robert V. Hine And John Mack Faragher, Karl Jacoby
Great Plains Quarterly
Whither the grand narrative in historical scholarship? For years, critics have cautioned us that narratives are, in Hayden White's words, little more than a form of "emplotment" whose order and coherence oversimplify the inherent messiness of the past. Yet the inconvenient fact remains that human beings are unparalleled storytelling creatures. Whether or not events occur in a narrative format, with a clear beginning, middle, and end, we tend to perceive them in this way-and to relate them in this structure to one another.
Still, not all narratives are created equal. In keeping with the postmodern turn, historians have been increasingly …
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Great Plains Quarterly
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Great Plains Quarterly
GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY
Volume 28 / Number 4 / Fall 2008
CONTENTS
NEBRASKA'S LIVE STOCK SANITARY COMMISSION AND THE RISE OF AMERICAN PROGRESSIVISM
CONTRADICTORY SUBTEXTS IN WILLA CATHER'S 0 PIONEERS! AND THOMAS HARDY'S FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
JEWISH COMMUNITY IN WICHITA, 1920-1970: SAME WAGON, NEW HORSES
REVIEW ESSAY: THE SPINNING OF THE WEST
BOOK REVIEWS
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Contradictory Subtexts In Willa Cather's O Pioneers! And Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd, Grace Wetzel
Contradictory Subtexts In Willa Cather's O Pioneers! And Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd, Grace Wetzel
Great Plains Quarterly
An independent and strong-minded woman gains control of a farm and determines to effect its fruition. Though many doubt her capacity, the female landowner trumps her male counterparts when the farm flourishes under her effective management. In the end, she marries- but on extremely unconventional terms. Rejecting romantic love, she instead weds a devoted friend. Camaraderie hence privileged over passion, the novel ends. This summary outlines the story of not one but two major literary heroines-Bathsheba Everdene of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) and Alexandra Bergson of Willa Cather's 0 Pioneers! (1913). Critics have analyzed these texts …
A Principal-Agent Model Of Sequential Testing, Dino Gerardi, Lucas Maestri
A Principal-Agent Model Of Sequential Testing, Dino Gerardi, Lucas Maestri
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers
This paper analyzes the optimal provision of incentives in a sequential testing context. In every period the agent can acquire costly information that is relevant to the principal’s decision. Neither the agent’s effort nor the realizations of his signals are observable. First, we assume that the principal and the agent are symmetrically informed at the time of contracting. We construct the optimal mechanism and show that the agent is indifferent in every period between performing the test and sending an uninformative message which continues the relationship. Furthermore, in the first period the agent is indifferent between carrying out his task …
Signs Of The Times, October 2008
Signs Of The Times, October 2008
Signs of the Times
A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Rockford, IL
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Signs Of Our Times, October 2008
Signs Of Our Times, October 2008
Signs of Our Times
A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Providence, RI
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