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Barbara Fister started the topic Sisters in Crime academic research grants in the discussion
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoHello, all –
Once again, Sisters in Crime is providing grants to help scholars of crime fiction purchase books for research projects dealing with women or underrepresented writers. Here are the details. Please help me spread the word to any and all who may be interested.
Barbara
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Susannah Cleveland deposited Enacted Metadata: Combining Content and Metadata in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoGiven the unique cultural artifacts and ephemera contained in music libraries, music librarians spend much of our time concerned with the description of materials that fall outside the mainstream expectations of descriptive cataloging. Such diverse objects include dance manuals, record carriers, magazines, posters, and other promotional materials.…[Read more]
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Susannah Cleveland deposited Beyond Google Docs: Using Free, Web-based Tools for Collaboration and Management in Your Library in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoShared productivity applications like Google Docs have become commonplace in libraries, but there are many other free, web-based resources that librarians can use for staff management and collaboration. Library staff at BGSU have been using applications such as Dropbox, Hiveminder, and Floorplanner, as well as many others, for such tasks. We will…[Read more]
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Candise Branum deposited Critical Library Management: Administrating for Equity in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoSocial justice and critical theory frameworks have been utilized to discuss library pedagogy and cataloging, but librarians have been slow in applying critical theory to how we actually manage libraries and lead staff. Management is not glamorous; rather, many still hold the traditional view of management as upholding hierarchical values. At its…[Read more]
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Candise Branum deposited The Myth of Library Neutrality in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoLibrarians have been publicly voicing dissent towards neutrality since at least the 1980s, when a number of radical librarians coming out of the climate of social upheaval in the 1960s-1970s began to call for a re-examination of the idea of library neutrality (Dick 220). Individuals on the margins have been writing on this topic for decades, but…[Read more]
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Joseph Dunne deposited Research Resources: The Beckett Collection, University of Reading in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoProfiling the Samuel Becket collection at the University of Reading
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Anne-Laure Oberson deposited OEuvres en devenir – devenir d’une oeuvre. L’an-archive de Bujar Marika in the group
Archives on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoQue faire du corpus des œuvres d’un artiste lorsque celui-ci disparaît rapidement et prématurément alors qu’il est en plein développement de son art et de sa pensée? Comment est-ce qu’un artiste prépare/contrôle la diffusion et l’interprétation de son œuvre au-delà de sa mort ? Quel est la responsabilité des proches et le degré d’interventio…[Read more]
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Tyler Bilton deposited An examination of hockey: identity, gender construction, hegemonic masculinity, women’s hockey, and Turkey in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 12 months agoThe purpose of this study was to examine hockey’s identity, how the game constructs identity, and how the increasing participation of females in hockey in Canada and Turkey is altering identity. Through qualitative research and personal experience it is revealed that in order for hockey and Turkey to modernize, a new male identity needs to e…[Read more]
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Barbara Fister deposited This is Why We CAN Have Nice Things: The Radical Promise of Libraries in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 12 months agoLibraries are always entangled in their cultures, and that means American libraries have always interacted with, adopted, and at the same time resisted capitalist assumptions about human behavior. We will explore that fraught relationship by looking at the past, and in particular looking at moments when some of the core values we so often fail to…[Read more]
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Thomas Ash deposited Where are all the orphans? How effective is current legislation in enabling cultural heritage institutions to make orphan works available online? in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThe purpose of this study is to explore whether the current UK legislation on orphan works, in the form of an EU exception and an orphan works license scheme, is effective in enabling the mass digitization of orphan works by cultural heritage organisations. The research covers the barriers faced by cultural heritage organisations wishing to…[Read more]
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Maia Kotrosits deposited Penetration and Its Discontents: Greco-Roman Sexuality, The Acts of Paul and Thecla and Theorizing Eros Without the Wound in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThe notion that sexuality in the Greek and Roman periods was predicated on a social-sexual hierarchy that casts relationships in the binary terms of active/passive and penetrator/penetrated has been both influential and controversial over the last 30 years. Both the articulation of this hierarchy and its critique have been haunted by various…[Read more]
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Natasha Suri deposited Academic librarian engagement with Open Access in the UK: support, advocacy and education in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThe purpose of the study was to capture a brief snapshot of current academic librarian engagement with Open Access in UK higher education institutions. The study utilised a mixed method approach. An online questionnaire was used to capture quantitative data, and email interviews were used to collect qualitative data. A volunteer sample of 83…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope deposited “More like a woman stuck into boy’s clothes”: Sexual deviance in Florence Marryat’s Her Father’s Name in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoHer Father’s Name (1876) is one of Marryat’s most radical and intriguing novels, featuring Leona Lacoste, a cross-dressing heroine, and Lucilla Evans, a textbook hysteric who falls in love with her. For centuries, the diagnosis of ‘hysteria’ was conveniently applied to any woman who exhibited transgressive behaviour, whether it be through sexual…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Women’s creation and renewal of religious rituals: A strategy for addressing their marginality in traditional societies in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoהדרת נשים מהמרחב הציבורי הדתי היא תופעה נרחבת ומוכרת. מתחילת שנות האלפיים אלפי נשים יהודיות, חילוניות, מסורתיות, דתיות וחרדיות, מרקעים סוציו־אקונומיים מגוונים, מתמודדות עם הדרה זו. הן יוצרות ומחדשות ריטואלים דתיים, וכך מפלסות מקום במרחב שהיה סגור בפניהן. השאלה הניצבת בבסיסו של מאמר זה היא מה הן האסטרטגיות שנשים משתמשות בהן כדי ליצור לעצמן ולחדש…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited “Amen meals are so feminine”: Women’s creation and renewal of rituals in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoמחקר זה מבקש לתאר ריטואלים הקשורים לאוכל שנשים יוצרות ומחדשות לעצמן. שאלת המחקר היא כיצד ומדוע נשים יוצרות ומחדשות ריטואלים. התשובה מבוססת על ניתוח דוגמאות של טקסים הקשורים באוכל שהתפתחו בישראל והתפשטו בקרב נשים יהודיות ברחבי אירופה וארה”ב מאז שנת 2000: “סעודות א ֵמנים” וטקסי הפרשת חלה ציבוריים. המתודולוגיה שננקטה היא איכותנית אתנוגרפית, ומבוס…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Being the wife of a Torah scholar in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThis paper examines how ultra-orthodox women perceive the socio-economic reality of contemporary ultra- orthodox society in Israel. In practice most ultra-orthodox women work, and they play an important role in the financial support of their family. The ultra-orthodox press, a major socialization mechanism, has a dualistic approach to this…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Open spaces? Perceptions of the internet among Ultra-Orthodox women working in computerized environments in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoWe analyze patterns of rejection and adoption of new technology in a closed and conservative community through the study of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women working in computerized environments, and their perceptions and uses of the Internet. These women stand in the intersection between orthodoxy and modernity. Their workplaces are populated by…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Forum of their own: Studying discussion forums of Ultra-Orthodox women online in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoהחברה החרדית בישראל היא חברה מסורתית המנסה לשמור על גבולותיה ולהתנהל כתרבות מובלעת בקרב החברה הישראלית-חילונית. אחד האתגרים ש ִאתם עליה להתמודד הוא חדירתן של טכנולוגיות תקשורת חדשות. האינטרנט הוא מן הטכנולוגיות השנויות ביותר במחלוקת במגזר החרדי, והוא מציב בפניו אתגרים ייחודיים. בשל תכונותיו של המדיום החדש קיים חשש כבד מחשיפת הציבור…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Women’s images in the Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) press: 1948-2008 in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoמאמר זה עוסק בדימויים ובייצוגים של נשים, כפי שהם משתקפים מטקסטים עיתונאיים שראו אור בישראל ונועדו לנשים חרדיות מאז קום המדינה.1 השאלות המרכזיות המוצגות כאן הן: כיצד משתקפת דמותה של האישה בעיתונות החרדית? האם היא נוכחת בה במרחב הפרטי ו/או הציבורי? כיצד כותבים העיתונים על נוכחותה במרחבים אלה? כדי לענות על שאלות אלה נבחן קורפוס רחב של מאות…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited “At ‘Amen Meals’ It’s Me and God” Religion and Gender: A New Jewish Women’s Ritual in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoNew ritual practices performed by Jewish women can serve as test cases for an examination of the phenomenon of the creation of religious rituals by women. These food-related rituals, which have been termed ‘‘amen meals’’ were developed in Israel beginning in the year 2000 and subsequently spread to Jewish women in Europe and the United States.…[Read more]
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