153 research outputs found
Looking Through a Colored Lens: A Black Librarian’s Narrative
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Konata, La Loria. (2017). Looking Through a Colored Lens: A Black Librarian’s Narrative, In A.M. Deitering, R. Stoddart, and R. Schroeder (Eds.), The Self as Subject: Autoethnographic Research into Identity, Culture, and Academic Librarianship (pp. 115-128). Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries.
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Reinventing Libraries for the Next Generation of Library Users
No full textThe article calls for the need to reinvent libraries for the next generation of library users. It stresses the value of being able to provide customer satisfaction, building and maintaining loyalty as well as resolving customer complaints so as to compete with other libraries. It also points out the importance of branding as a marketing strategy and encourages libraries to adhere to the liaison model or subject specialist model in providing specialized service. Also suggested are steps for marketing library services.This article was originally published in Georgia Library Quarterly. It is posted here with the permission of the author
Reinventing Libraries for the Next Generation of Library Users
No full textThe article calls for the need to reinvent libraries for the next generation of library users. It stresses the value of being able to provide customer satisfaction, building and maintaining loyalty as well as resolving customer complaints so as to compete with other libraries. It also points out the importance of branding as a marketing strategy and encourages libraries to adhere to the liaison model or subject specialist model in providing specialized service. Also suggested are steps for marketing library services
Criminal Law Adoption
No full textThis adoption of Criminal Law by the University of Minnesota was as a result of a Round 17 Textbook Transformation Grant.https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/criminal-collections/1007/thumbnail.jp
Transition to a Liaison Model: Teaching Faculty and Librarian Perceptions
No full textGeorgia State University is a culturally diverse urban institution in downtown Atlanta, with a full-time equivalent enrollment of approximately 15,000. At the heart of this urban and culturally diverse institution is the GSU Pullen Library. The library established a separate collection development department, with several subject bibliographers in the 1970s. When a new university librarian began work in October 1997, each of the five bibliographers dealt with broad subject areas, such as business and science/health science. The bibliographers worked with departmental faculty representatives, also called book chairs, to determine what was needed in the library. Another group of ten librarians worked as reference librarians and, for the most part, had little contact with the teaching faculty. Faculty requesting books contacted one of the bibliographers instead of a reference librarian. The reference librarians’ main duties included working at the reference desk and performing bibliographic instruction when requested; however, relatively few faculty requested instruction classes. The reference and collection development departments operated independently of each other.Published in Urban Library Journal, vol. 11 no. 1 (2001), pp. 28-56
Transition to a Liaison Model: Teaching Faculty and Librarian Perceptions
No full textGeorgia State University is a culturally diverse urban institution in downtown Atlanta, with a full-time equivalent enrollment of approximately 15,000. At the heart of this urban and culturally diverse institution is the GSU Pullen Library. The library established a separate collection development department, with several subject bibliographers in the 1970s. When a new university librarian began work in October 1997, each of the five bibliographers dealt with broad subject areas, such as business and science/health science. The bibliographers worked with departmental faculty representatives, also called book chairs, to determine what was needed in the library. Another group of ten librarians worked as reference librarians and, for the most part, had little contact with the teaching faculty. Faculty requesting books contacted one of the bibliographers instead of a reference librarian. The reference librarians’ main duties included working at the reference desk and performing bibliographic instruction when requested; however, relatively few faculty requested instruction classes. The reference and collection development departments operated independently of each other
Connecting Diversity to Management: Further Insights
No full textIt has long been noted that libraries need more diversity in the professional ranks. This situation is now critical with baby boomers soon to retire leaving millennials, who are more racially and ethnically diverse, as the next majority population. The profession will need to recruit a more significant number of millennials to the profession if libraries are to resemble the communities they serve. To get an idea of the current status of management diversity in libraries, managers/supervisors of ARL libraries—in states that contain the highest number of minorities in population—were randomly selected for a survey. Participants in ARL’s LCDP were also selected as a comparative group since they are minorities identified with leadership potential. Both groups were asked about diversity in their libraries as well as what skills are needed to reach a managerial position. This data in combination with a survey of the literature of diversity in libraries and the business sector allow the authors to present recommendations for increasing the number of minorities in the profession as well as integrating diversity in management
Connecting Diversity to Management: A Study of Career Development Patterns of Library Managers in Selected ARL Member Libraries and ARL LCDP Participants
No full textThis study focuses on diversity in library management. The impetus for our study is based on Thomas and Ely’s Paradigms for Managing Diversity. The first paradigm addresses the “discrimination-and-fairness” issues in business management and measures success in diversity initiatives in terms of how well a company does in recruitment and retention of minority employees. This paradigm aims to increase the number of minorities employed and correct any discrimination and unfairness in the hiring and promotion process. The Spectrum Scholars Initiative is a good example of this. The second paradigm focuses on the aspects of “access-and-legitimacy” of workforce diversity. Employees are hired because of their multicultural or bilingual abilities to serve the clientele better. The third paradigm includes the first and second paradigms but goes beyond those two widely accepted approaches and focuses on “learning-and-effectiveness”. This paradigm connects diversity to management and personnel development perspectives and seeks to integrate cultural backgrounds and skills as necessary strategy for organizational development in order to maintain competitiveness in an economy of globalization
EVASIONI ALLO SPECCHIO: EVOLUZIONE E ASPETTI DELLA NARRATIVA DI ARTURO LORIA DAI PRIMI INEDITI A "LA SCUOLA DI BALLO"
No full textThe stories written by Arturo Loria (1902-1957) in the first half of the Twenties are mostly inedited and little studied. Through their analysis, therefore, I aim at presenting the first comprehensive research on the development of his narrative from his debut until the publication of his third and last volume, “La scuola di ballo”.
The first of the three periods in which I have divided his oeuvre comprises seventeen stories written between the end of 1920 and the middle of 1922. Displaying homogeneous characters and situations and a pervasive rhetoric of excess and delirium that connects Loria's work to the melodrama and the Gothic tales, these stories reveal in their succession a conscious design of the writer. Since the very beginning his art seems to be retreated into itself thus mirroring its condition in society.
Between 1922 and 1926, Loria develops his narrative in a coherent way. His stories are characterized by a growing process of desublimation that eventually leads to the picaresque tales of “Il cieco e la Bellona”. At the same time, he also experiments new solutions and different narrative genres.
The second chapter, divided into three parts, is dedicated to the analysis of the genesis and structure of the collections: “Il cieco e la Bellona” (1928), “Fannias Ventosca” (1929) and “La scuola di ballo” (1932). The study of archive material (edited and inedited) gives information on the volumes that is largely unknown. The analysis of the structure, for example, demonstrates that Loria aimed at creating a cohesive work: “books of stories”, and not simple anthologies. This hypothesis seems to find evidence in the transformation that the texts undergo in the passage from review to volume. Building up thick plots of connections among the different stories and giving importance to their disposition, Loria uses the structure of his work as a rhetoric device to direct the attention of the reader towards certain aspects of his narration. He also uses it to multiply and deepen the symbolic scope of his stories. Moreover, the study on the genesis of the publications leads to the identification of two distinct phases of the Lorian narrative in “Il cieco e la Bellona” and in “La scuola di ballo”, with “Fannias Ventosca” being the collection of transition.
The object of the third chapter is the in-depth analysis of the evolution of the narrative and of the poetics of the author. In it I consider the way in which similar situations and characters, in particular the meeting between the protagonist and an old lady, are repeated over and over again. The comparison of analogous elements in texts belonging to different phases highlights that this repetitive duress is referable only in part to an obsessive matrix. Indeed, the reiteration of elements often reveals the high degree of awareness with which Loria reflected on his stories and on himself through them. It is a stratagem to enshrine in his volumes both his autobiography and the “biography” of his writing technique. This incessant reflection is related ultimately to the modern conscience of the crisis of the subject and of reality: a crisis that in the first half of the Twenties manifests itself mainly in the refusal of it, while in the second phase it assumes the form of an unsolved dialectic between enchantment and disenchantment.
It is possible to find Utopian nostalgia and cruel observation of the evil especially in the ambiguous relationships that the narrators build with the grotesque characters and with the eccentric events that involve them. At a certain point, however, the adventurous plots of “Il cieco e la Bellona” disappear and the author focuses his attention on the sensations and the impressions of characters paralyzed by a castrating awareness of their own self.
In the fourth and last chapter I ponder some aspects of the evolution of his narrative mode to show how over the three volumes the voice of the narrator becomes less and less audible and how the diegesis shifts decisively into mimesis. Additionally, I underline how the modernity of contents is not mirrored in the forms of expression. Unable to conceive his own art if not in ways which Loria himself perceived as non-topical, with his stories the author seems to have constantly given life to metaphors of crisis
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