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Librarian Publishes Book On Tv Comedies

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article discusses the book "The Women Who Made Television Funny: Ten Stars of 1950s Sitcoms," by David C. Tucker.

Smyrna Library Celebrates A Life Of Service

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article reports on a dedication ceremony for a library meeting room at the Smyrna Public Library in Georgia named after former director Doris Patterson Morris. Her family, friends, library patrons and local political leaders attended the ceremony. During her tenure as director of the library, Morris developed a classic antique book collection and supervised a feasibility study that resulted in a new library on the Village Green.

South Georgia Regional Director To Retire

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article announces that Liza Newsom will resign as director of the South Georgia Regional Library System (SGRL).

Tech Retirees Account For 95 Years Of Service

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article announces the resignation of several administrators of Georgia Tech Library including Kathy Sharp Brackney, head of the Architecture Library, Jean Price Hudgins, head of Information Control and Management and Charles Crittendon Stuart, associate director for public services.

Athens Regional Library News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from the Athens Regional Library System.

Review: Best Garden Plants For Georgia, Marie Daum

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Best Garden Plants for Georgia," by Tara Dillard and Don Williamson.

Snacking On Candy

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article reports on the demolition of an old candy factory in Augusta, Georgia for the new Augusta-Richmond County library. A photograph of a Komatsu 450 dinosaur and Godzilla clearing the site is provided. According to the article, the new library will have 90,000 square feet of space and is slated to open in the summer of 2009.

Chestatee Regional Library News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from the Chestatee Regional Library System.

Georgia Southern News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from Georgia Southern University's library.

Disease And Demography In The Plateau, Robert T. Boyd, Cecilia D. Gregory

Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Twelve years ago, Roderick Sprague asked the authors-an anthropologist trained in epidemiology and a physician with training in paleopathology-to prepare this paper for his projected book, Burial Practices of the Plateau. Since that volume has not seen print, and with the intention of bringing the information herein to the attention of regional researchers, in early 2004 Sprague asked us if we would be willing to have it published as the first in a special numbered series of articles in the Journal of Northwest Anthropology. We agreed, with the proviso that it be at least moderately updated to reflect developments since …

Well Child Health Care In Wales: A Change Of Setting, A Shift Of Power, Jennifer Herman

Inquiry Journal 2007

No abstract provided.

Caroliniana Columns - Spring 2007, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

University South Caroliniana Society Newsletter - Columns

Contents:

Report from the President..... p.1
Chesnut Scholar Reminisces about Doing Research at SCL..... p.1
South Caroliniana Library to Participate in WWI Project..... p.1
News Briefs from the South Caroliniana Library..... p.2
William Gilmore Simms Exhibit Mounted in South Caroliniana Library’s Reading Room..... p.3
University Archivist Produces Pictorial History of USC..... p.3
The Plantation Journals of Davison McDowell..... p.4
Scenes from a 19th-century South Carolina Rice Plantation..... p.5
SCL Acquires POW Logbook of WWII Hero..... p.7
China in the 1930s Through the Eyes of an American Consul General..... p.8
Board of Trustees Meeting Rooms Decorated with Images from Library Collections..... …

New England Has The Highest Increase In Income Disparity In The Nation, Ross Gittell, Jason Rudokas

Carsey Publications

Income inequality in New England is rising at the highest rate in the nation, this brief finds. Between 1989 and 2004, the region experienced the largest increase in income inequality in the country, due to both growth among top earners and the hollowing out of the middle class caused by significant changes in the nation's economy.

Globalization And Gangs: The Evolution Of Central American, Patrick Beary '07

Honors Projects

The focus ofthis paper is beyond a critique of U.S. immigration law and the 4 regions' judicial systems, although their roles as they relate to gang activities in these areas will be assessed. Nor is this paper a comprehensive ethnographic account of gang life and gang structure in general. Instead the purpose of this study is to synthesize the theoretical literature of globalization and apply it to what we know about specific gangs such as MS-13 and M-18 in North and Central America.

Of Minorities, Markets And Mongols: Re-Imagining The Relationship Between Ethnicity And Rationality In Russian Center/Periphery Conflict, Brett A. Strand '07

Honors Projects

What causes regions of the Russian Federation to opt for conflict with the central authority? Why do some regions legitimate their conflict with Moscow in overtly ethnic tones, while others do not? In attempting to answer these questions, this research responds to the need for a reconfigured understanding of federalism and ethnicity in modern society; more specifically, it answers several lingering questions from previous investigations of primordial and rational choice theories. This research concludes that the likelihood of future conflict with Moscow can, in fact, be broken down systematically and predicted. In support of its arguments, the study (1) suggests …

Behind The Silence: Chinese Voices On Abortion By Nie Jing-Bao, Marc L. Moskowitz

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

From Arachne To Charlotte: An Imaginative Revisiting Of Gilligan's "In A Different Voice", Erika Rackley

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Low-Income Women's Access To Education? A Case Study Of Welfare Recipients In Boston, Erika Kates

Publications from the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy

In 2003 and 2004, the Massachusetts legislature dramatically changed state law to allow welfare recipients to engage in education and training to fulfill their mandatory work requirements. The research reported here had as its goal to document whether women who received welfare benefits between 2003 and 2006 knew about, and took advantage of, these historic changes. A fundamental supposition of the research described here is that low-income women should have access to substantive educational opportunities to improve their employment and earnings; raise children with educational aspirations and achievements; enhance their civic participation; and contribute to the state’s human capital resources.

Banish Belly Bulge And Chisel Your Bis: A Semiotic Analysis Of Gender Representations In Fitness Magazine Advertising, Lauren A. Teal

Masters Theses

This study examined gender ideologies in the advertising of two popular fitness magazines, Shape and Men's Fitness, using Kress and van Leeuwen's visual semiotic theory (1996). The aim of this study was to determine how fitness magazine advertising participates in the construction of gender identities, and to identify what rhetorical and visual strategies are commonly employed.

Through an examination of the way gender identities are constructed by fitness magazines my research has concluded that advertising within both magazines promotes idealized body types and stereotypical gender identities for men and women. In Shape's advertisements, women are wives and homemakers; they …

Twenty-Third Annual Bibliography, 2007 (Contemporary German Literature Collection), Maryška Suda, Paul Michael Lützeler, Jonas Ivo Meier, Johannes Schneider

Annual Bibliography of the Special Contemporary German Literature Collection

Bibliography of contemporary German literature volumes added the previous year to Washington University Libraries' Contemporary German Literature Collection. These acquisitions generally include novels, poetry, short story collections, essays, autobiographical works, and literary and cultural periodicals from publishers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. This Collection serves as the research arm for the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature's Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature. This bibliography is compiled by Washington University's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in cooperation with the University Libraries. See also Contemporary German Literature Collection and Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature.

Entry-Level Heavy Truck Drivers And Highway Safety: Is It Finally Time For Federally Mandated Training?, Harry L. Sink

Journal of Transportation Management

This article examines the need for mandated instruction and a uniform curriculum for entry-level commercial drivers. The study also addresses the discontinuity resulting from the establishment of a uniform licensing standard without requiring preparatory training. The research involves a review of Federal regulations pertaining to obligatory operator instruction in the air, water and rail mode. The investigation concludes that weak support and lobbying efforts by certain trucking interests have thwarted the adoption of mandatory instruction and/or a uniform curriculum. The study also highlights a pressing need for policy revision given the imminent retirement of many “baby boom” generation drivers.

A Decision Support Approach To Designing The Inland Logistics Network In China, Hokey Min, Hyun-Jeung Ko, Chin-Soo Lin

Journal of Transportation Management

With the unprecedented growth of international trade, a growing number of multinational firms have coped with logistical challenges of shipping products to and from unfamiliar territories in many countries. These logistical challenges include the cross-border transportation of products originated from inland port to another inland port isolated from major waterways. In particular, the lack of access to major waterways would not only constrain the intermodal transportation option, but also make door-to-door, containerized delivery services nearly impossible. Such a limited option would eventually lead to increased transportation costs and transit time, and thereby offset low-cost global sourcing advantages. To aid multinational …

U.S. Firm Outsourcing/Offshoring Practices And Plans: An Update, Robert L. Cook, Brian J. Gibson

Journal of Transportation Management

A study of U.S. firm outsourcing and offshoring practices and future plans regarding supply chain activities provides an update for supply chain managers. Specifically, the reported information provides supply chain managers of manufacturing/ merchandising firms with a competitive benchmark; facilitates third party logistics manager strategic planning efforts and provides an input to U.S. transportation planners who determine future transport and infrastructure requirements. The study reports the responses of 151 Chief Purchasing Officers from U.S. firms. Firms are benefiting from outsourcing logistics and production activities and over one-third of the firms plan to increase outsourcing spend. In addition, 60 percent of …

Transportation Management Systems: An Exploration Of Progress And Future Prospects., Stanley E. Griffis, Thomas J. Goldsby

Journal of Transportation Management

This research reports the experiences of both adopters and non-adopters of transportation management system (TMS) technology. TMS adopters represent a diverse array of companies, with a surprisingly high percentage of adopters using outsourced services for decision support activities. Motives for adoption tend to align with the firm’s strategic needs though functionality focuses on the shipper’s day-to-day operational needs. While expectations of system performance and return on investment vary greatly, TMS users illustrate a generally high level of satisfaction. Non-adopters view decision support for transportation activities as a low priority. The article explores future prospects for TMS development and adoption.

Evaluation Of The Oregon Dmv Driver Improvement Program, James G. Strathman, Thomas J. Kimpel, Paul Roland Leistner

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

This report provides an evaluation of the Oregon Department of Transportation-Driver and Motor Vehicle (DMV) Services Driver Improvement Program (DIP), which was substantially changed in 2002. Prior to 2002, the DIP was organized around four progressive steps involving advisory letters, warning letters, probation, and suspension. The current program is organized around two steps: restriction and suspension. The timeline to the steps in the current program have also been shortened. To evaluate the current program, driver records of persons suspended between January and July of 2004 were examined in relation to a sample of Oregon’s driving population. The incidence of crashes …

Vol. 2 No. 2, Moynihan European Research Centers, Spring 2007, Moynihan European Research Centers

Newsletters from Moynihan European Research Centers

Global Europe Students Update -- Turkey and European Identities -- Forthcoming Book announcement -- SU program on Muslim Cultures -- FLAS Fellowship details -- Current FLAS Fellows -- Upcoming Events Calendar

Hamas: From “Terrorist” Organization To Governing Party The Implications Of Hamas’S 2006 Electoral Victory, Heather Freitag

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

“Peace in the Middle East.” As a child, I had always assumed this phrase was in reference to a specific conflict or war that would soon be over; however, peace in the Middle Eastnow seems to be a process of huge proportions with no visible end. Numerous conflicts encompass the problems in the Middle East, most of which have been exacerbated by ineffectual and biased American foreign policy. Of these conflicts, one of the most long-standing and heartbreaking is between the Israelis and Palestinians. With the unequivocal support of the US, Israelhas largely been able to pursue whatever policy it …

Number 6 Spring 2007, Special Collections Research Center

Newsletters from The Special Collection Research Center - The Courant

No abstract provided.

Montana Nonresident Visitation Trends: 1996-2006, Melissa Dubois

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

This report displays the total number of individual nonresidents visiting Montana from 1996-2006. It also shows the total number of groups visiting Montana during the same time period.

Montana Nonresident Traveler Expenditure Profiles: 2006, Kara Grau

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

This report examines spending profiles of nonresident travelers to Montana. It displays the average daily expenditures by purpose of trip for different spending categories during 2006.