Special Libraries Collaborating with Academic Libraries to Build an Institutional Repository Collection

DePaul University has an Institutional Repository, Via Sapientia. They are looking for content to add and the law school faculty and students are consistent sources of new publications. The question becomes, how to get law school faculty to add their publications to a University Institutional Repository? The answer, collaboration between the Law Librarians and the University Librarians

News items : (i) Book Awards won by Peter Mayo and Leona English (ii) Flagging 2014 special issue ‘Knowledge production… Reflective dialogue between activists and academics’ with guest editor Nisha Thapyial.

These news items describe: (1) a book award won by Peter Mayo and Leona English (2) the theme of the next issue of 'Postcolonial Directions in Education', and (3) two conference visits made by the author: 'Quality in the classroom', in Kathmandu, Nepal, 2013, and the AERA conference in San Francisco, 2013

Three Caribbean conferences in Jamaica and Haiti, 2016

This article discusses the following conferences: 1. The Calabash Literary Festival, Jamaica: 3 -5 June 2016 - 2. The 41st Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA), Haiti : 6-11 June 2016 - 3. Geography Anniversary Conference celebrating 50 years of the Geography Department at the University of the West Indies (UWI): 27 June – 1 July 2016The Caribbean region regularly engenders and hosts intellectually stimulating educational and cultural events. In a visit this year to Jamaica, my country of origin, I experienced three of these events in June and July. It struck me that each had a richly postcolonial element of challenging negative legacies of colonialism, which have often solidified into current norms such as insufficiently tackling intellectual exclusion, neglecting material local problems, and downplaying or ignoring local achievement and culture. I reflect below on how the conferences contributed to countering such problems and establishing creative practices in intellectual culture.peer-reviewe

News items

This article contains academic reports by various scholars on "Learning with Adults: A Critical Pedagogical Introduction" by Leona M. English and Peter Mayo which won the 2013 Cyril O. Houle Award For ‘Outstanding Literature in Adult Education’ given by the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE). It also gives a brief overview of issues which will be discussed further in the next issue (Volume 3 No. 1) of Postcolonial Directions in Education. A few of the topics which will be discussed are The Landless Workers Movement and the politics of doing research with and about social movements in Brazil and India.peer-reviewe

The Biology of Seabirds Utilising Fishery Waste in Shetland

The aim of this study was to examine the role of fishery waste in the ecology of scavenging seabirds in Shetland. Changes in the populations of these scavenging seabirds were discussed. Fulmars, Gannets and possibly Great Black-backed Gulls are still increasing but Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gulls and probably Great Skuas are decreasing. The breeding performances of Herring Gulls, Great Skuas and Fulmars were studied on the Isle of Noss in 1983 and 1984. Great Skuas fledged fewer chicks than elsewhere but the breeding success of Herring Gulls and Fulmars was comparable to other areas. Chick condition of the three species did not differ significantly between years or from chicks of the same species measured elsewhere. Seabird diet was examined on Noss from 1983 to 1985. Whitefish occurred most commonly in Herring Gull chick regurgitates while intertidal invertebrates were most important in adult food remains. Most Great Skua chick regurgitates contained whitefish. Whitefish and seabird were the commonest food types recorded in the diet of breeding and non-breeding Great Skuas and Sandeel was recorded more often early in the season. Whitefish (including offal) occurred more frequently than Sandeel in the regurgitates of Fulmar adults and chicks. Haddock, Whiting, Norway Pout and Sandeel were the commonest fish species to occur in pellets regurgitated by gulls and Great Skuas. Otolith lengths of Whiting and Haddock regurgitated by Great Skuas were smaller than the lengths regurgitated by Great Black-backed Gulls which, in turn, were smaller than those regurgitated by Herring Gulls. Behind whitefish trawlers in Shetland, Fulmars occurred in highest numbers and Great Black-backed Gulls were next in importance. Fewer Great Skuas, Gannets, Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gulls were present. More birds attended trawlers far out to sea than close inshore. About 27% of whitefish catches was discarded and about 90% of offal and 75% of discarded fish were consumed by seabirds. Trawler waste around Shetland could support approximately 200,000 seabirds. Haddock and Whiting were the two commonest discard species. Fulmars consumed most of the offal. Great Black-backed Gulls took most of the discards, but Gannets and Great Skuas also consumed many. Herring Gulls obtained little fishery waste at sea. Flatfish and gurnards were swallowed less often and gadoids more often than expected. Gannets and Great Black-backed Gulls swallowed most fish that they handled but the other bird species had a lower success rate. Fewer Haddock and Whiting than other fish species were dropped. Great Black-backed Gulls and Great Skuas stole more fish than other bird species. Great Black-backed Gulls and Gannets stole more fish than they lost to kleptoparasites but the other bird species had more fish stolen. Haddock and whiting swallowed by Great Skuas, Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gulls were smaller than the mean discard length. The proportion of fish dropped by seabirds increased with fish length. The lengths of dropped and stolen fish were longer than the mean lengths swallowed by each bird species. Larger birds swallowed larger fish. Handling times of fish increased with increasing fish length. Great Black-backed Gulls and Gannets swallowed fish more quickly than other birds

Infertility in British South Asian communities: negotiating the community and the clinic.

Whilst there is research evidence on the consequences of involuntary childlessness in majority ethnic communities in the UK and other more developed societies, and also a growing literature on the experiences of infertile women in less well-resourced countries, there is a dearth of research exploring the potential impact of ethnicity and culture on the experience of infertility within Western societies.To begin to address this lacuna, this thesis was designed to exlore the social meanings of infertility in British South Asian communities, and the infertility experiences of individual South Asian women. The study used a qualitative, interpretive approach, and employed a multiple method design. The first phase of the study consisted of 13 single gender focus groups with a total of 87 participants of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnic origin, which explored public perceptions of involuntary childlessness and attitudes towards infertility treatments. The second phase of the study included in-depth interviews with 15 individuals of South Asian ethnic origin who had experience of infertility

An Introduction to Police Operations and Methods: The Connection to Law and History

An Introduction to Police Operations and Methods: The Connection to Law and History textbook provides an overview of the complex and evolving role of police in a modern democratic society. Police officers are expected to respond to the demands of competing constituencies and resolve complex societal and individual problems. The invocation of the formal criminal justice system and the use of force to accomplish lawful objectives is sometimes required. In order to understand how and why the police operate as they do, the history of organized law enforcement is examined. Attention is given to the selection and training of qualified officers. Given that patrol work and criminal investigations constitute a significant portion of the police function; police operations, behavior, and culture are also addressed. Underlying the day-to-day work of police officers are the pervasive issues of ethics and discretion that may lead to abuses of power, deviance, and, corruption. The text concludes with an overview of police and the rule of law by identifying significant Supreme Court decisions that have shaped the limits of law enforcement authority.https://aquila.usm.edu/textbooks/1000/thumbnail.jp

An Introduction to Police Operations and Methods: The Connection to Law and History

An Introduction to Police Operations and Methods: The Connection to Law and History textbook provides an overview of the complex and evolving role of police in a modern democratic society. Police officers are expected to respond to the demands of competing constituencies and resolve complex societal and individual problems. The invocation of the formal criminal justice system and the use of force to accomplish lawful objectives is sometimes required. In order to understand how and why the police operate as they do, the history of organized law enforcement is examined. Attention is given to the selection and training of qualified officers. Given that patrol work and criminal investigations constitute a significant portion of the police function; police operations, behavior, and culture are also addressed. Underlying the day-to-day work of police officers are the pervasive issues of ethics and discretion that may lead to abuses of power, deviance, and, corruption. The text concludes with an overview of police and the rule of law by identifying significant Supreme Court decisions that have shaped the limits of law enforcement authority.https://aquila.usm.edu/textbooks/1000/thumbnail.jp

Sharing Faculty Collaboration Success Stories

At the University of Southern Mississippi, and across the country in Academic Libraries, the mantra for Public Services Librarians is to develop relationships with your assigned faculty members and to work with them collaboratively. This presentation will highlight three success stories from a new librarian’s first year: a reinvention of basic library instruction for our English 102 course; office hours and a pathfinder for our History 101 course; and, coauthoring an open access textbook (with a cop!). The presenter will encourage the audience to share their own success stories so that we can all grow together. Attendees will leave with a set of tips and tricks for developing their own successful faculty relationships