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Looking for a Tale? Hector Lee Was the Man to Ask
No full textFolklore is an important part of the American West. It can be a window into our past that helps us better understand the present. Sometimes folklore can become part of our everyday life and customs. Folklore can also help us understand the history of a community and why places have nicknames, reputations, or stories behind them. The California Folklore Miscellany at Sonoma State University and Dr. Hector Lee???s legacy provide an opportunity for scholars, historians, and students to see how historical events and issues played out on a local scale
Librarian Roeder Digs Deep Into Justi Papers
No full textWalter H. Roeder is an invaluable volunteer at the Sonoma State University Library Archives, and assists the library by helping to organize, sort, and evaluate historic collections and donations to the Library. Walter has worked with the Leopold Justi Papers during the last ten years and is intimately familiar with its stories
(Poster) If We Move It Will They Come? Moving the DVD Collection in an Academic Library
No full textIn 2012 the Sonoma State University Library found itself in a 215,000 square foot building with multiple service points and a limited number of employees to cover all the service desks. A study was made and it was determined that the media desk could be consolidated and rolled into the circulation desk. All non DVD media (cassettes, record albums, and VHS tapes) would be stored in the library???s automated retrieval system. All DVDs would migrate to open stacks in a central location in the library. Decisions had to be made about what the open stack area would look like, how the items would be secured, when would the ???conversion??? take place (with the least amount of interruption to the user), how and who would make the conversion, and how would call numbers be changed from accession numbers to Library of Congress call numbers? Another important question ??? would the change make a difference in usage statistics? This poster highlights some of the considerations the library had to take into account, what changes were made and summarizes usage statistics after the change
Biz of Acq ??? Where???s the Backlog?
No full textAgainst the Grain LLC, Charleston, SCThe Sonoma State University Library has managed to reduce the time it takes to add an item to the collection from several months to a couple of weeks. By following the principle of handling the materials as few times as possible, and training staff to accomplish a variety of functions when handling the materials, we are able to work smarter rather than harder and free up staff time for other projects
The effect of construction activity on SPA waterfowl: a case study of the Abberton Reservoir Enhancement Scheme
Get PDFAbberton Reservoir Essex, covering 4.85km2, is a water storage reservoir and is designated a Ramsar site, Special Protection Area (SPA) and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). In order to meet predicted increases in water demand, large scale construction works to raise the water level of the Main Section and consequently increase the storage capacity, were undertaken between 2010 and 2013. Construction work primarily involved breaking out 12km (7.4 miles) of concrete apron and perimeter road, raising the main dam by 3.2m and extensive shoreline re-profiling. This provided a unique and valuable opportunity to explore the effects of disturbance associated with construction activity on the spatial distribution of waterfowl. Nine species, all SPA interest features, were chosen as a basis for this study, the dabblers Anas strepera (Gadwall), A. clypeata (Shoveler), A. crecca (Teal) and A. penelope (Wigeon), divers Aythya fuligula (Tufted Duck), A. ferina (Pochard) and Fulica atra (Coot), the herbivorous Cygnus olor (Mute Swan) and the piscivorous Podicepts cristatus (Great Crested Grebe).
As a consequence of both the reservoir’s importance to waterfowl and planning regulations, extensive waterfowl surveys were undertaken pre-construction and used to assess and predict the potential impacts arising from construction activity. Findings were used in the overall consideration of the development, with analysis determining appropriate mitigation measures which were subsequently incorporated into project design to ensure there would be no adverse impacts upon the integrity of the site. Waterfowl surveys continued throughout the four year construction period (2010 – 2013) and together with four years of pre-construction survey data (2006 – 2009), were used to make comparisons between the two periods. The spatial and temporal distribution analysis formed the first part of this research and provided a baseline from which to assess the effects of disturbance. The second part used a novel approach to assess the extent and magnitude of disturbance from construction activity on the SPA waterfowl species, with changes in distribution assessed against baseline data and in relation to environmental variables including water depth, percentage cover of macrophyte and distance to the shoreline. Finally, the success of mitigation measures to ensure no adverse impacts and overall enhancement of the site were investigated with respect to the use of created displacement habitat by waterfowl and in relation to measures to minimise construction disturbance.
Numbers and distributions of all nine SPA species varied throughout the study period with numbers of waterfowl significantly increasing on the Main Section during construction. In contrast, although not directly subject to construction activity, the smaller Central Section suffered disturbance effects with the most significant decline seen for Tufted Duck. A general decline in over-wintering numbers of Tufted Duck was also observed. Findings show that the most important environmental variables determining distribution of the dabbling species was shallow water, with an increase in this habitat as a result of construction works, of particular benefit to Gadwall, Shoveler and Teal. Tufted Duck were found to be associated with deeper water and along with Pochard and Great Crested Grebe, were significantly related to areas containing high macrophyte cover.
While results show some disturbance responses and evidence for a 200m zone of disturbance impact, the continued success and maintenance of site integrity during construction is attributed to the size of the reservoir complex (which in itself acted as a mitigating factor). The employed mitigation measures were also deemed successful and instrumental in reducing the extent and magnitude of disturbance. This is the first time research has related the extent and magnitude of construction activity to the spatial distribution of protected waterfowl species and provided an assessment against substantial baseline data. This research provides evidence for a sensitive and science based approach to development where extensive monitoring has enabled the much needed, but often lacking, reporting of mitigation in relation to development induced impacts
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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