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Random Ramblings--Why Don't Public Librarians Brag More About One Of Their Greatest Successes: Providing Pleasure Reading For Their Patrons?, Bob Holley

Against the Grain

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Questions And Answers--Copyright Column, Laura N. Gasaway

Against the Grain

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Pelikan's Antidisambiguation--Identity Literacy: Time To Teach It?, Michael P. Pelikan

Against the Grain

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Optimizing Library Services--Crystal Ball Gazing: Academic Library Services In The 21st Century, Denise A. Garofalo, Lindsay Johnston, Ann Lupold

Against the Grain

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The Scholarly Publishing Scene--Necessary Balancing Acts, Myer Kutz

Against the Grain

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Cooperation Is Key: How Publishers And Libraries Are Working Together To Achieve Common Goals, Michael A. Arthur, Stacy Sieck

Against the Grain

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Biz Of Acq--Training The New Acquisitions Technician: From New Hire To Competence, Michelle Flinchbaugh

Against the Grain

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Atg Interviews Don Beagle, Library Director, Belmont Abbey College, Barbara Tierney

Against the Grain

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Being Earnest With Collections--Investing In Open Access At A Small Academic Library, Jonathan H. Harwell, Michael A. Arthur

Against the Grain

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Book Reviews--Monographic Musings, Regina Gong

Against the Grain

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Stacy V. Sieck Profile

Against the Grain

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Decoder Ring--Reprints And Refrigerators In "The American Comic Book (Critical Insights)", Jerry Spiller

Against the Grain

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From The Reference Desk--Reviews Of Reference Titles, Tom Gilson

Against the Grain

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Don's Conference Notes--The Future Of Discovery: A Niso Forum, Donald T. Hawkins

Against the Grain

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Leisure And Posthumanism In Houellebecq's Platform And Lanzarote, Nurit Buchweitz, Elie Cohen-Gewerc

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article "Leisure and Posthumanism in Houellebecq's Platform and Lanzarote" Nuriot Buchweitz and Elie Cohen-Gewerc analyze Michel Houellebecq's novels in the context of leisure studies. They posit that in particular in Platform and Lanzarote Houellebecq explores leisure practices available in industrial societies marked by consumer culture. Further, Buchweitz and Cohen-Gewerc argue that the abundant depictions of leisure in Houellbecq's texts is not unintentional because he introduces the concept of the posthuman condition and rethinks agency and human selfhood as a consequence of the collapse of subjectivity. Employing postmodern indeterminacy, Houellebecq explores contemporary mores and debates the extinction of …

Overt And Covert Shandyism Of Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol, Margarit Ordukhanyan

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Overt and Covert Shandyism of Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol" Margarit Ordukhanyan examines Vladimir Nabokov's 1942 novel, an unusual biography of the nineteenth-century Russian author. Ordukhanyan discusses parallels between Nabokov's biography of Gogol and Laurence Sterne's Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. She highlights the direct allusions and textual references Nabokov makes to Sterne's novel and argues that Nabokov uses Tristram Shandy as the model for creating and interpreting his biography of Gogol by fictionalizing Gogol and portraying him as a Shandean character. Further, Ordukhanyan discusses how Nabokov uses Sterne's novel to undermine the genre of literary …

An Integrated Framework For Fostering Human Factor Sustainability And Increased Safety In Aviation Ramp Operations, Sarah M. Hubbard, Denver Lopp

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

The aviation work environment has one of the highest accident rates of any industry sector in the United States, resulting in significant costs for both employee injuries and equipment damage. In fact, injury rates exceed rates found in areas that are widely recognized as hazardous, such as construction and mining, and it is estimated that aircraft ground damage costs are as high as 5 billion to 10 billion dollars per year. Purdue University’s Aviation Technology Department has conducted numerous safety and human factors studies in the past decade encompassing maintenance and repair operations, corporate flight departments, and over ten major …

The Halo Light™, Purdue Ect Team

ECT Fact Sheets Archive

Safety concerns are a natural part of many outdoor human experiences, across many jobs and industries including construction, mining, and emergency services, as well as many day-to-day activities such as biking, hiking, and running. One common consistency across these varied experiences is the need to see and be seen in low light and low-visibility conditions. Today, we are still relying on the reflective vest as the primary means for illuminating a person at risk – a product that came out in the 1970s and hasn't significantly changed in over 40 years – creating a need for safety products that matches …

Exploring The C-Span Archives: Advancing The Research Agenda, Robert X. Browning

The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research

Exploring the C-SPAN Archives is a collection of path-breaking research studies that use video drawn from the C-SPAN Archives. The book, based on the papers presented at a November 2014 conference, includes chapters that explore issues in presidential debates, minority representation, the presentation of the first ladies, stem research, and innovative ways to analyze video.

The book is divided into five parts: Part 1 consists of an overview of and common scholarship using the C-SPAN Archives and how this research advances the conversation after previously published studies. Featured are the ways in which the collection is indexed and tips on …

Wcrp Survey 2003-4 Raw Data, Harry Denny

Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Datasets and Research Projects

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Making Institutional Repositories Work, Burton B. Callicott, David Scherer, Andrew Wesolek

Purdue University Press Books

Making Institutional Repositories Work takes novices as well as seasoned practitioners through the practical and conceptual steps necessary to develop a functioning institutional repository, customized to the needs and culture of the home institution. The first section covers all aspects of system platforms, including hosted and open-source options, big data capabilities and integration, and issues related to discoverability. The second section addresses policy issues, from the basics to open-source and deposit mandates. The third section focuses on recruiting and even creating content. Authors in this section will address the ways that different disciplines tend to have different motivations for deposit, …

Catholic Thoughts On Collaboration In Addressing Social Ills, Susan M. Pudelek

Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture

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Partnerships In Social Services And Dialogue: Lessons From Manhattan, Staten Island, And The Bronx, Thomas P. Dobbins, Jr.

Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture

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Social Ills And Possible Social Action In The United States: The Need To Support Families And Youth, Ven. Bhante Chao Chu

Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture

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Quantifying The Information Habits Of High School Students Engaged In Engineering Design, Nathan Mentzer, Michael J. Fosmire

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

stract This study measured the information gathering behaviors of high school students who had taken engineering design courses as they solved a design problem. The authors investigated what types of information students accessed, its quality, when it was accessed during the students’ process, and if it impacted their thinking during the activity. Students overwhelmingly relied on internet searching to acquire information, rather than printed materials available to them. The sites they found were generally popular rather than technical, and persuasive (i.e., trying to sell something) rather than informative. The high school students understood the need for information, as they sought …

Marbles: The Application Of Input-Output Concepts To Safety Management Systems, Tim Brady, Alan Stolzer, Anthony Brickhouse, Antonio Cortés, Dan Mccune, Jayathi Raghavan, David Freiwald

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

The goal of this research was to apply the economic concept titled Input-Output Analysis to an aviation safety concept titled Safety Management Systems (SMS). Input-Output (IO) is based upon the interrelationships of various components of an economic system and what happens to the system when one or more of those components changes. Since SMS is, by definition, a system with definable components, the research sought to determine if the interrelationships between those components could be determined and quantified. The term ‘‘marbles’’ was used to describe the activities that led to the IO-SMS matrix. Marbles was used as a metaphor for …

Data Informed Learning: A Next Phase Data Literacy Framework For Higher Education, Clarence Maybee, Lisa Zilinski

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

This poster was presented at the Association for Information Science and Technology’s (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting in St. Louis, MO on November 9, 2015. Accessing, using and managing data is increasingly recognized as an important learning outcome in higher education. Approaches to data literacy have typically been informed by information literacy. New approaches to information literacy have emerged that address how information is used in the different disciplinary contexts in which people learn and work. Successful approaches to data literacy will also need to address contextual concerns. Informed learning is an approach to information literacy that purposefully addresses contextual concerns by …

Stress And Energy Transmission By Inhomogeneous Plane Waves Into Dissipative Media, Daniel C. Woods, J Stuart Bolton, Jeffrey F. Rhoads

Publications of the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories

The characteristics of sound transmission into real, or dissipative, media differ from those of transmission into lossless media. In particular, when a plane wave in a fluid is incident upon a real, dissipative elastic material, the transmitted waves are in general inhomogeneous, even when the incident wave is itself homogeneous and incident at a sub-critical angle; and more significantly, energy transmission occurs even above the critical angle. In addition, for any real incidence angle, the parameters of an incident inhomogeneous wave may be tuned so that there is no reflection from the surface of a viscoelastic solid. That phenomenon may …

Exploring The Role Of Feedback And Its Impact Within A Digital Badge System From Multiple Perspectives: A Case Study Of Preservice Teachers, Erin D. Besser

Open Access Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative case study is to examine the role feedback plays within the instructional process, and how students are using feedback to inform their course work within Digital Badge contexts. Educators are looking toward Digital Badges as a way to increase student engagement (Abramovich et al., 2013; Glover & Latif, 2013), develop mastery with critical concepts (Mehta et al., 2013), and reduce gaps in student knowledge (Bowen & Thomas, 2014; Guskey, 2007). Feedback is emphasized as a critical component (Bloom, 1968, 1976; Guskey, 2007; Kluger & DeNisi, 1996; Slavin & Karweit, 1984). Instructors need to be able …

Stl: A Publisher's Perspective, Rebecca Seger, Lenny Allen

Against the Grain

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