Publications Produced by the Francis Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics

The Library ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-548
Author(s):  
Joe Cain
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
University Research ◽  
Academic Entrepreneur ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Emerging Patterns ◽  
University College ◽  
Francis Galton

Abstract In 1907, Karl Pearson created the Francis Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics at University College, University of London. His ambitions emphasised both discipline building and the assertion of primacy for university research in eugenics over political activism. An academic entrepreneur, Pearson operated the ‘Eugenics Laboratory’ as a publishing house or imprint. It published five series. Because titles in each series were printed as ad hoc private separates for much of their duration, current bibliographic records show considerable variation and error while historical studies of the Eugenics Laboratory tend toward fragmentation. This paper presents a comprehensive inventory for each series associated with the Eugenics Laboratory, and it offers brief analysis of emerging patterns. The series inventoried are: (1) Eugenics Laboratory Lectures, (2) Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs, (3) The Treasury of Human Inheritance, (4) Questions of the Day and of the Fray, and (5) Studies in National Deterioration.

Valuable Research on Bibliographic Aspects of Social Memory of the Russian State Library

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-400
Author(s):  
Ludmila P. Mashentseva
Keyword(s):  
Social Memory ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Information Resource ◽  
Scientometric Analysis ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Russian State ◽  
State Library ◽  
Selection Of

This is a review of the bibliographic index “Bibliographic Activity of the Russian State Library” released by the publishing house “Pashkov Dom” in 2021. The new index has been drawn up by the experts from the Research Department of Bibliography of the Russian State Library (RSL). This unique book serves as a social memory of one of the largest libraries both in this country and worldwide. We might regard this information resource as a kind of chronicle of the RSL Reference and Bibliographic Service, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2018. The structural and substantive analyse of the methodological features of the index as well as the criteria for the selection of material have been carried out. The publication consists of two parts (“Literature on the bibliographic activity of the library” and “Publications of the library on bibliographic theory and practice”) and includes 1709 bibliographic records.The book can be used as an example for creating similar works, and it is a comprehensive toolkit for scientometric analysis of the library’s bibliographic activity.

scholarly journals Learning from each other: Reciprocity in description between Wikipedians and librarians

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Yon ◽  
Eric Willey
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
University Research ◽  
State University ◽  
Library Catalog ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Illinois State University ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Amount Of Knowledge

Librarians, archivists, and museum professionals are increasingly realizing the value of using and contributing information to Wikipedia through projects such as edit-a-thons and the 1Lib1Ref project. As the amount of knowledge in Wikipedia and Wikidata grows, the benefits to libraries in partnering with Wikimedia projects to enhance their own bibliographic records and catalog search results also increase. Conversely, librarians have created an immense number of bibliographic and authority records that Wikipedia and Wikidata editors can use both as resources in and of themselves and as examples of various approaches to metadata and knowledge creation. Despite some challenges there are numerous benefits for working to integrate library data with Wikipedia more closely. This chapter will serve to highlight differences between Wikipedia resources and library catalog records, and how librarians and Wikipedians can learn from each other to improve description and discoverability in both Wikipedia and library catalogs for their respective users. It will also illustrate differences between these two systems in order to reduce confusion and errors when data are merged uncritically. The discussion draws on experience gained from a previous Illinois State University Research Grant-funded project that used the Wikipedia List of African-American writers to enhance library catalog records.

Jean Genet

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mairéad Hanrahan
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jean Genet ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Black Panthers ◽  
Reform School ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
Literary Figure ◽  
Bourgeois Culture

Jean Genet (b. 19 December 1910–d. 15 April 1986) was a 20th-century French poet, novelist, playwright, film director, essayist, and political activist. His work is renowned for its literary experimentation and poetic intensity and for its unequivocal opposition to the norms of bourgeois culture. Genet’s profile was singularly unconventional for a man of letters. His trajectory was far from traditional: abandoned by his mother when seven months old, he was placed in a foster family until his adolescence. He spent much of his teenage years in a reform school, Mettray, before joining the army only to desert soon afterward. Repeatedly convicted over the following decade for petty theft, he began to write in prison at the age of thirty. His use of highly poetic language in conjunction with an extremely explicit, unapologetic treatment of themes such as homosexuality and criminality won him recognition as a major literary figure in a remarkably short space of time. Within ten years, he had published a collection of poems as well as five dense prose texts and two plays, directed a film, and staged a ballet. Moreover, the prestigious publishing house Gallimard had commissioned his “Completed Works” in an unprecedented gesture for a living author, let alone one only forty years old. Genet then published very little over the next five years, before producing three plays in quick succession. Following the suicide of his lover in 1964, Genet claimed that he would write no more and he tore up his manuscripts; although the archives show that he continued to work on a number of projects, he would publish no further major work during his lifetime. He turned to political activism, culminating in 1970 when he accepted an invitation to tour the United States in support of the Black Panthers, and he spent six months with the Palestinian fedayeen in Jordan. By chance, he was one of the first people to enter the camps of Sabra and Shatila after the massacres in 1982; the experience appears to have been decisive in motivating him to return to writing. Although he had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 1979, he spent his final years working on a text about the Palestinian revolution. He died while correcting the proofs of this book, which was published posthumously one month later. He is buried in Larache, Morocco.

scholarly journals John Dewey in Italia. L’operazione de La Nuova Italia Editrice: tra traduzione, interpretazione e diffusione

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Franco Cambi
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
Educational Theorist ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

The essay reconstructs the various phases of the discovery of John Dewey’s ideas on Education and the spread of their influence throughout Italian pedagogical circles from the end of the Second World War to the 1970s. Several Italian intellectual pioneers discerned within Dewey’s theories significant overtones of democratic political activism, and the potential for developing innovative practices by which the obsolete education system of the day could be modernized, and the demands for better schooling being put forward by many could be met. In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, one such pioneer was Ernesto Codignola, a shrewd educational theorist who used the journal «Scuola e Città» (Schooling and the City), published by La Nuova Italia publishing house, as a mouthpiece for his ideas. Once the American philosopher’s ideas had been rediscovered, his most significant works were quickly translated and published, and then subjected to a flurry of detailed critical analysis and interpretation. During the 1960s and ‘70s, much of the research into Dewey’s theories was carried out in Florence, in particular by Lamberto Borghi, who interpreted them as the blueprint for a secular, democratic system of education that could be applied across the Italian peninsula.

scholarly journals Las deportistas olímpicas en los libros de texto de educación física: ¿presencia o ausencia de referentes en nuestro alumnado? (Olympic athletes in physical education textbooks: presence or absence of references in our students?)

Retos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 229-234
Author(s):  
Sergio Ruiz Rabadán ◽  
Irene Moya-Mata
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
The United States ◽  
Coding System ◽  
School Students ◽  
Olympic Athletes ◽  
Las Mujeres

La representación de las mujeres deportistas en los libros de texto de Educación Física supone un modelo de referencia a imitar por parte del alumnado; además de visibilizar por un lado a las deportistas dedicadas a la alta competición, y por otro, el deporte minoritario. El objetivo de este estudio es analizar la presencia de las deportistas olímpicas que se representan en los libros de texto de Educación Física en la etapa de Primaria, determinando su visibilización o invisibilización en dichos materiales curriculares. La muestra estuvo formada por seis libros de texto de la editorial Edelvives, la cual aborda el movimiento olímpico explícitamente. Se ha realizado un análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo, tanto de las imágenes como del texto, para medir la presencia y recurrencia de las mujeres. La técnica utilizada ha sido el análisis de contenido basado en un sistema de codificación ad hoc. Para el análisis estadístico se ha utilizado el programa estadístico informático SPSS 22.0. Los resultados muestran una infrarrepresentación de las deportistas olímpicas, siendo más presente el sexismo en el texto que en las imágenes. Estas mujeres deportistas son principalmente estadounidenses, sin discapacidad, que compiten en los Juegos Olímpicos de verano, en modalidades deportivas individuales, siendo el deporte por excelencia el atletismo, y la deportista olímpica con más presencia en estos manuales Nadia Comaneci. Es necesario que las editoriales revisen estos manuales y aumenten la presencia de mujeres deportistas, para ofrecer modelos femeninos como referentes en el alumnado de Primaria. Abstract. The representation of women athletes in Physical Education textbooks is a reference model that students may imitate, in addition to the fact that it makes visible on one hand female athletes from high competition, on the other hand minority sports. The objective of this study is to analyze the presence of Olympic athletes in the textbooks of Physical Education; determining their visibility or absence in said curricular materials. The sample consisted of six textbooks from the Edelvives publishing house, which explicitly addresses the Olympic movement. A quantitative and qualitative analysis was performed, both on the images and on the text, to measure the presence and recurrence of women references. Content analysis, based on an ad hoc coding system, was the technique employed. For the statistical analysis, the statistical software SPSS 22.0 was used. The results show a scarce presence of Olympic athletes in the manuals, being sexism more present in the text than in the images. These female athletes are mainly representative of the United States of America, without disabilities, competing in the Summer Olympic Games, in individual sports modalities, being the sport par excellence Athletics. The Olympic athlete most referred to in these manuals is Nadia Comaneci. It is necessary for publishers to review these manuals and increase the presence of female athletes, so to offer female models as referents in primary school students.

scholarly journals Svanhild Naterstad, “To me Romania is magic!”

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-90
Author(s):  
Crina Leon
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
University Studies ◽  
University College ◽  
Romanian Literature ◽  
University Of Oslo ◽  
The University

Svanhild Naterstad has worked as a journalist for the Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen in Trondheim since 2002. In addition to journalism studies at the Bodø University College, she holds a Magister’s degree (corresponding to the PhD) in Romanian literature from the Institute of Classical and Romance Studies of the University of Oslo (1996). In the period January 2009-October 2010, she was employed at the Department of Modern Foreign Languages of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), which at that time hosted the only Romanian Lectureship in Norway, with financial support from Romania’s honorary consul in Trondheim, Mr. Terje Roll Danielsen. In 2012 she published the book Romania in Norwegian, at the Akademika Publishing House. After her first visit to Romania in 1988, she lived in Bucharest, during a research visit (1990-1991) and in Copşa Mică, where she worked as an interpreter between 1991-1992. Moreover, she had other stays of 1-3 months in Romania, related to her university studies and the research for the book Romania. This is an extensive book of 456 pages, which offers the Norwegian readers various information about Romania’s history, geography, nature, economy, culture, religion etc.

William Ernest Stephen Turner, 1881-1963

1964 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 325-355
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
University Research ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Bachelor Of Science ◽  
The Family ◽  
University College ◽  
Research Scholarship ◽  
Insurance Agent ◽  
The Church

William Ernest Stephen Turner was born on 22 September 1881 at Wednesbury, Staffordshire. He was the second of seven children and the eldest son of William George and Emma Blanche Turner. His father was self-educated and shared in the precariousness of employment of those times being successively railway porter, signalman, iron works labourer, morning postman and industrial insurance agent. Throughout these varying hardships he served as deacon and elder in a community known as the Church of the Baptist Brethren in Smethwick. At the age of 12 Turner was awarded a Staffordshire County minor scholarship from the Crocketts Lane Board School, Smethwick, and when he was 13 gained admission to King Edward VI Grammar School, Five Ways, Birmingham. Tremendous sacrifices must have been demanded of the family to make it possible for Turner to continue his education. He was, apparently, a brilliant pupil and won many prizes while at school. He entered the then Mason University College in 1898 with a school leaving scholarship and graduated with the London degree of Bachelor of Science with honours in chemistry in 1902. He was awarded a Birmingham University Research Scholarship and began research work under Dr Alex Findlay. He became M.Sc. (Birmingham) in 1904 and was awarded the Erhardt Research Prize.

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