Revolutions of change in descriptive cataloging: from AACR to RDA
Cybrarians Journal, 2009 Standard cataloging and creating catalogs are the oldest library activities known today. The age of this activity in the Anglo-American school is estimated at more than 170 years. These standard activities have witnessed many developments that stem from
Hesham Makki
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Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Through an examination of the phenomenon of abduction, I suggest that the preoccupation with women's violation during the 1947 Partition of India has obfuscated a history of female desire. Considering accusations of kidnapping made by women's families against men belonging to a different religion in instances of interfaith desire, I ...
Angad Singh
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
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The electronic reference service is available through Arab libraries’ websites
Cybrarians Journal, 2006 In this review, we discuss one of the modern Arabic books in the field of libraries and information. It deals with one of the technological applications in providing information services, which is the digital reference service that is provided on the ...
Mahmoud Khalifa
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The Ladies’ Alpine Club, Embattled Collaboration and International Communities of Knowledge, 1907–39
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article considers the development of the Ladies’ Alpine Club from its inception until the Second World War through its Yearbooks, articles and lectures, as part of a community of knowledge which was devoted to international mountaineering.
James Watts
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page i-xiv., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
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Effectiveness of OER Use in First-Year Higher Education Students’ Mathematical Course Performance
International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019 This article examines the effect of two Open Educational Resources (OER) - Khan Academy Collection and a teacher-authored open textbook - on mathematical course performance and attendance amongst first-year higher education Chilean students. It also aims
Juan Ignacio Venegas Muggli +1 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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Reproducibility literature analysis - a federal information professional perspective
IASSIST Quarterly, 2020 This article examines a cross-section of literature and other resources to reveal common reproducibility issues faced by stakeholders regardless of subject area or focus. We identify a variety of issues named as reproducibility barriers, the solutions to
Erin Antognoli +5 more
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