This is a brief presentation of 4 assignments i created in Spring 2021 as an instructor for a 4 week online introduction to music collection development course and have since adopted as thought exercises to ensure i engage in inclusive collection development practices.

There seems to be a continuum between Fernando Pessoa’s metadrama of heteronyms and his strict-sense plays, but this is more hypothesis than theory, because Pessoa’s dramas—notwithstanding the editions of Teatro Estático (2017) and Fausto (2018)—are still largely unknown. Written between 1903–1908, the tragedy of Marino is the earliest of Pessoa’…[Read more]

El aumento del cúmulo de documentación científica ha favorecido el desarrollo de medios tecnológicos para la descripción y gestión de documentos en línea. El formato automatizado de gestión bibliográfica MARC 21, se presenta como el más utilizado dentro de las bibliotecas y centros de documentación debido a sus capacidades de gestión y funcionalid…[Read more]

Maybe it’s unsurprising that I think about scholarly communication in terms similar to U.S. politics. I originally drafted this article for the Library Publishing Coalition blog before the 2020 election and revised it for C&RL News during the weirdly long interregnum period before the actual inauguration. The 2016 Republican National Committee w…[Read more]

Who leads, participates in, and is served by global knowledge infrastructure? Check out these takeaways from the recent Library Publishing Forum Conference from the perspective of a member of the planning committee.

In Trinidad and Tobago, there is a paucity of research on reading for pleasure in secondary schools. This is a cause for concern as there has been an observed decline. This study seeks to highlight strategies which can be used to reinvigorate pleasure reading in secondary schools. Aim: To evaluate the perceptions, inhibitors, promoters and…[Read more]

La Arquitectura de Información es la disciplina que contribuye al diseño web. Si está centrado en el usuario favorece que este satisfaga sus necesidades informativas. El sitio web de la Dirección de Información Científico Técnica (biblioteca universitaria), de la Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas, no satisface las necesidade…[Read more]

The ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ is a collection of stories of unknown authors, of Indian, Persian, and Arabic origin, dating back to the Middle Ages, that has gained incredible global popularity over the centuries. This is an introductory guide about the One Thousand and One Nights, including modern translations and adaptations, resources on…[Read more]

This is a gut-reaction response to the recent article “The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts” by Melissa Terras, et al, published in Big Data and Society on April 6, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211006165. My main argument is that exploiting labor and appropriating cultural heritage are int…[Read more]

This research examined how the context in which an object is placed affects the information that person viewing the object gleans from it. It used objects displayed in museums as they were easily accessible and were a ready source of a variety of types of display and information.

It used the concept of ‘object as document’, initially dev…[Read more]

This research examined how the context in which an object is placed affects the information that person viewing the object gleans from it. It used objects displayed in museums as they were easily accessible and were a ready source of a variety of types of display and information.

It used the concept of ‘object as document’, initially dev…[Read more]

This lecture notes focus on developmental processes that occur from conception through the end of adolescence and also include theories of human development.

El spot televisivo de bien público ha sido poco fundamentado desde la literatura científica publicada en cuanto a su estructura y funciones. Predominan las teorizaciones en torno al spot televisivo con enfoque comercial. Se planteó como objetivo del estudio fundamentar la estructura y funciones del spot de bien público. Para la obtención de resu…[Read more]

The presentation described the findings of a study on leadership development

Exploring ways in which libraries might counter information disorder in all its various iterations. Are the approaches effective and what barriers might exist to prevent this from happening. What solutions might be available.

Article about an interview with Dr. Matt Finch about fan information behaviour and fan literacy.

I will mainly focus on a collection of films made between 1972 and 1985 by the Staatliche Filmdokumentation (SFD)—the State Film
Documentation unit—which survived as part of the collection of the Staatliches Filmarchiv der DDR (SFA), the former national film archive
of the GDR.

Ontologies for DigitalHumanities – O4DH workshop: Demystifying ontologies, April 20th and 21st, 2021, 5pm to 7pm (Paris time).

‘Demystifying’ is a new series of workshops of the Ontologies for Digital Humanities (O4Dh) initiative supported by the Université Savoie Mont Blanc and Liaocheng University. The 2021 workshops are dedicated to…[Read more]