Mark Eaton—A Non-traditional Path to Librarianship

2022 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-52
Author(s):  
Morgan Frick
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
Library Studies ◽  
Bachelor Of Arts ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Master Of Arts ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

In The Profession the Bulletin showcases some of the creative ways the study of religion can be put to use in and beyond academia. The Bulletin staff sat down with Mark Eaton, a librarian at The City University of New York (CUNY), which consists of 25 campuses and 31 libraries. Mark Eaton obtained his Bachelor of Arts in religious studies at McGill University before receiving a Master of Information Studies in library studies at the University of Toronto and later, a Master of Arts in religious studies at Queens University. Between his degrees, Eaton worked at the London Metropolitan University Library, at a bakery, and on a farm. Eaton describes how his journey in academia and various professions led him down an unexpected, but fulfilling, path.

scholarly journals Editorial Address & Advisory Board

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. i
Author(s):  
Patricia G. Kirkpatrick ◽  
Pamela R. McCarroll
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
The University

The second issue of volume two of the Journal of the Council for Research on Religion (JCREOR) came out of a colloquium in honour of Professor Emeritus Douglas John Hall, entitled “Christian Theology after Christendom: Engaging the Thought of Douglas John Hall.”  The event was held at McGill University in November 2019, hosted by the McGill School of Religious Studies and Emmanuel College in the University of Toronto.  These articles were chosen for this issue because of their focus on themes central to the corpus of Douglas Hall’s work. While some engage his work directly, others raise interesting questions and concerns related to the theme. These articles should be considered as an accompaniment to the volume of papers published in 2021 by Lexington Books/Fortress Academic and entitled Christian Theology after Christendom: Engaging the Thought of Douglas John Hall, edited by Patricia G. Kirkpatrick and Pamela R. McCarroll.

scholarly journals How do you Hug a Porcupine? by L. Isop

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Sulz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Elementary Education ◽  
Real Life ◽  
General Rule ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Library Studies ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The University

Isop, Laurie. Illustrated by Gwen Millward. How do you Hug a Porcupine? New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Your Readers, 2011. Print. A charming and hopefully harmless little book.  The variety of animals is illustrated realistically enough to be recognizable on the page and probably even in real-life. The text is nicely lyrical with a rhythm and rhyme that makes you want to sing while reading. The message, however, is not all positive. On the good side, the portrayal of animals as worthy of human attention, respect, and appreciation (although not particularly original in children’s books) is always welcome.  Also nice is the mix of familiar animals (e.g. cow, horse, pig, giraffe) with some that don’t get much attention (e.g. hedgehog, yak, ostrich) so young readers might learn something new. On the negative side, however, is the encouragement to hug any-and-all animals. Knowledge of the difference between tame (domestic) animals and wild animals should be instilled from a young age and, even if not taught explicitly, children’s authors should at least not introduce ideas that must be unlearned in real life. Pandas, yaks, porcupines, kangaroos, and dolphins should NOT, as a general rule, ever be hugged and people should NOT be convinced that everything needs a hug. For one thing, animals are unpredictable and potentially dangerous to the hugger. For another, hugging or touching a wild animal can be dangerous for the hugged - hugging a porcupine would dislodge many quills and reduce its defenses against predators. Sometimes I wonder if the national park tourists who slather honey on their child’s arm to get a picture of the cute bear licking it or approach a fully-grown elk to touch its antler velvet were maybe too exposed to this sort of book. In short, the answer to “how do you hug a porcupine?” should be, “you don’t!” Stick to hugging your own kitty-cat or puppy-dog instead that you know will probably appreciate it and not attack you. Recommended with reservations: 2 out of 4 stars (charming and lyrical but potentially dangerous in later life). Reviewer: David Sulz David is a librarian at the University of Alberta working mostly with scholars in Economics, Religious Studies, and Social Work. His university studies included: Library Studies, History, Elementary Education, Japanese, and Economics. On the education front, he taught various grades and subjects for several years in schools as well as museums. His interest in Japan and things Japanese stands above his other diverse interests.    

scholarly journals Word after Word after Word by P. MacLachlan

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Sulz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Elementary Education ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
The Real ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Children's Writing ◽  
Library Studies ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
Core Message

MacLachlan, Patricia. Word after Word after Word. New York: Katherine Tegan Books, 2010. Print. Ms. Mirabel, a famous writer, starts visiting a grade four class regularly and has a profound impact on a group of five friends by encouraging them to write, even if it means breaking the rules that their teacher believes are essential (such as creating an outline).  Ms. Mirabel’s core message that writing “word after word after word” can change your life strikes a chord with the five friends and, as their daily discussions under a lilac tree suggest, there is a lot they would like to change.  Lucy’s mom has cancer, Evie wants desperately to find a new woman for her recently-separated dad, a new baby is entering May’s family, and Russell not only has to babysit his younger brother every day but also deal with the recent death of his dog.  In contrast, Henry discovers writing helps him not to change anything but to “save everything I have.” The last scene, an open-house highlighting the children’s writing brought a lump to my throat as the parents read their child’s inner-most feelings and realize how their actions as adults and parents have unexpected and powerful effects on their children. I have to admit, Ms. Mirabel annoyed me. She dresses flamboyantly to grab attention; she is sensitive, creative, and wise in a way no ordinary teacher could ever be; and she even encourages Russell’s annoying questions that make the real teacher sigh. Perhaps I am little sensitive about the stereotype of real teachers as boring, rule-bound, and uncreative. On another note, there is something about the kids that does not ring quite true; they come across more like how an adult might romanticize that time of life rather than what real grade four kids are like. To be fair, the real author (Patricia MacLachlan) notes she visits many classrooms and receives letters from young readers of her other books, so perhaps she has a different insight into the thoughts and emotions of that age group. In fact, as she tells us in the author’s notes at the end, this book was written to address the many questions she gets about the hows and whys of being a writer in a more entertaining way. Overall, this is an inspiring book about the joys and power of writing. Recommended: 3 out of 4 starsReviewer: David SulzDavid is a librarian at the University of Alberta working mostly with scholars in Economics, Religious Studies, and Social Work. His university studies included: Library Studies, History, Elementary Education, Japanese, and Economics. On the education front, he taught various grades and subjects for several years in schools as well as museums. His interest in Japan and things Japanese stands above his other diverse interests.

scholarly journals Inscriptions

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-147
Author(s):  
Nergis Mazid
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Afghan Women ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Political Science Department ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
The University

The irony was not lost that Toronto’s Colony Hotel was the site of theAMSS’ tribute to the late Edward Said, “Inscriptions: Decoding Politics,Gender and Culture in Epistemologies and Praxis,” held on November 27,2004. The first regional Canadian conference, cosponsored by the AMSS’ Canadian chapter and the University of Toronto’s political science department,featured eight sessions. A wide breadth of papers incorporated hisintellectual legacy, either directly through his critical frameworks, or indirectlythrough critiques developed from them. Gender, neo-conservativism,development, legal works of body, and Qur’anic hermenuetics were justsome of the issues discussed.Welcoming and opening remarks were offered by Jasmin Zine andMaliha Chisti, the conference’s cochairs; Paul Kingston, of the political sciencedepartment; and Beverly McCloud in absentia. Participants then splitinto two groups to attend concurrent sessions. Said’s legacy was presentedby Nahla Abdo (Carleton University, Canada), who discussed epistemology,diaspora, and identity, and Sedef Arat-Koc (Trent University, Canada),who examined imperial inscriptions, diasporic identifications, and visionsfor peaceful coexistence. The concurrent session, “Afghan Women, War,and Ideologies of Conflict,” featured papers on ground realities inAfghanistan and the neo-conservative agenda that drove American politicaldecisions.Maliha Chisti (University of Toronto, Canada) and ChesmakFarhoumand-Sims (York University, Canada) examined the trends andimpact of the transnational movement and global sisterhood on programmingfor Afghani women. Relating their experience with capacity-buildingprograms for Afghani women, they conveyed how larger aid agencies usedstereotypical epithets that ignored the long legacy of indigenous women’sactivism and prioritized formally educated, westernized women. FaizaHirji (Carelton University, Canada) examined the perpetuation of stereotypesof Muslim women in The New York Times (US), The Globe andMail (Canada), and Dawn, Pakistan’s largest English daily. While the twowestern papers conveyed tropes of veiled Muslim women in need of rescue,Dawn, due to its proximity to Afghanistan, flagged that country’ssociopolitical and religious complexities by situating women, Islam, andthe Northern Alliance. James Esdail (McGill University, Canada) examinedthe neoconservative movement in American foreign policy and concludedthat although no longer overt, imperialism and Orientalist tropesstill permeate this movement ...

James Bertram Collip, 1892-1965

1973 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 234-267 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Pituitary Hormones ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Medical Importance ◽  
The University ◽  
Happy Family

James Bertram Collip was a pioneer in endocrine research, especially in its biochemical aspects. Following an excellent training in biochemistry under Professor A. B. Macallum, F.R.S., at the University of Toronto, he spent thirteen years at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. There was a momentous year at the University of Toronto about midway through the Edmonton period; this coincided with the discovery of insulin by Sir Frederick G. Banting, F.R.S., and Professor Charles S. Best, F.R.S., and the experience altered the course of his career. Henceforth, Professor Collip’s life was dominated by an urge to discover hormones that would be useful in clinical medicine. Success attended these efforts, first in the isolation of the parthyroid hormone, called parathormone, while he was at the University of Alberta and later in the identification of placental and pituitary hormones during particularly fruitful years at McGill University. There were other important facets to Professor Collip’s career. These included the training of young scientists, many of whom subsequently came to occupy positions of responsibility, work with the National Research Council of Canada, and in his latter years an important contribution as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario. In addition to a life of fulfilment through accomplishments of scientific and medical importance, Professor Collip’s career was enriched by a happy family life and by the friendship of a host of individuals who were attracted to his brilliance as a scientist and his warm personality.

scholarly journals J.W. McConnell and the Chancellorship of McGill University, 1942–3

Fontanus ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Fong
Keyword(s):  
Wall Street ◽  
International Nickel Company ◽  
Board Of Governors ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Business Acumen ◽  
The University ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Major Shareholder

J.W. McConnell (1877–1963) was one of the most successful Canadian businessmen of his time, and possibly the richest man in Canada for much of his life. A promoter of stocks early in his career, he soon became a major industrialist and investor. He was president of St. Lawrence Sugar Refineries Limited for almost fifty years and publisher of the Montreal Daily Star and other newspapers for almost twenty-five. Among the companies of which he was a major shareholder were the International Nickel Company of Canada, Brazilian Traction, Montreal Tramways, Montreal Light, Heat and Power, Ogilvie Flour Mills, Canada Steamship Lines, and Borden. His reputation spread to Wall Street and the City of London, not only for his business acumen but also for his great generosity to medical and educational causes. He was one of the principal founders of the Montreal Neurological Institute. From 1909 to 1927, he was one of the most effective fundraisers in the country, for the YMCA, the war effort through Victory Loans, and the hospitals of Montreal. And for the remainder of his life he was the most generous contributor to good causes in Montreal if not in Canada as a whole.With Lord Strathcona and Sir William Macdonald, he became one of the three greatest benefactors of McGill. After the death of Sir Edward Beatty, the Chancellor of the university, in 1943, McConnell was a natural candidate to succeed him. The board of governors, who were responsible for choosing a new Chancellor, were nearly all businessmen like him, and his assumption of the post would have been indeed in the tradition of James Ferrier, Strathcona, Macdonald and Beatty. But McConnell did not become Chancellor, and this is the story of why he did not. In abbreviated form, this was published in chapter 17 of the author’s biography of McConnell in 2008. This article however presents considerably more detail.ResuméJ.W. McConnell (1877–1963) fut un des hommes d’affaires les plus prospères de son époque, et possiblement un des hommes les plus riches du Canada pour la plus grande partie de sa vie. Promoteur d’actions au début de sa carrière, il devint rapidement un industriel et un investisseur d’importance. Il fut président de la compagnie St. Lawrence Sugar Refineries Limited pendant presque cinquante ans, et éditeur du Montreal Daily Star et de divers autres journaux pendant presque vingt-cinq ans. Il fut un actionnaire important de plusieurs compagnies, notamment International Nickel Company of Canada, Brazilian Traction, Montreal Tramways, Montreal Light, Heat and Power, Ogilvie Flour Mills, Canada Steamship Lines, et Borden. Sa réputation se progagea jusqu’à Wall Street et Londres, non seulement pour sa perspicacité en affaires mais aussi pour sa grande générosité envers les bonnes causes dans les domaines de la medecine et de l’éducation. Il fut un des fondateurs principaux de l’Institut neurologique de Montréal. De 1909 à 1927, il fut un collecteur de fonds les plus efficaces au Canada, au profit de l’organisme YMCA, de l’effort de guerre par le biais du programme des Prêts de la victoire, et des hôpitaux montréalais. Il demeura pour le reste de sa vie un fort généreux contributeur aux bonnes causes à Montréal, sinon au Canada tout entierAvec Lord Strathcona et Sir William Macdonald, il devint une des trois plus grands bienfaiteurs de l’Université McGill. Après la mort de Sir Edward Beatty, le chancelier de l’Université, en 1942, McConnell fut un candidat tout désigné pour lui succéder. Les membres du Conseil des gouverneurs, qui avaient la responsabilité de choisir un nouveau chancelier, étaient presque tous des hommes d’affaire comme lui, et il aurait été dans la tradition de James Ferrier, Strathcona, Macdonald et Beatty que McConnell accède à ce poste. Toutefois, McConnell ne devint pas chancelier, et ceci est l’histoire qui raconte pourquoi il ne l’est pas devenu. Elle a été publiée sous la forme du chapitre 17 de la biographie de McConnell. Cet article, toutefois, présente considérablement plus de détails.

John James Rickard Macleod, 1876-1935

1935 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 584-589
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Early Death ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Leipzig ◽  
Regius Professor

John James Rickard Macleod, the son of the Rev. Robert Macleod, was born at Cluny, near Dunkeld, Perthshire, on September 6, 1876. He received his preliminary education at Aberdeen Grammar School and in 1893 entered Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, as a medical student. After a distinguished student career he graduated M.B., Ch.B. with Honours in 1898 and was awarded the Anderson Travelling Fellowship. He proceeded to Germany and worked for a year in the Physiological Institute of the University of Leipzig. He returned to London on his appointment as a Demonstrator of Physiology at the London Hospital Medical College under Professor Leonard Hill. Two years later he was appointed to the Lectureship on Biochemistry in the same college. In 1901 he was awarded the McKinnon Research Studentship of the Royal Society. At the early age of 27 (in 1902) he was appointed Professor of Physiology at the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, a post he occupied until 1918, when he was elected Professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto. Previous to this transfer he had, during his last two years at Cleveland, been engaged in various war duties and incidentally had acted for part of the winter session of 1916 as Professor of Physiology at McGill University, Montreal. He remained at Toronto for ten years until, in 1928, he was appointed Regius Professor of Physiology in the University of Aberdeen, a post he held, in spite of steadily increasing disability, until his lamentably early death on March 16, 1935, at the age of 58.

Open Admissions and Equal Access: A Study of Ethnic Groups in the City University of New York

1979 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lavin ◽  
Richard Alba ◽  
Richard Silberstein
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Academic Standards ◽  
Open Admissions ◽  
Definitive Evidence ◽  
Admissions Policy ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

In 1970 the City University of New York (CUNY) adopted a policy which guaranteed admission to every graduate of the city's high schools. Designed to increase the proportion of minority students in the university and to slow the reproduction of social inequality,CUNY's open-admissions policy has been criticized as a threat to academic standards and as an unnecessary expense during periods of economic scarcity. In this article, David Lavin,Richard Alba, and Richard Silberstein argue instead that there has been no definitive evidence of a decline in standards and that the policy has been successful in reducing educational inequality. Basing their conclusions on a detailed study of the first three classes admitted under this policy, the authors examine its effects on the university's ethnic composition and integration at various levels, and on the academic performance of different ethnic groups.

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