Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Online Goals Before There Was Online, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Suggests that digital resources and telecommunications give librarians the best chance in decades to reexamine and achieve many of their fundamental goals. Discusses the goals of providing the right information in appropriate formats, keeping the intellectual record, providing personalized information services, and serving as educators, and cites references to each in the library literature dating back to the late 1800s. (AEF)

Debunking The Spontaneous Human Combustion Myth: Experiments In The Combustibility Of The Human Body, Angi M. Christensen

Masters Theses

Human combustion has been described as "the nearly complete combustion of living human beings in the apparent absence of sufficient external fuel" and it has been inferred from this that either the "human body is unexpectedly combustible of itself or, more controversially, some unrecognized external energy source is acting on the body" (Corliss 1993). Advocates of the phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion, or SHC, have hypothesized everything from potables to poltergeists to pyrotrons to account for the unusual circumstances surrounding these deaths.

Mainstream science, however, contends that although strange, a scientific explanation for the phenomenon does exist. Several studies have …

I Never Learned About That In Library School: Curriculum Changes In Lis., Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Professional organizations are concerned that programs in Library and Information Science (LIS) may not be teaching up-to-date skills to prepare new information professionals for their first jobs. But good schools also need to provide the broader knowledge that will allow graduates to adapt and continue to function in a constantly changing information world. Due to these concerns, the Special Libraries Association, Association for Library and Information Science Education, Medical Library Association, American Library Association, and others are all looking into what LIS curricula includes now and ought to include in the future, to ensure that the educational programs are keeping …

Finding Full Text For Articles, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

OF ALL THE TOPICS I've written about recently, the one that gets the most requests for updates is information about full texts of journal and magazine articles. I am still getting e-mail about last year's column "Should We Cancel Print?" (LJ 9/1/99, p. 138, 142), which discusses the completeness and characteristics of various versions of online journals.

City Of Rockwood Natural Gas Fund Report, Steve Wyatt, Bill Young

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

The City of Rockwood operates a natural gas system for approximately 2,600 residential and commercial customers who are served by the main city gas distribution gate. In addition, there are three industrial customers, IMCO, Horsehead, and Bayou Steel who purchase natural gas under a third party contract. These customers separately contract with Rockwood for transportation of the gas on the city distribution system for these gas purchases.

In 1996, Rockwood entered into an agreement with the City of Kingston (Exhibit 1) to provide natural gas service within the City of Kingston. The revenues and expenses of the Kingston portion of …

Are You A Super Searcher?, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

MILLIONS OF PEOPLE around the world consider themselves to be good online searchers, and probably hundreds of thousands of them rate themselves as experts. College librarians and professors notice that a growing number of undergraduates and graduate students feel confident in their online abilities. Everyone who works in a library knows at least the library's online catalog system and probably many other online, CD-ROM, and web search systems. If everyone is above average, as in Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, what makes an online searcher stand out?

Getting What You Pay For?, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

The old adage "you get what you pay for" doesn't always apply to the World Wide Web. The number of authoritative sites grows daily.

Hot Topic: Social Security Administration And Internal Revenue Service: State And Local Compliance Issues For 2000, Ralph Cross, Kirk Bednar

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

Representatives from the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) conducted seminars across the state to clarify employee taxation and reporting issues with local government agencies before the end of the calendar year reporting, to minimize employer exposure to penalties for noncompliance. This Hot Topic summarizes those issues of utmost importance to cities.

Tennessee Public Acts 2000: Summaries Of Interest To Municipal Officials, Dennis Huffer

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

Summarizes the year's public acts and provides date they become effective.

Users of this publication are cautioned that much judgment is involved in determining which Public Acts to summarize and how to summarize them. Before taking action or giving advice based upon any Public Act summarized here, one should consult the act itself and not rely on the summary.

Book Review: Losing The Race: Self-Sabotage In Black America By John H. Mcwhorter, Bertin M. Louis Jr.

Anthropology Publications and Other Works

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Removal Period Cherokee Households In Southwestern North Carolina: Material Perspectives On Ethnicity And Cultural Differentiation, Brett High Riggs

Doctoral Dissertations

Nineteenth century accounts of Cherokee Indian society consistently refer to the existence of two classes among the Cherokees: the acculturated "mixed blood[s], who speak English and are considered the intelligent and wealthy class" and the culturally conservative fullbloods, whom white observers denigrated as "backward," "indolent," and "ignorant" pagans. This perceived dichotomy reflected the poles of a socioeconomic and cultural continuum that developed as a result of the differential Westernization of Cherokee individuals and households during the post-Revolutionary War era. As these socioeconomic classes diverged, they developed as the primary axis of competition and conflict within Cherokee society. Because these groups …

Quaternary Vertebrate Paleoecology Of The Central Mississippi Alluvial Valley; Implications For The Initial Human Occupation, Michael William Ruddell

Doctoral Dissertations

This study is based upon a Quaternary vertebrate assemblage from the Central Mississippi Alluvial Valley donated to the Memphis Pink Palace Museum, the Connaway Collection. A total of 2288 skeletal elements were analyzed. Of the 2288 analyzed, 1097 were identified minimally to the generic level. Significantly, 610 (NISP) of the elements identified were attributed to animals with a grazing or open grassland adaptation and 431 (NISP) adapted to a woodland or forest edge adaptation. Paleoecological analysis of this fauna along with nearby river valley assemblages, paleovegetation, geomorphology and microvertebrates assemblages of the Midsouth were analyzed in an attempt to understand …

Where Does Online Go From Here?, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Tenopir wonders where online technology will go in future. She explores such technologies as wearable information technologies, smart appliances, electronic paper and e-books.

An Archaeological And Historical Investigation Of The Blount Mansion Slave Quarters, Brooke Hamby

Masters Theses

Introduction: Archaeologists have been studying African-American material culture during slavery and subsequent freedom since the 1960's (McCarthy 1995). While most historians believed that no trace of African culture remained through slavery and consequent oppression, archaeologists (McCarthy 1995) and anthropologists (Herskovits 1941) sought to prove that African-Americans persisted with their culture as a rebellion or reaction to their forced migration to the Americas (Ferguson 1992). In studying African-Americans in archaeological context, historical archaeologists have not had to change thier methodology but had to modify their interpretive approach. Because a culture historical framework tells us only what types of artifacts African-Americans possessed, …

Hot Topic: Growth Plan Policy Requires Joint Development Board, Don Darden

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

As part of the urban growth planning process, Tennessee Code Annotated (T.C.A.) 6-58-114 requires each county to establish a Joint Economic and Community Development Board by interlocal agreement. Cities need to be aware that forming a Joint Economic and Community Development Board is part of the growth plan process. Certain grants will be unavailable to counties and cities if a board is not established by July 1, 2001.

Hot Topic: Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act Of 1996: You Must Comply, One Way Or Another, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) amended the Public Health Service Act (PHS Act), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide, among other things, improved portability and continuity of health insurance coverage.

Patterns Of Use And Usage Factors For Online Databases In Academic And Public Libraries, Carol Tenopir, Danielle Green

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Database usage data from a random sample of academic and public libraries in the U.S. and Canada reveals patterns of use in selected types of libraries. Library users in both public and academic libraries tend to use commercial online databases most frequently early in the week, mid-day, and at times that correspond to the academic calendar (November in this sex-month sample.) The mean number of simultaneous users is correlated with the size of the population served and the number o workstations available, but relatively low numbers of users are simultaneously logged on to research databases at all sizes of libraries. …

Human Or Automated, Indexing Is Important, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Controlled vocabulary indexing was developed well over a century ago to provide a consistent way for users to search for information, but human-assigned indexing has always been labor-intensive and costly. Because of the importance of indexing, two major information companies are trying automated approaches.

Back To School Know-How, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Fee-based online databases such as Lexis-Nexis and Dialog are trying to attract a new crop of librarians by offering free training and enhanced password management.

Hot Topic: Fair Credit Reporting Act, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The Fair Credit Reporting Act is designed primarily to protect the privacy of consumer report information and to guarantee that the information supplied by consumer reporting agencies is as accurate as possible. The amendments to the Fair Credit Reporting Act make numerous and significant changes to using consumer credit information and restrict an employer's ability to obtain background information without the consent of the individual, whether he or she is an applicant or employee.

Should We Cancel Print?, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Two ongoing print publications may be needed to track the number of journal, magazine and newspaper titles that are now available online. The Association of Research Libraries' Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists tracks e-journals and listservs starting from the early 1990s. Fulltext Sources Online is an alphabetic list of magazines, journals and news sources.

City Manager Recruitment Guide (1999), Warren Nevad

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

The purpose of this project is to examine and assess MTAS management's recent roles in the selection process for a city manager. As a result of this research, a brief guide is provided herein to assist MTAS consultants with future city management selection projects.

Hot Topic: Public Acts Affecting Cities, Dennis Huffer

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The 1999 Tennessee General Assembly passed into law several acts that affect Tennessee municipalities. This Hot Topic summarizes some of these acts.

The Celtic Harp Revival: Ethnicity And Marginality In Scottish Culture, Stevan Reagan Jackson

Doctoral Dissertations

The focus of this research is the Celtic harp revival in the British Isles and how that revival relates to the political sentiments of its participants. Devolution and the possibility of outright independence from Great Britain are on the minds of contemporary Scottish citizens. In the context of music's historical association with Scottish political protest and the centrality of the harp to imagery of the Celtic past, this study examines the political sentiments of contemporary Scottish harpers. The study employs the concepts of internal colonialism, cultural hegemony, and transnationalism to explore the intersection of Celtic invented traditions, in particular, the …

Team Conflict, Integrative Conflict-Management Strategies, And Team Effectiveness: A Field Study, Donnamaria Christina Vigil-King

Doctoral Dissertations

A longitudinal field study examined team effectiveness, including both performance and viability, in relation to team conflict management strategies and three types of team conflict. Hypotheses predicted that integrative conflict-management strategies would correlate with team performance and viability, and that these relationships would vary with the level and type of team conflict. Teams using integrative conflict management styles were expected to have higher performance and viability than teams using less integrative styles. When higher levels of relationship conflict were perceived by the team, the performance and viability of teams using a more integrative strategy would be higher than teams using …

Interactivity And The ‘Cyber-Fan’: An Exploration Of Audience Involvement Within The Electronic Fan Culture Of The Internet, Victor Costello

Doctoral Dissertations

This study investigates the relatively new uses of the Internet by television fans for keeping up with their favorite television programs and for interacting with other fans through on-line channels of interpersonal communication. A distinction is made between traditional television fans and a newly emerging segment of the fan population that routinely uses the Internet to supplement the viewing of their favorite television program. The name cyber-fan is used to describe this savvy and innovative member of television fandom.

The study was designed within a uses and gratifications framework in an effort to specifically observe the behavior of cyber-fans within …

The Rime Of The Ancient Miners, Jay Douglas Franklin

Masters Theses

Terminal Archaic hunter-gatherers explored and heavily utilized deep passages of 3^rd Unnamed Cave, which lies at the bottom of the Western Cumberland Plateau Escarpment in north central Tennessee. Footprints, torch stoke marks, chert mining pits with digging stick marks, flintknapping debris accumulations and associated fireplaces, and petroglyphs remain as evidence of this intensive utilization. The focus of this thesis is largely technological, centering on the chert mining and subsequent reduction activities that followed. Specifically, insight into four major issues is developed, including the nature of the flintknapping activities practiced deep within 3^rd Unnamed Cave, the goal(s) of the …

Multiple Regression Of Body Weight On Stature And Waist For Estimation In Forensic Anthropology, Eldred L. Pierce

Masters Theses

Questions have been present in the forensic literature for many years about the most proper and accurate method for calculation of human body weight. Many have tried and failed to measure aspects of the human skeleton and find some correlation with body weight at the time of death. This has never been possible and selected skeletal measurements regressed against known weight will bear this out. Simple measurements of the femur were regressed with weight and with stature to show that skeletal measurements in general have a higher correlation with stature than with weight. The bulk of this thesis will deal …

Identifying Osseous Cut Mark Morphology For Common Serrated Knives, Jenny Rebecca Martin

Masters Theses

Worldwide crime statistics indicate that while the firearm is the instrument of choice used in the commission of homicide, bladed weapons run a very close second. This being the case, the analysis of these implements and the cut marks they create in soft and osseous tissues demands the attention of the medico-legal and law enforcement community, particularly forensic pathologists and anthropologists. To this end, the author and several colleagues inflicted stab wounds with three pairs of common serrated-edged kitchen knives of differing blade structures to the thoracic areas of three euthanized domestic pigs (Sus scrofa) and examine the cut marks …

Gender Negotiation On The East Tennessee Frontier: An Example From The Bell Site, Thomas Charles Stinson

Masters Theses

Archaeological investigations involving questions of gender have become more prominent in recent years. Material recovered from the Bell Site (40KN202), the remains of an 18^th-century log house in Knoxville, Tennessee is examined to determine the role of women on the East Tennessee frontier. Historical information concerning social structuring of gender roles in the 18^th and 19^th century America is examined to determine the social factors involved in gender construction, and the impact these factors may have had on women living on the East Tennessee frontier. This documentary data is then compared with artifacts excavated at 40KN202. …