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Workshop Slides, Lisa Johnston, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The workshop showcased MDLS participants' favorite teaching technique. 35 speakers had 2 minutes and 1-2 slides each to highlight a teaching method. This is the set of slides used to demonstrate the different teaching techniques. Creative commons licenses apply to some content as noted.

Mdls15 Participants List, Kristin Briney

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

List of MDLS15 participants

How Will You Share Your Work? Creative Commons Bookmarks And Activity Packet, Anna Michelle Martinez-Montavon, Nicole J. Bungert

UWM Libraries Instructional Materials

These bookmarks and activity packet were created to teach university students about the Creative Commons during the UWM Libraries' celebration of Open Access Week 2015, October 19-25. The bookmarks provide a quick guide to the Creative Commons licenses and can be printed on colored paper. The activity packet is a Halloween-themed paper doll coloring set that includes public domain and CC-BY materials, as well as a full range of Creative Commons licenses. Through coloring, mixing and matching, and other modifications, students can explore the possibilities of open content, engage in remix culture, and practice attributing the work of others.

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Enacting Place: A Comparative Case Study, Anna Grosch

Theses and Dissertations

As a community-based art educator, I advocate for an arts-based educational environment that embraces postmodern tenets and encourages individuals to reflect on self and society in relation to the places in which they dwell and learn. This thesis is a dialogue on emplaced community-based art education. Issues of urban education, social justice, and critical pedagogy are considered in relation to participants’ enactments of place within two distinct community-based educational settings. In order to investigate the connections between a culture of place, place-based education, and the community-based programs of each site, the role of art and artifacts was carefully considered in …

Semi-Living: Tissue Culture & Art Project's Challenge To New Museum Theory, Leigh Margaret Wilcox

Theses and Dissertations

With the rising visibility of modern innovations in biotechnology that have been defining factors in the turn into the twenty-first century, it is not surprising that artists would engage and critique the implications of these scientific advancements. One artistic partnership working to raise awareness through the critique of biotechnological progressions in their work is the collaboration Tissue Culture & Art Project (TC&A) comprised of artists Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr. Working to bridge the gap between the fields of arts and sciences, TC&A employ living and growing cells as the foundation for their semi-living sculptures and manipulate and coach the …

Public Geospatial Data In Wisconsin: Information Access, Data Sharing, And The University, Stephen Robert Appel

Theses and Dissertations

This research explores public geospatial data sharing in Wisconsin. The research is informed by literature on GIS and Society, Participatory GIS, Spatial Data Infrastructure, Information Justice, The Digital Divide, and Library and Information Science. Original research consists of a survey and follow up interview to public land information professionals in Wisconsin gauging their interest in a UW System-wide geographic information portal for distributing public spatial data to UW System users. The research finds that social and institutional rather than technical factors are major drivers of data-sharing activities in Wisconsin. However, technical aspects of geographic information are changing quickly with a …

Interface Fantasies And Futures: Designing Human-Computer Relations In The Shadow Of Memex, Rachael Bradshaw Sullivan

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation is about how designers, experimental writers, and innovative thinkers have imagined both computer interfaces and the human/machine relations that might emerge through engagement with different kinds of interfaces. Although futuristic thinking about digital media and their interfaces has changed over time, we can isolate some constants that have persisted through almost all mainstream practices of interface design, particularly in American culture. Drawing from a historical trajectory that I associate with Vannevar Bush and his speculative invention, which he called “memex” in a 1945 essay, I name these constants sterilization and compartmentalization. They are two tendencies or values that …

Orland Park Library Porn Update, Megan Fox

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

More Donuts Buying, Megan Fox

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

Facilitating And Enhancing Biomedical Knowledge Translation: An In Silico Approach To Patient-Centered Pharmacogenomic Outcomes Research, Kourosh Ravvaz

Theses and Dissertations

Current research paradigms such as traditional randomized control trials mostly rely on relatively narrow efficacy data which results in high internal validity and low external validity. Given this fact and the need to address many complex real-world healthcare questions in short periods of time, alternative research designs and approaches should be considered in translational research. In silico modeling studies, along with longitudinal observational studies, are considered as appropriate feasible means to address the slow pace of translational research. Taking into consideration this fact, there is a need for an approach that tests newly discovered genetic tests, via an in silico …

The New Pulpit: Museums, Authority, And The Cultural Reproduction Of Young-Earth Creationism, Lindsay Marie Barone

Theses and Dissertations

Since the mid-twentieth century there has been increasing concern among evangelical Christians over the depiction of human origins in American education. For young-Earth creationists, it has been a priority to replace scientific information which contradicts the six-day origin story reported in Genesis 1 with evidence they claim scientifically reinforces their narrative. As this has failed in public education, creationists have switched tactics, moving from “teach creationism” to “teach the controversy”. The struggle over evolution education in the classroom is well-documented, but less attention has been paid to how young-Earth creationists push their agenda in informal educational venues such as museums. …

Forgotten Sherds: Analysis Of Archaeological Ceramics From The Riverside Site (20me01), Michigan, Devyn Mcilraith

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis provides an analysis of the ceramic sherds recovered from the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) and the Oshkosh Public Museum’s (OPM) 1961-1963 excavations at the Riverside site (20ME01) in Menominee, Michigan. The Riverside site is most well known as a Late Archaic/ Early Woodland Old Copper/Red Ocher burial site. This analysis focuses on using the ceramic assemblage to refine the Riverside site’s cultural chronology and relationship to the Riverside II site (20ME40). More than 1,300 sherds were collected from the site between 1961 and 1963 and they have been permanently housed at the MPM for the past 60 years. …

Re-Examined And Re-Defined: An Exploration And Comparative Analysis Of Moche Ceramic Vessels In The Milwaukee Public Museum Collections, Kirsten Marie Mottl

Theses and Dissertations

For this thesis, I studied Moche ceramic vessel collections from three museums, the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM), the Field Museum in Chicago, and the Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin. All three collections originated around the turn of the twentieth century, with the earliest accession in 1893 and the most recent in 2007. These Moche ceramic vessel collections clearly illustrate the evolving museum documentation systems used in natural history and anthropology museums and the challenges of trying to standardize object names, descriptions, and attributes in the museum record. My research for this thesis included personally examining …

Old Ideas In New Skins: Examining Discourses Of Diversity On The Websites Of 10 Urban-Serving Universities, Simone Smith

Theses and Dissertations

Deficit discourse, the idea that minorities "lack" intellectually, runs through current ideas about diversity in higher education. Diversity is viewed as a policy that helps the deficient. Recent litigation about diversity, Fisher v. University of Texas (2013), embodied the alignment of deficit and diversity. This study examined portrayals, visual and textual, of diversity on the websites of ten urban-serving universities, using a method of critical discourse analysis and a lens of critical race theory, to uncover the ways they defined diversity and if notions of deficit were attached. This study also addressed the ways these universities, a part of the …

Gender As An 'Interplay Of Rules': Detecting Epistemic Interplay Of Medical And Legal Discourse With Sex And Gender Classification In Four Editions Of The Dewey Decimal Classification, Melodie J. Fox

Theses and Dissertations

When groups of people are represented in classification systems, potential exists for them to be structurally or linguistically subordinated, erased or otherwise misrepresented (Olson & Schlegl, 2001). As Bowker & Star (1999) have shown, the real-world application of classification to people can have legal, economic, medical, social, and educational consequences. The purpose of this research is to contribute to knowledge organization by showing how the epistemological stance underlying specific classificatory discourses interactively participates in the formation of concepts. The medical and legal discourses in three timeframes are examined using Foucauldian genealogical discourse analysis to investigate how their depictions of gender …

Informational Power On Twitter: A Mixed-Methods Exploration Of User Knowledge And Technological Discourse About Information Flows, Nicholas John Proferes

Theses and Dissertations

Following a number of recent examples where social media users have been confronted by information flows that did not match their understandings of the platforms, there is a pressing need to examine public knowledge of information flows on these systems, to map how this knowledge lines up against the extant flows of these systems, and to explore the factors that contribute to the construction of knowledge about these systems. There is an immediacy to this issue because as social media sites become further entrenched as dominant vehicles for communication, knowledge about these technologies will play an ever increasing role in …

Case Study Analysis: Oppl ʺHeartsʺ Show Public Does Not Want Porn Or Sex In Library, Megan Fox

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

Orland Park Public Library Had A $10,000, Megan Fox

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

Search@Uw (Primo-Alma) Usability Testing Materials, John Hubbard

UWM Libraries Other Staff Publications

These are the scripts used for usability testing a library discovery layer (Primo-Alma) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In usability testing, participants are recruited to perform a set of common research tasks. By observing how these tasks are completed (or in some cases fail to be completed), you can learn what works and what does not with your website's structure, terminology, and design elements; along with patron feedback and internal requests, usability testing provides an additional mechanism for identifying areas needing improvement.

Orland Park Library To Pay Out $55k To Settle Lawsuits Over Library Porn, Lauren Traut

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

Orland Park Library To Pay $55k To Settle Lawsuits Related To Internet Porn, Lauren Zumbach

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

Orland Park Public Library Still Covering Up Child Porn, Dan Kleinman

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

Letters To The Editor March 5, 2015, Kathleen Andrews, Kevin Dujan

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

The Symbiotic Relationship Between Information Retrieval And Informetrics, Dietmar Wolfram

School of Information Studies Faculty Articles

Informetrics and information retrieval (IR) represent fundamental areas of study within information science. Historically, researchers have not fully capitalized on the potential research synergies that exist between these two areas. Data sources used in traditional informetrics studies have their analogues in IR, with similar types of empirical regularities found in IR system content and use. Methods for data collection and analysis used in informetrics can help to inform IR system development and evaluation. Areas of application have included automatic indexing, index term weighting and understanding user query and session patterns through the quantitative analysis of user transaction logs. Similarly, developments …

Letters To The Editor Feb 26, 2015, Kate Rimkunas

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

Letters To The Editor Feb. 18, 2015, Maria Kalantizis, Diane Jennings

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

Letters To The Editor Feb. 5, 2015, Joshua Rogers

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

Closer Look: Barcelona, Eric Skalac

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

Letters To The Editor Jan. 22, 2015, Nanc Junker, Colleen Kisel, Megan Fox

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

A Closer Look At The Changing Oppl Board, Eric Skalac

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.