Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2019

From the Dean (Robin Wagner) Library News Cite and Bite Workshops Open Access Week (Janelle Wertzberger, Alecea Standlee, Hana Huskic) Notes at Noon Friends Sponsor Guild Participation (Mary Wootton) Stop the Bleed The Wall Must Go Story Time Table to Farm Pop-up Library Take the Reading Challenge 1,000,000 Grant to Digitize Asian Art Vietnam Oral Histories (Ron Bailey \u2767, Sue Hill \u2767, Michael Birkner, Devin McKinney) Alexander von Humboldt\u27s Secretary (William Bowman) Focus on Philanthropy: Walter Miller Trust A Gift in 3 Dimensions (Richard C. Ryder \u2770) Remembering Richard Ryder \u2770 (Michael Birkner) New Externship - Careers in Library and Information Science (Camille Minns \u2720, Jivan Kharel \u2720) Textbook Affordability is a Workshop Topic (Janelle Wertzberger) Candid Camera (Dwight Eisenhower, Willard Paul, William C. Darrah) GettDigital: Rooted in Memory Uncovering Shakespeare\u27s Sisters (Suzanne Flynn) Touchdown: First Year Athletes Trade Field for Library (Betsy Bein, John Dettinger) Recent Additions: World War II - Photographs and Memorabilia (William Millar \u2754, Walter Lane, Gerald Royals \u2752, Donald Gallion \u2748, Ralph Edgar Peters, Burdette J. Marker) Alumnus Donates Trade Cards (Gary Thompson \u2769

Creating Capsule Wardrobes from Fashion Images

We propose to automatically create capsule wardrobes. Given an inventory of candidate garments and accessories, the algorithm must assemble a minimal set of items that provides maximal mix-and-match outfits. We pose the task as a subset selection problem. To permit efficient subset selection over the space of all outfit combinations, we develop submodular objective functions capturing the key ingredients of visual compatibility, versatility, and user-specific preference. Since adding garments to a capsule only expands its possible outfits, we devise an iterative approach to allow near-optimal submodular function maximization. Finally, we present an unsupervised approach to learn visual compatibility from "in the wild" full body outfit photos; the compatibility metric translates well to cleaner catalog photos and improves over existing methods. Our results on thousands of pieces from popular fashion websites show that automatic capsule creation has potential to mimic skilled fashionistas in assembling flexible wardrobes, while being significantly more scalable.Comment: Accepted to CVPR 201

Automatic Understanding of Image and Video Advertisements

There is more to images than their objective physical content: for example, advertisements are created to persuade a viewer to take a certain action. We propose the novel problem of automatic advertisement understanding. To enable research on this problem, we create two datasets: an image dataset of 64,832 image ads, and a video dataset of 3,477 ads. Our data contains rich annotations encompassing the topic and sentiment of the ads, questions and answers describing what actions the viewer is prompted to take and the reasoning that the ad presents to persuade the viewer ("What should I do according to this ad, and why should I do it?"), and symbolic references ads make (e.g. a dove symbolizes peace). We also analyze the most common persuasive strategies ads use, and the capabilities that computer vision systems should have to understand these strategies. We present baseline classification results for several prediction tasks, including automatically answering questions about the messages of the ads.Comment: To appear in CVPR 2017; data available on http://cs.pitt.edu/~kovashka/ad

Towards Personalized Image Retrieval

International audienceThis paper describes an approach to personalized image indexing and retrieval. To tackle the issue of subjectivity in Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), users can define their own indexing vocabulary and make the system learn it. These indexing concepts may be both local (objects) and global (image ategories). The system guides the user in the selection of relevant training examples. Concept learning in the system is incremental and hierarchical: global concepts are built upon local concepts as well as low-level features. Similarity measures tuning is used to emphasize relevant features for a given concept. To illustrate the potential of this approach, an implementation of this model has been developed; preliminary results are given in this paper

Is humn mating adventitious or the result of lawful choice? A twin study of mate selection.

Inventory data on a large sample of middle-aged twins and their spouses confirmed that spousal pairs are consistently but weakly similar on traits of personality, interests, talents, and attitudes. We argue, however, that neither the Similarity model of mate selection, nor one of its facets, the Equity model, can account for specific mate choice. We therefore tested the hypothesis that people select their mates using idiosyncratic criteria and that the spouses of monozygotic (MZ) twins should therefore be very similar. When compared to spouses of dizygotic (DZ) twins or even to random pairs of spouses, the spouses of MZ twins failed to show the predicted excess of small intra-spouse differences. We asked 547 of these twins to rate their attitudes toward their cotwin's choices of wardrobe, furnishings, vacations, jobs - and spouses; a similar questionnaire was completed by the spouses of these twins. Both data sets confirm that MZ twins are very similar in most of their choices, more so than DZ twins, but nearly 40% of both MZs and DZs recall that they actually disliked their cotwin's choice of mate at the time that choice was made. Similarly, 30% of the spouses of MZ twins report actually disliking the identical twin of the mate they had recently selected. Our findings suggest that characteristics both of the chooser and the chosen constrain mate selection only weakly. We propose that it is romantic infatuation that commonly determines the final choice from a broad field of potential eligibles and that this phenomenon is inherently random, in the same sense as is imprinting in precocial birds

Star Tracks: Celebrity Values in People Magazine

Following a review of previous literature regarding the issues of social class and media communication, a content analytic approach involving coding and functional analysis was adopted to answer the question: Does People magazine’s “Star Tracks” section compose perceptions of upper-class celebrities as “other” for its middle- and working-class readership by portraying universal values in ways that are unattainable by those not in the socio-economic upper class? This study addressed the research question by examining the celebrity photographs as well as the captions of those photographs which are presented in the “Star Tracks” section of the June, July, and August 2008 issues of People magazine. Overall, 13 issues of People provided the sample of 208 photographs and captions examined through content analytic coding of the values presented

Guidebook use by Japanese tourists: a qualitative study of Australia inbound travellers

This qualitative investigation into guidebook use reports on in-depth interviews conducted with 26 Japanese individuals and one couple who had visited Australia during the five previous years. Focussing on the stages before, during and after travel the research framework was based on Vogt and Fesenmaier’s model of information needs (1998). It was found that functional needs were the dominant influences during the prior to travel phase, with some non-functional needs, (hedonic, aesthetic, and innovation) also being influential. During the travel phase, only functional needs were evident. Some respondents were identified as being deliberate non-users of guidebooks. The variable “tourist type” was found to be helpful for distinguishing between users and non-users and for identifying those with functional needs. The use of guidebooks by those whose needs are both functional and non-functional may be unaffected by this variable. When the attitudes of those who actively dislike guidebooks and those who hesitate to use them are aggregated, a view emerges of guidebooks as a symbol of standardised tourism

Special Libraries, July-August 1959

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Developing Meaningful Student-Teacher-Scientist Partnerships

This article describes the Earth System Scientist Network, in which students and teachers participate in research projects with scientists. In these projects the scientists can take advantage of having an extended research team, and the students and teachers can contribute to a research project while developing skills in inquiry and expanding content knowledge in Earth system science. Several issues must be addressed in order to facilitate these partnerships: identifying the scientific research questions, the data that the students will analyze, the requirements for participating schools, and the tools and protocols that the students and teachers will use during their research. Other logistical issues must also be addressed, such as assuring that instruments and tools are available to the teachers and students, providing the background information and training they will need, providing additional research questions that can help spark students' interest, and recognizing students and teachers for their contributions. Educational levels: Graduate or professional