scholarly journals Addressing Gaps in Infectious Disease Training and Care in the Caribbean Region: The University of the West Indies - Jamaica / University of South Carolina Partnership to Develop a Postgraduate Infectious Diseases Fellowship

2017 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
S. Weissman ◽  
T. Thompson ◽  
T. Quinby ◽  
C. Henn
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
University Of South Carolina ◽  
The West ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The University

A library at the touch of a finger-tip: an analysis of mobile library services at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian St. Patrick Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The State ◽  
Library Services ◽  
The West ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The University

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the state of mobile library services available for students’ information needs at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. In addition, this study will determine the extent to which mobile services has helped the Mona libraries to have greater reach to students. Design/methodology/approach Surveys and content analysis were used to collect data. A comparative content analysis was used to highlight the strides made in mobile library services in universities across the world vis-à-vis the current reality in the Caribbean, specifically Jamaica. Findings The findings identified that there is a proliferation of mobile and internet users among university and college students and they are heavily using their devices for the furtherance of their educational attainment. Additionally, the findings indicated that libraries in the academic realm can benefit greatly from allowing their content to be accessible through these mobile devices, as it would also help with greater usage. Furthermore, this service is guaranteed greater support the distance programmes offered by these universities. Research limitations/implications This study will focus on assessing the state of mobile library services offered at the University of the West Indies, Mona Jamaica. This study will also determine the extent to which mobile services can help libraries to have greater reach to students and provide best practices for academic libraries implementing mobile service offerings to clients. This study will not attest to the financial feasibility of academic institutions to start such a programme. Practical implications The research excavated that the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, along with other academic libraries in the Caribbean are all not fully offering mobile library services to all their users. In addition, with the rise of technology and the proliferation of cell phones and other mobile devices, students (distance and onsite) expect a service that allows them greater access to the offerings of the university and their libraries. Originality/value This is the premier investigation of its kind into how the University of the West Indies Mona Campus has responded to the mobile library environment. The value of this research is in helping academic and university libraries in the Jamaica to identify the importance of leveraging the benefits of the dynamic technological era, allowing greater and wider reach through mobile library services proliferation and access to services. In addition, this study showed that academic libraries need to enhance services in a bid to provide greater support the teaching component of the university or college they serve.

scholarly journals The legacy of George L. Beckford’s plantation economy thesis in Jamaica

1995 ◽  
Vol 69 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 111-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Besson
Keyword(s):  
Land Reform ◽  
West Indies ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The West ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
Plantation Economy ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Persistent Poverty ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

[First paragraph]Plantation Economy, Land Reform and the Peasantry in a Historical Perspective: Jamaica 1838-1980. CLAUS STOLBERG & SWITHIN WILMOT(eds.)- Kingston: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1992. 145 pp. (Paper n.p.)This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the integration of Jamaica's classical plantation economy with the world economy, and the impact of the plantation economy on the peasantry, land reform, and agrarian modemization in Jamaica from emancipation in 1838 up to 1980. The eight papers comprising the volume were, as a one-page editorial "Introduction" outlines, presented at a symposium at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and are dedicated to the late Professor George Beckford whose work on persistent poverty in plantation economies championed the Jamaican peasantry. As such, the book is a welcome addition to the literature on the Caribbean plantation-peasant interface. However, the chapters are uneven in quality, with some reflecting analytical weaknesses and a lack of historical depth. Typographical errors, grammatical mistakes, and poor documentation are also noticeable. In addition, contrasting perspectives emerge among the contributors and this is not addressed by the editors.

Home grown: the development and structure of urological training in the Caribbean

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-172
Author(s):  
Satyendra Persaud ◽  
Lawson Douglas ◽  
William Aiken ◽  
Belinda Morrison ◽  
Lester Goetz
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Training ◽  
General Surgery ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
The West ◽  
Training Plan ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Urological Training ◽  
The University

Training in general surgery at the University of the West Indies commenced in Jamaica in 1972 and urology training followed just over a decade later. Since then, the ‘Doctor of Medicine’ diploma offered by the university has also expanded to include the Trinidadian campus. Most urologists in the English-speaking Caribbean are, in fact, graduates of this programme. Residents follow a two-part training plan and two years of core surgical training are followed by four years of urology training. Despite the tremendous regional impact of this training programme, there is a lack of awareness of its existence among the wider urology community. This article reviews the history, development and structure of urology training in the English-speaking Caribbean.

scholarly journals The Genus Heterocypris (Crustacea, Ostracoda) in the West Indies.

1983 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico W. Broodbakker
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Related Species ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Carapace Length ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
The West ◽  
The Caribbean

Populations of three species of the genus Heterocypris: H. margaritae Margalef, 1961, H. antillensis Broodbakker, 1982, and H. punctata Keyser, 1975, sampled in the Caribbean region are studied. (1) An attempt is made to correlate differences in mean carapace length between samples from different islands and within intra-insular samples, with environmental factors. (2) Differences in the ecology of the three species are determined. (3) The distribution of the three species is discussed. (4) Related species are compared.

Caribbean Literary Historiography and the Jamaican Literary 1950s

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-180
Author(s):  
Ronald Cummings
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
English Department ◽  
The West ◽  
Literary Historiography ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Literary Archive ◽  
And Function ◽  
The University ◽  
Role And Function ◽  
Key Questions

This essay utilizes an alternative politics of directionality as a way of reentering the mid-twentieth-century Caribbean literary archive. Rather than focusing on Windrush as the main orienting point, this discussion examines and regrounds what events and institutions in Jamaica might tell us about the literary 1950s. Beginning by rethinking the historiographical gaze toward London, the author then raises key questions about what the narrative of the founding of the English department at the University College of the West Indies and the work of Focus magazine in Jamaica might tell us about the development of literary culture in the Caribbean. The author ends by thinking about how a focus on returns might also help us to rethink the decade. The essay examines instances of migrant returns, through which people recrossed the waters, and explores literary remittances that saw the role and function of the London scene being debated and contested within the region.

English in the West Indies, or the West Indies in English?

1964 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 312-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Dillard
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
North America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
New World ◽  
West African ◽  
The Other ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Sea Islands ◽  
The West ◽  
The Caribbean

The English of the West Indies, like the other languages of the area, shows many resemblances to the language patterns of Negroes in other parts of the New World. There have been many controversies over this matter, with many linguists, especially dialect geographers, inclined to deny West African influence upon anything inside continental North America except for Gullah(Georgia and South Carolina sea islands) and the French Creole of Louisiana. Others, like Lorenzo Turner, who conclusively disproved the widely held belief that Gullah was an amalgam of archaic features from the British Isles,have substantiated the thesis of the anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits that the culture, including the language, of Negroes from Suriname to Michigan retains many traces of African patterns. And, since the recent death of the Haitian philologist Jules Faine, no one has seriously denied resemblances among the Caribbean dialects.

Managing research data at an academic library in a developing country

IFLA Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shamin Renwick ◽  
Marsha Winter ◽  
Michelle Gill
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
The West ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The University

Managing research data has become an issue for many universities. In the Caribbean, the St Augustine Campus Libraries at the University of the West Indies are keenly aware of the need to support researchers in this regard. The objectives of this study were to identify current practices in managing research data on the campus and to determine a possible role for the Campus Libraries. A pilot study of 100 researchers on the campus was conducted. Analysis of the 65 valid responses revealed that while researchers owned data sets they had little knowledge or experience in managing such. This low level of awareness is instructive and validates a role for the Campus Libraries to play in supporting researchers on campus. The Campus Libraries need to sensitize researchers about what data planning and managing research data entail as well as provide technical assistance with actual data storage.

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