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A Little Bit About Sensory Science And Museums, Leo S. Lo Dec 2013

A Little Bit About Sensory Science And Museums, Leo S. Lo

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

Article discusses how sensory analysis and sensor technology can be used in libraries and museums to enhance user experience.


#Paperwork, Natalie S. Sherif Oct 2013

#Paperwork, Natalie S. Sherif

Blogging the Library

This is history, not bureaucracy, right? I am fairly certain that my methods professor did not mention anything about a thirty-page report, so why the paperwork? In order for Special Collections to request objects for loan from specific institutions, I have to complete what is called a “General Facility Report” which is a comprehensive document that inquires about facility conditions. [excerpt]


Toeing The Line Between Offense And Education, Natalie S. Sherif Oct 2013

Toeing The Line Between Offense And Education, Natalie S. Sherif

Blogging the Library

Medical history can be gruesome. People shy away from blood and guts and images of death perhaps because it makes us question our own mortality or perhaps because it reminds us a bit too much about the origins of that hamburger we ate for lunch. Whatever the reason, a lot of humans cannot stomach the truly heinous. [excerpt]


Do You Doodle?, Natalie S. Sherif Oct 2013

Do You Doodle?, Natalie S. Sherif

Blogging the Library

If you were, are, or will become a student, then you have probably thought about doodling during class. Fear not! We are not the only generation to draw in the midst of a lecture. Today’s research escapade led me to investigate George Currier’s notes from his time as a student at the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College. [excerpt]


A Hypochondriac Investigates The Evolution Of Medicine, Natalie S. Sherif Sep 2013

A Hypochondriac Investigates The Evolution Of Medicine, Natalie S. Sherif

Blogging the Library

This exhibit will open to the public in February 2014, but until then I have my work cut out for me. I am currently researching various aspects of medical history spanning from the mid-1800s, through the Civil War, to WWI. Thus far I have read accounts of women volunteers during the American Civil War, important changes that went into effect during WWI, and an overly detailed description on how to perform tooth extractions according to the latest science of the 1860s. [excerpt]


Strategies To Manage Censorship Issues And Controversies In Museums, Kyle D. San Giovanni Aug 2013

Strategies To Manage Censorship Issues And Controversies In Museums, Kyle D. San Giovanni

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Museums are poised to educate, engage and entertain patrons, as well as challenge and influence society more now than at any other time throughout the modem history of the museum industry. With thousands of museums throughout the United States attracting hundreds of millions of visitors annually, controversial exhibits and issues of censorship continue to challenge museum industry leaders. Concern surrounding this subject exists in all artistic and cultural endeavors. Topics range from race and religion to war and sexuality, and have occurred in history, science and art museums. This study looks at the best management options available to museum directors …


We've Got Rythm, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus May 2013

We've Got Rythm, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Programs

Welcome to our spring season concert "We've Got Rythm", as we celebrate some of the most influential music written in the 20th century by American composers. What a pleasure it is for the BGMC to bring music from the American Songbook alive for you this evening; music that many of you have asked us to perform for years. I believe it is also a very poignant time for LGBT Americans as we celebrate composers who brought us iconic music, some of which has been embraced for decades by our community but also some who were gay themselves.


An Evaluative Study Of Family Guides And Subsequent Design Of A Multi-Museum Third Grade Explorer's Guide, Katherine Hillman May 2013

An Evaluative Study Of Family Guides And Subsequent Design Of A Multi-Museum Third Grade Explorer's Guide, Katherine Hillman

Graduate Student Independent Studies

The idea for this project began with the evaluative study of a cultural organization's family guide. The results of that study, garnered from interviews with and observations of families, serves as the inspiration for a newly designed family guide intended for third graders and their families. The guide incorporates several museum visits with NY State Social Studies Scope and Sequence criteria and is based on personal teaching experience, age-relevant developmental guidelines, theoretical influences, a literature review of family learning and current family guides, as well as the results of the evaluative study.


Making Power Visible For Museum Educators : A Theoretical Framework For Multicultural Museum Education, Sehr Karim-Jaffer May 2013

Making Power Visible For Museum Educators : A Theoretical Framework For Multicultural Museum Education, Sehr Karim-Jaffer

Graduate Student Independent Studies

The central guiding question of this study is how can museum educators (and volunteers) effectively engage multicultural audiences, who may face langauge and socioeconomic barriers, with objects of art in museum galleries?.


Transformational Effects Of Museum Exhibits Upon Their Patrons: The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cassandra Caruso-Woolard May 2013

Transformational Effects Of Museum Exhibits Upon Their Patrons: The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cassandra Caruso-Woolard

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


At The Meadows - Spring 2013, Southern Methodist University Apr 2013

At The Meadows - Spring 2013, Southern Methodist University

Member Magazine

No abstract provided.


Crescendo!, Spring 2013, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus Apr 2013

Crescendo!, Spring 2013, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Crescendo! The Newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Spring 2013 issue of Crescendo!, the newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus.


Hooray For Love Caberet, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus Feb 2013

Hooray For Love Caberet, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Programs

Need an idea to help celebrate Valentine's Day? We've got the perfect date night planned for you!

Join the men of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus for a two and a half hour cabaret featuring many of its members performing different songs about love, commitment, friendship, and being together.

Don't have a date? No problem, come with your friends. Tables will seat 8 people so you won't feel singled out or alone!


Ua3/9/2 Subject File - Instruments Of American Excellence Collection, Wku President's Office - Ransdell Jan 2013

Ua3/9/2 Subject File - Instruments Of American Excellence Collection, Wku President's Office - Ransdell

WKU Administration Documents

Correspondence regarding the Instruments of American Excellence Collection and exhibit.


Object Data Sheets, Historical Administration Jan 2013

Object Data Sheets, Historical Administration

Experiences of the Illinois Civil War Soldier - Docs & Podcasts

No abstract provided.


Activity - Make A Log Cabin, Historical Administration Jan 2013

Activity - Make A Log Cabin, Historical Administration

Experiences of the Illinois Civil War Soldier - Docs & Podcasts

No abstract provided.


Exhibit Floor Plan, Historical Administration Jan 2013

Exhibit Floor Plan, Historical Administration

Experiences of the Illinois Civil War Soldier - Docs & Podcasts

No abstract provided.


Activity - How To Make A Whirlygig, Historical Administration Jan 2013

Activity - How To Make A Whirlygig, Historical Administration

Experiences of the Illinois Civil War Soldier - Docs & Podcasts

No abstract provided.


Activity - Make A Stick Doll, Historical Administration Jan 2013

Activity - Make A Stick Doll, Historical Administration

Experiences of the Illinois Civil War Soldier - Docs & Podcasts

No abstract provided.


Text And Textiles: Guy And Irene Buzzard - Web Pages, Historical Administration Jan 2013

Text And Textiles: Guy And Irene Buzzard - Web Pages, Historical Administration

Text and Textiles: Guy and Irene Buzzard - Audio Tour, Docs, & Videos

No abstract provided.


Experiences Of The Illinois Civil War Soldier - Web Pages, Historical Administration Jan 2013

Experiences Of The Illinois Civil War Soldier - Web Pages, Historical Administration

Experiences of the Illinois Civil War Soldier - Docs & Podcasts

No abstract provided.


Experiences Of The Illinois Civil War Soldier - Design Brief, Historical Administration Jan 2013

Experiences Of The Illinois Civil War Soldier - Design Brief, Historical Administration

Experiences of the Illinois Civil War Soldier - Docs & Podcasts

No abstract provided.


Text And Textiles: Guy And Irene Buzzard - Design Brief, Historical Administration Jan 2013

Text And Textiles: Guy And Irene Buzzard - Design Brief, Historical Administration

Text and Textiles: Guy and Irene Buzzard - Audio Tour, Docs, & Videos

No abstract provided.


Soldiers Of Science--Agents Of Culture: American Archaeologists In The Office Of Strategic Services (Oss), Despina Lalaki Jan 2013

Soldiers Of Science--Agents Of Culture: American Archaeologists In The Office Of Strategic Services (Oss), Despina Lalaki

Publications and Research

"Scientificity" and appeals to political independence are invaluable tools when institutions such as the American School of Classical Studies at Athens attempt to maintain professional autonomy. Nonetheless, the cooperation of scientists and scholars with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), among them archaeologists affiliated with the American School, suggests a constitutive affinity between political and cultural leadership. This relationship is here mapped in historical terms, while, at the same time, sociological categorizations of knowledge and its employment are used in order to situate archaeologists in their broader social and political context and to evaluate their work not merely as agents …


Coordination And Symbolic Convergence At The Candles Holocaust Museum And Education Center, Jessica Mcdonald Jan 2013

Coordination And Symbolic Convergence At The Candles Holocaust Museum And Education Center, Jessica Mcdonald

Masters Theses

Using Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) and Symbolic Convergence Theory (SCT), this study examines the ways in which meaning is managed between the messages of the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center and the visitors of the museum. The research shows that the museum and the museum visitors work together in order to create an overall rhetorical vision of the museum's main message, both within the museum space and beyond. Using the metaphor of conversation, this study demonstrates the three ways through which the museum and its visitors achieve the rhetorical vision: historical conversation, personal conversation, and residual conversation. In …


Review Of Michel & Nosch, Eds., Textile Terminologies In The Ancient Near East And Mediterranean From The Third To The First Millennia Bc., Carol Bier Jan 2013

Review Of Michel & Nosch, Eds., Textile Terminologies In The Ancient Near East And Mediterranean From The Third To The First Millennia Bc., Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Textile production comprised the major manufacturing industry of the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, yet it has received relatively little scholarly attention. As garments and furnishings, textiles may provide warmth and utility, but they are also indicators of status, objects of trade and tribute, products of technology, and economic generators. The role of textiles is both pervasive and complex, yielding rich and specific vocabularies that do not easily transcend time and space for contemporary understanding. This brilliant volume offers a compilation of twenty-two papers that result from an exciting collaboration between the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Textile …


Singer's Handbook, Third Edition, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus Jan 2013

Singer's Handbook, Third Edition, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Handbooks

The third edition of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus Singer's Handbook.


Crescendo!, Autumn 2013, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus Jan 2013

Crescendo!, Autumn 2013, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Crescendo! The Newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Autumn 2013 issue of Crescendo!, the newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus.


Barnett Directs The University Museum At Siue, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Barnett Directs The University Museum At Siue, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Entertaining, Informing, Persuading: Figures Of Speech To Prepare For Health And Safety, David H. Lee, Frederick Steier, Wit Ostrenko Jan 2013

Entertaining, Informing, Persuading: Figures Of Speech To Prepare For Health And Safety, David H. Lee, Frederick Steier, Wit Ostrenko

Publications and Research

The public mandates science center exhibits that are entertaining as well as informative. In addition, exhibits can also be performative, in that they act back upon the visitors with an injunction to change their ways. We give examples from two exhibits that not only inform, but also open up space for changes in behavior and perception, particularly in arenas of public health. We look at two recent and ongoing exhibits at MOSI – “Disasterville” and “The Amazing You” - and examine the affordances suggested by figures of speech such as eponymy, hyponymy, hypernymy and retronymy. Tropological research into museum exhibits …