Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Bet You Missed It--What Do Dogs And Bookstores Have In Common?, Bruce Strauch

Against the Grain

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Notes From Mosier--The Silver Swan, Scott Alan Smith

Against the Grain

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Oregon Trails--Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind, Thomas W. Leonhardt

Against the Grain

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Don's Conference Notes--The Future Of Discovery: A Niso Forum, Donald T. Hawkins

Against the Grain

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Being Earnest With Collections--Investing In Open Access At A Small Academic Library, Jonathan H. Harwell, Michael A. Arthur

Against the Grain

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Little Red Herrings--Copy That?, Mark Y. Herring

Against the Grain

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Pelikan's Antidisambiguation--Identity Literacy: Time To Teach It?, Michael P. Pelikan

Against the Grain

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Do's And Don'ts Of Hosting Content And Service Providers At Your Library: A Few Tips For Your Next Meeting, Sarah Forzetting

Against the Grain

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Decoder Ring--Reprints And Refrigerators In "The American Comic Book (Critical Insights)", Jerry Spiller

Against the Grain

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Biz Of Acq--Training The New Acquisitions Technician: From New Hire To Competence, Michelle Flinchbaugh

Against the Grain

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Both Sides Now: Vendors And Librarians--Negotiation Skills 101: Where Is That Course Given?, Michael Gruenberg

Against the Grain

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Graphic Recordings From The 2015 Charleston Conference, Leah Hinds

Against the Grain

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A Theory Of Genre Formation In The Twentieth Century, Michael Rodgers

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "A Theory of Genre Formation in the Twentieth Century" Michael Rodgers explores the relationship between Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading and magical realism in order to theorize about genre formation in the twentieth century. Rodgers argues not only that specific twentieth-century narrative forms are bound intrinsically with literary realism and socio-political conditions, but also that these factors can produce formal commonalities.

Overt And Covert Shandyism Of Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol, Margarit Ordukhanyan

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Overt and Covert Shandyism of Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol" Margarit Ordukhanyan examines Vladimir Nabokov's 1942 novel, an unusual biography of the nineteenth-century Russian author. Ordukhanyan discusses parallels between Nabokov's biography of Gogol and Laurence Sterne's Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. She highlights the direct allusions and textual references Nabokov makes to Sterne's novel and argues that Nabokov uses Tristram Shandy as the model for creating and interpreting his biography of Gogol by fictionalizing Gogol and portraying him as a Shandean character. Further, Ordukhanyan discusses how Nabokov uses Sterne's novel to undermine the genre of literary …

Leisure And Posthumanism In Houellebecq's Platform And Lanzarote, Nurit Buchweitz, Elie Cohen-Gewerc

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article "Leisure and Posthumanism in Houellebecq's Platform and Lanzarote" Nuriot Buchweitz and Elie Cohen-Gewerc analyze Michel Houellebecq's novels in the context of leisure studies. They posit that in particular in Platform and Lanzarote Houellebecq explores leisure practices available in industrial societies marked by consumer culture. Further, Buchweitz and Cohen-Gewerc argue that the abundant depictions of leisure in Houellbecq's texts is not unintentional because he introduces the concept of the posthuman condition and rethinks agency and human selfhood as a consequence of the collapse of subjectivity. Employing postmodern indeterminacy, Houellebecq explores contemporary mores and debates the extinction of …

Exploring The C-Span Archives: Advancing The Research Agenda, Robert X. Browning

The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research

Exploring the C-SPAN Archives is a collection of path-breaking research studies that use video drawn from the C-SPAN Archives. The book, based on the papers presented at a November 2014 conference, includes chapters that explore issues in presidential debates, minority representation, the presentation of the first ladies, stem research, and innovative ways to analyze video.

The book is divided into five parts: Part 1 consists of an overview of and common scholarship using the C-SPAN Archives and how this research advances the conversation after previously published studies. Featured are the ways in which the collection is indexed and tips on …

Making Institutional Repositories Work, Burton B. Callicott, David Scherer, Andrew Wesolek

Purdue University Press Books

Making Institutional Repositories Work takes novices as well as seasoned practitioners through the practical and conceptual steps necessary to develop a functioning institutional repository, customized to the needs and culture of the home institution. The first section covers all aspects of system platforms, including hosted and open-source options, big data capabilities and integration, and issues related to discoverability. The second section addresses policy issues, from the basics to open-source and deposit mandates. The third section focuses on recruiting and even creating content. Authors in this section will address the ways that different disciplines tend to have different motivations for deposit, …

Marbles: The Application Of Input-Output Concepts To Safety Management Systems, Tim Brady, Alan Stolzer, Anthony Brickhouse, Antonio Cortés, Dan Mccune, Jayathi Raghavan, David Freiwald

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

The goal of this research was to apply the economic concept titled Input-Output Analysis to an aviation safety concept titled Safety Management Systems (SMS). Input-Output (IO) is based upon the interrelationships of various components of an economic system and what happens to the system when one or more of those components changes. Since SMS is, by definition, a system with definable components, the research sought to determine if the interrelationships between those components could be determined and quantified. The term ‘‘marbles’’ was used to describe the activities that led to the IO-SMS matrix. Marbles was used as a metaphor for …

Data Informed Learning: A Next Phase Data Literacy Framework For Higher Education, Clarence Maybee, Lisa Zilinski

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

This poster was presented at the Association for Information Science and Technology’s (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting in St. Louis, MO on November 9, 2015. Accessing, using and managing data is increasingly recognized as an important learning outcome in higher education. Approaches to data literacy have typically been informed by information literacy. New approaches to information literacy have emerged that address how information is used in the different disciplinary contexts in which people learn and work. Successful approaches to data literacy will also need to address contextual concerns. Informed learning is an approach to information literacy that purposefully addresses contextual concerns by …

It’S All About The Journey… From Brainstorming To Canvas, From Map To App, Frank Garofalo

Purdue GIS Day

The Ideation and brainstorming skills for GIS project development toward a user friendly interface.

Launch Of Geodata Portal @ Purdue Libraries, Nicole Kong, Weichang Tang

Purdue GIS Day

With more than two years’ efforts, Purdue University Libraries are launching the Geodata Portal @ Purdue on this year’s GIS Day celebration. This geodata portal allows geospatial information users to search for information by two simple criteria: where and what, which greatly reduced the geospatial information access barrier for researchers and learners. Users can preview map, preview metadata, and download maps from the portal. Currently, our portal include data from: (1) open data at all the collaborating universities, including Tufts, Harvard, MIT, and Berkley; (2) data from IndianaMap; (3) Purdue open access map collection: historic aerial photos, topo maps, and …

Rain Garden Inventory Responsive And Mobile Site, Larry Theller, Richard Andreas

Purdue GIS Day

This project is to create a responsive website to allow the public to input their various rainscaping practices into a database and viewed on a map. In addition, their data will be calculated and capacity will be shown.

This inventory website is responsive and will change between desktop and mobile view automatically based on the parameters of the browser.

Map-Based Mobile Apps For Ios And Android, Larry Theller, Hemil Desai

Purdue GIS Day

The STEPL model is a web-based spreadsheet tool designed for the estimation / of pollutant load and to analyze how creation or practicing certain sustainable / activities will reduce pollution in a watershed. For example, leaving a strip of / grass between a farm field and a water feature like stream of lake, will have an / estimated impact on the amount of soil and fertilizer which runs off in to the / river. / The model uses soil properties database, precipitation database and other / factors to make an estimate of pollution reduction after an action. It can then …

Evaluating A Process To Make An Online Environmental Model Accessible Under Ada, Kehara Taylor, Larry Theller

Purdue GIS Day

Assure compliance with federal (ADA) and international accessibility guidelines to reduce the risk of litigation and penalties. / / Increase site usage by making all of your Web properties accessible to people with disabilities (WCAG, Section 508, AODA, Canada's Standard on Accessibility). / / Prevent privacy breaches involving personal and health information. / / Protect confidential company and OPSEC information from leaking to the public through online exposure. / / Web content and applications, as well as Microsoft Office and PDF documents can be validated for any compliance regulation including custom rules. /

Naturalized Daily Streamflow Reconstruction For The Upper Wabash River, Sanoar Rahman, Laura C. Bowling

Purdue GIS Day

During the 1960s, the United States Army Corps of Engineers constructed a number of dams in the Upper Wabash watershed in Indiana, primarily for flood control, hydropower and recreation. In order to investigate the impact of other environmental changes, such as changes in land management and climate on streamflow, it is necessary to reconstruct what the natural flow of the impounded river would be without the influence of the upstream reservoirs.

Indiana Freshwater Use Projection And Spatial Analysis For Renewable Water Supply, Sanoar Rahman, Laura Bowling

Purdue GIS Day

Often, when governmental and non-governmental entities attempt to make plans for future water supply and environmental flows they fall into the trap of developing strategies for specific locations rather than working together and approaching a problem from a basin or regional scale. The problem persists when lack of knowledge of local situations and confining management plans with city and county lines merge together. The purpose of this study is to project future water use and then to reveal if there is any pattern in renewable water supply in Indiana to provide a basis for policy makers and stakeholders to consider …

User Interface Design Evaluation For L-Thia Watershed Analysis Tool., Lakshya Garg, Larry Theller, Yichen Zhong

Purdue GIS Day

This project is a semester-long analysis of the user interface deign of the ABE web-Based Decision support tool "L-THIA Watershed Management System". The goal is to evaluate the components such as user inputs, logical flow, graphical display, navigation, operational feasibility and technical feasibility. The process includes comparison to the interface of other of other well-known online mapping web tools. The student team will be evaluating under GIS specialist Larry Theller (Purdue ABE) some other online watershed analysis tools. The result of this study will be incorporated in the next phase of tool development for L-thia and several other ABE web …

Extended Capability To Support Multiple Watersheds In Stepl Web, Larry Theller, Kean Jye Tan

Purdue GIS Day

The STEPL model is a web-based spreadsheet tool designed for the estimation / of pollutant load and to analyze how creation or practicing certain sustainable / activities will reduce pollution in a watershed. For example, leaving a strip of / grass between a farm field and a water feature like stream of lake, will have an / estimated impact on the amount of soil and fertilizer which runs off in to the / river. / The model uses soil properties database, precipitation database and other / factors to make an estimate of pollution reduction after an action. It can then …

Geocoding Workshop, Amanda O'Daniel

Purdue GIS Day

This is a hands-on workshop to introduce you the geocoding resources from the State of Indiana.

Gis Project Design: Brainstorming & Ideation Workshop, Frank Garofalo

Purdue GIS Day

• Who should attend:
  • Do you have a new project or existing project, and looking to generate some new ideas?
  • Come with a project in mind or just come to learn some new collaboration and brainstorming techniques.
• What participants will learn… techniques for:
  • Working with others to create a common direction and vision, then generating alignment
  • Evaluating current state situations, strengths, complications and implications
  • Identifying and forming consensus on key target audiences
  • Generating ideas to prioritizing capabilities for new solutions and the related benefits
  • Specifying key objectives to measure and gauge for success