Interview with Dana Rooks

An oral history interview with Dana Rooks, who served as Dean of Libraries at the University of Houston from 1997-2014

Performing responsibility: ethical 'know-how' through drama facilitation

I explore, and reflect on, the everyday ethical practices of drama facilitation. Rather than being\ud a set of principles I apply, ethics emerge as I respond to situations that arise in a drama\ud workshop. Their significance calls for understanding workshop facilitation as a space of\ud containment. This offers the possibility of transforming personal and social being through the\ud tensions and possibilities of interactive activities and conversations. To illustrate, I reflect\ud upon an experience in a high school where an exploration of racism led to my learning from\ud (and through) facilitation practice. Using a hermeneutic process of interpretation and\ud interrogation that draws on the work of German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, I explore\ud how I moved beyond ethics to ethical know-how

Symposium on the Role of Network-Based Electronic Resources in Scholarly Communication and Research

Increasingly, BITNET, Internet, and other networks are being used for scholarly communication and research purposes. Computer conferences, electronic serials, online catalogs, and specialized databases are examples of network-based electronic resources. Given the decentralized nature of information provision on networks, it can be challenging to identify and access appropriate network-based electronic resources, and the long-term availability of these resources is not assured

Terms for Academic Library Directors

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