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Sounding The State Of The World: Interview With Karim Rafi, Summer 2021, Matthew Brauer

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Matthew Brauer interviews Moroccan contemporary artist Karim Rafi about postcolonial creation in the 2020s in "Sounding the State of the World.” Beginning with Rafi’s shift to remote performances during the COVID-19 pandemic, the discussion approaches confinement as just the latest in a series of crises in North Africa and the world. The repeated experience of crisis opens a conversation about the contemporary experience of time, broached in relation to modern Moroccan art history, which emerged from and against the conservative institutions of the French Protectorate (1912-1956). The interview touches on a range of distinctive concerns in Rafi’s art practice, from …

A Case Of Pandemic Narrative And The End Of Post-Cold War, Yongbing Jin, Penghan Zhang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

The topical book Wuhan Diary, authored by the Chinese writer Fang Fang during the COVID-19 lockdown of Wuhan, is not so much a diary as a “becoming-diary,” given its performative practices. Wuhan Diary’s emphasis on the individual or private nature of its writing activity is attributable to its characteristic realistic conception of authenticity, which resulted historically from the humanist trend within Chinese literature in the 1980s as a significant element of post-socialist realism. Insofar as Wuhan Diary claims an overarching authorship that does not cohere with—or is, indeed, utterly subverted by—its textual complexities, it can be interpreted as …

Biopolitics In The Twenty-First Century: India And The Pandemic, _ Swatie, Rashee Mehra

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Swatie and Rashee Mehra discuss in their "Biopolitics in the Twenty-first Century: India and the Pandemic”, the rise of the biopolitical state in India in the 2020s. The article emphasizes the relevance of Michel Foucault’s work on biopolitics for the pandemic in India. The biopolitical governmentality of the Indian state operates at several levels to politicize ‘life itself’: racism (the notion that sections of the population are disposable), economics (the notion of privatization of care), and the logic of contagion (based on ideas of threat perception and risk). The article engages with biopolitics in the 21st century and looks at …

Confinement, Care, And Commodification In Mati Diop’S In My Room, Brittany Murray

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, “Confinement, Care, and the Commodification in Mati Diop’s In My Room,” Brittany Murray discusses a short film released in 2020 by the French and Senegalese director, Mati Diop. Shot in the artist’s studio in a Parisian banlieue during mandatory Covid-19 confinement, the film tackles the issues of grief, isolation, and care. The article shows how the film represents these issues, particularly urgent during the pandemic and yet belonging to longstanding concerns about care work and reproductive labor. To mediate between present crisis and a larger historical framework, the article demonstrates how the film’s formal attributes make a …

Reading The Global City: Crisis, Cognitive Mapping And The “Urban Sensorium” In Tom Mccarthy’S Satin Island And Ben Lerner’S 10:04, Marty Gilroy

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

“What is the role played by the aesthetics and politics of space,” asks Kanishka Goonewardena, “in producing and reproducing the durable disjunction between the consciousness of our urban everyday life […] and the now global structure of social relations that is itself ultimately responsible for producing the spaces of our lived-experience?” (55). Goonewardena’s account of the “urban sensorium” describes the mediatory, ideological role played by space in this “gap,” informing his adaptation of Jameson’s “cognitive mapping” as a hermeneutics of urban experience vis-à-vis totality. This article considers the mediation of these insights as critical aesthetic strategies in two global city …

Literature And Economy In Portuguese-Speaking Southern Africa, Thomas Waller

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In “Literature and Economy in Portuguese-speaking Southern Africa”, Thomas Waller offers a comparative reading of literary responses to neoliberalization in Portuguese-speaking southern Africa. Reading the proliferation of spectral effects in the Mozambican literature of the late 1980s alongside dystopian depictions of societal collapse in contemporary Angolan fiction, he suggests that writers in the two states have used distinctive aesthetic idioms to register the reintegration of southern Africa into the neoliberal world-system. In the fiction of Mozambican writers Aldino Muianga and Aníbal Aleluia, he shows how the legacy of colonial underdevelopment and its role in the transition to neoliberalism in Mozambique …

Conjunctures, Commodities, And Social State Marxism, Stephen Shapiro

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article, “Conjunctures, Commodities, and Social State Marxism,” Stephen Shapiro discusses our current moment as the conjuncture of three temporalities: a secular trend of centrist liberalism, a Kress cycle of managerial capitalism, and three Kondratieff waves. These can be understood by the addition of implied terms in Marx’s advanced discussion of the commodity-form through an approach that Shapiro calls Social State Marxism.

Periodizing The Present: The 2020s, The Longue Durée, & Contemporary Culture, Treasa De Loughry, Brittany Murray

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Ils 490: Diplomacy Lab: Strategies For Identifying Mis/Disinformation Course Syllabus (Fall 2022), Bethany S. Mcgowan, Matthew Hannah

Libraries Faculty and Staff Creative Materials

Course syllabus for the Diplomacy Lab: Strategies for Identifying Mis/Disinformation student-driven project, a collaboration between Purdue University and the U.S. Department of State, supervised by Professors Bethany McGowan and Matthew Hannah.

Stakeholders’ Perspectives On The Safety Of An Adaptive Riding Program For Adults Living With Dementia And Care Partners, Alicia A. Oestreich, Beth E. Fields

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

The purpose of this qualitative community-based participatory research was to explore the safety perspectives of stakeholders involved in an adaptive horseback riding program designed to enhance the quality of life of adults living with dementia and their care partners. Human–animal interactions are becoming increasingly popular therapeutic interventions; however, there is still a lack of understanding about the safety considerations for providing adults living with dementia opportunities to interact with horses and the equine environment. To advance our understanding, researchers analyzed 10 semistructured interviews and two focus groups with therapeutic riding program instructors and staff, aging network specialists, and care partners …

Virtual Tour Package Model Innovation Based On Educational Tourism. A Case Study Of Cinangneng Village, Fetty Nurmala Rossi, Yustisia Pasfatima Mbulu, Yosi Erfinda

ITSA 2022 Gran Canaria - 9th Biennial Conference: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Global Tourism Strategies After Covid 19

This research aims to identify the components of 5A tourism (Attraction, Accessibility, Amenities, Available Package, Activities) in The Cinangneng tourist village, analyze SWOT in the development of Cinangneng tourist village based on educational tourism, and create a virtual tour package model in Cinangneng tourist village based on educational tourism. The research method uses qualitative descriptive and conducts observations and interviews with management and tourists who have visited the tourist village of Cinangneng. The results of this study state that the Cinangneng tourist village has fulfilled the 5A tourism component judging from attractions, Amenities, Available Package & Activities. At the same …

Tracking Tutorials: Bringing Asynchronous Library Instruction Into The Stats, Lumarie Guth

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

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Distinguishing Trade Publications Video, Rhonda J Mcginnis

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

This Lightning Talk would discuss the frustration I've felt with traditional materials designed to teach students the difference between Scholarly and Popular Journals. Even when materials address trade publications, they rarely if ever promote them positively. As a Business Librarian, I know that such journals are vitally important in the Business disciplines so I set out to create a very brief video on Scholarly vs Trade vs Popular journals designed especially for business students. My talk would discuss the perceived need, the creation process, and it reception/use since creation. I would provide a link to the video if there was …

In The Weeds: A New Business Librarian’S Approach To Collection Management, Alexis Murrell

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

No abstract provided.

Makeyourstory: Business Resources For Makers, Annette Bochenek

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

The MakeYourStory podcast at Purdue University celebrates makers through the lens of the narrative podcast. Learn about the MakeYourStory podcast and its connection to highlighting business resources for makers and podcasters. This session will discuss the structure and development of the MakeYourStory podcast, with an emphasis on promoting library resources for makers and podcasters.

Data Literacy For Librarians: A Free Online Professional Development Program From The Federal Reserve Bank Of St. Louis, Scott St. Louis

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

This lightning talk will provide a brief overview of the Data Literacy for Librarians badging and micro-credential program launched by the Research Division at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The lightning talk will include basic aspects of the instructional design, metrics illustrating program success to date, and a quick glance at the seven badges comprising the micro-credential: Acting on Data, Identifying Data Sources and Frequencies, Saving Graphs and Organizing Data, Visualizing Data, Storytelling with Data, Understanding Data Types and Units, and Using Data Ethically. The seven individual badges comprising the micro-credential are aligned with specific dimensions of the …

An Organic Approach To Instruction: The Business Problem Solving Case, Michael Deike

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

In the past year, the Thomas Mahaffey Jr. Business Library at the University of Notre Dame provided instruction for a unique course offered by the Mendoza College of Business, Business Problem Solving. Business Problem Solving immerses students in a challenging environment working as teams to resolve a series of cases created by real consulting companies. Teams in each course section compete with each other to see who can produce the most well researched solution for problem posed by the company. For this course, instructors reached out to the library to introduce students to library resources that could augment their case …

Downsizing The Business Print Collection, Sally Lajoie

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

On many campuses, library shelf space is limited and perhaps even shrinking. And with a shift towards more online learning, a decline in print usage, and a greater demand for student space, weeding has become more and more essential. In preparation for a new library building with significantly less square footage, our small sized academic library started a massive weeding project on a print collection that had never been consistently weeded in the past. With the majority of the business books on our shelves out-of-date and not circulating, this project provided an opportunity to make the business collection more relevant …

I Didn't Know The Library Had Regular Books!’: Promoting The Popular Business Collection, Jennifer Horne

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

No abstract provided.

Business Students' Co-Op And Internship Information Use, Heather A. Howard, Margaret Phillips, Garrett R. Brewster

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

At Purdue University, librarians worked with an undergraduate researcher to survey business students who had completed an internship or co-op to determine their information use during these experiences. We asked students about the information tasks they completed, the information source types they used, where they learned to use these sources, and their perceived difficulty in finding information sources. This lightning talk will present a brief overview of our findings.

The Business Of Moving A Library, Gabriele Hysong

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

No abstract provided.

Serving Small Businesses & Entrepreneurs At The Indianapolis Public Library, Alexandra Loewen

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

I will provide an overview of how the business librarians at the Indianapolis Public Library work with aspiring entrepreneurs and existing small businesses, and the library’s resources that are available to small business patrons.

Mothers’ Reflections On Cat Ownership For A Child With Autism Spectrum Disorder During Covid-19, Saskia Keville, Sophia De Vita, Amanda K. Ludlow

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

Animal- assisted interventions are increasingly used as a complementary therapy in clinical practice to support people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), with promising outcomes compared to traditional therapies. Less is understood about the therapeutic benefits of more accessible and affordable small pet ownership for families with a child with ASD, alongside the pets’ welfare living in these homes. This study explored the experiences of cat ownership for young people with ASD from the perspective of their mothers during a time of transition generated by COVID-19. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six mothers and transcripts analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Three …

Interactions Between Sex And Pet Ownership On Attitudes Toward Children, Aya Dudin, Mayra Linne Almanza-Sepulveda, Katherine T. Cost, Geoffrey B. Hall, Alison S. Fleming, Jonathan Freedman

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

Background: Many people are attached to their pets. This attachment shares characteristics with the parental attachment to children. Previous studies have established a sex difference in attitudes about children; women compared to men report more positive attitudes about children. However, whether this sex difference is attenuated by owning and caring for pet(s) has not been investigated. Methods: In a sample of non-parents, we investigated the following: (1) whether the established main effect of sex on attitudes about children was moderated by pet ownership using a 2 (male, female) x 2 (pet owner, non–pet owner) design; and (2) whether the established …

A Narrative Investigation Of Black Familial Capital That Supports Engineering Engagement Of Middle-School-Aged Youth, Delean Tolbert Smith, Tamecia Jones, Monica E. Cardella

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

A major concern in engineering education involves ensuring that youth belonging to minoritized groups have equitable access to engineering career pathways. Related research often highlights the effect of student and school characteristics on engineering success but few studies have investigated the engineering-related assets that Black families provide. This work aims to provide counterstories that highlight the presence of Black families along the pre-college engineering pathways of three Black youth from the Midwest region of the United States. The application of a counternarrative approach centers the familial capital of Black families and serves as the analytical frame for this work. The …

Controlled Digital Lending, Equitable Access To Knowledge And Future Library Services, Xuan Pang, Peggy Glatthaar

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) became a popular term in the United States of America (USA) libraries as a result of a white paper authored by Kyle K. Courtney (Harvard University) and David Hansen (Duke University). (Citation?) The white paper gave the legal groundwork to explore the copyright aspect of CDL: Fair Use, First Sale Doctrine and Supreme Court rulings. The white paper also provided guidelines for Library professionals implementing this new technology to fulfill their users’ needs. Inspired by the recent CDL guidelines developed by Courtney and Hansen (2018) two librarians from the University of Florida (UF), and Florida …

Fostering Community Health And Well-Being Through The Development Of A Mindfulness Program And Meditation Space At The University Of Miami Libraries, Kelly E. Miller, Vera Spika, Scott Rogers

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper offers a case study in the development of a mindfulness program and meditation space within the context of a university research library in the United States. In 2016, thanks to a collaboration with the University of Miami Mindfulness-in-Law Program, the University of Miami (UM) Libraries began offering weekly mindfulness sessions for the benefit of the University community and with the goal of supporting community health and well-being. Appropriate for novice meditators and led by mindfulness researchers and certified teachers, these sessions offer guided meditations and talks that cultivate awareness and compassion. Attendees also have the opportunity to ask …

University Rankings Called To Account – Library Voices In The Conversation, Kara Jones Ms

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The past few years have seen increasingly raised voices against the impact of University Rankings, such as QS, THE World University Rankings, ARWU and USNews. Research administrators have been particularly vocal about the influence of ranking systems on university behaviors and called for more responsible metrics and profiling tools that demonstrate distinctiveness.

This paper seeks to understand the role of the library in these conversations, particularly in light of recent strengthening of bibliometrics and scholarly communication initiatives that deal with source data for publication and citation elements of the rankings, and increased relationship-building with Research Offices and Institutional Policy and …

Community Outreach And Engagement In A Time Of Crisis: The Peer Research Consultants Program, Lauren Fralinger, Shatha Baydoun

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The Peer Research Consultants (PRC) program at the University of Miami Libraries (UML), was formed in 2016 as part of the Learning Commons initiative to collocate and centralize academic services at Richter Library. Although the program had a virtual component in the form of chat and phone services when founded, it was primarily a physical setup where library student workers assisted researchers using a peer-to-peer system. In this paper, we highlight the historical trajectory of the peer research consultant (PRC) program in academic libraries using Richter Library as a case study. We argue that the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic …

The Future Of Flexible Work And Hybrid Work Culture Beyond Covid-19: Challenges, Opportunities And Lessons Learned At Uva Library, Mira Waller, Carla Lee

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The COVID-19 pandemic led to some significant changes in how many of us work and live. It also exposed deep infrastructure problems and systemic equity issues around income, race, and employment and redefined the meaning of front-line essential worker. The pandemic’s acceleration of the move to remote and hybrid work in many areas, coupled with the redefining of essential work, will result in many libraries having to adapt operations and culture around a hybrid work environment.

While libraries prior to the pandemic did allow for some flexible work arrangements, telework was not an expected benefit nor was it universal enough …