Teaching role of library staff is studied as established in the national and international professional frameworks and guidelines (CCB, REBIUN, ECIA, ALA, ACRL, IFLA), as well as the main aspects dealt with in professional literature. The specialized and academic publications analyzed deal with aspects such as the evolution of the concept; the…[Read more]

खूबसूरत प्राकृतिक दृश्यों से परिपूर्ण किन्नौर का समाज व संस्कृति शेष भारत से अलग है। यह बौद्ध धर्म का इलाका है, जिसे हिंदूवादी संस्कृति लीलती जा रही है। आर्थिक संपन्नता के आगमन से जाति-आधारित उत्पीड़न और भेदभाव कम हो रहा है। प्रमोद रंजन ने इस यात्रा संस्मरण में किन्नौर की विशिष्ट संस्कृति, बहु पत्नी प्रथा, वहां के समाज और राजनीति…[Read more]

The pre-publication praise Natasha Brown received for her debut novel Assembly (2021) from renowned writers like Bernardine Evaristo or Ali Smith is quite remarkable. The author had been virtually unknown to the larger public before winning one of the London Writers Awards in the literary fiction category in 2019. As a young Black British woman of…[Read more]

This article presents a commentary on the recent resurgence of interest in the practice of rights retention in scholarly publishing. Led in part by the evolving European policy landscape, rights retention seeks to ensure immediate access to accepted manuscripts uploaded to repositories. The article identifies a trajectory in the development of…[Read more]

La formación de profesionales especializados en archivística o gestión documental en Cuba ha sido una necesidad constante. No existe a nivel nacional un programa de formación que permita constituir un referente para llevar a cabo acciones de superación para profesionales que se desempeñan en el sistema institucional de archivos. A partir de lo an…[Read more]

The multimedia aspects of one of the most beautifully illuminated charters is in the focus of this paper.

Th is essay deals with the relevance of medieval grants of arms in art history, focusing on the aspects of innovation and quality. Th e fi rst part discusses the origins of innovative prototypes that did not yet match the quality of later grants of arms. Th e second part presents a selection of qualitative landmarks in the history of grants of…[Read more]

The Camden Miss Showgirl competition is, in many ways, an anachronism from the past. It has survived for 49 years under the onslaught of feminism, post-modernism, globalization and urbanisation. A worthy feat indeed.
The competition is still popular, and the local press is always a strong supporter. The 2010 Camden Showgirl competition attracted…[Read more]

This article invites the reading of Fernando Pessoa’s Fausto as a rhizomatic work, via three different critical lenses that lead to plurality: Traditions, Transcriptions, and Translations. Regarding different Faustian traditions, instead of seeing Pessoa’s Fausto merely as a competition with Goethe (as proposed by Eduardo Lourenço in his pref…[Read more]

The musical chapel of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor in Talavera de la Reina is a significant case of how an ecclesiastical institution articulates the musical life of a city: in this sense, it can be stated that the main musical activity in the aforementioned Toledan city has revolved around the chapel of the Collegiate Church…[Read more]

The partition of British India into two sovereign independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 was one of the most defining moments of the socio-political course of the sub-continent. The fight for independence from colonial rule and the rise of nationalism rooted in the religious discourse of two prominent religious communities- Hindus and…[Read more]

An overview of the principles, evolution and context of media and information literacy in university libraries is offered, as well as the fundamental role that professionals who work in libraries play as trainers. It is, therefore, a proposal for a synthesis of the path traveled by the media and information literacy in Higher Education, an…[Read more]

Dictionary articles in Lexicon about women musicians

इक्कसवीं सदी के दूसरे दशक में भारत में महिषासुर आंदोलन द्विज संस्कृति के लिए चुनौती बनकर उभरा। इसके माध्यम से आदिवासियों, पिछड़ों और दलितों के एक बड़े हिस्से ने अपनी सांस्कृतिक दावेदारी पेश की।

लेकिन यह आंदोलन क्या है, इसकी जड़ें समाज में कहां तक फैली हैं, बहुजनों की सांस्कृतिक परंपरा में इसका क्या स्थान है, मौजूदा लोक-जीवन में महिषासुर क…[Read more]

Focussing on the Duchy of Cornwall’s organisational structure during the Wars of the Roses, this survey examines the principal offices (which evolved around administration of its marine and terrene regalities) and personnel (administrative elite) in Cornwall and Devon. Consideration of successive Princes’ Councils and counsellors (and Councils of…[Read more]

Avery Cornburgh (d.1487) of Bere Ferrers (Devon) and Dovers (Essex) – a Lancastrian, Yorkist, and Tudor household servant – was one of the appreciable numbers of crown servants utilised in local government during the fifteenth century. Serving in Cornwall and Essex as JP, MP, sheriff, and commissioner, he was prominent in Cornish affairs as a res…[Read more]

महिषासुर आंदोलन के इस कदर अचानक फैल जाने का एक बड़ा कारण था कि बहुजन समाज में इन परंपराओं की जड़ें बहुत गहरी रही हैं और इनका प्रसार उसके अवचेतन तक रहा है। इन समुदायों से आने वाले फुले, आंबेडकर, पेरियार समेत सभी चिंतकों ने असुर-संस्कृति की न सिर्फ विस्तृत गवेषणा की है, बल्कि अगर आप ध्यान से देखें तो पाएंगे कि यही उनकी वैचारिकी का प्रस्थान…[Read more]

Four colleagues–a faculty member, a digital services librarian, a research librarian, and a curator of Special Collections–take turns describing their role in creating an undergraduate student project around an eighteenth-century almanac that belonged to Marie-Antoinette. In recounting the steps taken, the collaborative process, the student…[Read more]

16 सितबर, 2011 को बिहार विधान परिषद् ने अपने दो कर्मचारियों- अरुण नारायण और मुसाफिर बैठा निलंबित कर दिया था। उन पर आरोप था कि उन्होंने परिषद् सभापति के निर्णय पर अपने एक फेसबुक पोस्ट में सवाल उठाया था। इससे पहले परिषद् ने अपने एक और कर्मचारी सैयद जावेद हुसेन को भी नौकरी से बर्खास्त कर दिया था।
यह टिप्प्णी इसी संदर्भ में है।

On 27 January, 2012 Justices Ajit Singh and Sanjay Yadav of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in Jabalpur while approving the decision of the BJP government to teach “the essence of Gita” in the schools said that Gita is not merely a religious text. It is Indian philosophy. Therefore, it is not inappropriate to teach it in schools.

Forces that sup…[Read more]