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Spartan Daily February 8, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 134, Issue 6

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Spartan Daily February 4, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 134, Issue 5

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Spartan Daily February 3, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 134, Issue 4

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Spartan Daily February 2, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 134, Issue 3

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Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 1, February 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

Noticias de NACCS Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Handbook Of Emergency Management For State-Level Transportation Agencies, Mti Report 09-10, Frances L. Edwards, Daniel C. Goodrich

Mineta Transportation Institute

The Department of Homeland Security has mandated specific systems and techniques for the management of emergencies in the United States, including the Incident Command System, the National Incident Management System, Emergency Operations Plans, Emergency Operations Centers, Continuity of Government Plans and Continuity of Operations Plans. These plans and systems may be applied to the state-level transportation agencyï¿½s disaster response systems to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. Specific guidance and management techniques are provided to aid emergency planning staff to create DHS-compliant systems.

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The Next Fifty Years: Addressing California´S Mobility In A Time Of Financial Challenges, Mti Report S-09-05, Mineta Transportation Institute

Mineta Transportation Institute

In a short 40 years from today, the population of California is projected to swell to 60 million people, nearly double of that in 2000. We already know how overwhelmed our transportation system is in 2010-so what will we do in the meantime not only to increase accessibility to roads and public transportation, but also to maintain the infrastructure already in place? Who should pay-states, the federal government, or users? Who will decide what is needed and where it will go? Why are we already having so much difficulty locating transportation funding? The Mineta Transportation Institute, along with the Commonwealth …

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Information Outlook, January/February 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 1

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Communication In The Library For Effective Administration, Abraham Etebu Tabor

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Good communication is essential for a library to function effectively. It fosters an open management style, which encourages communication of ideas as a tool for effective administration. This article describes the importance of communication in the library, problems of library communication, and offers solutions to identified communication problems.

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Use Of Information Sources By Research Scholars: A Case Study Of Gulbarga University, Shankar Reddy

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

User studies help build need-based and balanced collections. A questionnaire was used to collect data about use of information sources by research scholars of Gulbarga University of Karnataka State. A majority of the research scholars visit the library daily, and most indicated that they visit to use the Internet. Most found the collection inadequate to meet their information needs.

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Spartan Daily January 28, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 134, Issue 2

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Spartan Daily January 26, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 134, Issue 1

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Effects Of Federal Government Interventions On Collection Development In Nigerian Universities, B.F. Akindojutimi, T.O. Adewale, B.O. Omotayo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper evaluates the success of programmes of the Federal Government of Nigeria in improving funding of university libraries. The World Bank loan, 10 percent direct allocation, and the Education Trust Fund (ETF) interventions were found to be beneficial to library acquisitions. Interventions like the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) and National Universities Commission (NUC) central book purchase scheme as beneficial. Prudent management of funds at Hezekiah Oluwasanmi library has been of help since the stoppage of direct allocation from NUC. It is recommended that the government should involve end users of intervention programmes in planning and execution of future programmes.

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Information Needs And Information-Seeking Behaviour Of Faculty Members At The Islamia University Of Bahawalpur, Rubina Bhatti

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study evaluates the educational and information needs and information-seeking behaviour of the faculty members of the Islamia University of Bahawalpur. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were used with one hundred faculty members. One hundred fifty questionnaires were distributed and 100 returned. The data showed that most faculty (76%) consider the Internet the most useful source of information, along with books, journals, and informal channels. The teachers from Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, and Islamic Learning also want up-to-date resources relevant to their fields via a digital library. Teachers complained about the insufficient provision of computers in the library. The demand …

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Creating A Positive Learning Environment With A Guest Speaker, Hikaru Nakano

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Librarians and teaching faculty can collaborate to create a good learning environment for students. Organizing events with outside speakers can bring lasting benefits to students, faculty, and the community. This article highlights the need for advance preparation when organizing an event. Librarians must clearly define objectives to maximize participation and ensure that events are linked to courses. When real-world events are linked to students' academic experience, they are more actively engaged and can be more involved in their studies. Through administrative contributions, librarians can facilitate such events.

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Faculty Expectations Of Libraries: A Comparative Study Of Covenant University And The University Of Lagos, Mercy A. Ijirigho

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study assessed the quality of library services rendered, identified faculty expectations of librarians, and ascertained the disparity in user expectations between private and public universities. Three hundred questionnaires were administered to respondents from Covenant University and the University of Lagos, and two hundred and forty were completed. The study revealed that the quality of services currently rendered is higher in the private university than in the public university.

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Evaluating Students’ Use Of Campus Wide Network In Accessing Library Resources And Services In Nnamdi Azikiwe Library, University Of Nigeria, Nsukka, Delight Udochukwu, H C. Chukwuemeka

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper investigated students’ use of the campus wide network in accessing library resources and services in Nnamdi Azikiwe Library, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Nnamdi Azikiwe Library was selected because it is a University Library that has adopted wireless connectivity services so as to satisfy the needs of its community. Questionnaire was adopted as an instrument for data collection and was randomly distributed to the students. 1000 students selected using stratified random sampling, constituted the sample size out of a population of 39,000 students. Results revealed that laptop; smart phone and tablet phones were the mostly used wireless connectivity devices. …

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Anthropocentric Distance In National Geographic’S Environmental Aesthetic, Anne Marie Todd

Faculty Publications

Tourism is the way we understand the world: tourists travel in an increasingly mediated environment in which ubiquitous promotional material and other popular artifacts employ stunning images and romantic travel narratives to describe local environments. Tourist texts “sell” local landscapes to entice visitors, employing an environmental aesthetic that urges travel. With its mission to “explore the planet,” the National Geographic Society contributes to this tourist aesthetic. This essay examines three special issues on Africa simultaneously published by the National Geographic Society: its official journal, National Geographic, and its sister magazines, National Geographic Traveler, and National Geographic Adventure. The photographic images …

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Leadership Is About You, Ken Haycock

Faculty Publications

The article offers information on the leadership theory in context with strong and integrated school library program. Several theories of leadership are listed. Core competencies of leaders that include managing attention, managing meaning and managing trust are discussed. Three major functions of leadership are also discussed.

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Roads: Leading Indicators Show Ramp-Up In Activity, Shishir Mathur, Kunal Katara

Faculty Publications, Urban and Regional Planning

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The Pedagogy Of Digital Storytelling In The College Classroom, Rachel Raimist, Candance Doerr-Stevens, Walter R. Jacobs

Faculty Publications, Sociology

In the fall of 2008, Rachel Raimist and Walter Jacobs collaboratively designed and taught the course “Digital Storytelling in and with Communities of Color” to 18 undergraduate students from a variety of disciplines. Candance Doerr-Stevens audited the class as a graduate student. This article examines the media making processes of the students in the course, asking how participants used digital storytelling to engage with themselves and the media through content creation that both mimicked and critiqued current media messages. In particular, students used the medium of digital storytelling to build and revise identities for purposes of rememory, reinvention, and cultural …

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Speaking The Lower Frequencies 2.0: Digital Ghost Stories, Walter R. Jacobs

Faculty Publications, Sociology

In Speaking the Lower Frequencies: Students and Media Literacy Walter R. Jacobs explores how college students can become critical consumers of media while retaining the pleasure they derive from it. Speaking the Lower Frequencies 2.0: Race, Learning, and Literacy in the Digital Age builds on its predecessor by examining pedagogy and literacy through theories and practices of digital media making, specifically digital storytelling methods used in a fall 2008 undergraduate class, "Digital Storytelling in and with Communities of Color." Jacobs begins his keynote with the course description and then examines one component of the class project. students' engagement with "social …

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The Development Of Social Work In Vietnam: The Role Of International Collaboration, Alice Hines, Edward Cohen, Tuan Tran, Peter Lee, Le Phu

Faculty Publications

This paper explores the emergence of social work as a profession in Vietnam and the ways in which international collaboration can play a role in its development. The paper reviews the literature pertaining to the social issues that have accompanied recent rapid social and economic change in Vietnam. The authors then describe recent developments in social work and social work education in Vietnam in response to these emerging problems. The role of international collaboration is explored and examples of four recent collaborations are provided that illustrate exchanges of curriculum and related social work knowledge, capacity building, technical assistance, and teaching. …

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The Structure And Content Of Online Child Exploitation Networks, Richard Frank, Bryce Westlake, Martin Bouchard

Faculty Publications

The emergence of the Internet has provided people with the ability to find and communicate with others of common interests. Unfortunately, those involved in the practices of child exploitation have also received the same benefits. Although law enforcement continues its efforts to shut down websites dedicated to child exploitation, the problem remains uncurbed. Despite this, law enforcement has yet to examine these websites as a network and determine their structure, stability and susceptibleness to attack. We extract the structure and features of four online child exploitation networks using a custom-written webpage crawler. Social network analysis is then applied with the …

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Military Innovation In Russia And Japan During The Interwar Years: A Relevant Case Study In Strategic Analysis, Leonard Lira

Faculty Publications

This article looks at military innovation through a political, social, and economic lens. Contrasting Japan and Russia in the interwar years as case study, it demonstrates the importance of political, social, and economic variables as the critical determinants. This begs the question of how these factors affect U.S. military innovation in the coming years.

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Introduction: Thoughts And Ideas On The Intersectionality Of Identity, Theodorea Berry, Michelle Jay, Marvin Lynn

Faculty Publications

An introduction to the journal is presented which the editor discusses an article on critical race feminism by Venus E. Evans-Winters and Jennifer Esposito, a report on critical race theory and critical pedagogy and a review of literature on the educational experiences of Latinas and Latinos in the U.S.

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Government’S Diminishing Benefits From Inflation, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

Faculty Publications

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Understanding The M-Form Hypothesis, Matthew J. Holian

Faculty Publications

The theory of the firm deserves to play a prominent role in both the undergraduate and graduate industrial organization curriculum, both because of the vast amount of attention that has been paid to this area over the last four decades, as well as its practical relevance for strategy and antitrust. This lecture briefly presents some background on the theory of the firm in general, and the M-form Hypothesis in particular. The M-form Hypothesis is an important theory of firm structure, developed by Chandler (1962) and Williamson (1975). A mathematical model, discussion section and accompanying lecture slides illustrate the concepts necessary …

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Toward A More Unified Libertarian Left, William T. Armaline, D Shannon

Faculty Publications

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Potential Terrorist Uses Of Highway-Borne Hazardous Materials, Mti Report 09-03, Brian M. Jenkins, Bruce Robert Butterworth, William T. Poe, Douglas Reeves

Mineta Transportation Institute

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has requested that the Mineta Transportation Institutes National Transportation Security Center of Excellence (MTI NTSCOE) provide any research it has or insights it can provide on the security risks created by the highway transportation of hazardous materials. This request was submitted to MTI/NSTC as a National Transportation Security Center of Excellence. In response, MTI/NTSC reviewed and revised research performed in 2007 and 2008 and assembled a small team of terrorism and emergency-response experts, led by Center Director Brian Michael Jenkins, to report on the risks of terrorists using highway shipments of flammable liquids (e.g., …

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Spartan Daily February 8, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Spartan Daily February 4, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Spartan Daily February 3, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Spartan Daily February 2, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 1, February 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

Noticias de NACCS Newsletter

Handbook Of Emergency Management For State-Level Transportation Agencies, Mti Report 09-10, Frances L. Edwards, Daniel C. Goodrich

Mineta Transportation Institute

The Next Fifty Years: Addressing California´S Mobility In A Time Of Financial Challenges, Mti Report S-09-05, Mineta Transportation Institute

Mineta Transportation Institute

Information Outlook, January/February 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Communication In The Library For Effective Administration, Abraham Etebu Tabor

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Use Of Information Sources By Research Scholars: A Case Study Of Gulbarga University, Shankar Reddy

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Spartan Daily January 28, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Spartan Daily January 26, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Effects Of Federal Government Interventions On Collection Development In Nigerian Universities, B.F. Akindojutimi, T.O. Adewale, B.O. Omotayo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information Needs And Information-Seeking Behaviour Of Faculty Members At The Islamia University Of Bahawalpur, Rubina Bhatti

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Creating A Positive Learning Environment With A Guest Speaker, Hikaru Nakano

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Faculty Expectations Of Libraries: A Comparative Study Of Covenant University And The University Of Lagos, Mercy A. Ijirigho

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Evaluating Students’ Use Of Campus Wide Network In Accessing Library Resources And Services In Nnamdi Azikiwe Library, University Of Nigeria, Nsukka, Delight Udochukwu, H C. Chukwuemeka

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Anthropocentric Distance In National Geographic’S Environmental Aesthetic, Anne Marie Todd

Faculty Publications

Leadership Is About You, Ken Haycock

Faculty Publications

Roads: Leading Indicators Show Ramp-Up In Activity, Shishir Mathur, Kunal Katara

Faculty Publications, Urban and Regional Planning

The Pedagogy Of Digital Storytelling In The College Classroom, Rachel Raimist, Candance Doerr-Stevens, Walter R. Jacobs

Faculty Publications, Sociology

Speaking The Lower Frequencies 2.0: Digital Ghost Stories, Walter R. Jacobs

Faculty Publications, Sociology

The Development Of Social Work In Vietnam: The Role Of International Collaboration, Alice Hines, Edward Cohen, Tuan Tran, Peter Lee, Le Phu

Faculty Publications

The Structure And Content Of Online Child Exploitation Networks, Richard Frank, Bryce Westlake, Martin Bouchard

Faculty Publications

Military Innovation In Russia And Japan During The Interwar Years: A Relevant Case Study In Strategic Analysis, Leonard Lira

Faculty Publications

Introduction: Thoughts And Ideas On The Intersectionality Of Identity, Theodorea Berry, Michelle Jay, Marvin Lynn

Faculty Publications

Government’S Diminishing Benefits From Inflation, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

Faculty Publications

Understanding The M-Form Hypothesis, Matthew J. Holian

Faculty Publications

Toward A More Unified Libertarian Left, William T. Armaline, D Shannon

Faculty Publications

Potential Terrorist Uses Of Highway-Borne Hazardous Materials, Mti Report 09-03, Brian M. Jenkins, Bruce Robert Butterworth, William T. Poe, Douglas Reeves

Mineta Transportation Institute