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Leading Change in Academic Libraries
Catherine A. Cardwell and Colleen T. Boff
Institutions of higher education and academic libraries are not the traditional organizations they once were. They are subject to a variety of forces, including shifting and changing populations, technological changes, public demands for affordability and accountability, and changing approaches to research and learning. Academic libraries can no longer establish their excellence and ground their missions, visions, and strategic directions using the old means and methods.
Leading Change in Academic Libraries is a collection of 20 change stories authored by academic librarians from different types of four-year institutions. Librarians tell the story firsthand of how they managed major change in processes, functions, services, programs, or overall organizations using John Kotter’s Eight-Stage Process of Creating Major Change as a framework for examining change at their institutions, measuring their successes and areas for improvement, and determining progress.
In five sections—strategic planning, reorganization, culture change, new roles, and technological change—chapters discuss tackling common challenges such as fear, anxiety, change fatigue, complacency, unexpected changes of leadership, vacancies, and resistance; look at the results of their tactics; and provide effective practices they found. Each section ends with a thorough analysis of the stories within and the most effective tips for leading that kind of change. Leading Change in Academic Libraries can help you establish flexible, nimble, and collaborative decision-making processes, and facilitate the transition from legacy collections-based libraries to forward-looking service-based libraries.
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Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre
Lisa S. Starks
Uses adaptation and appropriation studies to explore early modern textual and theatrical metamorphoses of Ovid
- Applies contemporary theoretical approaches, such as gender/queer/trans studies, feminist ecostudies, hauntology, rhizomatic adaptation, transmediality
- Uses adaptation studies in analyzing early modern transformations of Ovid
- Focuses on the appropriations of "Ovid" (as an umbrella term for "all things Ovidian") on the early modern English stage
- Includes chapters on Shakespeare and Marlowe as well as other early modern dramatists
Did you know that Ovid was a multifaceted icon of lovesickness, endless change, libertinism, emotional torment and violence in early modern England? This is the first collection to use adaptation studies in connection with other contemporary theoretical approaches in analysing early modern transformations of Ovid. It provides innovative perspectives on the ‘Ovids’ that haunted the early modern stage, while exploring intersections between adaptation theory and gender/queer/trans studies, ecofeminism, hauntology, transmediality, rhizomatics and more. This book examines the multidimensional, ubiquitous role that Ovid and Ovidian adaptations played in English Renaissance drama and theatrical performance.
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The lives of stone tools: Crafting the status, skill, and identity of flintknappers.
Kathryn Weedman Arthur
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Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare's Roman Poems and Plays: Transforming Ovid
Lisa S. Starks
Employing psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and plays. It argues that Shakespeare uses Ovid to explore violence, trauma, and virtus - the traumatic effects of aggression, sadomasochism, and the shifting notions of selfhood and masculinity.
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Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching
Julie Buckner Armstrong
Birth and nation: Mary Turner and the discourse of lynching -- Silence, voice, and motherhood: constructing lynching as a Black woman's issue -- Brutal facts and split-gut words: constructing lynching as a national trauma -- Contemporary confrontations: recovering the memory of Mary Turner -- Conclusion: marking a collective past -- Appendixes: selected creative and documentary responses to the 1918 Brooks-Lowndes lynchings -- Appendix 1. "Hamp Smith murdered; young wife attacked by negro farm hands" -- Appendix 2. "Her talk enraged them: Mary Turner taken to Folsom's bridge and hanged" -- Appendix 3. Joseph B. Cumming, letter to the editor -- Appendix 4. The colored welfare league (Augusta, Georgia), "Resolutions adopted and sent to Governor Dorsey urging that he exercise his authority against such acts of barbarism" -- Appendix 5. Colored federated clubs of Georgia, "Resolutions expressive of feelings sent to president and governor" -- Appendix 6. Memorandum for Governor Dorsey from Walter F. White -- Appendix 7. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Little mother (upon the lynching of Mary Turner)" -- Appendix 8. Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, "dirty south moon".
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The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation
Julie Buckner Armstrong and Amy Schmidt
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Handbook of adoption: Implications for researchers, practitioners and families.
Frank A. Biafora, Amanda J. Baden, Rafael A. Javier, and Alina L. Camacho-Gingerich
Although most mental health and behavioral health professionals have encountered adoption triad members—birth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted persons—in their clinical practice, the vast majority have had no formal or informal training on adoption issues. The Handbook of Adoption is the first text designed for mental health practitioners to specifically address the many dimensions of adoption-related issues which can and do affect adoption triad members, specifically in the United States.
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Living with pottery : Ethnoarchaeology among the Gamo of southwest Ethiopia
John W. Arthur
Although plastic and metal vessels offer significant advantages and have almost universally supplanted ceramics throughout the world, pottery fragments are one of the most ubiquitous artifacts in the archaeological record. The southwestern region of Ethiopia is one of the few places in the world where locally made pottery is still the dominant choice for everyday domestic use. The Gamo people continue to produce and use pottery for transporting water, cooking, storing, and serving. Ethnoarchaeology undertaken in a society where people still use low-fired ceramics in daily life provides a powerful framework for archaeological inferences, especially since little behavioral information exists concerning the relationship between status, wealth, and household pottery. Based on John Arthur's extensive fieldwork, this study sheds light on some of the puzzles common to archaeology in any region. It also helps decipher evidence of inter- and intravillage social and economic organization and offers insight on markers for pottery-producing and nonproducing villages and socioeconomic variability.
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Paradise lost? The environmental history of Florida.
Raymond Arsenault and Jack E. Davis
This collection of essays surveys the environmental history of the Sunshine State, from Spanish exploration to the present, and provides an organized, detailed overview of the reciprocal relationship between humans and Florida's unique peninsular ecology. It is divided into four thematic sections: explorers and naturalists; science, technology, and public policy; despoliation; and conservationists and environmentalists. The contributors describe the evolving environmental policies and practices of the state and federal governments and the dynamic interaction between the Florida environment and many social and cultural groups including the Spanish, English, Americans, southerners, northerners, men, and women. They have applied historical methodology and also drawn on the methodologies of the fields of political science, cultural anthropology, and sociology.
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Teaching the American Civil Right's Movement" Freedom's Bittersweet Song
Julie Buckner Armstrong, Susal Holt Edwards, Houston Bryan Roberson, and Rhonda W. Williams
Teaching Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement in high school history courses: rethinking content and pedagogy / Derrick P. Alridge -- Infusing the Africa-American freedom struggle into a history survey course / Susan Hult Edwards -- Birth too long delayed is perspective too long denied: the importance of "before and after" the traditional American Civil Rights Movement / Houston Bryan Roberson -- Women and the freedom struggle in the twentieth century / Barbara Machtinger -- Wading in troubled water: "Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement" as freshman composition / Julie Buckner Armstrong -- Raising the curtain: performance, history, and pedagogy / Rhonda Y. Williams -- Eyewitness to the Movement: conducting oral history interviews in the classroom / Jack M. Bloom -- Coming of age in the Movement: teaching with personal narratives / Sarah E. Gardner; Your blues ain't like mine and the Civil Rights Movement / Charles E. Wilson Jr. -- Music and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968: a classroom approach / Gregory Freeland -- All power to the people: teaching black nationalism in the post-Civil Rights era / Peniel E. Joseph -- "This nonviolent stuff ain't no good. It'll get ya killed": teaching about self-defense in the African-American freedom struggle / Emilye J. Crosby -- Dismantling the master's narrative: teaching gender, race, and class in the Civil Rights Movement / M. Bahati Kuumba -- The defiant ones: the Civil Rights Movement and college student protest, 1954-1975 / Wanda M. Davis -- Deep in our hearts / Constance Curry and Sue Thrasher.
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The changing South of Gene Patterson: Journalism and civil rights, 1960-1968.
Raymond Arsenault and Roy Peter Clark
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Selected readings for financial executives: AICPA self-study guide.
Karin Braunsberger and William L. Reeb
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Constructive Classroom Management: Strategies for Creating Positive Learning Environments
Betty Epanchin, Brenda L. Townsend Walker, and Kim Stoddard
This practical guide for teachers centers on ways to help students manage their own behavior, rather than on ways their behavior can be managed by teachers, peers, parents, or other adults. Interventions focus on creating success, not on finding cures for problems. Attention is also given to behavior-management approaches within the context of school reform." "This proactive book features case material that illustrates the assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation, and reassessment process you will use in managing classroom behavior; an emphasis on considering situations from multiple points of view (the teacher and his or her feelings, the child, the parents, the other students in the classroom); vivid examples that demonstrate a wide variety of situations in special education and regular classrooms at both the elementary and the secondary level; and strategies for decreasing teacher "burnout."
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