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Project Transfer: Five Years Later
Full text linkPresentation given at E-Resources & Libraries (ER&L) on April 3, 2012. Managing journal publisher transfers and updates to the Transfer Code of Practice
Daylighting as Media: From Illusion in Chinese Gardens to Space in Modern Architecture
Full text linkThe intention of this thesis is to evaluate whether daylighting can be a media leading traditional concepts into today’s architectural design. Daylighting as a media not only an essential visual element in consisting impression of architecture, but also a significant method to generate experience through architecture. The Chinese garden as a special Chinese traditional Cultural signal is deeply related with Chinese ancient philosophy, paintings, poems and gentleman-scholars’ dream. The philosophy of Taoism emphasizes the importance of combination human and nature, which generates primeval idea of natural ecology. Daylighting in Chinese garden also presents the same idea by complex consequence and multiple layers, different forms and arrangements. The concepts which is full of narrative experience and idea of ecologies is worth researching and integrating in modern architecture. This essay studies Chinese gardens, paintings and poems and proves that a Chinese garden uses the four means, which are imitating large scale and merging geometry, controlling features in time and seasons, continuously framing views, and design of consequence in emotion by daylighting to frame traditional mind. The modern architectural cases which contain the similar meaning are talked. The possibility and occasions that daylighting can be a media transferring traditional concepts into modern space are evaluated, which includes transformed from a Chinese garden, integrated with modernism, co-incident techniques usage and the limits that has conflicts with the characteristics of daylighting in Chinese gardens. From the case studies, as the most general and common element in architecture, daylighting can presents the concepts and features within Chinese gardens. At the same time, daylighting are capable to translate the concepts by using modern space language, and it has been proved in some practical projects. From this perspective, daylighting can be a media transfer the illusion in Chinese gardens into space in modern architecture. But the limits for application of daylighting as experiencing in Chinese garden also exist. Because the content and ideas reflected from Chinese garden are generated from Chinese philosophy and the background are very different from today’s already. From this aspect, the concepts in modern space are not totally the same with it originally was
11 digital publishing trends to watch this year and their potential impact on libraries
Full text linkPresented at Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) National Forum, Columbus, OH
Deconstructing Ostalgia : the national past between commodity and simulacrum in Wolfgang Becker's Goodbye Lenin! (2003)
Full text linkDiscomfort Design: Critical Reflection through Uncomfortable Play
Full text linkConsider that uncomfortable moment in life when people discover a playful experience ceases to be worth playing. Just as an arm is broken on the playground, or a relationship can no longer be mended, there are explicit moments when art transgresses some unforeseen territory leaving us with fear of its potential. This paper explores the potential of taboo game design
Leveraging Resources Between the Senior Community Service Employment Program and the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program
Full text linkThis report describes a project that sought to determine the role the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) might play in supporting the Long-Term Care Ombudsman in their expanded role in the HOME Choice Transitions program. Potential responsibilities of the SCSEP program participant are described along with suggested training to carry out these duties
Cradle of Coaches Reception Booklet
No full textThis is a booklet from the Cradle of Coaches: A Legacy of Excellence Exhibit reception. The exhibit consisted of materials from the Cradle of Coaches Collection from the Walter Havighurst Special Collections, and was up from August 19, 2013 - December 13, 2013. The booklet contains information from about the coaches from the exhibit, as well as images of the materials from the collection
E-Resource Management at Miami University (Great Expectations: Maximizing Efficiency and Value in Collection Management and Discovery)
No full textPresentation given as part of panel at Charleston Annual Conference on November 4, 2010. Managing e-resources
