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Cracking Silent Codes: Critical Race Theory And Education Organizing, Celina Su

Publications and Research

Critical race theory (CRT) has moved beyond legal scholarship to critique the ways in which “colorblind” laws and policies perpetuate existing racial inequalities in education policy. While criticisms of CRT have focused on the pessimism and lack of remedies presented, CRT scholars have begun to address issues of praxis. Specifically, communities of color must challenge the dominant narratives of mainstream institutions with alternative visions of pedagogy and school reform, and community organizing plays an important role in helping communities of color to articulate these alternative counter-narratives. Yet, many in education organizing disagree with CRT's critique of colorblindness. Drawing on five …

Lacuny Instruction Committee Meeting Minutes, October 2007, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Sexuality Studies And Lgbtqi Rights In Africa, Sybille Ngo Nyeck

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

The first meeting of the International Research Network, Africa (IRN-Africa) was held in Saly, Senegal, February 8-10, 2007. The meeting was attended by twenty six scholars, artists, and human rights activists from ten countries including Cameroon, Canada, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and the United States.

Letter From Paisley Currah, Outgoing Executive Director, Paisley Currah

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

"Unzipping the Monster Dick." I thought nothing of this title when planning the fall 2003 CLAGS and a speaker, Santiago Solis, suggested it. It seemed to me, a denizen of the world of queer studies, unremarkable, even normal as I jotted it down. Solis, who was finishing his PhD in Learning Dis/abilities at Teachers College, Columbia University at the time, had the requisite explanatory subtitle: "Deconstructing Ableist Penile Representations in two Ethnic Homoerotic Magazines."

Advocate, October 2007, Vol. [19], No. [2], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

PSC Contract Battle Begins; CUNY, Union Far from Agreement (p. 1)

“For Those Whose Deaths Never Made the News.” Roisin O’Connor-McGinn (p. 1)

Health Services Still in Limbo: DSC, VP Seek Interim Solutions (p. 1)

From the Editor’s Desk: The Politics of Personality: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying about [Ahmadinejad] and Love Iran (p. 2)

Graduate Center Technology: GC IT Gets $1M Grant for Net Development (p. 2)

Fax Services for GC Students (p. 3)

Zotero Takes on EndNote and RefWorks (p. 3)

Dispatches from the Front: Not Another Dangerous Minds Story: Challenging the Teacher-as-Savior …

Letter From Sarah E. Chinn, Incoming Executive Director, Sarah Chinn

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

I'm not the kind of person who procrastinates — I'd rather do something right away than worry and further feed the procrastination. But I have been putting off writing this inaugural column as the new executive director of CLAGS. The challenge, I think, has been where to begin: taking on a position that has been so magnificently filled by Paisley Currah, Alisa Solomon, Jill Dolan, and Martin Duberman is already such a challenge that contemplating actually writing about it seems even more insuperable.

Lacuny Executive Council Meeting Minutes, September 2007, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Advocate, September 2007, Vol. [19], No. [1], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

With Clancy Gone, Health Services Down But Not Out; VP: Contract Woes Hinder Finding a Successor (p. 1)

Wireless at Last: Service in Place in Library, Commons, and Other Sites (p. 1)

CUNY Tightens Admissions Standards for Senior Colleges (p. 1)

From the Editor’s Desk: It Can’t Happen Here: Or Has It? (p. 2)

Graduate Center Technology: New Computer Blitz for Library, Computer Labs (p. 3)

Dispatches from the Front: Learning Teaching Excellence (the Hard Way). Rachel Porter (p. 6)

Adjuncting: Towards Adjunct Empowerment. Carl Lindskoog (p. 6)

Grad Life: On the Other Side of the Table …

Review Of The Book The Source: A Guidebook To American Genealogy, 3rd Ed., John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book The source: A guidebook to American genealogy, 3rd ed.

Nothing New: A Small Enterprise Development Project In West Africa, Aaron Barlow, Bronwyn Hughes

Publications and Research

"This article presents a specific strategy for the aid worker wishing to encourage income-generating enterprises followed by an analysis of the initiation of a construction-supplies business in the north of Togo, West Africa in the late 1980s. This article also stresses project assessment as insurance against failure for the aid organization. Together, these can lead to self-sustaining projects and the furthering of real development."

A Dynamic-Trend Exponential Smoothing Model, Don Miller, Dan Williams

Publications and Research

Forecasters often encounter situations in which the local pattern of a time series is not expected to persist over the forecasting horizon. Since exponential smoothing models emphasize recent behavior, their forecasts may not be appropriate over longer horizons. In this paper, we develop a new model in which the local trend line projected by exponential smoothing converges asymptotically to an assumed future long-run trend line, which might be an extension of a historical long-run trend line. The rapidity of convergence is governed by a parameter. A familiar example is an economic series exhibiting persistent long-run trend with cyclic variation. This …

Review Of The Website Cyndi’S List Of Genealogy Sites On The Internet, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the website Cyndi’s list of genealogy sites on the internet.

Violence, Vision, And Voice: A Journey From Liminal To Transgressive Spaces, Stephanie Urso Spina

Publications and Research

This paper was inspired by the author’s experiences teaching a required class about feminism to affluent, predominantly female undergraduates who vociferously considered it outdated and irrelevant to their lives until they realized, in painfully personal ways, that this was the dominant discourse speaking, not their own voices. Inspired by these women, and in the hope of further displacing the hegemonically imposed code of silence, this paper breaks the author’s tacit complicity with these societal forces of repression. Written on a bus from Boston to New York, the author weaves her narrative with a description of that trip and its passengers, …

Research Authority In The Age Of Google: Equilibrium Sought, Mariana Regalado

Publications and Research

The article examines the major shift in the relationship of students, instructors and librarians to information. It is argued that this shift is due to some fundamental changes to authority in the relationship in terms of Web publication, access to content and technical know-how. In addition, it also discusses the impact of the introduction of the Google search engine.

Digg.Com And Socially-Driven Authority, Steven Ovadia

Publications and Research

For years, librarians have been able to distill the notion of authority, in its purest form, to two simple questions: “Who said it?” and “Under whose auspices?” The answer to either, or preferably both, of these questions could tell a researcher whether to rely on the information retrieved. Today, however, in the world of online information, the notion of authority is shifting and librarians working in an instructional capacity must understand the shift and determine ways to help students cope with the changes. Searching in today’s socially-driven information era requires a different skill set for researchers looking for authoritative information. …

New York Placenames In Film Titles, Jay H. Bernstein

Publications and Research

From 1914 to 2006, 396 feature films with titles containing New York place names were released. This pattern emerged during the silent era, peaked from the late 1920s to the early 1940s, and then dropped off steadily before rebounding in the 1970s. This article discusses the cinematic representation of cities and urban life in the movies and the special place of New York as an “imagined city” and a cultural icon. New York’s associations in the popular imagination help explain the frequent occurrence of themes of negativity, violence, nightlife, and grandiosity (royalty or divinity) in these titles. The use of …

You And Me And Google Makes Three: Welcoming Google Into The Reference Interview, Jill Cirasella

Publications and Research

Library patrons often approach the reference desk with indirect, incomplete, or misleading questions, known as "ill-formed" questions. Transforming ill-formed questions into well-formed ones is a crucial part of the reference interview, and Google can be an active participant in that process. This paper discusses how Google can help librarians and patrons deal with incomplete citations, incorrect citations, incorrect spellings, tip-of-the-tongue questions, and forgotten searches.

Editorial: Shape Shifters: Librarians Evolve Yet Again In The Age Of Google, Mariana Regalado, Jill Cirasella

Publications and Research

Like all organisms and organizations, librarians and libraries evolve by adapting to changes and pressures in their environments. From scroll to codex to online text: every upgrade in technology is matched by an adaptation in librarianship. Nevertheless, despite centuries of evolution, the activities of librarians and the mission of libraries have remained essentially constant and are still recognizable. The pace of change in libraries has been especially rapid since the introduction of computers, and an important recent change is the advent of the “age of Google.” Heralded by the arrival in 1998 of the Google search engine, with its clean …

Lacuny Cataloging Roundtable Meeting Minutes, May 2007, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Lacuny Acquisitions Roundtable Meeting Minutes, May 2007, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

To Perpetuity … And Beyond, Curtis Kendrick

Urban Library Journal

Good morning. I am delighted that LACUNY has organized this conference on Scholarly Publishing and Open Access. I think we owe a debt of gratitude to Kenneth Schlesinger, LACUNY President, and the two Institute Co-chairs, Scott White and Beth Evans. ...

The Dilemma Of Access: Describing Open Access Journals With Marc And [Other] Metadata Schemes, Summary Of A Presentation By Monica Berger And Gloria Rohman, Beth Evans

Urban Library Journal

Monica Berger and Gloria Rohmann bring to the open access discussion the librarian’s point of view, both from the standpoint of the cataloger (Berger) and of the position of the public access librarian (Rohmann). ...

The Research Impact Of Open Access Journals, Summary Of A Presentation By Kristin Antelman, Irwin Weintraub

Urban Library Journal

The purpose of this study was to examine whether articles have a greater impact in citation numbers if they are open access compared to non-open access in the same journals. ...

Going In Reverse To Go Forward: Institutional Repositories And The New York Public Library, Stewart Bodner, Eric Neubacher

Urban Library Journal

The Research Libraries of the New York Public Library is one of the most significant public information centers in the world. Since the opening in 1911 of its flagship building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in the heart of Manhattan , the Library has aimed to serve people from all walks of life and on a global scale. ...

Institutional Repositories (Ir) In Higher Education – A Panel Discussion, Summary, Beth Evans

Urban Library Journal

Theresa McManus, the moderator, introduced the panel and opened with her own concerns about IRs. She finds herself caught between faculty advocating for mandating e-print repositories, priorities in a context of budget reductions, and faculty who view repositories sometimes with trepidation and doubt in regard to them being mandated to put materials in them. ...

Going In Reverse To Go Forward: Institutional Repositories And The New York Public Library, Summary Of A Presentation By Stewart Bodner And Eric Neubacher, Beth Evans

Urban Library Journal

Stewart Bodner opened his talk giving background information on institutional repositories (IR). He also spoke of the idea of NYPL as “an institution that collects for the historical record.” His quote from former director James Wood Henderson reminds us that the ideal research library should not select its collection based on “what the librarian or the contemporary public regards as good or important,” but rather it should “record life as it passes, its evil, vulgarity and triviality, as well as its more agreeable aspects.” ...

How The Success Of Open Access Publishing Can Stimulate Improved Access To Grey Literature, Summary Of A Presentation By Marcus A. Banks, Louise Fluk

Urban Library Journal

Banks compares the accessibility of peer-reviewed and grey literature, particularly in the health field, and argues that the open access movement which is improving availability of commercially-published work provides a model for improving that of grey literature. ...

How The Success Of Open Access Publishing Can Stimulate Improved Access To Grey Literature, Marcus A. Banks

Urban Library Journal

With a focus on biomedicine and public health, this paper will demonstrate that the emerging success of open access publishing provides a model for improved access to grey literature. It will describe pioneering efforts to provide access to grey literature, and recommend ways to build upon these initiatives. Finally, it will argue that the evolution of electronic scholarship will eventually collapse the distinction between grey and non-grey literature.

Digital Archiving: A Fedora-Based Infrastructure To Preserve Electronic Journal Articles, Summary Of A Presentation By Ronald Jantz, Beth Evans

Urban Library Journal

Ronald Jantz, is Data Librarian at Rutgers University Libraries. He spends a good deal of time working on digital libraries, digital repositories and digital preservation. ...

Designing For The Discipline: Open Libraries And Scholarly Communication, Summary Of A Presentation By Thomas Krichel, Beth Evans

Urban Library Journal

Thomas Krichel speaks about the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) system (http://RePEc.org). RePEc is a large digital library Krichel founded. Krichel says he is “bringing the world of economics into the world of computing and live information.” ...