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Discovery in the Stacks: A Primer (or Refresher!) for Stacks Maintenance of Music Collections in Libraries Maintenance of Music Collections in Libraries
Get PDFAs libraries evolve to meet changing user and organizational needs, the work of maintaining music materials may take a backseat to other priorities. The value of physical collections endures, however, and thoughtful stacks maintenance is crucial for making library materials discoverable and accessible. This article discusses policies and workflows for maintaining music collections at academic institutions, supplying readers with practical suggestions and a best practices checklist for stacks maintenance activities. By taking a thoughtful approach to maintaining collections of music formats like scores and recordings, the authors explore the ways that stacks maintenance work can enhance users’ experience
Humanitarian Zionism: The Vaad Hatzalah and Abraham Joshua Heschel
Get PDFThis paper explores the history of humanitarian Zionism as espoused by Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Vaad Hatzalah -- an Orthodox Jewish organization operating in the United States during the Holocaust. Both Heschel and the Vaad saw the priority of Zionism, or Jewish nation-building, as the preservation of Torah scholarship and the saving of human life. The importance of this: Zionism during the era of Heschel and the Vaad should be understood with greater detail. Zionism, in its complete history, was not uniquely driven by nationalism or the need for statehood, but a humanitarian message as well. This understanding can 1) dispel the myth that Zionism in its complete history has been a story of militancy and nationalist expansion and 2) create a greater appreciation for the work of Jewish organizations like the Vaad which saved thousands of lives through settlement in Palestine and the social justice ideals of mindful Jewish thinkers like Abraham Joshua Heschel
Educative Teacher Performance Assessment: Perceptions of Similarities and Differences in a Teacher Education Program
Get PDFThe aim of this thesis is to investigate the major differences between the Butler College of Education preparation program and the expectations of the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment or edTPA. Both Butler\u27s College of Education and the edTPA focus on the incorporation of theories and research into conveying instructional methods, yet despite these fundamental similarities, there are some differences in how the content is taught and documented. Specifically, the goal of this study is to investigate pre-service teachers’ perceptions of similarities and differences between the edTPA and expectations of a teacher education program
The Influence of Specific Diagnosis and Trait Self-Relevance on Positive and Negative Perceptions of Individuals with a Mental Illness
Get PDFI investigated how participants perceived an individual with either depression, schizophrenia, or no disorder on negative and positive traits and then examined how these perceptions linked to desire for social distance (DSD), trait self-relevance, positive former contact with a person with mental health problems, and continuum beliefs. One-hundred-and-fifty undergraduates completed an online survey that described a vignette character with depression (VCWD), vignette character with schizophrenia (VCWS), or control character with no mental disorder (CC) and assessed participants’ perceptions of the character’s traits, DSD from the vignette character, perceptions of one’s own traits, and demographic characteristics. In general, the VCWD was viewed as thoughtful, unpredictable, and apathetic. The VCWS was viewed as interesting but less kind as well as more dangerous, irresponsible, and unpredictable than other characters. DSD correlated with perceived dangerousness, irresponsibility, and unpredictability. Because negative traits are strong predictors of DSD, participants showed more DSD from the VCWS than other characters. Neither positive former contact nor continuum beliefs correlated with DSD. Finally, high trait self-relevance increased the likelihood of perceiving one’s own traits in VCWD but not VCWS, suggesting participants saw less of themselves in someone with schizophrenia than someone with depression. Together, these results suggest that positive and negative perceptions of depression and schizophrenia exist, but people identify less with and are less willing to socialize with someone diagnosed with schizophrenia than depression
Building Community Resiliency Against Disasters
Get PDFDisasters impact people in many different places around the world. The impact to communities by disasters is shaped by their constructed vulnerability. The goal of this research project was to better understand how the vulnerability and resiliency of different communities was shaped at six different sites across the U.S. and to construct a collection of best practices to raise the resiliency of populations and locations in the face of many different forms of possible disasters in the future. These concepts and conclusions were drawn from internet research of the chosen sites. Phase 1 of the research determined noteworthy sites and gathered details and data on each site to guide recommendations. Phase 2 gathered information by interviewing individuals with credible and meaningful insights to add to the research data. The sites chosen had disaster events that happened recently or were still occurring during the research in order to better understand the current issues disasters pose and to generate more creative and applicable solutions to these issues. Researching these sites provided a better understanding regarding the best ways to interact with vulnerable communities and raise their resiliency against disasters. It was found that if vulnerable communities had better access to resources, infrastructure, and decision-making agency, and locations had sustainable electricity sources that could operate through extreme weather, they would be more resilient to disasters. Politics plays a large role in shaping vulnerability and resiliency, particularly in how policies determine who has access to resources, power distribution, what disaster response occurs, and how disasters are perceived, showing that these specific areas of resiliency are important to focus on, but to be effective, they need support from the political realm. If these proposed recommendations are implemented, communities will be better able to withstand disruptive forces from the environment and mitigate harm, or possibly even fully prevent disasters from occurring
The Prism
Get PDFThe Prism is a magical-girl-themed fantasy light novel series about four best friends who finally graduated junior high school. Miya, Teresa, Liana, and Destiny are anxious to start their new high school lives (for better or worse) in their rough, monotone, and corrupt urban town of Quaint Village. Their plans are interrupted, however, by the opening of a brand new private school. Then, for the first time ever, all four girls end up in the same program. They\u27re ready to make great memories together and spend much more time with each other.
Unbeknownst to them, their new school is nothing like the academically inclined programs they always had. They are no longer students carrying books, homework, and planners, scribbling and speed reading. They become soldiers, traveling subconsciously to another world. Their duty is to help Vita Mundi\u27s Vice Sovereign and her family protect their people from criminals and life-sentence-serving convicts called Umbrans. In only a month, this tight posse goes from being a quartet of normal students in Quaint Village, to lady soldiers fighting and risking themselves for a parallel world. They will train under the mentorship of the Vice Sovereign and her family, steadily growing stronger in body, mind, heart, and spirit as they face harder and more powerful enemies
