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The Southeastern Librarian

Recent activities from the Southeastern Library Association, developments from SELA member institutions, and personnel news.

What Usc Upstate Alumni Say About Information Literacy In The Workplace, Andrew Kearns

The Southeastern Librarian

Librarians have rightly focused their efforts on helping students acquire the information literacy skills needed to complete academic research while in college, but what comes after? While the way we teach information literacy may be a good preparation for those students going on to graduate school, many of us teach in institutions where a majority of our students will be heading directly to the workplace after they graduate. What information literacy skills are most important in the workplace? What are the differences or similarities in the process of finding and using information? What can librarians do to help prepare these …

The Southeastern Librarian V 65 No. 4 (Winter 2018) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

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The Three Graces Of Val-Kill: Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman And Nancy Cook In The Place They Made Their Own, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

The Three Graces of Val-Kill: Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman, and Nancy Cook in the Place They Made Their Own. Emily Herring Wilson Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-4696-3583-5 (Hard: $25); 978-1-4696-3584-2 (Ebook: $19.99). 232 p.

The Beer Cheese Book, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

The Beer Cheese Book. Garin Pirnia. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8131-7466-2 (hardcover: acid-free paper). $24.95. 197 p.

The Southern Foodways Alliance Guide To Cocktails, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

The Southern Foodways Alliance Guide to Cocktails. Sara Camp Milam and Jerry Slater. Photographs by Andrew Thomas Lee. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8203-5159-9 (hardcover: alk.paper) $29.95. 202 p.

Beyond The Crossroads: The Devil And The Blues Tradition, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition Adam Gussow. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-4696-3366-4 (pbk: $29.95); 978-1-4696-3365-7 (Hard: $90); 978-1-4696-3367-1 (Ebook: $19.99). 416 p.

Miriam Hopkins: Life And Films Of A Hollywood Rebel, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

Miriam Hopkins: Life and Films of a Hollywood Rebel. Allan R. Ellenberger. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2018. ISBN: 9780813174310 (Hardcover: acid-free paper); 9780813174327 (pdf); 9778-813174334 (epub) $44.98. 360 p.

Who Killed Betty Gail Brown? Murder, Mistrial, And Mystery, Barbara Kelly

The Southeastern Librarian

Who Killed Betty Gail Brown? Murder, Mistrial, and Mystery. Robert G. Lawson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8131-7462-4 (cloth); 978-0-8131-7464-8 (epub); 978-0-8131-7463-1 (epub). $34.95. 216 p.

Editorial Staff & State Representatives

The Southeastern Librarian

Listing of editorial board for The Southeastern Librarian and current SELA state representatives.

My Curious And Jocular Heroes: Tales And Tale-Spinners From Appalachia, Melanie Dunn

The Southeastern Librarian

My Curious and Jocular Heroes: Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia. Loyal Jones. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0252041136. $95.00 (Cloth). ISBN 9780252082672. $25.00 (Paper) 246 p.

Hitchhiker: Stories From The Kentucky Homefront, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Hitchhiker: Stories from the Kentucky Homefront. Bob Thompson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2017. ISBN 978-0=-8131-7428-0 (cloth); 978-0-8131-7429-7 (web pdf); 978-0-8131-7430-3 (epub). $29. 166 p.

Patriots And Indians: Shaping Identity In Eighteenth-Century South Carolina, Allison Faix

The Southeastern Librarian

Patriots and Indians: Shaping Identity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina. Jeff W. Dennis. Coluumbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-61117-756-5 (hardcover), 978-1-6117-757-2 (ebook), $29.99. 240 p.

San Ysidro (Gilroy), Diseño 112, Glo No. 228, Santa Clara County, And Associated Historical Documents.

Santa Clara County

Diseños - Hand-drawn Spanish-Mexican map demonstrating the physical boundaries of land granted to Mexican citizens by the Spanish or Mexican.

Work Progress Administration Abstract (WPA Abstract) – A summary document prepared in 1938 under the U. S. Work Progress Administration program detailing the history of a rancho beginning with the Spanish-American land through the U.S. patenting process.

Hoffman Table of Land Claims Appendix, Reports on Land Cases, Vol. I, 1862, Ogden Hoffman – Index of land claims, in chronological order by Diseño number, made to the U.S. Land Commission for rancho land previously granted by the Spanish/Mexican governments in …

Valuing Bicycle Infrastructure In Portland, Oregon, Wei Shi

PSU Transportation Seminars

Investments into active transportation infrastructure are often promoted as a strategy for sustainable transportation, better public health, environmental quality, and economic development. Although empirical evidence generally points toward positive property value impacts of off-street greenways and trails, few focus on whether households might have different willingness-to-pay for different types and levels of bicycle infrastructure. This paper aims to fill research gaps in understanding consumer preferences for different types of bicycle facilities by examining property value impacts of four bicycle facility types: on-street advanced bike facilities and bike lanes; and off-street regional multi-use paths and local multi-use paths. Using Portland, Oregon …

Religion, Media, And Marginality In Modern Africa, Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita, Marie Rodet

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

In recent years, anthropologists, historians, and others have been drawn to study the profuse and creative usages of digital media by religious movements. At the same time, scholars of Christian Africa have long been concerned with the history of textual culture, the politics of Bible translation, and the status of the vernacular in Christianity. Students of Islam in Africa have similarly examined politics of knowledge, the transmission of learning in written form, and the influence of new media. Until now, however, these arenas—Christianity and Islam, digital media and “old” media—have been studied separately.

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Assessing Judicial Empowerment, Thomas Keck

Political Science - All Scholarship

Drawing on an ongoing international data collection effort, this paper examines the free expression jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Canada and the European Court of Human Rights in an effort to assess the political beneficiaries of judicial empowerment. Free expression is a universally recognized fundamental right, and it is a right that is regularly invoked in court by a rich diversity of political actors. As such, free speech law provides an illuminating window onto how constitutional courts respond to similar claims from differently situated claimants. This paper compares the response by two influential constitutional courts to free expression claims …

The Value Of Green Certification In The Singapore Housing Market, Eric Fesselmeyer

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

In Singapore, a real estate developer sells new apartments in the same high-rise development before and after obtaining green certification. This allows the use of within-development variation in prices over time to measure the effect of green certification on housing prices, controlling for differences across developments. I find that green certification increases prices by around 3%, suggesting that buyers value certification, possibly because it signals the presence of less-salient green features. Moreover, the effect of certification is biggest for developments that receive the lowest green rating, which likely have fewer green features and are thus less obviously green.

Leadership Department Newsletter: June 2017 - February 2018, Andrews University

Leadership Department Newsletter 2017

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The “Quebec Values” Debate Of 2013: Minority Vs. Collective Rights, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Political Science Faculty Publications

This paper investigates the debate in the province of Quebec, Canada in 2013 over a Charter of Quebec Values introduced by the separatist ruling party, the Parti Quebecois. It relies in particular on government documents, debates in Quebec’s National Assembly, and editorials in the French press. It relates the Charter to the preceding Bouchard-Taylor Commission Report in 2008 on accommodation by public bodies of particular religious requests. The debates concerned the right to manifest one’s religion, the rights of (particularly Muslim) women, and the rights of the collectivity as opposed to the minority. Part of the debate was about Quebec’s …

February 2018, Volume 14, Number 1, Winthrop University Archives And Special Collections

Retrospect: News from the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections at Winthrop University

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The Cresset (Vol. Lxxxi, No. 3, Lent), Valparaiso University

The Cresset (archived issues)

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The Santa Clara, 2018-02-01, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

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A Lumberjack Sunflower, Blooming From Undergraduate Research, Robert J. Hurt, James Morris

Student Publications

It was one year ago in spring 2017 when I did not understand how to write research, let alone be confident in it. In the fall 2016 semester, I was part of a class project that worked to provide donations to families affected by flooding in Louisiana. In the following spring 2017 semester, I worked to present my own findings and practice from that project towards a research paper. From that paper I earned the opportunity to be part of an Undergraduate Research Conference. In the timespan of one year from that conference to spring 2018, I worked harder in …

The Global Economic Outlook In 2018, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Oil prices will not reach US$120, more U.S. Fed rate hikes expected, and Brexit’s fallout to remain largely within Europe

Education As A Catalyst For Socio-Economic Development In South Africa, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

In order to progress socially and economically, a united South Africa will have to focus on an education sector hindered by apartheid era policies.

The Torch (February 2018), Crtp

Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter

Civic and Community Engagement | Civil Rights and Discrimination | Education | Gender and Sexuality | Inequality and Stratification | Politics and Social Change | Public Policy | Race and Ethnicity

Recommended Citation

Baldwin, Brandon and Civil Rights Team Project, "Torch (August 2013)" (2013). Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter. 58. http://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/torch/58

Winter 2018 Notes From The Stacks, Central Washington University

Notes from the Stacks: CWU's Library Newsletter

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Top Library Technology Trends, Ping Fu

Library Scholarship

This report will review ten popular top library technology trends proposed by the LITA (Library and Information Technology Association) Top Technology Trends Committee (TTTC) at the 2017 ALA (American Library Association) Midwinter & Exhibits and seven top library trends discussed by the LITA TTTC at the 2017 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. This report will also review eight innovative technologies to implement at the library of the future proposed by Piotr Kowalczyk. Those emerging and innovative technologies include the apps, devices, software, and best practices and cover the areas of such as Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), book …

Lighting The Beacon: Presidential Discourse, American Exceptionalism, And Public Diplomacy In Global Contexts, Jason A. Gilmore, Charles Rowling

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

The idea of American exceptionalism has shaped American politics and captivated audiences for centuries. This study examines the global contexts in which U.S. presidents have invoked the idea of American exceptionalism when addressing foreign audiences since the end of World War II. Our results reveal: (a) differences in how U.S. presidents invoke American exceptionalism when speaking to a global audience (e.g., the United Nations) versus more localized, foreign audiences within individual states; (b) significant variation regarding which countries are more likely to be targets of American exceptionalism in U.S. presidential discourse; and (c) the profound impact that the end of …