Libraries: Recent submissions
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The Dance of Death: An Exhibition at the University of Kansas Library
(University of Kansas Libraries, 1961) -
Emblem Books at Kansas
(University of Kansas Libraries, 1980) -
A pair of bibliomanes for Kansas: Ralph Ellis and Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick
(University of Kansas Libraries, 1982) -
Carl Linnaeus: A bibliographical measure of his scientific achievements
(University of Kansas Libraries, 1978) -
William S. Burroughs: An Exhibition of His Work from the Department of Special Collections
(University of Kansas Libraries, 1986-11) -
John Gould: His Birds & Beasts: An Exhibition of the Department of Special Collections
(University of Kansas Libraries, 1981) -
The Seacoast of Bohemia: An Exhibition of Books and Manuscripts of Shakespeare’s Time
(University of Kansas Libraries, 1980) -
All That in This Delightfull Gardin Growes
(University of Kansas Libraries, 1983) -
A checklist of mediaeval manuscripts in the Department of Special Collections Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
(1996)From the Preface: "This informal list of most of the pre-1550 MS holdings of the Department of Special Collections in Spencer Library was prepared for the April 1996 meeting of the Medieval Academy of America in Kansas ... -
Struggling with Fit: Patterns, Positions, and Radical Adjustments in a "Post"-Pandemic
(2021-10-20)This closing talk discusses social justice issues of data librarian position descriptions through a metaphor of garment sewing and pattern fitting. A common concept of making space for bodies in both garments and positions ... -
My Grandfather Saw Harriman
(2021-11-10)This brief memoir describes brief episode from the life of Andrei Grigor'evich Semin, a Soviet artillery soldier who served in the Soviet Army and fought in World War II, known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia. Written ... -
“Everything Stays”: The Eternal Return and Amor Fati in the Adventure Time Miniseries Stakes
(2021-10-08)The events of Adventure Time’s seventh-season miniseries Stakes follow the character Marceline the Vampire Queen as she tries—and fails—to cure her vampirism. In this paper, I argue that the nature of Marceline’s vampiric ... -
“I found what I needed, which was a supportive community”: An ethnographic study of shared information practices in an online cosplay community
(Emerald, 2021-08-13)Purpose: This study explored the information practices of cosplayers, as well as the social norms, social types and information infrastructure of an online cosplay Facebook group, the Rey Cosplay Community (RCC). Des ... -
Adapting Processing in a Hybrid Work Situation
(2021-07-29)Marcella Huggard, who oversees manuscripts processing for the University of Kansas Libraries, will discuss how she has revised processing priorities based on a hybrid work situation where staff have been working part-time ... -
Canon Wars: A Semiotic and Ethnographic Study of a Wikipedia Talk Page Debate Concerning the Canon of Star Wars
(Intellect, 2018-09-01)This article examines how Wikipedia editors who are also members of fan communities attempt to assemble articles on the ‘canon’ (i.e. the aspects of a fictional universe that are held as official by fans) of media objects ... -
A Change Would Do You Good: Transforming Archives with Cross-Sector Perspectives
(2018-03-23)The various “sectors” of archives and its related professions, whether functional or institutional, increasingly diverge from each other in priorities, strategies, and constituencies. For the archivist or records manager ... -
True Confessions: Reappraising and Deaccessioning
(2016-08-06)We admit it. The archives profession is implementing reappraisal and deaccessioning practices in new ways. In this session, archivists divulge real-world experiences in true-confessions style. Archivists discuss using ... -
Managing and Motivating Student Employees: Tips & Tricks from the Field
(2019-08-19)What have cultural heritage professionals written about supervising student employees? What have they written about undergraduate students who are not necessarily going to pursue a career in libraries, archives, and museums? ... -
A Wave of Women Chemists: Mary Elvira Weeks and Her University of Kansas Colleagues
(Division of the History of Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2021-06-29)Between 1911 and 1944, a total of 13 women served, at various times, on the chemistry faculty of the University of Kansas. Yet after the last of these appointments was made, in 1935, no other woman was hired for nearly 40 ... -
Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University
(2021-01-27)Kathleen Fitzpatrick, author of “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University,” discusses her research into thinking and leading generously. Fitzpatrick urges KU faculty and staff to think critically, ...