scholarly journals Becoming a Librarian Amidst a Professional Identity Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
Ashley Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
The Core ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Core Value ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

Adopted in the late 1930s, the Library Bill of Rights grounded the profession in the core value of intellectual freedom. This core value was challenged in the 1930s, the 1960s, the 1990s, and again in recent years by calls for social responsibility within our ranks. The re-occurrent discomfort with upholding intellectual freedom is particularly evident today in the case of public library third party meeting room bookings by controversial speakers. Both the Toronto Public Library and the Vancouver Public Library (as well as the Edmonton Public Library for lending its support) have come under scrutiny by both specific voices within the field as well as the community more broadly. This is not the first time, nor will it be the last time, that publicly funded libraries are faced with controversy surrounding intellectual freedom.   Using critical information theory, this presentation examines important questions: How is intellectual freedom defined, redefined and confined today? What is the relationship between the core value of intellectual freedom and sister core values such as social responsibility, diversity and democracy? How do we uphold professional ethics (e.g., IFLA Code for Librarians and Other Information Workers) in instances when our personal, professional, institutional and/or association commitments do not align? As a 2019-20 SLIS research assistant, these questions are rooted in my ongoing academic explorations with Dr. Samek of the nature and extent LIS curricula (for both professionals and paraprofessionals) prepares graduates to negotiate the perpetually complicated core value of intellectual freedom from a position of confidence, and not fear, defensiveness or divisiveness.

Hammer and British Cinema

2016 ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Victoria Grace Walden
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Cinema ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Good Taste ◽  
The Press ◽  
British Cinema ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the relationship between Hammer Films and British cinema. The history of British cinema has been characterised by a strong dedication to realism, in its many forms. From the documentaries of the 1930s with a focus on social responsibility to the gritty kitchen sink dramas of the 1960s, and even the naturalistic aesthetic of television police dramas, the British moving-image industries have a strong heritage of realism. If this is the case, Hammer horror, despite its international fame as a specifically British brand of filmmaking, does not seem characteristic of British national cinema at all. On one hand, Hammer's horrors are clearly fantastical; on the other hand, they amalgamate infrequent and abrupt moments of gore with a 'neat unpretentious realism'. Moreover, the films were lambasted in the press for not exhibiting 'good taste' or restraint. The chapter then assesses to what extent Hammer horror can be understood as British.

Environmental Disclosures and Impression Management

2014 ◽  
pp. 217-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles H. Cho ◽  
Den M. Patten ◽  
Robin W. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Voluntary Disclosure ◽  
Environmental Accounting ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Accounting Research ◽  
Environmental Disclosures ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship

A significant stream of social and environmental accounting research investigates the relationship between a corporation’s self-reported disclosures of its own social responsibility and environmental activities and third-party evaluations of that corporation’s actual social responsibility and environmental performance. Generally, researchers have utilized one of two theories to motivate and test this relationship. One theory—signaling or voluntary disclosure theory—argues that corporations with superior corporate social responsibility or environmental performance use disclosure to signal to interested parties a level of performance that poorer corporate performers cannot disclose. A second theory—legitimacy or impression management theory—argues that corporations use disclosures to manage impressions, often masking their actual social responsibility and environmental performance. In this chapter, the authors seek to comment on how DICTION has been and can be utilized to advance this stream of social and environmental accounting research.

Double Play! Examining the Relationship Between MLB’s Corporate Social Responsibility and Sport Spectators’ Behavioral Intentions

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joon Kyoung Kim ◽  
Holly K. Ott ◽  
Kevin Hull ◽  
Minhee Choi
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Csr Strategies ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the impact of exposure to corporate social responsibility (CSR) messages on individuals’ attitudes and behavioral intentions toward a Major League Baseball (MLB) team’s CSR efforts. Using a 2 (information source: team source or a third-party source) × 2 (CSR initiatives: efforts to help cancer patients or military appreciation recognition) with two nonfactorial control conditions (team source or a third-party source) experimental design, this study aims to identify how factors such as information source, perceived sincerity, and different types of CSR activities impact a MLB team’s CSR messaging on social media. Path analysis was used to examine significant paths between variables; results indicated that CSR messages generated a halo effect, thus providing implications for how MLB teams should develop CSR strategies and most effectively communicate about these efforts. Theoretical and practical implications of study results are discussed.

4. Constructive trusts

2019 ◽  
pp. 108-128
Author(s):  
JE Penner
Keyword(s):  
Third Party ◽  
The Core ◽  
Bona Fide ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
First Time

Titles in the Core Text series take the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing focused, concise, and reliable guides for students at all levels. This chapter focuses on constructive trusts, which are trusts that arise by operation of law. It identifies and discusses three broad categories of constructive trust: firstly, those in which the law anticipates the result of legal title passing at law, with the result that the legal owner is regarded as holding his title on trust for the transferee until the transfer of the legal title is effective; secondly, the ‘trust’ under which a non-bona fide third party recipient of property transferred in breach of trust holds the title to the property he receives; and, finally, those in which individuals acquire for the first time an interest in another’s property because of their past dealings or relationship with the legal owner. Each of these is discussed in turn.

Selected Writings

October ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 153 ◽  
pp. 14-41
Author(s):  
Roberto Jacoby
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Art World ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

This selection of texts by the Argentinean artist Roberto Jacoby includes seven that are here published in English for the first time, and two others rendered in new translations. The majority of the texts (all but three) were written in the 1960s. Some, such as “Scale Model of an Artwork” (1966), “Automatic Circuit (work no. 1 for Telephone Circuit)” (1967), and “Message at the Di Tella Institute” (1968), are short descriptions of artworks. Another, “An Art of Communications Media (Manifesto)” (1967), takes the form of a manifesto, co-written by Jacoby and two other artists. “Demonstration: A Mass Media Artwork” (1967) touches on various issues topical in the mid-1960s art world in Argentina and beyond, including the relationship between art and life, society, and politics, and “Against the Happening” (1967) considers an art that harnesses the mass media for its production. The section also includes translations of song lyrics written by Jacoby that link intimate themes of love with international politics. The songs were put to music and recorded by the Argentinian rock group Virus for its fifth record, “Surfaces of Pleasure” (1987). The section concludes with “Strategy of Joy” (2000), an article that theorizes a biopolitical form of resistance to the civil-military dictatorship that brutalized the Argentinian population in the 1970s and early 1980s, and “Report on the Venus Project” (2002), which focuses on an experimental community formed in the midst of the social, economic and political crisis that befell Argentina in the summer of 2001, and, according to some, is ongoing.

Transporting Viewers Beyond the “Hoe and the Machete” The Rhetoric of Mobility in Cuban Mobile Cinema

Transfers ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Nicholas Balaisis
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Cuban Revolution ◽  
Virtual Mobility ◽  
Mobile Cinema ◽  
Rural Sites ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the Cuban mobile cinema campaign in the 1960s as a case study for thinking about the relationship between cinema and mobility. I examine the rhetoric around mobile cinema in Cuban journals such as Cine Cubano, and in the documentary film Por primera vez (For the first time, 1967). I argue that cinema is linked with mobility in two primary ways: as a virtual mobility stimulated by onscreen images, and as a more literal mobility expressed by the transportation of film into remote rural sites of exhibition. These two kinds of mobility reflect the hopes and ambitions of filmmakers and critics energized by the resurgent nationalism of the Cuban revolution, and the excitement of cinema as a “new” technology in rural Cuba.

The relationship between social responsibility and public libraries accountability: The mediating role of professional ethics and conscientiousness

2021 ◽  
pp. 096100062110142
Author(s):  
Nima Soltani-Nejad ◽  
Marzieh Jahanshahi ◽  
Mohammad Karim Saberi ◽  
Nasim Ansari ◽  
Nayereh Zarei-Maram
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Perceived Responsiveness ◽  
The Relationship

Public libraries are powerful social institutions whose services have a positive contribution to civil society. As one of the most important and most visited social institutions, such libraries are responsible to the community. Promoting social responsibility in public libraries requires addressing issues such as librarians’ accountability, professional ethics, and conscientiousness. Accordingly, this study strives to address this research gap by examining the relationship between organizational social responsibility and accountability perceived by staff in public libraries. Based on theoretical foundations, librarians’ professional ethics and conscientiousness were considered as mediating variables. Quantitative research method was used for this study and six hypothesized relationships were formulated to develop a conceptual model. Study data were collected through a questionnaire. Data obtained from 362 librarians of Iranian public libraries were analyzed running SPSS software and Smart PLS 3.0. The results revealed that perceived social responsibility of public libraries directly contributes to their perceived responsiveness. Furthermore, the implementation of social responsibility by public libraries reinforces the professional ethics and conscientiousness of librarians. As a result, the professional ethics and conscientiousness will lead to improving the accountability of public libraries. Accordingly, this study can help public library administrators, policymakers, and librarians to develop more comprehensive strategies for providing services to citizens by focusing on their social responsibilities, thereby establishing their place in society.

scholarly journals Corporate Social Responsibility as a managerial learning process

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-94
Author(s):  
Ahmed Marhfor ◽  
Kais Bouslah ◽  
Bouchra M'Zali
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Optimal Level ◽  
Learning Hypothesis ◽  
New Information ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
First Time

The purpose of this paper is twofold. 1) We propose for the first time in the literature a theory (managerial learning hypothesis) that may explain why managers engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR). 2) We use an intuitive empirical methodology (Edmans et al. 2017) to test the relevance/irrelevance of our new theory. The idea behind our main contribution is that managers engage in CSR to learn new relevant information from other informed stakeholders. In return, managers will use both the new information and other information they already have to choose the optimal level of firm’s investment (Jayaraman and Wu, 2019). Therefore, we propose to examine whether a strong CSR engagement improves revelatory efficiency (Edmans et al. 2012, 2017). The latter accounts for the extent to which stock prices reveal new information to managers that will help them make value-maximizing choices. Our findings suggest that CSR activities do not allow firm’s managers to extract new information from their stock prices and ultimately improve the efficiency of their investment choices.

scholarly journals Comments on Ernest Weinrib’s ideas of “correlativity and personality”

Revista IBERC ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 88-100
Author(s):  
Catarina Helena Cortada Barbieri
Keyword(s):  
Tort Law ◽  
Corrective Justice ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Normative Argument ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

This article aims to explain some of the core concepts that tort law philosopher Ernest Weinrib has expounded in his latest book “Corrective Justice” (2012). The article concentrates on the first chapter of the book, “Correlativity and Personality”, in which Weinrib lays down the core of his conceptual and normative argument about corrective justice. Understanding this core concepts may be of interest for any scholar delving into Weinrib’s ouvre for the first time, and might bring a renewed interested for those in the tort law field already familiar with his contentions about the relationship between tort law and corrective justice.

scholarly journals LEXICAL AND SEMANTIC CONTENT OF THE “ERFOLG” VALUE IN GERMAN LINGUISTIC CULTURE

2021 ◽  
pp. 135-151
Author(s):  
ANNA I. KHLOPOVA ◽  
◽  
OKSANA M. LADOSHA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Value ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Semantic Attributes

The article examines the lexical and semantic content of the core value Erfolg 'success' in German linguistic culture. The research is based on the ethno-psycholinguistic paradigm, and the relationship between language and culture is considered as a linguistic problem; therefore the main research methods are the method of contextual analysis and free associative experiment. The study showed that for representatives of German linguistic culture an important role is played by career success, which is also confirmed by data from previous studies. Values codified in lexicographic and etymological sources are also identified in relevant studies. The dynamics of core value Erfolg is manifested in the identification of additional semantic attributes: the sphere of success, the ritual role of success in etiquette speech acts, an indication of the sources and subjects of success, as well as the temporal characteristics of the situation.

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