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- Peggy Wright; Mary Margaret Wright; Belize; Libraries; University College of Belize; Western Kentucky University Libraries (1)
- Peggy Wright; Mary Margaret Wright; Belize; USIA; Murray State University; (1)
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Belize Library Project: A Brief Report, December 16-21, 1989, Mary Margaret (Peggy) Wright
Belize Library Project: A Brief Report, December 16-21, 1989, Mary Margaret (Peggy) Wright
DLPS Faculty Publications
A report of Peggy Wright's activities on a library needs assessment trip to Belize's educational institutions in December 1989.
Historical Biogeography: Geography As Evolution, Evolution As Geography, Charles H. Smith
Historical Biogeography: Geography As Evolution, Evolution As Geography, Charles H. Smith
DLPS Faculty Publications
Despite a number of advances in recent years, biogeography remains a field with a poorly developed philosophical core. As a result, its historical and ecological sides remain as isolated from one another as ever. In this essay I argue that a more unified approach to biogeographic studies will become possible only when workers realise that it is necessary to reject absolute space, "geography as handmaiden" approaches to distribution problems in favour of structuralist models compatible with both probabilistic spatial interaction and deterministic phylogenetic kinds of thinking. Pros and cons of regionalist, vicariance, and panbiogeographic approaches are weighed in this regard; …
Brags And Baggage, Mary Margaret (Peggy) Wright
Brags And Baggage, Mary Margaret (Peggy) Wright
DLPS Faculty Publications
Report on setting up three libraries in Belize during the summer of 1989. Includes photos of Stella Maris Home/School for the Mentally and Physically Handicapped.
Corozal Junior College, Mary Margaret (Peggy) Wright
Corozal Junior College, Mary Margaret (Peggy) Wright
DLPS Faculty Publications
Report on the state of Corozal Junior College in Belize, with recommendations for improving library services.
Doctor's Library, Mary Margaret (Peggy) Wright
Doctor's Library, Mary Margaret (Peggy) Wright
DLPS Faculty Publications
Report on the state of the reading room for doctors at the Belize City Hospital, including recommendations for improvement.