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Don't let Google and the Pennypinchers Get You Down : Defending (or Redefining) Libraries and Librarianship in the Age of Technology
Get PDFWhat are libraries really about? If libraries and librarians cannot compete with information technology giants like Google, how can they remain relevant to their communities of users? Crowley explores ways to understand how the general public and students view libraries. Bluntly stated, there is no longer any way that librarians and trustees can convince residents of local communities and members of college and university campuses that libraries are their primary information source. Given this reality, Crowley introduces the concept of lifecycle librarianship, offering a useful way of considering library roles and securing the necessary human and financial resources to carry them through. This presentation will encourage realistic and original thinking about the future of libraries and professional librarianship by redefining their primary roles from information suppliers to education providers and self-learning facilitators
Richard Dorson (interview)
No full textThis interview is included in the American Folklore Society Oral History Project held at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. In this item, Richard M. Dorson is interviewed by Richard Reuss at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee for the American Folklore Society Oral History Project. Biography/History note: Richard M. Dorson, folklorist, author, and educator, was born in New York City in 1916 and died in 1981. He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University and taught at Harvard and Michigan State University before becoming professor of history and folklore at Indiana University where he founded its Folklore Institute in 1963 and became the first director and first chair of the Folklore Department at Indiana University in 1978. This collection consists of 1 sound tape reel (40 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 7 in. It was originally recorded on November 2, 1973 at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee by Richard Reuss on a Sony audiocassette. This is a first-generation copy
Society of Composers Region VI Conference - Concert 8 Saturday, February 11, 2006 2:00 p.m. Stude Concert Hall
No full textProgram: Midwest River Fantasy / Daniel Baldwin -- Quintandra / William Hooper -- An Unspoken Labyrinth of Questions / Richard Power -- Austin Tasia / Kyle Kindred -- Saxscape III / Timothy Crowley -- Rhapsody / Warren Gooch -- Flash! / Elaine Ross -- Centennial / John C. Ross -- Out From Under / Mike d'Ambrosio -- Four Postcards from Ancient Nihon / Marc Satterwhite -- Habanera Rktmico / Lee Hartman.No program is available for this performance. No performer information available
Folder 9: Schwiderski, Richard Craig v. State of Texas 2, 1979-1984
No full textPhotocopy of a section of an article written by New York author Richard Reeves and titled 'Too Late to Kill the Messenger' and dated 1979, and argues for the role of media during violent situations
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
Aleister Crowley and Islam
Get PDFLittle has been written on the relationship between one of the most prominent personalities of modern Western esotericism, Aleister Crowley (1875(2013)1947), and Islam. Yet, this relationship was important to Crowley and is significant for understanding his views on religions, as well as some particular aspects of the religious tradition he himself initiated, Thelema. Crowley had close contacts with various forms of Islam during his travels in India, Egypt, Algeria, and Tunisia. He often expresses admiration and fascination for Islamic culture, which he compares favorably to other religious traditions, particularly Christianity, but also Hinduism. Some of his opinions mirror ideas that were relatively widespread in Victorian Britain. This chapter starts with a comparison between Thelema and Islam. It shows the extent of the influence that Crowley(2019)s contact(2014)both direct and indirect(2014)with Islam had on the shaping of his own religious movement. It also looks at the broader cultural meaning of Crowley(2019)s views on Islam, with respect to aspects such as politics, gender, and sexuality. Particular attention is given to the influence that the British explorer and orientalist Richard Burton had on Crowley with respect to Islam. Many of the opinions Crowley expressed were clearly modelled on Burton, who had been one of his heroes since his childhood years. This chapter also looks at Crowley(2019)s interest in Sufism and compares it with the similar interest Burton had
Ideas and Consequences: Richard Weaver, Sharon Crowley, and Rhetorical Politics
No full textAlthough it has been ten years since Sharon Crowley called for Richard M. Weaver\u27s exclusion from the canon of rhetorical history, Weaver\u27s rhetorical positions have never been stronger, utilized in movements such as the Tea Party and current conservative rhetoric. While Crowley (2001) argued that Weaver\u27s Platonism came from his reaction to Roosevelt\u27s politics, this archival study suggests that Weaver was much more pragmatic than his political pronouncements have led scholars, such as Crowley, to believe. Before Weaver wrote polemical works such as To Write the Truth, he operated within the constraints of the philosophically rigid institutional culture of neo-Aristotelianism, and the archival record demonstrates his attenuation to this rhetorical situation. The implications for these findings diminish the effectiveness of his appropriation by political movements that are based in foundationalistic rhetoric. These implications also demonstrate how rhetorical scholarship has utilized the polemical nature of Weaver\u27s writings in the advancement of the professionalization of the discipline. © 2013 Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
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
[Crowley Carnival, 1981]
No full textPhotograph of a large wheel-shaped structure at the entrance to a carnival. A sign at the bottom of the image reads "Texas Revolver", with drawings of a revolver and the Texas flag decorating it. A street light is visible behind the sign. [1981, Crowley, LA
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[Crowley Carnival, 1981]
No full textPhotograph of a large wheel-shaped structure at the entrance to a carnival. A sign at the bottom of the image reads "Texas Revolver", with drawings of a revolver and the Texas flag decorating it. A street light is visible behind the sign. [1981, Crowley, LA
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