How do people make sense of works of art? And how do they write to make others see the same way? There are many guides to looking at art, histories of art history and art criticism, and accounts of various ‘theories’ and ‘methods’, but this book offers something very unlike the normal search for difference and division: it examines the general…[Read more]

Catalogo realizzato in occasione della serie di mostre dedicate, tra il 2021 e il 2022, dalla Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi, dal Museo d’Arte Moderna e della Mail Art di Montecarotto (AN) e dal Museo Nori De’ Nobili di Trecastelli (AN), all’opera di Magdalo Mussio. Il testo prende in esame, in particolare, l’opera grafico-pittorica, oltre…[Read more]

La proliferación de las asociaciones de profesionales de bibliotecarios en Cuba tiene lugar en la década de 1930 como parte de la incorporación de la nación al movimiento mundial. A partir de una revisión de la literatura científica publicada se pudo identificar la ausencia de fuentes dedicadas al análisis de asociaciones de profesionales de bib…[Read more]

The drama of the Niger Delta region has enjoyed robust scholarship. This essay interrogates J. P. Clark-Bekederemo’s drama against the cultural milieu of the region and tries to investigate the connections between the rich folklore of the area and the wealth of poetry and imagery contained in his drama. The essay investigates the terrain,…[Read more]

El Comportamiento Informacional Web y la Experiencia de Usuario son disciplinas científicas que comparten aspectos comunes. No se evidencian estudios precedentes que delimiten las relaciones entre las disciplinas Comportamiento Informacional Web y Experiencia de Usuario desde la perspectiva métrica. Se planteó como objetivo del estudio: ca…[Read more]

Scholarly Communication Librarian for Murray State University A.J. Boston offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access in this blog post from the Scholarly Kitchen.

Walter Benjamin had much to say about the intelligentsia, from vicious reviews such as “Left-Wing Melancholy” to the more programmatic essays “Author as Producer” and the Artwork essay. But while the specific allegiances, the “strategies” in the literary battle have been plotted with great precision, a larger debate in which these texts repre…[Read more]

Innovative university libraries need to create suitable environments to provide training in media and information skills. The WebQuest is a teaching resource adaptable to any educational level which has proven its usefulness in the university context. A WebQuest designed to facilitate knowledge and awareness of the importance of media and…[Read more]

Las revistas científicas constituyen instancias que contribuyen a la institucionalización y consolidación de campos científicos particulares. El campo científico de los estudios sociales sobre el desarrollo comunitario en América Latina y el Caribe cuenta con pocas publicaciones seriadas abiertas a la aceptación y el diálogo entre paradig…[Read more]

A unique dispute over ownership rights to artwork in the case of the Auschwitz Memorial Museum vs. former camp prisoner Dinah Gottliebova Babbitt illuminates underlying moral questions about the Holocaust and post-Holocaust culture.

War Culture and the Contest of Images analyzes the relationships among contemporary war, documentary practices, and democratic ideals. Dora Apel examines a wide variety of images and cultural representations of war in the United States and the Middle East, including photography, performance art, video games, reenactment, and social media images.…[Read more]

This essay examines select visual representations of refugees and migrants as embodied subjects in photography, art, and video. It focuses on American asylum politics and explores the questions of free movement, the right to have rights, and the ethics and efficacy of border walls. I argue that the catastrophe of global forced displacement makes…[Read more]

manual guide for the annotation of biographies

El campo científico de los estudios sociales acerca del desarrollo comunitario en América Latina y el Caribe constituye un conjunto de conocimientos de carácter interdisciplinar. El campo tiene dos manifestaciones que se evidencian en su producción intelectual: 1) una visión conservadora socio – históricamente construida donde se legitiman los par…[Read more]

La historia de las asociaciones de bibliotecarios en Cuba ha sido poco abordada desde la literatura científica publicada. Se identifican escasas investigaciones con apuntes históricos sobre estas organizaciones, fundamentalmente localizadas en la capital. La búsqueda de referencias arrojó como resultado la inexistencia de investigaciones que sis…[Read more]

CFP – AIWAC 2nd edition Rome 2022