How to walk on water

PodcastEvery year, thanks to the generosity of Jeffrey E. Smith, The Missouri Review is able to bring all of our Jeffrey E. Smith Editor's Prize winners to Columbia for the weekend to celebrate with the staff and to read their award winning works. The Missouri Review will begin this week with it's current Editor's Prize winner in Fiction, Rachel Swearingen, reading her award winning short story, "How to walk on water.

Facilitating Discovery of Historic Sound Recordings: Classroom and Research Strategies

The Belfer Audio Archive at Syracuse University Libraries holds one of the largest collections of sound recordings in the USA, specializing in formats dating from the 1890s to the 1970s. The co-presenters encourage student interaction with these collections, guiding their research and understanding of the recordings’ cultural significance and relevance. Experience shows that immediate engagement with music on pre-LP recordings is often lacking, especially given sonic imperfections that characterize playback from original media. Therefore, we create opportunities for students to discover and engage with historic recordings – to hear them, research them, and ultimately reference or repurpose them in their own creative thinking.The Belfer Director presents as a case study her “Music and Audio Cultures” class, aimed at teaching communications and audio arts students about music’s dissemination through radio and sound recordings. They are generally unfamiliar with terminology for articulating ideas about music or basic resources for researching it. In one assignment, each student produces a 2–3 minute digital audio piece, using two Edison cylinder recordings (selected and downloaded from the Belfer digital collection) to illustrate some aspect of music/sound in the world today. The student’s voice-over narrative includes both researched information and original thoughts about the music/sounds that move from foreground to background in the digital soundscape.The first challenge is engaging students’ interest in the cylinders, because they have little connection with recorded content issued a century ago. On the current website, students make discoveries using a browseable genre list, generated for the digital view. In a parallel paper, our catalogers discuss how they plan to give patrons meaningful access to Belfer recordings using new kinds of subject access points, both in the general catalog and in our future digital platform.For the music librarian, a second challenge is connecting students with library resources to research these historic recordings. The library’s current music resources guide uses a musicological approach that assumes music-specific knowledge and is incomplete for other aspects of these students’ needs. The music librarian instead presents the research guide developed for this class. It introduces non-musicians to music-specific sources such as discographies and basic music reference, and provides a pathfinder to resources in areas outside of musicology. This presentation describes the information approaches explored in developing the course research guide and identifies additional types of resources and collections needed to support this class, including historical news sources, radio and media catalogs, recorded sound and music industry histories, and materials to help non-musicians engage with music

Can Your Students Get Jobs? Library Help for Music Students\u27 Career Preparation

Your campus career center may not have the insider knowledge to help music students with their job hunts. Enhance and update your knowledge of industry information, techniques, and resources that support performers, music business professionals, and students pursuing other types of music careers as they enter the job market. Topics covered will include self-promotion for musicians, form contracts, resources for understanding standard contract terms, and locating company profile and industry trend research to identify potential employers and prepare for interviews

One Library, Many Music Departments: Developing and Integrated Library Instruction Program for All

The undergraduate music curriculum at Syracuse University spans multiple academic departments and colleges, comprising liberal arts, conservatory, and professional degree programs. This diversity has been a challenge to providing adequate and appropriately timed library instruction, resulting in some students receiving the same one-shot session multiple times and others receiving none at all. Faculty across music departments expressed that music students were lacking both basic and music-specific information literacy skills. As the new music librarian, I sought to bridge the various departments and develop an integrated library instruction plan for all music undergraduate programs. In cooperation with faculty, I established library instructional goals, mapped music curriculum paths to identify instructional opportunities, and developed a combination of in-person instruction sessions and out-of-class activities to achieve information literacy goals. When possible, library instruction was paired with pre-existing course assignments for both classroom and studio. This presentation will cover the developmental process for the integrated program, the sessions and materials completed as of fall 2013, and projected opportunities for future expansion

Data-Driven Music Score Approval Plans: Working with data and vendors to get what you need

Approval profiles for music scores are detailed plans that require local data analysis, assessment, and coordination between vendors and librarians. This panel will explore the process of developing, assessing, and editing approval criteria, with a focus on making evidence-based decisions. Librarian experiences presented will include setting up an approval plan for the first time and adjusting an established approval plan with new criteria. Local data sources discussed include use data from circulation and interlibrary loan histories, institutional performance history from concert and recital programs, e-resource availability, and faculty input from surveys and interviews. The panel will also cover broader issues that arise in data-driven decisions, including how the presenters handled the potential disconnect between faculty survey data and use data and how vendors work with librarians to assess approval parameters and ensure the desired mix of materials

Data Driven Music Score Approval Plans

Approval profiles for music scores are detailed plans that require local data analysis, assessment, and coordination between vendors and librarians. This panel will explore the process of developing, assessing, and editing approval criteria, with a focus on making evidence-based decisions. Librarian experiences presented will include setting up an approval plan for the first time and adjusting an established approval plan with new criteria. Local data sources discussed include use data from circulation and interlibrary loan histories, institutional performance history from concert and recital programs, e-resource availability, and faculty input from surveys and interviews. The panel will also cover broader issues that arise in data-driven decisions, including how the presenters handled the potential disconnect between faculty survey data and use data and how vendors work with librarians to assess approval parameters and ensure the desired mix of materials. This presentation was given at the 2018 Music Library Association Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. It appeared on a panel of two presenters: Rachel Fox Von Swearingen and Winston Barham, University of Virginia. His slides are available separately

Can Your Students Get Jobs? Library Help for Music Students’ Career Prep

Your campus career center may not have the insider knowledge to help music students with their job hunts. Enhance and update your knowledge of industry information, techniques, and resources that support performers, music business professionals, and students pursuing other types of music careers as they enter the job market. Topics covered will include self-promotion for musicians, form contracts, resources for understanding standard contract terms, and locating company profile and industry trend research to identify potential employers and prepare for interviews

Wild eyes, loyal hearts : a journey to understanding equus instincts

Horses have been a part of society since they were first domesticated 6,000 years ago, giving people for the first time the ability to travel up to 35 miles per hour and near 100 miles per day. This changed the way people approached the world, opening up opportunities that had never before been possible. Across history, horses have been used for consumption, managing herds of livestock, war, trade, communication, and recreation. Their vitality in society has lead people to search for faster and more efficient ways to control and manage them. But in the race for ease and speed, many have resorted to actions of violence, pain, and fear that are only effective in the short term and don't bring out the best in a horse because they have strayed too far from the horses' natural instincts. When my favorite horse went blind, I was faced with a choice: reevaluate everything I thought I knew about horses or give up on him and move on. I chose the former, launching myself on a journey of rediscovery where I learned how to truly listen to horses and their wild eyes for the very first time.Honors CollegeThesis (B.?

Decentralization policies and clean water practitioners: using hollow fiber membrane water filters to reduce the prevalence of GI-related symptoms and diagnoses in rural Honduras

Illnesses caused by dirty water are still prevalent in developing countries, resulting in significant health problems. This study explores how hollow fiber membrane point-of-use filters can reduce the prevalence of gastrointestinal (GI)-related symptoms and diagnoses. We summarize the current approach and policies regarding clean water in Honduras, which is marked by decentralization, and note the resulting challenges for clean water provision. To highlight how this works in practice, we combine medical brigade diagnosis data with survey data to explore the effect of point-of-use water filters on the prevalence of GI-related symptoms and diagnoses in rural south-central Honduras. Using OLS and penalized logistic regression, we find that hollow fiber membrane filters are effective in reducing GI-related diseases. Specifically, they reduce the number of GI-related symptoms by 0.30, and specifically those patients complaining of stomach aches (39 percent), diarrhea (39 percent), and vomiting (70 percent). We also find that they reduce the likelihood of a patient receiving an infectious disease/parasitic diagnosis (48 percent in all patients and 87 percent in children under the age of 13 years). These results have significant implications on those working with non-profit and non-governmental organizations to bring clean water to those living in developing nations