scholarly journals A Personal Reflection on the 50th Year Anniversary of the Optometric Historical Society

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-18
Author(s):  
Lester Caplan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Local State ◽  
Private Practitioner ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
Personal Reflection ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
The University

Personal reflections of Dr. Lester Caplan, a founding member of the Optometric Historical Society, on his involvement during the course of his life and his career as a private practitioner in Baltimore, MD, as an academic at the University of Alabama, and his leadership in public health optometry at the local, state and federal level.

Exhibitions as Public Health Interventions: The University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society

2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110108
Author(s):  
Robert B. Riter ◽  
Kevin Bailey ◽  
Jeff Hirschy
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Tobacco Industry ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Public Health Intervention ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Promotional Efforts ◽  
The University

Can exhibitions of artifacts from the tobacco industry, its allies and critics, act as a public health intervention? The University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society is a curatorial and research center dedicated to the creation of exhibitions on the tobacco industry and its allies, the marketing of cigarettes and other tobacco products, and the efforts to counteract the use and promotion of cigarettes throughout the 20th century to the present day (Blum, 1994, p. 8). Physical and digital exhibitions provide social and historical context to increase public understanding of a deadly product which, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, kills 1,300 Americans a day. University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society collects “communication artifacts” of the tobacco industry, from ubiquitous advertisements to subtler promotional efforts such as financial support for museums and other cultural institutions. This summary of the center’s work spotlights archives, curated and made public through exhibitions.

scholarly journals Academic libraries and research in flux: Global conversations in times of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Liladhar R. Pendse
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local State ◽  
Resource Acquisition ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Library Administration ◽  
Alameda County ◽  
Public Health Officials ◽  
The University

In March 2020, Alameda County, where the University of California (UC)-Berkeley is located, issued a shelter in place order as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The UC-Berkeley Library was one of the first libraries in the United States to deal effectively with the new normal that was mandated by local, state, and federal public health officials, shifting to the virtual provision of its services such as instruction, research consultation, and accelerated e-resource acquisition. Library administration encouraged staff to think creatively, to not only provide our services to faculty, users, and students, but also to bridge the physical gap through virtual media to foster collaboration among the community of international librarians.

Exhibitions as Public Health Interventions: The University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society

2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110031
Author(s):  
Robert B. Riter ◽  
Kevin Bailey ◽  
Jeff Hirschy
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Tobacco Industry ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Public Health Intervention ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Promotional Efforts ◽  
The University

Can exhibitions of artifacts from the tobacco industry, its allies and critics, act as a public health intervention? The University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society is a curatorial and research center dedicated to the creation of exhibitions on the tobacco industry and its allies, the marketing of cigarettes and other tobacco products, and the efforts to counteract the use and promotion of cigarettes throughout the 20th century to the present day. Physical and digital exhibitions provide social and historical context to increase public understanding of a deadly product which, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, kills 1,300 Americans a day. Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society collects “communication artifacts” of the tobacco industry, from ubiquitous advertisements to subtler promotional efforts such as financial support for museums and other cultural institutions. This summary of the center’s work spotlights archives, curated and made public through exhibitions.

Preserving the Innovative Legacy of John P. Parker

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-68
Author(s):  
Jason Krupar
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Underground Railroad ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
Railroad Network ◽  
University Of Cincinnati ◽  
Business Acumen ◽  
The University

John P. Parker played a prominent role in the Underground Railroad network that operated in southwest Ohio. Additionally, Parker held three known patents and displayed his products at regional/national industrial expositions. Parker’s engineering skills and business acumen, however, have largely been overlooked. A coalition comprised of faculty and students from the University of Cincinnati, members of the John P. Parker Historical Society, and corporate donors formed in 2006 to preserve the industrial legacy of this African American entrepreneur. This project demonstrates some of the benefits and pitfalls of such complicated undertakings.

The Oral History Tradition at the University of Alabama in Huntsville

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne M. Coleman ◽  
Robert L. Middleton ◽  
Charles A. Lundquist ◽  
David L. Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
The University

EXPLORING THE CONTENTS OF THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD ANNUAL REPORTS: 1827–1856

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary John Previts ◽  
William D. Samson
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Corporate Disclosure ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
Complete Collection ◽  
Archival Collection ◽  
Annual Reporting ◽  
The University ◽  
Disclosure Practice ◽  
Corporate Practice

In 1995, a nearly complete collection of the annual reports of the earliest interstate and common carrier railroad in the U. S., the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O), was rediscovered in the archival collection at the Bruno Library of the University of Alabama. Dating from the company's inception in 1827 to its acquisition by the Chessie System in 1962, the reports present a unique opportunity for the exploration, study, and analysis of early U.S. corporate disclosure practice. This paper represents a study of the annual report information made publicly available by one of America's first railroads, and one of the first modern U.S. corporations. In this paper, early annual reports of the B&O which detail its formation, construction, and operation are catalogued as to content and evaluated. Mandated in the corporate charter, the annual “statement of affairs” presented by the management and directors to stockholders is studied as a process and as a product that instigated the institutional corporate practice recognized today as “annual reporting.” Using a single company methodology for assessment of reporting follows a pattern developed by Claire [1945] in his analysis of U.S. Steel and utilized by other researchers. This study demonstrates the use of archival information to improve understanding about the origins and contents of early annual reports and, therein, related disclosure forms.

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