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Ripe For Harvest: Data Harvesting And The Need For E-Lending Privacy Legislation, George M. Farris Jan 2025

Ripe For Harvest: Data Harvesting And The Need For E-Lending Privacy Legislation, George M. Farris

The Southeastern Librarian

Digital lending has revolutionized libraries, adding a trove of available titles and increased accessibility and convenience to patrons. However, handling of patron privacy when utilizing e-lending services is an area that has not received much attention. This paper examines reasons why libraries and patrons alike should be concerned about privacy and the harvest of data when engaging in e-lending through a non-library entity. Examples of mishandling of patron data are discussed in this paper. Recommendations for legislative and non-legislative actions that libraries can take to uphold the American Library Associa-tion core values of intellectual freedom and privacy are also discussed. …


Sela Officers And State Representatives Jan 2025

Sela Officers And State Representatives

The Southeastern Librarian

Current SELA officers and representatives.


The President’S Column, Laura Slavin Jan 2025

The President’S Column, Laura Slavin

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.


From Dixie To Rocky Top: Music And Meaning In Southeastern Conference Football, Ariana Baker Jan 2025

From Dixie To Rocky Top: Music And Meaning In Southeastern Conference Football, Ariana Baker

The Southeastern Librarian

Carrie Tipton Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2023 ISBN: 9780826506399 320 p. $34.95 (Pbk)


Voodoo: An African American Religion, A Blake Denton Jan 2025

Voodoo: An African American Religion, A Blake Denton

The Southeastern Librarian

Jeffrey E. Anderson Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2024 ISBN: 9780807181324 272 p. $45.00 (Hbk)


News From The States Jan 2025

News From The States

The Southeastern Librarian

News from participating Southeastern states.


A Look Back: My Presidential Term, Crystal Gates Jan 2025

A Look Back: My Presidential Term, Crystal Gates

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.


In The Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning, Chris Andrews Jan 2025

In The Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning, Chris Andrews

The Southeastern Librarian

Grace Elizabeth Hale New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2023 ISBN: 9780316564748 256 p. $29.00 (Hbk)


Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration And Struggles For Abolition Democracy In Louisiana, Tim Dodge Jan 2025

Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration And Struggles For Abolition Democracy In Louisiana, Tim Dodge

The Southeastern Librarian

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023 ISBN: 97814696775114 374 p. $29.95 (Pbk)


Usability, Visibility, And Style: Libguides Usability Testing To Support Students’ Needs, Tera A. Ray Jan 2025

Usability, Visibility, And Style: Libguides Usability Testing To Support Students’ Needs, Tera A. Ray

The Southeastern Librarian

The study aimed to discover the level of knowledge students have regarding LibGuides, the preferred navigational layout, and how students use guides to conduct research. Ten undergraduate students par-ticipated in a mixed-methods study consisting of semi-structured interviews and usability tasks. The study revealed that the usability test was the first time any of the participants had interacted with a guide, resulting in data free from bias or previous experience. Participants did not exhibit a clear prefer-ence for navigation style, and an emphasis was placed on the importance of an aesthetically pleasing design and a functional search bar. The study's findings …


Selling Science Fiction Cinema: Making And Marketing A Genre, Camille Mccutcheon Jan 2025

Selling Science Fiction Cinema: Making And Marketing A Genre, Camille Mccutcheon

The Southeastern Librarian

J.P. Telotte Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023 ISBN: 9781477327333 192 p. $45.00 (Hbk)


Southeastern Librarian 72(4) Winter 2024 (Full Issue) Jan 2025

Southeastern Librarian 72(4) Winter 2024 (Full Issue)

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian Volume 72 Number 4


A Building Progress Report: What Ekstrom Library Has Learned, 2006-2024, Bruce L. Keisling, Robert E. Fox Jr Jan 2025

A Building Progress Report: What Ekstrom Library Has Learned, 2006-2024, Bruce L. Keisling, Robert E. Fox Jr

The Southeastern Librarian

In 1994, Stewart Brand introduced the concept that buildings “learn” or adapt to their changing uses and circumstances over time through addressing maintenance, fixing mistakes, and adding enhancements. This article builds on Brand’s work by applying the concepts to one academic research library that has experienced additions and renovations based on changing assumptions through time of what the build-ing should provide and support. These changes were possible because the building was designed with an open structure that supports change and thus has allowed it to learn and adapt in a financially and envi-ronmentally sustainable manner. The concepts discussed can be …


Cerrando La Brecha: Difusión Virtual De La Cultura Maya Para La Conciencia Pública Y La Preservación, Ana María Vera Arias, Dr. Lilia Lucia Lizama Aranda, Brenda Marin, José Montesino Jan 2025

Cerrando La Brecha: Difusión Virtual De La Cultura Maya Para La Conciencia Pública Y La Preservación, Ana María Vera Arias, Dr. Lilia Lucia Lizama Aranda, Brenda Marin, José Montesino

Journal of Maya Heritage

En este artículo se aborda el origen, los métodos y el resultado del ciclo de conferencias de divulgación virtual organizado por el Centro del Patrimonio Maya en colaboración con Arqueólogos sin Fronteras del Mundo Maya, esto con el objetivo de compartir conocimientos y generar conciencia sobre diversas facetas de la cultura maya. La pregunta central gira en torno a cómo se pueden comunicar efectivamente las complejidades y la rica herencia de la cultura maya a una audiencia no especializada. Como resultado, encontró que las conferencias de divulgación virtual fueron un método adecuado para ampliar el interés sobre la cultura maya …


Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords


Harare: Inheriting A Settler-Colonial City: Change Or Continuity? By Carole Rakodi, David Wasserman Jan 2025

Harare: Inheriting A Settler-Colonial City: Change Or Continuity? By Carole Rakodi, David Wasserman

The Geographical Bulletin

Africa has a long colonial legacy. Whether it was the French in the Ivory Coast, the Portuguese in Angola, or British settlers in Southern Rhodesia, European nations had a significant impact on the social, political, and economic landscapes of Africa's cities. Such places were built and managed to reflect the needs of settlers, rather than 'natives.'


Volume 38-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

Volume 38-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 38-2 Complete Issue


Rural Restructuring: Global Processes And Their Responses By Terry Marsden, Philip Lowe, And Sarah What More, Editors., M. Duane Nellis Jan 2025

Rural Restructuring: Global Processes And Their Responses By Terry Marsden, Philip Lowe, And Sarah What More, Editors., M. Duane Nellis

The Geographical Bulletin

(Cloth). To fully understand the transformation occurring in rural areas requires a broader, more geographically holistic approach to analysis ofthe rural system. Research needs to focus on the implications of reorganization of the international food system, as well as changes taking place in rural areas associated with capitalist recombinations and efforts at some form of rural sustainability.


The Evolving Coast By Richard A. Davisjr, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

The Evolving Coast By Richard A. Davisjr, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

The most obvious and attractive boundary to people is that which separates the land from the sea. Although shorelines have been examined and classified since the early part of this century (e.g. Gulliver, 1899: Suess, 1909), understanding of their hazards and the consequence of reckless development seems, until quite recently, to have passed us by.


Europe At The Margins: New Mosaics Of Inequality By Costis Hadjimichalis And David Sadler, Editors, Wendy Shaw Jan 2025

Europe At The Margins: New Mosaics Of Inequality By Costis Hadjimichalis And David Sadler, Editors, Wendy Shaw

The Geographical Bulletin

Since the mid 1980's Europe has un122 dergone some fundamental and dramatic transformations, which include the creation of a Single Internal Market and other far reaching economic, political and social changes. The image of Europe that is touted is one of a harmony of differences, of integration, and equality. This integration and harmony is being achieved by allowing the 'logic' of the market to operate, and by engaging in a 'social partnership.' To date, focus has been on the positive aspects of integration, but a darker side exists beyond the rhetoric of a new unified and affluent Europe.


Entering The Watershed By Bob Doppelt, Mary Scurlock, Chris Frissell, James Karrof The Pacific Rivers Council., Evelyn Gallegos Jan 2025

Entering The Watershed By Bob Doppelt, Mary Scurlock, Chris Frissell, James Karrof The Pacific Rivers Council., Evelyn Gallegos

The Geographical Bulletin

Watersheds are surface areas connected by a stream network creating an ecosystem of habitats and basic life-support systems. Holistic and inclusive, watersheds are natural and often neglected tools for cost-effective and sustainable riparian-riverine management. Past piecemeal and reactive approaches to our damaged riverine ecosystems have been ineffective, and in some cases have contributed to further degradation.


Managing Geographic Information Systems By Nancy J. Obermeyer And Jeffrey K. Pinto. G, Kendra Buntrock Barberena Jan 2025

Managing Geographic Information Systems By Nancy J. Obermeyer And Jeffrey K. Pinto. G, Kendra Buntrock Barberena

The Geographical Bulletin

Managing Geographic Information Systems explores theoretical compo - nents of a Geographic Information Sys - tem (GIS) and how to manage them. The authors bel ieve that "previously pub - lished GIS books are instructional texts filled with unrelated case studies with lit - tle theoretical foundation ." They suggest that if the theory behind a GIS is known, it can be effectively applied. Their sec - ondary focus is to enable complete use of the full range of GIS tasks by average users by supplying some basic informa - tion about geographical analysis.


Political Geography (2nd Edition) By Martin Ira Glassner, Jamie M. Goodwin-White Jan 2025

Political Geography (2nd Edition) By Martin Ira Glassner, Jamie M. Goodwin-White

The Geographical Bulletin

Political Geography begins as all good geographies should, by situating what will follow temporally as well as spatially. "It is possible," Glassner begins, " . .. that many years from now historians will look back and judge that the twenty-first century . . . began during the period in which we are now living, roughly from the mid1980s to the mid-1990s." And even ifthis does not prove true, it is most certainly the case that the current period has witnessed substantial re-orientation of the relations between humans and political contexts of space. The spatial scale of human political geographies, it …


News From The Chapters 1995-1996, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

News From The Chapters 1995-1996, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Highlights of Activities (1995-1996): This year was packed full of travels, trials, and tribulations for the Alpha Chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon. We had approximately 20 active members ofthe organization participating in numerous events. The fall semester started off to a cold, wet camping trip to the ever popular Turkey Run State Park in Indiana. We had a very successful 5th Annual White Elephant Auction, raising $190.00. The local Geography Bee and the State Bee brought in T-shirt sales of $600.00. We made a generous donation to a local charity from the profits we made this year. A new item …


Charcoal Making: An Element Of Antiguan Folk Culture, Douglas Heffington Jan 2025

Charcoal Making: An Element Of Antiguan Folk Culture, Douglas Heffington

The Geographical Bulletin

Antigua, in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles, has a rich cultural history. The residuals of a monoculture agriculture involving sugar cane (Saccharum ssp.) cultivation are seen everywhere, including a large ethnic population of African descent. Blacks brought to the island as slave labor since the late 1600s have contributed significantly to Antiguan folk culture, including active participation in the cottage industry of charcoal making and the maintenance of the associated material culture. This paper is the documentation of a folk industry before it is lost to the inevitable encroachment of modernization.


Exploring Spatial Structure Effect On Modeling Spatial Interaction, Engdawork Desta Jan 2025

Exploring Spatial Structure Effect On Modeling Spatial Interaction, Engdawork Desta

The Geographical Bulletin

Measuring the relative importance of locations and accounting for the influence of spatial structure are important considerations in spatial interaction modeling. To determine the volume of attracted and/ or generated flows between interacting locations, different formulations of a gravity model are used. In a system of interaction space, whether it is origins, destinations or both, that should be appraised is still not resolved . The exercise in this paper employs various tracks of the gravity model to evaluate the influence of spatial structure on spatial interaction. The conclusion reached does not fully support the findings of similar previous works. The …


Marketing Distance-Decay And Highland Vegetable Production In Northern Thailand, Richard A. Crooker, Robert N. Martin Jan 2025

Marketing Distance-Decay And Highland Vegetable Production In Northern Thailand, Richard A. Crooker, Robert N. Martin

The Geographical Bulletin

This paper delineates the potential geographical range of vegetable production in Thailand's northern highlands and demonstrates the utility of marketing distance-decay analysis in rural studies. Hill tribes grow vegetables in northern Thailand as replacement cash crops for illegal opium. They produce more vegetables than local markets consume and the surplus is transported to a developing market in Bangkok. The distance-decay rate ofthis new market is treated as a function of transport costs. Isoline maps are used to analyze resulting marketing gradients of important vegetable cash crops. It appears that distance-decay does not inevitably prohibit marketing surplus vegetables in Bangkok. The …


Of Landscapes And Nightmares: The Geography Of Fictional Horror, Michelle K. Smith Jan 2025

Of Landscapes And Nightmares: The Geography Of Fictional Horror, Michelle K. Smith

The Geographical Bulletin

This paper examines the role of landscape, place, and setting in the horror genre. A brief history of horror is followed by an examination of the trends and changes that have occurred in horror literature over time. Explanations for these trends are offered. Two-hundred horror stories from 1895 to the present are categorized into the three basic genre subtypes (supernatural, psychological, or other), and their associated landscape settings are identified. The city has been and remains the most popular setting in horror fiction, followed by the small town setting, the rural setting, and the suburban setting. All are associated with …


Projections And Perceptions Editorial Comments: On The Pleasures Of Being A Geographer. James J. Parsons, James J. Parsons Jan 2025

Projections And Perceptions Editorial Comments: On The Pleasures Of Being A Geographer. James J. Parsons, James J. Parsons

The Geographical Bulletin

We often forget our good fortune at being "Geographers." As Carl Sauer once noted ours is not just another academic discipline. We have chosen it because it has special meaning to us, an important premise that does not always apply to those in other fields. For most of us it represents a compelling, almost mystical way of looking at linkages between ourselves and our supporting earth in particular places, regions, or environments. And we do what we do because we like it. Listen to the late Archie Carr, distinguished naturalist-biologist and world authority on turtles and tortoises: "A geographer is …


Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael Jan 2025

Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords