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Federal Indian Law Internet Tools: Indian Territory Cases At The Oklahoma State Courts Network And Kappler’S Indian Affairs: Laws And Treaties At The Oklahoma State University, Charles D. Bernholz
Federal Indian Law Internet Tools: Indian Territory Cases At The Oklahoma State Courts Network And Kappler’S Indian Affairs: Laws And Treaties At The Oklahoma State University, Charles D. Bernholz
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Academic Library Web Sites For Distance Learners In Greater Western Library Alliance Member Institutions, Mary Cassner, Kate E. Adams
Academic Library Web Sites For Distance Learners In Greater Western Library Alliance Member Institutions, Mary Cassner, Kate E. Adams
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Through the library web site, academic libraries present extensive resources and a suite of services to support distance learners. The web site is a vital communication link between the distance student and reference-based instructional component that the librarian provides. This article examines web sites and distance learning library services pages of Greater Western Library Alliance members.
Review Of The Children Of Africa Confront Aids Edited By Arvind Singhal And W. Stephen Howard; Ohio University Press, 2003, Sue Ann Gardner
Review Of The Children Of Africa Confront Aids Edited By Arvind Singhal And W. Stephen Howard; Ohio University Press, 2003, Sue Ann Gardner
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
This slim volume is packed full of information about the plight of children in Africa due to the AIDS crisis. It is divided into four sections-Vulnerability, Coping, Courage, and Possibility-containing not just a litany of the horrors that children in Africa face but also descriptions of attempts at solutions to the problems. The challenges that many children in Africa confront are daunting. There is widespread sexual violence and sexual coercion of children, and there is currently inadequate infrastructure in health care and nutrition, education, and social structure to deal with the problems effectively. The issue of sexual violence and coercion …
An Online Guide To Walt Whitman's Dispersed Manuscripts, Katherine L. Walter, Kenneth M. Price
An Online Guide To Walt Whitman's Dispersed Manuscripts, Katherine L. Walter, Kenneth M. Price
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Museum and Library Services, the University of Nebraska– Lincoln and the University of Virginia embarked on a project to create a unified finding aid to Walt Whitman manuscript collections held in many different institutions. By working collaboratively, the project team is developing a finding aid that is tailored to the needs of Whitman scholars while following a standard developed in the archival community, encoded archival description (EAD). XSLT stylesheets are used to harvest information from various repositories’ finding aids and to create an integrated finding aid with links back to the original versions. Digital images of poetry manuscripts and descriptive …
American Indian Treaties And The Supreme Court: A Guide To Treaty Citations From Opinions Of The United States Supreme Court, Charles D. Bernholz
American Indian Treaties And The Supreme Court: A Guide To Treaty Citations From Opinions Of The United States Supreme Court, Charles D. Bernholz
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Distributing And Synchronizing Heterogeneous Metadata In Geospatial Information Repositories For Access, Elaine L. Westbrooks
Distributing And Synchronizing Heterogeneous Metadata In Geospatial Information Repositories For Access, Elaine L. Westbrooks
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
IN 1998 THE Albert R. Mann Library created the Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository (CUGIR), a web-based repository providing free access to geospatial data and metadata for New York State. Since its inception, CUGIR has undergone a series of changes and upgrades in response to emerging standards and technologies in the field of geospatial information systems (GIs) and digital library research. Its continuous adoption of new library and GIs standards and developments has made CUGIR increasingly more accessible to users within Cornell University and beyond.
The Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository has a number of characteristics that pose unique challenges …
"Introduction" To Metadata In Practice, Diane I. Hillmann, Elaine L. Westbrooks
"Introduction" To Metadata In Practice, Diane I. Hillmann, Elaine L. Westbrooks
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
IT IS BOTH an exciting and frustrating time to be working in the world of metadata. Exciting because so many new communities are discovering the usefulness of metadata at the same time as librarians seriously consider the limitations of our traditional notions of the functions of libraries. New metadata formats seem to erupt like dandelions on a spring lawn, each seeking to bring together new communities with genuine needs to organize their important information.
For librarians or project managers who attempt to understand this world enough to plan a project implementation with a metadata component, the frustrations are also considerable. …
External Review For Promotion And Tenure, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes, Kay Logan-Peters
External Review For Promotion And Tenure, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes, Kay Logan-Peters
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of Goldberger's War: The Life And Work Of A Public Health Crusader By Alan M. Kraut; Hill & Wang, 2003, Sue Ann Gardner
Review Of Goldberger's War: The Life And Work Of A Public Health Crusader By Alan M. Kraut; Hill & Wang, 2003, Sue Ann Gardner
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
The story of the scourge of pellagra, a fatal niacin deficiency characterized by a severe skin rash, diarrhea, and dementia, has faded into obscurity in this country. With a mortality rate of upwards of 30 percent, it plagued the southern United States as late as the 1940s, claiming the lives of hundreds or thousands of impoverished Southerners every year. Joseph Goldberger's family, Hungarian Jews, emigrated to New York City in 1883 when he was nine years old. He became a scientist working in the U.S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. An occasional victim of the pathogens he studied, Goldberger …
A Survey Of Distance-Administrators In Arl Libraries: An Overview Of Library Resources And Services, Mary Cassner, Kate Adams
A Survey Of Distance-Administrators In Arl Libraries: An Overview Of Library Resources And Services, Mary Cassner, Kate Adams
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
The authors conducted a survey of distance librarian-administrators at Association of Research Libraries member libraries who plan for and manage distance learning library services. Survey questions included: What resources and services do ARL libraries currently offer to distance learners? What changes are being planned for in the immediate future? With libraries experiencing flattened budgets, what will be the impact on distance learners? Findings from the survey will inform librarian- administrators and library deans/directors of the current state of, and emerging trends in, distance learning library services.
Review Of Stories In The Time Of Cholera: Racial Profiling During A Medical Nightmare By Charles L. Briggs With Clara Mantini-Briggs; University Of California Press, 2003, Sue Ann Gardner
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Briggs chronicles the cholera epidemic in the Amacuro Delta of Venezuela in 1992 and 1993 and examines the modes of discourse that shaped perceptions of the tragedy. He demonstrates how the dominant narrative-that is, that of public health officials, journalists, and doctors-was based not on data and reason, but primarily on deeply ingrained cultural and racial stereotypes. He contends that the racialized discourse adversely affected the response of the health care community to the epidemic, resulting in hundreds of preventable deaths. Briggs reports that health care facilities were unavailable to the indigenous Warao, and due to an ineffectual outreach infrastructure, …
Willa Cather's Greenwich Village: New Contexts For 'Coming, Aphrodite!', Andrew Jewell
Willa Cather's Greenwich Village: New Contexts For 'Coming, Aphrodite!', Andrew Jewell
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Two assumptions confront anyone exploring Willa Cather's relationship to Greenwich Village. First, that Willa Cather, who lived in the Village from 1906 until 1927, and made New York her permanent residence until her death in 1947, was at American modernism's geographic center: around her in these years was the highest concentration of artistic talent that twentieth century America ever knew. According to Ann Douglas, "Modern American culture ... is unimaginable without New York City." To Alfred Kazin, Greenwich Village "ushered in the first great literary society in America after Concord." "Nowhere did the instinct for the new flourish more extravagantly," …
Libraries Stuck In The Middle: Reactive Vs. Proactive Responses To The Science Journal Crisis, Elaine Maytag Nowick, Claudine A. Jenda
Libraries Stuck In The Middle: Reactive Vs. Proactive Responses To The Science Journal Crisis, Elaine Maytag Nowick, Claudine A. Jenda
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Libraries and the scholarly community share a dream of creating a world where scholarly articles are easily available on the Internet to everyone who wants them, without any fees, restrictions or barriers of any kind. What is preventing us from fulfilling such a noble and worthy goal? This paper examines selected case studies that show how libraries and scholars are coping with the science journal crisis. By highlighting responses that are innovative and proactive, this paper hopes to contribute to a general awareness of responses that have the potential for transforming the current scholarly communication process into an open, unimpeded, …
Introduction To Online Ecological And Environmental Data, Virginia A. Baldwin
Introduction To Online Ecological And Environmental Data, Virginia A. Baldwin
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
The advent of the Internet and proliferation of materials on it has brought significant and rapid change in scholarly communication. Perhaps more gradually has come the posting of research data for sharing with other researchers in the field. This volume describes several projects that have made environmental and ecological researchers' data freely available online. Librarians from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States Geological Survey (USGS), from one regional agency based in Oregon, one university, and one research corporation describe aspects of the online data projects developed by their respective institutions. A sixth paper, from a librarian …
Transitioning To The Learning Organization, Joan Giesecke, Beth Mcneil
Transitioning To The Learning Organization, Joan Giesecke, Beth Mcneil
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Peter Senge popularized the concept of the learning organization, and several libraries have tried, with varying degrees of success, to adopt the learning organization model. This article explores why organizations consider attempting to become learning organizations, includes an overview of the theory of learning organizations, presents steps to becoming a learning organization, and describes examples of learning organization efforts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries and other libraries.
Business, Economics, And Labor, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes
Business, Economics, And Labor, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of Race: The Reality Of Human Differences By Vincent Sarich And Frank Miele; Westview, 2004, Sue Ann Gardner
Review Of Race: The Reality Of Human Differences By Vincent Sarich And Frank Miele; Westview, 2004, Sue Ann Gardner
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
This is a non-rigorous scientific examination of race that largely relies on 40-year-old work. The thesis of the book is that race accounts for significant differences among humans, including intelligence. While medically and culturally race has meaning, in terms of biology it is not generally considered to be a relevant attribute of an organism. To use biological data as these authors do, and to ignore so much biological work that has touched on the issue of human racial differences over the past 40 years, calls into question the conclusions made here. Racists throughout modern history have used science to justify …