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The Ghost Dance in Popular Culture
No full textPaper submitted to fulfill HIS 252 course, Cultural History of the United States, 1876-Present taught by Professor Joan Rubin, Spring 2010Introduction: "On June 2, 1891, Beadle’s Half Dime Library, a weekly publication of the dime novel company Beadle & Adams, published the first in a series of four “Silverblade” novels by Joseph Badger.[1] Badger was a regular writer for the company, and published over 200 dime novels with them over the course of his career. In many ways, his “Silverblade” novels were typical of other dime novels published by the firm including Deadwood Dick, Buffalo Bill, and Pawnee Bill. The Silverblade series included recurring plot devices with plenty of action and suspense and were very popular when first published.[2] What makes these four novels exceptional is Badger’s fictionalization of recent history. In the Silverblade stories, the plot revolves around a half-blood Shoshone named Silverblade and his experience in the Ghost Dance. Throughout the previous year, news coverage of the Ghost Dance and the associated violence in South Dakota was extensive, and Badger, writing only months later, most likely drew upon this coverage in his depictions of historical events and figures. While the stories are fictional, they fairly accurately depict the historical events of the Ghost Dance as they were understood by the American public at the time. Therefore, although these stories are historically erroneous, they do provide an accurate picture of how the Ghost Dance was popularly understood and described by newspapers in 1890."This document was adapted from a webpage hosted on the Rare Books, Special Collections, and Manuscripts website, before being converted into a static document and uploaded to URRR on 2024-10-09.</p
Meteorite Landings
No full textMeteorite Landings DatasetThe Meteoritical Society collects data on meteorites landings. This dataset, taken from public available NASA datasets, includes the location, mass, composition, and fall year for over 45,000 meteorites that have struck our planet.Dataset Variables:name: name given to meteoriteid: unique identifier given to meteoritenametype: Valid (typical meteorite) or Relict (meteorite that has been highly degraded by weather on Earth)recclass: classification given to meteoritemass (g): mass of meteorite, in gramsfall: Fall (meteorite's fall was observed) or Found (meteorite's fall was not observed)year: the year the meteorite fell or year it was foundreclat: latitude of meteorite's landingreclong: longitude of the meteorite's landingGeoLocation: a parentheses-enclose, comma-separated tuple that combines reclat and reclong</p
Income Level of Workers (1960-2022)
No full textIncome Level of Workers (1960-2022) DatasetData extracted from the United States Census Bureau detailing the number and median earnings of total workers and full-time, year-round workers by sex and female-to-male earnings ratio from the years 1960 to 2022.</p
AI Modest Proposal: a joint-institution survey on generative AI use
No full textThis presentation material supports a lighting talk presented at the 2024 RIT & UR Staff Conference.This lighting talk proposes the importance of acquiring data on actual GenAI usage by our freshmen students, collecting it until graduation, and collaborating to pool our data together. Acquiring real-world usage information will help to better inform library stances, purchases, and policies.</p
Social Battery
No full textThis is a data visualization project based on self-reported social anxiety data submitted for the 2023-24 Data Bloom Data Viz contest at River Campus Libraries.Author's statement: As an anxious introvert, I documented my social battery every hour from 9am to 9pm for one week. How can we embrace familiar, user-friendly elements of our digital world (like the battery icon) to communicate abstract, complex human experiences?Project description: As an anxious introvert, I documented my social battery (the amount of energy a person has for socializing at a given moment) every hour for one week, and visualized the data through watercolor and animation. Each column tracks a day of the week 12/19/23 to 12/25/23 and each row marks an hour 9am to 9pm. The visualization, currently on view in Sage Art Center's ASIS gallery, asks how can we embrace familiar, user friendly elements of our digital world (like the battery icon) to communicate abstract, complex human experiences.This visualization was awarded the People's Choice prize.For more examples of Data Bloom Viz competition entries, please visit the Data Bloom Collection.</p
The George Breck & Gilbert Reynolds Project: An Eyewitness Account of the Battle of Gettysburg
No full textFrom the Introduction: "During the Spring 2012 semester, I needed to write a term paper incorporating primary sources for HIS 249, The Civil War. I went to the Rare Books Department at Rush Rhees Library and inquired whether the archive contained any Civil War-era documents. Phyllis Andrews, one of the subject librarians with whom I had consulted on prior research projects, selected several boxes of primary source documents from the Mather Family Papers, the Loren Jesse Ames Papers, and the Gilbert H. Reynolds Papers."This document was adapted from a webpage hosted on the Rare Books, Special Collections, and Manuscripts website, before being converted into a static document and uploaded to URRR on 2024-10-08.</p
Navigating discovery to fulfillment: a preliminary UX study of DiscoverUR's core elements
No full textThis report was written in support of an individual 2024 UR Libraries Summer Internship Program project and focuses on data collection and analysis of the usability of the library's DiscoverUR discovery layer. A video of the author's presentation is included.The author's internship supervisors and mentors were Morgan Ramos, Stephen O'Connell, and Ken Wierzbowski.</p
Modeling User Knowledge
No full textModelling User Knowledge DatasetThis dataset contains students' knowledge status about the subject of Electrical DC Machines, where the users' knowledge class were classified using intuitive knowledge classifier.The dataset does not contain any missing values.Dataset Variables:STG: the degree of study time for goal object materialsSCG: the degree of repetition number of user for goal object materials STR: the degree of study time of user for related objects with goal objectLPR: the exam performance of user for related objects with goal objectPEG: the exam performance of user for goal objectsUNS: the knowledge level of userClass Labels: Very Low: 50 Low: 129 Middle: 122 High: 130</p
Cancer
No full textCancer DatasetThe data set contains part of the data for a study of oral condition of cancer patients conducted at the Mid-Michigan Medical Center in 1999. The oral conditions of the patients were measured and recorded at the initial stage, at the end of the second week, at the end of the fourth week, and at the end of the sixth week. Patients were divided into two groups at random: One group received a placebo and the other group received aloe juice treatment.The dataset is small with 25 rows and 9 features.Dataset Variables:ID: patient identification number TRT: treatment group (0 = placebo; 1 = aloe juice)AGE: patient's age in yearsWEIGHTIN: patient's weight at initial stageSTAGE- initial cancer stage, coded 1 through 4TOTALCIN: oral condition at the initial stageTOTALCW2: oral condition at the end of week 2TOTALCW4: oral condition at the end of week 4TOTALCW6: oral condition at the end of week 6</p
Creating a Staff Council for the Libraries
No full textThis lightning talk was presented at the RIT & UR Library Staff Conference: Refresh, Reconnect, Renew on June 17, 2024 during the Session #1 lightning talks from 10:30 am - 11:15 am.Session Description: Both RIT and UR have staff councils that help facilitate communication and advocate for staff needs to administration at the university level, but at UR we will soon have a similar body dedicated solely to the River Campus Libraries (RCL) acting in a similar capacity. The River Campus Libraries Staff Council (RSC) seeks to advocate on behalf of the libraries’ staff body, communicate to library leadership, and address staff needs to make the culture at RCL ‘ever better.’ This session will discuss how the RSC came to be conceptualized, the path by which it was presented to leadership for approval, and how the group will be governed. By the time of the RIT-UR conference, the first slate of elected RSC representatives should be in place. I think this could be formulated as either a lightning talk, for a quick overview of the above, or as a panel session for a discussion about what the RSC hopes to accomplish. This could include members of the group that launched the proposal at UR, the dean of libraries at UR (who has expressed willingness to participate), and university staff councils’ representatives at UR and RIT.</p