Internet History Sourcebooks Internet Modern History Sourcebook The Internet Modern History Sourcebook now contains thousands of sources and the previous index pages were so large that they were crashing many browsers. See Introduction for an explanation of the Sourcebook's goals. Explanation of Sources of Material Here. See the Help! page for all the help on research I can offer. The Modern History Sourcebook now works as follows: This Main Index page has been much extended to show all sections and sub sections. Additional Study/Research Aids In addition to the above structure, there are a series of pages to help teacher and students. Modern History in the Movies Older Style Big Indices Still Available Since some faculty members had built into their course pages direct links to the Sourcebook's old indexes, these remain available, but will not be updated with materials added after 12/31/1998. Subjects covered by the source texts in each Section. Studying History The Early Modern World Reformation Early Modern World Absolutism
Nondisclosure Clauses | Cornell University Library Cornell University Library’s Position on Nondisclosure Clauses in Licenses To promote openness and fairness among libraries licensing scholarly resources, Cornell University Library will not enter into vendor contracts that require nondisclosure of pricing information or other information that does not constitute a trade secret. All new and renewed licenses submitted with nondisclosure clauses will not be signed but henceforth will be referred to the Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources and Special Collections for further negotiation. Background and Rationale Occasionally in licenses governing electronic resources, publishers will request that the Cornell University Library (CUL) treat the subscription price as confidential information and not disclose it to third parties. Additionally, nondisclosure agreements conflict with the needs of CUL librarians and staff to work openly, collaboratively, and transparently. 1. 2. 3. 4.
The 10 political games everyone should play | Technology My Gamesblog column in this week's Technology section deals with the simmering genre of political games. Usually distributed via the internet or virally through emails, these typically short, sharp titles present real-world situations in interactive form, providing users with a unique means of engaging with contemporary issues. Some of them are pretty good fun, too. As an accompaniment to the piece, I got together with serious games specialists Ian Bogost and Gonzalo Frasca to gather 10 of the most important and/or influential titles for you to check out. There's a real diversity here taking in hawkish shooters, cynical anti-corporate jokes and heart-rending charity sims. Importantly, two strands seem to be developing: titles that seek to objectively inform players about a specific situation, and titles with a definite agenda. Anyway, have a look through and give one or two a go... JFK Reloaded Interesting but perhaps insensitively handled attempt to examine the Kennedy assassination.
Answering the Illegal Question - Manage Your Career By Julianna Baggott I'm lucky in that I work in a department that is kid-friendly, at a university that's making a concerted effort to support women on the faculty and families (including with a new parental-leave policy). As a novelist whose personal bio exists on the back of every one of my books, I don't have the luxury of pretending not to have kids. At my job interviews at the Modern Language Association convention a few years ago, it was obvious to anyone who knew my work and could count on their fingers that I was immensely pregnant with my fourth child. I've been treated extremely well on job interviews when I was hugely pregnant—so large I once had to ask for a golf cart for the campus tour. However, it was when I was not pregnant that I was asked the big illegal question during a campus visit at an institution that shall remain nameless. I wasn't pregnant during that interview but I did have four kids at home. Everyone looked at me patiently, as if to say, "Well?" Wrong.
Historical Adventures: Newcomer Teacher Invents Educational Role-Playing Game | Taylor Nix may be a newcomer to teaching—he introduced himself as a n00b in my interview with him—but his approach of using gaming in the classroom is something many veteran teachers trying to reach apathetic students should take note of. Nix has taught for one year in the low-income area of Poplar, Montana on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. On his blog, Nix wrote of a sophomore world history class he taught that was “plagued with utter apathy.” An experienced gamer in his spare time, he decided to liven up the class by inventing an adventure role-playing game. “It worked a lot like a combination of D&D and Magic: The Gathering,” Nix said. Nix posted history assignments on a bulletin board on the back of his classroom every Tuesday which served as the game’s “quests.” The Quest Board The students would complete the assignments and receive loot in addition to their letter grades. Taylor Nix’s epic loot Quests also gave students’ RPG avatars new skills, abilities and character stats.
Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey (9780838906804): Wayne A. Wiegand The American Revolution Reborn: New Perspectives for the 21st Century Conference Overview The conference aims to identify new directions and new trends in scholarship on the American Revolution. The conference organizers expect that it will be the first in a series of conferences exploring important themes on the era of the American Revolution. The format of the conference will differ from most academic conferences. Instead of reading papers, panelists will pre-circulate short papers (10 pages).
Search Putting Your Ph.D. to Work in the Library 04/08/2004, By Todd Gilman After my column on becoming an academic librarian appeared on this site, I heard from many fellow Ph.D.'s -- both those who had made a similar transition and those who would like to make the move. ... Covering the Bases 12/09/2004, By Todd Gilman Surely the last thing a Ph.D. in the humanities or social sciences could wish for, having survived years of failure on the tenure-track job market, would be to relive the horror of unemployment (or... Suspicious Minds 03/03/2005, By Todd Gilman After I wrote several columns offering practical advice to Ph.D.' Subject Experts Need Not Apply 07/01/2008, By Todd Gilman Recent job postings and hires suggest that many academic libraries are losing interest in hiring humanities Ph.D.' A Matter of Degrees 05/18/2005, By Todd Gilman Becoming a Librarian 10/17/2003, By Todd Gilman After years of fruitless hunting for a faculty job, an English Ph.D. finds his niche. Academic Librarians and Rank
Did You Say that Voting is Ridiculous?: Using South Park to Teach Public Choice by Adam J. Hoffer, George R. Crowley Adam J. Hoffer University of Wisconsin - La Crosse George R. Troy University - Manuel H. Abstract: This note describes an approach to teaching the public choice perspectives on voting using an episode from Comedy Central’s animated television show, South Park. Number of Pages in PDF File: 8 Keywords: south park, voting, elections, teaching public choice JEL Classification: A22, D72 working papers series
College & Research Libraries News Great Peoples of the Past on maps from around the world National Geographic put out six maps in a series titled Great Peoples of the Past between 1996 and 2002. These maps described six great early civilizations that existed in our past around the world. This included the Mongols, the Romans, the Mesoamericans, the Greeks, the Egyptians and the Inca. Click on Map Titles that are Links to see a Picture of that map. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Link from Great Peoples of the Past back to Map SetsLink back to the Home Page
How Google Works: Are Search Engines Really Dumb and Why Should Educators Care? [Available Full-Text, Free] Before the web and search engines, libraries and librarians were the best answer to students’ question, Where do I find information about …? Today, search engines, especially Google, rule. 1 Educators have known for many years that Google is not just a search engine. “To Google” is a research behavior that is a habit for students. Given their popularity with students, knowing more about how search engines work is vital to understanding information access in a digital age. 3 Unfortunately, most students do not understand how Google and other search engines rank results. Results Rankings—Hits Don’t Matter, Links to a Webpage Do The key point is that a Google webpage ranking is not determined by the number of people who visit a webpage. Blind Trust The obvious question, then, is why Google doesn’t consider the popularity of sites with users when ranking sites in the list of results. Librarians substantiate student confidence in Google. Search Engines Do Not Understand a Searcher’s Query 1.
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