The purpose of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of an academic library’s public relations (PR) and marketing strategies designed to promote library subject specialists to undergraduate students. One of the core issues librarians face is that many students do not necessarily know what a librarian does, nor how they can help them. To r…[Read more]

Learn about the successes and challenges experienced by the University of Florida Libraries when they became a client for a public relations campaigns course, and tasked students with developing a campaign that focused on not the physical library space, but on the role of librarians as a valuable student resource.

In this paper, we propose a ‘minimal digital pedagogy’ that applyies the principles of Minimal Computing in the classroom. As a working group of ADHO’s GO:DH Special Interest Group, Minimal Computing sets out to rethink DH work for areas in the world where factors such as high-end hardware, software, network capacity, power, etc. are not a given,…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: ‘El juego de Ender’ (1977, 1985) es una de esas ficciones en las que la realidad flojea, donde se circula de modo inesperado o sorpresivo entre niveles de realidad y de representación, donde a veces no queda claro si la acción está transcurriendo en un mundo sólido o en uno virtual, y donde a veces creemos estar en uno y est…[Read more]

Interview with Martha Hennessy, the granddaughter of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker, on her life, her anti-nuclear and peace activism, and ongoing trial as part of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7.

In this presentation, I investigate claims that publishers add little value to scholarly communication by asking about those parts of publishing overlooked when the focus is exclusively on content. Evaluating a study by Martin Klein, Peter Broadwell, Sharon Farb, and Todd Grappone, I not only point to problems with its assumptions about value,…[Read more]

As start-up companies reimagine components of the scholarly communication system, are observers too quick to assimilate the new into the known? This presentation discusses the case of the social-network and document-sharing platform Academia.edu and the debates it has stirred. Academia.edu has been subsumed into discussions about scholarly…[Read more]

Organizational realignment between libraries and campus IT is challenging. It is also an opportunity to rethink library services. This presentation highlights the benefits of expanding a service portfolio and strategies to shift, sharpen, and share staff skills for success in providing enhanced electronic resources and discovery systems support.

The adoption of institutional diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs in recent decades highlights an ongoing need for structural and cultural change within higher education institutions. It also raises questions around gender, race and disability politics, the decolonisation of diversity and neoliberal management of higher…[Read more]

In light of the Fan Studies Network’s statement regarding fan studies being overrun with whiteness, we are in a unique position to engage in scholarship that challenges the overwhelmingly white and Global North–centric structures that define how we study fan cultures. Multidisciplinarity, which may be understood as disciplines laid side by side, s…[Read more]

This is an Urdu translation of the work “Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law and Non-Muslims”

Over the course of the last year the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) and the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (Roshan Institute-UMD) have begun collaborating with the Raja of Mahmudabad family on the preservation of their important manuscript collection. The project will help protect the…[Read more]

Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein shows us how to use the Hebrew language as a model for understanding the differences between similar words

The goal of this paper is twofold: first to define “research data” in a humanities context through a discussion of the ways in which humanities researchers create and aggregate image collections, and second to address the processes by which academic libraries and information professionals can play an active role in supporting the treatment and per…[Read more]

I was intrigued by the title of this book. Finally, I thought, the Western academia has come to terms with the incorporeality of the individual soul as presented in Indian philosophy. Richard Swinburne’s introduction dispelled my delusions. He proposes that individuals are not bodies but are souls and implies that these souls have properties and t…[Read more]

Zusammenfassung – Prä-Astronautik oder Paläo-SETI präsentiert sich als grenzwissenschafliche Forschung über außerirdische Einflussnahme auf die menschliche Entwicklung. Sie beansprucht für sich, Anomalien in der Geschichte besser zu erklären als die einschlägigen Wissenschafen wie z. B. die Archäologie oder Indologie. Die Schrifen Erich von Dä…[Read more]

Ancient astronaut speculation (also called paleo-SETI), often labeled pseudoscience or modern myth, still awaits in-depth research. Focusing on Erich von Däniken and reconstructing his views on god and cosmology from scattered statements throughout his books, this article analyzes his attitudes toward science and religion as well as his concepts…[Read more]