scholarly journals Using and Experiencing the Academic Library: A Multisite Observational Study of Space and Place

2015 ◽  
Vol 76 (6) ◽  
pp. 771-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francine May ◽  
Alice Swabey
Keyword(s):  
Community Colleges ◽  
Observational Study ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Campus Community ◽  
Technical Institute ◽  
Modern Library ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
Community Data

This study examines how students are using academic library spaces and the role these spaces are playing in the campus community. Data were collected on five campuses (two community colleges, two undergraduate universities, and one technical institute) via observational seating sweeps and questionnaires. The study found remarkably similar usage patterns across all library types. Academic pursuits remain the most common activities, despite perceptions of the modern library as a social space. The library as a place to study is shown to be a complex topic, with noise, need, and personal preference influencing experience. The research provides libraries with evidence to demonstrate their support of student learning and engagement within their institutions.

Lifespan change in grammaticalisation as frequency-sensitive automation: William Faulkner and the let alone construction

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-365
Author(s):  
Jakob Neels
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Feeding Cycle ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
Cognitive Automation ◽  
Community Data ◽  
Syntactic Context

AbstractThis paper explores the added value of studying intra- and inter-speaker variation in grammaticalisation based on idiolect corpora. It analyses the usage patterns of the English let alone construction in a self-compiled William Faulkner corpus against the backdrop of aggregated community data. Vast individual differences (early Faulkner vs. late Faulkner vs. peers) in frequencies of use are observed, and these frequency differences correlate with different degrees of grammaticalisation as measured in terms of host-class and syntactic context expansion. The corpus findings inform general issues in current cognitive-functional research, such as the from-corpus-to-cognition issue and the cause/consequence issue of frequency. They lend support to the usage-based view of grammaticalisation as a lifelong, frequency-sensitive process of cognitive automation. To substantiate this view, this paper proposes a self-feeding cycle of constructional generalisation that is driven by the interplay of frequency, entrenchment, partial sanction and habituation.

scholarly journals In The News

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
David Free
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Campus Community ◽  
Essential Function

Welcome to the March 2018 issue of C&RL News. Providing library services and collections that reach all members of the campus community is an essential function of today’s academic library. Rebekah Scoggins writes about taking on a project to increase the Lander University library’s LGBTQIA collections in her article “Broadening your library’s collection.”

How the Ghosts Stole All the Kisses: Slow Modernity

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 482-490
Author(s):  
Alex Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
The World ◽  
Industrial Modernity ◽  
Presence And Absence

We are getting faster, or so we have been led to believe. Planes, trains, and automobiles—alongside the substrates of online modernity—have seemed to suggest to us that the world is a place we are constantly in need of catching up with. In turn, partially in response to institutional demands on productivity, some academics have suggested slow methods in research.1 Yet, what if we were never fast in the first place? What if the things and atmospheres of Western industrial modernity actually produce slow ontologies of feeling as we traverse space and place? Straddling history, literature, and (auto)ethnographic attunements to emotions and society, this article attempts to suggest there is a modernity which is slow—an “endless mastication”—in which we, as both subject and subjects, are chewed-up and spat out amid the endlessly deferring signs of the presence and absence of meaning in social space.

scholarly journals University Libraries and Social Media - The Case of the Postmodern Library, Kenyatta University

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
George Gitau Njoroge ◽  
Patience Kang'ethe
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Wireless Internet ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Modern Library ◽  
Wireless Internet Access

DOI: 10.12685/027.7-1-1-14Die Post Modern Library (PML) ist die Universitätsbibliothek der Kenyatta University in Nairobi. Die Bibliothek bietet uneingeschränkten drahtlosen Internetzugang sowie weitere Dienstleistungen an, die die üblichen Möglichkeiten kenianischer Bibliotheken bei Weitem übersteigen. Insbesondere die Möglichkeiten des Web 2.0 werden eingehend genutzt. Der Facebook-Auftritt der Bibliothek bietet sich als sehr nützlicher Kommunikationskanal zwischen Nutzern und der Bibliothek an. In Kenia ist Bibliothek 2.0 ein entscheidender Mehrwert. The Post Modern Library (PML) is an academic library at Kenyatta University in Nairobi. The library provides its users with unlimited wireless internet access and various other services which are far beyond the usual possibilities of other libraries in the country. Especially the possibilities of Web 2.0 are emphasized. The library’s facebook page is a very useful platform for communication between the library and the users. In Kenya, library 2.0 can make a big difference.

scholarly journals Mobile App Usage Patterns of Patients Prescribed a Smoking Cessation Medicine: Prospective Observational Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. e97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianna Bruno ◽  
Marcia Wright ◽  
Christine L Baker ◽  
Birol Emir ◽  
Eric Carda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Observational Study ◽  
Prospective Observational Study ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Usage Patterns

scholarly journals Cold War Spaces:Tinker Tailor Soldier Spyin Television and Cinema

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-395
Author(s):  
Douglas McNaughton
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Production Space ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
Production Practices ◽  
Material Space

This article examines two adaptations of John le Carré’s 1974 novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: the 1979 BBC television serial and the 2011 cinema film, in order to investigate critical orthodoxies around the aesthetics of television and cinema. It examines the dialectical relationship between space and place, concluding that filming location acts as a ‘framing place’, shaping production practices and effecting a dialogic interchange between production space and narrative place. Drawing on original research interviews with production team members, it illuminates the process of production and demonstrates the interaction between material space and social space in the interaction of location and practitioners. The article concludes that the television serial's mimetic fidelity to its source novel results in a text which is at times more ‘cinematic’ than the cinema version. The cinema film features a more fully developed visual concept throughout its aesthetic, in the motifs of cages, grids and boxes. However, in its narrative compression and unsubtle use of signifiers of place, the cinema adaptation is at times less ‘cinematic’ than the television serial.

scholarly journals The spatialization of Islamist, populist, and neo-Ottoman discourses in the Turkish capital under AKP rule

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Husik Ghulyan
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Justice And Development Party ◽  
Politics Of Space

This article discusses the recent politics of space in Turkey during the rule of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) through a focus on the capital city of Ankara. In order to analyze the recent politics of space in Turkey, the article elaborates upon the recent politics of toponym changes and the discourse over space and place in the Turkish capital. Particular attention is paid to the spatialization of neo-Ottoman, Islamist, and populist discourses and to the production of various representational and counter-representational spaces. One of the key foci of the article is its elaboration on the new Presidential Complex (Cumhurbaşkanlığı Külliyesi) as a case that, in its representational and conceptual aspects, reflects the spatialization of Islamist and populist discourses and symbolizes the recent transformations of social space and the emergent sociospatial order in Turkey.

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