REPRESENTING PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION THROUGH IMAGES IN 1930s BRAZIL

This essay explores how the Getulio Vargas administration in Brazil utilized print media and visual imagery to convey public health messages and implement policy objectives during the Estado Novo period (1930-1945). Despite extensive research on Vargas' reforms, the role of visual communication in public health education remains understudied. This study examines the ways in which the government employed posters, catchy imagery, and concise messaging to reach diverse audiences and address epidemics such as yellow fever, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted diseases. By analyzing the visual resources and strategies used to disseminate public health information, this research sheds light on the intersection of communication, education, and public health policy in 20th-century Brazil

The Nineteenth-Century World of Turkic Dictionaries: An Overview

The author creates a bibliographic picture of the various Turkic-language dictionaries from the eleventh to the end of the nineteenth centuries, in various languages, and describes their structure. He then focuses specifically on printed Turkic dictionaries of the nineteenth century, discussing their historical context and a statistical survey that he conducted. A number of these dictionaries have been digitized; he examines some sites where they are accessible. In the appendix is a list of the dictionaries that he found in the course of his research

Flipped Instruction for Information Literacy: Five Instructional Cases of Academic Librarians

University of California, Berkeley librarians have incorporated the flipped instruction model into information literacy training by focusing on two primary elements: assigning pre-class assignments and increasing active learning techniques. We explore these two elements across five diverse instructional cases, which include one-shot and semester-long classes that were conducted through online or in-person delivery for both graduate and undergraduate students across a range of subject areas (sciences, social sciences, and humanities). We examine the enabling factors and the perceived outcomes of this instructional paradigm. Because students came to class with enhanced library understanding and experience from the pre-class assignment, they were better prepared to engage with the material and articulate additional learning needs. We note students' increased engagement during class and more time available for higher-order learning exercises and discussions. As a result, flipped instruction appears to enable more learning opportunities without increasing classroom time. The challenges of this model are the requisite commitment of time and effort, the need to foster class participation, and the facilitation of active communication within the class. We propose a framework of catalysts, building blocks, and instructional outcomes to help library instructors incorporate flipped instruction elements into their instructional design

Bulgarian Print Collection at UC Berkeley Library: Using the Bulgarian Web Resources as Collection Development Tools.

Collecting Bulgarian print materials in an era of shrinking library materials exchange budgets and changing collection development priorities represents a unique set of challenges and opportunities for librarians who are responsible for East European collections in North American academic libraries. Bulgarian Studies as a discipline often forms a part of a larger and traditionally Russian-dominated field of Slavic and East European Studies. In the case of the University of California system, Bulgarian print materials are collected by only two campuses, i.e., UC Berkeley and UCLA. This article has two goals. The first is to provide a brief survey of current collection development levels of Bulgarian language materials since the fall of the Soviet Bloc in 1989. Second, I aim to highlight some key web resources that can potentially be used and adapted as collection development tools by selectors in Area Studies

From Inquisition to E-Inquisition: A Survey of Online Sources on the Portuguese Inquisition

The Portuguese Inquisition in the colonies of the Empire remains understudied due to a lack of primary source materials that are available the researchers and educators. The advances in digital technologies and the current drive to foster Open Access have allowed us to understand better the relations among the complex set of circumstances as well as the mechanisms that, in their totality, represent the Portuguese Inquisition. The present paper seeks to answer questions that vary from describing these resources to identifying the institutions that created them. Digitized resources serve as a surrogate of the originals, and we can leverage the access to these electronic surrogates and enhance our understanding of the mechanisms of inquisition through E-Inquisitional objects in pedagogy and research

Bulgarian Print Collection at UC Berkeley Library: Using the Bulgarian Web Resources as Collection Development Tools.

Collecting Bulgarian print materials in an era of shrinking library materials exchange budgets and changing collection development priorities represents a unique set of challenges and opportunities for librarians who are responsible for East European collections in North American academic libraries. Bulgarian Studies as a discipline often forms a part of a larger and traditionally Russian-dominated field of Slavic and East European Studies. In the case of the University of California system, Bulgarian print materials are collected by only two campuses, i.e., UC Berkeley and UCLA. This article has two goals. The first is to provide a brief survey of current collection development levels of Bulgarian language materials since the fall of the Soviet Bloc in 1989. Second, I aim to highlight some key web resources that can potentially be used and adapted as collection development tools by selectors in Area Studies

Extending Europe: The Dutch Periodical Publications of the Caribbean and Latin America

The Dutch language periodicals press and its development in the Caribbean and Latin America have remained understudied in the North American context due to the lack of robust access to these periodicals in the North American libraries. In the context of Iberian and Latin American Studies, one finds the wealth of information on both Spanish and Portuguese language periodicals. In the present article, I try to provide a cursory survey of the some of the Dutch periodicals in the Caribbean and Latin America (primarily in Suriname) since the early days of the Dutch colonization through the early 20th century. This article also provides the description of the Open Access sources that allow the researchers to access these periodicals digitally