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Review Of Goldberger's War: The Life And Work Of A Public Health Crusader By Alan M. Kraut; Hill & Wang, 2003, Sue Ann Gardner Oct 2011

Review Of Goldberger's War: The Life And Work Of A Public Health Crusader By Alan M. Kraut; Hill & Wang, 2003, Sue Ann Gardner

Sue E. Gardner

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 …


Review Of Controlling The Past: Documenting Society And Institutions — Essays In Honor Of Helen Willa Samuels, Stephen J. Hussman Oct 2011

Review Of Controlling The Past: Documenting Society And Institutions — Essays In Honor Of Helen Willa Samuels, Stephen J. Hussman

Journal of Western Archives

A book review of Controlling the Past, edited by Terry Cook.


Review Of The Ethical Archivist, Cory L. Nimer Oct 2011

Review Of The Ethical Archivist, Cory L. Nimer

Journal of Western Archives

A book review of Elena S. Danielson's The Ethical Archivist.


Review Of The Book Fifty Key Thinkers On The Holocaust And Genocide, John A. Drobnicki Sep 2011

Review Of The Book Fifty Key Thinkers On The Holocaust And Genocide, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book Fifty key thinkers on the Holocaust and genocide.


Review Of The Successful Academic Librarian By Gwen Meyer Gregory, Sarah Steiner Aug 2011

Review Of The Successful Academic Librarian By Gwen Meyer Gregory, Sarah Steiner

Sarah King Steiner

This is a book review of The Successful Academic Librarian by Gwen Meyer Gregory.


In Review: Academic Library Outreach: Beyond The Campus Walls, Rachel Jorgensen Jun 2011

In Review: Academic Library Outreach: Beyond The Campus Walls, Rachel Jorgensen

Urban Library Journal

Book review


Encyclopedia Of Contemporary American Social Issues [Book Review], Anne Jumonville Graf Jan 2011

Encyclopedia Of Contemporary American Social Issues [Book Review], Anne Jumonville Graf

Library Faculty Research

Acknowledging that current information about social issues is often ingested in sound bites and snippets, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Social Issues seeks to bridge the gap between newsstand, newcomer, and expert knowledge. As stated in the preface, editor Michael Shally-Jensen and entry contributors encourage readers to “appreciate current issues for the complex matters that they are” and generally succeed in that regard. Most useful are the many entries that follow the encyclopedia’s guiding principle by tying in recent examples and news stories before getting into more theoretical discussions. All entries provide historical context for the topic at hand and …


Review Of The Ethical Archivist By Elena S. Danielson, W. Bede Mitchell Jan 2011

Review Of The Ethical Archivist By Elena S. Danielson, W. Bede Mitchell

Library Faculty Publications

This review was published in College and Research Libraries.