Assisting rural domestic violence victims: The local librarian's role

With proper training, librarians could be ideal partners to combat domestic abuse in rural areas. This article examines the specific needs of domestic violence victims in rural areas where shelters and legal services are often limited, explains the role of unauthorized practice of law policies, and highlights successful library initiatives that model how such programs might work.Ope

Life in Data”—Outcome of a Multi-Disciplinary, Interactive Biobanking Conference Session on Sample Data

©Sara Y. Nussbeck et al. 2016; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. The article attached is the publisher's pdf

Quantifying the Origin and Distribution of Intracluster Light in a Fornax-like Cluster

Using a cosmological $N$-body simulation, we investigate the origin and distribution of stars in the intracluster light (ICL) of a Fornax-like cluster. In a dark matter only simulation we identify a halo which, at $z=0$, has $M_200 \simeq 4.1 \times 10^{13}M_{sun}$ and $r_{200} = 700kpc$, and replace infalling subhalos with models that include spheroid and disc components. As they fall into the cluster, the stars in some of these galaxies are stripped from their hosts, and form the ICL. We consider the separate contributions to the ICL from stars which originate in the haloes and the discs of the galaxies. We find that disc ICL stars are more centrally concentrated than halo ICL stars. The majority of the disc ICL stars are associated with one initially disc-dominated galaxy that falls to the centre of the cluster and is heavily disrupted, producing part of the cD galaxy. At radial distances greater than 200kpc, well beyond the stellar envelope of the cD galaxy, stars formerly from the stellar haloes of galaxies dominate the ICL. Therefore at large distances, the ICL population is dominated by older stars.Comment: Paper published as MNRAS , 2017, 467, 4501 This version corrects a small typo in the authors fiel

Introduction to the Special Issue on DEIA in Copyright Librarianship

An introduction to the special issue from the guest editor, Sara R. Benson

@PublicForum: The Argument for a Public Forum Analysis of Government Officials\u27 Social Media Accounts

While citizens have historically marched on the streets or protested in parks to take advantage of the First Amendment, citizens in the modern world have often turned to social media to communicate their ideas and concerns to their government representatives. As new spaces for expressive activity come to light with the development of technology, courts are tasked with determining how to properly analyze government-controlled spaces on social media. This Note will examine the various approaches courts have taken to analyzing government officials’ social media accounts and will argue that Supreme Court precedent and the pluralist theory of democracy support subjecting the interactive spaces on government social media accounts to public forum analysis in order to limit the government’s ability to discriminate based on viewpoint and to provide a cause of action against the government when citizens’ speech is suppressed online

Behind the Cape: The Black Superwoman, Colorism, and Professional Identity Development

Behind the Cape: The Black Superwoman, Colorism, and Professional Identity Developmen