“What on earth are they doing in a racing car?”: Towards an Understanding of Women in Motorsport.

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupMotorsport is an under-researched area of socio-historical study. There is particularly limited academic understanding of female involvement in the social world of motorsports. Therefore, this paper focuses on the role of the media in presenting and establishing motorsport for women. In particular, a documentary analysis of articles published by a UK national newspaper group from 1890, and a case study of an all-female UK-based motor-racing championship are used to account for gendered processes that have influenced attitudes and behaviours towards women motor racers. The motor car emerged through technological progress in an overtly masculine-dominated industrial period. Traditional assumptions and biologically deterministic attitudes towards women were used by men to position motoring and motor-racing as a male preserve. Newspaper reporting throughout the 1930s suggests an era of heightened success for women motor racers as a result of gaining access to a key resource in the form of Brooklands motor-racing circuit. Following the Second World War, there was increasing commercialization and professionalization of male-dominated motorsport, as well as renewed marginalization and trivialization of female participants within the newspapers. These processes continue to influence perceptions of women in contemporary motorsport.Peer reviewe

Keeping a finger on the organisational pulse: surveying staff perceptions in times of change

While surveying clients has become a standard part of research libraries’ qualitative assessment programmes, regularly surveying a library’s own staff is less common. Client surveys at the University of Queensland Library consistently reveal that the Library staff are regarded as the Library’s greatest asset. It is important to work at ensuring that these two hundred and fifty assets feel positive and motivated in their work, particularly in current times of rapid change in their workplace and sometimes the actual nature of their work. This paper examines the Library’s experience of surveying the staff five times over eight years. It examines the survey instrument itself, and the methods of analyses employed to interpret the data

Cybrary Skills in the Tertiary Environment: Inservice Education for librarians from developing countries

This paper explains the Cybrary Skills in the Tertiary Environment programme offered at the University of Queensland Library to librarians from tertiary institutions in developing countries. Under the programme, librarians from several countries have worked and studied at UQ Library, in groups or in individual placements, for varying periods of time. The paper describes the generic programme, and looks at critical success factors

The cybrary and the consortium: mutual benefits. The University of Queensland Cybrary and the Queensland University Libraries Office of Cooperation

This paper looks at the procedures and processes involved at the University of Queensland Library in its transition to a digital library, now known as the Cybrary, and describes the resultant information services available to students, scholars, and practitioners. As Australia’s first virtual library, the University of Queensland Library has been recognised by the Australian Award for University Teaching in 1998 and again in 2000. (http://www.cybrary.uq.edu.au ) The UQ Library is also a member of QULOC, the Queensland University Libraries Office of Cooperation, a consortium which initiates and supports cooperative world class solutions to information resource needs of university libraries in its member institutions. The traditional paradigm of the library was a physical place where scholars and students went to gain access to recorded knowledge using bibliographic records to guide them to rows of shelves of printed materials. Librarians guarded collections and assisted users. Much has changed in recent times. With the availability of electronic forms of information, stored locally, and accessed remotely, the new paradigm is the Cybrary – a gateway for clients located anywhere to access electronic resources everywhere and at any time. The Cybrarian is a navigator and guide. The Cybrary is the window on the world of knowledge. The effectiveness of the Cybrary in service delivery is dependent upon the effective implementation of information technology, combined with appropriate training for both cybrary staff and end users. The Cybrary uses a single interface to provide integrated access to its printed and electronic resources and services - the Library’s website. From the website, the information searcher has access to electronic databases, electronic journals, and Internet resources all of which can be searched/browsed by subject. Help tools are also available online to guide the searcher through the range of resources. The availability of remote access to information greatly facilitates the delivery of education to distant students, and enables the access to information by remote workers in the field. It revolutionises opportunity for students, scholars and practitioners alike. Many of the functions of the Cybrary are enhanced and supported through its membership of the Consortium, which is used as a vehicle for such activities as information sharing, continuing education, staff development, and cooperative research and development projects

Quality Assurance in a University Library

Libraries are significant cost centres in Universities, and in the current climate of economic pressures and outcomes assessments, cannot rely on a general perception that they are a “good thing”. This paper reviews the range of quality assurance practices employed in a large university library which put it in a position to demonstrate value. An annual quality assurance cycle of planning, implementing, reporting and reviewing is supplemented by quantitative measures of key indicators which are analysed for trends as well as benchmarked with cohorts of other university libraries. Qualitative assessment takes the form of external client satisfaction surveys, (also benchmarked) and internal staff perception surveys, conducted in alternate years. Through this program, a culture of quality service and continuous improvement has been fostered for more than a decade

Evaluation of a Program to Reduce Bullying in an Elementary School

Bullying is one of the most pervasive challenges in schools across the world. This investigation is an evaluation of a school’s attempt to address the large number of incidents of bullying. Materials from the Bully Free Classroom (BFC) by Allan Beane (2009) served as the intervention curriculum for 21, fifth grade students and six teachers. A 14-week (with the exception of school breaks), six lesson intervention was implemented with three groups of students: two groups identified as perpetrators and one group of victims. Teachers received training on bullying knowledge and how to appropriately report bullying-related incidents. Pre and post measures of bullying knowledge, frequency ratings of bullying and prosocial behaviors observed, and discipline referrals for bullying served as the dependent measures for the student participants. Results support the use of the intervention as the mean number of discipline referrals for participants of bully status significantly decreased, student ratings for negative behaviors significantly decreased, student knowledge of bullying significantly increased, and teacher’s ratings of the frequency of bullying decreased while school climate ratings became more positive. Moderate to large effect sizes are interpreted to provide strong support for a recommendation for school-wide adoption of the program. The scope and nature of the intervention plan is discussed in relation to recommended features of bully prevention and intervention programs and recommendations are made for implementation of this intervention

A Simulator for the Motorola M6800 Microprocessor

The Motorola Company has developed a microprocessor called the M6800 Microprocessor. While the microprocessor is being configured, it is general practice to develop the software at the same time. This is where simulation of the proposed hardware operation can become very important to the success of the design effort. The simulator duplicates the microprocessor execution of machine language instructions on another computer. The simulator discussed in this paper is denoted the SIM6800. The purpose of this paper is to describe the structure, coding, and execution of the SIM6800 simulator. A User\u27s Guide and sample program have been included

The influence of Carolingian political initiatives and correctio in ninth-century Brittany and the march: a study of the hagiographical dossiers of saints Machutus, Maglorius and Melanius and their political and ecclesiastical contexts

This study provides new analyses of three ninth-century hagiographical dossiers from north-eastern Brittany. It then analyses their implications for understanding Brittany and the march. Part I asks when and where each collection was written. Part II uses these collections to address a number of historical questions. The hagiographical dossiers are those of three bishops celebrated along Brittany’s north-eastern border and the march: Melanius of Rennes, Machutus of Alet and Maglorius of Dol. Each provides insight into foundations with interests in the Breton-Frankish frontier. Chapter 1 confirms earlier conclusions about when and where Melanius’ Vita was written. Chapter 2 adds discussion and dating of two additional hagiographies: the Vita and Miracula Philiberti and the Vitae Marculphi. Chapter 3 reaches conclusions on the authorship of Machutus’ dossier that hint at broader changes within his cult. Chapter 4 rewrites earlier scholars’ conclusions on the authorship of Maglorius’ dossier and the stages in which it was written. Finally, chapter 5 briefly considers the dating of some further Breton hagiographies: the vitae Samsonis and the Vita Pauli Aureliani. Chapter 6 explores how the Bretons were seen from the easternmost parts of the march. It focuses largely on the Life of St Melanius of Rennes, the easternmost of the marcher sees and arguably the most vulnerable to Breton raids. Chapter 7 compares the surviving Breton episcopal hagiographies to assess the progress of correctio in Brittany over the later ninth century. Chapter 8 explores how Maglorius’ cult promoted Dol’s interests by rewriting Samson’s career in condensed form in the Vita Maglorii