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Addressing Academic Integrity: Perspectives From Virginia Commonwealth University In Qatar, Nancy E. Fawley Oct 2013

Addressing Academic Integrity: Perspectives From Virginia Commonwealth University In Qatar, Nancy E. Fawley

Nancy Fawley

Understanding the cultural aspects that affect a student’s ability to appropriately use resources is important in developing outreach and instruction in multicultural settings. Differences in educational philosophies, students’ previous scholastic training and cultural differences in individual motivation are all factors that may affect a freshman’s ability to understand an American university’s idea of academic integrity and can inadvertently cause problems where independent work and critical thinking are required. At Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar (VCU Qatar), a branch campus of the American university in the Middle East, a special class on academic integrity and ethical behavior was integrated into the …


Search, Share, & Embed: Multimedia Resources For Popular Culture Research, Julie A. Decesare Oct 2013

Search, Share, & Embed: Multimedia Resources For Popular Culture Research, Julie A. Decesare

Julie A DeCesare

The Internet has provided a wealth of multimedia and video content to teachers, students, and researchers. It is saturated by user-created materials (YouTube, Vimeo), digitized or born digital special collections by non-profit institutions (ArtBabble, Arkive, Duke AdViews), educational distributors and producers (Learner.org, WGBH), for-fee providers of on-demand streaming media (NetFlix, HuluPlus, Amazon Instant), and library database vendors (Swank Digital, Alexander St. Press) -- and more. Educators are often challenged by searching for and access to digitized feature film content. Copyright is always a consideration, but also just the ability to find the materials in the format they need, can be …


Digital Leisure For Development: Rethinking New Media Practices From The Global South, Payal Arora, N. Rangaswamy Jan 2013

Digital Leisure For Development: Rethinking New Media Practices From The Global South, Payal Arora, N. Rangaswamy

Payal Arora

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Situating The Customer: The Genealogy Of Customer Language In Libraries, Susan Maret, Ben Eagle Jan 2013

Situating The Customer: The Genealogy Of Customer Language In Libraries, Susan Maret, Ben Eagle

Susan Maret

By way of Michel Foucault’s genealogical method, in this article we hope to advance discussion within Library and Information Science (LIS) of customer language and “customer-driven librarianship,” or those themes and practices “that both responds to and reinforces an economic vision of librarianship at its base, culminating in the ‘customer’ concept” (Buschman, 2003, p. 110).