Bradford Lee Eden

Bio: Bradford Lee Eden is an academic researcher from Valparaiso University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computer science & Information visualization. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 38 publications receiving 157 citations. Previous affiliations of Bradford Lee Eden include University of California, Santa Barbara.

Leading the 21st-Century Academic Library: Successful Strategies for Envisioning and Realizing Preferred Futures

Abstract: Preface Kevin L. Smith Introduction Bradford Lee Eden Chapter 1: Five essential skills for the 21st-century librarian Melvin D. Davis Chapter 2: What will libraries be when they grow up?: how the innovations of technology can help us imagine the future Samantha Schmehl Hines Chapter 3: The biology of librarian leadership Sarah Brown Chapter 4: The library-technology interchange: new roles for academic librarians in the 21st century Anna Fidgeon and Laurie Borchard Chapter 5: Beyond buildings: a design-based approach to future librarianship Rachel Ivy Clarke Chapter 6: The university library's evolution: book warehouse or platform for student research and learning Carl Antonucci and Sharon Clapp Chapter 7: Dealing with workplace complexities and engaging staff: towards an engagement toolbox Martin D. House Chapter 8: Serendipity and the Semantic Web: catalogs of the future Autumn Faulkner Chapter 9: The dawn of the e-science librarian Terry Cottrell and Gail Gawlik Chapter 10: Media librarianship in the digital age Dorothea J. Coiffe Chapter 11: Knowledge organization in biobanks: a management information perspective Lidiane Carvalho and Rodrigo Bozzetti Index About the Contributors

The New Librarianship Field Guide: Lankes, R. David. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016, 226 pp., ISBN: 9780262529082

Abstract: David R. Lankes’ The New Librarianship Field Guide is a clarion call to those in the library profession to make a positive difference in their communities, become change agents in their libraries, and stand up and find ways to interact and involve themselves in the broader issues in society and culture. The author is well known for his radical and thought-provoking books and blog postings related to the library profession, and with this book he brings practical and innovative anecdotes and case studies to illustrate these directions. Lankes shows how implementing new ideas can help librarians and libraries become more active, viable, visible, and important in their communities. The book is comprised of twenty-one chapters divided into three sections. Each chapter begins with a “core chapter concept,” stated succinctly in one sentence (for example, “Librarians are agents for radical positive change who choose to make a difference”). Chapter titles are equally direct: “The Mission of Librarians,” “Knowledge Creation,” and “What is a Library?” to name a few. The core of the book is an appeal for the profession to move from being mission-driven to “missionary-driven.” The appendices encapsulate this message by providing advice on facilitating continuous training and development of “new librarianship” skills, giving tricks and observations from each chapter topic for further discussion, and listing FAQs (Frequently Argued Questions) with useful responses. Finally, the author invites further conversation and access to expanded materials (articles, blog posts, and videos) at http://www.NewLibrarianship.org. I highly recommend this book, along with Lankes’ other books and his blog at https:// davidlankes.org. It is difficult in the current economic and political climate for the library profession to find its voice and direction, and Lankes certainly provides opinions and leadership that deserve more discussion and focus from the larger community. It behooves us to have these discussions at this crucial juncture in our profession.

Thesaurus musicarum latinarum

Abstract: Thesaurus musicarum latinarum. Thomas J. Mathiesen, Project Director. Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature, Indiana University. http://www.music.indiana.edu/tml/. [Requires a Web browser and an Internet connection.] It was with great interest and enthusiasm that I accepted the task of reviewing the Thesaurus musicarum latinarum (TML) for Notes. As a medieval musicologist in his second career as a working librarian, I remember when TML first appeared on the scene, back when FTP and listserv were the dominant means of accessing files over the Internet (well before browsers made their appearance). It was both exciting and exhilarating to be able to participate in one of the first "global" music consortiums, where the effort was done by working musicologists, the content was freely available through FTP download, and one could get regular updates on the progress and content of the project through e-mail. Now, in this Internet environment where Web pages and Web sites are more common and convenient than FTP download and Veronica (remember her?!), TML continues to move forward as a pioneer in the area of music on the Web, and in the continuing development of global participation by the music community to provide open access to this unique and otherwise hard-to-acquire material. As the Web site states, TML is "an evolving database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance." As such, it fills a huge gap for scholars in these areas of study, by 1) providing access to these materials in one location, and 2) providing it for free. Other databases with this kind of depth of content and scholarship entail an annual expenditure on the part of libraries in order to provide access for their patrons. The goals of TML are immediately apparent when one accesses the Web site. Instead of going immediately to database content, or the actual front page of the Web site, the user is taken to a copyright notice, where it is made clear that everything is either public domain or from copyrighted materials for which TML has obtained permission. In addition, the publishers make clear that they do claim copyright on content created by TML staff (introduction, canon, text and graphics, the encoding system, and the compilation of the sources). Once the user enters the Web site, it is readily apparent that the project is under the direction of the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature at Indiana University, and that Thomas J. Mathiesen is the director. The introduction to TML describes what it is, as well as other projects and databases that it complements but does not duplicate. These other projects include: the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (http://www.tlg.uci.edu/), the Lexicon musicum Latinum medii aevi (http://www.lml.badw.de/), the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (http://www.thesaurus.badw.de/), Saggi musicali italiani (http://www.music.indiana.edu/smi/), and the Center for the Computer Analysis of Texts (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/teachtech/about-ccat.html). The introduction also states the two fundamentals of the project since its beginning: that users be able to locate and retrieve sources without editorial intrusions (even those that correct errors); and that every printed edition of a particular text be available for users, even if it has been replaced by a more modern edition. The content of the database itself comprises Latin texts related in some way to music theory and composition in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Most of our understanding of practical matters related to musical composition during these eras comes from these manuscripts; in fact, without these treatises, modern musicologists would have no idea when compositional techniques became standard practice. These treatises were often written by well-known musicians of the time, or by Latin scholars describing and defining current compositional and notational practices. The sources, while mainly Latin, come from all over Western Europe. …

A Complete Bibliography of Publications in Isis, 2000{2009

Abstract: accademiche [38]. Ada [45]. Adrian [45]. African [56]. Age [39, 49, 61]. Al [23]. Al-Rawi [23]. Aldous [68]. Alex [15]. Allure [46]. America [60, 66]. American [49, 69, 61, 52]. ancienne [25]. Andreas [28]. Angela [42]. Animals [16]. Ann [26]. Anna [19, 47]. Annotated [46]. Annotations [28]. Anti [37]. Anti-Copernican [37]. Antibiotic [64]. Anxiety [51]. Apocalyptic [61]. Archaeology [26]. Ark [36]. Artisan [32]. Asylum [48]. Atri [54]. Audra [65]. Australia [41]. Authorship [15]. Axelle [29].

From Hesiod to Saussure, from Hippocrates to Jevons: An Introduction to the History of Scientific Thought between Iran and the Atlantic

Abstract: claims with real quantified laws). In order to solve this problem, one has to introduce a notion of the “price of production”, for which it holds true that producers will continue to supply the market with such goods that can be produced in unlimited quantity as long as the price they anticipate exceeds their price of production. Such a notion was introduced by Alfred Marshall in 1890 in his Principles of Economics [Marshall 1949]. As it turns out, Marshall’s determination of this price is mathematically equivalent to what Marx had developed on the foundation of the labour value theory in volume III of Das Kapital (published only in 1894 by Engels) when confronting the problem of real market prices (more precisely, the equilibrium prices toward around which real prices fluctuate – Marx’s thinking was dynamic, that of Marshall static). Ideology and political whitewashing were thus no longer the only determinants of the content and results of theory. Marshall’s general aim was still to prove that the prevailing economic system was optimal. He did so by combining arguments from mathematical curves with verbal exposition (shifting to the latter when the outcome of his mathematics threatened to make conflicts with his intended conclusion too glaring. But even Marshall was not the end point of the marginalist development. In 1933, Marshall’s most brilliant student Joan Robinson showed in her Economics of Imperfect competition (second edition [J. Robinson 1969]) that his methods and arguments when taken seriously lead to a conclusion that diverges strongly from what Marshall had believed. As she shows, an economy where each sector is dominated by a small number of agents (since decades the actual situation in the capitalist economy) will 1662 In one such case, Marshall [1949: 380 n.1] claims that “abstract reasonings [...] are apt to be misleading, not only in detail, but even in their general effect [...]. Some [...] follow their mathematics boldly, but apparently without noticing that their premises lead inevitably to the conclusion that, whatever firm first gets a good start will obtain a monopoly of the whole business of its trade in its district”. What made Marshall reject this conclusion was not that it was contradicted by empirical evidence; monopolization was indeed the unmistakeable trend since decades when Marshall wrote. The problem was that this “inevitable” conclusion following from “bold” use of Marshall’s mathematics not only contradicted his ideal picture but also eliminated the basis for many of his arguments. A brief postlude 1243 never operate optimally on global terms if each agent optimizes his behaviour according to his private interests. Beyond providing monopolists with conceptual tools that allow them to determine better than by instinct alone what their private interests ask for, Joan Robinson’s theory thus showed that the “invisible hand” is less beneficial than proclaimed by Jevons and Marshall. Though no full theory of the economic crisis that had broken out, Joan Robinson provided part of the explanation. The optimistic aspect of the moral is thus that even a mediocre contribution which gains undeserved prestige may, if only further work is done seriously and critically – that is, in agreement with the general norms for decent scientific work – become fruitful in the longer run. Done seriously and critically, scientific practice may then provide both functioning technical knowledge and such insights as can serve enlightenment purposes. (The pessimistic aspect is of course that may does not entail must.) One may like or dislike the uses to which the technical knowledge is put, but we must recognize that the production of applicable knowledge has been seen since the 17th century as one of the properties that characterizes valid science. Whoever does not welcome insights that can serve enlightenment purposes does not deserve the name of an intellectual.

Tenure and Promotion Experiences of Academic Librarians of Color.

Abstract: This study broadly examines factors impacting work-life experiences of library faculty of color within the framework of tenure policies and processes. An online survey was sent out to academic librarians of color to gauge perceptions of tenure and promotion policies and processes, professional activities and productivity, organizational climate and culture, and job satisfaction and retention. Results of the survey showed mixed findings regarding the impact of race on the tenure and promotion process. Findings can be used to inform future discussions of recruitment and retention for academic librarians of color and to improve the overall tenure experience.

Task-Based Information Interaction Evaluation: The Viewpoint of Program Theory

Abstract: Evaluation is central in research and development of information retrieval (IR). In addition to designing and implementing new retrieval mechanisms, one must also show through rigorous evaluation that they are effective. A major focus in IR is IR mechanisms’ capability of ranking relevant documents optimally for the users, given a query. Searching for information in practice involves searchers, however, and is highly interactive. When human searchers have been incorporated in evaluation studies, the results have often suggested that better ranking does not necessarily lead to better search task, or work task, performance. Therefore, it is not clear which system or interface features should be developed to improve the effectiveness of human task performance. In the present article, we focus on the evaluation of task-based information interaction (TBII). We give special emphasis to learning tasks to discuss TBII in more concrete terms. Information interaction is here understood as behavioral and cognitive activities related to task planning, searching information items, selecting between them, working with them, and synthesizing and reporting. These five generic activities contribute to task performance and outcome and can be supported by information systems. In an attempt toward task-based evaluation, we introduce program theory as the evaluation framework. Such evaluation can investigate whether a program consisting of TBII activities and tools works and how it works and, further, provides a causal description of program (in)effectiveness. Our goal in the present article is to structure TBII on the basis of the five generic activities and consider the evaluation of each activity using the program theory framework. Finally, we combine these activity-based program theories in an overall evaluation framework for TBII. Such an evaluation is complex due to the large number of factors affecting information interaction. Instead of presenting tested program theories, we illustrate how the evaluation of TBII should be accomplished using the program theory framework in the evaluation of systems and behaviors, and their interactions, comprehensively in context.

Seeking Full Citizenship: A Defense of Tenure Faculty Status for Librarians

Abstract: Tenure status for library faculty in the academic environment is coming under increasing attack from administration, faculty members in other departments, and non-academics. This is due to incorrect perceptions about what academic librarians do and how they serve their profession. This paper describes the many challenges faculty librarians face in balancing their work load with service and scholarship; justifies why academic librarians need tenure; and ultimately proves that tenure and faculty status for academic librarians are an absolute necessity.