Archiving Web Site Resources: A Records Management View

In this paper, we propose the use of records management principles to identify and manage Web site resources with enduring value as records. Current Web archiving activities, collaborative or organisational, whilst extremely valuable in their own right, often do not and cannot incorporate requirements for proper records management. Material collected under such initiatives therefore may not be reliable or authentic from a legal or archival perspective, with insufficient metadata collected about the object during its active life, and valuable materials destroyed whilst ephemeral items are maintained. Education, training, and collaboration between stakeholders are integral to avoiding these risks and successfully preserving valuable Web-based materials.

Al margen del cristianismo y del comentario: técnicas del yo, auto-escritura y genealogía del sujeto moderno

In this piece, I read Foucault’s text “Self Writing” through the lens of technologies of the self. A late addition to the conceptual framework of Foucault’s project, technologies of the self highlight the way in which the subject can transform him/herself, which adds a new component to the analytic of the formation of subjectivity and the genealogy of the modern subject. In Foucault’s discussion of self-writing, techniques of the self illustrate the nature of the distinction between Greco-Roman and Christian practices, the stakes of the distinction in the work of a genealogy of the modern subject, and the way in which writing as a practice functioned across its historical shifts. I highlight two movements to read Foucault’s comparison of Greco-Roman and Christian writing practices: the development of the techniques, and the development of their ethical values. In particular, I suggest the Christian invention of self-renunciation and self-hermeneutics is a crucial distinction in these techniques. In the end, I move to return to literature in the modern context, even despite its inheritance of these techniques, to consider a case in which the text can illustrate other modes of relation to oneself and, as a critical-political movement, expand the conceptual possibilities of modes of being.  A lo largo de este trabajo se leerán los ejemplos y referencias al cristianismo que encontramos en el texto de Foucault de 1983 “La escritura de sí” a través de la comparación que este hace entre las técnicas de sí grecorromanas y las cristianas. Sostendremos que la comparación entre ambas se conecta al persistente interés de Foucault por la genealogía del sujeto moderno, en particular por la invención cristiana de la “hermenéutica de sí”, y a que el contraste entre las prácticas grecorromanas y las cristianas ilustra dos modelos alternativos de existencia que se mantienen en las formas de subjetividad modernas. Sobre estas bases, los ejemplos grecorromanos ilustran la posibilidad conceptual de una alternativa a la hermenéutica de sí. Por último, se comparará un texto de escritura del yo del siglo XX —el Roland Barthes por Roland Barthes— con los casos grecorromanos presentes en “La escritura de sí” como ejemplos de escritura del yo que ilustran el contraste entre las tradiciones grecorromana y cristiana de la hermenéutica de sí

Editorial

ARQUITECTURA MÁS ALLÁ DE LA SUSTENTABILIDADEs un hecho que la pandemia Covid 19 ha impactado no solo nuestras vidas, sino también la disciplina de la arquitectura, que ha alzado la mirada hacia la salud y bienestar de las personas que habitan espacios arquitectónicos. La verdad es que el bienestar de los ocupantes ha sido materia de interés disciplinar desde ya hace varios años, pero se ha visto enfatizado aún más con los requerimientos de higienización y calidad ambiental de los espacios, derivados de la pandemia. Hoy, esperamos que la arquitectura sustentable no solo apunte a mitigar los impactos negativos que las edificaciones generan sobre el medio ambiente sino también entregue espacios saludables, confortables, centrados en los habitantes. De esta manera, la agenda de sustentabilidad en la arquitectura, usualmente orientada hacia aspectos ambientales como energía cero, eficiencia hídrica o economía circular, comienza a abarcar la dimensión social con mucha más fuerza. Quizás esta tendencia surge en parte como reacción a los edificios de alto desempeño que mantienen la lógica de la arquitectura internacional del siglo XX –un estilo arquitectónico para todos los climas– donde una envolvente con materiales altamente tecnologizados, sistemas de climatización e iluminación sofisticados y eficientes permiten eficientes desempeños ambientales en distintos contextos. Actualmente, en distintas partes del mundo, se aboga por una arquitectura más “humanizada”

Writing fiction during writing workshop in first grade

The purpose of this study is to examine how first graders respond to and perform within the writing workshop model. The workshop model is used during the writing of fiction pieces. One goal of this study was to determine how the students would respond to choosing their own topics. A second goal of this study was to determine if students would be successful in composing fiction pieces through the use of this model. The third goal of this study was to determine if there would be gender differences within the choice of topic. The findings showed that the students were enthusiastic about choosing their own topics, most were successful composing fiction pieces, and there were gender differences in the topics chosen

THE ROLE OF THE HIP ABDUCTOR MUSCLE COMPLEX IN THE FUNCTION OF THE PATHOLOGICAL HIP JOINT

The number of patients electing to undergo total hip arthroplasty (THA) in the United States has been projected to double by the year 2030, with a growing number of these patients below the age of 65 years. This cohort of patients not only desires to return to pain free daily activity, but wishes to participate in recreation and sporting activities. However, many of these patients report pain, impairments, and functional limitations following THA. The number one deficit observed for patients who fail conventional post-operative rehabilitation is persistent weakness of the hip abductor muscles. In order to safely progress these patients back to their desired activity level, appropriate postoperative rehabilitation programs need to be developed. The primary objective of this dissertation was to examine the effectiveness of a hip abductor strengthening program on subjective and objective outcomes following THA. The secondary aims of this study were to document hip muscle activation and lower extremity movement patterns during functional exercises; and to compare shortterm subjective and objective clinical outcomes for subjects following THA compared to controls. Several observations were made from our results. First, the lunge, single leg squat, and step-up and over exercises may be appropriate to include in post-operative rehabilitation programs to transition THA subjects from static strengthening exercises to dynamic activities. Second, subjects at 6- and 12-weeks following THA continue to exhibit strength and functional deficits, which contributes to decreases in activity level. Third, the addition of an exercise program targeting the hip abductor muscles following THA may help to improve subjective and objective outcomes compared to conventional post-operative rehabilitation. Finally, findings from our results are summarized and we propose a model to develop patient-specific rehabilitation programs

Baby Boom

Students weren\u27t the only ones up all night during the 2017-18 academic year. Five people working in the University Libraries have welcomed newborns since August ” a bit of a baby boom

5 Great Features of UD\u27s \u27New York Times\u27 Subscription

Any member of the University of Dayton community can access The New York Times on any device, anywhere in the world. Go ahead, make those monthly article limitations disappear and bring down that pay wall

‘More to the Story’

For National Library Week April 23-29, the University Libraries share some ways they contribute to UD\u27s never-ending story with innovative collections, services, spaces and programs

Understanding the mentoring relationships of women in higher education administration

The purpose of this study was to explore the concept of mentoring amongst administrative women in higher education from an appreciative perspective. In 1985, Kathy Kram published her book on mentoring entitled, Mentoring at Work. This seminal work provided an initial body of knowledge that helped scholars conceptualize mentoring and encouraged a proliferation of research, in what was then an emerging topic for academic inquiry. However, twenty years after Kram advanced her understandings of mentoring, Chandler and Kram (2005) reported that “[t]o date, multiple definitions of a mentor have been advanced, but researchers in the field have not unconditionally accepted any specific one” (p. 5). Mentoring has suffered from a lack of definitional and conceptual clarity. This lack of clarity has hampered research efforts and rendered research vulnerable to criticism. This lack of clarity has also made implementation of mentoring programs difficult with respect to whom or what exactly is providing the benefit. This study explored the concept of mentoring through focus groups with administrative women in higher education. The study was conducted within a qualitative paradigm, adapting elements from the work on grounded theory by Corbin and Strauss (2008). Focus groups were used to gather the data, with the questions based on the appreciative inquiry method. The worldview underlying the methodological orientation and study design is best described as constructionist. A constructionist worldview assumes that knowledge is constructed as persons explain or try to make sense of their experiences in the context of conversing with others. I anticipated the findings of this study would be significant to mentoring research in three ways. In the study, I addressed the lack of definitional and conceptual clarity of mentoring that have presented academic and practical challenges; I employed a methodological orientation and study design that focused on understanding the participants’ recollected experiences of relationships that have worked; and the population of interest (administrative women in higher education) was one that had been understudied in mentoring research. In addition to my academic interest in mentoring I was intrigued by the myth behind mentoring. References to the mythical figure, Mentor, in Homer’s Odyssey abound and yet two important points about Mentor have gone largely unnoticed. First Mentor was actually a woman. Mentor was Athena. That Mentor embodied both male and female characteristics may be interpreted to suggest that features of both sexes are necessary to mentoring. The second point is that Mentor was only one of the disguises Athena wore in order to provide advice and guidance to Odysseus, Penelope, and Telemachus. The second point may be interpreted to suggest that it takes more than one kind of person or relationship to provide the full range of support that an individual requires over the course of their career. It was my hope that this study would help reconcile the myth of Mentor with the reality of mentoring