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Instruction Web Pages (2007-13)
No full textThree web pages relating to the CCA Libraries instruction program and its history. Archived from the website on March 20th, 2017, though the pages were created and last updated much earlier
CCA Libraries: Operations Plan
No full textCCA Libraries is a department of the California College of the Arts. CCA Libraries has as its mission to support teaching and learning at the college by assessing, gathering, and preserving information, providing students and faculty with informational and material resources, and facilitating institutional research.
Libraries have historically been the center points of institutions of higher learning. The advent of the information age is challenging the traditional role of libraries. The Internet has replaced the library as the go-to source for reference and research. As a result, CCA Libraries' is suffering from a diminishing role. CCA Libraries recognizes both the need and the opportunity to reenvision how it serves the college community.
CCA Libraries has the vision of becoming the central hub of campus activity that deepens and enriches faculty and student engagement. This plan proposes two operational initititaves that make strides toward that end and help elevate CCA Libraries' role in the college community.
The first is a Materials Library leased through Material ConneXion's LIbrary Leasing program. This initiative brings to the campus a professional quality collection of materials samples and boasts the potential for revenue generation. The second is redesigning Simpson Library to provide the flexibility, comfort, and atmosphere that can contribute to an enhanced learning environment.
Both initiatives add obvious and immediate value to CCA Libraries current value proposition. But their greater value is derived from their longer term intangible benefits. Each has the potential to introduce virtuous cycles that increase not only CCA Libraries' presence on campus but also the college's presence in the Bay Area design community and economy. </p
Library Skills for the Arts
No full textAn interactive tutorial designed by library staff to teach and quiz CCA students on the topics of finding research sources, evaluating them for quality, and ultimately integrating them into written works. Topics covered include using the library, the Internet, electronic resources, finding and using images, writing a paper, plagiarism, and references
Constitution Day exhibition documentation, 2016
No full textWherein we celebrate Constitution Day, aka the supreme law of the United States, with video clips from Alexander Hamilton and Schoolhouse Rock!
Alexander Hamilton, a wildly popular, hip-hop musical about the founding father, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, recently visited the White House; this clip of that performance includes a great introduction by President Obama! Schoolhouse Rock!, an ABC-TV educational series broadcast from 1973-1985, includes over forty infectious songs on subject matter ranging from grammar to economics & of course, the Constitution
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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