Italy

Suggested Resources for the Penn Alumni Travel excursion in Italy. See the Library Guide for this bibliography here

Periodical Use in a University Music Library: A Citation Study of Theses and Dissertations Submitted to the Indiana University School of Music from 1975-1980

In an effort to measure in-house use of music periodicals, a citation study based on bibliographies in theses and dissertations was conducted at the Indiana University Music Library. A total of 256 titles were cited, but only 30% were cited more than once. While the periodical literature cited by musicologists has a low rate of obsolescence, the periodicals cited by theorists and educators becomes obsolete at a rapid rate, making the rate of obsolescence for the field as a whole, fairly high, unlike other subject areas in the humanities

Distant Music: Delivering Audio over the Internet

Advances in audio technology in the 1980s and 1990s made it possible for librarians to create digital copies of sound recordings and to provide off-site access to them through streaming-media servers. Because streaming technology could accommodate heavy use at odd hours from any location, librarians quickly applied the new digital audio technologies to curricular listening assignments, providing a parallel to the print e-reserves projects developed by academic libraries during the 1990s. The results of a survey of thirty-nine digital audio reserves projects offers information on streaming formats, streaming rates, access control, user interfaces, staffing, equipment, and costs

Apulia: Undiscovered Italy

Suggested readings for the Penn Alumni Travel event in Apulia. See the Library Guide for this bibliography here

Publishing Undergraduate Research Electronically

The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania has as a goal expanding opportunities for undergraduates to conduct significant research and promoting the products of this research. CUREJ, the College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal, was developed in collaboration with the Penn Libraries to achieve this goal

Content Recruitment and Development: A Proactive Approach to Building an Institutional Repository

Describes the history of ScholarlyCommons@Penn and the service-oriented approach the staff have taken in recruiting participants and building content

Reconnecting through language in Africa

This paper is an examination of community efforts to reconnect through language in Africa. This survey is arranged by geographical area (Northeast Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa) and includes a subsection on the awakening of African writing systems. Cases surveyed include: Coptic, Ge‘ez, Yaaku, Elmolo, Ma\u27a (Inner Mbugu), Cape Khoekhoe, Nǀuu, Tjwao, and Chingoni. Writing systems that have undergone awakening include Tifinagh and Nubian. En este trabajo se analizan esfuerzos en África para reconectar por medio de la lengua desde las comunidades. Esta recopilación está organizada con base en las areas geográficas del continente Africano (noroeste, este, sur y oeste) e incluye una subsección acerca del despertar de sistemas de escritura africanos. Los casos que se presentan en este trabajo incluyen las lenguas cóptica, ge‘ez, yaaku, elmolo, ma\u27a (mbugu del interior), Cape Khoekhoe, nǀuu, tjwao, and chingoni. Los sistemas de escritura en revitalización incluyen tifinagh y nubiano

Natural climate solutions for the United States

© The Author(s), 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Science Advances 4 (2018): eaat1869, doi:10.1126/sciadv.aat1869.Limiting climate warming to <2°C requires increased mitigation efforts, including land stewardship, whose potential in the United States is poorly understood. We quantified the potential of natural climate solutions (NCS)—21 conservation, restoration, and improved land management interventions on natural and agricultural lands—to increase carbon storage and avoid greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. We found a maximum potential of 1.2 (0.9 to 1.6) Pg CO2e year−1, the equivalent of 21% of current net annual emissions of the United States. At current carbon market prices (USD 10 per Mg CO2e), 299 Tg CO2e year−1 could be achieved. NCS would also provide air and water filtration, flood control, soil health, wildlife habitat, and climate resilience benefits.This study was made possible by funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. C.A.W. and H.G. acknowledge financial support from NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System program (NNH14ZDA001N-CMS) under award NNX14AR39G. S.D.B. acknowledges support from the DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research Program under the award DE-SC0014416. J.W.F. acknowledges financial support from the Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research program under National Science Foundation grant no. DEB-1237517