\u27A Blood-Stained Corpse in the Butler\u27s Pantry’: The Queensland Bush Book Club

Lending libraries were not the norm in 1934 when the Carnegie Corporation of New York sent American librarian, Ralph Munn, to conduct a study of the condition of Australian libraries. In his initial survey Munn learned of the Queensland Bush Book Club, an organization of well-to-do, philanthropic women from Brisbane who had established a book lending service for settlers in the Outback. They hoped to ease the drudgery and lighten the burden faced by isolated women and their families in the rural areas. The antidote was a regular parcel of “proper” reading matter which included books, newspapers and magazines. They took advantage of a well-developed railway system to deliver the packages to rural families. Testimonials found in the Queensland Bush Book Club annual reports provide a snapshot of frontier life detailing drought, fire, flood and all manner of misfortune and privation. The reports also offer specifics of the type of books the settlers requested and the gratitude with which the parcels were received. Murder mysteries were at the top of the request list, as the title of this article suggests. This article also examines the relationships forged between town and country residents around the distribution of books, and the mechanics involved in providing a book lending service before free public libraries became commonplace

North and South: Archivists Document Gettysburg’s 150th

Sometimes the best special collections are right in your own backyard. Not the ones that come to you from a retiring professor, local collector, or estate settlement, but the ones that you put together yourself. Rather than sit by and wait for memorabilia related to the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg to come to them, archivists at Gettysburg College took an active role, becoming part of the history they would normally just accept from donors. [excerpt

The Gettysburg Experience

In February 1994, Gettysburg College launched an ambitious experiment that joined computing and the library into a new organization known as Information Resources. Gettysburg College, one of the first liberal arts colleges to undertake such a merger, sought, along with only a handful of other institutions, a level of integration so complete that all vestiges of the traditional library disappeared. This is the story of that merger and why it failed despite the best efforts of many. [excerpt

Fifty Years: the Associated College Libraries of Central Pennsylvania (or the History of ACLCP in less than 10 minutes)

A brief presentation given by Gettysburg College\u27s Dean of the Library and ACLCP\u27s 2015 President, Robin Wagner, commemorating fifty years of history of the Associated College Libraries of Central Pennsylvania

\u27A Little Bit of Love for Me and a Murder for My Old Man\u27: The Queensland Bush Book Club

This paper addresses rural book distribution in an era before free public libraries came to Australia. Well-to-do, city women established clubs, which solicited donations of “proper reading matter” and raised funds for the purchase of books for their “deprived sisters” in the Outback. They took advantage of a well-developed rail system to deliver book parcels to rural families. In New South Wales and Queensland they were known as Bush Book Clubs. Testimonials found in the Clubs’ annual reports provide a snapshot of the hard scrabble frontier life and the gratitude with which these parcels were received. This paper looks at the relationships forged between town and country around the distribution of books and the mechanics involved in providing this service at a time before free public libraries and bookmobiles became commonplace in rural communities

Thirty Treasures, Thirty Years: Stories from the Musselman Library Collection

What is a Treasure? Is it something rare like a Shakespeare folio or is it something dazzling like pieces from the Asian Art collection? Is it simply old, like a 17th century copy of Euclid\u27s Geometry? Or, is it neither costly nor ornate, but valuable in the classroom, as a teaching tool? In this volume, 30 faculty, alumni and friends write about their favorite treasures from the Gettysburg College Library. Enjoy their stories of discovery and surprise. You\u27ll find everything from art and literature to sports - with a murder mystery tossed in. Contents Introduction Robin Wagner Ancient Chinese Ritual Objects Yan Sun Samurai Armor and Katana Dina Lowy Portrait of Martin Luther Baird Tipson The John H. W. Stuckenberg Map Collection Barbara A. Sommer Shakespeare Folio Christopher Kauffman Euclidis Elementorum Darren Glass The Book of Martyrs Charles Buz Myers Gulliver’s Travels Joanne Myers German Broadside of the Declaration of Independence Daniel R. DeNicola New-England Primer Timothy J. Shannon A Manual of Chemistry Michael Wedlock Samuel Simon Schmucker’s Letters to His Wife Catherine Anna Jane Moyer Architectural Drawings of Old Dorm Charles Glatfelter Portrait of Thaddeus Stevens Janet Morgan Riggs Gettysburg from McLean’s Hill Peter S. Carmichael Jacobs’ Account of the Rebel Invasion Allen C. Guelzo Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Catherine Quinn Perry Alexander von Humboldt’s Secretary William D. Bowman Portrait of Jeremiah Zimmerman Christopher J. Zappe Eddie Plank’s Baseball Dave Powell Spirit of Gettysburg Timothy Sestrick A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way Larry Marschall Movie Posters James Udden Photographs of the College Playing Fields Daniel R. Gilbert, Jr. A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain Mike Hobor Address Unknown George Muschamp Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Presidential Correspondence Michael J. Birkner The Photographs of Stephen Warner Roger Stemen The Papers of Jerry Spinelli, Class of 1963 Sunni DeNicola Confucius Pendant Deborah Sommer The Library at Gettysburg College: Past and Present Christine Amedurihttps://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1028/thumbnail.jp

Relative Performance Of English Second Language Students In University Accounting Courses

This paper explores the relative performances of Native English Speaking (“NES”) students and English Second Language (“ESL”) students in accounting courses at a large urban state university. Based upon a longitudinal study, we conclude that the relative performance between NES and ESL students depends upon the particular course being evaluated and its order in the sequence of courses to graduation. The further along in the sequence, the more likely the ESL students will significantly outperform the NES students. In Introductory Financial Accounting, the first course in the sequence, NES students significantly outperform ESL students. We attribute this to ESL students’ difficulties with English, new learning/teaching styles, lack of necessary academic skills plus culture shock. In Managerial Accounting and Intermediate Financial Accounting I, the differences are not significant which we credit to the ESL students’ work on their English vocabulary, the new learning/teaching styles, and the necessary academic skills to “catch up” to the NES students. Assuming that our conclusion is correct, however, the full effect of this effort on the part of the ELS students is not completely felt until Intermediate Financial Accounting II and Cost Accounting. In those two courses, ESL students significantly outperform NES students. We conclude that this represents the culmination of the efforts by the ESL students. In addition to our primary objective, we also investigated the use of the relative performances of the NES and ESL students as a possible assessment of a university’s success, or lack of thereof, in meeting the needs of ESL students. We concluded that this was both feasible and a reasonable approach to assessment

Predicting the potential of capacitive deionization for the separation of pH‐dependent organic molecules

One of the main steps in the biotechnological production of chemical building blocks, such as, e.g. bio-based succinic acid which is used for lubricants, cosmetics, food, and pharmaceuticals, is the isolation and purification of the target molecule. A new approach to isolate charged, bio-based chemicals is by electrosorption onto carbon surfaces. In contrast to ion exchange, electrosorption does not require additional chemicals for elution and regeneration. However, while the electrosorption of inorganic salts is well understood and in commercial use, the knowledge about electrosorption of weak organic acids including the strong implications of the pH-dependent dissociation and their affinity towards physical adsorption must be expanded. Here, we show a detailed discussion of the main pH-dependent effects determining the achievable charge efficiencies and capacities. An explicit set of equations allows the fast prediction of the named key figures for constant voltage and constant current operation. The calculated and experimental results obtained for the electrosorption of maleic acid show that the potential-free adsorption of differently protonated forms of the organic acid play a dominating role in the process. At pH 8 and a voltage threshold of 1.3 V, charge efficiencies of 25% and capacities around 40 mmol/kg could be reached for a constant current experiment. While this capacity is clearly below that of ion exchange resins, the required carbon materials are inexpensive and energy costs are only about 0.013 €/mol. Therefore, we anticipate that electrosorption has the potential to become an interesting alternative to conventional unit operations for the isolation of charged target molecules

California Micro Devices Corp.: A Class Discussion Of Auditors Ethical, Legal, And Professional Responsibilities

This short case is best for an open discussion in an upper-division auditing class. The class discussion questions intensify students learning experience on (1) auditors ethical responsibility to resolve tough ethical issues, (2) auditors legal responsibility to detect fraudulent financial reporting, and (3) auditors professional responsibility to conform to auditing standards. Additional class discussion questions, optional hands-on internet experience, and class discussion guide are provided. The case illustrates how a high-technology company succumbed to the pressure of unrealistic financial goals in an industry that is characterized by rapid technology change, intense competitive pressure, and volatile demand patterns for computer chips. High-level management at the company orchestrated fraudulent financial reporting schemes by creating fictitious sales and shipping bogus inventories. The fraud was uncovered only after the companys Board of Directors appointed a third auditor to investigate the sophisticated fraudulent schemes. However, the action came a little too late as the shareholders began to file class-action securities lawsuits against the company and its former auditor