Profiles of Academic Libraries

Collectively, the profiles included in this book are designed to give a bird‘s eye view of the various aspects of academic librarianship, not only in the United States, but in other countries as well, such as Egypt, Jordan, South Africa, and Saudi Arabia. These profiles enable the reader to compare the various aspects of academic librarianship on a national as well as international level. These comparisons may also lead to identifying best practices used by college and university libraries in such areas as management, marketing, information fluency and the like. Reading the chapters, the reader can draw examples of best practices in academic library management.https://dc.uwm.edu/sois_facbooks/1001/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, November 1930

Volume 21, Issue 9https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1930/1008/thumbnail.jp

Two Strivings: Uplift and Identity in African American Rhetorical Culture, 1900-1943

During the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century, the notion of “uplift” functioned as a major thematic within African American rhetorical culture. In this milieu, “uplift” generally connoted a sense of collective self-help. However, in contrast to more generalized reform efforts, uplift was expressed as a distinctly intraracial endeavor. That is, rather than overtly leveraging the dominant white society to enact legal or political reforms, uplift typically centered on the ways in which African Americans could enhance the quality of black life independent from white involvement. Understood as public proposals for how African Americans could employ forms of self-help to improve some dimension of black life, uplift appeals marked a rich site of rhetorical activity. The rhetorical substance of those appeals represents the general focus of this dissertation. More specifically, this study investigates how uplift was expressed in the public discourse of four prominent early twentieth-century black spokespersons: Mary Church Terrell, Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Ralph Ellison. Through rhetorical analysis of these four figures’ public appeals for uplift, this dissertation argues that, during the early twentieth century, uplift functioned as a dynamic symbolic source of black identity. In other words, public expressions of uplift did more than just promote ways of pursuing self-help; they also made available opportunities for understanding and performing black public identity

Women at UWM: Decades of Activism, Fragile Gains (Long chapter)

We wrote a chapter on women at UWM for Telling Our Stories: A History of Diversity at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, edited by Chia Youhee Vang and David J. Pate, published in 2022. The stories we heard and uncovered inspired us to write this longer and more detailed version of that history.https://dc.uwm.edu/uwmhistory/1003/thumbnail.jp

Annual Report of the Director of Libraries, 1979-1980

Library Annual Report, 1979-80.https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/mlp/1023/thumbnail.jp

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