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Together We Read, Together We Learn: Examining Book Clubs as a Means of Connecting LIS to a Feminist Diversity Ethic

open access: diamondThe International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, 2019
This article examines the significance of dialogic exploration of feminist and diversity-oriented texts in book clubs consisting of Library and Information Science (LIS) master’s students at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Laila Brown
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The implementation of a required book club for medical students and faculty [PDF]

open access: yesMedical Education Online, 2023
More medical schools are incorporating wellness activities and the medical humanities into their curriculum. Finding implementable programming that is feasible and enjoyable is challenging.
David B. Ney   +3 more
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Book Clubs As Means of Reducing Library Anxiety

open access: yesJournal of New Librarianship, 2023
Utilization of library resources can make a major impact in academic success; however, library anxiety can inhibit students from being willing to access library resources. The present study investigates how book clubs influence library anxiety.
Jacob Lackner   +2 more
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The impact of using book clubs among female teachers in their professional development in Saudi Arabia

open access: yesCogent Education, 2022
Literature has extensively documented traditional conceptions of sustainable teacher professional development (PD). Recently, PD has promoted self-directed and small group opportunities that provide teachers with interactive and discussion-based social ...
Dalia Jamal Alghamdi
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ANTI-COLONIAL BOOK CLUBS

open access: yesArt/Research International, 2021
What possibilities does reading anti-colonial and counternarrative fiction have? By “plugging in” Coloma’s constitutive subjectivities, Anzaldúa’s new consciousness, and Sumara’s embodied action, I share the possibilities with the explanation of an anti-
Shawna Carroll
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Using Book Clubs to Support Inquiry in Teacher Education

open access: yesJournal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
The bombardment of information on students in higher education has created a need for not only information processing skills but improved communicative competence and interpersonal relationship skills.
Patrick Dean Hales   +2 more
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Periodicity, Subscription, and Mass Circulation: Mail-Order Book Culture Reconsidered

open access: yesJournal of European Periodical Studies, 2023
Connections between periodical studies and book history run deep. Building on this existing work, this contribution discusses untapped potential at the cross-section of book studies and periodical studies, especially when considering mass ...
Corinna Norrick-Rühl
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Lectures 2.0 : els clubs de lectura virtuals

open access: yesBiD: Textos Universitaris de Biblioteconomia i Documentació, 2019
Objectius: els clubs de lectura virtuals són una activitat idònia per fomentar la lectura, i alhora una excel·lent eina de prescripció lectora. Aquest article pretén obtenir una visió de la situació actual d'aquest tipus de clubs, amb l'objectiu de poder
Delmàs Ruiz, Maria   +2 more
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A Virtual Book Club for Professional Development in Emergency Medicine

open access: yesWestern Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2020
Introduction: Professional development is an important component of graduate medical education, but it is unclear how to best deliver this instruction. Book clubs have been used outside of medicine as a professional development tool.
Jaime Jordan   +5 more
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Tearing Out the Income Tax by the (Grass)Roots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Landscapes are increasingly fragmented, and conservation programs have started to look at network approaches for maintaining populations at a larger scale. We present an agent-based model of predator–prey dynamics where the agents (i.e.
Zelenak, Lawrence A.
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