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Bullied By Budgets, Pushed By Patrons, Driven By Demand: Libraries And Tantalizing Technologies, Narda Tafuri, Antje Mays

Charleston Library Conference

No abstract provided.

Inventory Of A Small Academic Library: Cooperation And Communication Through The Units, Erin E. Boyd, Amy Smith, Kent Snowden, Debbie West

Charleston Library Conference

No abstract provided.

Transfer 2.0 And Beyond! An Update, Tim Devenport, Jennifer Bazeley

Charleston Library Conference

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New Subjects, New Communities, New Formats: The Library Collection In The Digital World, Angharad Roberts

Charleston Library Conference

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Academic Libraries Without Print, Allen Mckiel, Jim Dooley, Robert Murdoch, Carol Zsulya

Charleston Library Conference

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2011 Global Student E‐Book Survey, Allen Mckiel

Charleston Library Conference

This article reviews the responses from the second ebrary informal survey of students concerning their experiences with information resources, which was conducted in September and early October of 2011. The first survey concluded in May of 2008. The surveys asked essentially the same questions about student use of electronic and print resources— perceived strengths and weaknesses as well as preferences and attitudes about them. This analysis compares the student responses separated by the three and a half years. Tables 11, 12, 15, and 16 use data constructed from the 2008 survey that were not initially reported so that they could …

Collaborating With Course Pages: Strategies For Curriculum-Based Development And Assessment, Robin Chin Roemer, Michael Matos

Charleston Library Conference

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First Opinion: Two Books That Explore And Discover Places And Cultures, Christopher Cheng

First Opinions, Second Reactions

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Jews In The Gym: Judaism, Sports, And Athletics, Leonard Greenspoon

Studies in Jewish Civilization

For some, the connection between Jews and athletics might seem far-fetched. But in fact, as is highlighted by the fourteen chapters in this collection, Jews have been participating in—and thinking about—sports for more than two thousand years.

The articles in this volume scan a wide chronological range: from the Hellenistic period (first century BCE) to the most recent basketball season. The range of athletes covered is equally broad: from participants in Roman-style games to wrestlers, boxers, fencers, baseball players, and basketball stars. The authors of these essays, many of whom actively participate in athletics themselves, raise a number of intriguing …

Artl@S And Basart: A Loose Coupling Strategy For Digital Humanities, Sorin A. Matei

Artl@s Bulletin

The core ARTL@S digital humanities strategy is that of loosely coupling resources, platforms, and use scenar-ios. A number of sites will feed from the same geodatabase (BasArt), which will be enriched by users with new content. Inspired by the Web 2.0 design principles, ARTL@S relies on the BasArt API, which will enable an ecosystem of sites to use primary data to generate their own maps, charts, and tables. A variety of eco-nomic models will also be used to support the site, from free to pay-based. User-generated content will be monitored by data management and curation techniques that will ensure the …

La Traduction Littéraire En France, 1840-1915 : Un Projet D'Histoire Quantitative, Transnationale Et Cartographique, Blaise Wilfert-Portal, Claire Guérin

Artl@s Bulletin

This article presents a current research pro-ject, included in the Transnat program (IHMC, Saarbrücken Univ.), supported by the ANR and DFG. This historical study of the transla-tion of literature into French adopts quantita-tive as well as editorial historical perspectives. In this article, we endeavor to demonstrate through the initial results how, for instance, the articulation of quantitative and spatial history of arts and literature may question the traditional thesis of cultural studies on transla-tion: that this hybridizing operation is a phe-nomenon of fringes, borders and peripheries.

Miradas Transatlánticas: El Periodismo Literario De Elena Poniatowska Y Rosa Montero, Alicia Rita Rueda-Acedo

Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures

Voces de mujeres han sido sistemáticamente silenciado o se omite por completo cuando una nación se reúne su narrativa histórica. En Miradas Transatlánticas: El periodismo literario de Elena Poniatowska y Rosa Montero, Alicia Rita Rueda-Acedo examina la relación entre la obra periodística y literaria de los dos escritores con nombre en el título, ya que utilizan una combinación distinta del periodismo y la ficción para crear nuevos espacios donde las voces y experiencias de las mujeres pueden estar situados prominente en las narraciones históricas de sus naciones.

Rueda-Acedo analiza las obras de los dos escritores desde las perspectivas de …

The Avatar As A Methodological Tool For The Embodied Exploration Of Virtual Environments, Kris Pint

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "The Avatar as a Methodological Tool for an Embodied Exploration of Virtual Environments" Kris Pint proposes a theoretical framework for the analysis of environments which cannot be entered physically because they are fictional, inaccessible, or destroyed. As phenomenology has already emphasized, the analysis of space has to take into account the bodily involvement of the researcher. Pint introduces the notion of the avatar to compensate for the impossibility of actually accessing the aforementioned spaces. Borrowed from game design, the avatar allows us to include this bodily aspect in the exploration of virtual environments, without neglecting the specific …

Im:Pact, Tomalee Doan, Chantal Levesque-Bristol, Donalee Attardo

IMPACT Presentations

Presentation given at State Budget Commission, West Lafayette, IN. Summarizes IMPACT goals, methods and progress. IMPACT supports faculty-led course redesign with campus-wide resources and student-centered pedagogy. Gives preliminary findings of IMPACT results.

Collecting To The Core-Youth Sports, Mila Su, Anne Doherty

Against the Grain

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Blurring The Boundaries Between City And Countryside In Photography, Steven Jacobs

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Blurring the Boundaries between City and Countryside in Photography" Steven Jacobs discusses how, in recent decades, a new landscape has emerged in which the differences between city and countryside have been blurred. As a result, the urbanized environment is increasingly viewed and interpreted as a landscape. It is because of the hybridity of this contemporary cityscape that urban planners such as Mirko Zardini have argued for a revaluation of the notion of the picturesque linked with a sensitivity to irregularity and a mixture of the cultural and the natural. Since the late 1960s, the post-urban landscape has …

Landscape, Culture, And Education In Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Geert Vandermeersche, Ronald Soetaert

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article "Landscape, Culture, and Education in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe" Geert Vandermeersche and Ronald Soetaert discuss Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as a narrative that translates nature and our dealings with it into a literary text. Vandeermeersche and Soetaert postulate that the novel can be read as a quintessential fable of humans' cultivation of nature and the creation of individuality, which, at the same time, provides its readers with strategies for describing processes such as education. Robinson Crusoe and its characters, metaphors, and scenarios function in the "auto-communication" of culture as an enduring equipment for living (Burke), a company …

Atg Interviews Martha Kyrillidou, Senior Director, Statistics And Service Quality Programs, Association Of Research Libraries, Elizabeth Lorbeer, Rossi Morris

Against the Grain

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Deadlines

Against the Grain

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From Your Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Going Above And Beyond: Building An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Collection Via An Ill Pod Program, Elizabeth Hoppe, Courtney Seymour

Against the Grain

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Profile-Lorraine Huddy

Against the Grain

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I Hear The Train A Comin'-An Interview With Timo Hannay, Managing Director Of Digital Science, Greg Tananbaum

Against the Grain

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Introduction To New Work On Landscape And Its Narration, Sofie Verraest, Bart Keunen

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Profile-Elizabeth "Liz" Lorbeer

Against the Grain

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The Measure Of Usage, The Usage Of Measures: Article Level Metrics At Plos, Jennifer Lin

Against the Grain

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Striving For Insights And Contending With Limitations: The Assessment Of A Collaborative Ebook Project, Lorraine Huddy

Against the Grain

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From A University Press-Scenes From An Annual Meeting, Leila W. Salisbury

Against the Grain

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Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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How The Journal Impact Factor Influences Academic Library Collections And Usage, Elizabeth R. Lorbeer

Against the Grain

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