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Library Marketplace-Interview With Norman Desmarais, Professor Emeritus, Providence College, John D. Riley Dec 2012

Library Marketplace-Interview With Norman Desmarais, Professor Emeritus, Providence College, John D. Riley

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Patron Driven Acquisitions: Integrating Print Books With Ebooks, Andrew Welch, Teri Koch Dec 2012

Patron Driven Acquisitions: Integrating Print Books With Ebooks, Andrew Welch, Teri Koch

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Collecting To The Core-Manuscripts In Medieval Studies, Susan Steuer, Ann Doherty Dec 2012

Collecting To The Core-Manuscripts In Medieval Studies, Susan Steuer, Ann Doherty

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Metaphor Translation As A Tool Of Intercultural Understanding, Ipshita Chanda Dec 2012

Metaphor Translation As A Tool Of Intercultural Understanding, Ipshita Chanda

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Metaphor Translation as a Tool of Intercultural Understanding" Ipshita Chanda takes up specific cases of metaphor translation as a methodological exercise towards understanding intercultural exchange. Chanda's study is based on a semiotic and linguistic understanding of metaphor as a signifying and cognitive device. When a metaphor is translated from one linguistic-literary field into another, the process of translation itself yields some specific operational steps for studying inter- and cross-cultural relations. Here, translation is not proposed as a framework but as practical method: the translation of metaphor becomes an exercise in strategy for the pedagogy of …


Aesthetics In Gao's Soul Mountain, Mabel Lee Dec 2012

Aesthetics In Gao's Soul Mountain, Mabel Lee

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Aesthetics in Gao's Soul Mountain" Mabel Lee analyses Nobel Laureate 2000 Xingjian Gao's aesthetics. Transnational conglomerates today control the book industry from publishing house to bookshop and through aggressive market strategies they exert considerable influence on readers. Nonetheless, there are writers who refuse to capitulate to market demands and seek only to actualize their aesthetic ideas in the creation of literary texts. One such writer is Gao, author of the novel Soul Mountain. Lee posits that Gao's aesthetics is founded on the close interrogation of both Chinese and European models and practices and explores specific …


Nostalgia In Oral Histories Of Israeli Women, Yael Zilberman Dec 2012

Nostalgia In Oral Histories Of Israeli Women, Yael Zilberman

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Nostalgia in Oral Histories of Israeli Women" Yael Zilberman explores the narration of nostalgia of elderly women about the city of Be'er Sheva. In their narration, the subjects of the study create textual and spatial practices which are engendered and create analogies between the city, their maturing/ed bodies, and by-gone youth. Further, the grief owing to the perceived condition of the city intensifies the idealized description of the city and the longing for its past. Zilberman's study brakes new ground in that the study of urban experience within folklore is a lesser explored field as the urban …


Victims Of The City In Novels Of Zola And Dostoevsky, Marta L. Wilkinson Dec 2012

Victims Of The City In Novels Of Zola And Dostoevsky, Marta L. Wilkinson

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Victims of the City in Novels of Zola and Dostoevsky" Marta Wilkinson argues that urbanity in its nineteenth-century setting functioned as the culpable agent in criminal behavior found in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and in several of Zola's Rougon-Macquart novels. Wilkinson an analysis of the novels based on Merlin Coverly's concept of psychogeography which supports the extension of the cityscape as an integral part of the novels' characters. Further, Wilkinson illustrates how in Zola's and Dostoevsky's novels the city reigns triumphant as characters fall victim to disease, drink, or are left with desperate choices: in Dostoevsky's novel …


Contemporary Us-American Satire And Consumerism (Crews, Coupland, Palahniuk), J.C. Lee Dec 2012

Contemporary Us-American Satire And Consumerism (Crews, Coupland, Palahniuk), J.C. Lee

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Contemporary US-American Satire and Consumerism (Crews, Coupland, Palahniuk)" J.C. Lee focuses on contemporary satire's potential (or lack thereof) for change, reform, or rebellion through an investigation of works by Harry Crews, Douglas Coupland, and Chuck Palahniuk, all of which target consumerism. The said writers employ satire not to initiate rebellion or cultural change, but to reflect the problematic role of institutions in modern life and, in turn, the potential, even hope, for personal growth. Lee's analysis of texts by Crews, Coupland, and Palahniuk is intended to question satire's potential as a form of cultural critique and institutional …


Memory, Identity, And Narration: A Book Review Of New Work By Assmann And Conrad And Tilmans, Vree, And Winter, Simona Mitroiu Dec 2012

Memory, Identity, And Narration: A Book Review Of New Work By Assmann And Conrad And Tilmans, Vree, And Winter, Simona Mitroiu

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.


Cooperation Among Libraries As A Basis For Networking, Matjaz Zaucér Nov 2012

Cooperation Among Libraries As A Basis For Networking, Matjaz Zaucér

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Network In The Library Information Services, Zhen Wu Nov 2012

Network In The Library Information Services, Zhen Wu

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Networks, Networking And Computers - But What About The People?, Vicki Williamson Nov 2012

Networks, Networking And Computers - But What About The People?, Vicki Williamson

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Bringing Staff (Faculty) Up To Speed: Cd-Rom Access Via A Wan At The University Of The Witwatersrand, South Africa, Julie Wilcocks Nov 2012

Bringing Staff (Faculty) Up To Speed: Cd-Rom Access Via A Wan At The University Of The Witwatersrand, South Africa, Julie Wilcocks

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Networking Library Services: Experience With The Electronic Library Store, Richard Widdicombe Nov 2012

Networking Library Services: Experience With The Electronic Library Store, Richard Widdicombe

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In 1993, when the library at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ became the first to stop all journal subscriptions there was fear among the faculty and intrigue in the library community world-wide. Three years later, we can demonstrate an enormous success in changing the library role and perception with its user community. Information delivery, in many ways, is far superior to the warehouse model of the past. The emergence of Web technology has also helped advance the goals of our "electronic library model." We shall outline the steps taken, the positive effect it had on our user community …


From Rapdoc To Webdoc: An Evaluation Of The Pica-Rapdoc Project And An Introduction To The New Pica-Webdoc Project, Gerard Van Marle Nov 2012

From Rapdoc To Webdoc: An Evaluation Of The Pica-Rapdoc Project And An Introduction To The New Pica-Webdoc Project, Gerard Van Marle

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

At the IATUL Conference in Tallinn in 1992 a report was presented about a new PICA project: RAPDOC. Information was presented about the reasons to start the project, its objectives, finances and project planning as well as information about the underlying interlibrary loan analysis in The Netherlands. The RAPDOC project officially came to an end on October 1, 1995. A project evaluation will be presented as well as the future usage of the obtained results. In the same year when the RAPDOC project came to an end, a new PICA project was launched: the PICA-WEBDOC project. In December 1995 an …


Testing Firstsearch And Umi Databases In Technological University Libraries, Charles Townley Nov 2012

Testing Firstsearch And Umi Databases In Technological University Libraries, Charles Townley

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Information As A Revenue-Generating Commodity In The Context Of Malaysia, Rosna Taib Nov 2012

Information As A Revenue-Generating Commodity In The Context Of Malaysia, Rosna Taib

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In a knowledge-based society, there is a demand for information. University libraries with their vast resources could meet this demand and in certain situations create the demand for information. In Malaysia which aspires to be an industrialized nation by the year 2020, many university and research libraries have responded to this growing demand. Eight of the universities and institutions of higher learning which have been fully subsidized by the Government in the past will be corporatized in 1996. The reasons for corporatization are many, among them to allow flexibility in the management of the institutions, including finance. The library, being …


Reconceiving And Repackaging Journal Information For Electronic Delivery, John Tagler Nov 2012

Reconceiving And Repackaging Journal Information For Electronic Delivery, John Tagler

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


The Digital Library: The Next Sigmoid Curve Of The Information Profession, Marinus Swanepoel Nov 2012

The Digital Library: The Next Sigmoid Curve Of The Information Profession, Marinus Swanepoel

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


The Digital Library: The Next Sigmoid Curve Of The Information Profession, Anita Sundaram Nov 2012

The Digital Library: The Next Sigmoid Curve Of The Information Profession, Anita Sundaram

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Free Improvisation Information Service Over The Internet, Peter Stubley Nov 2012

Free Improvisation Information Service Over The Internet, Peter Stubley

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Digital Archives: Cal Poly's Experiences With Creation And Dissemination, Ilene Rockman Nov 2012

Digital Archives: Cal Poly's Experiences With Creation And Dissemination, Ilene Rockman

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Just In Time/Just In Case Electronic Publishing Development: Are We Going Full Circle With The Customer/Reader In The Driver Seat?, Liz Pope Nov 2012

Just In Time/Just In Case Electronic Publishing Development: Are We Going Full Circle With The Customer/Reader In The Driver Seat?, Liz Pope

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

IDEAL, the International Digital Electronic Access Library, is a developmental project of Academic Press that aims to exploit the Internet to greatly expand and improve access to scientific journals. Through licensing agreements with academic or industrial networks, IDEAL brings research journals directly to the end users' digital desktops. IDEAL uses an efficient no-nonsense approach based on an open non-proprietary modular architecture. Starting with the complete 1996 issues of 175 Academic Press journals (and some 1995 issues), an average of over 2000 articles are added every month. Other publishers are being invited to join in the project. To create this IDEAL …


Networked Information Resources & Services In Perspective: The Experience Of The Coalition For Networked Information, Paul Evan Peters Nov 2012

Networked Information Resources & Services In Perspective: The Experience Of The Coalition For Networked Information, Paul Evan Peters

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The Coalition for Networked Information was founded in March 1990 to promote the creation and use of networked information resources and services that advance scholarship and intellectual productivity. The Coalition was established and is sponsored by three associations: the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), CAUSE, and EDUCOM. ARL promotes equitable access and effective use of recorded knowledge in support of teaching, research, and scholarship. CAUSE and EDUCOM are dedicated to different aspects of introducing, using, and managing information technology and related resources in research and education communities, particularly higher education communities. A task force of over two hundred (200) institutions …


Network At Work: Tailoring Digital Information, Irma Pasanen-Tuomainen, Talikka Pasanen-Tuomainen, Marja Pasanen-Tuomainen Nov 2012

Network At Work: Tailoring Digital Information, Irma Pasanen-Tuomainen, Talikka Pasanen-Tuomainen, Marja Pasanen-Tuomainen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Lessons Learned From Martindale's Www Reference Projects, Jim Martindale Nov 2012

Lessons Learned From Martindale's Www Reference Projects, Jim Martindale

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The Martindale Homepage Project was initiated two years ago to explore what curriculum aids and research were being mounted on the web. Soon, it became clear that there was sufficient information to establish a virtual library that could support a medicl school curriculum, and specialized medical, dental, veterinary, nursing, nutrition, public health, agriculture and medical law reference sources. Martindale's Health Science Guide is a "multimedia specialized information resource" currently containing over 19,600 teaching files over 29,300 Medical Cases, 342 courses/textbooks, 1000s of graphic displays and over 5,200 (MPEG's) movies. The "Graduate & Undergraduate Center" for major science disciplines is another …


From Stm Publishing To Digital Libraries: Scientific And Technical Communication In The Evolving Networked Information Environment, Clifford Lynch Nov 2012

From Stm Publishing To Digital Libraries: Scientific And Technical Communication In The Evolving Networked Information Environment, Clifford Lynch

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This talk will discuss early experiences and perspectives on scientific publishing in the networked information environment. Both the migration of traditional publishing vehicles to networked delivery and the development of network-based forms of communication will be explored. I will also consider some of the infrastructure requirements that are necessary to support the transition to the networked world.


After 2000 Years Of Paper-Based Publishing, What's Next?, Matthew Loeb, Bill Sanders Nov 2012

After 2000 Years Of Paper-Based Publishing, What's Next?, Matthew Loeb, Bill Sanders

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

At IEEE Computer Society Press, a medium-sized provider of published information delivered in the form of books, magazines, journals and conference proceedings, we are seeking answers to the question: after 2000 years of paper-based publishing, what's next? We discuss our efforts to meet the differing requirements of end-users of information: individuals, libraries, conference organizers and attendees. Our experiences and future plans for publishing with respect to paper, CD-ROM, Internet/WWW, and digital libraries are discussed.


Building An Information Infrastructure With Ibero-America Through The Internet: The Istec Linkages Initiative, Harry Llull, Maria Isabel Santoro Nov 2012

Building An Information Infrastructure With Ibero-America Through The Internet: The Istec Linkages Initiative, Harry Llull, Maria Isabel Santoro

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Electronic Library Concept: Putting Plans Into Practice, Shirley Leung Nov 2012

Electronic Library Concept: Putting Plans Into Practice, Shirley Leung

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.