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Plenary session poster presentations at Rollins of Jonathan Miller and Anthony B. Major
No full textJonathan Miller and Anthony B. Majorhttps://scholarship.rollins.edu/communities_conference/1092/thumbnail.jp
Jonathan Miller: Custom Energy Bar Entrepreneur Pitches Sharks
No full textJonathan Miller appeared in September 2009 on “Shark Tank,” the ABC television reality show featuring entrepreneurs versus angel investors in a discussion of the business value proposition and to win a negotiation for an investment from one of the 4 Sharks. The company he founded, Element Bars, a maker of custom energy bars, needed investment capital. Prior to appearing on the show, Miller had considered several financing options available to entrepreneurs: loans and other debt capital and equity capital, each of which are evaluated in the case. Miller had a good feel for the different types of capital to use for this new venture, having started several ventures in the past and winning the Kellogg School of Management business plan competition, the Kellogg Cup, in 2008. The case includes Miller's decision to forego the investment offer he won on television, instead he pursued lower cost of capital equity.Students several aspects of raising capital, including raising equity and debt capital. Students need to learn to know as much or more about fundraising as the professionals who provide the capital-in fact, entrepreneurs have to understand the interaction among combinations of capital within their enterprise-whether debt and/or equity in different combinations. Often, teaching about equity relates to teaching how venture capital investment professionals look at deploying funds. Receiving equity into the entrepreneurial firm has much different attributes and issues. Teaching about debt often occurs at much higher volumes in typical MBA courses; this entrepreneurial debt must occur at a much smaller dollar value. This protagonist, Jonathan Miller, has exceptional preparation habits, which teaches students the value of the skills to prepare themselves and their businesses for investment.</jats:p
Interview with Jonathan Miller
Full text linkGrowing up in England, Jonathan Miller never imagined he would become a librarian. He first attended the University of Sheffield, where he earned his BA in Political Theory & Institutions in 1983. After spending his 20’s living on three continents, working in all kinds of jobs, and meeting and marrying Bethany Hicok, he decided to pursue his Master of Library Science degree, which he received from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1992.
Miller began his career in academic librarianship in Columbus, Ohio, where he served as the Head of Access Service of the Prior Health Science Library of the Ohio State University for four years. After a short stint as the Project Director of the Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems at the University of Iowa’s Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, he became the Automated Services Librarian at the Augustana College Library in Rock Island, Illinois, where he rose to become deputy director and then library director. In 2002, Miller became the Head of Hillman Public Services at the University of Pittsburgh while pursuing his PhD on the development of the US copyright law. In 2006, he was named the Olin Library Director of Rollins College.
At Olin, Miller led new rounds of strategic planning, which generated a redefined library mission and renewed focus on proving “exceptional services, information resources and a welcoming environment for the Rollins community.” Under his leadership, the library’s administrative structure has been reorganized, access to electronic resources substantially improved, technical service work streamlined, reference services reconfigured, departmental budgets consolidated, the main floor space was renovated, and Olin Library has also engaged in a multi-year project of weeding out obsolete materials to better serve the evolving needs of the curriculum. The relationship between the library and Information Technology has deepened, and the Tutoring & Writing Center was brought into Olin and the library’s administration in 2013. In addition, sustained efforts have been made to enhance library users’ experiences with systematic assessment and data-driven decision making. In 2013, as a result of all these initiatives, Olin Library received the Excellence in the Academic Libraries Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).
Besides his administrative responsibilities, Miller has taught a Rollins Conference Course titled The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: An Introduction to the History of Recorded Information, while his scholarship has focused primarily on open access, library management and copyright history. He is also active in the library profession nationwide, serving on various ACRL committees and the Oberlin Group Coordinating Committee, among others
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Book Review: Jonathan Miller – One Thing and Another: Selected Writings 1954-2016 edited by Ian Greaves, Oberon Books, 2017
No full text‘In the end “one thing and another” is all I’ve ever been interested in’, writes Jonathan Miller in the foreword to this fascinating new collection of his various writings, spanning seven decades. Miller is a little dismissive in the foreword, describing the various pieces collected here as ‘an assortment of life-long obsessions and passing fancies’; the product of a magpie mind. But whether Miller recognises it or not, ‘one thing and another’ is quite an appropriate phrase for encapsulating a key theme that emerges from this book - Miller’s constant movement between two different orders of discourse and his frequent efforts to use ‘one thing’ in order to try to understand ‘another’
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Still Art Paintings
No full textTwo-minute segment features three paintings by various artists: Mark David Robinson of Mobile, Alabama and a portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Danielle DeMetz of Pass Christian, Mississippi and a still-life of a shrimp boat; and Jonathan Miller of Pace, Florida with a still-life of a bushel of apples
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