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College and Community in Adams County
No full textCollege and Community in Adams County examines the evolution of service partnerships between the College and community over time. The project moves from the 60s and 70s when a limited few service projects where orchestrated by the Chapel to the present period under the Center for Public Service. Moving chronologically through time, this project is centered around a single timeline of service relationships using the tool TimelineJS and is hosted on the platform Scalar. Information for this project primarily came from Special Collections and College Archives as well as from documents kept in the Center for Public Service
Visual Novels as Digital Storytelling
No full textThis project discusses visual novels (a type of video game) as a medium that combines literature and technology to create an interactive and immersive story experience. It serves as an introduction to what visual novels are, where they fit in, and how they embody certain Digital Humanities values. The goal is to show the scholarly value in video games and reduce the childish stigma that currently still surrounds them. The site was created using WordPress, and it includes a timeline made with TimelineJS that walks through the history of visual novels
Predicting the Future: Parental Progeny Investment in Response to Environmental Stress Cues
Get PDFEnvironmental stressors can severely limit the ability of an organism to reproduce as lifespan is decreased and resources are shifted away from reproduction to survival. Although this is often detrimental to the organism’s reproductive fitness, certain other reproductive stress responses may mitigate this effect by increasing the likelihood of progeny survival in the F1 and subsequent generations. Here we review three means by which these progeny may be conferred a competitive edge as a result of stress encountered in the parental generation: heritable epigenetic modifications to nucleotides and histones, simple maternal investments of cytosolic components, and the partially overlapping phenomenon of terminal investment, which can entail extreme parental investment strategies in either cytosolic components or gamete production. We examine instances of these categories and their ability to subsequently impact offspring fitness and reproduction. Ultimately, without impacting nucleotide sequence, these more labile alterations may shape development, evolution, ecology and even human health, necessitating further understanding and research into the specific mechanisms by which environmental stressors are sensed and elicit a corresponding response in the parental germline
Main Floor Display: Equity in Open Knowledge
No full textCheck out our display on the main level named after this year\u27s theme, Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge . This display will be on the Main Level of the library from Monday, Oct. 21-Friday, Oct. 25.
This display features a poster, as well as an interactive globe with information about and resources from countries around the world, particularly highlighting the home countries of Gettysburg students.
Also be sure to drop by during one of our pop up tables on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to enter a raffle for a $25 dining gift card and pick up an Open Access Cupcake
Authors’ Choices, Authors’ Rights: Making Informed Decisions When Publishing Open
Get PDFWondering if publishing in an open access journal is the right move for your research? Join Musselman Library’s Scholarly Communications Department as we talk copyright ownership, authors’ rights, and how to choose the right license for your work. October 23, 12-1 PM in Dining Center 19. Space is limited; RSVP required. Email [email protected] to RSVP.
Published under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 License
Model AI Assignments 2019
No full textThe Model AI Assignments session seeks to gather and disseminate the best assignment designs of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Education community. Recognizing that assignments form the core of student learning experience, we here present abstracts of ten AI assignments from the 2019 session that are easily adoptable, playfully engaging, and flexible for a variety of instructor needs. Assignment specifications and supporting resources may be found at http://modelai.gettysburg.edu
On the Expressions of Media and New Media
No full textPeople do not say the word medium to describe something they do with one another directly. For more meaningful matters like physical contact, feelings, and exchanging words with one another, we do not use the words information , and communication, but rather words like working, telephoning, studying, telling, reporting, announcing, doubting, loving, hating, confirming, and so on. The coined words communication and information already contain a certain abstraction, as if an exchange were taking place among people that was initiated by a concrete situation. In truth, the appearance of intermediaries (= media) like the radio and television does not provide any distance from the situation. They can only operate vis-a-vis the spectator as through they were exchanging with one another, when in fact they merely act out monologues. The recipient receives all these messages and feelings within a concrete situation. [excerpt
I Am
Get PDFHearing undocumented I want it to be for means of empowerment,I am tired of the pity look, of the silence, of hesitation, of the thick air and the tensionWhenever I let people in.When I let people in, I expect respect as a human being,And not as a saving cause.The last thing I ask is for reassurance or comfortI had been undocumented for the last eleven years Eleven years that I have internalized a distorted false narrative of who I am [excerpt
Review of Arja Karivieri (ed.), The Early Christian Basilica of Arethousa in Macedonia. I: Production, Consumption and Trade
Get PDFThis book is the first volume of a projected two-volume publication of the results of investigations in and around the basilica at the site of Paliambela near the modern village of Arethousa. It provides a great deal of valuable information about various aspects of the church and the settlement it served. The book is focused on production, consumption and trade, however, and says little about the architecture, mosaics, or liturgical implications of this intriguing church. [excerpt
The Constant Struggle of Life and Death During the Siege of Leningrad
Get PDFIn 1941 during the Second World War, Hitler began Operation Barbarossa, in which he invaded the Soviet Union in order to repopulate it with Germans and expand German territory. The city of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, was one of Hitler’s main objectives because if Leningrad fell to the Germans, they would then be able to go south and capture Moscow, which would possibly lead them to win the war. Additionally, Leningrad was a Baltic seaport, which was useful for trade, and it was home to some of the USSR’s main munition factories. When Germany attacked Leningrad, the people of the city were cut off from food and fuel for 882 days, making it the longest siege of the modern day. With very limited food and resources, death became an everyday occurrence and every Leningrader endured starvation, taking desperate measures to keep themselves and their loved ones alive. To avoid death, they used the nearby lake to transport food into the besieged city and meanwhile made food out of any resources they had left, regardless of whether or not it was truly edible