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Praler (For reading) - Reading Pleasures: Field for experiencing extension actions in living libraries
No full textPraler - Reading Pleasures, created in 2008 by the Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy of the State of São Paulo, Brazil, is a program that aims at promoting and developing the taste for reading in thriving populations that live in territories of social vulnerability. It is carried out in partnership with organizations interested in implementing and/or expanding reading actions and literature among their public. Mediation strategies vary according to the needs of target groups. SP Leituras - Paulista Association of Libraries and Reading, social organization of culture, has been a partner in the planning, implementing, monitoring and assessing of Praler since 2011.
Praler contributes to stimulating reading and building readerly behaviors, as well as ensuring the practice of cultural democracy in public spaces that are not specifically destined to this end, such as nursing homes, hospitals, orphanages, shelters, health centers, prisons and community organizations. The program counts on the donation of a collection of several publications and serialized interventions conducted by local agents and facilitators experienced in cultural mediation and reading.
Another principle of the program is to work as field for experiencing extension actions of living libraries for more than 700 units included in the São Paulo State System of Public Libraries.
The main goal of the program is to have the library, literature, books and reading as transformation tools for individual processes of social recovery, and for self-esteem and citizenship regain. Mediation actions aim at leaving a legacy of the learning acquired on reading mediation practices to the partner organization. Such learnings may then be reapplied by organizations’ own teams with continuous readerly practice and the free sharing of collections offered.
Specific goals to meet the demands of the organization, based on the needs of their public are established for each new partnership. As qualitative results, the program shows that reading and literature work as tools to create new bonds, promote affective and solidary social relations and stimulate readerly behaviors with a transforming and humanizing perspective of reading and writing, and also stimulate the interest in artistic and cultural production.
Methodologies and mediators are selected according to the target audience, organization and dynamics, and include actions of cultural education and promotion, such as storytelling, courses and workshops of reading mediation and literary production, soirées and slam poetry, among others.
From 2011 to 2020, 332 actions were implemented, with 9,859 participations in 58 different institutions of five municipalities in the State of São Paulo. Assessments with users, managers of the partner organization and facilitators are made in all interventions, with the aim of monitoring quantitative and qualitative results and consolidating the model and its flexibility characteristics to meet the needs aroused in interventions. Analyzing questionnaires is crucial for the process of mutual learning.
To learn more: Praler - Prazeres da Leitura l Vídeo institucional
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Bibliotecas Públicas: respostas em tempos de crise
No full textEvento realizado pela Seção de Bibliotecas Públicas da IFLA em parceria com a FEBAB
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
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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