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Stacy V. Sieck Profile

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

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Vendor Relations Strategies For Libraries, Kirsten Ostergaard, Doralyn Rossmann

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

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Between A Rock And A Hard Place: The Realities Of Flat Discounts, Howard N. Lesser

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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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

The Evolving Dda Project At The Orbis Cascade Alliance, Kathleen Carlisle Fountain

Against the Grain

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Pinar Erzin Profile

Against the Grain

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Booklover--Grace Forgiveness Unity, Donna Jacobs

Against the Grain

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Cases Of Note--Copyright, Bruce Strauch, Bryan M. Carson, Jack Montgomery

Against the Grain

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

Against the Grain

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Characterizing And Mapping The Field Scale Spatial Variability Of Surface Horizon Soil Properties And Water Content With Noninvasive Em38, Ryan W.R. Schroeder, Robert Austin, Joshua Heitman, Adam Howard

Purdue GIS Day

The spatial variability of physical soil properties at the field scale is increasingly important in agriculture and natural resource management. Changes in topography, parent material, management practices, erosion/deposition rates, etc. can influence the variability of the soil’s physical properties and help guide management and land use plans. The Geonics EM38 is a noninvasive geophysical sensor which is used to measure the apparent electrical conductivity (ECa) of the soil through electromagnetic induction – primarily influenced by clay content, soil moisture content, and salinity. Soil moisture has been found to be a significant contributor to ECa and is therefore useful in determining …

Research Computing And Data For Geoscience, Preston Smith

Purdue GIS Day

This presentation will discuss the data storage and computational resources available for GIS researchers at Purdue.

This presentation will discuss the data storage and computational resources available for GIS researchers at Purdue.

Academic Libraries And The Scholarly Book Marketplace: Death By 1,000 (Paper) Cuts?, Michael Zeoli

Against the Grain

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Dda In Context: Defining A Comprehensive Ebook Acquisition Strategy In An Access-Driven World, Jason Price, Maria Savova

Against the Grain

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Accucoms International Bv Profile

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At Brunning: People & Technology--At The Only Edge That Means Anything/How We Understand What We Do, Dennis Brunning

Against the Grain

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Gis Resources @ Purdue, Larry Biehl

Purdue GIS Day

GIS tools, resources, and data provided by ITAP and RCAC

It’S All About The Journey… From Brainstorming To Canvas, From Map To App, Frank Garofalo

Purdue GIS Day

The Ideation and brainstorming skills for GIS project development toward a user friendly interface.

Mapping The Impact Of Famine On The Volga And Black Sea German Enclaves, 1891-1934, Amber N. Nickell

Purdue GIS Day

Using ArcGIS software and the ArcGIS online story mapping function, this project maps population growth and decline over time in the ethnic German Volga and Black Sea Enclaves in the Russian Empire (later the USSR) and overlays that population data with maps of famine zones during the 1891/2, 1921/22, and 1932/33 famines in order to answer the following questions. Where were the enclaves in relation to the famine regions? What impact did the famines have on ethnic German populations in the region? How did the Volga colonies fare in relation to national estimates during naturally occurring famines? During the manmade …

Launch Of Geodata Portal @ Purdue Libraries, Nicole Kong, Weichang Tang

Purdue GIS Day

With more than two years’ efforts, Purdue University Libraries are launching the Geodata Portal @ Purdue on this year’s GIS Day celebration. This geodata portal allows geospatial information users to search for information by two simple criteria: where and what, which greatly reduced the geospatial information access barrier for researchers and learners. Users can preview map, preview metadata, and download maps from the portal. Currently, our portal include data from: (1) open data at all the collaborating universities, including Tufts, Harvard, MIT, and Berkley; (2) data from IndianaMap; (3) Purdue open access map collection: historic aerial photos, topo maps, and …

Extended Capability To Support Multiple Watersheds In Stepl Web, Larry Theller, Kean Jye Tan

Purdue GIS Day

The STEPL model is a web-based spreadsheet tool designed for the estimation / of pollutant load and to analyze how creation or practicing certain sustainable / activities will reduce pollution in a watershed. For example, leaving a strip of / grass between a farm field and a water feature like stream of lake, will have an / estimated impact on the amount of soil and fertilizer which runs off in to the / river. / The model uses soil properties database, precipitation database and other / factors to make an estimate of pollution reduction after an action. It can then …

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Against the Grain

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Ethnographic Collector, Gideon Singer

Purdue GIS Day

Ethnography can be enhanced by utilizing both ArcGIS Online and Arc Collector. Throughout 2015, I have designed and utilized the Ethnographic Collector web map to record qualitative observations, spatial records, and multi-media attachments. Data was recorded while conducting pilot research on the e-waste landscape of Tippecanoe County, Indiana and a class ethnography project on the neighborhood of New Chauncey. The Ethnographic Collector has augmented qualitative data collection via participant observation and go-along interviews and can likely be utilized in tandem with participatory GIS.