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Getting down to BRASS Tacks
No full textJohn Amundsen, Business Librarian with the Wilmette Public Library and current chair of the RUSA-BRASS Business Reference in Public Libraries Committee, will provide a brief update on the current activities of his committee and outline opportunities for business librarians to engage on the national level through RUSA’s Business and Reference Services Section, both through his committee’s projects and BRASS’s other amazing and dynamic group
Sustainable Business, Sustainable Instruction: Using Scopus to Support AACSB SDG Reporting
No full textAs business schools expand their focus on sustainability, librarians can play a key role in connecting research discovery tools with accreditation and curriculum goals. At Western Michigan University, I’ve worked closely with faculty teaching sustainable business practices. I’ve seen the growing need to assess how faculty research aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly as part of the AACSB accreditation process and the incorporation of sustainability into strategic plans.
In this talk, I’ll share how I introduced the SDG mapping in Scopus to faculty preparing the Continuous Improvement Review Report. They’ve since incorporated these tools into their workflow for creating Table 9-1, which documents faculty engagement with the SDGs. I’ll demonstrate how librarians can use Scopus to help surface faculty publications related to sustainability and connect this data to both accreditation and institutional mission.
This example shows how business librarians can go beyond instruction and resource access to support strategic reporting in sustainability-focused programs
Haunting Pasts, Cancelled Futures: Polish and Argentinian Experiences of Postdependency
No full textThe aim of this article is to compare Polish and Argentinian experience of democratic transitions of the 1980s and 1990s. Establishing new political and economic orders in both countries did not entail a change in their citizens’ post-dependent mentality. In the first part of the paper, a connection is drawn between Polish and Argentinian collective memories in line with the methodology of transcultural memory studies (Erll, Rothberg). The post-dependent condition is articulated twofold: through the remembrance of the disappearance (of the Jews, the victims of the Argentina’s state terrorism, the indigenous peoples), and through the confusion in grasping the sense of the past, present and future (never having been critically reviewed, the past keeps haunting the present). The second part of the paper proposes a comparative interpretation of Igor Ostachowicz’s novel titled Night of the Living Jews (2013) and Mariana Enríquez’ short story “Kids Who Come Back” (2009). Both texts focus on the return of the disappeared, which triggers the deconstruction of unifying national narratives. The disgust inspired by ghosts who returned from the past appears to be a new narrative consolidating the social order
Race and Nation in Three Canonic Texts of Puerto Rican Literature: Luis Palés Matos’s \u3cem\u3eTom-Tom of Kinky Hair and Black Things\u3c/em\u3e, José Luis González’s \u3cem\u3eLa llegada\u3c/em\u3e, and Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s \u3cem\u3eCortijo’s Wake\u3c/em\u3e
Get PDFIn this essay we propose a critical reading of three politically-charged canonic texts of Puerto Rican literature that uphold and vindicate an African heritage for Puerto Rican culture, highlighting their role in moving discussions about blackness at the center stage of debates about national identity and culture, and assessing their contribution to the emergence and development of an Afro-Puerto Rican identity and literature. These texts are: Luis Palés Matos’s Tom-Tom of Kinky Hair and Black Things, José Luis González’s La llegada; and Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s Cortijo’s Wake. Moreover, a debate about the racial background of the authors of the three texts will serve to show the existence of a division between Black and White writers within the field of Afro-Puerto Rican literature, and to trace the formation and development of a long tradition of White writers writing about Afro-Puerto Rican topics that extends to the present—belonging to what Doris Sommer has called “negrista appropriations.” The essay culminates with a review of the evolution of Afro-Puerto Rican literature into the twenty-first century, and a discussion of contemporary ideas and debates about the future of Afro-Puerto Rican literature