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Writing for the profession: The experience of new professionals
No full textThe purpose of this article is to explore barriers and motivators for new professionals who write and present for the professional literature. Authors from the ALIA New Librarians’ Symposium held in December 2006 in Sydney, Australia were surveyed about their experiences of writing and presenting early in their career. The author of this paper was the symposium’s programme coordinator.
The majority of authors were working in Australia, and few were required to write or present as part of their work role. In the absence of this requirement, factors that motivate new professionals to write can be difficult to define. Barriers to writing include time, skills, and responsibilities outside work
Electronic journal access in an academic library revisited
No full textThis is a publisher’s version of an article published in The Australian Library Journal 2002 published by ALIA. This version is reproduced under the journals author licence agreement. http://www.alia.org.au/publishing/alj/The authors recount the continuing trials and tribulations inherent in providing online access to single journal titles subscribed to in an academic library. The nature and variety of the problems are demonstrated by a number of examples. This paper provides an update to the article published in the November 2001 issue of the Australian Library Journal which concentrated on the experiences of the authors at the University of Melbourne. This update stresses the international nature of the difficulties
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
No full textAbstract
The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
Novel Dialogue 4.4 “A short, sharp punch to the face”: José Revueltas’ The Hole (El Apando) with Alia Trabucco Zerán and Sophie Hughes (CH)
No full textAlia Trabucco Zerán, award-winning author of The Remainder (La Resta), and Women Who Kill (Las Homicidas),and Sophie Hughes, Alia’s translator and finalist for the International Booker Prize talk with Novel Dialogue host Chris Holmes about a novel that has shaped their lives as writers and thinkers: The Hole by José Revueltas. Sophie and Alia discuss how The Hole, written while Revueltas was held in the infamous Lecumberri prison, purposefully makes readers feel lost in a small, confined space. Reading a section from her co-translation of The Hole, published in 1969 as El Apando, Sophie considers how the novel’s intense feelings of confinement and limitation prompt a contemplation of what exactly defines freedom. The conversation turns on how the novel does not spare you from having “been victim of a violent book yourself,” and that literature which confronts our shared inhumanity toward prisoners should make you feel uncomfortable. In a series of thoughtful exchanges, the novelist and her translator confront the difficulties of preserving the immersiveness of the novel’s affect while being attuned to the precise choices and sacrifices of drawing out the novel in English. The episode ends with our season’s signature question, and a wonderful example of untranslatable Chilean Spanish from Alia
KC 05: on destruction and preservation in creative process
No full textParticipating panellist at Kitchen Conversations London: Creative Destruction Series; no. 05: On Destruction and Preservation in Creative Process. Panellists include Alia Syed, Noski Deville, Architects Smout Allen and poet Agnieszka Studzinska.
Cinematographer Noski Deville and artist filmmaker Alia Syed discuss creation and destruction in their film collaboration 'Priya'(2011).
Architects Smout Allen, whose work Infractus: the taking of Robin Hood Gardens, deals with the controversial demolition of Alison and Peter Smithson’s 1972 housing estate in east London, join the conversation on destruction and preservation.
A rare opportunity to see Alia Syed’s film Priya (2011) projected from 16mm print.
Plus Poet Agnieszka Studzinska, author of Passage reading her work, launching Wapping Project's next publication of commissioned writing.
Kitchen Conversations London are presented in partnership and with generous support of The Future Laboratory
Competition Law and Human Rights:Striking a Balance Between Business Freedom and Regulatory Intervention
No full textPresented at The Limits of Competition Law, Santorini, Greece (jointly organised by UCL Faculty of Laws and IMEDIPA)</p
Determinants of vaccine coverage and timeliness in a northern Pakistani village
No full textFunding: Funding was provided by the Pakistan US S&T Cooperative Agreement between the Pakistan Higher Education Commission (HEC) (No.4-421/PAK-US/HEC/2010/955, grant to the Karakoram International University) and US National Academies of Science (Grant Number PGA-P211012 from NAS to the Fogarty International Center). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Acknowledgments We are deeply indebted to the mothers and families who participated in these projects and the dedicated project staff. Study staff: Gulab Jan, Zohra Bano, Mobina Bano, Gul Nasreen, Mehtab Bano, Kaniz Fatima, Iqbal Bano, Dil Roz, Nazara, Ghazala, Nasima Begum, Alia Rani, Mehwish Hakeem, Rubina, Sameena, Zevar Jan, Sunaira, Resham Jan. FIC: Assis Jahan, Wasiat Shah. Karakoram International University: Khalil Ahmed, Arif Hussain, Mirza Jibran, Asif Hussain. Editorial assistance was kindly provided by Stacey Knobler, Jessica Seidman, Stephanie Richard and David Spiro. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the U.S. National Institutes of Health or Department of Health and Human Services.Peer reviewe
A source of reflection on Christian witness and mission under the action of the Holy Spirit
No full textThe article studies the relationship which binds together the sacrament of Confirmation with the other two sacraments of initiation, namely Baptism and Eucharist. By referring to a number of liturgical and other texts, the author highlights the effects of the sacrament of Confirmation on the life and mission of the Christian in contemporary society. All confirmed Christians are called to bear witness and be instruments of evangelization.peer-reviewe
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