scholarly journals STILL SPECIAL AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Billings
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Library Science ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The Past ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Comprehensive Collection ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

To answer the question, one needs to consider whether special collections are any more special today than they have been in the past. The question has particularly intrigued me since I was asked to present a paper in November 1976 as part of the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Library Science Colloquium Series, to wit —“What’s So Special about Special Collections¿̣” My perspective was that of a university administrator with line responsibility for one of the great Latin American collections in the world, the most comprehensive collection of Texas-related materials in existence, very young area collections of . . .

French and U. S. Influences upon the Latin American Press

1954 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Danton Jobim
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The World ◽  
American Press ◽  
The University

Danton Jobim is editor-in-chief of Diario Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, and professor of journalistic technique at the University of Brazil. He conducted a seminar on the world press at the University of Texas School of Journalism in February-March, 1953. This essay is transcribed from notes on several of his lectures.

scholarly journals The Expo 70 as a debate for the creation of "democratic" cities

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 301-310
Author(s):  
Andrea Yuri Flores Urushima
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
American Student ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
World Congress ◽  
Urban Planner ◽  
The World ◽  
Landless Workers Movement ◽  
The University

The author has an MA from the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies of Kyoto University and is currently a Ph. D student in the same department. She holds a degree of Architect and Urban Planner from the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning of the University of São Paulo, where she worked on the elaboration of regional plans in Brazil. She was awarded 3rd prize for the work entitled "Project of settlement for the landless workers' movement" in the World Congress on Environmental Design for the New Millennium (Korea, 2000); and 2nd prize for the work entitled "Water Continual" in the Latin American Student Competition for Sustainable and Biodimatic Design (Brazil, 1999). The text that follows is a slightly edited version of a paper presented by the author at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity," organized jointly bythe World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.

scholarly journals Teaching 7000 Students Per Year

1990 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
R. Robert Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Teaching Program ◽  
Undergraduate Program ◽  
Credit Hours ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Faculty ◽  
The University

The undergraduate program at the University of Texas has grown into the largest astronomy teaching program in the world, with some 7000 students per year (almost 20,000 credit hours). The department has 22.5 Ph.D.-level teaching faculty, about 45 graduate students, and about 40 pre-professional undergraduate majors. But most of the enrollment is in courses that satisfy the science requirements of students in liberal arts and non-technical majors. In 1985–86, 96.4 per cent of our undergraduate credit hours taught were in such classes. It is instructive to examine the historical reasons for our growth and its educational consequences, and to draw some conclusions from both for other programs.

scholarly journals BANJARBARU MILLENNIAL LIBRARY

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 232-239
Author(s):  
Armila Armila ◽  
Nurfansyah Nurfansyah
Keyword(s):  
Millennial Generation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Reading Interest

Technological advances have now mastered several aspects, namely in the world of education, fashion, lifestyle and the world of architecture. For example libraries, in the past, libraries were seen from the number of books collected and also how big the library building was but for now all that has changed, libraries are now required to be able to follow the wishes of its users. In this case the users are the millennial generation who have characteristics that are close to technology, like convenience and are free-spirited. According to a survey from the Boston Consulting Group and the University of Berkley about the millennial generation, the conventional reading interest of millennials has decreased and they prefer to use smartphones to read and libraries are considered unimportant to them. The design of the Banjarbaru Millennial Library uses the Behavioral Architecture method and the Blurring Architecture concept. This design aims to create a library in accordance with the characteristics of millennials who like freedom by implementing this freedom into its buildings

The History of Africanization and the Africanization of History

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 85-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esperanza Brizuela-García
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
American History ◽  
African Studies ◽  
African History ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Challenges

The idea of Africanization is arguably one of the most important and prevalent in African historiography and African studies. I first encountered this notion some eight years ago when I started graduate school. With a background in Mexican and Latin American history, I found it necessary to immerse myself in the historiography of Africa. It was in this process that I encountered the idea of Africanization. It was not always identified in this manner, but it was clear that historians were, in one way or another, articulating a concern about how “African” was African history.The objective of this paper is to examine the history of Africanization in African historiography. It departs from two basic premises. First, the issues that come with the idea of Africanization are more pronounced in the field of African history. When compared to other fields, such as Latin American history, this indigenizing of history is not given nearly so much attention. Second, the idea that African history needs to be Africanized has been taken for granted, and has not been critically examined. Here I will contend that the historical conditions that have framed the emergence and development of African historiography have made it necessary to emphasize the issue of Africanization. I will also argue that those conditions have changed in the past fifty years, and that the questions raised in the quest to Africanize history should be redefined in view of the new challenges for African history and of historiography at large.

Lessons Learned From Three Months of Pharmaceutical-Care Digital-Education at the University of Basel, Switzerland

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 479-481
Author(s):  
Isabelle Arnet ◽  
Pascal C. Baumgartner ◽  
Vera Bernhardt ◽  
Markus L. Lampert ◽  
Kurt E. Hersberger
Keyword(s):  
Pharmaceutical Care ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Online Format ◽  
The University

An acceptable degree of digital literacy has always been present among the pharmacy teaching staff in Basel, with PowerPoint being the main vehicle to present teaching materials in front of full or half classes. Because cell phones became inseparable from students over the past years, mobile voting (movo.ch) or e-quizzes (mentimeter.com) have been regularly used to hold the attention of all students during collective teaching. Moreover, e-assessment on iPad® with the software BeAxi (www.k2prime.com) was introduced in 2012 and is currently used for all evaluations and exams. Suddenly over the night of March 16, 2020, our university, as all universities around the world, had to transfer all courses to an online format and to empower lecturers to teach from their home. This paper offers one perspective for how this digitial experiment unfolded at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland.

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