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Acquisitions Archaeology-What Are Our Obligations (These Days)?, Clifford Lynch Dec 2012

Acquisitions Archaeology-What Are Our Obligations (These Days)?, Clifford Lynch

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Booklover-Poland, Donna Jacobs Dec 2012

Booklover-Poland, Donna Jacobs

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Random Ramblings- Does The Focus On Banned Books Subtly Undermine Intellectual Freedom?, Bob Holley Dec 2012

Random Ramblings- Does The Focus On Banned Books Subtly Undermine Intellectual Freedom?, Bob Holley

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Collecting To The Core-Manuscripts In Medieval Studies, Susan Steuer, Ann Doherty Dec 2012

Collecting To The Core-Manuscripts In Medieval Studies, Susan Steuer, Ann Doherty

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Curating Collective Collections-Shared Print Collections Reaching Maturity, Sam Demas Dec 2012

Curating Collective Collections-Shared Print Collections Reaching Maturity, Sam Demas

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Analyze This: Usage And Your Collection, Gracemary Smulewitz Dec 2012

Analyze This: Usage And Your Collection, Gracemary Smulewitz

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents Dec 2012

Table Of Contents

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Op Ed-The Ivory Tower Vs. The Dark Side: A Rebuttal To "Joining The Dark Side", Katy Ginanni Dec 2012

Op Ed-The Ivory Tower Vs. The Dark Side: A Rebuttal To "Joining The Dark Side", Katy Ginanni

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Profile-Gracemary Smulewitz Dec 2012

Profile-Gracemary Smulewitz

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


What Was A University Press?, Doug Armato Dec 2012

What Was A University Press?, Doug Armato

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


And They Were There-Reports Of Meetings, Sever Bordeianu Dec 2012

And They Were There-Reports Of Meetings, Sever Bordeianu

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Egypt's Police State In The Work Of Idris And Mahfouz, David F. Dimeo Dec 2012

Egypt's Police State In The Work Of Idris And Mahfouz, David F. Dimeo

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Egypt's Police State in the Work of Idris and Mahfouz" David F. DiMeo examines how two leading twentieth-century authors of politically committed fiction addressed an angry generation's confrontations with former members of the oppressive state police apparatus. Yusuf Idris's The Black Policeman (1962) and Najib Mahfouz's al-Karnak (1974) remain particularly relevant as today's Egyptian activists confront the vestiges of the former regime's security forces. Using Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the carnival as a paradigm for analysis, DiMeo examines how both texts present sharp contrasts between hollow quests for public revenge through purges and a genuine overturning of …


Contemporary Us-American Satire And Consumerism (Crews, Coupland, Palahniuk), J.C. Lee Dec 2012

Contemporary Us-American Satire And Consumerism (Crews, Coupland, Palahniuk), J.C. Lee

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Contemporary US-American Satire and Consumerism (Crews, Coupland, Palahniuk)" J.C. Lee focuses on contemporary satire's potential (or lack thereof) for change, reform, or rebellion through an investigation of works by Harry Crews, Douglas Coupland, and Chuck Palahniuk, all of which target consumerism. The said writers employ satire not to initiate rebellion or cultural change, but to reflect the problematic role of institutions in modern life and, in turn, the potential, even hope, for personal growth. Lee's analysis of texts by Crews, Coupland, and Palahniuk is intended to question satire's potential as a form of cultural critique and institutional …


Evoking A Memory Of The Future In Foer's Everything Is Illuminated, Doro Wiese Dec 2012

Evoking A Memory Of The Future In Foer's Everything Is Illuminated, Doro Wiese

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Evoking a Memory of the Future in Foer's Everything is Illuminated" Doro Wiese discusses Jonathan Safran Foer's novel. In the text a photograph plays a decisive role: the image of two young people drives the Jewish American Jonathan to visit the Ukraine. The photograph is presumably of Jonathan's grandfather Safran and a woman named Augustine who saved Safran's life during a nazi raid of his village: the photograph becomes an ekphrasis, a description of a visual work of art in another medium which transforms the generic characteristics of written and photographic representations. According to Anselm …


Intercultural Approaches To Cities And Spaces In Literature, Film, And New Media: A Review Of New Work By Manzanas And Benito And López-Varela And Neţ, Ana María Martín Castillejos Dec 2012

Intercultural Approaches To Cities And Spaces In Literature, Film, And New Media: A Review Of New Work By Manzanas And Benito And López-Varela And Neţ, Ana María Martín Castillejos

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.


Aesthetics In Gao's Soul Mountain, Mabel Lee Dec 2012

Aesthetics In Gao's Soul Mountain, Mabel Lee

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Aesthetics in Gao's Soul Mountain" Mabel Lee analyses Nobel Laureate 2000 Xingjian Gao's aesthetics. Transnational conglomerates today control the book industry from publishing house to bookshop and through aggressive market strategies they exert considerable influence on readers. Nonetheless, there are writers who refuse to capitulate to market demands and seek only to actualize their aesthetic ideas in the creation of literary texts. One such writer is Gao, author of the novel Soul Mountain. Lee posits that Gao's aesthetics is founded on the close interrogation of both Chinese and European models and practices and explores specific …


Metaphor Translation As A Tool Of Intercultural Understanding, Ipshita Chanda Dec 2012

Metaphor Translation As A Tool Of Intercultural Understanding, Ipshita Chanda

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Metaphor Translation as a Tool of Intercultural Understanding" Ipshita Chanda takes up specific cases of metaphor translation as a methodological exercise towards understanding intercultural exchange. Chanda's study is based on a semiotic and linguistic understanding of metaphor as a signifying and cognitive device. When a metaphor is translated from one linguistic-literary field into another, the process of translation itself yields some specific operational steps for studying inter- and cross-cultural relations. Here, translation is not proposed as a framework but as practical method: the translation of metaphor becomes an exercise in strategy for the pedagogy of …


Victims Of The City In Novels Of Zola And Dostoevsky, Marta L. Wilkinson Dec 2012

Victims Of The City In Novels Of Zola And Dostoevsky, Marta L. Wilkinson

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Victims of the City in Novels of Zola and Dostoevsky" Marta Wilkinson argues that urbanity in its nineteenth-century setting functioned as the culpable agent in criminal behavior found in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and in several of Zola's Rougon-Macquart novels. Wilkinson an analysis of the novels based on Merlin Coverly's concept of psychogeography which supports the extension of the cityscape as an integral part of the novels' characters. Further, Wilkinson illustrates how in Zola's and Dostoevsky's novels the city reigns triumphant as characters fall victim to disease, drink, or are left with desperate choices: in Dostoevsky's novel …


Barthelme's "Paraguay," The Postmodern, And Neocolonialism, Daniel Chaskes Dec 2012

Barthelme's "Paraguay," The Postmodern, And Neocolonialism, Daniel Chaskes

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Barthelme's 'Paraguay,' the Postmodern, and Neocolonialism," Daniel Chaskes explores the analytic opportunities afforded by conjoining globalizing critical approaches with a story by an author who has often been circumscribed by the postmodern rubric. Donald Barthelme's "Paraguay," written the summer after Nelson Rockefeller's fact-finding mission to South America in 1969, provides a chance to consider modes of anti-colonial critique in Barthelme's work. It also offers examples of a more self-reflective criticism aimed at the U.S. counterculture and the indeterminacies of postmodernism. Chaskes reads "Paraguay" with the aim of understanding Barthelme's hemispheric interest and he investigates the multiple cultural …


Memory, Identity, And Narration: A Book Review Of New Work By Assmann And Conrad And Tilmans, Vree, And Winter, Simona Mitroiu Dec 2012

Memory, Identity, And Narration: A Book Review Of New Work By Assmann And Conrad And Tilmans, Vree, And Winter, Simona Mitroiu

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.


Cooperation Among Libraries As A Basis For Networking, Matjaz Zaucér Nov 2012

Cooperation Among Libraries As A Basis For Networking, Matjaz Zaucér

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Network In The Library Information Services, Zhen Wu Nov 2012

Network In The Library Information Services, Zhen Wu

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Networks, Networking And Computers - But What About The People?, Vicki Williamson Nov 2012

Networks, Networking And Computers - But What About The People?, Vicki Williamson

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Bringing Staff (Faculty) Up To Speed: Cd-Rom Access Via A Wan At The University Of The Witwatersrand, South Africa, Julie Wilcocks Nov 2012

Bringing Staff (Faculty) Up To Speed: Cd-Rom Access Via A Wan At The University Of The Witwatersrand, South Africa, Julie Wilcocks

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Networking Library Services: Experience With The Electronic Library Store, Richard Widdicombe Nov 2012

Networking Library Services: Experience With The Electronic Library Store, Richard Widdicombe

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In 1993, when the library at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ became the first to stop all journal subscriptions there was fear among the faculty and intrigue in the library community world-wide. Three years later, we can demonstrate an enormous success in changing the library role and perception with its user community. Information delivery, in many ways, is far superior to the warehouse model of the past. The emergence of Web technology has also helped advance the goals of our "electronic library model." We shall outline the steps taken, the positive effect it had on our user community …


From Rapdoc To Webdoc: An Evaluation Of The Pica-Rapdoc Project And An Introduction To The New Pica-Webdoc Project, Gerard Van Marle Nov 2012

From Rapdoc To Webdoc: An Evaluation Of The Pica-Rapdoc Project And An Introduction To The New Pica-Webdoc Project, Gerard Van Marle

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

At the IATUL Conference in Tallinn in 1992 a report was presented about a new PICA project: RAPDOC. Information was presented about the reasons to start the project, its objectives, finances and project planning as well as information about the underlying interlibrary loan analysis in The Netherlands. The RAPDOC project officially came to an end on October 1, 1995. A project evaluation will be presented as well as the future usage of the obtained results. In the same year when the RAPDOC project came to an end, a new PICA project was launched: the PICA-WEBDOC project. In December 1995 an …


Testing Firstsearch And Umi Databases In Technological University Libraries, Charles Townley Nov 2012

Testing Firstsearch And Umi Databases In Technological University Libraries, Charles Townley

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Information As A Revenue-Generating Commodity In The Context Of Malaysia, Rosna Taib Nov 2012

Information As A Revenue-Generating Commodity In The Context Of Malaysia, Rosna Taib

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In a knowledge-based society, there is a demand for information. University libraries with their vast resources could meet this demand and in certain situations create the demand for information. In Malaysia which aspires to be an industrialized nation by the year 2020, many university and research libraries have responded to this growing demand. Eight of the universities and institutions of higher learning which have been fully subsidized by the Government in the past will be corporatized in 1996. The reasons for corporatization are many, among them to allow flexibility in the management of the institutions, including finance. The library, being …


Reconceiving And Repackaging Journal Information For Electronic Delivery, John Tagler Nov 2012

Reconceiving And Repackaging Journal Information For Electronic Delivery, John Tagler

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


The Digital Library: The Next Sigmoid Curve Of The Information Profession, Marinus Swanepoel Nov 2012

The Digital Library: The Next Sigmoid Curve Of The Information Profession, Marinus Swanepoel

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.