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Picturing Canada: A history of Canadian children's illustrated books and publishing
No full textBeginnings to the 1890s : Canadian children's books in the imperial era -- The 1890s to the 1950s : 'and whether we are yet a nation' -- The postwar period : creating a children's publishing industry -- The 1970s : developing a children's publishing industry -- The 1980s : the flowering of Canadian children's illustrated books -- The 1990s to the present day : structural challenges and changes -- Children's illustrated books, 1990 to the present day -- Canadian cultural identity, Canadian cultural identities
Picturing Canada: The changing face of children's book illustration in Canada (Lecture)
Get PDFPresented at the 11th annual Sybille Pantazzi Memorial Lecture, Toronto, Canada (October 17, 2017). In the lecture, “Picturing Canada: The Changing Face of Children’s Book Illustration in Canada,” Dr. Gail Edwards and Professor Judith Saltman explore change and continuity in the history of children’s publishing in Canada by looking at the picture books that the publishers have issued, and consider the challenges and rewards of publishing for children in a rapidly evolving global environment, focusing on the ways that image and text in Canadian picture books provide Canadian children with the opportunity to see their everyday lives and communities, and introduce them to ideas about region, about place, about history, about identity and belonging in a diverse, complex country. The first part of the lecture was based on research for Picturing Canada. Individual titles were located and present mini case studies in the evolution of the communications circuit of children's publishing in Canada over the last 150 years. The final section of the lecture was an informal dialogue about the transformation of the children's publishing industry in the last decade in response to changes in the retail book trade, new digital media, increasing globalization based on current individual and joint research.
Accompanying the lecture was a PowerPoint presentation that incorporated visual material from the book, Picturing Canada as well as book covers and illustrations from more recent publications. Due to copyright the PowerPoint presentation is not available. The book Picturing Canada is available in the Douglas Library collection.Not peer reviewe
Elizabeth Cleaver, William Toye, and Oxford University Press: Creating the Canadian picturebook
Get PDFIn a series of four Aboriginal stories published in the late I960s and early 1970s by Oxford University Press Canada, William Toye, the influential editor at the Press, and Elizabeth Cleaver, artist and illustrator, worked together to create the first full-colour
picturebooks with identifiable Canadian themes and images. This fruitful collaboration between Toye and Cleaver, and its role in nurturing Cleaver's career as an innovative children's book illustrator, is an important part of the history of the development of Canadian children's book publishing.Peer reviewedfinal article publishe
Towards a history of design in Canadian children's illustrated books
Get PDFThis paper places the development of design in Canadian children's illustrated books within the broader history of graphic design and general book design in Canada. The influence of Walter Crane and William Morris's Arts and Crafts movement in the nineteenth century had a long period of influence on Canadian book design. In the mid-twentieth century, the International Style held sway. Throughout the 1950s and into the 1970s, a generation of book designers converged with the emergence of specialist publishing for children. Notable children's book designers such as Frank Newfeld, publishers such as William Toye, Patsy Aldana, and May Cutler, and designer Michael Solomon moved illustrated children's book design into innovative territory. The paper considers the question of whether there is an identifiable Canadian design style in picture books and examines the house styles of seminal publishers.Peer reviewedfinal article publishe
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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