Pinning it down: An evaluation of Pinterest’s function in the British academic library

University libraries have found a useful resource for themselves in many social media platforms. At Leeds Beckett University Library (formerly Leeds Metropolitan University), Twitter has proved a popular way to connect with students, other libraries and universities. Our Twitter following has exceeded 3,800, and our library Facebook had over 1,100 followers by May 2014. While we continue to develop these two sites, however, we acknowledge that we are not part of a stable environment. Social media is faddish; the favoured platforms change frequently. Facebook has largely taken custom away from Myspace, while Myspace used to tussle for users with Bebo, and Google Plus has taken their share of professional networks away from other platforms. With this in mind, any organisation using social media has to think about whether they should use – and if so, how to use – emerging virtual social networks

Building Audiences: Stories From America's Theaters - What Theaters Are Learning About the Role of Programming in Attracting Audiences

Explores strategies being used -- from market research to free play readings -- to plan programming and select on-stage productions to attract audiences

Marketing food, making meaning: Themes in twentieth-century American food advertising.

Though both advertising and the idea of nature are ubiquitous in American culture, little work has been done to examine how the former constructs the latter. Advertising is everywhere, and nature is everywhere in advertising---as a background, a concept, a place, a commodity. This study uses advertising for food in magazines from 1920-1975 as an entry point into an exploration of the narratives of nature used by the advertising industry over a 50-year period to frame the themes used to market foods. It describes how four different themes, memory, place, health, and convenience, were used throughout this period in food advertising, and how each of these themes embodies different narratives of nature. These narratives include nature as an idyllic past, nature as a paradise or pastoral setting, fresh and untouched, nature as both a good raw material and a dangerous threat, and nature as a lifestyle problem

The Official Student Newspaper of UAS

UAS Answers -- Depletion: reconceptualizing uranium and ‘the other’ -- Red Velvet Cupcakes: It doesn’t have to come from a box -- UAS abroad: Exploring language, culture, history -- Beyond the textbook page: travels in Ghana -- Stress Week: Eight ways to decompress -- Campus Calenda

A Village Pantry

Food Family & Scribbler of Recipe

Grandma Wore an Apron

Contents: Soups -- Entrees -- Vegetables and pasta -- Salads and salad dressings -- Breads, pancakes, stuffings -- Desserts -- Pickles and preserves -- Beverages.https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/sd_cookbooks/1008/thumbnail.jp

Download It While It\u27s Hot: Open Access and Legal Scholarship

This article analyzes the shift of legal scholarship from the old world of law reviews to today\u27s world of peer reviews to tomorrow\u27s world of open access legal blogs. This shift is occurring in three dimensions. First, legal scholarship is moving from the long form (treatises and law review articles) to the short form (very short articles, blog posts, and online collaborations). Second, a regime of exclusive rights is giving way to a regime of open access. Third, intermediaries (law school editorial boards, peer-reviewed journals) are being supplemented by disintermediated forms (papers on the Internet, blogs). Blogs and internet conversations between academics are expanding interdisciplinary legal scholarship and increasing the avenues of communication among legal scholars, practitioners and a wide array of interested laypersons worldwide