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Spartan Daily, May 15, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 130, Issue 58

Lanthorn, Vol. 42, No. 61, May 15, 2008, Grand Valley State University

Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Letter To The Editor; Immigration Policy Flawed, R. Allen Hays

Postville Project Documents

A letter calling for changes to the United States' immigration policies.

Lawmakers Call For Agriprocessors Probe, Josh Nelson

Postville Project Documents

Reporting on the call by the Iowa congressional delegation for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to conduct a full investigation of Agriprocessors' hiring practices in the wake of the raid at the Postville plant.

File Inspectors Tour Cattle Congress Grounds, Jeff Reinitz

Postville Project Documents

Reporting on the results of the fire marshal's inspection of the temporary Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center housing those detained from the Agriprocessors plant raid in Postville.

Detainees Moved From Ncc Grounds, Jeff Reinitz

Postville Project Documents

Reporting on the initial processing of the people detained in the raid on the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, including the number of people arrested on criminal charges and those released on humanitarian grounds.

A Relationship Between Library Skills Instruction And Njla Test Scores, Anita K. Deangelis

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the level of academic success of fourth grade students who experience regularly scheduled library instruction as measured by the language arts test scores on the annual New Jersey state achievement tests. After extensive research was completed, several articles from such authors as K. C. Lance and L. Starr were chosen as part of this study. In addition, Scholastic's research paper entitled School Libraries Work which contained many additional studies on the chosen topic was read and summarized in this proposal. Following the above research, three research questions were developed along with a …

Public Libraries' Commitment To Gay Youth, Kimberle Madden

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if selected New Jersey public libraries in Burlington, Camden and Gloucester counties were committed to the GLBTQ youth in their communities by providing free and equal access to lesbigay literature and/or offering programs and outreach to this group of young adults. Most previous research looked at school libraries in the United States and libraries in Canada. This study investigated selected public libraries in southern New Jersey to determine if they were striving towards that commitment.

Using the State of New Jersey's District Factor Group (DFG) students were selected based on similar socioeconomic …

An Analysis Of How Birth Control Is Presented In Young Adult Novels, Corey L. Mason

Theses and Dissertations

Young adult literature can be a safe method of receiving correct and vital information about birth control in novels that contain sexual activity. It is important that birth control in young adult novels is dealt with accurately, honestly, thoroughly, and in an unbiased way. There has been little research done on how birth control is presented in YA novels and how it may have changed over time. To study this topic, ten YA novels were read and analyzed. Five of the novels were written prior to 1990 and the other five were written after 1990. Each novel was analyzed for …

User-Generated Tagging And The Public Library Online Public Access Catalog, Andrea C. Mcdonald

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to survey southern New Jersey public librarians' attitudes towards the feasibility of including user-generated tagging in the public library online public access catalog (OPAC). The research questions of the thesis concerned the advantages and disadvantages of user-generated tagging, the co-existence of user-generated tagging and controlled subject headings, the future of user-generated tagging, and what the librarians thought about user-generated tagging in the OPAC.

The methodology of the study was applied research. Nineteen southern New Jersey public librarians completed an attitudinal survey on user-generated tagging. Responses were tallied and placed into a spreadsheet and graphic …

Concern Raised Over Israeli Detained In Raid, Josh Nelson

Postville Project Documents

Reporting on the experience of a friend of one of the detainees from the Agriprocessors raid in trying to find out what had happened to their friend.

Agriprocessors Keeps Plant Running; Hiring Replacements

Postville Project Documents

Reporting that the Agriprocessors plant was operating at reduced capacity after the immigration raid. A spokesperson also stated the company was "enhancing its immigration compliance procedures."

Letter To The Editor; Raid Was Long Overdue, Martin Winter

Postville Project Documents

Letter to the editor proposing fining employers for every undocumented worker they hire.

El Centro Seeks Donations To Help Detainees

Postville Project Documents

Reporting on El Centro Latinamericano's need for donations to assist those impacted by the Agriprocessors raid.

Letter To The Editor; Illegal Immigration Is Illegal, Jeanne Tocco

Postville Project Documents

A letter to the editor expressing the opinion that those who immigrate illegally have broken the law.

E-Book Aggregators, Sue Polanka

University Libraries' Staff Publications

Like many librarians, you're beginning to purchase e-books from a variety of publishers, and you're confused by all the different licensing agreements, platforms, and pricing models. A solution to this madness? Use an e-book aggregator. Aggregators partner with multiple publishers to supply content and provide a platform for libraries and end users to search, order, access, and download the content on the Web. We'll focus here on three of the larger academic aggregators EBL, ebrary, and MyiLibrary. Ebooks Corporations EBL (Ebook Library) [http://www.eblib.com] partners with 250 academic and trade publishers, offering more than 85,000 titles. Ebrary [http:// www.ebrary.com] partners with …

Court Kept Busy By Parade Of Detainees, Jeff Reinitz, Josh Nelson

Postville Project Documents

Reporting on the ways the court proceedings were being conducted in the wake of the Agriprocessors immigration raid.

Governance By Agreements: Why Do Local Governments Enter Into Multilateral Agreements?, Simon Andrew

Working Group on Interlocal Services Cooperation

While much can be learned about the roles of interjurisdictional agreements between two jurisdictions, little is known about the range and scope of multilateral agreements (MLAs) in the provision of collective goods. Based on the theory of institutional collective action, this paper explores two characteristics of agreements: restrictive and adaptive, and seeks to understand why local governments enter into one arrangement and not the other. This paper argues that the local government decisions to enter into MLAs are influenced by the characteristics of goods and services, the nature of interjurisdictional relations, the geographic configuration of governments, and the number of …

Postville Reeling After Raid, Jens Manuel Krogstad, Dennis Magee

Postville Project Documents

Reporting on the viewpoints of the people living in Postville in the days after the Agriprocessors immigration raid.

Archbishop Hanus To Celebrate Mass In Postville Saturday

Postville Project Documents

Reporting that the Dubuque Archbishop would celebrate Mass in English and Spanish the Saturday after the Agriprocessors immigration raid.

Experiences Of A Reluctant Supervisor: Discovering New Skills And Innovative Ways To Manage, Kerri Scannell Baunach

Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians

After going through a long reorganization, technical services at the University of Kentucky looked very different in 2005 than the team-based organization of recent years. A new organization also created new departments and units as well as new names and terminology. One new group was the Special Formats Unit, created by putting together the various catalogers who were not located in the central technical services area of the main library. The many challenges this unit faced included: having a new, first-time supervisor; physical separation with offices in three buildings; changes in job responsibilities; and, with a variety of job duties, …

Ncc Officials Thought Grounds For Homeland Security Training, Drew Andersen

Postville Project Documents

Reporting that the board of the National Cattle Congress was unaware of what the federal government intended to do on the grounds of the Congress when they rented the buildings to the General Services Administration.

Cataloging Integrating Resources, Debra G. Skinner

University Libraries: Faculty Presentations

Reviews the rules for cataloging a new bibliographic format called integrating resources.

A Look At Computer Classes Offered At Selected South Jersey Public Libraries, David Crespy

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract available.

By Any Other Name: A Study Of Library User Comprehension Of Subject Headings, Elizabeth Campbell

Theses and Dissertations

The current research examined library users and their use of subject headings in library catalog searches. It also examined how effective library catalog searches were for users. A survey was designed to give the researcher an idea of what search terms the public used to search library catalogs. Those survey results were then compared to the actual subject headings found in the library catalog.

The overall results indicated that very few public search terms matched the vocabulary used in the catalog. This showed a disconnection between what was being offered to the public as a search tool and how the …

Abstracts Of Master's Theses 1967-2006, Smith College. School For Social Work

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

No abstract provided.

30 Years Of Judy Blume Novels... Are We Still Censoring?, Nina Amidon

Theses and Dissertations

Judy Blume has been a target of censors since she started writing novels in the 1970s. Her books have been removed from shelves in school media centers all over the country by either the school board, or even the media specialist. Many studies have been done in the past about censorship and Judy Blume's books were always a popular target.

A survey was sent out to 53 middle and high school media centers in Morris County, New Jersey. Survey Monkey.com was used to create the questionnaire and interpret the results. An email message was created and a link to the …

Information Commons Service Model And Community Colleges In New Jersey, Mary E. Moody

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if characteristics of the information commons model were being adopted by community college libraries in New Jersey. The study examined how closely these characteristics matched the models represented in the current four-year college and university literature. Email questionnaires were sent to library directors of community college libraries in New Jersey. The intention of the survey was to ascertain the library structure, budget, and staffing of community college libraries in New Jersey. Community college directors were asked to report on services their libraries provided and to rate library services commonly associated with an …

Measures Of International Transport Cost For Oecd Countries, Stephen S. Golub, B. Tomasik

Economics Faculty Works

This paper presents new estimates of country-specific international transport costs for 21 OECD countries over the period 1973-2005. The methodology is based on direct measures of air, maritime, and road transport costs rather than on cif/fob ratios or other balance of payments data employed in previous studies. Transport costs are calculated as costs per kilogramme for each mode of transport at a bilateral level and then aggregated. Australia and New Zealand are found to have the highest transport costs among the OECD countries considered, followed by Japan. The time trends are sensitive to the choice of deflator, but the results …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 47, May 15, 2008

Central Florida Future

Colbourn burglarized on exam week; Our roots grow deep; Medical school makes history; Looking to wrap UCF up.