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November 2024 Library & Learning Newsletter
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Trapped with No Escape: The Hidden Problem of Sibling Bullying
No full textWhen brothers and sisters victimise each other, the harms can be serious. But it’s never too late to heal old wounds
Are Academia and Industry Listening to Each Other? A Citation Analysis of UX Research Methods Resources
Get PDFTechnical and Professional Communication (TPC) has been facing concerns of viability, in both its relationship with industry and its ability to build a relevant and valid body of research. TPC’s disconnection with industry may be reflected in its relationship to UX as well, despite both fields’ shared values. To better understand how TPC and User Experience (UX) are relating to each other, we conducted a citation analysis of a sample of SIGDOC papers and a sample of Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) practitioner articles focused on research methods. The SIGDOC papers tended to cite TPC sources, while the NN/g articles cited no TPC, but did cite disciplines such as HCI and Psychology. The findings point to opportunities for TPC to improve its connection and influence beyond academi
Post-glacial Landscape Evolution of the Lower St. Croix River Valley: The Enigma of Glacial Lake Grantsburg, the Osceola Bench, and the St. Croix Dells
Get PDFThe St. Croix River valley (SCRV) is the product of dyssynchronous glacial advance and retreat of several glacial lobes during regional deglaciation of the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene transition. Additionally, the SCRV has been dramatically shaped by multiple proglacial lake drainage episodes. Therefore, the SCRV is an important case study to understanding the impacts of proglacial lake spillover processes. However, the magnitude, frequency, timing, duration, and geomorphic impacts of these floods remain enigmatic. We focus on a specific reach of the SCRV, which we name the Lower SCRV for the purpose of this study. The lower SCRV contains several anomalous landforms which are in the immediate proximity of the Grantsburg sublobe (GSL) maximum extent and located south of a proglacial lake named glacial Lake Grantsburg (GLG). These landforms a bedrock gorge, an anomalously high and extensive terrace-like surface called the Osceola Bench (OB), terraces which step down from the OB to the modern river valley, a large paleochannel named the Horse Creek Channel (HCC), a high paleovalley located immediately south of the GLG margin identified as the Dresser Spillway, and fluvially sculpted forms like pendant bars. In this study, we provide a suite of datasets from six methodologies to help identify the nature and characteristics of GSL/GLG drainage and how it impacted the SCRV. Our methods include geomorphic mapping, hand augering, coring, optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating, and X-ray fluorescence (XRF).
Based on the results of our research, we suggest a variation of spillover process is responsible for GLG drainage. We name this process as transgressive ice-marginal outburst flooding (TIMOF), as we find GLG drainage was governed by the westward retreat of the GSL. This TIMOF process resulted in the creation of the anomalous landforms within the SCRV (e.g. HCC, OB, Dresser Spillway, pendant bars, terraces).
A quarry northwest of Dresser, WI, contains fine sands unconformably overlain by massively bedded gravel deposits, which we attribute to be Superior lobe outwash truncated by flood deposits of GLG. We find the Dresser Spillway is a strath-like surface capped by a thin veneer of sediments deposited during the waning stages of flow. The Dresser Spillway is topographically correlated with the HCC, suggesting that initial GLG drainage was routed out the spillway and into the HCC. However, the number and timing of drainage which occupied the HCC remain enigmatic. Following initial retreat of the GSL westward, a lower drainage route was opened: the OB. The OB is a strath-like surface with similar sedimentologic, geochemical, and stratigraphic characteristics as the Dresser Spillway. Furthermore, numerous pendant bars are superimposed on the bench surface. GPR data shows the pendant bar formed while drainage was shifting westward. Our data suggests the terrace equivalent in elevation to the OB is also a strath-like surface, likely the same surface as the OB. GPR and sediment data from two lower terraces immediately westward adjacent to the OB show these terraces are fill-cut terraces. When accounting for margin of error, all OSL data collected and presented in this study falls within the expected timeframe of GSL and GLG established by prior literature at 16.3-14.1 ka. Events of GSL and GLG were truncated by an erosional event that significantly cut into the valley. Subsequently, aggradation led to the formation of the Barrens fan and glacial Lake Anoka. Finally, high-magnitude meltwater discharges from the Superior basin incised the SCRV by ~60 m, forming the bedrock gorge visible at Interstate State Park, MN/WI.
Data presented in this study acts to constrain the events prior to and following those of the GSL/GLG. Additionally, our data contributes to ongoing deglacial mapping efforts and in reconstructing meltwater drainage routing from the continent to the oceans. We hope our newly proposed model will contribute to ongoing efforts to mitigate and prevent future hazards that spillover processes pose to mountainous communities globally
Student Perceptions of Online Course Design Elements in a Post-Pandemic Environment
Get PDFInstructional designers conducted a survey of students to determine their perceptions of online course design in a post-pandemic environment. The questions were based on Quality Matters General Standards and asked students to indicate whether they experienced the design element and the importance they placed on it. Open-ended questions gathered additional detail about the students’ online course experience. Results indicate overall online course design at the university adheres to QM standards, but improvement is needed in online teaching practice, specifically teacher communication and availability, grading, and feedback. When compared to results of the same survey administered pre-pandemic, similar trends are seen although students in the current post-pandemic study place higher importance on the need for accessible course design. Implications for faculty development programming are discussed
2024-03: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Mothers in Minnesota
Get PDFMaternal mental health refers to a range of conditions or illnesses that can occur anytime during pregnancy or the first year following pregnancy. When left untreated, maternal mental health conditions can have long-term negative impacts on the mother, baby, and family. Proper screenings for maternal mental health conditions are critical to ensuring that mental health concerns are detected and that new and expecting mothers receive the care they need. Requiring screening for maternal mental health conditions as part of prenatal and postpartum visits will lead to the care that new mothers deserve
User Authentication in a Changing Landscape
No full textWith the types of electronic resources to which libraries subscribe becoming more diversified, authentication methods are evolving with a greater degree of complexity. This is particularly true of business databases providing access to large sets of data and proprietary information, such as Capital IQ and Checkpoint EDGE. The current landscape suggests a movement away from IP validation and EZproxy. This presentation will explore the challenges of keeping abreast with vendor preferred authentication methods from the perspective of a student or faculty member and library systems personnel
You are More Than Just Your Gift: Facework and Idealization in Disney\u27s Encanto
Get PDFIn this rhetorical analysis, we apply Goffman’s theory of facework to the Disney film Encanto, arguing that Encanto provides important lessons regarding facework and advocates for using facework in moderation. Encanto tells the story of the Madrigals, a family who experiences a miracle that results in each member of the family having a special gift – all except for one, the teenage protagonist, Mirabel. When Mirabel recognizes that both the miracle and her family are in danger, she realizes that her individual family members are using facework in order to fit in with the rest of the family and impress the community, even though they feel confined by their gifts. Mirabel’s sisters use idealization to mask feelings of insecurity as well as their own creativity, while her aunt Pepa and cousin Camilo experience difficulties engaging in facework due to the nature of their gifts. Furthermore, Mirabel’s uncle Bruno is shunned by the family because he fails to properly engage in facework. We contend that Encanto provides a cautionary message for its young audience: facework should be used in moderation and that maintaining face, idealization, and front at the expense of expressing one’s emotions can have negative consequences on not only the individual engaging in facework, but also those around them
Gemstoning: Character Creation Exercise for the Classroom & Production
Get PDFIn the summer of 2023, we participated in an online training course with the Stella Adler Studio of Acting titled Awareness Without Judgement: A Teacher Training Intensive. Over the weeks, we studied with three main teachers at the Studio on Character, Technique, and Script Interpretation with ‘master classes’ led by actors and scholars scattered over the weeks. The course is designed for theatre practitioners who want more in-depth experience and exposure to the more pedagogical side of acting and performance; in other words, for acting teachers who want to use the techniques of Stella Adler within their teaching. Given this gap in our training and a shared desire to better our ability to teach budding actors and performers, we participated. However, we also knew that we would need a lot of repositioning, from how they teach the material to their students to how we would have to teach the material to our students. This pedagogical translation is the impetus of our Great Ideas of Teaching. We want to create a method for bringing Adler’s ideas to our educational institutions. Our G.I.F.T allows students to create their character, starting from an impulse of a single emotion for both in-person and online settings. It is part written exercise and part physicalization exercise. The resulting approach to character creation is a sense of individualized ownership in the students in the characters they create and interpret