bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Problematics of Direct Elections for Local Head after the Amendment of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia
Authors: Noor M. Tauchid , Kamarudin Kamarudin
Published: June 2017

The amendment of the 1945 Constitution sets that governors, regents, and local mayors are democratic in their election, originally selected by the legislative assembly and latterly sifted into direct election from the people. Based on the regulation No. 22 of 2007, it states that the election of local leader and co-leader is characterized as the part of general election regime, and thus it brings impact on local election, which should run directly as well. This article examines the arising problems on local election after the amendment of the 1945 Constitution, which reveals various problematic factors in the implementation of direct election for local head has been officially established. Indonesia has run local election many times in different eras, including in Dutch colonialism, Japan colonialism, and post-independence era. In post-independence era, Indonesia also has various political climates and traditions and including Old Order, New Order, and reformation era. The alteration of this general election system aims to provide fair democracy for all people to vote for their local leaders. The implementation, however, encounters several factors and problems derived from the level of participation up to the readiness of local election committee.
Model of Thailand Speech Intelligibility (T-SI) in the Large Classrooms from Public University
Authors: Leeniva Pasit , Upala Prapatpong
Published: June 2017

The objectives of this research are to evaluate acoustic environments and to forecast STI values from spatial component variables in the large classrooms of the Thai public university that were specially controlled the same room finishing materials including the floor, walls, and ceiling. Whereas the five spatial component factors included (1) Room Volume (RV), (2) Ceiling Height (CH), (3) the Ratio of Depth to Width (Rdw), (4) Total Room Surface (TS), and (5) Percentage of Absorbing Surface areas (PAS). The research tools were the smartphones that used the applications for acoustical evaluation and speech intelligibility analysis. The Speech Transmission Index (STI), Reverberation Time (RT), and Background Noise Level (BNL) were collected by the calibrated microphone in the nine points distributed across the entire room. And also, the sounds for testing were simulated such as balloon burst, and STIPA signal via a sound generator. The Thailand Speech Intelligibility (T-SI) model was developed by the multiple regression analysis with a statistical at a confidence level of 95%.The results showed that this T-SI model depended on the strongly positive relationship of PAS and the slightly positive relationship of CH, TS while the RV, Rdw were slightly the negative relationship and which predicted STI values. Moreover, the highest affecting variable of T-SI model was CH and the lowest was PAS. However, this research implies that the improving room acoustic quality would be adjusting the sound absorbing surface areas i.e., increase the cloth curtain or appropriate methods.
Frailty syndrome in community care – tips for patients and caregivers
Authors: Soll Aneta , Szwamel Katarzyna , Bujnowska-Fedak Maria Magdalena , Kurpas Donata
Published: June 2017

Zespół słabości (ZS) jest dynamicznym stanem charakteryzującym się zmniejszeniem fizjologicznych rezerw organizmu, osłabieniem odporności na czynniki stresogenne oraz zaburzeniami funkcjonowania układów ciała. W ZS dochodzi do zmniejszenia masy ciała i siły mięśniowej, problemów z poruszaniem się, utrzymaniem równowagi oraz do zmniejszenia aktywności fizycznej. Wyróżniamy trzy stadia zespołu słabości: wczesny ZS (pre- -frail), zespół słabości (frail) oraz powikłania zespołu słabości. Głównym czynnikiem ryzyka wystąpienia ZS jest wiek podeszły, ale znaczenie mają również czynniki genetyczne, środowiskowe, styl życia oraz choroby współistniejące. Do rozpoznania ZS stosuje się m.in. skalę Frieda, Rockwooda oraz GF I (Groningen Frailty Index). Podstawą profilaktyki ZS jest regularna aktywność fizyczna, łącząca ćwiczenia aerobowe, siłowe i rozciągające. Podkreśla się także rolę diety zawierającą produkty bogate w białko, witaminy, zwłaszcza witaminę D oraz leucynę i kwasy omega-3. Poza tym należy zwrócić uwagę na suplementację witaminy D, leczenie chorób współistniejących oraz wykonywanie szczepień ochronnych zapobiegających chorobom zakaźnym. Ogromną rolę w profilaktyce i zapobieganiu powikłaniom tej choroby odgrywa rodzina i opiekunowie osób w wieku podeszłym, którzy powinni zwrócić uwagę na pierwsze jej symptomy oraz podjąć działania minimalizujące ryzyko wystąpienia ZS oraz spowalniające przebieg choroby. null
O SIMBOLISMO NAS SENTENÇAS PENAIS CONDENATÓRIA E ABSOLUTÓRIA E O PROCESSO PENAL BRASILEIRO PÓS-CONSTITUIÇÃO FEDERAL DE 1988
Authors: Da Silva Fernando Laercio Alves , Marques Leonardo Augusto Marinho
Published: June 2017

A promulgação da Constituição Federal de 1988 configurou o compromisso formal do Estado Brasileiro com a submissão de suas estruturas a um novo princípio fundante: o princípio do Estado Democrático de Direito. Essa nova realidade exige a revisitação dos diversos campos de atuação estatal a fim de verificar o grau de sua compatibilização com ela e, sendo o caso, a promoção das reformas necessárias. No que tange ao campo do processo penal, ainda hoje de base inquisitorial, absoluta é sua dissonância da Constituição. Necessário, portanto, um profundo esforço para a remodelação de suas bases a partir do marco teórico processual estabelecido no texto constitucional: o chamado modelo constitucional de processo. Esse esforço deve ser conduzido em três frentes de atuação: a reformulação integral do Código de Processo Penal, a revisitação do papel dos sujeitos processuais e o abandono de termos e conceitos técnicos de origem inquisitorial e cujo uso corrente dificulta a superação dessa mentalidade. Nesse contexto, no presente artigo investiga-se se as expressões sentença condenatória e sentença absolutória encontram-se nesse último grupo e, sendo esse o caso, quais seriam as alterações necessárias para pôr fim ao impacto simbólico que sua manutenção tem ocasionado na realidade processual penal brasileira.
A APELAÇÃO CIVIL NO DIREITO ROMANO DA ÉPOCA DOS SEVEROS COMO BASE DO PERFIL ATUAL DA APELAÇÃO CIVIL NOS ORDENAMENTOS JURÍDICOS ATUAIS
Authors: Roque Nathaly Campitelli
Published: June 2017

O presente artigo tem como objetivo verificar se a feição vigente do instituto da apelação, em especial nos ordenamentos brasileiro e português, ainda conserva traços do antigo instituto da apellatio romana, decorrente da cognitio extra ordinem da época dos Severos (séculos II e III d.C.). 
CONFLITOS COLETIVOS DE TRABALHO: IMPLICAÇÕES INSTITUCIONAIS E EVIDÊNCIAS EMPÍRICAS SOBRE A GREVE DOS BOMBEIROS MILITARES DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO
Authors: Coutinho Leonardo da Silva Sayonara Grillo , Gondim Thiago Patrício
Published: June 2017

A greve pode ser considerada um modo de exteriorização de conflitos laborais, sendo utilizada como instrumento de protesto, denúncia e pressão. Como fato social é recebida pelo direito por meio de processos de absorção em fatos jurídicos, sob diferenciadas perspectivas, tais como de criminalização, de proibição, de reconhecimento, de garantia ou promoção. No Brasil, embora a Constituição acolha a greve como direito, não se reconhece tal direito aos membros das forças armadas e funcionários públicos classificados como militares. Não obstante, como as greves de bombeiros e policiais tem sido recorrentes no Brasil, o artigo reflete sobre os modos pelos quais os conflitos coletivos de trabalhadores subtraídos dos direitos de greve e de sindicalização se manifestam, como são construídos e denominados pelos próprios integrantes, quais formas associativas e atores coletivos surgem para representá-los e que formas de luta são desenvolvidas. Para tanto, examina o movimento paredista dos bombeiros militares do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, ocorrido em 2011, cujas reivindicações principais giravam em torno de melhores condições laborais e de remuneração, com ênfase nas dinâmicas institucionais e respostas dadas pelo sistema jurídico brasileiro, a partir de uma perspectiva interdisciplinar e análise de fontes primárias e secundárias, em especial de documentos produzidos pelas associações de bombeiros e instâncias administrativas, legislativas e judiciais.
Talkin’ ‘bout my generation: Exploring age-related resources
Authors: Lowe Sidney , Skarl Susie
Published: June 2017

In the past few years, as technology has radically changed how we find and use information resources, library staff have begun to notice significant generational differences in the information-seeking behavior of library patrons. These frequent observations at the reference desk and in library instruction classes planted the first small seeds of our interest in this topic. Internet sites and online articles about generational differences are plentiful and focus on a wide range of subjects, such as learning styles, social behaviors, moral values, technological skills, marketing, communication, and workplace performance.
Generational categories are based on the time period in which a . . .
ACRL in Chicago: ACRL programs at the ALA Annual Conference
Authors:   American Library Association
Published: June 2017

ALA’s 128th Annual Conference was held July 9–15, 2009, in Chicago. Approximately 28,941 librarians, library support staff, exhibitors, writers, educators, publishers, and special guests attended the conference. Ed. note: Thanks to the ACRL members who summarized programs to make this report possible.
Advocacy in today’s environment
Now, more than ever, advocacy is a critical skill for all librarians and was the theme of Erika Linke’s ACRL presidency. At the 2009 ACRL President’s Program, “Advocacy in Today’s Environment,” Stephanie Vance and other experts in advocacy—Prue Adler (associate executive director of the Association of Research Libraries), Emily Sheketoff (ALA associate . . .
Assignment Research Calculator: Designing and implementing a customized product to reach your students
Authors: Fusich Monica , Magee Jane , Thomas Elisabeth A.
Published: June 2017

The original Assignment Calculator from the University of Minnesota is a free open-source tool which helps students manage time and organize the steps of a research project.1 It provides a schedule and timeline for each step, and includes tips and outside links to more information. The head of instruction and outreach services in the Henry Madden Library recognized the value of this popular tool, but felt we could expand on its potential for students and faculty here at California State University-Fresno. We accomplished this by tailoring it to our own library and campus resources, staff and services, thus making it . . .
Ten tips toward tenure: Advice for the professional journey
Authors: Houdyshell Mara L.
Published: June 2017

The day I received my letter of recommendation for tenure and promotion, I was surprised. Surprised, but not for the myriad reasons one might conjure. While I was fairly certain that the outcome would be positive, there was still that last bit of nagging doubt until I saw it in print.
When the letter arrived, naturally I felt relief; I felt happy. But there was another feeling that I hadn’t expected. I felt like I belonged; the kind of belonging that a child feels when they are invited to come and sit at the adults’ dinner table. I felt taller . . .
C&RL Spotlight
Authors: Kaspar Wendi
Published: June 2017

With each journal issue, I try to provide some cohesion and sense-making of the topics covered. The articles in the May 2017 issue are so diverse in terms of topic, content, method, and approach that it is impossible to put them under one umbrella—a reality that actually excites me. I remember reading each after it was submitted and being very excited to see the variety innovative approaches. It was a bit of a challenge to match them up with peer reviewers who could address the individuality of each paper and provide helpful and relevant feedback about the research framework, the methods, the results and potential impact to scholarship or practice. It represents the range of research in the profession as well as demonstrates the variety of expertise and knowledge of our reviewers, who volunteer their time and efforts for the benefit of not just the journal but scholarship in the profession.
IN THE CONTEXTS OF THE POSSIBLE: LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS AS INCENDIARY CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS
Authors: Carr David
Published: June 2017

Great cultural institutions—incendiary cultural institutions—feed flames that illuminate the human capacity to imagine the possible. When we consider our institutions as dramatic stages or provocative forums—places where human beings present themselves to each other, act to change their cognitive lives, perform the passions of their searches, frame their hopeful inquiries, tentatively assert their aspirations—we begin to understand that we preside over a place where something essential and revolutionary goes on. But what situations for learning could live up to the metaphor of flame and fire¿̣ What would such an institution be¿̣ How might an incendiary cultural . . .
Thoughts on Special Collections and Our Research Communities
Authors: Blouin Francis X.
Published: June 2017

Toward the end of August in 2009, a van pulled up to the loading dock of the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. Book trucks were unloaded and moved into the stacks. Then we began to load those trucks, shelf by shelf, so that the entire contents of the cataloged printed collection of the Bentley would pass through the scanning operation of what we know as the “Google project.” In five weeks, about ninety percent of the cataloged titles would be fully scanned. Those out of copyright would be available online. Those in copyright would be searchable. Problems . . .
Editor’s Note
Authors: Whittaker Beth M.
Published: June 2017

In some ways, the articles in this issue (all of which, perhaps coincidentally, are the result of double-blind peer review) relate to the question of how we provide access to the materials in our collections. I believe their variety underscores how many, if not most, of the challenges we face in the work of developing and preserving collections are, in essence, challenges of access. This is apparent, of course, when we discuss uncataloged backlogs, but I believe the articles in this journal help us see the “hidden collections” component of many other challenges as well.
E.J. Carter discusses what constitutes . . .
Andrew Pettegree. The Book in the Renaissance. Hew Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 421p. ISBN 978-0-300-11009-8. $40
Authors: Stevens Norman D.
Published: June 2017

It is ironic, as Pettegree points out in his “A Note on Sources” (353–56), that it has been the enormous growth of information about early printed books available through the Internet that has made this, by far the most significant publication yet on the social history of the book, possible. As outstanding and important as Lucian Febvre and Henry-Jean Martin’s groundbreaking The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1458–1800 (1976) and Elizabeth Eisenstein’s The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (1979) and her subsequent The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (1983) were, this masterpiece . . .
David D. Hall. Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth Century New England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 233 p. ISBN 978-0812241020. $49.95
Authors: Garrison Wade
Published: June 2017

Expanded from a series of three lectures given in 2007, Hall describes the political, social, and cultural forces that influenced modes of authorship, publishing, and dissemination in 17th-century New England. Separate, but not wholly apart, Hall delineates how writing in New England developed along a different trajectory from the center of the English-speaking world in London. Hall begins by asserting that two keys to understanding New England’s text-making culture have been undervalued. The first is the essentially collaborative culture of how texts were written, spoken, shared, transcribed, annotated, and rewritten. The second is the fundamentally handwritten or scribal practices that . . .
Editor’s Note
Authors: Whittaker Beth
Published: June 2017

The articles in this issue of RBM represent the variety of experiences special collections professionals face as we confront, as library administrators are fond of saying, “the new normal” of reduced resources and increased expectations.
Anne Bahde explores how to provide access to “the stuff,” actual historical materials rather than digital surrogates, in the context of large lecture style classes held outside the traditional confines of our reading rooms. In a suite of articles resulting from a session at the 2010 RBMS preconference, Merrilee Proffitt, Mark Allen Greene, and Michael Foxe describe letting go of some of our traditional work, . . .
Kathleen P. Whitley. The Gilded Page: The History and Technique of Manuscript Gilding. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press; London: The British Library, 2010. xv, 233p. ISBN (USA; hardcover) 978-1-58456-239-9; (USA; paperback) 978-1-58456-241-2; (UK; paperback) 978-0-7123-5066-2. $49.95; $34.95
Authors: Berger Sidney
Published: June 2017

Kathleen Whitley’s The Gilded Page is a mixture of excellent and wretched, satisfying and frustrating.Let’s look at the excellent first. The content is amazing, filled with an abundance of information on the history and technique of gilding, coming from an experienced gilder. In 1969, D.F. McKenzie wrote his landmark essay “Printers of the Mind: Some Notes on Bibliographical Theories and Printing-House Practices”1 in which he talks about “the need for what might be called ‘scientific’ investigation in bibliography” which comes from “a strict regard for certain fixed bounds of physical fact” (p. 1). Among many other things this article . . .
Maps as Special Collections: Bibliographic Control of Hidden Material at Yale University
Authors: Fell Todd
Published: June 2017

In the years following the 2003 conference on “Exposing Hidden Collections,” held at the Library of Congress—and the subsequent publication of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Task Force on Special Collections’ white paper entitled Hidden Collections, Scholarly Barriers: Creating Access to Unprocessed Special Collections Materials in America’s Research Libraries—many institutions and repositories have made concerted efforts to address the formidable challenges involved in “exposing” unprocessed and/or underprocessed collections. Exemplary efforts range from a national program initiated by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation “to identify and catalog . . .
Books and Resources Available for Review
Authors:   American Library Association
Published: June 2017

Please contact Christine DeZelar-Tiedman (dezel002@umn.edu) if you are interested in reviewing one of the resources listed below.
Books
Arnar, Anna Sigrídur. The Book as Instrument: Stéphane Mallarmé, the Artist’s Book, and the Transformation of Print Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Cullingford, Alison. The Special Collections Handbook. London: Facet Publishing (dist. by Neal-Schuman), 2011.
Cuno, James. Museums Matter: in Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment: Essays in Honor of Robert Darnton. Ed. by Charles Walton. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011
Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment; Essays in Honor of Robert Darnton. Ed. Charles Walton. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. xvii, 244p. ISBN 978-0-271-05012-6. $49.95
Authors: Matthews Greg
Published: June 2017

Appearing as a title in the Penn State Series in the History of the Book, Into Print is a collection of twelve essays demonstrating a debt to Robert Darnton’s ground-breaking scholarship on the social history of ideas (Walton, vii; Pasta, 82). Divided into five thematic parts (“Making News,” “Print, Paper, Markets, and States,” “Police and Opinion,” “Enlightenment in Revolution,” and “Enlightenment Universalism and Cultural Difference”), it includes contributions from scholars, primarily historians, who studied under Darnton. Editor Charles Walton points out in his superb preface that, while topics covered are diverse, each essay exhibits Darnton’s influence by “analyzing the dynamic . . .
The FUTURES of Technical Services
Authors: Elings Mary W. , Brandt Randal S.
Published: June 2017

The 53rd annual RBMS Preconference in San Diego explored the variety of futures in store for the rare books, manuscripts, and special collections community. Technical Services, with its crucial roles in acquisitions, description, access, and preservation, will not be excepted from the changes headed our way. Even the very term technical services faces an uncertain future. At the University of California, “technical services” as a concept is being phased out in favor of the more encompassing “collection services,” which covers the entire life cycle of library materials up until the moment they are shelved or made otherwise available to the . . .
A Future Path of RBMS: A Bookseller’s Point of View
Authors: Rootenberg Howard
Published: June 2017

Rare books, manuscripts, early ephemera, photographs, film—everything rare, scarce, hard to find, and perhaps even harder to preserve—is this the final frontier, or are we rehashing the same questions that have been around since the hand-press days: what to collect, the cost of materials to buy and preserve, and how to get people into and using special collection libraries? Do we view the material itself as the treasure or spend our time figuring out how to create and then use new technology to legitimize and even promote our own positions? Are library positions so narrowly focused that any . . .
Revaluing Mimeographs as Historical Sources
Authors: Hawley E. Haven
Published: June 2017

Curators are partners with printing historians, collectors, and conservators, as well as with communities, in selecting, preserving, and interpreting cultural heritage. Uncovering the role of a technology such as mimeography reveals more than a history of a specific machine or technical process. It secures a better understanding about social experience by authenticating accounts about how diverse groups communicated with their own communities and to others. Special collections professionals need to be archaeologists to recover evidence from and to best preserve 20th-century publications. Current tools for studying recent print artifacts are insufficient. Thus, collaborating to generate methods for analysis is an . . .
Opening Artists’ Books to the User: An Example with Potential Approaches
Authors: Myers Ann K.D. , Myers William Andrew
Published: June 2017

Artists’ books are an increasingly popular collecting area both for art libraries and for special collections. Their experimentation with the book form and emphasis on hand techniques for production dovetail nicely with early printed book collections, highlighting modern approaches to bookmaking techniques that have been used for hundreds of years. The 2010 OCLC Research Survey Taking Our Pulse identified artists’ books as “the specific area most frequently named” for new collecting in special collections.2 In this paper we will discuss a specimen artist’s book and various issues and approaches to cataloging it.
Artists’ books pose particular challenges to special collections . . .
James Moses. Trends in Rare Books and Documents Special Collections Management. 2013 Edition. New York: Primary Research Group, 2013. 64p. $75 (ISBN 978-1-57440-226-1).
Authors: Chen Amy
Published: June 2017

Trends in Rare Books and Documents Special Collections Management, 2013 edition by James Moses surveys seven special collection institutions on their current efforts to expand, secure, promote, and digitize their holdings. The contents of each profile are generated by transcribed interviews, which are summarized and presented as a case study chapter. Seven special collections are discussed, including the Boston Public Library; AbeBooks; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Washington University of St. Louis; the Archives and Rare Books Library, University of Cincinnati; the Rare Books and Manuscript Library at The Ohio State University; and the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare . . .
Library Adventures in a Digital Age: Observations and Questions
Authors: Duffin Jacalyn
Published: June 2017

Libraries have been essential to my role as a physician-historian working for twenty-six years in an academic health sciences center. They are the repositories of thousands of years of medical evidence, even if it comes in forms that are increasingly disparaged: paper and anecdote. While writing my dissertation in Paris, I fell in love with old books and manuscripts. Reading, holding, and touching those beautiful—if barely legible—papers instilled a joyful and durable eagerness to work with them and to expose my students to their power.The university librarians and archivists are my closest colleagues. Always grateful for their . . .
Material Texts and Medical Libraries in the Digital Age
Authors: Fissell Mary
Published: June 2017

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia was founded in 1787; the College Library was founded a year later. At the time of its founding, as for hundreds of years prior, a library was an essential medical workplace, the site of knowledge production, more significant than an anatomy theater, and much more so than the workrooms that were evolving into the spaces called laboratories. Over its 225 years, the College Library has been at the heart of Philadelphia medicine; and, as the discipline of the history of medicine has developed, the Library has become a crucial resource for historians of medicine, . . .
Yuming He. Home and the World: Editing the “Glorious Ming” in Woodblock-Printed Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013. xi, 343 p. ISBN 978-0674066809. $35.96
Authors: O’Dell Allison Jai
Published: June 2017

Home and the World: Editing the “Glorious Ming” in Woodblock-Printed Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries is both a history of Ming book culture and a thoughtful meditation on the practice of book history. Its prose style is scholarly, but enjoying Home and the World does not require prior knowledge of a specialized discipline. Yuming He offers an engaging introduction to the book as an artifact of culture and reveals the reception and use of texts given different social and personal contexts.The late Ming was a fascinating period in the growth of book consumption. Expanded population, urbanity, and . . .
Interlibrary Loan of Special Collections Materials: An Overview and Case Study
Authors: Olivieri Blynne , Mehaffey Angela M.
Published: June 2017

When the Annie Belle Weaver Special Collections, in partnership with the Interlibrary Loan department at the University of West Georgia's Irvine Sullivan Ingram Library, embarked on loaning original materials to other libraries, we did so with a lack of consensus from the special collections world at large, about whether lending special collections materials was a good practice or not, what to lend, and to whom to lend.The only consensus about loaning special collections materials is that there is no consensus, to rephrase the finding of the 2010 OCLC Sharing Special Collections Working Group survey.1 That survey, along with another . . .
Sidney E. Berger. Rare Books and Special Collections. Chicago: Neal-Schuman, 2014. xxii, 537p. ISBN 9781555709648. $129
Authors: Huttner Sidney F.
Published: June 2017

When a review copy arrived in my mailbox,1 my first thought was, “Heavens, a monster!” Rescued from its wrappings, this proved accurate: 8½×11 inches, the book is 1⅛ inches thick, weighs 2.8 pounds on my kitchen scale, perfect-bound in wrappers. It is not a tome that invites a cuddle. It is, in fact, too heavy to hold while reading more than a page or two.The main text is double-column with headings in bold. Less formal comments on the main text, drawn from Berger's work experience as department head, student, teacher, writer, printer, and collector, are in grayed balloons scattered . . .
Channeling Janus: Past, Present, and Future in the RBMS Membership Survey
Authors: Healey Elspeth , Nykanen Melissa
Published: June 2017

Introduction
In 2015, the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) surveyed its membership for the first time in 18 years.1 At roughly the span of a generation, 18 years is a long time in the rapidly changing world of libraries. Consider, for example, that in 1997 J.K. Rowling had just released the first Harry Potter novel, Google was a year away from being founded, and fewer than half of the respondents to the first RBMS Membership Survey had access to e-mail and the Internet at home. New landscapes call for new data, and the 2015 RBMS Membership Survey answers that . . .
Historical Perspectives in the Conservation of Works of Art on Paper. ed. Margaret Holben Ellis. Los Angeles, Calif.: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2014. xx, 524p. ISBN 978-1-60606-432-0. $70.00.
Authors: Kearney Ann Carroll
Published: June 2017

Historical Perspectives in the Conservation of Works of Art on Paper provides a comprehensive collection of ninety-six readings—spanning six centuries—related to the conservation of paper-based art. Published by the Getty Conservation Institute, one of this work’s greatest strengths is its masterful organization of texts, which builds and climaxes in a finale that offers a multifaceted yet distinct and straightforward representation of the field of conservation.The readings are gathered into eight sections based on the development of the technology behind and the thinking that underpins the field. “The Powers of Paper” illustrates various ideas about the role of paper. Practical, . . .
A Great Library Easily Begets Affection: Memories of the William L. Clements Library 1923–2015. Brian Leigh Dunnigan, Cheney J. Schopieray, Emiko Hastings, and J. Kevin Gaffagnino, eds.
Authors: Hertenstein Libby
Published: June 2017

This monograph is a compilation of recollections and essays written by authoritative sources on The William L. Clements Library, namely people who previously worked or currently work there. The Clements Library, located on the University of Michigan campus, was the brainchild of Americana collector, William L. Clements (1861–1934), who was also a regent at the University from 1909 to 1933. The library opened in 1923 with the mission it still holds today: to collect primary resource materials associated with American history, especially early American history.
IN THE AUTHOR’S HAND:: ARTIFACTS OF ORIGIN AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY READING PRACTICE
Authors: Enniss Stephen
Published: June 2017

Our contemporary fascination with origins, with the creative moment itself, goes back at least as far as the Romantic period, which, more than any other, enshrined the literary fragment as a relic of original artistic inspiration. Though Samuel Coleridge’s unfinished poem “Kubla Khan” is perhaps a familiar example, it is nevertheless worth retelling his account of that poem for what it conveys about romantic notions of creativity. When the poem was first published in 1816, Coleridge prefaced the text with a note explaining the circumstances of its composition and the reason the poem remained unfinished.1 As he explained, he composed . . .
“ONE DAY. IT WILL BE OTHERWISE:”: CHANGING THE REPUTATION AND THE REALITY OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Authors: Byrd Robert L.
Published: June 2017

David Stam and Sarah Thomas have set forth a number of ideas and suggestions for shaping the nature and the future of special collections in libraries belonging to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). From my perspective as director of the special collections operations in a research library, I want to comment on their recommendations and add a few suggestions that I believe are in line with the vision and strategies they have described. Like Stam, I feel that little, if anything, I say will be new. I know that many of you could offer more insightful observations and recommendations . . .
PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS
Authors: Brademas John
Published: June 2017

Allow me to observe that the Executive Order of President Bush of November 1, 2001, blocking access to the records of Presidents Reagan and the first President Bush, in circumvention of the requirements of the Presidential Records Act of 1978; the dispute concerning the papers of Mayor Giuliani of New York; the suit by the General Accounting Office against Vice President Cheney because of his refusal to provide names of the persons who took part in his secret Energy Task Force meetings; and the controversy over the decision by Governor Bush of Texas to send his records as governor not . . .
THE ONE PLACE ON EARTH: A TALE OF FIVE ARCHIVES AND HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Authors: Dzwonkoski Peter
Published: June 2017

I recount these brief stories of acquisition because I think they are in their different ways interesting, unusual, and even entertaining, at least to RBM’s distinctive audience. As I retired in September 2001, this essay is also a look back over what was, for me, the most enjoyable, rewarding, and often surprising aspect of a 23 year career heading Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Rochester Library—the acquisition of significant collections and the development of durable friendships with writers, collectors, and others in books. If a didactic strain has infiltrated these pages, it urges what most rare . . .
EDITOR'S NOTE
Authors: Clement Richard W.
Published: June 2017

This issue marks the beginning of a new editorship for RBM, but longtime readers will notice little difference in the journal— and that is a good thing. RBM remains committed to exploring the wide range of issues that engage all of us who work with primary materials, whether we are librarians, curators, archivists, dealers, collectors, or scholars. My predecessors, Lisa Browar and Marvin Taylor, did the most difficult work in recreating RBM out of RBML four years ago, and I am committed to maintain the direction they established. The challenge of making a success of RBM is a delicate balancing . . .
HIDDEN COLLECTIONS, SCHOLARLY BARRIERS:: CREATING ACCESS TO UNPROCESSED SPECIAL COLLECTIONS MATERIALS IN AMERICA'S RESEARCH LIBRARIES
Authors: Jones Barbara M.
Published: June 2017

I. Hidden Collections and the Challenge They Present
From the beginning of the ARL Special Collections Task Force’s work in 2001, it was clear that large unprocessed or underprocessed backlogs of rare book, manuscript, and archival materials were a major problem in research libraries around the country. Many participants at the Brown University ARL Conference on Special Collections in the summer of 2001 consistently listed materials backlogs as one of their institution’s major concerns.
• Uncataloged or underprocessed collections are at a greater risk of being lost or stolen and are difficult, if not impossible, to recover from legal authorities if . . .
SCHOLARS AND TEACHERS: HIDDEN PARTNERS FOR HIDDEN COLLECTIONS
Authors: Katz Stanley N.
Published: June 2017

Exposing Hidden Collections is very close to my heart because I was originally trained as an historian, an early American historian; and in doing both my undergraduate work and my graduate work, I was from the start a manuscript historian. I would guess that 90 percent of the materials I used in writing my dissertation were manuscript materials. So I have been at this a long time, and working with archivists and with rare books and special collections librarians all along. I did my undergraduate thesis in the Houghton Library at Harvard, which was presided over by an efficient and . . .
Editor's Note
Authors: Clement Richard W.
Published: June 2017

This issue marks a milestone for RBM: it is an expanded issue offering twice as many articles as usual. As guest editor Eric Holzenberg explains in his introduction to the volume, these articles were all originally given as papers at the 2005 Rare Books and Manuscript Section preconference in St. Louis, “Bridging the Gap: Education and Special Collections,” for which he served as Program Planning Chair. Having put an extraordinary program together, Eric was faced with some very difficult choices in selecting considerably fewer papers to be published in RBM. This process was made considerably easier by John Hoover, director . . .
What's So Special about Special Collections Librarians?
Authors: Schreyer Alice D.
Published: June 2017

“What's So Special about Special Collections?” was the title for the inaugural issue of RBM in 2000 and a theme issue of American Libraries published that same year.1 A variation of the phrase served as the subtitle for a 2005 RBMS Preconference seminar.2 The question asks us to articulate what distinguishes special collections from other research library collections and services, and reminds us of the implied elitism in our professional vocabulary. With a healthy dose of irony, we are challenging long-standing assumptions of difference.
What's so special about special collections librarians? I want to consider education and training with a . . .
Legal Concepts of Cultural Heritage Property
Authors: Sax Joseph L.
Published: June 2017

Property is one of the most intuitively natural of all legal concepts, as anyone who has watched two children contending over a toy can attest. It is also one of the most useful. Without it, there could be no bank accounts, no markets, no inheritance, and no security in one’s home. Almost every material thing in life depends on the invention and elaboration of the idea and laws of property. The important qualifier is the term “almost.” We all know that there are the obvious exceptions where ordinary proprietary rules do not and should not apply, such as in human . . .
Collecting Anarchy: Continuing the Legacy of the Joseph A. Labadie Collection
Authors: Herrada Julie
Published: June 2017

The Joseph A. Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan is one of the oldest and most comprehensive collections of radical history in the United States, bringing together unique materials that document past as well as contemporary social protest movements. In addition to anarchism and labor movements, topics that were its original focus, the Collection today is particularly strong in civil liberties (with an emphasis on racial minorities), socialism, communism, colonialism and imperialism, American labor history through the 1930s, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies), the Spanish Civil War, sexual freedom, women’s liberation, gay liberation, the . . .
Spinning Straw into Gold: Gilding Junk through Collecting
Authors: Barlow William P.
Published: June 2017

I am a collector. I collect a lot of things, both significant and silly. I collect things related to the Birmingham printer John Baskerville; I collect antiquarian bibliography; I collect private library and book auction catalogues; I collect postal history and philatelic literature. In addition—and the reason I have been thought to have some expertise in collecting ephemera—I collect material related to the restaurants recommended from the 1930s to the 1950s by Duncan Hines.Even though my Duncan Hines collection is the subject of this article, all of my collections involve some form of ephemera. While John Baskerville’s ...
The Contribution of Ephemera Dealers
Authors: Harris Robert Dalton , DeBlois Diane , Margolis David , Moss Jean
Published: June 2017

Robert Dalton Harris and Diane DeBlois of aGatherin’, and David Margolis and Jean Moss of Margolis and Moss, explore the relationship between dealers and the libraries and museums that purchase ephemera from them. The two couples who, for over three decades, have specialized in handling ephemera within the rare book world, are from different backgrounds and have divergent strengths, yet agree philosophically on both the importance of ephemera and the complementary role dealers can have with librarians and curators in building collections. In describing their passions, they hope to connect with the collector inside the library and archives profession, as ...
With Deft Knife and Paste: The Extra-Illustrated Books of John M. Wing
Authors: Gage Jill
Published: June 2017

There is one member of the Fraternity of Book Collectors who has of late years rather fallen in the estimation of his brother Bibliophiles. This knight of the shears and paste jar… is known in bookman’s parlance as the Grangerite. The title never has been understood to indicate exalted bibliophilic rank, and now, alas! the individual who bears it appears to be upon the point of losing all honorary distinction whatever in the little world of the book collector.—W. L. Andrews, Of the Extra-Illustration of BooksJohn Mansir Wing, one of Chicago’s great library benefactors, was an unrepentant Grangerite ...
Política, economía y ciencia en La condición humana de Arendt
Authors: Ojeda Couchoud Santiago
Published: June 2017

En su libro La condición humana Hannah Arendt disecciona las presiones a las que la actual sociedad científico-tecnológica somete a la forma tradicional de estar en el mundo de nuestra especie. El núcleo de la obra denuncia cómo la forma más específicamente humana de la vida activa, la acción, se está viendo desplazada por el trabajo e incluso por la labor. Una de las manifestaciones de este desplazamiento es la creciente infiltración de la economía en el discurso político, derivándose de esta infiltración una colonización del espacio público por modos de actuar propios del espacio privado que ocasionan su debilitamiento y con él, el vaciamiento de lo que más nos hace humanos. El presente trabajo apunta elementos de crítica a esta concepción de la política mediante el cuestionameinto de su pretendida incompatibilidad con el discurso económico, pudiendo al contrario hacer a éste un elemento legítimo de la discusión política, que seguiría estando ocupada en la adecuada configuración colectiva del espacio público.
Manuel Fraijó y Javier Sádaba: dos filosofías de la religión en diálogo. Una aproximación documental
Authors: Del Olmo Ibáñez María
Published: June 2017

Este artículo pretende realizar una primera aproximación al estudio comparativo de la Filosofía de la religión de dos filósofos españoles contemporáneos que han dedicado una amplia parte de su reflexión a esta disciplina: Manuel Fraijó y Javier Sádaba. La primera parte ofrece aquellos datos biográficos que los vinculan, la segunda parte traza las convergencias y divergencias entre ambos pensamientos y la tercera parte corresponde al estudio bibliográfico de sus respectivas obras estableciendo una posible clasificación para las mismas.
Metodologias ativas: uma discussão acerca das possibilidades práticas na educação continuada de professores do ensino superior
Authors: Da Silva Brito Gláucia , Pons Vilardell Camas Núria
Published: June 2017

Esta pesquisa tem como objeto de estudo a formação continuada de docentes do ensino superior na modalidade de educação a distância em metodologias ativas de aprendizagem. Como questão de pesquisa, tem-se: os professores universitários entendem o processo de formação continuada na ação pedagógica que motive o uso de metodologias ativas na prática? O objetivo foi analisar um curso de formação de professores universitários e discutir, sob o ponto de vista deles, seus entendimentos sobre seu fazer pedagógico. A pesquisa é de abordagem qualitativa, empírica e exploratória e traz a análise temática dos dados coletados em uma única questão feita, no fim de um curso, a 49 professores de uma universidade pública federal. Os principais resultados encontrados mostram que, apesar de o curso ter aprovação dos 49 investigados, ainda é urgente que se faça a formação continuada de professores universitários, para que possam entender e usar metodologias ativas na sua prática.
A course design workshop as a possible path from a content-centered to a learning-centered teaching
Authors: Bitencourt Spricigo Cinthia , Ferretti Manffra Elisangela , Saroyan Alenoush
Published: June 2017

In order to meet the needs of a constantly changing Society, the Universities need to constantly improve their processes of teaching and learning. To do so, it is essential that professors are fully committed and well prepared to teach aiming at students learning, instead of content delivery. Faculty development programs might be helpful to support the institution and the professors in this way. Since designing these programs is a challenging task, we intend to contribute with faculty developers by reporting our experience here. We have adapted a course design workshop developed at McGill University to our context at PUCPR, in Curitiba, South of Brazil. During the workshop, the participants had to write a new syllabus of their course, elaborate a concept map, both of them with only the essential aspects for learning. They had to define the learning outcomes and only afterwards to choose active methods to help students achieve them. Throughout the whole process, participants gave feedback to each other. The activities of the workshop, along with the fruitful discussions among professors of different backgrounds helped professors to view the content as something that supports the development of learning outcomes. Therefore, we conclude that this workshop has opened the way to methodological innovations that develop learning of higher cognitive dimensions, since the professor has established more challenging expectations for the students when writing the new teaching plan.
Short Report: Evaluation of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Training for Psychologists Working with People with Multiple Sclerosis
Authors: Pakenham Kenneth I. , Scott Theresa , Uccelli Michele Messmer
Published: June 2017

Background:

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is the most widely used and researched recent variant of cognitive behavioral therapy and has been shown to increase quality of life in people with chronic illnesses, including multiple sclerosis (MS). However, few MS health practitioners are trained in ACT. This study evaluated a 2-day ACT training workshop for Italian psychologists working with people with MS.

Methods:

Data were collected via online questionnaires from 34 psychologists before the workshop, after the workshop, and at 6-month follow-up. Two sets of variables were measured at each assessment: primary outcomes (well-being, negative affect, positive affect, and job satisfaction) and ACT processes (values, mindfulness, psychological flexibility, and cognitive defusion). A separate online workshop evaluation questionnaire and an ACT knowledge examination were administered after the workshop.

Results:

Most participants (94%) acknowledged the potential beneficial effects of the workshop on their work. Almost all participants reported their intention to apply ACT clinically. More than 90% of participants indicated that the workshop was efficacious. All participants scored higher than 75% on the examination. Mindfulness increased from after the workshop to follow-up; however, there were no statistically significant changes in other variables. Correlations suggested beneficial associations between the ACT processes and the primary outcomes.

Conclusions:

Results suggest that ACT training is personally and professionally helpful for psychologists in the MS field.