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Barbee, Candace (Fa 781), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and research paper for Folklife Archives Project 781. This collection features information and a research paper about Reid's Livery Winery near Alvaton, Warren County, Kentucky. The project was completed by Western Kentucky University student Candace Barbee for credit in an "Introduction to Folk Studies" class.

Carrico, Sara (Fa 779), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid, research paper, and transcripts for Folklife Archives Project 779. This collection features information and a research paper about farms and farming in south central Kentucky. The project was complete by Western Kentucky University student Sara Carrico for credit in an "Introduction to Folk Studies" class.

Interview With Jack G. Montgomery (Fa 780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Jack G. Montgomery by Abby Zibart about legend-tripping at the Old Richardsville Road Bridge in Warren County, Kentucky.

Interview With Ellyn I. Kerchenski (Fa 780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Ellyn I. Kerchenski by Abby Zibart about legend-tripping at the Old Richardsville Road Bridge in Warren County, Kentucky.

Interview With Kenton L. Winiger (Fa 779), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Kenton L. Winiger by Sara E. Carrico about family farms and farming in south central Kentucky.

Carr, Chloe (Fa 782), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and research paper for Folklife Archives Project 782. This collection features information and a research paper about the 53rd annual Pope County Deer Festival held in Golconda, Illinois, which is sponsored by the local Rotary Club. The project was completed by Western Kentucky University student Chloe Carr for credit in an "Introduction to Folk Studies" class.

Zibart, Abby (Fa 780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid, research paper, and transcripts for Folklife Archives Project 780. This collection features information and a research paper about legend-tripping conducted at the Old Richardsville Road Bridge in Warren County, Kentucky. The project was completed by Western Kentucky University student Abby Zibart for credit in an "Introduction to Folk Studies" class.

Enhancing Librarians’ Research Skills: A Professional Development Program, Kristine R. Brancolini, Marie R. Kennedy, Lili Luo, Gregory Guest, Michael Stephens

LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations

Institute of Research Design for Librarianship (IRDL) is a three-year project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services in the United States, which seeks to provide professional development opportunities and a support system for academic librarians who want to improve their research skills and increase their research output. We have recently completed the first nine-day Institute for 25 librarians from all over the country, and we would like to share our experience with the international community, hoping to generate more interest and encourage more discussion on practitioner research in LIS.

Demand-Driven Acquisitions For Print Books: How Holds Can Help As Much As Interlibrary Loan, Gerrit Van Dyk

Faculty Publications

While there is a growing field of literature surrounding demanddriven acquisitions (DDA) for electronic books, libraries have been relatively silent regarding DDA for print books, with the notable exception of using interlibrary loan (ILL). This study will discuss how libraries can examine holds queue demand in conjunction with ILL to make collection development decisions related to print materials. It will also discuss how to work with catalogers to deflect ILL requests for these same high-demand items, so they can stay in the library for local patrons.

Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute) Ecological Knowledge Of Piñon-Juniper Woodlands: Implications For Conservation And Sustainable Resource Use In Two Southern Nevada Protected Areas, Brian John Lefler

Dissertations and Theses

Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute) have inhabited the southern Great Basin for thousands of years, and consider Nuvagantu (where snow sits) in the Spring Mountains landscape to be the locus of their creation as a people. Their ancestral territory spans parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California. My research identifies and describes the heterogeneous character of Nuwuvi ecological knowledge (NEK) of piñon-juniper woodland ecosystems within two federal protected areas (PAs) in southeastern Nevada, the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area (SMNRA) and the Desert National Wildlife Refuge (DNWR), as remembered and practiced to varying degrees by 22 select Nuwuvi knowledge holders. I focus …

Interview With Steven R. Winiger (Fa 779), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Steven R. Winiger by Sara E. Carrico about family farms and farming in south central Kentucky.

I Felt Like Such A Freshman’: Integrating First-Year Student Identities Through Collaborative Reflective Learning, Paula Dempsey, Heather Jagman

Heather Jagman

This poster reports on qualitative analysis of 97 first-year student essays generated from an information literacy exercise designed collaboratively by four academic support units at DePaul University in Fall 2013. Working as an ACRL Assessment in Action team, the Library, Writing Center, Office for Academic Advising, and Center for Students with Disabilities integrated a library experience into an academic skills unit led by peer mentors. First-year students were asked to consider a topic of personal or academic interest, use the library discovery tool to identify an item, physically find the item in the library, check it out, and reflect on …

Using Historical Information In Wildlife Science: A Personal Journey, William Krohn

William B. Krohn

Practice Makes Perfect: Updating Borrowing Policies And Practices At A Small Academic Library, Crystal Boyce

Crystal Boyce

In 2011, staff from the undergraduate libraries at the College of William & Mary came together to evaluate circulation policies related to borrowing periods and billing. In an attempt to better align the policies across each unit, and with the intention of creating a more consistent user experience, new policies were proposed and implemented in the fall of 2012. These changes were found to dramatically decrease staff time necessary for billing, while improving user satisfaction with the borrowing policies. Significantly fewer books went into billing, suggesting no adverse effects on collection maintenance.

A Critical Examination Of The Climate Engineering Moral Hazard And Risk Compensation Concern, Jesse Reynolds

Jesse Reynolds

Cultural Resource Management And Aboriginal Engagement: Policy And Practice In Ontario Archaeology, Megan Devries

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

The Standards and Guidelines for Consultant Archaeologists (Ontario 2011) introduced a new requirement for archaeologists working in Ontario CRM to engage Aboriginal communities in response to growing criticisms from these communities over being excluded from the process. Considered vague by many involved in the industry, both archaeologists and Aboriginal community representatives have developed their own strategies for complying with these requirements and their own opinions on how what they do over the course of engagement does or does not fit into that policy. However, many Aboriginal concerns remain unaddressed in the current engagement process, leaving open the possibility that tension …

Partisan Sorting In The United States, 1972-2012: New Evidence From A Dynamic Analysis, Corey Lang, Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz

Corey Lang

Whether Americans have “sorted” into politically like-minded counties and to what extent is hotly debated by academic and journalists. This paper examines whether or not geographic sorting has occurred and why it has occurred using a novel, dynamic analysis. Our findings indicate that geographic sorting is on the rise, but that it is a very recent phenomenon. In the 1970s and 1980s, counties tended to become more competitive, but by 1996 a pattern of partisan sorting had emerged and continued through the present. Results suggest this pattern is driven by Southern re-alignment and voting behavior in partisan stronghold counties. Lastly, …

Searching For The Determinants Of Climate Change Interest, Patrick Cavanagh, Corey Lang, Xinran Li, Haoran Miao, John David Ryder

Corey Lang

A meaningful CO2 mitigation policy is unlikely at the national level in the United States. What is currently happening and what is much more likely to occur in the future is city and regional level efforts of mitigation and adaptation. This paper aims to understand the geographic and socioeconomic characteristics of metropolitan areas and regions that lead to engagement with the issue of climate change. We use geographically explicit, internet search data from Google to measure information seeking behavior, which we take to translate into engagement, attention and interest. Our spatial hotspot analysis creates a map that potentially could be …

A Sexier Literacy: Information Literacy Through Media Literacy, Shana M. Higgins, Sara L. Prahl

Shana Higgins

The similarities in scope and objectives between information literacy and media literacy education are remarkable. On the surface, each is concerned with issues of access, analysis, evaluation, and use or production. But even beyond these basic tenets, guiding learners toward critical thought, creative agency, ethical use and production of information, and civic empowerment are shared concerns. In fact, as we begin to work with the generation of students dubbed "Generation M" by the Kaiser Family Foundation, we will increasingly find the distinctions between information and media literacies breaking down. Generation M, or the media generation, has grown up steeped in …

Sustainability Planning, Environmental Justice And Climate Change: Applications Of The Long Island Markal Model, David S. Friedman, Yehuda Klein, Jose Pillich, Michael T. Sullivan

Suburban Sustainability

As pointed out by many authors, sustainability is often vague and amorphous (See, for example, Dovers, 1989; Faber, et al, 2005; Glavič, et al. 2007). There is a clear need to make analytical and data-driven analyses of established and or proposed plans. MARKAL (MARKet ALlocation model) is an analytical tool that can be used characterize the impacts of sustainability plans at multiple spatial scales: global, national, regional, and local. In this study we apply the Long Island MARKAL model to answer three interrelated issues: 1, the development and incremental improvement of local and regional sustainability plans; 2, the impact of …

Self-Reported Memory Complaints: Implications From A Longitudinal Cohort With Autopsies, Richard J. Kryscio, Erin L. Abner, Gregory E. Cooper, David W. Fardo, Greg A. Jicha, Peter T. Nelson, Charles D. Smith, Linda J. Van Eldik, Lijie Wan, Frederick A. Schmitt

Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Faculty Publications

OBJECTIVE: We assessed salience of subjective memory complaints (SMCs) by older individuals as a predictor of subsequent cognitive impairment while accounting for risk factors and eventual neuropathologies.

METHODS: Subjects (n = 531) enrolled while cognitively intact at the University of Kentucky were asked annually if they perceived changes in memory since their last visit. A multistate model estimated when transition to impairment occurred while adjusting for intervening death. Risk factors affecting the timing and probability of an impairment were identified. The association between SMCs and Alzheimer-type neuropathology was assessed from autopsies (n = 243).

RESULTS: SMCs were …

Using Needs Assessment As A Learning Tool In The Product Development Process: A Case Study Of A Quick Service Restaurant Chain, Denise Cumberland, Rod P. Githens

Benerd College Faculty Articles

Purpose– The purpose of this case study was threefold. First, to examine whether a needs assessment can work in the context of an organization’s new product development process to identify the gap between what “is” occurring and what “should” be occurring. Second, to investigate how a well-known stakeholder classification system can be adopted in a practitioner setting. Third, to identify why the new product development process derailed in a quick-service restaurant chain.

Design/methodology/approach– A Fortune 200 quick-service restaurant chain provided the setting for a case study on the new product development (NPD) process. Data were gathered from multiple stakeholder groups …

Ã’He Enjoys Giving Her Pleasureã“: Diversity And Complexity In Young Menã•S Sexual Scripts, Diane M. Morrison, N. Tatiana Masters, Elizabeth A. Wells, Erin A. Casey, Blair Beadnell, Marilyn J. Hoppe

Social Work & Criminal Justice Publications

Research on heterosexual menÕs sexual expectations has focused on self-described personal traits and culturally dominant models of masculinity. In a pair of studies, we used a sexual scripts perspective to explore the range and diversity of young menÕs thoughts about sex and relationships with women and to develop measures for assessing these scripts. In the first study, we conducted semi-structured interviews to elicit young menÕs accounts of their sexual relationships. We used these narratives to produce brief sexual script scenarios describing typical sexual situations, as well as conventional survey items assessing sexual behavior themes. In the second study, we administered …

Safe Zone: 101 Training Manual, Todd K. Herriott, Casey M. Halcro

Office of Diversity and Equity

Goals of the DUOC Safe Zone Program:

• To increase the overall campus community’s understanding and awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues

• To provide a greater sense of safety for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender student community

• To offer information to straight allies in positions where they may be in contact with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people (as classmates, roommates, friends, residents, students, staff, faculty, etc.)

• To act as a resource of information regarding homophobia, heterosexism, transphobia and LGBTQ issues on the DUOC campus.

The Prospector, October 7, 2014, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Centennial Homecoming

Archives And Preservation Technical Talk: Introduction And Legal And Copyright Issues In Archives, Ruth E. Bryan

Library Presentations

The Association of Earth Science Editors held their annual meeting at the University of Kentucky in October 2014. They requested a technical talk on archives and preservation topics. A group of co-presenters organized by Ruth Bryan conducted a survey of the membership (results in the Introduction) and crafted 30-minute presentations on individual topics. Included in this paper is the Introduction and the Legal (property rights/donor restrictions) and Copyright (intellectual rights) presentation of the technical talk.

Public Health Services Research: Informing Public Health Practice & Policy, Glen P. Mays

Glen Mays

Heterogeneity in the mechanisms used for organizing and financing public health strategies creates opportunities for comparative effectiveness research (CER) in public health that examine which organization and financing mechanisms work best, for whom, and under what circumstances. Findings from these types of studies have direct utility in shaping public health policy and practice decisions.

Board Members Approved By Trustees, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

Cedarville University’s Board of Trustees approved the appointments of two new trustees at its October meeting on Thursday, Oct. 2. The new trustees are Daniel Akin, Ph.D., and Timothy Armstrong, D.Min.

Public Health Services Research: Informing Public Health Practice & Policy, Glen P. Mays

Health Management and Policy Presentations

Heterogeneity in the mechanisms used for organizing and financing public health strategies creates opportunities for comparative effectiveness research (CER) in public health that examine which organization and financing mechanisms work best, for whom, and under what circumstances. Findings from these types of studies have direct utility in shaping public health policy and practice decisions.

The Legacy, October 7, 2014, Lindenwood University

The Legacy (2007-2018)

Student Newspaper of Lindenwood University