Libraries and Museums: Fostering GLAM Collaboration at the University of Iowa

This report outlines the findings of the University of Iowa (UI) Executive Leadership Academy – Higher Education (ELA) project team GLAM1 during the 2017-18 academic year. Team GLAM was charged by the UI Stanley Museum of Art Interim Chair James Leach and UI Librarian John Culshaw with investigating the present state and potential of new collaboration between the Stanley Museum and those UI Libraries with the greatest focus on the visual arts. This report provides the team’s findings, as well as its recommendations for forging new relationships and leveraging the strengths of both types of institution to transform them into places where bold experiments will generate new ideas for research, teaching, and service. Based on our discussions, research, site visits, interviews, and ideation sessions held between October 2017 and April 2018, team GLAM recommends implementation of the following five broad collaborative practices. Full details around these recommendations can be found on pps. 18-20 in the final report: Establish a formal GLAM committee that is empowered to shape an environment on campus where GLAM can flourish and be sustained. Increase opportunities for collaborations across staff positions. Reward and recognize staff and faculty who actively and productively collaborate in GLAM research, teaching, and service activities. Identify and proactively pursue grants and other funding opportunities that support collaborative activities across GLAM. Invest in digitization and joint technologies related to accessibility and discovery. GLAM on the UI campus faces enormous budgetary, technology, and other environmental challenges that are most effectively addressed by broader collaboration across campus, beyond traditional organizational structures and disciplines. By strengthening current collaborations while seeking new ones across campus, the Stanley Museum of Art and the UI Libraries can leverage the strengths of both entities and advance their missions in service of UI’s broader strategic goals

The impact of culture on the perceptions of graphic symbols in kindergarten age children

Graphic symbols have been used for many years as a means of augmenting or providing alternative communication for individuals with little or no functional speech. Brown (1977, 1978) suggests factors that can affect an individual\u27s perception of symbols, one of which is culture. Researchers in the last decade have suggested the cultural background of an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) user might have an important influence on his or her perception and use of graphic symbols. The current study was designed to investigate perception of graphic symbols in Kindergarten aged children across two cultural backgrounds Spanish and English. Two groups totaling 22 subjects participated in two tasks measuring iconicity (transparency and translucency). Results indicated no significant difference between the two groups as a whole, but there were statistically significant differences for some of the individual symbols. Results are discussed at the word level and implications are provided in the discussion. The major limitation if the study was the small sample size

Diagnostic challenges of motility disorders: optimal detection of CD117+ interstitial cells of Cajal.

AIMS: Several gastrointestinal motility diseases are associated with altered numbers of interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC), and testing for alterations in numbers of ICC has been proposed as one way to improve routine diagnosis in motility diseases. However, the protocols currently used to visualize ICC in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue using antibodies to CD117 have not been optimized for studying motility disorders. The aims of this study were therefore to determine the optimal protocol using FFPE tissue, determine normal values for ICC in non-neoplastic human colon, and compare results with those obtained using immunofluorescence (IF). METHODS AND RESULTS: Non-neoplastic tissue was collected from patients undergoing resection for colonic cancer and fixed for both light (FFPE) and IF testing. Sections were processed for standard immunohistochemistry using different primary antibodies in conjunction with variations in antigen retrieval [ethylenediamine tetraacetricacid (EDTA), citrate], antibody dilution, blocking and detection (Mach2, Mach3, Envision+). Best results were obtained with EDTA retrieval, the DAKO CD117 antibody and Mach3 detection. CONCLUSIONS: The optimized protocol presented improved CD117 detection in FFPE tissues and showed good concordance with overall localization of CD117-immunoreactive ICC as detected by IF. As such, this protocol may be more useful than current diagnostic procedures in motility disorders.Journal ArticleResearch Support, N.I.H. ExtramuralSCOPUS: ar.jFLWINinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe