Gogol and the Geographical Imagination of Romanticism. By Inga Vidugirytė. Trans. Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler. Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 2018. 275 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. €32.69, paper.

Slavic Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 879-880
Author(s):  
Bella Grigoryan
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Imagination ◽  
Vilnius University

Aus der Welt gefallen. Eine geographische Phantasie

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-160
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Struck
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Geographical Imagination ◽  
White Spots ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Geographical Space

Während im 19. Jahrhundert die ›weißen Flecken‹ von den Landkarten verschwinden, erscheint eine eigentümliche Figur in der geographischen Imagination, die Figur eines Forschers, der verschollen ist. Das Verschwinden jedoch findet unter Beobachtung statt, es wird in Erzählungen und Karten organisiert, es schreibt sich in Protokolle ein, die das Verschwinden wahrnehmbar machen und zugleich die Wahrnehmung eines homogenen geographischen Raums und die Bedingungen seiner Repräsentation formieren. </br></br>While, during the 19th century, the ›white spots‹ disappear from the maps, a peculiar figure appears in the geographical imagination: the figure of a researcher who has been lost. However, the disappearance takes place under observation, it is organized in narratives and maps, it is inscribed in protocols that make the disappearance perceptible and simultaneously form the perception of a homogeneous geographical space and the conditions of its representation.

Academic library website functions in the context of users’ information needs

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Mierzecka ◽  
Andrius Suminas
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Vilnius University ◽  
Locating Information ◽  
Library Websites ◽  
The University ◽  
Desk Research

The digital revolution has had a particular impact on the functioning of libraries: it has changed both the means of communicating with the users, and the nature of the service itself. In the case of academic libraries, an online presence is crucial due to the increased rate of Internet usage among their stakeholders, academics and students alike. From their perspective, library websites serve as digital gates to library services and resources. However, an academic library website may fulfil a wide array of functions and their importance can be variously prioritized. The purpose of our research was to find out which functions of academic library websites are viewed as the most important by a selected group of users: the students. To answer this question, we identified the main functions of academic library websites on the basis of desk research and designed a survey conducted among students of the University of Warsaw (Poland) and Vilnius University (Lithuania) ( n=680). The picture of users’ information needs with regard to content of the academic library website revealed by our research allows us to draw conclusions about the functions of the academic library website distinctive from those already mentioned in the subject literature. From the perspective of a user-centric approach we distinguished five functions of the academic library website: (1) supporting the usage of the collection (online and traditional); (2) promotion of culture; (3) gateway for locating information on the Web; (4) education; (5) creation of library’s online image.

scholarly journals A busca pela força-motriz na Geografia:

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Frank
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Imagination

Esta resenha analisa a obra de Daniel Gade Curiosity, Inquiry and the Geographical Imagination (2011). Esta obra, de profunda importância para Geógrafos e pesquisadores, aborda a questão da curiosidade e da investigação na imaginação geográfica. O autor utiliza-se de exemplos históricos de trajetórias profissionais e de pesquisa de geógrafos importantes e realiza um comparativo com as teorias da psicanálise e da filosofia.

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