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Authors: Imogen Forbes-Macphail (2013-12) - John Ruskin once stated that the artistic imagination ‘works not by algebra, nor by integral calculus.’Citation1 This article, however, will explore the relationship between poetry and mathematics in the nineteenth century, the influence of algebra (and even integral calculus) on the imagination of writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the poetic aspirations of mathematicians such as Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. Although the notion of the ‘Two Cultures’ (C. P. Snow) is increasingly falling under scrutiny and criticism,Citation2 the perceived dichotomy between the arts and the sciences nevertheless remains entrenched in our education system, intellectual culture, and in academia.
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Authors: Claire Hansen (2013-12) - In Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, Friar Jacomo—suspicious of her second conversion to Christianity—demands of Abigail: ‘Who taught thee this?’ In so doing, the Friar voices Marlowe’s interest in the experiential learning patterns of his female characters. This article uses Chris Argyris and Donald A. Schön’s learning theories to examine patterns of female learning and agency within the patriarchal power structures of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine I and II, The Jew of Malta, and Edward the Second.
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Authors: Đinh Quang Trung (2023-05) - Hoạt động tiêu chuẩn hóa đóng một vai trò quan trọng trong việc định hình quá trình chuyển đổi số (CĐS), mang lại cơ hội cho công nghệ số, bổ sung cho các quy định quản lý tác động đến quá trình CĐS.
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Authors: Serene Lin-Stephens; Josette M. Kubicki; Fiona Jones; Martin J. Whiting; John Uesi; Matthew W. Bulbert (2019) - Given that graduate employment is a clear outcome of education
success, there is an urgent need to conceptualize course
design strategically to maximize students’ chances of employment.
In this paper, we present an Australian case study in
which we used a structured career information literacy learning
approach to build employability in a biological sciences
capstone course, through collaboration between the university
library, academics, and career service. We report the context,
method, measurement, outcomes of collaboration, and roles
of contributors in this partnership. This case study lends itself
to potential ways of incorporating career information literacy
into an academic context.
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Authors: Lily Todorinova; Maria Ortiz-Myers (2019) - This study engages public services librarians and librarians in
administrative or managerial positions in a conversation about
LGBTQ student needs. Using a sample from the Campus Pride
Index’s Best 25 LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities, the
researchers gathered information regarding outreach, collections,
facilities, services, and policies for LGBTQ students. The
results of this survey suggest that, while there is a great deal
of support for LGBTQ students among librarians, the Campus
Pride criteria is not entirely being met. There is an unclear
delineation between the role of the library in promoting
LGBTQ friendliness, and the role of the larger university, which
may be related to the uncertain position of the library in the
campus environment. However, the empat...
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Authors: Beth Heldebrandt; Stacey Knight Davis; J.J. Pionke; Andrew Cougill (2019) - Exhibits in academic libraries are drivers for outreach. Many
exhibit programs center on national traveling exhibits often
because they are well done and already completed. The only
input necessary from a host institution is space and a small
amount of time to put up the exhibit. Locally made exhibits create
a stronger connection to the community, but they are more
expensive in terms of time for research and creating the exhibit,
and money for printing. The adage “many hands make light
work” accurately describes the local exhibit creation process
when multiple groups come together. Partnerships between
libraries to share exhibit content broaden the Pool of exhibit
possibilities and raise awareness of exhibit programs for all
partners. In this case, an exhibit at the Univ...
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Authors: Marisha Lecea; Maria A. Perez-Stable (2019) - The purpose of this case study was to ascertain if college students’
information literacy improves through a faculty-librarian
collaboration involving a session of library instruction as part
of a regular political science course. The authors conducted
two surveys to determine if in-person library instruction
increases students’ research abilities. The authors surveyed
political science faculty to discover their attitudes toward
library research instruction. They also surveyed political science
students to gauge their opinions on the value of library
instruction and to see if there is a connection between their
research proficiencies and instruction by a librarian. Through
this case study, the authors found that such instruction does
improve information literacy. The res...
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Authors: Christina Riehman-Murphy; Emily Mross (2019) - Reports of college students using the library for spiritual practices,
including prayer and meditation, consist mainly of anecdotal
observations, news stories, or press releases about the
creation of such spaces within academic libraries. Driven by
their own experiences with students using library spaces for
prayer, the authors examined how prevalent this was across
US academic institutions. Using a large-scale national survey,
this study found library professionals observe a wide range of
student prayer behavior in a variety of library spaces, regardless
of institutional or campus demographics. The results
provide academic libraries with evidence to support accommodating
students’ spiritual needs in library spaces.
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Authors: Katya Jordan (2019) - In his final novel, Virgin Soil (1877), Turgenev takes up the theme of the particular kind of populism (Narodnichestvo) that swept across the European part of Russia in the 1860s and 70s. Critics on both ends of the political spectrum believed that Virgin Soil failed to truthfully depict the populist movement; however, the novel provides an important cultural commentary that heretofore has been overlooked. Turgenev explores the theme of fractured father-son relationships and masterfully exposes the nature of political dissent in Russia. He conceptualises Russian radical intelligentsia as a natural son of an enlightened patriarch, thus questioning the long-standing tradition of viewing the Russian tsar as a father to his people.
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Authors: José M. Yebra (2018) - In keeping with the current ethical turn in humanities, this paper analyses Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary as a literary testimony of post-Levinasian relationality. Such relationality – whereby the One and the Other both meet, ‘emasculate’ and give meaning to each other – draws on vulnerability. That is, the novella shows that to be human is to be exposed and vulnerable to the Other. This is not necessarily negative because such exposure relies on the ethics of care that Mary performs particularly with her neighbour Farina, her cousin Mary, Jesus and Lazarus. Indeed, the wounds both men suffer are not only traumatic symptoms, but also relational meeting points. Hence, the article proves that wound ethics (vulnerability being the etymological root of the wound) is recast into in...
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