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Interview No. 1213, Francisco Ceceña May 2006

Interview No. 1213, Francisco Ceceña

Combined Interviews

Mr. Ceceña talks about his decision to enlist in the bracero program in 1954, out of financial necessity; he went through the contracting center in Mexicali, Baja California, México, and from there he was transferred to El Centro, California, before finally arriving at his worksite in Coachella, California; as part of the processing, he was fumigated and generally treated very poorly; as a bracero, he worked in California picking chile, corn, dates and tomatoes; he goes on to detail the various worksites, housing, accommodations, amenities, provisions, duties, routines, treatment, payments, deductions, remittances, friendships and recreational activities, including trips into town; …

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Interview No. 1223, Jose Gomez C. May 2006

Interview No. 1223, Jose Gomez C.

Combined Interviews

In 1952, Mr. Gomez traveled with people from his hometown to Empalme, Sonora, México, to enlist in the bracero program; from there he was transported in a cargo train to Mexicali, Baja California, México; while being fumigated at the reception center in Calexico, California, he was laughed at and taunted; as part of the medical exams blood samples were taken and injections were sometimes administered through the pants he was wearing; as a bracero, he worked in Arizona, California, and Oregon, picking lettuce, pears, strawberries, and tomatoes; he goes on to detail various worksites, living and working conditions, provisions, treatment, …

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Interview No. 1225, Esteban Gutierrez S. May 2006

Interview No. 1225, Esteban Gutierrez S.

Combined Interviews

Mr. Gutierrez talks about coming to work in the United States without proper documentation during the mid-1950s; he was caught by immigration officials and taken to Mexicali, Baja California, México; the next day, he returned to the United States with a specialized bracero contract; as a bracero, he labored in the fields of California, planting, cleaning, pruning, watering and picking various crops; he goes on to detail housing, amenities, accommodations, duties, treatment, payments, remittances and recreational activities, including trips into town; he gives a detailed explanation of his responsibilities as a palmero, which included caring for, cleaning and picking dates; …

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Interview No. 1228, Leocadio Marquez May 2006

Interview No. 1228, Leocadio Marquez

Combined Interviews

Mr. Marquez talks about his family and childhood; he recounts several stories about his life in México; in 1957, he married, and he and his wife had three children soon after; two years later, in 1959, he enlisted in the bracero program and went though the contracting center in Empalme, Sonora, México; he describes the process he endured, including medical exams and generally being treated worse than an animal in México and the United States; as a bracero, he worked in the fields of California with several different crops, and he completed two eight month contracts; he goes on to …

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Interview No. 1230, Jose R. Montañez May 2006

Interview No. 1230, Jose R. Montañez

Combined Interviews

Mr. Montañez talks about his family and what his life was like growing up; when he was seventeen years old, he went to Guadalajara, Jalisco, México to complete his military service, during which time his mother passed away; while there, he decided to enlist in the bracero program and went through the center in Guadalajara; he describes the necessary paperwork and medical exams, which were much more detailed in the United States; from there he was transported in a cargo train to Mexicali, Baja California, México; as a bracero, he labored in the fields of California as a palmero and …

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Interview No. 1232, Mateo Murillo Lamas May 2006

Interview No. 1232, Mateo Murillo Lamas

Combined Interviews

Mr. Murillo vividly recalls being in México, Distrito Federal, in 1942, when he was taken at gunpoint by Mexican officials and loaded into a train; there were roughly one thousand men aboard, and by the time they reached California, there were only two hundred men, at most, because so many had jumped off the train; as he was about to be transported to his worksite, American officials asked if he would be willing to take arms and help the United States should the need arise; he agreed and signed a paper that put him on a reserve list, but he …

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Interview No. 1236, Juan Padilla May 2006

Interview No. 1236, Juan Padilla

Combined Interviews

Mr. Padilla talks about the difficulties he faced growing up in México; in 1956, he decided to enlist in the bracero program; he explains that he went through contracting centers in Mexicali, Baja California, Empalme, Sonora and Irapuato, Guanajuato, México; while at the centers he suffered greatly, because he had to wait for up to a month, there was nowhere to sleep and not very much to eat; as part of the process, he was stripped, medically examined and fumigated; many men fainted by the time blood samples were taken, because they were so weak from the trip and had …

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Interview No. 1245, Martha Gutiérrez May 2006

Interview No. 1245, Martha Gutiérrez

Combined Interviews

Ms. Gutiérrez briefly talks about her family; when she was eight years old, her father enlisted in the bracero program; while he was gone, his youngest son was born and was six months old by the time he returned to México; not long after, her mother left with her father to work in the United States; Martha and her siblings were left with their grandparents, but they were severely mistreated; her grandparents often went out of town and left the children alone without any food; Martha especially struggled to care for and feed her six month old little brother; during …

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Interview No. 1250, Virginia Solorzano Sanchez May 2006

Interview No. 1250, Virginia Solorzano Sanchez

Combined Interviews

Ms. Solorzano briefly talks about her family and hometown; her father decided to enlist in the bracero program in order to make enough money to support the family; while he was gone, her family lived with her relatives on her father’s side and later with her mother’s family; when she was roughly eight years old, her mother left with her father to work in the United States; they regularly sent money for food, clothes and school, and they visited every year or two; Virginia also remembers being jealous whenever she saw other children with their parents; she regretted that they …

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Interview No. 1253, Arturo Vargas Rios May 2006

Interview No. 1253, Arturo Vargas Rios

Combined Interviews

Mr. Vargas talks about what his life was like growing up in México; he remembers that the bracero program was greatly publicized in his hometown of Rodeo, Durango, México; in order to enlist, he traveled to the contracting center in Empalme, Sonora, México by cargo train; he waited for fifteen days with several thousand other men for their names to be called; they were often solicited by people from town to help pick cantaloupe and watermelon, but if they left, they risked losing their place in line and their chance at a contract; from there, he took another train to …

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Internalized Shame As A Moderating Variable For Inhibited Sexual Difficulties In Adult Women Resulting From Childhood Sexual Abuse, Kristine Robinson May 2006

Internalized Shame As A Moderating Variable For Inhibited Sexual Difficulties In Adult Women Resulting From Childhood Sexual Abuse, Kristine Robinson

Theses and Dissertations

An adult female sample of childhood sexual abuse survivors (N=467) were surveyed to determine whether internalized shame moderated the effects of sexual inhibited difficulties. Other variables such as severity, duration, and frequency of sexual abuse, as well as whether physical abuse was also part of their experience, were examined to determine their role in later sexual inhibition. It was predicted that there would be a significant positive relationship between 1) Scores on variables of physical abuse, severity of abuse, frequency of abuse, duration of abuse, identity of the perpetrator and scores on the variable of inhibited sexual difficulties; 2) Scores …

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 38 No. 66, May 22, 2006 May 2006

Central Florida Future, Vol. 38 No. 66, May 22, 2006

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 030, Number 39, May 22, 2006, Grand Valley State University May 2006

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 030, Number 39, May 22, 2006, Grand Valley State University

2005-2006, Volume 30

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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South Dakota Agricultural Land Values And Cash Rental Rates: 2006, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen May 2006

South Dakota Agricultural Land Values And Cash Rental Rates: 2006, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Interview No. 1191, Jesus Flores May 2006

Interview No. 1191, Jesus Flores

Combined Interviews

Mr. Flores remembers his childhood in Jalisco, México, and working in agriculture with his parents; he states that he did not go to school and that he worked in his parents’ ranch until he was twenty-two years old; furthermore, he recalls getting his first bracero contract in 1951; he describes what the contract lengths were like, how he renewed his contract every six months, and how he was able to remain a bracero after eighteen months by crossing into México and then signing up for it again; additionally, he explains the contracting process and having to pick cotton for twenty …

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Interview No. 1198, Jose B. Sanchez May 2006

Interview No. 1198, Jose B. Sanchez

Combined Interviews

Mr. Sanchez remembers growing up in San Miguel Epeja, Michoacán, México, and leaving home when he was thirteen years old because his father was very rough; he recalls working in agriculture throughout México; in 1953, he recounts how he was contracted in Gómez Palacio, Durango, México, the process he went through, and his trip to the border; furthermore, he describes crossing into the United States, and the medical exams he endured; he worked in Arizona and California picking cotton, lettuce, and melons; his last year as a bracero was in 1963; moreover, he states what the housing they received was …

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Interview No. 1199, Amadeo Tapia Q May 2006

Interview No. 1199, Amadeo Tapia Q

Combined Interviews

Mr. Tapia remembers growing up in Sahuaripa, Sonora, México, and his father’s work as a civil judge; he went to school until the fifth grade; in 1958, he joined the bracero program and worked in Arizona and California picking beets, cotton, lemons, lettuce, onions, and tomatoes, until 1962; he recounts how he joined the program in 1958 and 1959 through a government list, and how for the next two contracts he had to pick cotton to acquire them; he describes what the contracting process was like in Empalme, Sonora, México, the medical exams they got, and the embarrassment of having …

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The University Of Western Australia Library's Implementation Of A Digital Learning Object Repository: A Case Study., John Arfield May 2006

The University Of Western Australia Library's Implementation Of A Digital Learning Object Repository: A Case Study., John Arfield

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Positioning Librarians As Indispensible To The New Virtual Learning Environments (Vles), David Ball May 2006

Positioning Librarians As Indispensible To The New Virtual Learning Environments (Vles), David Ball

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper discusses the explosion in the use of electronic resources by students and the development of e-books. The existing high usage will intensify as virtual learning environments (VLEs) become the primary means of interaction between students and universities. A brief outline of university library procurement in the UK is given, followed by an analysis of a recent ground-breaking tender for e-books for higher education libraries in the UK. The continuing development of a bespoke subject collection of e-books for nursing students is explored in some detail, as is the demand for non-traditional resources for the VLE. The paper closes …

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Still Navigating Across The Atlantic: A View Of A Virtual Reference Service For Academic Libraries., Carmen Franco Barroso, Leonor Fernández Alfaro, Ricardo Carrero Galfore, Ricardo Chamorro Rodríguez, Rosario Gestido Del Olmo May 2006

Still Navigating Across The Atlantic: A View Of A Virtual Reference Service For Academic Libraries., Carmen Franco Barroso, Leonor Fernández Alfaro, Ricardo Carrero Galfore, Ricardo Chamorro Rodríguez, Rosario Gestido Del Olmo

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper presents the Via Virtual Project, a virtual reference service designed by the University of Cadiz as a strategy in response to the new educational model in Europe. It was launched in cooperation with the University of New Mexico General Library as a bilingual reference service in real time, available 24 hours a day. The philosophy of the project will be described: the difference between virtual reference and a traditional reference service, the reorganisation of functions and activities, the acquisition of new skills by staff, the implementation of the software, and training etc. At present, the University of Cadiz …

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Information Literacy At The Frontier., Ann Cleary May 2006

Information Literacy At The Frontier., Ann Cleary

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

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A Pro-Active University Library In The Brazilian Context., Carmelita Do Espírito Santo, Maria De Fátima Pereira Raposo May 2006

A Pro-Active University Library In The Brazilian Context., Carmelita Do Espírito Santo, Maria De Fátima Pereira Raposo

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This work aims to present some procedures that characterize a pro-active posture in Brazilian university libraries. For this purpose, aspects of the concept of pro-active libraries are presented in a context where growth in the number of needy students entering private higher education demands ever more use and application of information technology (IT) for their learning processes. However, it has been observed that most of these students have difficulty in using and applying this technology, not only in their academic lives but also in their professional lives. In our approach to Brazilian private sector university libraries, it was seen that …

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A.I. Application In Information Science: A Review Of Imformation Visualization Softwares., Fatima Fahimnia, Nader Naghshineh May 2006

A.I. Application In Information Science: A Review Of Imformation Visualization Softwares., Fatima Fahimnia, Nader Naghshineh

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Library Support For Research In A University Context., Imogen Garner May 2006

Library Support For Research In A University Context., Imogen Garner

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Library support for research in a university context An increased focus on research within Australian universities, driven by the federal government’s research agenda, has heightened interest in the services and resources provided by academic libraries to enhance research within higher education institutions. While academic libraries have always had as part of their mission support for research within the university, what constitutes this support has changed over time. This paper looks at library support for research in the university environment over the past 10-15 years. In evaluating the changing functions of this support for research, examples from Australian university library websites …

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Library Ambassadors: Cornell's Research Connection., Zsuzsa Koltay May 2006

Library Ambassadors: Cornell's Research Connection., Zsuzsa Koltay

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

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Associate Dean For Research: Libraries Commitment To Interdisciplinary/Collaborative Sponsored Research In The Libraries And Throughout The University., James L. Mullins May 2006

Associate Dean For Research: Libraries Commitment To Interdisciplinary/Collaborative Sponsored Research In The Libraries And Throughout The University., James L. Mullins

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The research role of university librarians is changing. The advent of massive datasets by academic researchers has created the need for collaboration between the researchers and librarians. The National Science Foundation (USA) has recognized the need for management of massive datasets. In response, Purdue University Libraries has created a program and specific positions to help address this need.

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Designed To Deliver: Building A Digital Collection To Support Research., Ellen Derey Safley May 2006

Designed To Deliver: Building A Digital Collection To Support Research., Ellen Derey Safley

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

For a university created from a scientific research institute, the importance of its library was essential for providing faculty with current literature. Yet, scientific and technical resources are some of the most expensive materials acquired by libraries. The 1980s and early 1990s was a very lean financial period. By 1998, the combination of a fundamental change in budgeting for acquisitions, the advent of digital delivery of information, and the rise in consortial purchasing arrangements created a surprisingly robust library environment. Within a twelve year period, a library previously deemed woefully inadequate became an asset to scientists and engineers needing scholarly …

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Reconfigure And Renovate: Renewal Through Redesign For Relevance In Research And Learning - A Case Study., Grace Saw, Heather Todd May 2006

Reconfigure And Renovate: Renewal Through Redesign For Relevance In Research And Learning - A Case Study., Grace Saw, Heather Todd

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Library Live - Embedding And Contextualizing Information Resources In The Virtual Learning Environment., Anette Van Vuren, Hannie Sander, Tanya De Plessis May 2006

Library Live - Embedding And Contextualizing Information Resources In The Virtual Learning Environment., Anette Van Vuren, Hannie Sander, Tanya De Plessis

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Where Google And Libraries Meet., Jenny Walker May 2006

Where Google And Libraries Meet., Jenny Walker

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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