scholarly journals Book Review: Our Unprotected Heritage: Whitewashing the Destruction of our Cultural and Natural Environment

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Walters
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Peace Of Mind

Before becoming involved in archeology, I was a commercial nurseryman for thirty years in East Texas. Finally though, I had my fill of fighting weather, unstable markets, pests and yes, government agencies. After retirement I sought what I thought would be tranquility in the field of archeology. Archeology was a topic that I had been interested in since I was a teenager and I thought it would provide the peace-of-mind I was seeking. Wrong again.

Book Review: From the inside out: The fight for environmental justice within government agencies by Jill Harrison

2022 ◽  
pp. 194277862110614
Author(s):  
Lindsey Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Agency Staff ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Inside Out ◽  
Trump Administration

In From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies (MIT Press, 2019), Jill Harrison offers a nuanced study of why U.S. state agencies fail at implementing robust environmental justice (EJ) policies. Through a rigorous interview and ethnographic based methodology Harrison details the discourses, ideologies, and everyday practices and through which government agency staff, daily, undermine and even outright reject EJ policies and programs. The book is a richly empirical study that makes valuable contributions to academic and activist understandings of the government's failure to respond meaningfully to environmental injustices, and offers specific recommendations for how to reform government agencies. It is a timely monograph as EJ advocates seek to reimagine government agencies in the wake of the Trump administration, and in the context of an expanded public consciousness of racism following the killing of George Floyd and subsequent uprisings during the summer of 2020.

scholarly journals Book Review: Digital Library Programs for Libraries and Archives: Developing, Managing, and Sustaining Unique Digital Collections

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Meghan Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Step Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Big Picture

Digital Library Programs for Libraries and Archives: Developing, Managing, and Sustaining Unique Digital Collections is a well-organized text that helps readers better understand the historical context and development of digital collections in libraries into the present, and provides a useful step-by-step process for the management and sustainment of digital programs with the goal to move the concept of a digital program into reality. This text serves as a workbook for leaders and managers in libraries and archives and is highly relevant to all levels of staff including students that are involved or interested in the process of creating a digital program. The use of this text can extend to practitioners working with digital collections in government agencies and corporations in the public or private sector. Creating a digital program is still a relatively new endeavor for many institutions with limited resources and is often misunderstood by those with limited knowledge of the process. This text can help these professionals understand the different facets and requirements of creating and sustaining a digital program while maintaining a big picture view.

Book Review: Peace of Mind

1947 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-121
Author(s):  
William M. Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Peace Of Mind

scholarly journals Book Review: Before the Line. Vol I, II, and III

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
State University ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Sam Houston State University ◽  
History Of

This three volume set written and compiled by Dr. Jim Tiller of Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, Texas) represents a significant body of work concerning the history of East Texas-Northwest Louisiana between 1803-1842. His study area includes what is now Caddo Parish in Louisiana and Harrison and Panola counties in Texas. Tiller's interest in the history of the Caddo Indian in this area is also shown by a series of articles he has written about them in recent years.

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