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This exploratory essay foregrounds the extraction and enclosure cycle between education technology (ed-tech) vendors and public academic special collections and archives departments. Education technology vendors, subsidiaries of academic publishers, often approach special collections libraries and archives with offers to digitize collections through services that McLaughlin et al. (2023) describe as open wrapping or freemium proposals. Since there seems to be no turning back, information professionals in public academic settings should, among other solutions, encourage decision-makers to negotiate preservation and conservation of physical archival materials. Drawing from the literature on commons practices, this essay introduces the concept of reciprocal relations to agreements between cultural heritage institutions and ed-tech companies. A reciprocal approach would disrupt the extraction and enclosure cycle and highlights the professional’s role as a steward of cultural heritage collections with an understanding that digitization is not preservation. Further, it would compel private sector companies to invest in the public sector instead of simply extracting public resources for profit.
Keywords: archives, archives, enclosure, collections spéciales, enclos, openwashing, ouvertisation, special collections libraries, souscommuns, undercommons
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Drawing on our recent collaborative experience in teaching an intermediate-level museum studies course in Fall 2023, this reflective essay aims to demonstrate how faculty and librarians can employ object-centered research to guide students in their exploring and understanding of the extractive practices associated with imperialism and colonialism that have shaped museum and library collections. We specifically focus on the research and curatorial practices that culminated in an end-of-semester exhibit, showcased in both physical and digital formats. Through this exhibit, our student-curators brought to light the process of removing artifacts from their original material and political contexts and their subsequent integration into our collections. Moreover, they critically examined how classification and organization practices and, in certain instances, digitization processes in libraries, can either continue to veil or reveal the history of violence.
Keywords: collaboration, collaboration, exposition, exhibition, extraction, extraction, objects, objets, pédagogie, pedagogy
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The advent of social media expands the domain of the standard classroom. The outcome is that incidents of conflict, also known as classroom incivility, exist not only within the conventional classroom. They can take place on social media platforms. In this paper, the author draws on his experience with a complaint about an assignment in one of his classes that surfaced on X (formerly Twitter), feedback on the assignment that took the shape of a story on Instagram, and his response to the activity in the two venues. He draws on the concept of classroom incivility and reflects on how this term, named to describe conflict in in-person classrooms, is relevant on social media platforms.
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A study is made of verbal language and artistic expression in human communication and their link to secondary perception, the way perception changed once humans achieved verbal language. The connection of verbal language to artistic expression through secondary perception is made as is the explosion of new tools, altruism, a theory of mind and religious practice, which are explored.
Keywords: secondary perception, language, verbal language, artistic expression, tools, percepts, concepts, theory of mind, altruism, religious practice
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This special issue looks at partnership approaches to innovation thanks to recent developments in ICT, which enable the acquisition and transfer of skills, thus changing the processes and organization of firms. It is therefore essential to understand how ICT is used to establish internal and external collaborations for innovation. For this reason, we first examine the ICT used for innovation collaborations and how they contribute to the innovation process. The five articles then examine the effectiveness of ICT in three internal collaborations and two innovation partnerships. Finally, we propose a number of avenues for further research to better understand how ICTs and their use modify the way innovation takes place and the underlying organizational processes.
Keywords: collaboration, partnership, innovation, organization, ICT, knowledge, R&D, collaboration, partenariat, innovation, organisation, TIC, connaissance, R&D, colaboración, asociación, innovación, organización, TIC, conocimiento, I+D
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This study sought to discuss the perspective of services for libraries and to indicate the competences of professionals to act in face of this scenario. Regarding the nature of the research, it is characterized as basic research, using an exploratory approach and bibliographic and documental characteristics. The searches were carried out in the following databases: Web of Science, Scopus (Elsevier), SciELO. The 2,030 documents were retrieved; these were explored by reading the titles, the keywords, and the abstract. In this way, we evaluated which of the articles answered the research question. Among the documents checked, 55 documents were selected. The results identified services in the technological sphere: Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things, Drones, Virtual Assistants, and Blockchain. In the society, sphere Co-working. In the Education category, Badging, and in the Environment category, Resilience. Given what was proposed, the librarian’s perception of these changes becomes essential as actors and providers of these services.
Keywords: Libraries of the future, Professional Competencies, Library Services Trends
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This article identifies two previously uncatalogued items that were published in the Athenaeum in November 1857, each of which is connected to the then-recent acquisition of the Conway Papers by the Public Record Office (now the National Archives). These include a printing of Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Burse and a letter from John Payne Collier that seems to refer to Massinger’s lost play Philenzo and Hippolyto. The former nuances the publication history of a work whose historical and dramatic importance recent scholarship demonstrates, while the latter offers evidence regarding Collier’s claim that a manuscript of Massinger’s play once lay among the Conway Papers.
Keywords: Ben Jonson, Entertainment at Britain's Burse, Mary Anne Everett Green, John Payne Collier, Philenzo and Hippolyto, Athenaeum, Conway Papers
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"Does anyone still listen to CDs?" The presentation aims to introduce the operation of our Music Collection by providing qualitative and quantitative data linked to loans, library visits, online repositories with music content, music programs and workshops. Fundamentally, our Music Collection has a value-preserving function linked to processing, preserving, and presenting the documents of local music life in a spectacular form. Virtual exhibitions based on digitized documents, various databases, and knowledge repositories are good tools for organizing knowledge. People can also be introduced to these contents during library programs (e.g., lectures, sessions, and competitions). Due to the three pillars – knowledge organization, preservation of value, and community building – our Music Collection is a place where people return to listen to music on-site in a comfortable armchair while reading their favourite magazine. Due to the ever-changing world, we must apply innovative approaches, react proactively, and adapt to changes (an example of this could be our Creative Studio). The main purpose of this study is to describe the music-related activities of a particular library (Katona József Library, Kecskemét, Hungary); it is descriptive work and does not aim to compare the data and results with those of other libraries.
Keywords: music collection, knowledge organization, value preservation, community building
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