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Community Arts: Sustainability in Austerity
The aim of the research project about which this document reports was to explore some of the ways in which three case study community-based organisations in Norwich β and especially those with either a current or previously significant involvement in arts activity β have been affected by the current period of financial austerity
Understanding the Cultural Value of 'In Harmony-Sistema England'
This research project on which this paper reports was designed to explore questions of cultural value in relation to the schools music project In Harmony-Sistema England. Our core research focus has been upon the ways in which children, their teachers and tutors, and their families understand the value of their participation in IHSE initiatives. The project engaged with three case studies of IHSE initiatives (based in Norwich, Telford and Newcastle) and qualitative data was gathered with primary school children, school staff, parents and IHSE musicians in all three cases
Introducing Vireo: an ETD Submittal and Management System for DSpace
4th International Conference on Open RepositoriesThis presentation was part of the session : DSpace User Group PresentationsDate: 2009-05-20 03:30 PM β 05:00 PMThe Texas Digital Library (TDL) is a consortium of public and private institutions from across the state of Texas; a major project in TDL is the development of a state-wide repository for managing the entire life-cycle of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). The Texas ETD Repository is a large effort that span multiple independent initiatives, all of which interact to support the overall task of managing ETDs in Texas. This presentation will describe Vireo, the customized submission and workflow management application that TDL developed for DSpace, and it's role within the Texas ETD Repository. We will describe its current implementation as a Manakin aspect and theme, and discuss the future plans for the application, including its release to the repository community under an open source license.Institute for Museum and Library Sciences; Texas Digital Librar
Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento
In this paper we present the results of a study into the persistence and
availability of web resources referenced from papers in scholarly repositories.
Two repositories with different characteristics, arXiv and the UNT digital
library, are studied to determine if the nature of the repository, or of its
content, has a bearing on the availability of the web resources cited by that
content. Memento makes it possible to automate discovery of archived resources
and to consider the time between the publication of the research and the
archiving of the referenced URLs. This automation allows us to process more
than 160000 URLs, the largest known such study, and the repository metadata
allows consideration of the results by discipline. The results are startling:
45% (66096) of the URLs referenced from arXiv still exist, but are not
preserved for future generations, and 28% of resources referenced by UNT papers
have been lost. Moving forwards, we provide some initial recommendations,
including that repositories should publish URL lists extracted from papers that
could be used as seeds for web archiving systems.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures. Accepted to Open Repositories 2011 Conferenc
Comparison of full-text versus metadata searching in an institutional repository: Case study of the UNT Scholarly Works
Authors in the library science field disagree about the importance of using
costly resources to create local metadata records, particularly for scholarly
materials that have full-text search alternatives. At the University of North
Texas (UNT) Libraries, we decided to test this concept by answering the
question: What percentage of search terms retrieved results based on full-text
versus metadata values for items in the UNT Scholarly Works institutional
repository? The analysis matched search query logs to indexes of the metadata
records and full text of the items in the collection. Results show the
distribution of item discoveries that were based on metadata exclusively, on
full text exclusively, and on the combination of both. This paper describes in
detail the methods and findings of this study
Improved Student Outcomes in a Flipped Statistics Course
Statistics is a required competency in numerous college majors, but students frequently approach the topic with anxiety. This paper describes an undergraduate statistics course that was flipped, with most of the content delivery moved online and class time devoted to application and practice. Students were given a menu of learning tools from which to choose and were free to utilize as many or as few as they felt was appropriate, giving them ownership of their learning experience and the opportunity to tailor the course to their personal needs. The classroom experience included brief segments of lecture but consisted primarily of exercises and peer-facilitation. Course grading was based solely on four exams, a comprehensive final exam, and a major end-of-course project. Student response to the format was somewhat bimodal. Comprehensive final exam grades were significantly higher (an average of almost one full letter grade), and course pass rates rose using the flipped course format
The power and limits of the emergency state
African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented August 1989This paper is an assessment of the strategies, structures and resources that
the Emergency State has deployed to fight its battles on the "political
terrain" (1). We intend demonstrating that a new set of strategies are being
implemented in response to the failure in the face of mass resistance of the
early "total strategy" reforms. While capital and the popular classes have
pursued in their own ways a range of strategies to transform apartheid, the
state (and the interests that dominate it) has been able to mobilise enormous
resources and coordinate ambitious policies to respond to these challenges
Altruism, Egoism, or Something Else: Rewarding Volunteers Effectively and Affordably
Laura Phillips, PhD, is an assistant professor of management sciences at Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas, 79699.
Mark Phillips, PhD, is an associate professor of management sciences at Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas, 79699
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