Top Ten Things I Didn't Learn in Library School

After graduating from Indiana University's School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) in December of 1995 with my MLS, I began working as the Instructional Services librarian at the University of Southern Indiana (USI) in Evansville, Indiana, in January 1996. Throughout my daily routine, I find myself using many applications, theories, and ideas taught at SLIS. In addition, each day is a learning experience at US1 where much of my time is spent interacting with students, librarians, and support staff at the university, as well as staying aware of current trends in technology and instruction. After one year, I am taking a moment to reflect - and believe me, it is a moment - upon many things not taught or emphasized enough during my graduate school training. Below is a list of ten items in no particular order that I have found challenging during my first year. I hope this list will help prepare future graduates for the challenges and responsibilities that await them once they begin a career as a professional librarian

Microclimate effects of short rotation tree-strips in Germany

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The Cringe and the Sneer: Structures of Feeling in Veep

This article approaches cringe comedy through the lens of its affectivity, of the somatic experiences through which it puts its audiences’ bodies, and it uses this as a point of departure to think about the genre’s cultural work. Based on the observation that no cringe comedy makes its viewers cringe for the whole duration of its storytelling, the article suggests that cringe comedies thrive on destabilizing and ambiguating the affective valence of their performances of embarrassment, constantly recalibrating or muddying the distance between viewer and characters. They are marked by tipping points at which schadenfreude and other types of humor tip into cringe, and reversely, at which cringe tips into something else. The article focuses on one of these other affective responses, which it proposes to describe as the sneer. It uses the HBO-series Veep as a case study to explore how cringe and sneer aesthetics are interlaced in an exemplary comedy, and how they fuel this particular comedy’s satiric work

To Sue and Make Noise' - Legal theatricality and civic didacticism in Boston Legal

The legal drama episode from which this dialogue is taken depicts an impossible case: a Sudanese immigrant, who lost most of his family to the violence in Darfur, wants to sue the U.S. government for failing to intervene in the face of obvious genocide. The case is unwinnable. Lori Colson’s construction of a legal basis for the case is more than shaky. But neither the client nor his lawyers expect to win the case. Their proclaimed objective – to “make noise” – pinpoints a significant cultural potential of litigation, of its “real” practice in the courtroom and, even more importantly, in its various forms of mass-medialization and fictionalization: to raise public awareness about instances of injustice, to educate the public and encourage civic debate

Of Legal Roulette and Eccentric Clients - Contemporary TV Legal Drama as (Post-)Postmodern Public Sphere

This article explores the specific capacity of TV courtroom drama to dramatize civic issues and to seduce viewers to an active engagement with such issues. I argue that television series of this genre eyploit the apparent theatricality of their subject matter-trials-to invite their audiences to the deliberation of social or political issues, issues that they negotiate in their courtroom plots. contemporary courtroom dramas amend this issue orientation with a self-reflexive dimension in wich they encourage viewers to also reflect on how the dramatic construction of 'issues' shapes their civic debate. I unfold this argument through a reading of episodes from two very different legal dramas, Boston Legal (2004-2008) and The Good Wife (2009-)

Knowledge sharing in heterogeneous collaborations:a longitudinal investigation of a cross-cultural research collaboration in nanoscience

In times of globalization and rapidly developing R&D systems, the importance of international collaborative research activities increases, leading to a growing number of heterogeneous collaborations. Especially considering the cultural diversity of such collaborations, intensive cross-cultural knowledge sharing becomes a prerequisite for collaborative success. This paper investigates personal and cultural incentives and barriers influencing the intention to share knowledge of Chinese and German collaborators in an academic setting, employing a linear regression analysis and Chow tests. We can demonstrate that the factors sense of self-worth, loss of knowledge power, guanxi and face saving have an influence on an individual’s intention to share knowledge. Further we find significant differences in our Chinese and German subgroups that can be related to cultural impacts. The obtained results provide practical and theoretical implications for the improvement of cross-cultural knowledge sharing in collaborative R&D project.<br

Overcoming Resistance: Motivating Students to Join the Information Age

The suggestions gathered from the Talk Table can assist both the public library patron and the academic library student in gaining confidence in using the library. In the discussion, patron resistance was generally seen as anxiety created by inexperience withusing libraries. The experience of the participants reflected that when students and patrons become oriented to the library, resistance and hesitation greatly diminish. Ideas offered by the group fell mainly into the categories of library resources and library instruction

Seed germination in goose grass (Eleusine indica)

Low germination of freshly harvested Eleusine indica caryopses indicated some form of dormancy. Water uptake studies indicated that the covering structures of the propagules are permeable to water. As scarification breaks the dormant condition a mechanical effect for the covering structures is indicated. With ageing, dormancy becomes progressively less and the seeds become more sensitive to gibberellic acid applications which increase germination significantly

Reversal Collision Dynamics

Motivated by the study of reversal behaviour of myxobacteria, in this article we are interested in a kinetic model for reversal dynamics, in which particles with directions close to be opposite undergo binary collision resulting in reversing their orientations. To this aim, a generic model for binary collisions between particles with states in a general metric space exhibiting specific symmetry properties is proposed and investigated. The reversal process is given by an involution on the space, and the rate of collision is only supposed to be bounded and lower semi-continuous. We prove existence and uniqueness of measure solutions as well as their convergence to equilibrium, using the graph-theoretical notion of connectivity. We first characterise the shape of equilibria in terms of connected components of a graph on the state space, which can be associated to the initial data of the problem. Strengthening the notion of connectivity on subsets for which the rate of convergence is bounded below, we then show exponential convergence towards the unique steady-state associated to the initial condition. The article is concluded with numerical simulations set on the one-dimensional torus giving evidence to the analytical results