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Literary Emergence As A Case Study Of Theory In Comparative Literature, César Domínguez Jun 2006

Literary Emergence As A Case Study Of Theory In Comparative Literature, César Domínguez

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper, "Literary Emergence as a Case Study of Theory in Comparative Literature," César Domínguez constructs an interdisciplinary theoretical model which sheds new light on literary emergence, a phenomenon that defies literary, artistic, and cultural boundaries. Domínguez opens his discussion with a synthesis regarding the state of the question, paying particular attention to the contradictions provoked when an inventory of emerging literatures is attempted and goes on to develop a theoretical framework in which the dynamic processes which define emerging literature are seen relative to world literature. He understands world literature as a mega-system in which emergence finds itself …

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A Comparative Analysis Of Website Expressions Of National Culture And Mediation, Paule Salerno-O'Shea Jun 2006

A Comparative Analysis Of Website Expressions Of National Culture And Mediation, Paule Salerno-O'Shea

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her paper, "A Comparative Analysis of Website Expressions of National Culture and Mediation," Paule Salerno-O'Shea identifies what the official websites of the National Ombudsman in Ireland and France reveal about mediation in those national cultures. The way both national mediators are portrayed indicates how mediation is represented at the national level: 1) these institutions were created by acts emanating from national representative assemblies; 2) the ombudspersons are nominated by representatives of the nation (in Ireland, the appointment is made by the president upon resolution passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas [Parliament] and in France by a presidential decree …

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Affect, History, And Race And Ellison's Invisible Man, Alan Bourassa Jun 2006

Affect, History, And Race And Ellison's Invisible Man, Alan Bourassa

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Affect, History, and Race and Ellison's Invisible Man" Alan Bourassa explores the implications of the Deleuze and Guattarian concept of "affect" for a reading of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. In the novel's most problematic relationship -- that between race and history -- there is a third term that transforms the problematic. Invisible Man is simultaneously a conventional novel that establishes emotional individuality as the third term between history and race, and an "underground" novel that sets up "affect" as the third term. If Invisible Man is only about the emotional movements of the individual, race becomes merely …

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Preliminary Report To The Purdue Writing Lab: Assessing Usability Of The "New" Online Writing Lab (Owl) Design And Contents, Michael Salvo, H. Allen Brizee, Dana Lynn Driscoll, Morgan Sousa Jun 2006

Preliminary Report To The Purdue Writing Lab: Assessing Usability Of The "New" Online Writing Lab (Owl) Design And Contents, Michael Salvo, H. Allen Brizee, Dana Lynn Driscoll, Morgan Sousa

Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Research Reports

This report is submitted June 16, 2006 to the Purdue University Writing Lab, specifically to Linda Bergmann, Director; Tammy Conard-Salvo, Associate Director; and Karl Stolley, Lead Web Designer. Intended to inform the ongoing redesign of the Online Writing Lab (OWL), it is written to maintain the highest level of usability and user-centered design of a unique, globally-utilized information resource. This document is a preliminary report limited to initial findings from a five-step usability testing protocol conducted February 25 through March 3, 2006. This testing plan was submitted to Purdue’s Institutional Review Board’s Committee on the Use of Human Subjects (IRB) …

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Memories Of Communism In Central And East Europe: New Work By Janaszek-Ivaničková, Modrzejewski And Sznajderman, Rév, And Spiewak, Agata Anna Lisiak Jun 2006

Memories Of Communism In Central And East Europe: New Work By Janaszek-Ivaničková, Modrzejewski And Sznajderman, Rév, And Spiewak, Agata Anna Lisiak

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Motivation In Extreme Environments: A Case Study Of Polar Explorer Pen, Juliette C. Lloyd, Michael J. Apter Jun 2006

Motivation In Extreme Environments: A Case Study Of Polar Explorer Pen, Juliette C. Lloyd, Michael J. Apter

Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments

This study documents the motives of a polar explorer, Pen Hadow, during the period of a 64-day solo expedition in which he skied, without resupply by aircraft, from Canada to the North Geographic Pole. The framework of reversal theory (Apter, 1982) was used to provide a systematic and comprehensive structure for studying such motivation in an extreme environment. Quantitative data were obtained by using the Apter Record of Motivational States. Qualitative data came from interviews structured in terms of reversal theory. The main result was that the explorer needed at different times to call upon all the eight motivational states …

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National Conflict And Narrative Possibility In Faulkner And Garro, Kristin E. Pitt Jun 2006

National Conflict And Narrative Possibility In Faulkner And Garro, Kristin E. Pitt

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her paper "National Conflict and Narrative Possibility in Faulkner and Garro" Kristin E. Pitt explores two twentieth-century narratives of the Americas set during and after civil war. Both William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Elena Garro's Los recuerdos del porvenir suggest that the historical narratives of the national community which have been celebrated by the U.S. South and Mexico have resulted in untenable contemporary social systems. Seizing the opportunity presented by national crisis, the central female characters of both novels attempt to rewrite the narratives of their imagined communities and reinscribe themselves within these revisions, doing so primarily by renegotiating …

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Nabokov And World Literature, Charles Stanley Ross Jun 2006

Nabokov And World Literature, Charles Stanley Ross

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper "Nabokov and World Literature" Charles Stanley Ross thinks through the relationship between comparative literature and cultural studies by considering the absence of Nabokov's work in The Norton Anthology of World Literature. The problem seems to be that Nabokov's works are not susceptible to the kind of varying interpretations favored by the Norton's editors, although in practice, Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, for example, shows that even Nabokov's tightly controlled fiction can generate diverse responses. The more complex modes of reading that form the basis of David Damrosch's What is World Literature? are used to interrogate just …

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Interculturalism And New Russians In Berlin, Giacomo Bottà Jun 2006

Interculturalism And New Russians In Berlin, Giacomo Bottà

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper, "Interculturalism and New Russians in Berlin" Giacomo Bottá discusses aspects of the community of Russian artists in contemporary (post-1989) Berlin. The Berlin-based Russendisko night has been held in Tel Aviv, Milan, or Frankfurt, where enthusiastic people danced to songs of obscure Russian bands. In 2004, a new CD compilation, Russensoul, was published and in 2005 Karaoke, the ninth novel by Russion-born and Berlin-based author Wladimir Kaminer appeared in book stores. Russian culture is experiencing global success curiously tied to Berlin. How could the German capital have channelled this interest? Is there a particular historical, social, geographical, or …

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The Reception And Translation Of Wordsworth In Japan, Waka Ishikura Jun 2006

The Reception And Translation Of Wordsworth In Japan, Waka Ishikura

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her paper, "The Reception and Translation of Wordsworth in Japan," Waka Ishikura explores the cultural dynamics involved in the understanding of Wordsworth in Japan since the late nineteenth century by examining the ways in which the Japanese encountered him in a broader historical context and the ways in which the development of language modernization in Japan affected the processes of reception and translation. Ishikura's investigation of the topic leads not only to an elucidation of the fate of the English poet in Japan but also to new insights into the ways in which literary or semiotic relations have influenced …

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The Literary Archaeologies Of Théophile Gautier, Sasha Colby Jun 2006

The Literary Archaeologies Of Théophile Gautier, Sasha Colby

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, "The Literary Archaeologies of Théophile Gautier," Sasha Colby considers the relationship between archaeology as an emerging nineteenth-century discipline and the history of modern poetics. By explicating Gautier's fiction and poetry within an archaeological context, Colby suggests the ways in which archaeology became not only an intriguing subject for late romantics and early modernists but also the ways in which archaeology conditioned an excavational mode of fictional and poetic practice. Incorporating history, Egyptology, psychology, and literary theory, Colby explores the impact of the archaeological enterprise on the nineteenth-century imagination through the work of one of its most influential …

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Macro Trends In The Development Of The University Libraries Of Latin America., Atilio Bustos May 2006

Macro Trends In The Development Of The University Libraries Of Latin America., Atilio Bustos

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Skills Developed By Students Of The Bibliography Research In Mechanical Engineering Discipline In The Technical Standardisation Of The Work., Elena Luzia Palloni Gonçalves, Elenise Maria De Araújo, Marielza Ortego Roma, Rosana Alvarez Paschoalino, Teresinha Das Graças Coletta May 2006

Skills Developed By Students Of The Bibliography Research In Mechanical Engineering Discipline In The Technical Standardisation Of The Work., Elena Luzia Palloni Gonçalves, Elenise Maria De Araújo, Marielza Ortego Roma, Rosana Alvarez Paschoalino, Teresinha Das Graças Coletta

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The process of teaching and learning on post-graduate courses should cover the ability to stimulate the academic environment through research and investigation, encouraging teachers and students to take a constructive attitude that challenges academic-scientific productivity. For scientific ability and the maturity of built knowledge to take place, the incentive to undertake research is fundamental, as is the corresponding mastery of electronic instrumentation and technologies. In this sense, the Library Service of the São Carlos School of Engineering of São Paulo University, in partnership with the Department of Mechanical Engineering has offered formal and specific training since 1995, within the User …

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Quality Measures For Libraries And Information Services., Luiza Baptista Melo, Imaculada Cardosa Sampaio May 2006

Quality Measures For Libraries And Information Services., Luiza Baptista Melo, Imaculada Cardosa Sampaio

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The purpose of this article is to describe briefly two quality evaluation models for academic libraries: the Portuguese investigation proposes an action model to measure the performance of the libraries of the Universidade do Porto (UP). This tool is justified by the CAF – Common Assessment Framework (an auto-evaluation tool based on the European Foundation Quality Management Excellence Model), the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP); the PAQ – Quality of Products and Services Evaluation Program of the SIBi/USP, based on the Model SERVQUAL, is an assessment research implemented in the academic libraries of the Universidade de …

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A National Library For Australian Educational Research., Sue Clarke May 2006

A National Library For Australian Educational Research., Sue Clarke

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The Australian Council for Educational Research – www.acer.edu.au – is Australia’s national educational research organisation. Its mission is to “create and promote research-based knowledge, products and services that can be used to improve learning”. The ultimate goal of ACER’s work is to improve outcomes for learners. We do this through reliable, scientific research and through the development of products and services grounded in dependable research. We create and disseminate research-based knowledge and develop and offer a variety of research-based professional resources and services. The Cunningham Library serves the ACER and as such is Australia’s national library for educational research. It …

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The Need For Organizational Change In Patient Safety Initiatives, James G. Anderson May 2006

The Need For Organizational Change In Patient Safety Initiatives, James G. Anderson

RCHE Publications

This study describes a computer simulation model that has been developed to explore organizational changes required to improve patient safety based on a medication error reporting system.

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Fostering Information Fluency: Two Student Centred Initiatives., Erika C. Linke May 2006

Fostering Information Fluency: Two Student Centred Initiatives., Erika C. Linke

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Two initiatives have been undertaken at Carnegie Mellon University, one to address issues of accountability relative to information literacy and the other to learn more about graduate students’ information gathering behavior. In response to changing accreditation requirements, new evidence for student learning is being required. Thus a program to concentrate on the information literacy skills of undergraduates, particularly in major fields of study, has been started. The other initiative focuses on understanding the current information gathering behaviors of graduate students. Outcomes from this study are being incorporated into services directed at graduate students. Questions about how to address these needs …

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The Politics Of Embedding: Library As A Partner Not Support Service., Peter Stubley May 2006

The Politics Of Embedding: Library As A Partner Not Support Service., Peter Stubley

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The Library that considers itself to have the best services in the world may still find itself under-appreciated or – worse still – isolated, unless it delivers those services to its customers in a pro-active manner. Moreover, unless it actively engages with the strategic directions of both the over-arching institution and its individual units – the University and its academic Departments – it risks being ignored and marginalised from the core business of the institution. For too long libraries have, with a degree of modesty and satisfaction, considered themselves as ‘support services’ but now is the time to launch ourselves …

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B-On - A Portugese Consortium Experience., José Fernandes May 2006

B-On - A Portugese Consortium Experience., José Fernandes

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Quality Assessment Program As Contribution For The Sibi/Usp Management., Adherbal Caminada, Adriana A. Barreiros, Adriana Cybelle Ferrari, Cristia Olaio Villela, Cybelle Assumpçao Fontes, Maria Imaculada Cardosa Sampaio, Rosa Maria F. Zani May 2006

Quality Assessment Program As Contribution For The Sibi/Usp Management., Adherbal Caminada, Adriana A. Barreiros, Adriana Cybelle Ferrari, Cristia Olaio Villela, Cybelle Assumpçao Fontes, Maria Imaculada Cardosa Sampaio, Rosa Maria F. Zani

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

It addresses the relevance of the quality assessment processes as instruments of support for managing information services. It describes the implementation of the Product and Service Quality Assessment Program (PAQ) of University of São Paulo’s Integrated Library System (SIBi/USP), reporting two phases performed so far. Phase one, performed in 2002, assessed products and services of SIBi’ libraries by means of questionnaires and interview for data collection. Five electronic questionnaires were applied comprising the SERVQUAL – tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy dimensions and an interview was applied to library users, using three questions. Phase two of PAQ was performed in …

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Libraries And Weblogs: The Role Of New Phenomenon Blogs In Library Services, Research And Learning In Libraries., Tahereh Karami, Tahereh Oloumi May 2006

Libraries And Weblogs: The Role Of New Phenomenon Blogs In Library Services, Research And Learning In Libraries., Tahereh Karami, Tahereh Oloumi

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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The Role Of Libraries In The Context Of E-Science, Anne Trefethern May 2006

The Role Of Libraries In The Context Of E-Science, Anne Trefethern

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Monetizing Usage Of Scholarly Collections With Patent Citation Analysis., Paul Canning May 2006

Monetizing Usage Of Scholarly Collections With Patent Citation Analysis., Paul Canning

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Based on a series of independent studies conducted by Dr. Anthony Breitzman of 1790 Analytics, IEEE has learned that granted patents cite scientific and the technical literature found in journal articles, conference papers and industry standards. This paper outlines the findings of three studies conducted by 1790 Analytics and discusses the implications for library professionals and members of the scientific and scholarly community. Patent citation analysis is a viable metric to quantify both usage and value of access to scholarly materials at universities, corporations and government research centres.

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The Brave New World Of Scholarly Repositories., Herbert Van De Sompel May 2006

The Brave New World Of Scholarly Repositories., Herbert Van De Sompel

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Librarian Class Attendance: Blogs, Statistics, Outcomes And Opportunities., Dianne Cmor, Victoria Marshall May 2006

Librarian Class Attendance: Blogs, Statistics, Outcomes And Opportunities., Dianne Cmor, Victoria Marshall

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

What, if any, are the benefits of having librarians attend lectures and seminars? In the midst of a start-up program, the librarians at the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar were challenged to test new models of active participation while demonstrating positive outcomes. This paper describes the setting, methods, and outcomes associated with having librarians attend courses as active members in an evolving learning environment. Interactions with faculty and students will be analyzed to assess whether course attendance benefits professional relationships in a way that positively impacts student learning. In parallel, an examination of assessment measures for determining value of …

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Embedding Research And Learning In Libraries., William R. Maes May 2006

Embedding Research And Learning In Libraries., William R. Maes

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The theme of this conference is “Embedding Libraries in Research and Learning.” While this is critical within the context of the new technologies and new service expectations of scholars and students it is also important that research and learning remain embedded in libraries if they are to be an integral part of the scholarly fabric of our institutions. With continuing economic pressures on scholarly institutions and the desire to use the new technologies to change established and expensive processes and facilities, the threat to the physical academic library has perhaps never been greater This paper discusses why the physical library …

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Learning Communities And Librarians At Arizona State University., Jennifer Duvernay, Sheila J. Young May 2006

Learning Communities And Librarians At Arizona State University., Jennifer Duvernay, Sheila J. Young

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In the Fall Semester of 2003, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) at Arizona State University, for the first time, offered freshmen the opportunity to participate in a Learning Community. Although there are several types of learning communities, the CLAS Learning Communities at ASU utilize a fully integrated model and each community is based on a theme integrating several disciplines that examine the theme from different perspectives. One such theme, “Human Disease and Society,” integrates English, Biology, and Philosophy. Courses in English, Political Science, History, and Religion are the foundation for the theme “War, Culture and Memory.” A …

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Technological Convergance For Access To Hardcopy And Softcopy Collections By Means Of The Unibibliweb Portal: The Experience Of Cruesp/Libraries Consortium., Adriana Cybele Ferrari, Luiz Atílio Vicentini, Margaret Alves Antunes May 2006

Technological Convergance For Access To Hardcopy And Softcopy Collections By Means Of The Unibibliweb Portal: The Experience Of Cruesp/Libraries Consortium., Adriana Cybele Ferrari, Luiz Atílio Vicentini, Margaret Alves Antunes

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The Consortium CRUESP/Libraries formed by the three São Paulo State Universities Library System, USP, UNESP, and UNICAMP, seeks to offer specialized services and products to the academic community. With the expanding of the available information sources to the Universities, researchers need to visit various sites from diverse information providers, possessing different access interfaces. This demands time for the user to know these interfaces, which are not always user-friendly, and utilize the same search terms numerous times. With the technological advance it has become evident the possibility of the creation of a unified search interface, using the international communication protocols such …

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Creser: Sibi/Usp Staffing Training And Development Program., Adriana Cybele Ferrari, Márcia Elisa Garcia De Grandi,, Mairza Leal De Meirelles Do Coutta May 2006

Creser: Sibi/Usp Staffing Training And Development Program., Adriana Cybele Ferrari, Márcia Elisa Garcia De Grandi,, Mairza Leal De Meirelles Do Coutta

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

It describes the institutionalization of continuous education process of library teams, with prominence for the creation of the Staff Training and Development Portal (Crescer) of University of Sao Paulo´s Integrated Libraries System (SIBi/USP). SIBi/USP understands that continuous qualification aims at promoting organizational changes and developing competencies in order to improve the quality of products and services offered. To achieve these goals, training sessions, events, courses (remote and in loco) are developed and provided on a yearly basis, among other activities that promote professional development. Since the beginning of the process in 2002, 6,467 qualification opportunities for library professionals have been …

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Think Systematically, Act Strategically: Sustainable Development Of Information Literacy In The Broader Context Of Students' Learning., Judith Peacock May 2006

Think Systematically, Act Strategically: Sustainable Development Of Information Literacy In The Broader Context Of Students' Learning., Judith Peacock

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

A challenge for educators is to fuse the learning of information literacy to an academic education in such a way that the outcome is systematic and sustainable learning for students. This challenge can be answered through long-term commitment to information literacy education bound to organisation-wide, renewable strategic planning and driven through systemic reform. This paper explores the process of reforming information literacy education in an academic environment, drawing on the experiences of one Australian university which has undertaken the implementation of a strategic, systemic approach to information literacy learning and teaching.

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