My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside the Personal Library of a Librarian

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author\u27s personal library

Attitudes About And The Affects Of The Use Of Student Assistants In Special Collections And Archives.

The continuing backlog in collections processing could be reduced through the application of More Product Less Process (MPLP) or other approaches, but the effort is still hampered by a lack of personnel to assign to processing. This discussion addresses whether it is possible to consider student assistants a viable labor source in special collections and archives to mitigate this personnel gap. A retrospective literature review determined historical attitudes toward the use of student assistants in academic libraries and the tasks that students were capable of performing. Study participants practicing in Special Collections and Archives in academic libraries in Georgia were interviewed concerning their views on student assistants. Their responses were compared against the perceptions uncovered in the literature review. These responses revealed that historical attitudes toward student assistants persist, but that students can be a viable labor source to mitigate labor shortages

Book Review: Reflecting on the Future of Academic and Public Libraries

Review of Reflecting On The Future Of Academic And Public Libraries edited by Peter Hernon and Joseph R. Matthew

REVIEWS: Ty Cobb Safe at Home and The Ty Cobb Educational Foundation Through Fifty Years

Review of the books Ty Cobb Safe at Home, by Don Rhodes, and The Ty Cobb Educational Foundation Through Fifty Years, by Jerry Atkins

Pedagogies of possibility : a study reconceptualizing the teacher\u27s role in a reggio-inspired urban preschool classroom.

The Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education is an innovative and often imitated “way of being” with young children (Rinaldi, 2006). Reggio-inspired teachers enact rich pedagogical stances in their work with young children. In North American contexts, the approach is frequently associated with wealthy, suburban communities. Adopting a feminist methodology, this dissertation explores the pedagogical moves one teacher made as she enacted the identity of a Reggio teacher in an urban preschool classroom. The theoretical framework guiding this study is grounded in feminist poststructural, postmodern, and decolonization scholarship, each of which inform a movement known as Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE). RECE works to disrupt assumptions about children, childhood, and early educators, providing counternarratives to deficit perspectives often associated with children of color, their families, neighborhoods, and teachers. This dissertation argues for reconceptualizing the teacher’s role as she enacts pedagogies that create spaces for children to demonstrate their myriad competencies and suggests that feminist methodologies result in more equitable researcher-participant relationships

Off the Shelf

Review of Remembering George W. Perry by Bill Baab

Trading Libraries: Off with a Roar, but Will It Soar?

The article focuses on Trading Libraries, a program originally proposed by Callie McGinnis, dean of libraries at Columbus State University. Its goals are that librarians and staff would receive a healthy and beneficial dose of professional development experience and make new professional connections to strengthen the library network. The program had these basic guidelines which includes a participant would shadow their counterpart from another University System of Georgia library and the participant could be a librarian or staff member

Picturebooks and gender : making informed choices for equitable early childhood classrooms.

We examine picturebooks through a feminist lens, understanding that children’s literature and media can limit and expand how young children access gender representations. We describe four categories that increase teacher knowledge to select books with multiple and varied gender representations for children in their classrooms. These four categories are gender binaries, discourses of childhood innocence, intersectionality, and heteronormativity. We illustrate each category with two quality books that maintain and disrupt each theme. We hope teachers will find the categories useful for thoughtfully selecting books for classroom libraries, read aloud, and discussion

Development of a 64 to 1 Monolithic Analog Multiplexer

A 64 to 1 monolithic multiplexer for video signal switching applications was designed. The performance analysis and the testing of the first devices fabricated and packaged show close agreement in on channel resistance and on channel bandwidth. Other requirements, such as off channel isolation and output signal distortion, have poorer agreement in the calculated values versus the measured data. Arguments for these differences are presented