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The Real Third Way, Barry Schwartz

Psychology Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

University Libraries News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• Staying on top of Galileo changes
• Librarians and Google: Working together for you behind the scenes

Lacuny Interlibrary Loan Roundtable Meeting Minutes, May 2008, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Rumor And The Sichuan Earthquake, Steve Smith

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

One of the intriguing aspects of the appalling crisis created by the earthquake in Sichuan on May 12—whose death toll as I write is over 40,000 and still rising—has been the role played by rumor. Just four days before the quake, the Sichuan provincial government issued a notice designed to quell “earthquake rumors.” Three days after it, on May15, Xinhua news agency announced that seventeen people had been arrested for circulating malicious rumors, and the Ministry of Public Security revealed that its bureaus in eleven provinces and municipalities had discovered more than forty messages on the internet that “spread false …

Disaster Relief: Material And Spiritual

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Last night, the members of one of the Buddha’s Light International Association (國際佛光會) relief teams returned to Taiwan, most in tears due to the horrifying devastation they had witnessed. They also reported a disturbing new development: an increasing number of survivors are starting to take their own lives.

To a certain extent, this should not be too surprising. Inland earthquakes often devastate economically deprived regions, where the livelihood of most people hangs by a thin thread even before a disaster strikes. This was the case for Taiwan’s 921 Earthquake, which was also followed by a rash of suicides. Now that …

Sa-Rest: Using Semantics To Empower Restful Services And Smashups With Better Interoperability And Mediation, Karthik Gomadam, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 49, May 22, 2008

Central Florida Future

Gym gets pumped; NBC show stops at UCF; Spitzer to shoot for the stars; UCF PD's report focuses on safety.

Ingenta And Other Journal Alerts, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• Ingenta and Other Journal Alerts

California Ocean And Coastal Investment Study Final Report, Kildow

Publications

The National Ocean Economics Program (NOEP), in cooperation with the California Coastal Conservancy and the Ocean Protection Council (OPC), completed this study to provide an inventory of state expenditures for the coast and ocean for fiscal years 2005-06 (FY 2006) and 2006-07 (FY 2007). The purpose of the study is to understand where current public investments are being made and whether further investments need to occur to be consistent with the OPC Strategic Plan as well as those of various state programs.

Metadata Made Simple, Eleta Exline

University Library Scholarship

Metadata schemes come in a dizzying array of shapes, sizes, formats, and purposes, from the refreshingly simple, to the incomprehensibly complex, and each with its own acronym. This diversity can at first make metadata cataloging seem overwhelming and foreign, but in practice is can be quite simple and surprisingly familiar. In this session we will review basic metadata concepts, overview common schemes, discuss how new schemes relate to standard library cataloging practices, and how they are used to foster collaboration, sharing, and long-term collection management.

The presentation was delivered at the New Hampshire Library Association Spring Conference, Innovate in ‘08: …

A Mid-Week Reader

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

1. If it isn’t already part of your media China blog circuit (it has just become part of ours), check out the Wall Street Journal’s China Journal. Run by Sky Canaves, the blog apparently draws on more than twenty journalists, and even ran a recent entry on Beijing’s air quality (that’s a favorite Western media story that has slipped out of sight lately).

2. Tim Johnson’s blog, China Rises, has a few moving recent on-the-ground reports from Sichuan. Zhongnanhai also has reports from an individual in Sichuan. For detailed information about the earthquake and its casualities (including maps), see the …

Launa Rambler, Christopher Staley

Postville Project Documents

Slice of life reporting from Luana, Iowa, a small town in Clayton County. This column includes some local reaction to the Postville immigration raid.

The State Of Coos County: Local Perspectives On Community And Change, Chris R. Colocousis

Carsey Publications

Coos County residents are largely optimistic about their future despite significant economic challenges, especially in the Berlin/Gorham area. As part of a three-pronged effort to understand the ongoing changes in New Hampshire's North Country and surrounding counties, researchers at the Carsey Institute have surveyed more than 1,700 adult residents of Coos County, New Hampshire, and Oxford County, Maine.

Conference Examines Homeland Security's Handling Of Immigration, Patricia Zapor

Postville Project Documents

Catholic News Service article from May 21, 2008: Five years after the Department of Homeland Security was created as an umbrella agency, its handling of immigration-related situations came in for harsh criticism at an immigration law and policy conference May 20.

Letter To The Editor [Amy Tamar Dickel], Amy Tamar Dickel

Postville Project Documents

Letter concerning the generosity of local businesses in the immediate aftermath of the Agriprocessors raid.

Postville Begins The Healing Process Following Last Week's Immigration Raid

Postville Project Documents

Reporting on the impact of the raid on the Agriprocessors plant had on the town of Postville. Also reporting on the ways the area was working to support those impacted by the raid.

Letter To The Editor [Karen Heins], Karen Heins

Postville Project Documents

A letter to the Postville Herald-Leader expressing the opinion that those on public assistance should work at the Agriprocessors plant so there wouldn't be a demand for immigrant labor.

Letter To The Editor [Becky Monroe], Becky Monroe

Postville Project Documents

A letter expressing dissatisfaction with the manner in which Postville was depicted in local reporting in the aftermath of the Agriprocessors raid.

Dab Eureka-147: The European Vision For Digital Radio, Brian O'Neill

Conference Papers

The digitalisation of radio broadcasting has a long history and as a project has been under active consideration for at least 25 years. A number of different technical approaches to digital radio exist, the longest established of which is the so-called Eureka-147 or DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) system. This paper explores the ‘technological imaginary’ of DAB and its distinctly ‘European’ vision for new media and the future of broadcasting. It examines its origins in European R&D policy of the 1980s, and its affinity with European broadcasting practice, particularly within a public service tradition. Ironically, it was DAB’s failure to capitalise …

Hot Docs: Protecting The Constitutional Right To Vote For All Americans, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• Hot Docs: Protecting the Constitutional Right to Vote for All Americans

North Central Risk Management Education Center, Cheryl Griffith

Cornhusker Economics

The North Central Risk Management Education Center (www.ncrme.org) has provided program coordination for extension risk management education in the North Central Region since 2001. Hosted at the University of Nebraska Agricultural Economics Department, the center recently received approval from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) for an additional $1.2 million in funding through 2010. By that time, six million dollars will have been awarded to the North Central Center for programming in risk management education.

The mission of the center is to provide producers in the North Central Region with the …

Themes And Trends Of Journal Of Family And Economic Issues: A Review Of Twenty Years (1988–2007), Jeffrey P. Dew

Faculty Publications

This review article examines the progress and impact of the Journal of Family and Economic Issues (JFEI) between 1988–2007. Over the past 20 years, JFEI has become a major journal publishing articles on the relationship between families and economic systems. JFEIcontributed to both the economic and family studies disciplines by publishing articles that explore the interface of these two disciplines. Between 1988 and 2007, JFEI published articles on a variety of themes not often found in other economic or family studies journals such as family resource management, consumer attitudes and behaviors, and economic issues and family relationships. Other unique …

History Of Chinese Red Cross: Part Ii, Caroline Reeves

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

As Chinese rush to aid their countrymen and other countries rush to aid the Chinese, it is important to note that Chinese participation in mutual aid and in the international relief community is not new. Here I continue with part II of the earlyhistory of the Chinese Red Cross Society.

At the turn of the twentieth century, China was being torn apart not by the movement of tectonic plates, but by political, social and intellectual currents. In a world shaken by the new imperatives of Social Darwinism (that posited a divide between “modern” nations that would thrive and “backward” ones …

Letters From Sichuan, Peter Hessler

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

On May 13th, I filed a web report on the New Yorker’s site, based on what I heard from former students in the early days of the disaster. Since then, I’ve continued to receive notes, and I’ve copied a few below.

When I lived in Sichuan, I was most impressed by the sense of place. The landscape was rugged and beautiful, and the people had a distinct character. They seemed more emotional than in other parts of China; they laughed more freely and their street arguments were more vicious. It wasn’t any surprise that in 1999, after NATO bombed the …

Hall, Candy (Fa 245), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 245. Paper: "[Supernatural Experiences in the Life of a Green County, Kentucky Woman]" written by Candy Hall for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Darfur: Rainfall And Conflict, Michael Kevane, Leslie C. Gray

Economics

Data on rainfall patterns only weakly corroborate the claim that climate change explains the Darfur conflict that began in 2003 and has claimed more than 200,000 lives and displaced more than two million persons. Rainfall in Darfur did not decline significantly in the years prior to the eruption of major conflict in 2003; rainfall exhibited a flat trend in the thirty-years preceding the conflict (1972-2002). The rainfall evidence suggests instead a break around 1971. Rainfall is basically stationary over the pre- and post-1971 sub-periods. The break is larger for the more northerly rainfall stations, and is less noticeable for En …

The Role Of Academic Libraries In Universal Access To Print And Electronic Resources In The Developing Countries, Chinwe V. Anunobi, Ifeyinwa B. Okoye

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper discusses the place of academic libraries in developing countries as access points to print and electronic resources. The changing role of academic libraries resulting from the digital technology allows libraries to participate in universal access. A conceptual model of print/electronic resource access for academic libraries in developing countries is presented and emerging issues for academic libraries in developing countries are discussed.

Chinese Responses To Disaster: A View From The Qing, Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Media reports of this week’s devastating earthquake in Sichuan highlight trends seen as impressive and new in terms of PRC responses to disaster. The quick response of state leaders symbolized by Premier Wen Jiabao’s much-heralded arrival in the disaster area only five hours after the earthquake hit on Monday, for instance, stands in stark contrast to the PRC’s handling of major catastrophes during the Mao-era, when Chairman Mao and other top leaders failed to act on reports that people were starving to death by the thousands during the Great Leap Famine of 1959-61. An estimated 30 million people died as …

Dynamic And Agile Soa Using Sawsdl, Karthik Gomadam, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.

Letter To Editor; Crack Down On Employers, Donna Epps

Postville Project Documents

A letter to the editor expressing the opinion that those who enter the country illegally and those who hire them should face punishment.