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Atg Interviews Copyright Clearance Center & Innovative Interfaces, Inc., Rosemary L. Meszaros

Against the Grain

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America Life In The 19th Century: Unabridged Travel Accounts By Audubon, Olmsted, And Twain, Gene Waddell

Against the Grain

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Training New Acquisitions And Collection Development Librarians: Some Technical And Philosophical Guideposts, Antje Mays

Against the Grain

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Atg Deadlines, Editor

Against the Grain

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Table Of Contents

Against the Grain

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Reality Tv, Faking It, And The Transformation Of Personal Identity, Joanne Morreale

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her paper, "Reality TV, Faking It, and the Transformation of Personal Identity," Joanne Morreale examines the hybrid makeover, game, and reality TV show Faking It as a cultural form that portrays the transformation of personal identity through performance. Morreale argues that the contents and performance of the show intensify the link between consumer culture and the fabrication of identity by teaching that fulfillment comes from becoming, rather than having, a commodity. In the show, participants learn to perform new selves that are perceived as "better." Faking It thus puts on display the processes of fabrication whereby the self is …

But... Can The Subaltern Sing?, Rebecca Romanow

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her paper, "But... Can the Subaltern Sing?," Rebecca Romanow discusses the dominance of the English language in rock music and the cultural values and global power that are exerted through the exportation of rock by American and British bands. Further, she explores the question of the ways in which this music represents an area of popular culture where the voices of the non-English speaking and the non-Western are silenced. Salman Rushdie, in The Ground Beneath Her Feet, complains that rock music "is precisely one of those viruses with which the almighty West has infected the East, one of the …

I, User -- Au Contraire, Robert!, Rick Lugg, Ruth Fischer

Against the Grain

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The Use Of Digital Technologies In The Selection And Purchasing Of Library Materials Among Special, Academic, And Public Libraries, Barbara Blummer

Against the Grain

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Bet You Missed It -- Press Clippings -- In The News -- Carefully Selected By Your Crack Team Of News Sleuths, Bruce Strauch

Against the Grain

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Dust And The Avant-Garde, Jake Kennedy

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper, "Dust and the Avant-Garde," Jake Kennedy presents an interdisciplinary exploration of experimental modernism in the work of visual artist Marcel Duchamp and writer Gertrude Stein. Kennedy focuses on the strange presence of dust in the work of these two artists and argues that as an abject object -- it is literally the unwanted of domestic space -- the idea of dust engages radically modernism on a material level. Dust is also the unwanted of modernity itself, as it represents a potentially subversive sister-part to urban, masculine modernity's valorisation of machinery, glass, and steel. Transmuted into the metaphysical …

Introduction To New Papers In American Cultural Studies, Joanne Morreale, P. David Marshall

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Selected Bibliography Of Scholarship In (Comparative) Cultural Studies And Popular Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek, Yilin Liao

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Political Deliberation And E-Participation In Policy-Making, Rebecca J. Romsdahl

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her paper, "Political Deliberation and E-Participation in Policy-Making," Rebecca J. Romsdahl proposes that the internet has now become a valuable medium for information dissemination and long distance communication; it is also gaining attention as a potential tool for political deliberation. Public participation has been a long-standing tradition in American democracy but most scholars today believe it needs a revival. Some of these scholars believe that e-participation in policy-making could help revitalize political discussion between citizens and government and promote greater participation by disenfranchised groups. Whether this would lead to greater opportunities for true deliberation on political issues and not …

Positioning Acquisitions In The Library Organization: Issues, Questions, Decisions, Aline Soules

Against the Grain

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Harry Potter And The Susceptible Child Audience, Kara Lynn Andersen

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Kara Lynn Andersen, in her paper "Harry Potter and the Susceptible Child Audience," argues for a rethinking of assumptions of child audiences as passive readers and viewers through an analysis of the Harry Potter phenomenon. Andersen argues that instead of categorizing children as passive and homogenous subjects of analysis, they should instead be incorporated as participants in the discourse about children's books and films. Although frequently figured as especially susceptible to the affects of advertising and other media, young Harry Potter fans are particularly visible as not only consumers of the texts, but creators of new texts. Using work done …

Technology Left Behind -- Where Have All The Catalogers Gone?, Cris Ferguson

Against the Grain

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Questions & Answers -- Copyright Column, Laura N. Gasaway

Against the Grain

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Atg Interviews Norman Demarais, Donna Capelle Cook

Against the Grain

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Electronic Resource Management Systems, Part Ii: Offerings From Serial Vendors And Serial Data Vendors, Ellen Finnie Duranceau

Against the Grain

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Back Talk -- It's The Web, Stupid, Anthony (Tony) W. Ferguson

Against the Grain

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People Profile: Tim Daniels, Editor

Against the Grain

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Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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The Conspectus: Time For A Comeback?, Paul Streby

Against the Grain

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Tapping The Global Information Base To Build An Innovative Knowledge Society, Arthur J. Carty Dr

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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The Age Bomb And The Age Of Globalisation, Hans Selberg

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

As the library world we have known is changing rapidly around us, we are all getting older. At the NTNU Library 69 people out of a staff of about 145 are aged 55 or more. During this year alone 22 staff members will become eligible for retirement, if they should so choose. The coming ten years will show a massive changing of the guard in our library. This means a severe loss of competent staff members. On the other hand: Even though the Library Board has ordered staff reductions during the past few years, we shall now be able to …

Planning A Future Workforce: An Australian Perspective, Jenny Mccarthy

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Strategy And Change Management In Delft University Of Technology Library, Kees Konings

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Developing A Global Information Learning Policy At Catholic University Of Louvain, Belgium, Fabienne Moreau, Frederic Brodkom

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Louvain-la-Neuve is located in Belgium, 25 km South-East from Brussels. The university comprises a large international community: 21000 students and a staff of 3000 academics and scientists and more than 2000 collaborators. There are more than 200 research units.

The Catholic University of Louvain was founded in 1425 in Louvain (Leuven) in the Flemish part of Belgium. But in 1968, due to political and linguistic reasons, the university was divided into 2 separated universities: a Flemish one which remained in Leuven and a French one, which moved to the French speaking part of Belgium. A new town was then created …

Competencies For The Big Picture: The 8rs Canadian Library Human Resources Study, Ernie Ingles

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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