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Consumer, Meet Producer
No full textWinner of the 2013 Van Wylen Library Altered Book Award
Artists\u27 Statement: In today\u27s world there are 27 million slaves, vanishing in a life of bondage leaving only a statistic. We as consumers perpetuate the slave trade, yet remain ignorant of our involvement. Vanish is a tangible statement showing our own hands are a part of this vanishing act.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/altered_book/1034/thumbnail.jp
An Ebenezer in the Storm
No full textArtists\u27 Statement: Moments in history, or even a life, are commemorated through poetry; the rhythmic cadence, the terse phrasing, the thoughtful sculpting of the literature manages to convey and emit so much emotion. Literature is the past\u27s Ebenexer, marking where we\u27ve been, guiding us along the way.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/altered_book/1042/thumbnail.jp
Selling Rice To Wheat Eaters: The Colonial Lobby And The Promotion Of Pain de Riz During And After The First World War
No full textThis article examines the efforts to promote pain de riz (rice-flour bread) in France during and after the First World War. This effort marked the beginning of the campaign toincrease French consumption of Indochinese rice, a campaign that began during the First World War and intensified throughout the 1920s and 1930s. In the face of cultural resistance to rice in France, the Indochina lobby first encouraged the use of rice flour in French bread. The centrality of bread to the French diet and to French national identity seriously complicated the introduction of rice flour. This study expands our understanding of the complex meaning of the whiteness of French bread and the cultural significance of bread\u27s key ingredient: flour. All stages of bread production were heavily regulated in France, and the story of pain de riz reveals how closely various business interests in Indochina and France coordinated with government officials to influence legislation concerning bread\u27s content. In addition, it demonstrates how the production of scientific knowledge in colonial Indochina developed in ways that supported the political and economic interests of the colonial lobby. In incorporating rice flour into French bread, the colonial lobby attempted to include Indochina economically and culturally within Greater France. Their ultimate failure reveals some of the limits of the colonial lobby\u27s attempts to integrate the colonies into French national identity
Information Literacy and Epistemological Inquiry
Get PDFInformation literacy is frequently invoked as leitmotiv in college-level library instruction, a fact which by no means implies a unanimous sense of its “meaning” among teaching librarians. Even a cursory perusal of the library literature demonstrates the importance of the concept, both as an educational paradigm and theoretic stimulus. Notably, despite rising acknowledgment that information literacy grows ever more vital for today’s students, little consideration of its place and purpose within other fields is found in academic publications outside information science. Likewise, information literacy instruction, while acknowledged in core curricula, is frequently marginalized in practice: cramped sessions within other courses remain the primary vehicle. It is no stretch to conclude that information literacy is rarely treated as a salient discipline worthy of intellectual effort beyond its basic instrumentality in limited contexts. This paper grapples with the question of its status as a valid academic enterprise. I aim to suggest that library instruction – specifically, instruction that claims information literacy as a goal – has deeper significance in the educational process than the promotion of a simple acquaintance with library resources (though this remains important). In particular, considering information literacy as an epistemological tool demonstrates its frequently obscured value in students’ intellectual development
From Craft to Industry: The Boat Builders of Holland
No full textFrom Craft to Industry: The Boat Builders of Holland was an exhibition at the Holland Museum on display from June 14, 2013 through December 30, 2013. Materials for the exhibit were used from both the Joint Archives of Holland and Holland Museum.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/boat_builders/1029/thumbnail.jp
From Craft to Industry: The Boat Builders of Holland (Chris Craft Corporation 1939-1989 Picture 1)
No full textChris-Craft Corporation (1939-1989): While in Holland, the company helped produce military landing craft that were used at Normandy as well as thousands of Chris-Craft cruisers for a boat-hungry, post-war public.
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Landing Craft Advertisement, Chris-Craft Corporation (top) Joint Archives of Holland
Advertisement f or George E. Clark from the Michigan State Gazeteer, 1897 (middle) Joint Archives of Holland
North Star Marine Construction Company Brochure, 1929 (bottom) Joint Archives of Holland
From Craft to Industry: The Boat Builders of Holland was an exhibition at the Holland Museum on display from June 14, 2013 through December 30, 2013. Materials for the exhibit were used from both the Joint Archives of Holland and Holland Museum.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/boat_builders/1032/thumbnail.jp
From Craft to Industry: The Boat Builders of Holland (Small Craft Shops 1880-1960)
No full textSmall Craft Shops 1880 - 1960
Spurred by a technological advance in motive power in the 1880s, gasoline powered wooden launches promised to replace the lagging schooner industry. Holland was not immune to this spreading infatuation of this popular style of watercraft that was built on sites of defunct waterside shipyards. By the 1920s wooden launches were considered too slow for a speed hungry consumer that was enjoying faster cars, some called runabouts, on land and reading about aquatic daredevils like Gar Wood steadily approaching 100 m.p.h. on water. That trend ended business for many local boat building shops while new ones were established using larger and more reliable engines used to power fast hydroplanes, speedboats and cruisers. Local craftsmen at small craft shops were ready to sell to consumers around the world. Shops opened up on Lake Macatawa and built large and small wind and gasoline powered wooden and steel boats for consumers for recreational use and the United States government for military use.
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Campbell Boat Company Employees, 1946 Joint Archives of Holland
From Craft to Industry: The Boat Builders of Holland was an exhibition at the Holland Museum on display from June 14, 2013 through December 30, 2013. Materials for the exhibit were used from both the Joint Archives of Holland and Holland Museum.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/boat_builders/1030/thumbnail.jp
From Craft to Industry: The Boat Builders of Holland (Third Hall View B)
No full textFrom Craft to Industry: The Boat Builders of Holland was an exhibition at the Holland Museum on display from June 14, 2013 through December 30, 2013. Materials for the exhibit were used from both the Joint Archives of Holland and Holland Museum.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/boat_builders/1041/thumbnail.jp
From Craft to Industry: The Boat Builders of Holland (Center View E)
No full textFrom Craft to Industry: The Boat Builders of Holland was an exhibition at the Holland Museum on display from June 14, 2013 through December 30, 2013. Materials for the exhibit were used from both the Joint Archives of Holland and Holland Museum.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/boat_builders/1068/thumbnail.jp