Bayard Rustin at news briefing on the Civil Rights March on Washington in the Statler Hotel, half-length portrait, seated at table. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

The Georgia State University Library now provides access to two modules of the ProQuest History Vault, a project involving the digitization of historical primary sources previously available on microfilm. These two modules focus on 20th-century African-American history and are a welcome addition to our primary-source database holdings.

The first two modules of ProQuest History Vault cover the breadth of The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women, and sometimes even children, who waged one of the most inspiring social movements in American history.

Spanning from the founding of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs at the close of the 19th century to the riots that followed the verdict in the Rodney King police brutality case in the last decade of the 20th century, the first Black Freedom Struggle module (Black Freedom I) consists of 37 collections of records from federal government agencies. They include sources like the FBI Files on Martin Luther King and records from the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations that detail the interaction between civil rights leaders and organizations and the highest levels of the federal government. But perhaps more poignant, immediate and genuine struggle may be seen through the unique view into the day-to-day, such as the records of the Interstate Commerce Commission on discrimination in transportation, which captures the difficulties Black Americans faced when traveling.

The second Black Freedom Struggle module (Black Freedom II) is comprised of 36 collections of personal papers and organizational records, including those of Claude A. Barnett, the founder of the Associated Negro Press, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. (from ProQuest)

History Vault: Black Freedom I and II lets you browse by events and by collections, and offers suggested search terms which include key persons, organizations, and events in African-American history. Each collection within a module includes a detailed overview of materials included in that collection and a description or biography of the organization or person covered (see for example this overview of the papers of gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin).

For other primary sources for 20th-century African-American history and the civil rights movement, see also these resources:

• Chicago Defender (1910-1975) (historical African-American newspaper; GSU affiliates only)
• Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003) (historical African-American newspaper; GSU affiliates only)
• Black Thought and Culture (GSU affiliates only)
• Civil Rights Digital Library (freely available)
• Library of Congress American Memory: African-American History Collections (freely available)
• Digital Public Library of America Exhibit: Activism in the US (freely available)

Dr. Sinno is Assistant Professor of Arabic literature and language in the Middle East Institute. Her research and teaching interests include modern Arabic literature and language, literary translation, postcolonial studies, and transnational feminism.

Other publications by Dr. Sinno include an article in the Journal of Arabic Literature entitled “From Confinement to Creativity: Women’s Reconfiguration of the Prison and Mental Asylum in Salwa Bakr’s The Golden Chariot and Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt” (2011);  a translation of Nazik Saba Yared’s novel Canceled Memories (Syracuse University Press, 2009); and a chapter entitled “The Power of Place and Space: (Re)Constructing Identity and Selfhood in Ahdaf Soueif’s Eye of the Sun” in Representing Minorities: Studies in Literature and Criticism (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006).

Most recently he published:

Jacques, S., & Rennison, C. (2013). Reflexive Retaliation for Violent Victimization: The Effect of Social Distance on Weapon Lethality. Violence & Victims, 28(1), 69-89.

Jacques, S., & Rennison, C. (2013). Social Distance and Immediate Informal Responses to Violent Victimization. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 28(4), 735-754.

Both articles can be found via the Library database Criminal Justice Abstracts.

Also! Coming soon to a library shelf near you is: Campus crime: legal, social, and policy perspectives.  That is where you will find Dr. Jacques’ chapter titled: Policing alcohol-related crime among college students.

GSU Emeritus Sociology Professor Ralph LaRossa

Ralph LaRossa, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, will be giving a talk about his latest book on Thursday, June 6, from 11:00am – 12:30pm in the Library South 8th Floor Colloquium Room.  If attending, *please RSVP* by Monday, June 3, to Wanja Ngugi (emeriti@gsu.edu, 404-413-3409).

LaRossa, R. (2011). Of war and men: World War II in the lives of fathers and their families. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Starting with the attack on Pearl Harbor and closing with the election of John F. Kennedy, LaRossa:

“[E]xplores the nature and after effects of combat, the culture of fear during the Cold War, the ways that fear altered the lives of racial and sexual minorities, and how the civil rights movement affected families both black and white. Overturning some calcified myths, LaRossa also analyzes the impact of suburbanization on fathers and their kids, discovering that living in the suburbs often strengthened their bond. And finally, looking beyond the idealized dad enshrined in TV sitcoms, Of War and Men explores the brutal side of family life in the postwar years. LaRossa’s richly researched book dismantles stereotypes while offering up a fascinating and incisive chronicle of fatherhood in all its complexity.” [Excerpt from University of Chicago Press description.]

Also check out Dr. LaRossa’s historical analysis of fatherhood between World War I and World War II:

LaRossa, R. (1997). The modernization of fatherhood: A social and political history. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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The library will be performing server maintenance this Saturday May 18th from 8:00am – 12:00pm to help increase the security and stability of our systems.  To do this, we will be taking several of our servers temporarily offline.

Although we understand that many scholars, researchers and students use the library’s web-based services around the clock, we tried to schedule this maintenance to help reduce the impact it has on our users’ research.

Some of the services that will be temporarily offline include:

• The library blog
• The room reservation system
• The databases list
• The Discover search box
• The Live Assistance chat service
• The mobile website

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause, and we appreciate your patience as we continue to improve our services and resources!

Geil MD.  A novel method for the measurement of linear body segment parameters during clinical gait analysis.  Gait Posture. 2013 Apr 18. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2013.03.030.

A specialist in motion biomechanics, human gait analysis and lower extremity prosthetics, Dr. Geil has also published chapters in the books below which are available for check out from the Georgia State University Library.

• Hovorka CF, Geil MD, Lusardi M. “Principles Influencing Orthotic and Prosthetic Design: Biomechanics, Device-User Interface, and Related Concepts,” in Orthotics and Prosthetics in Rehabilitation. 2nd ed. St. Louis: Saunders Elsevier, 2007. 99. 135-154.
• Parente MA, Geil MD. “In the future: Surgical and educational advances and challenges,” in Prosthetics and Patient Management: A Comprehensive Clinical Approach. Thorofare, NJ: Slack Incorporated, 2006. pp. 225-234.
• Geil MD. “Energy storage and return in dynamic elastic response prosthetic feet,” in Pediatric Gait: A New Millennium in Clinical Care and Motion Analysis Technology. Harris, Gerald F and Peter A Smith, eds. New Jersey: IEEE Press, 2000. pp. 134-142.

Dr. Strasser is a member of the leadership team for the Center of Excellence for Health Disparities Research as well as an affiliate faculty member of the Gerontology Institute, and the Emory Center for Injury Control.  Her research focuses on enhancement of older adults’ quality-of-life through health promotion and she has previously published several articles on the topic.

Strasser SM, Kerr J, King PS, et al.  A survey of Georgia adult protective service staff: Implications for older adult injury prevention and policy.  West J Emerg Med. 2011 Jul;12(3):357-64.

Payne BK, Strasser SM.  Financial exploitation of older persons in adult care settings: Comparisons to physical abuse and the justice system’s response.  J Elder Abuse Negl. 2012 Jul;24(3):231-50.

Read more about the topic of elder abuse with these books from the Georgia State Library:

• Aging, ageism and abuse: Moving from awareness to action

• Elder care catastrophe: Rituals of abuse in nursing homes–and what you can do about it

• Understanding family violence: Treating and preventing partner, child, sibling, and elder abuse

GSU Gerontology professors Kemp and Ball

Perkins, M. M., Ball, M. M., Kemp, C. L., & Hollingsworth, C. (2013). Social relations and resident health in assisted living: An application of the convoy model. Gerontologist, 53(3), 495-507.

“…A key aim of this analysis, which uses the social convoy model as a conceptual and methodological framework, was to examine the relative importance of coresident relationships and other network ties to residents’ subjective well-being. Design and Methods: We analyzed data from structured face-to-face interviews and social network mapping conducted with 192 AL [Assisted Living] residents in 9 AL facilities in Georgia. Results: Having a higher proportion of family ties in one’s network was the single most important predictor of well-being, whereas possessing some ties to coresidents and nonfamily members outside AL also had a positive effect. Findings showed that relationships among coresidents generally were important although not emotionally close. Having more close ties was associated with lower well-being, suggesting that not all close ties are beneficial. The majority (84%) of residents’ closet ties were with family members. Implications: Findings illuminate the crucial role families play in residents’ overall health and well-being and demonstrate the importance of helping residents develop and maintain a range of network ties, including “weak” ties with coresidents and nonfamily outside AL.” [from abstract]

If you’d like to learn more about the Great American Songbook these resources can help.

• Popular Music and Culture Collection
• Johnny Mercer Collection
• Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song (2003).
• The World of Entertainment: Hollywood’s Greatest Musicals (1976).
• Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater (2010).
• History of Popular Music (1961).

GSU Anthropology Professor Bethany Turner

Turner, B. L., Klaus, H. D., Livengood, S. V., Brown, L. E., Saldaña, F., & Wester, C. (2013). The variable roads to sacrifice: Isotopic investigations of human remains from Chotuna-Huaca de los Sacrificios, Lambayeque, Peru. American Journal Of Physical Anthropology, 151(1), 22-37.

“This study investigates two key variables-residential context and subsistence-among sacrificial victims dating to the Late Horizon (A.D. 1450-1532) in the Huaca de los Sacrificios at the Chotuna-Chornancap Archaeological Complex in north coastal Peru. We investigate whether aspects of sacrifice in this distant coastal province mirrored that found in Inca heartland contexts such as the capacocha, or remained more typical of coastal sacrificial traditions. Stable carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotope values were characterized in bone carbonate, bone collagen, and hair keratin to estimate geographic residence during the decade before death and diet in the decade, versus months, before death. … In contrast to contemporaneous coastal and highland contexts, we are unable to identify immigrants among the sacrificed individuals or changes in diet that indicate provisioning with a standardized diet leading up to death. Instead, results suggest that victims were local to the area, but consumed moderately variable diets consistent with local subsistence patterns. These findings suggest a distinct pattern of human sacrifice in the Late Horizon and underscore the regional and temporal variation in sacrificial practices in the central Andes.” [from Abstract]

If you’d like to learn more about Nightingale or the history of nursing, these books can help.

• Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery, and Prostitution (2005).
• Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale (2004).
• Florence Nightingale’s Spiritual Journey: Biblical Annotations, Sermons, and Journal Notes (2001).
• A History of American Nursing: Trends and Eras (2010).
• A History of Nursing Ideas (2006).
• American Nursing: A History of Knowledge, Authority, and the Meaning of Work (2010).

iPOLL Database

Recent gun shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and at the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado have brought the issues of gun control and gun violence to the forefront.  If you’re interested in researching this issue further, the library can help. President Barack Obama has responded with his plan to control gun violence (pdf).  The Gallup News Service Poll recently surveyed the country for reactions to President Obama’s proposal.  These surveys were recently added to the iPoll database, the most comprehensive, up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion available today.

-          Gallup News Service Poll: Obama Gun Law Proposals Reaction   [United States - Jan, 2013]

-          Gallup News Service Poll: Obama Gun Law Proposals II   [United States - Jan, 2013]

For more library resources on gun control, visit this research guide.

Benglis was the subject of a recent exhibition at the New Museum in New York City. You can check out some images from the exhibition here. The Library also has some exhibition catalogs that show Benglis’ body of work.

Dr. Richmond will be discussing the book at an upcoming event at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center on May 30. Full event details can be found here.

The National Association of Machinists founding charter, 1888.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) was founded in Atlanta 125 years ago this coming Sunday. On May 5, 1888, nineteen machinists led by Tom Talbot joined together to found the Order of the United Machinists and Mechanical Engineers. Hoping to avoid detection from bosses at the East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railroad repair shops, their clandestine meetings took place in a railroad pit, hidden from sight at a railroad yard located at the intersection of Hendrix and Windsor streets, just south of the state capitol.

The IAM will celebrate its 125^th anniversary with an officer’s convention in Atlanta later this month. In preparing for the convention, the IAM wanted to locate the site of the original railroad pit with hopes of mounting a commemorative sign nearby. However, the railroad yard has been transformed into a metal yard for over ten years and union representatives were not sure if they could find the pit on the property since it had surely changed over time.

60th Anniversary Commemorative Photograph at the Railroad Pit

Because Georgia State University Library houses the Archives of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, I (in my capacity as archivist for the collection) was asked to join in the search for the railroad pit. Making the search more difficult, the group knew the pit had been filled in with cement sometime between 1948 and 1963.

Using the union’s monthly journal, photographs, and documents from the union’s archives, we were able to narrow down which building might have housed the pit. The IAM has continued to return to Atlanta for conventions and meetings throughout its lifetime, and in the early years they often made commemorative photographs in the pit. These photographs helped us identify architectural details in the interior of the roundhouse and compare them against the many buildings at the railroad yard which ultimately led us to the southernmost structure on the property.

The Roundhouse today; exterior view

The building interior is not currently in the best shape because it has been abandoned for a while (most recently it was used to house a firewood business and before that it was turned into a shower/locker room for railroad workers). Additionally, not only had the pits in this roundhouse been filled in, but the whole floor has been cemented over, so we had no exact placement for the original pit.  Current interior photographs do not provide much detail, unfortunately, due to poor lighting, so it is difficult for readers to see that windows and doors have been bricked-in and painted over. But in person we could see well enough to tell that the bricked-in windows matched the shape and size of those in the photographs: they were the same distance from the floor and had the same spacing between them as well. Needless to say, this discovery was very exciting for everyone as we had located the site of the original pit!

The Roundhouse today; interior view.

As part of Special Collections and Archives at GSU Library, the Archives of the IAM are most often used by students, scholars, and other researchers who are working on papers, books, theses, dissertations, or other major works. But as the IAM reaches its milestone of 125 years, we can be reminded that the Archives also stand as a testament to the union’s hard work and substantial history.

Tom Talbot bust unveiling ceremony, 1948

Unfortunately, the railroad pit is not accessible to the public but if one wants to check out local IAM history, you can visit the Tom Talbot bust in Grant Park. Located in the roundabout by the Atlanta Zoo and Cyclorama, the bust was erected in 1948 to commemorate the IAM’s first leader on the sixtieth anniversary of the union. Sixty-five years later, we still honor the founder of the union and all of the men and women that have carried on the work of Talbot since that auspicious May day in 1888.

For more information about the IAM:

• Archives of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
• Digital Collection (includes photographs)
• IAM Publications
• Official Website of the IAM
• The Fighting Machinists: a century of struggle by Robert G. Rodden (1984)

Talbot Family at the pit, 1948

The Archives of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers is part of the Southern Labor Archives, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. Special Collections and Archives is located on the 8th Floor of Library South and is open Monday-Friday, 9:00AM – 6:00PM.

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As the school-year comes to an end, finals wind-up, and summer approaches, it seems appropriate that May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Time to shake off some stress and learn more about mental health issues that may be affecting friends, family, or ourselves.

The American Psychological Association is concentrating on mental health in children:

• May 7: A congressional briefing will feature Dr. Anthony P. Mannarino, Director of the Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents, to report on public health systems available for children in need of mental health care/services. The APA will use Twitter to report on the event. Follow #HeroesofHope on May 7.
• May 15: Dr. Nadine Kaslow of Emory University, and President-Elect of APA, will host a webcast on suicide prevention in youth.

Georgia State University

• GSU students can take advantage of the wealth of resources and services offered through Student Health & Wellness.
• Faculty, staff, and students can look into GSU’s Worksite Wellness Programs.

Georgia State University Library offers mental health resources on a variety of issues and age groups:

• The Crisis in Youth Mental Health: Critical Issues and Effective Programs
• Changing Adolescence: Social Trends and Mental Health
• Young Adult Mental Health
• Depressed Older Adults: Education and Screening
• Aging and Mental Health
• Public Mental Health
• Sourcebook of Interactive Practice Exercises in Mental Health
• A Public Health Perspective of Women’s Mental Health
• Promoting Men’s Mental Health

Georgia State University Library recently received a $210,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for “Planning Atlanta: A New City in the Making, 1930s – 1990s”, submitted by librarian Joe Hurley (Principal Investigator) and history professor Kate Wilson (co-PI). This grant is the largest awarded by the NEH in the state of Georgia in 2013. Grants from the NEH are very competitive, with only 16% of submissions for this grant’s Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program receiving funding.

With over 8,000 visitors, this digital collection has already seen high usage since launching in the summer of 2012. Funding from the grant will allow Georgia State University Library to augment a freely accessible and innovative digital humanities collection by digitizing and georeferencing a collection of 1,550 rare and historically significant City of Atlanta and Atlanta Regional Commission city planning maps. This will increase and enhance access to material that will allow a gap in urban studies to be more thoroughly explored. Other material, including digitized photographs, oral histories and an annual (1955-2003) metropolitan Atlanta demographic and housing dataset will augment these maps within the context of Atlanta’s urban renewal, highway creation and city planning activities.

In addition, users will be able to view each of these maps in Google Earth as a tiled overlay, providing a historical comparison. With this innovative web-based feature, users can change the transparency of the georeferenced map overlay to reveal neighborhood and city-wide change over time by comparing contemporary satellite images with the historical planning maps.

A unique resource like “Planning Atlanta,” makes Georgia State University a destination of choice for students studying the complex challenges of cities. With this grant Georgia State University Library will provide a new information resource that supports research and provides anytime/anywhere access for the public.

“Planning Atlanta” is a dynamic digital humanities platform for both research and teaching. Thanks to this NEH grant, the collection can now grow beyond its original scope and benefit urban studies across the world.

GSU Sociology Professors Deirdre Oakley, Erin Ruel, & Lesley Reid

GSU Sociology Professors Deirdre Oakley, Erin Ruel, and Lesley Reid recently published the following article, drawing from data collected in an ongoing project examining Atlanta’s relocated public housing residents:

Oakley, D., Ruel, E., & Reid, L. (2013). Atlanta’s last demolitions and relocations: The relationship between neighborhood characteristics and resident satisfaction. Housing Studies, 28(2), 205-234.

“Using data from an Atlanta-based longitudinal study following 311 public housing residents relocated between 2009 and 2010 as the city’s housing authority demolished its remaining public housing, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between changes in relocated residents’ satisfaction with home and neighborhood and the socioeconomic, racial composition, and crime characteristics of their destination neighborhood. Consistent with previous research, we find that residents moved to somewhat safer neighborhoods with less poverty than those of the public housing. In addition, we find that residents view their new homes and neighborhoods as improvements over public housing. However, subjective pre- to post-move changes in satisfaction are not driven by changes in neighborhood characteristics (i.e., reductions in poverty and crime), but rather by decreases in perceived social disorder and increases in community attachment. Thus, our findings challenge some of the assumptions of poverty deconcentration. Policy implications are discussed.” [from abstract]

The library doesn’t have this latest journal volume/issue, but this is your chance to try out interlibrary loan – the article will be delivered to you electronically, and typically within 1-2 days – it’s worth it!

Murphy Building, 18 Auburn Ave, 1950s; Same view, 2013

Director George Sparks’ earliest memory of what is now Georgia State University was when it was located at Pryor St. (now Peachtree Center Ave.) and Auburn Ave.  See Sanborn map of location here and hear Sparks describe the college.  When the current Woodruff Park was first constructed in 1973, Auburn Ave. at this location was diverted one block towards the north.  The building which housed the college was located left of the circular water fountain.  There were no known photographs of this building until research was conducted for GSU’s centennial.

The Murphy Building photograph is one of over  1,400 Atlanta area online images from the Tracy O’Neal Photograph Collection at Georgia State University Library’s Special Collections and Archives.

“In Democracy of Sound, Alex Sayf Cummings uncovers the little-known history of music piracy and its sweeping effects on the definition of copyright in the United States. When copyright emerged, only visual material such as books and maps were thought to deserve protection; even musical compositions were not included until 1831. Once a performance could be captured on a wax cylinder or vinyl disc, profound questions arose over the meaning of intellectual property. Is only a written composition defined as a piece of art? If a singer performs a different interpretation of a song, is it a new and distinct work? Such questions have only grown more pressing with the rise of sampling and other forms of musical pastiche. Indeed, music has become the prime battleground between piracy and copyright. It is compact, making it easy to copy. And it is highly social, shared or traded through social networks–often networks that arise around music itself. But such networks also pose a counter-argument: as channels for copying and sharing sounds, they were instrumental in nourishing hip-hop and other new forms of music central to American culture today. Piracy is not always a bad thing. An insightful and often entertaining look at the history of music piracy, Democracy of Sound offers invaluable background to one of the hot-button issues involving creativity and the law.” (from press materials).

Prof. Sayf is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History, and specializes in the history of law, media, and the American landscape. His work examines how the ideological transition to an “information society” reshaped American political culture and economic policy, as well as the built environment.

His other publications include:

• “From Monopoly to Intellectual Property: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright, 1909-1971,” Journal of American History, 97, no. 3 (December 2010): 659-681.
• “Life in the Menagerie: David Crockett Graham and Missionary-Scientists in Sichuan, China, 1911-1948,” American Baptist Quarterly, 27, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 206-277.
• “Collectors, Bootleggers, and the Value of Jazz, 1930-1952,” in David Suisman and Susan Strasser, eds., Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2009)

Prof. Umoja is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African-American Studies; he teaches courses on the history of the civil rights and Black Power movements, and on other social movements as well. He has been a community activist for over forty years.

Prof. Umoja is also the author of several articles, including:

• “From Malcolm X to Omowale Malik Shabazz: The Transformation and Its Impact on the Black Liberation Struggle,” in James Conyers and Andrew Smallwood, Malcolm X: A Historical Reader (2008)
• “Aid to Children of Imprisoned Mothers: An Ethnographic Study,” Leadership for a Changing World, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University (2007)
• “Return to the Source: The Role of Service-Learning in Recapturing the ‘Empowerment’ Mission of African-American Studies,” Black Scholar 35, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 25-36, co-authored with Charles E. Jones and Patricia Dixon; also published in The Western Journal of Black Studies 27, no. 2 (Fall 2003): 205-214.
• “1964: The Beginning of the End of Nonviolence in the Mississippi Freedom Movement,” Radical History Review, 85 (Winter 2003): 201-226
• “‘We Will Shoot Back’: The Natchez Model and Paramilitary Organization in the Mississippi Freedom Movement,” Journal of Black Studies, 32, no. 3 (January 2002): 271-294
• “Repression Breeds Resistance: The Black Liberation Army and the Radical Legacy of the Black Panther Party,” New Political Science, 21, no. 2 (June 1999): 131-155
• “The Ballot and the Bullet,” Journal of Black Studies, 29, no. 4 (March 1999): 558-577

Prof. Umoja’s talk is free and open to the public. The Auburn Avenue Research Library is located near the Georgia State University campus, at 101 Auburn Avenue NE, at the corner of Auburn Avenue and Courtland Street. Walking and other directions are available here.

Additionally, five amicus briefs were filed.  Briefs in support of Georgia State and for affirming the District Court decision in favor of Georgia State include:

• Brief of Amicus Curiae Academic Authors and Legal Scholars in Support of Defendants-Appellees and Affirmance

• Brief of Amicus Curiae the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries

•  Brief of Amici Curiae American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, and Association of Research Libraries in Support of Affirmance (filed in conjunction with the Electronic Frontier Foundation)

• Brief of Amici Curiae American Council on Education, Association of American Universities, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, American Association of Community Colleges, and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Support of Appellees Mark P. Becker, et al., and Affirmance

• Brief of Amici Curiae American Association of University Professors, International Communication Association, Modernist Studies Association, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Peter Decherney, and Tsitsi Jaji in Support of Appellees

Statements released in conjunction with the filing of amicus briefs include:

• ARL Policy Notes:  In GSU Amicus, LCA Invokes Best Practices, Dispels Market Myths
• Electronic Frontier Foundation: EFF Fights to Protect Electronic Reserves at College Libraries
• Association of Southern Research Libraries: ASERL Files Amicus Brief in Support of GSU

Step 1: Find It @ GSU

You’ll be able to access articles in journals the library subscribes to. In most databases, look for the Find It @ GSU button if you don’t see a PDF or Full Text link:

Find It @ GSU will lead you to the full text of the article, a link to the catalog search for the journal in print, or Interlibrary Loan if we don’t own the journal:

Step 2: Check the Catalog

If you didn’t find the article from a database search, the easiest way to find it is to search our catalog for the journal title (not the article title!). You can do this on the Journals tab on the library homepage:

Print journals will be labeled Journal and online journals Electronic. Use the “Click here for coverage and availability” link or Find It @ GSU button to navigate to the issue you need:

Step 3: Interlibrary Loan

If we don’t have access to the article in print or electronically, use Interlibrary Loan to request an article. It will usually be emailed to you within one to three days.

The first time you use Interlibrary Loan, you’ll have to fill out some personal information. After that, select Journal Article under New Request:

Fill out all the information you have, including the date after which you don’t need the article.

Step 4: Google Scholar

If we don’t own an article and you can’t wait for Interlibrary Loan, try searching Google Scholar for the title. Many of the full text links will want you to pay for the article, but you’ll sometimes find a free, open access version in an institutional repository (such as the GSU Digital Archive). Remember, not finding an article on Google Scholar doesn’t mean we don’t own it–try the other steps first!

The library’s extended hours [PDF] fall during both the week prior to final exams and during the final exam period. As per the Library Access Policy [PDF]:

During the week prior to final examinations, and during the final examination period, only currently enrolled students; faculty and staff from Georgia State University, the University System of Georgia, or ARCHE schools, with a valid institutional ID card, will be granted access to the University Library. Written permission for access during this time for other researchers must be arranged in advance.

Remember to have your PantherCard when you visit the library during this time. Don’t forget to take advantage of our extra quiet study areas!

Dr. Deborah Gray White

Dr. Deborah Gray White, Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University, will speak at Georgia State University on Wednesday, April 24. Dr. White is the author of the groundbreaking historical study of female slavery, Ar’n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (1985; revised edition, 1999), and editor of the volume Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (2008).

Dr. White’s other publications include:

• Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents (2013; on order)
• Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 (1999)
• Let My People Go: African Americans, 1804-1860 (1996; children’s book)

Dr. White is a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Woodrow Wilson International Fellowship. Her current research focuses on mass marches and demonstrations in the 1990s as a means of exploring the history of the decade.

Dr. White’s talk at Georgia State University is titled: “Lost in the USA: Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality on the Eve of the Millennium.” Her talk is sponsored by Bedford/St. Martin’s, publishers of Freedom on My Mind. She will be speaking in the Georgia State University’s Speaker’s Auditorium in the Student Center, 44 Courtland Street, on Wednesday, April 24, at 5:00 pm.

This event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Hartley specializes in moral and political philosophy and feminist theory.  Her  current research concerns disability and justice, contractualism, political liberalism, and equal citizenship. In addition to her work in the Department of Philosophy, she is an affiliate member of the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics and the Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Selected works by Dr. Hartley include:

• Hartley, Christie, and Lori Watson. “Political Liberalism, Marriage and the Family.” Law and Philosophy 31.2 (2012): 185-212.

• Hartley, Christie. “Disability and Justice.” Philosophy Compass 6.2 (2011): 120-132.

• Hartley, Christie, and Lori Watson. “Is a Feminist Political Liberalism Possible?” Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 5.1 (2010): 1-21.

• Hartley, Christie, and Lori Watson. “Feminism, Religion, and Shared Reasons: A Defense of Exclusive Public Reason.” Law and Philosophy 28.5 (2009): 493-536.

• Hartley, Christie. “Justice for the Disabled: A Contractualist Approach.” Journal of Social Philosophy 40.1 (2009): 17-36.

• Hartley, Christie. “An Inclusive Contractualism: Obligations to the Mentally Disabled.” Disability and Disadvantage: Reexamining Topics in Moral and Political Philosophy. Eds. Kimberley Brownlee and Adam Cureton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 138-162.

Dr. Stovall is the author of numerous books, including

• Paris and the Spirit of 1919: Consumer Struggles, Transnationalism, and Revolution (2012)
• France since the Second World War (2002)
• Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light (1996)
• The Rise of the Paris Red Belt (1990; electronic edition available here)

Stovall is also co-editor of several volumes, including:

• Black France/France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness (co-edited with Trica Danielle Keaton and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, 2012; electronic edition available here)
• The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France (co-edited with with Sue Peabody, 2003; electronic edition available here)

Prof. Stovall’s talk will take place on Friday, April 26, from 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm in the Troy Moore Library, 939 Langdale Hall (formerly General Classroom Building). Prof. Stovall will also provide a seminar to the Department of History on the same day at 10:00 am – 11:30 am, Room 2131, 34 Peachtree St. Both events are free and open to the public.

In a 2005 address to the American Library Association conference, President Obama noted that

“More than a building that houses books and data, the library has always been a window to a larger world–a place where we’ve always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward. . .” *

Did you know there are over 121,000 libraries in the United States? The vast majority of libraries in the United States are school libraries, but even excluding those the 21,189 public, academic and special libraries outnumber the 14,157 McDonalds and the 10,787 Starbucks!

That bodes well for moving the story forward!

As we celebrate National Library Week, please take a moment to appreciate all that library employees do to make our students, staff, and faculty successful, help them discover big ideas and profound concepts, and remember that this library is far more than just its buildings – it is the people that work here that make it a success.

* Barack Obama, “Address to the American Library Association, June 27, 2005,” An American story : the speeches of Barack Obama : a primer, ed. David Olive (Toronto: ECW Press, 2008), 129-131.

Ebrahim Rasool

Georgia State University and the Carter Center are proud to welcome Ebrahim Rasool, the South African Ambassador to the United States. Ambassador Rasool will lead a discsussion entitled “Disarming a Vigilante Militia: Lessons from Cape Town, South Africa,” in which he will discuss his role in the peacful disarmament of the Muslim extremist organization PAGAD (People Against Gangsterism and Drugs).

The event will be held on Wednesday, April 17 from 5:00-7:30 at the Commerce Club, 191 Peachtree St. NE, 49th floor, Lane Room A.

Attendance is free and open to the public. Please contact Dr. Abass Barzegar (Assistant Professor  of Religious Studies) at civicapproaches@gsu.edu to reserve a seat.

Additional information about the presentation can be found at: http://www2.gsu.edu/~cacr/

To learn more about this topic, check out the following sources, available through the University Library:

• Baderoon, Gabeba. “Shooting The East/Veils And Masks: Uncovering Orientalism In South African Media.” African & Asian Studies 1.4 (2002): 367-384.

• Bangstad, Sindre. “Hydra’s Heads: PAGAD And Responses To The PAGAD Phenomenon In A Cape Muslim Community.” Journal Of Southern African Studies 1 (2005): 187-208.

• Pillay, Suren. “Problematising And The Making Of Good And Evil: Gangs And PAGAD.” Critical Arts: A South-North Journal Of Cultural & Media Studies 16.2 (2002): 38-75.

• Shaw, Mark. Crime and Policing in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Transforming Under Fire. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.

• Singh, Anne-Marie. Policing and Crime Control in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Burlington: Ashgate, 2008.

• Villa-Vicencio, Charles. The Spirit of Freedom: South African Leaders on Religion and Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

This year the Department is pleased to announce the following award recipients:

• Sabina Mally (Robert Arrington Outstanding Undergraduate Award)
• Bishal Karna (Timothy Renick Outstanding Graduate Student Award)
• Sherri Hill (Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award)

Sabina Mally, Dr. Kathryn McClymond (chair of Religious Studies), Bishal Karna, and Sherri Hill

Recipients were honored at the the Religious Studies Student Symposium, held on Tuesday, April 9 in the Troy Moore Library. The Student Symposium is an event at which undergraduate and graduate Religious Studies students present papers on their latest research. Congratulations to this year’s Department award recipients!

To learn more about Religious Studies, contact the Department or check out a few of the following books:

• Corrywright, Dominic. Get Set for Religious Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

• Cox, Harvey Gallagher. The Persistence of Religion: Comparative Perspectives on Modern Spirituality.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

• Dempsey, Corinne G. Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth: Adventures in Comparative Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

• Flood, Gavin D. The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in Our Strange World. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

• Olson, Carl. Religious Studies: The Key Concepts. New York: Routledge, 2011.

• Orsi, Robert A. The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

People and Places: Georgia State’s Urban Pioneers is a new exhibit celebrating Georgia State’s centennial by focusing on the people and places that define our campus.

This exhibit is next to the Library South entrance. Throughout 2013 the library plans to continue the centennial celebration with more exhibits about Georgia State University’s unique history.

Tester, G., & Wingfield, A. H. (2013). Moving past picket fences: The meaning of ‘home’ for public housing residents. Sociological Forum, 28(1), 70-84.

GSU Sociology Professors Griff Tester and Adia Harvey Wingfield

“The literature on the meaning of ‘home’ has generally focused on creating lists without giving much attention to the context that shapes meanings. Recently, scholars have argued that to understand ‘home’ it is important to know the range of meanings that different people in different contexts give it. In this article, we focus on the meaning of ‘home’ for public housing residents and consider how they construct the meaning of ‘home’ and if they find that meaning in public housing. Our findings suggest
that respondents consider their public housing residences to be ‘home,’ and they construct this meaning using the dimensions of home identified in the literature. However, how respondents used these dimensions were, in some ways, different because of the context of living in public housing. Respondents emphasized the social dimension, and this dimension appeared to organize the other dimensions. As such, our findings support arguments that context matters to the meaning of ‘home.’ They also suggest that policymakers need to broaden their understandings of public housing, as places that can be ‘home,’ and use this understanding when making decisions about housing transformations.” [article abstract]

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Roger Ebert, longtime film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, passed away at the age of 70 on Thursday, April 4. Mr. Ebert’s film reviews were considered by many to be the standard by which other reviews could be judged.

In addition to writing reviews for the Sun-Times, Mr. Ebert helped educate a generation of Americans about movies, especially with his television show Siskel & Ebert at the Movies, where which he conversed (and frequently argued–hilariously) with fellow film critic Gene Siskel.

Roger Ebert, his words and his personality, will be missed.

Should you wish to re-familiarize yourself with Mr. Ebert’s work, the Library can help you out. We have several books written by him, in addition to a documentary about the history of film criticism which features Mr. Ebert.

• The Great Movies
  Call number: PN1994 .E23 2002 | Location: Library North 4
• The Great Movies II
  Call number: PN1994 .E232 2005 | Location: Library North 4
• The Great Movies III
  [ebook]
• Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert: Forty Years of Reviews, Essays, and Interviews
  Call number: PN1995 .E313 2006 | Location: Library North 4
• For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism [DVD]
  Call number: Video DVD PN1995 .F66 2009 | Location: Library South 2

The School of Athens by Raffaello Sanzio, 1509, showing Plato (left) and Aristotle (right). Public domain image from Wikimedia Commons.

The Department of Philosophy will be holding their Annual Student Symposium on Saturday, April 6 from 9:00-4:00 in rooms 460, 465, 480, and 485 of the University Center.

The symposium provides a forum for students of philosophy at Georgia State and numerous other universities and colleges throughout the United States to present papers on their latest research.

A keynote address will be presented by Alastair Norcross, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Norcross’s address is titled: “Deontology, Using, and Causal Fetishism.”

Georgia State University students presenting at the symposium include: Casey Fowler, Benjamin Freed, Marcos Gonzalez, Morgan Thompson, and Adam Schmidt.

The event is cosponsored by the Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honor Society (Zeta Chapter), the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, and the Center for Ethics Student Forum.

Interested in learning more about Philosophy? Contact the Department of Philosophy or check out some of the following books from the Unviersity Library:

Feinberg, Joel, and Russ Shafer-Landau. Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy. Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2011.

Hetherington, Stephen Cade. Yes, But How Do You Know?: Introducing Philosophy through Sceptical Ideas. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2009.

Holt, Jim. Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story. New York: Liveright, 2012.

Peperzak, Adriaan Theodoor. Thinking about Thinking: What Kind of Conversation is Philosophy? New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.

Sternberg, Eliezer J. My Brain Made Me Do It: The Rise of Neuroscience and the Threat to Moral Responsibility. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2010.

Warburton, Nigel. A Little History of Philosophy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.

DISCOVERY: Georgia State University Honors College Undergraduate Research Journal is an annual publication featuring peer-reviewed undergraduate research across a wide range of academic disciplines.

Students who participated in the 2013 GSURC (the Georgia State University Undergraduate Research Conference) or who have completed Honors Course 3260 and are enrolled at the University as of Spring semester 2013 are encouraged to submit their work for consideration in the second issue, which will be published this Summer.  Manuscript submissions are due by April 13, 2013.

Two Georgia State University Honors College student editors – Alexandra Simpson and Casey Fowler – will be responsible for selecting and publishing all content in the second issue of DISCOVERY, with oversight provided by Dr. Sarah Cook, Associate Dean of the Honors College and Professor of Psychology and coordination provided by Annahita Jimmerson, Senior Educational Program Specialist for the Honors College.

DISCOVERY is administered by the Georgia State University Honors College in cooperation with the Georgia State University Library.

The date of the presentation is Wednesday, April 10, at 10:30 A.M. in Troy Moore Library, on the 9th floor of Langdale Hall (room 939).

Dr. Bassett is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and an affiliate faculty member with the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics. Her research interests include Mesoamerican religion and the arts of the Americas.

Recent publications by Dr. Bassett include:

“Coloring the Sacred in Sixteenth-Century Central Mexico” in The Materiality of Color: The Production, Circulation, and Application of Dyes and Pigments, 1400-1800. Ed. Andrea Feeser and Beth Fowkes Tobin. London: Ashgate, 2012. 45-64.

“Indigenous Religions, Global” in The Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World. London: Sage, 2011. 741-744.

“Religion in Mesoamerica: A Case for Comparative Religious Studies.” Religious Studies Review 33:3 (2007): 193‐199.

Dr. Roopali Mukherjee, Associate Professor at Queens college, CUNY, New York, will be speaking on Thursday, April 11, 2013, on “Cadillac Consumer: Black Material Culture and the Care of the Racial Self.”

Dr. Mukherjee is the author of Racial Order of Things: Cultural Imaginaries of the Post-Soul Era (2006) and co-editor with Sarah Banet-Weiser with Commodity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times (2012).

Dr. Mukherjee’s talk will be held on Thursday, April 11, at 4:30 pm in the Special Collections Room, Library South 8th Floor. This talk is co-sponsored by the Departments of Communication and African American Studies. It is free and open to the public. Please contact Andrew Reisinger with any questions.

UN Relief Agency Tent City. Creative Commons license courtesy of the United Nations.

A panel of interdisciplinary scholars will address the challenges of planning for and responding to natural or human-made disasters. The event will be held Tuesday April 2, 1:00-2:15 in room 485 of the University Center.

Panelists include:

• Robert W. Klein (Associate Professor of Risk Management and Insurance, Georgia State University)
• Richard S. Olson (Professor of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University)
• Daniel J. Smith (Assistant Professor of Economics, Troy University)

This free event is cosponsored by the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, the Center for Ethics Student Forum, and the Department of Political Science.

The library has a number of books on disaster ethics and public policy, including:

Abu-Sada, Caroline. Dilemmas, Challenges, and Ethics of Humanitarian action: Reflections on Médecins Sans Frontières’ Perception Project. Montreal: Published for Médecins Sans Frontières by McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012.

Annas, George J. Worst Case Bioethics: Death, Disaster, and Public Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

De Waal, Alexander. Famine Crimes: Politics & the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

Liu, Amy. Resilience and Opportunity: Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2011.

Polman, Linda. The Crisis Caravan: What’s Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010.

Svedin, Lina. Accountability in Crises and Public Trust in Governing Institutions. New
York: Routledge, 2012.

Zack, Naomi. Ethics for Disaster. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009.

Dr. Martinez is a quantitative criminologist, a scholar who focuses on statistical techniques to study crime. “His core research agenda asks how does violence vary across ecological settings, and, does violent crime and violent deaths vary across racial/ethnic and immigrant groups?” (Northeastern – Faculty)

If you find the topic of crime and immigration interesting, check out Dr. Martinez’ groundbreaking book: Latino homicide: Immigration, violence and community (2002), or listen to him discuss the topic on NPR.

“Turning the World Upside Down: An Ancient Jewish Life of Jesus”

The talk will be presented in the Troy Moore Library on the 9th Floor of Langdale Hall (formerly, the General Classroom Building) from 2:00-4:00 on April 2nd.

Dr. Gager is the William H. Danforth Professor of Religion, Emeritus at Princeton University, where he taught from 1968 to 2006. He has written extensively on the religions of the Roman Empire, especially early Christianity and its relations to ancient Judaism and on the theme of religion and magic. His books include:

• Kingdom and Community: The Social World of Early Christianity;
• The Origins of Anti-Semitism: Attitudes Toward Judaism in Pagan and Christian Antiquity; and
• Reinventing Paul

Dr. Sinno is an Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature and Language in the Middle East Institute. Her research interests include modern Arabic literature and culture, literary translation, contemporary Arab women’s writings, and transnational feminisms.

Want to learn more? The following are just a few of the books available on Arab women  in the University Library:

Al-Malki, Amal Mohammed. Arab Women in Arab News: Old Stereotypes and New Media. London: Bloomsbury, 2012.

Arenfeldt, Pernille, and Nawar Al-Hassan Golley, eds. Mapping Arab Women’s Movements: A Century of Transformations from Within. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2012.

Golley, Nawar Al-Hassan. Arab Women’s Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007.

Makdisi, Jean Said. Teta, Mother and Me: An Arab Woman’s Memoir. London: Saqi, 2005.

GSU Sociology Professors Tomeka Davis and Deirdre Oakley

Check out GSU Sociology Professors Tomeka Davis and Deirdre Oakley‘s recently-published research:

Davis, T., & Oakley, D. (2013). Linking charter school emergence to urban revitalization and gentrification: A socio-spacial analysis of three cities. Journal Of Urban Affairs, 35(1), 81-102.

“The link between neighborhood quality and school quality is long-standing and well
established. Over the last two decades there have been several federally sponsored initiatives aimed at revitalizing the urban core; initiatives that emerged around the same time as charter schools. Despite the changing urban context that has occurred alongside charter school emergence, little research has addressed the link between urban revitalization efforts and charter school emergence. Using three cities that have experienced massive urban core revitalization and metropolitan growth since the early 1990s (Atlanta, Chicago, and Philadelphia), we examine whether demographic changes resulting from urban revitalization and gentrification are associated with the opening of a charter school. Our findings illustrate a somewhat mixed account. We find some evidence to support this link in Chicago and Philadelphia, whereas we find little support for it in Atlanta.” [article abstract]

Dr. Cliff Kuhn, courtesy of the Oral History Association

Over the last twenty years, the question of whether oral history interviews fall under Institutional Review Board (IRB) review has received widespread attention.  Despite a widely publicized memo nearly ten years ago stating that because of the nature of oral history interviews, oral history in general was exempt from IRB review, problems with oral history and IRBs have persisted. Georgia State University has amended its policies at least three times since 2003, most recently in 2010, yet there still exists uncertainty and confusion surrounding the policy.

We invite you to a session of the GSU Oral History Roundtable to discuss IRB review on  Tuesday, April 2, 12:00, in Special Collections and Archives located on the 8th floor of  Library South.  Leading the discussion will be Cliff Kuhn of the Department of History and executive director of the Oral History Association, the national professional organization in the field now based at GSU.

Selected Bibliography:

• Linda Shopes, “Oral History, Human Subjects, and Institutional Review,” Oral History Association Website
• American Association of University Professors, “Regulation of Research on Human Subjects: Academic Freedom and the Institutional Review Board” (March 2013)
• Zachary Schrag, Institutional Review Blog

Georgia State students and faculty can access Dr. Boozer’s article electronically (off campus sign-in requires Campus ID + password). This article is part of a special issue of JoFV dedicated to issues of screenwriting.

Dr. Boozer regularly teaches courses on screenwriting and adaptation, and has several other works to name:

• Authorship in Film Adaptation
  (University of Texas Press, 2008)
• Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique
  (University of Texas Press, 2002)
• Plus several more essays! Click here for a complete list.

Biology Open Learning Opportunities (BOLO) are similar and are being offered by Robert Maxwell here at GSU.  According to their website, “BOLO is a project to build online learning communities among biology students and those interested in the life sciences. The goal is to bring the foundations of biology to a wide audience while furthering the education of biology majors at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA, USA.”

To learn more about MOOCs check out the library Open Education research guide and these recent publications, available in full-text through the GSU Library:

M. Mitchell Waldrop and Nature magazine. (2013, March 13). Massive Open Online Courses, aka MOOCs, Transform Higher Education and Science. Scientific American.

What you need to know about MOOCs.  (2013, March 27). The Chronicles of Higher Education.

New, Jake. (2013, January 22) Georgia State U. to Grant Course Credit for MOOCs. Chronicle Of Higher Education Blog: The Wired Campus. 

You can now save citations directly to your Zotero library from your iPad using the new Zotero bookmarklet. It just takes a minute, and copying and pasting a bit of code, to set up. You’ll also need a free Zotero account.

We’ve got step by step setup instructions on our Zotero guide, or see Zotero’s official website for more information.

Andrew P. McElroy, 1890

One of the most significant challenges in archives, for both the archivist and the researcher, is access. Researchers must find the time and funding to visit a research facility in a different city, state, or country, while archivists strive to make their collections available to the greatest number of people. A giant step forward in this process has been the digitization of archival collections which allows access to documents and images from virtually any location, and makes great strides toward solving the problems for the archivist and the researcher.

The Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University Library is increasing efforts to make more of its material available online. This digitization project is not the Archives’ first, but it will provide access to a large number of photographs previously accessible only in person. The photographs come from a wide variety of collections, and each set has its own story to tell. One set has proved particularly intriguing: photos from the Andrew P. McElroy, Sr., papers.

The United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia

Andrew McElroy (1863-1921) was a Scottish immigrant and stone cutter who lived in Tennessee and Georgia after coming to the United States in 1882. He was an active participant in union life, and was in fact commissioned to cut the cornerstone for the Atlanta Labor Temple in 1910.

McElroy’s other important achievement as a stonecutter was being put in charge of all stone work for the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta between 1903 and 1917. His involvement with the prison is visually documented in the papers through photos of its construction, workers, and one other area: its baseball teams. Oddly enough, the United States Penitentiary system had a baseball league. One photograph depicts McElroy’s team, the Giants, defeating the Pirates to win the league’s pennant in 1912.

Federal penitentiary baseball game

Along with covering some genuinely interesting topics, the Andrew P. McElroy collection lends itself to commentary on why digitization is so important. Topics like prison construction, prison recreation, and unconventional sporting events are all covered in the McElroy photographs, but a person researching those subjects would likely never travel to a labor archives in search of these resources. Digitization of the photographs allows the researcher to much more easily find what they’re looking for, especially when it’s in an unlikely place!

Look for these photographs and more in the Southern Labor Archives digital collection (part of GSU Library’s Digital Collections). More photos will be added this spring!

Galaxy Centaurus A and its active galactic nucleus (visible as a bright white spot). Image courtesy of nasamarshall on Flickr. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Several Georgia State University Astronomy students and faculty have recently published articles in the Astrophysical Journal. Check out their research:

Peters, G. J., Pewett, T. D., Gies, D. R., Touhami, Y. N., & Grundstrom, E. D. (2013). Far-ultraviolet detection of the suspected subdwarf companion to the Be star 59 Cygni. Astrophysical Journal, 765(1). doi:10.1088/0004-637X/765/1/2

Georgia State professor Douglas R. Gies, postdoc Yamina N. Touhami, and Ph.D. candidate Tiffany D. Pewett published on the detection of a subdwarf companion star to the Be star 59 Cygni. Their discovery, derived from different sets of spectral data on 59 Cygni, sheds light on the nature of rapidly-rotating Be stars.

Grier, C. J., Peterson, B. M., Horne, K., Bentz, M. C., Pogge, R. W., Denney, K. D., … Van Saders, J. L. (2013). The structure of the broad-line region in active galactic nuclei. I. Reconstructed velocity-delay maps. Astrophysical Journal, 764(1). doi:10.1088/0004-637X/764/1/47

Georgia State professor Misty C. Bentz published on observations of five active galactic nuclei, highly luminous centers of galaxies believed to be caused by supermassive black holes. Velocity-delay maps, which provide information on the structure and motion of the mapped black holes, are difficult to calculate; this paper both adds to the number of maps and demonstrates their reliability as measurements.

Getting her work shown in the exhibition is a major accomplishment in itself, as graduate students from all over the United States vie for a place in the show. This year only 41 students were selected to show their work.

The Library subscribes to several ceramic art magazines to help keep emerging artists like Ashley on top of what’s new in the art world. The most recent issues of these can be found in the Periodicals Browsing area on Library North 1:

• Ceramics Art & Perception
  also available online 2004-present
• American Ceramics
• Ceramics Monthly
  also available online 2000-present
• Studio Potter
• Sculpture

The Georgia State University Library has many resources available for the study of women’s history. See in particular these intriguing new resources in US women’s history:

Secondary Sources: Learning About Women’s Lives

• Carmen L. Phelps, Visionary Women Writers of Chicago’s Black Arts Movement (2013)
• Andrew Wilson, Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life before Ted (2013)
• Jeanne Theoharis, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (2013)
• Helen Reddington, The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era (2013)
• Hilary Hallett, Go West, Young Women!: The Rise of Early Hollywood (2013)
• Babette Faehmel, College Women in the Nuclear Age: Cultural Literacy and Female Identity, 1940-1960 (2012)

Primary Sources: Women Tell Their Stories

• Sandra Day O’Connor, Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court (2013)
• Eliza Lucy Irion Neilson, A New Southern Woman: The Correspondence of Eliza Lucy Irion Neilson, 1871-1883 (2013)
• Beverly Deepe Keever, Death Zones and Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting (2013)
• Ann D. Gordon et al., eds., The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Volume VI, An Awful Hush, 1895 to 1906 (2013)
• Michael L. Gillette, Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History (2012)

Want to learn more about leadership skills and the importance of gaining leadership experience? Check out these books.

• What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential by Robert S. Kaplan
• Crucibles of Leadership: How to Learn from Experience to Become a Great Leader by Robert J. Thomas
• Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life by Stewart D. Friedman
• Discovering the Leader in You: A Guide to Realizing Your Personal Leadership Potential by Robert J. Lee and Sara N. King

Guest speakers include Wayne Daniel, author of Pickin’ on Peachtree, A History of Country Music in Atlanta, Georgia; Kevin Fontenot, coeditor of the forthcoming North of the Ohio: Northern Fiddlers and Stringbands of the 1920s; and Steve Goodson, author of Highbrows, Hillbillies, and Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880-1930.  There will also be an educational workshop led by James Akenson from Tennessee Tech University, and music performances by the Georgia Crackers and the Skillet Lickers.

This event will be held on Saturday April 6, 2013 from 12:00-5:00 at Dahlberg Hall (located at 30 Courtland St. SE on the Georgia State University campus in downtown Atlanta, GA).  Admission is Free. Please RSVP to Kevin Fleming at 404-413-2891 or kfleming@gsu.edu.  For additional information please visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/GOTFC100.

Dr. Tonia Poteat

This talk is sponsored by The Center of Excellence for Health Disparities Research (CoEx), Institute of Public Health.

*Free and open to the public – if attending, please RSVP here no later than Thursday, March 28.*

Check out Dr. Poteat’s research on this subject:

• Baral, S., Poteat, T., Strömdahl, S., Wirtz, A., Guadamuz, T., & Beyrer, C. (2013). Worldwide burden of HIV in transgender women: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 13(3), 214-222.
• Baral, S., Beyrer, C., Muessig, K., Poteat, T., Wirtz, A., Decker, M., Sherman, S., & Kerrigan, D. (2012). Burden of HIV among female sex workers in low-income and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 12(7), 538-549.
• Poteat, T., Diouf, D., Drame, F., Ndaw, M., Traore, C., Dhaliwal, M., Beyrer, C., & Baral, S. (2011). HIV risk among MSM in Senegal: A qualitative rapid assessment of the impact of enforcing laws that criminalize same sex practices. Plos ONE, 6(12), 1-8.

And explore others’ research on LGBTQIQ health disparities here, indexed within our LGBT Life with Full Text database.  Also check out our LGBTQIQA Studies research guide for a multitude of resources.

The Colonial Academic Alliance Undergraduate Research Journal adds to the body of knowledge in all fields and showcases the outstanding scholarship of our undergraduates. It provides a forum for students to publicly share their research, offering opportunities for presenting their work to potential graduate programs and employers. Undergraduates also participate in the scholarly publishing process by reviewing submitted articles and shaping the journal’s content.

The Journal welcomes submissions of individual and collaborative research work in all disciplines. Keep in mind the following requirements:

• The work must be completed while the author is enrolled as an undergraduate student at one of the Alliance institutions: The University of Delaware, Drexel University, George Mason University, Georgia State University, James Madison University, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Northeastern University, Old Dominion University, Towson University, Virginia Commonwealth University, or The College of William and Mary.
• Faculty-mentored research papers and theses from all disciplines will be considered.
• Submitters to the journal must own the copyright to the work being submitted.

There are three issues of the journal to date, and the overall acceptance rate over that period is 40%.

Articles published in the journal are easily accessible and frequently located through search engines.  The overall most downloaded article, published in 2010, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Continued Effects on the Alaskan Economy, has been downloaded over 4600 times! The top downloaded article for 2011, The Adoption of Christianity by the Irish and Anglo-Saxons: The Creation of Two Different Christian Societies has over 1000 downloads, and the most downloaded 2012 article, Steadfastness, Resistance, and Occupation in the Works of Sahar Khalifeh, published in November 2012, has over 200 downloads.

We look forward to reviewing your work.  To submit please go to The Colonial Academic Alliance Undergraduate Research Journal site and click on “Submit Article.”

Submission deadline: June 3, 2013

Baunach, D. (2011). Decomposing trends in attitudes toward gay marriage, 1988-2006. Social Science Quarterly, 92(2), 346-363.

Using data from the General Social Survey, Dr. Baunach examined the attitudinal changes toward same-sex marriage from 1988 to 2006.  Her findings indicate:

“Attitudes significantly liberalized over time; 71 percent opposed gay marriage in 1988, but by 2006, this figure dropped to 52 percent…This pattern was replicated across many subgroups of the U.S. public, including age, sex, residential, educational, and religious groups…The results suggest that the use of the ‘equality/tolerance’ framing of gay marriage by its supporters and other societal events or ‘moments’ may have convinced some people who used to disapprove of gay marriage in 1988 to approve of it by 2006″ (Baunach, 2011, p. 346).

Listen to the NPR piece, read Dr. Baunach’s article to learn more about her findings, and explore via our Discover Search the variety of resources addressing the same-sex marriage debate.

“I’m really happy I was taken seriously,” Okeke said when she received the award. Her impressive paper connects historical views of Black American bodies by White medical professionals, with the goal of understanding why Black women aren’t inclined toward mental health care. Okeke questions why there is a distrust of medical institutions in Black communities while identifying the stereotypical controlling image of the strong Black woman. “I’d never heard anyone talk about this topic ever,” she said.

When she couldn’t find concrete research on the topic, Okeke dove into the literature available. Using the library she accessed article databases like JSTOR, PsycINFO and a variety of EBSCOhost databases. After finding related articles, she scoured their bibliographies for even more sources, which led her to both physical and electronic items in the library’s catalog. Okeke said that she likes to stay late at the library to get her studying done and she just started using research guides for her future papers after being introduced to them by librarian Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh.

Okeke’s research deserves to be “taken seriously” and we’re excited to share her work with the entire research community! Congratulations!

Undergraduate Research Award winner Alexandria Okeke with Associate Dean for Public Services, Bryan Sinclair

GSU Sociology Professor Lesley Reid

Congratulations to GSU Sociology Professor Lesley Reid for her recent promotion from Associate Professor to Professor!  Special accomplishments Dr. Reid has achieved include:

• Principal and/or Co-Investigator on several grant-funded research projects (including funding from the National Science Foundation, GSU Center for Human Rights and Democracy, the GSU Faculty Mentored Grant Program, and the Georgia Humanities Council).
• Distinguished Lecturer, Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society, 2008-2010.

She has also authored several research publications since starting at GSU in 2000, including but not limited to:

• Reid, L. W. (2003). Crime in the city: A political and economic analysis of urban crime. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing.
• Oakley, D., Ruel, E., & Reid, L. W. (In press). Atlanta’s last demolitions and relocations: The relationship between neighborhood characteristics and resident satisfaction. Housing Studies.
• Ruel, E., Oakley, D., Ward, C., Alston, R., & Reid, L. W. (In press). Public housing relocations in Atlanta: Documenting residents’ attitudes, concerns, and experiences.” Cities.
• Oakley, D., Ruel, E., & Reid, L. W. (In press). Is the grass any greener on the other side of the projects? Public housing relocation and resident outcomes in Atlanta, Georgia.” In Carol Yeakey (ed.) Urban ills: Post recession complexities of urban living in global contexts. New York: Lexington Books.
• Reid, L. W., Elifson, K. W., & Sterk, C. E. (2007). Esctasy and gateway drugs: Initiating the use of esctasy and other drugs. Annals of Epidemiology, 17(1):74-80.
• Reid, L. W., Adelman, R. M., & Jaret, C. (2007). Women, race, and ethnicity: Exploring earnings differentials in metropolitan America. City and Community 6(2): 137-156.
• Reid, L. W., Elifson, K., & Sterk, C. (2007). Hug drug or thug drug? Ecstasy use and aggressive behavior. Violence And Victims, 22(1), 104-119.
• Reid, L. W., Weiss, H. E., Adelman, R. M., & Jaret, C. (2005). The immigration-crime relationship: Evidence across U.S. metropolitan areas. Social Science Research 34(4): 757-780.
• Reid, L. W., & Rubin, B. A. (2003). Integrating economic dualism and labor market segmentation: The effects of race, gender, and employment status, 1972-2000. Sociological Quarterly 44(3): 405-32.

photo by Beatrice Murch

On March 5, 2013, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez succumbed to his battle with cancer.  According to a recent article by the Economist Intelligence Unit, “Until his illness made it impossible for him to micro-manage the state, he oversaw almost every important decision taken in the country. The few who dared to challenge him in public were cast out as ‘traitors to the revolution’.”  What happens to the Venezuelan economy after Chavez?  You can follow these developments in these library databases by the Economist Intelligence Unit:

-          Economist Intelligence Unit Country Data – Select Venezuela then continue to get to the Country Data page for Venezuela. Forecast information is available to year 2030.

-          Economist Intelligence Unit Viewswire – Select Venezuela from the drop-down menu and enter.  That retrieves the country page for Venezuela that contains recent news analysis, economic indicators and forecasts for the country.

-          Economist Intelligence Unit Country Commerce – Enter Venezuela in the search box to get featured analysis, forecasts and risk analysis.

To get the historical perspective of Venezuela’s economy and Chavez,  here are a few of the library’s offerings in the print collection:

-          Dragon in the tropics : Hugo Chávez and the political economy of revolution in  Venezuela

-          Oil and development in Venezuela during the 20th century

-          Understanding the Venezuelan revolution : Hugo Chávez talks to Marta Harnecker

Section 109(a) of copyright law describes the first sale doctrine, which applies to any work “lawfully made under this title.” The question was whether that phrase has a geographic meaning. Wiley argued that since “this title” refers to a United States statute, the first sale doctrine only applies to items purchased in the United States. Kirtsaeng argued that the phrase means the work was “lawfully” made – not pirated or illegal.

On March 19 the Supreme Court issued its ruling in the Kirtsaeng v. Wiley case. In a 6-3 decision, the Court ruled in favor of Kirtsaeng. Writing for the majority, Justice Breyer stated:

Putting section numbers to the side, we ask whether the “first sale” doctrine applies to protect a buyer or other lawful owner of a copy (of a copyrighted work) lawfully manufactured abroad. Can that buyer bring that copy into the United States (and sell it or give it away) without obtaining permission to do so from the copyright owner? Can, for example, someone who purchases, say at a used bookstore, a book printed abroad subsequently resell it without the copyright owner’s permission?

In our view, the answers to these questions are, yes.

There is significant coverage of this decision. Below is a sampling.

Library perspectives:

• Library Copyright Alliance: Statement on Supreme Court Decision in Kirtsaeng v. Wiley—Total Victory for Libraries and Their Users
• Columbia University Libraries Copyright Advisory Office: The Kirtsaeng Decision: Copyright, Logic, and Libraries, Kenny Crews

Publisher perspectives:

• American Association of Publishers:  Statement on Supreme Court Decision
• Publishers Weekly: Issues in Kirtsaeng ‘Significant’, by James Grimmelmann

For more on copyright, try these library books:

Crews, Kenneth D. Copyright Law for Librarians and Educators: Creative Strategies and Practical Solutions. 3rd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 2012.

Nimmer, David. Copyright Illuminated: Refocusing the Diffuse US Statute. Austin : Alphen Aan Den Rijn, Netherlands : Frederick, MD: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2008.

Bently, Lionel, Uma Suthersanen, and Paul Torremans. Global Copyright: Three Hundred Years Since the Statute of Anne, From 1709 to Cyberspace. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2010

Candace Kemp, GSU Professor of Gerontology and Sociology

• Recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Gerontology Faculty Award, Georgia State University
• Co-Investigator on two National Institute on Aging grant-funded research projects, totaling app. $1.12 million.
• Co-Investigator on three Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada grand-funded research projects, totaling app. $5.07 million.

She has also authored several research publications since starting at GSU in 2005, including but not limited to:

• Kemp, C. L., Ball, M. M., Hollingsworth, C., & Perkins, M. M. (2012). Strangers and friends: Residents’ social careers in assisted living. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 67(4): 491-502.
• Kemp, C. L. (2012). Married couples in assisted living: Adult children’s experiences providing support. Journal of Family Issues, 33(5): 639-661.
• Kemp, C. L., Luo, S., & Ball, M. M. (2012). “Meds are a real tricky area”: Examining medication management and regulation in assisted living. Journal of Applied Gerontology 31: 126-149.
• Kemp, C. L., Ball, M. M., Hollingsworth, C., & Lepore, M. J. (2010). Connections with residents: “It’s all about the residents for me.” In Mary M. Ball, Molly M. Perkins, Carole Hollingsworth, & Candace L. Kemp (Eds.), Frontline Workers in Assisted Living (pp. 147-170). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Kemp, C. L., Ball, M. M., Perkins, M. M., Hollingsworth, C. & Lepore, M. J. (2009). “I get along with most of them”: Direct care workers’ relationships with residents’ families in assisted living. The Gerontologist, 49 (2): 224-235.
• Kemp, C. L. (2008). Negotiating transitions in later life: Married couples in assisted living. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 27 (3): 231-251.
• Kemp, C. L. (2007). Grandparent-grandchild ties: Reflections on continuity and change across three generations. Journal of Family Issues 23, 855-881.
• Kemp, C. L., Rosenthal, C. J., & Denton, M. (2005). Financial planning for later life: Subjective understandings of catalysts and constraints. Journal of Aging Studies, 19 (3): 273-290.
• Kemp, C. L. (2005). Dimensions of grandparent-adult grandchild relationships: From family ties to intergenerational friends. Canadian Journal on Aging, 24 (2): 161-178.

Here’s how to get an custom RSS feed of new materials in your subject area:

1. Go to GIL-Find

2. Click on Advanced Search

3. Select the Call Number subject area of your choice

4. Click on Find. This will display all current items in that subject area.

5. Select Sort: Date Descending

6. Scroll to the bottom of the results page and click on Get RSS Feed

7. Subscribe to the feed using the tool of your choice (such as Feedly, FeedDemon, NewzCrawler, etc.).

You can also create your own custom RSS feeds to find new materials by author, keyword, or subject heading, simply by adjusting the options on the Advanced Search page and following the instructions above!

The Georgia Women’s Movement Project Spring Event is held annually to highlight collections in the Georgia State University Library Women and Gender Collections, and to celebrate the lives of the unsung heroines of the women’s movement in Georgia.

2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case, Roe v. Wade and its sister case, Doe v. Bolton. We would like to take this opportunity to celebrate Georgia’s Doe v. Bolton by hosting a discussion of the case and its background.

Thursday, April 18, 5:30-7:00 pm
Special Collections And Archives
University Library South, 8^th Floor
100 Decatur St. SE
Atlanta, GA 30303
Register for event
or RSVP to mgerrard@gsu.edu / (404) 413-2888

Judith Rooks
Judith Rooks earned a B.S. in Nursing at University of Washington in 1963. She married after graduation and then moved to Washington, D.C. where, in 1964, she began working as a nurse at the Clinical Center (part of the National Institute of Health). While her husband served in Vietnam, Rooks earned a master’s degree in nursing at the Catholic University of America. Then, after moving to California, she taught nursing at San Jose State College and volunteered as a nurse in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury Free Medical Center during the weekends. After moving to Atlanta in 1969, Rooks became involved in Georgia Citizens for Hospital Abortions, which fought to change Georgia’s “reformed” abortion law further. In 1970, Rooks was brought into the epidemiology training program at CDC (Center for Disease Control), where she worked in the Family Planning Evaluation Division.   Research done by her colleagues at CDC was used to support the plaintiff’s brief when Doe v. Bolton challenged Georgia’s abortion law in the United States Federal District Court in Atlanta, and later in the United States Supreme Court.

Rooks continued to work as an epidemiologist and public health professional in various positions, became a midwife, and in 1989 published the landmark National Birth Center Study in the New England Journal of Medicine.  She has published more than 60 research and policy papers about family planning, women’s health, and midwifery, and has received numerous honorary awards.

Roger Rochat
Dr Roger Rochat completed his residency at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. He transferred to CDC’s Family Planning Evaluation Activity and the Georgia Health Department. One of his first tasks in Georgia was to determine whether the new state law legalizing abortion would reduce maternal mortality. Because of continuing discriminatory access to services, it would not. A lawyer cited this social inequity in Doe v. Bolton, the Supreme Court case from Georgia that was decided concurrently with Roe v. Wade. Dr. Rochat became the first Director of the Division of Reproductive Health for the CDC in 1981. He developed the Global Health Track, and spent six years developing Maternal and Child Health epidemiology in the Georgia Health Department. After 30 years with CDC, working in 30+ countries and with many State Health Departments, he retired from CDC in 1999, went with his brother briefly to Antarctica, and then joined the Rollins School of Public Health where he focused on Epidemiology and Global Health.

The Women and Gender Collections
Established in 1995, the Georgia State University Women and Gender Collections document the experiences of women active in the second wave of the women’s movement, in particular their efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in Georgia. It also chronicles women and men participating in women and LGBTQ-centered activism and advocacy in Georgia and the Southeast. In addition, the collection highlights Georgia State University faculty, staff and students involved in feminist activities, including the development of continuing education and academic classes in women’s studies and the establishment of the Women’s Studies Institute.

Senate Sergeant at Arms Charles Higgins turns forward the Ohio Clock for the first Daylight Saving Time, while Senators William Calder (NY), William Saulsbury, Jr. (DE), and Joseph T. Robinson (AR) look on, 1918. credit: Senate Historical Office

* Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time, by David Prerau.

* Originating laws in United States Statutes at Large (available in HeinOnline database):

• 1918 (v. 40, p. 450, PL 65-106, ch. 24)
• 1942 (v. 56, p. 9, PL 77-403, ch. 7)
• 1966 (v. 80, p. 107, PL 89-387)
• 1972 (v. 86, p. 116, PL 92-267)
• 1986 (v. 100, p. 764, PL 99-359, Sec. 2)
• 2005 (v. 119, p. 615, PL 109-58, Sec. 110)

* Current U.S. Code (15 U.S.C. 260a) governing Standard and Daylight Saving Time.

* Web exhibit on Daylight Saving Time.

* YouTube clip re: all the ins and outs of Daylight Saving Time.

These professors have published research in journals and books that range from language development to Holocaust denial to HIV Prevention programs and much more.

Andrew Altman, professor in the Department of Philosophy

• “Freedom of Expression and Human Rights Law: The case of Holocaust Denial” in Speech and Harm: Controversies Over Free Speech
• Targeted killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World

Lisa Armistead, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology

• Pilot Trial of a Disclosure Intervention for HIV+ Mothers: The TRACK Program.
• Making HIV Prevention Programming Count: Identifying Predictors of Success in a Parent-Based HIV-Prevention Program for Youth.

Guantao Chen, professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics & Statistics

• “Optimization Model and Algorithm Help to Screen and Treat Sexually Transmitted Diseases”. In Innovations in Data Methodologies and Computational Algorithms for Medical Applications
• Homeomorphically irreducible spanning trees in locally connected graphs

Naveen Donthu, professor and Chair of the Department of Marketing

• How to Foster and Sustain Engagement in Virtual Communities
• Investigating the Immediate and Long-term Effects of Job Stressors on Frontline Service Employees

Todd Henry, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy

• Stellar Diameters and Temperatures II: Main-Sequence K and M Stars
• The Solar Neighborhood XXVIII: The Multiplicity Fraction of Nearby Stars from 5 to 70 AU and the Brown Dwarf Desert Around M Dwarfs

Paul Katz, professor in the Neuroscience Institute

• Parallel evolution of serotonergic neuromodulation underlies independent evolution of rhythmic motor behavior.
• Using company policies as a shield.

Jennifer McCoy, professor in the Department of Political Science

• International mediation in Venezuela
• Challenges for the Collective Defense of Democracy on the Tenth Anniversary of the Inter-American Democratic Charter

Yi Pan, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science

• Continuous data aggregation and capacity in probabilistic wireless sensor networks
• Symmetry Compression Method for Discovering Network Motifs

Tim Sass, professor in the Department of Economics

• Where you Come From or Where You Go?  Distinguishing Between School Quality and the Effectiveness of Teacher Preparation Program Graduates
• Competing Risks Analysis of Dropouts and Educational Attainment for Students with Disabilities

Rose Sevcik, professor in the Department of Psychology

• Successfully translating language and culture when adapting assessment measures.
• Parent Perceptions of the Language Development of Toddlers With Developmental Delays Before and After Participation in Parent-Coached Language Interventions

Gordon Warren, professor in the Department of Physical Therapy

• Toll-like and adenosine receptor expression in injured skeletal muscle.
• Bone is functionally impaired in dystrophic mice but less so than skeletal muscle.

Jenny Yang, professor in the Department of Chemistry

• Design and application of a class of sensors to monitor Ca2+ dynamics in high Ca2+ concentration cellular compartments
• Molecular interaction and functional regulation of connexin50 gap junctions by calmodulin

Professor Jacalyn Lund

Professor Jacalyn Lund, Chair of the Department of Kinesiology and Health, in the College of Education will receive the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) Hall of Fame Award for Physical Education at the 2013 American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) Convention.

“The Hall of Fame Physical Education/Physical Activity Award honors individuals who have made significant contributions in the development and promotion of physical education or physical activity and its identified sub-disciplines as an important part of the total educational program.”

Among Dr. Lund’s many publications are these highlights:

Journal Articles

Georgia State created the Distinguished University Professor appointment to recognize faculty members whose research, instruction, and service are exemplars of what a Georgia State faculty member should be.

Dr. Altman’s scholarly activity is mainly in the areas of legal and political philosophy, with a focus on contemporary topics such as human rights, discrimination, genocide, and freedom of expression. Recent publications by Dr. Altman available through the University Library include:

Altman, Andrew. “Freedom of Expression and Human Rights Law: The case of Holocaust Denial” in Speech and Harm: Controversies Over Free Speech. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Finkelstein, Claire Oakes, Jens David Ohlin, and Andrew Altman, Eds. Targeted killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Altman, Andrew. A Liberal Theory of International Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Altman, Andrew, and Christopher Heath Wellman.”From Humanitarian Intervention to Assassination: Human Rights and Political Violence.” Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy 118.2 (2008): 228-257.

Congratulations to Dr. Altman!

Sacred Mountains of the Americas
Tuesday, March 5
11:00am – 12:15pm
Troy Moore Library
General Classroom Building, 9th Floor

Dr. Ceruti giving her talk at TED - Buenos Aires. Image credit: TEDx Buenos Aires/Sergio Scagnetti-ted

Dr. Ceruti is a high-altitude archaeologist, professor at the Catholic University of Salta in Argentina, and author of Inca Rituals and Sacred Mountains.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information contact Dr. Rudyard Alcocer at ralcocer@gsu.edu.

Learn more about Dr. Ceruti’s research from our electronic holdings:

Ceruti, C. (2004). Human bodies as objects of dedication at Inca mountain shrines (north-western Argentina). World Archaeology, 36(1), 103-122.

Reinhard, J., & Ceruti, C. (2005). Sacred mountains, ceremonial sites, and human sacrifice among the Incas. Archaeoastronomy, 19, 1-43.

Wilson, A. S., Taylor, T., Ceruti, M., Chavez, J., Reinhard, J., Grimes, V., & … Gilbert, M. P. (2007). Stable isotope and DNA evidence for ritual sequences in Inca child sacrifice. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America, 104(42), 16456-16461. doi:10.1073/pnas.0704276104

Dorothy Bolden, president and founder of the NDWU

The records of the National Domestic Workers Union (NDWU) have been digitized by Gale/Cengage Learning and made available through their Archives Unbound database. Gale, “a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses,” approached the Southern Labor Archives about the collection, arranged for it to be digitized, and will host the collection on Archives Unbound for the next five years. As part of this agreement, the Georgia State University community has access to the digitized collection online, both on and off-campus (Campus ID and Password are needed to access the collection from off-campus) and it will be available to any institution subscribed to the Archives Unbound database.

The National Domestic Workers Union (NDWU) was founded in Atlanta in 1968 by Dorothy Bolden to help women engaged in household work. The records of the NDWU, 1965-1979, provide insight into Bolden’s efforts to organize household workers and the union’s involvement in Atlanta’s black community through programs such as the Manpower Program, the Career Learning Center, the Homemaking Skills Training Program, Maids Honor Day, and others sponsored by government agencies.

Governor Jimmy Carter presents Bolden with a proclamation.

The records contain correspondence, legal and financial documents, minutes, printed material, and photographs. Among the correspondents are Julian Bond, Sam Nunn, Herman Talmadge, Andrew Young, and other Georgia and national political figures. The records also contain information about some of the organizations in  which Bolden participated, such as the Citizen’s Advisory Committee on Transportation, the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on the Rights and Responsibilities of Women, WIGO radio station, and Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA).

Gale/Cengage Learning has also digitized selected portions of the United Garment Workers of America records, which will be available through Archives Unbound later this year.

For more information about the NDWU, see:

• The NDWU records online (via Archives Unbound)
• NDWU photographs in Digital Collections
• NDWU in the Great Speckled Bird

To learn more about current efforts to organize domestic workers, please visit:

• The National Domestic Workers Alliance website
• The Domestic Workers United website
• Hamilton Nolan. “Domestic Workers Need a Union.” Gawker. February 28, 2013.
• Tala Dowlatshahi. “Domestic Workers: Long Hours, Backbreaking Jobs and Few Rights.” Huffington Post. February 28, 2013.
• Bryce Covert. “Why Are Domestic Workers Ignored in Immigration Reform?” The Nation (blog). February 28, 2013.
• Bryce Covert. “How to Include Domestic Workers in Immigration Reform.” The Nation (blog). February 28, 2013.

Jamie was nominated by the School of Social Work for her community service work with a variety of groups, including Camp To Belong, where she worked to reunite siblings who live in different homes, and with a Panther Breakaway project which helped to serve homeless and impoverished individuals in Ohio.

For her class and special project research, Jamie often uses tools provided by the University Library. She says, “I really enjoy the welcoming environment that allows me to focus on my class assignments. I most often reserve the study rooms for group study sessions. I also appreciate the assistance from the various research librarians in helping me with finding scholarly articles for my research projects!”

Congratulations to Jamie on receiving this award! If you’re interested in some of the same topics as Jamie, the library can help you to start your research. Here are a few resources to help you begin, and you can visit us in person at the Research Support Desk on Library North 2nd floor for a more thorough research consultation.

• Foster children placed with or separated from siblings: Outcomes based on a national sample. Article, published in Children and Youth Services Review, 2011.
• Siblings in adoption and foster care: Traumatic separations and honored connections. Book, 2009.
• Homelessness: Programs and the people they serve. Book, 1999.
• Who is my neighbor? Communicating and organizing to end homelessness. Book, 2009.
• A review of services and interventions for runaway and homeless youth: Moving forward. Article, 2009.
• Homelessness: Federal response and considerations. Book, 2012

The C. Everett Koop Papers are held by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and hold fascinating reminiscences of his career, as well as hand-written speeches given during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.

From his NLM biography:

After a 35-year career as an internationally acclaimed pediatric surgeon, during the 1980s C. Everett Koop turned a federal office with a minimal budget and staff, the office of the U.S. Surgeon General, into the most authoritative platform from which to educate the nation on matters of health promotion, disease prevention, and emerging health threats. Guided by his evangelical Christian faith and his professional commitment to saving the lives of newborns, Koop became an outspoken opponent of abortion and, as such, a favorite of political conservatives; yet the positions he took as U.S. Surgeon General on smoking, domestic violence, disability rights, and, most urgently, AIDS, alienated him from his conservative supporters and demonstrated that the politics of public health in the 1980s followed a long-standing pattern of controversy over government authority and individual liberty.

He continued to be active in healthcare issues after his professional service ended.  In 2008, giving an interview about the state of our national healthcare system, he stated,

“Health care should be universal.  The person with the poorest financial background should be entitled to the same care a millionaire can receive.  We may not be able to change the circumstances that made a person poverty-stricken, but by grace we should provide the equal care.”

You can learn more about Public Health service from Georgia State’s Institute of Public Health and through the University Library’s resources.

The Library will be hosting four workshops to assist you in learning how to use
this resource.

Workshops will be held:

• Monday, 4 March, 8:30am – 9:30am
• Tuesday, 5 March, 1pm-2pm
• Wednesday, 6 March, 3pm-4pm
• Thursday, 7 March, 11am -12pm

All workshops will be held in Library Classroom 2, located on the second floor of Library North.

• Department of Justice Memo to 11th Circuit (pdf)
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Justice Dept. Will Not Weigh In on Georgia State U. E-Reserves Case
• Kevin Smith: Good Government in Action, and Inaction
• Publishers Weekly: U.S. Attorneys Opt Out of GSU E-Reserves Case

The Memorandum, posted Friday, February 22, by John Holdren, Director of the President’s Office of Science and Technology, begins:

“The Administration is committed to ensuring that, to the greatest extent and with the fewest constraints possible and consistent with law [...], the direct results of federally funded scientific research are made available to and useful for the public, industry, and the scientific community. Such results include peer-reviewed publications and digital data.”

Echoing priciples long endorsed by open access groups like Creative Commons and actively promoted by open access institutional repositories like the Digital Archive @ Georgia State University, the White House emphasized the far-reaching benefits of open access:

“wider availability of peer-reviewed publications and scientific data in digital formats will create innovative economic markets for services related to curation, preservation, analysis, and visualization. Policies that mobilize these publications and data for re-use through preservation and broader public access also maximize the impact and accountability of the Federal research investment. These policies will accelerate scientific breakthroughs and innovation, promote entrepreneurship, and enhance economic growth and job creation.”

Perhaps more important than a shift in policy principles, the memo requires that every Federal Agency with R&D expenditures of over $100 million develop a plan to support increased public access to federally funded research.  These plans, to be submitted to the White House within six months, are to include not only long-term preservation measures, but also mechanisms to ensure interoperability and improved access to and dissemination of federally funded research.  While recognizing the services provided by publishers, the President’s plan also suggests a maximum 12-month embargo period for articles in scholarly publications.

GSU Gerontology Professors Candace Kemp (and former Professor Mary Ball)

Kemp, C. M., Ball, M. M., & Perkins, M. M.  (2013). Convoys of care: Theorizing intersections of formal and informal care. Journal Of Aging Studies, 27(1), 15-29.

“Although most care to frail elders is provided informally, much of this care is paired with formal care services. Yet, common approaches to conceptualizing the formal–informal intersection often are static, do not consider self-care, and typically do not account for multi-level influences. In response, we introduce the “convoy of care” model as an alternative way to conceptualize the intersection and to theorize connections between care convoy properties and caregiver and recipient outcomes. The model draws on Kahn and Antonucci’s (1980) convoy model of social relations, expanding it to include both formal and informal care providers and also incorporates theoretical and conceptual threads from life course, feminist gerontology, social ecology, and symbolic interactionist perspectives. This article synthesizes theoretical and empirical knowledge and demonstrates the convoy of care model in an increasingly popular long-term care setting, assisted living. We conceptualize care convoys as dynamic, evolving, person- and family-specific, and influenced by a host of multi-level factors. Care convoys have implications for older adults” quality of care and ability to age in place, for job satisfaction and retention among formal caregivers, and for informal caregiver burden. The model moves beyond existing conceptual work to provide a comprehensive, multi-level, multi-factor framework that can be used to inform future research, including research in other care settings, and to spark further theoretical development” (Kemp et al., 2013, p. 15).

References:

Kahn, R. L., & Antonucci, T. C. (1980). Convoys over the life course: A life
course approach. In P. B. Baltes, & O. Brim (Eds.), Life span development
and behavior (pp. 253–286). New York: Academic Press.

Kemp, C. M., Ball, M. M., & Perkins, M. M.  (2013). Convoys of care: Theorizing intersections of formal and informal care. Journal Of Aging Studies, 27(1), 15-29.

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How apropos that upon this weekend dreary the Players of GSU are offering “To_____: A Celebration of Edgar Allan Poe,” a combination of dramatic and interpretive dance performances of Poe’s writings.  You can catch the performance in Dahlberg Hall’s University Theatre tonight (Friday) or Saturday at 8:00pm or Sunday at 3:00pm – and even get discounted tickets if you attend in costume – more info in The Signal here.

Want to get your Edgar Allan Poe on?  Check out some of these books, eBooks, and films from the GSU University Library:

• Poe, Edgar Allan, and Thomas Ollive Mabbott. Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969. Print.

• Poe, Edgar Allan, and NetLibrary. The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe. Philadelphia: Courage Books, 1997. Web. 22nd February 2013. [eBook]

• Poe, Edgar Allan. The Centenary Poe: Tales, Poems, Criticism, Marginalia, and Eureka. London: Bodley Head, 1949. Print.

• Poe, Edgar Allan, and Frederick Clarke Prescott. Selections From the Critical Writings of Edgar Allan Poe. 2d ed. New York: Gordian Press, 1981. Print.

• Poe, Edgar Allan, and Gary Richard Thompson. Essays and Reviews. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1984. Print.

• Videotape and DVDs – Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Masque of the Red Death, House of Usher and The Pit and the Pendulum.

Interview in WSB studio, WSB Radio Records [M004_0430

The Oral History Association (OHA) has recently moved its national office to  Georgia State University. In response to the OHA’s relocation to GSU, a group of faculty and staff have formed an informal oral history roundtable to bring together departments across campus to discuss projects and issues, and to share scholarship and ideas related to the field.

Oral history roundtable meetings are hosted by the GSU Library’s Special Collections and Archives. Future meetings will be held the fourth Friday of each month from 12:00-1:00 in the Colloquium Room on the 8th floor of Library South. The meetings are open to all faculty, staff, and students at GSU. A different department will present on its current projects each month.

One of Georgia State University’s goals is to engage in pioneering research. By supporting World Community Grid, our campus contributes to an innovation that benefits all humanity. World Community Grid is installed on hundreds of computers on campus, including all 400 desktops housed in Georgia State University Library.

Through grid computing, these computers’ resources are used to process data when they would otherwise be idle. According to World Community Grid’s “How It Works” document [PDF] most computers only use 10-15% of their power: “The grid connects a global community of computers together to solve massive computational problems, performing hundreds of experiments simultaneously.”

This global humanitarian effort supports research by reducing computation time. World Community Grid’s “Technology Solving Problems” document [PDF] cites Professor Arthur Olson from the Department of Molecular Biology at The Scripps Research Institute:

World Community Grid has enabled my lab at Scripps to engage in critical computational research to design new anti-HIV drugs based on molecular structure. This is work that we would not have attempted in the absence of this powerful public computing grid. World Community Grid has allowed us to complete very complex research studies in six months that would have taken five years.

An independent advisory board of philanthropists, scientists and officials decides which research projects can access the tremendous computing power of World Community Grid. If you think your research may benefit from grid computing, consider submitting a proposal.

Along with Professor Olson’s HIV research, Georgia State University’s involvement also supports research in the following areas:

• Genome comparisons for drug development
• Cancer treatment
• Finding an alternative form of clean energy
• Fighting diseases such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, Dengue fever, influenza and muscular dystrophy.
• Finding a more nutritious rice grain
• Confronting the adverse effects of climate
• And much more

The Georgia State University team is already in the top 500 ranked teams for run times and results. We’re currently averaging 17+ days of computing for every calendar day we participate.

Interested in joining the team? Anyone can take part by registering with World Community Grid and installing their free software agent onto their computer. When you register, choose “Georgia State University” for your team!

BTW, did you know that the GSU University Library has a highly-praised LGBTQIQA Studies online guide, highlighting the various LGBTQIQA resources at the library, in the Atlanta community, and beyond?  And, be sure to check out the “Films & TV” tab:

• Over 100 feature films spanning the silent to contemporary eras – explore the evolution of the representation of LGBTQIQA people throughout cinematic history.

• Television series featuring LGBTQIQA characters, including My So-Called Life, Ellen, Will & Grace, Queer as Folk, The L Word, Noah’s Arc, Modern Family, and Glee.

• Over 50 documentary films on DVD and online via the Films on Demand database, such as Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community, Paris is Burning, The Celluloid Closet, and much more!

GSU Anthropology Professor Christopher Morehart at site of human sacrifice in Mexico

Morehart, C. T., Peñaloza, A., Sánchez, C., de Tapia, E., & Morales, E. (2012). Human sacrifice during the Epiclassic Period in the northern basin of Mexico. Latin American Antiquity, 23(4), 426-448.

“This article examines changes in ritual practices during the Epiclassic period in central Mexico. It presents data recovered from recent excavations of a shrine discovered in Lake Xaltocan in the northern Basin of Mexico. Pottery and AMS dates place the construction and use of the shrine in the Epiclassic period. The shrine was first built during or soon after the collapse of the Teotihuacan state. With the decline of Teotihuacan and the emergence of competing centers, ritual practitioners began human sacrifice: the remains of over 30 individuals were documented, including 13 complete severed crania. This practice suggests conflict as the political landscape became decentralized. Despite how broader processes may have affected behavior, the shrine, ritual practice was fundamentally local. We present archaeobotanical evidence of offerings of food, incense, and flowers that elucidates the microlevel nature of ritual at the shrine” (Morehart et al., 2012, p. 426).

We have the print version the journal issue in which this article appears in the Current Periodicals on Library North 1st floor.  For previous print and online issues, see here.

"Hepcat" by Laurie Pink | CC-BY-NC-SA

Great news for all you hep cats! The Library recently picked up a subscription to Naxos Music Library Jazz.

This streaming audio database provides the Georgia State community with access to thousands of jazz recordings from famous jazz labels, such as Blue Note, and artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, and more!

If jazz isn’t your bag, we still have you covered. Be sure to check out our streaming classical music databases, Naxos Music Library and Classical Music Library.

Wingfield, A. H. (2013). No more invisible man: Race and gender in men’s work. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

“No More Invisible Man chronicles these men’s experiences as a tokenized minority in the workplace to show how issues of power and inequality exist—especially as they relate to promotion, mobility, and developing occupational networks. Wingfield’s intersectional analysis deftly charts the ways that gender, race, and class collectively shape black professional men’s work experiences.  In its examination of men’s interactions with women and other men, as well as men’s performances of masculinity and their emotional demeanors in these jobs, No More Invisible Man extends our understanding of racial- and gender-based dynamics in professional work” (Temple University Press, 2013, para. 3).

Reference:

Temple University Press. (2013). No more invisible man [publisher's description]. Retrieved from http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2249_reg.html

Dr. Block is a professor of geography at Chicago State University and is the director of the Fred Blum Neighborhood Assistance Center.  His research interests include inner-city food access issues.  A selection of Dr. Block’s publications can be accessed through the University Library:

• Daniel, R. B. (2010). Taking food and agriculture studies to the streets: Community engagement, working across disciplines, and community change. Agriculture and Human Values, 27(4), 519-524.

• Daniel, R. B. (2009). Public health, cooperatives, local regulation, and the development of modern milk policy: The Chicago milkshed, 1900-1940. Journal of Historical Geography, 35(1), 128-153.

• Daniel, R. B., Thompson, M., Euken, J., Liquori, T., Fear, F., & Baldwin, S. (2008). Engagement for transformation: Value webs for local food system development. Agriculture and Human Values, 25(3), 379-388.

Dr. Block’s talk is sponsored by Gamma Theta Upsilon, the Department of Geosciences, Geosciences Club, the Community-Soil-Air-Water Initiative, the Honors College, the Office of Civic Engagement, and the Institute of Public Health.

Dr. Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. will be giving a presentation titled “God’s Palace of Art: The Vatican Museums and the Christian Justification for Greek Art and Museums” on Sunday, February 17, at noon at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation, 2500 Clairmont Rd, NE in Atlanta. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Dr. Ruprecht is the new director of Georgia State University’s Center for Hellenic Studies and the William M. Suttles Professor of Religious Studies.

Selected publications by Dr. Ruprecht available through the University Library include:

Ruprecht, Louis A. Winckelmann and the Vatican’s First Profane Museum. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Ruprecht, Louis A. “Winckelmann and Casanova in Rome: A Case Study of Religion and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome.” Journal of Religious Ethics, 38.2 (2010): 297-320.

Ruprecht, Louis A. Was Greek Thought Religious?: On the Use and Abuse of Hellenism, from Rome to Romanticism. New York : Palgrave, 2002.

Ruprecht, Louis A. Symposia: Plato, the Erotic, and Moral Value. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.

Ruprecht, Louis A. Afterwords: Hellenism, Modernism, and the Myth of Decadence.  State University of New York Press, 1996.

GSU Emeritus Sociology Professor Eugen Schoenfeld

Dr. Eugen Schoenfeld – GSU Emeritus Professor and Chair of the GSU Sociology Department – will be speaking February 22, 11:30am-1:00pm, in the Student Center Speakers Auditorium.  His talk, entitled “Why We Should Remember…Reflecting on My Holocaust Experiences,” is followed by a reception in the Student Center Sinclair Suite.

His books, available at the University Library, explore his Holocaust experience:

• Schoenfeld, E. (2005). My reconstructed life. Kennesaw, GA: Kennesaw State University Press.
• Schoenfeld, E. (2011). Faith and conflict: Reflections on Christian faiths’ impact on the rise of the Holocaust. [S.l.]: Eugen Schoenfeld.

Also check out his related research, employing a sociology of religion analytical perspective:

• Schoenfeld, E. (1992). Militant and submissive religions: Class, religion and ideology. British Journal Of Sociology, 43(1), 111-140.
• Schoenfeld, E., & Mestrovic, S. G. (1991). With justice and mercy: Instrumental-masculine and expressive-feminine elements in religion. Journal For The Scientific Study Of Religion, 30(4), 363.
• Schoenfeld, E. (1989). Justice: An illusive concept in Christianity. Review Of Religious Research, 30(3), 236.
• Schoenfeld, E. (1987). Images of God and man: An exploratory study. Review Of Religious Research, 28(3), 224-235.
• Schoenfeld, E. (1985). Religion and loyalty to the political elite: The case of the Presidency. Review Of Religious Research, 27(2), 178-188.
• Schoenfeld, E. (1978). Image of man: The effect of religion on trust. Review Of Religious Research, 20(1), 61-67.
• Schoenfeld, E. (1968). Jewish identity and voting patterns among small-town Jews. Sociological Quarterly, 9(2), 170-185.

Carter G. Woodson, circa 1895
Public domain mage from Wikimedia Commons

The Georgia State University Library has many resources available on African-American history, and new resources arrive all the time. New resources in African-American history include:

Books

• Barbara Ransby, Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson (2013)
• Taylor Branch, King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement (2013)
• Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (2013)
• Cheryl Mullenbach, Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II (2013)
• Dea H. Boster, African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property, and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860 (2013)



• Molefi Kete Asante, The African American People: A Global History (2012)
• Benjamin Houston, The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City (2012)
• David S. Cecelski, The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway & the Slaves’ Civil War (2012)
• War! What Is It Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq (2012)

Reference

• Lean’tin Bracks, African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage and Excellence (2012; electronic resource)

Video

• Slavery by Another Name (2012; about the Civil Rights Movement)
• King: A Filmed Record—Montgomery to Memphis (2012)
• Thurgood (2012)

Image courtesy of lscareers on Flickr. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

In the United States, the proportion of black professionals in science and engineering occupations is “substantially lower” than their representation in the workforce as a whole¹, even though a “relatively high” proportion of black students enter college intending to major in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields². Many researchers have worked to pinpoint why this disparity exists and how to fix it. Interested in learning about the issues facing black scientists and STEM majors, or looking at successful black scientists throughout history? The Georgia State University Library has many resources of note, from accounts from black scientists to scholarly articles to encyclopedias. Check out a selection of our resources below, along with some links to organizations for black scientists.

Organizations:

• GSU Minority Premedical/Predental Association
• National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers
• National Society of Black Physicists
• Newtork of Minority Health Research Investigators
• NIH Black Scientists Association

Books:

Barber, J. T. (2006). The black digital elite: African American leaders of the information revolution. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

Bedini, S. A. (1999). The life of Benjamin Banneker: The first African-American man of science (2nd ed., rev. and expanded.). Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society.

Carey, C. W. (2008). African Americans in science: An encyclopedia of people and progress. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO.

Jordan, D. (2006). Sisters in science: Conversations with black women scientists about race, gender, and their passion for science. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press.

Subject: African American scientists in GIL-Find

Articles:

Blair, J. (2012). Where are all the black women in science?. New Scientist, 215(2883), 50.

Holbrook, J., Oluseyi, H., & Williams-Livingston, A. (2012). Total solar eclipse coverage in Africa: Boundary maintenance and the control of ‘image’ within the African-American scientific community. Critical Arts: A South-North Journal Of Cultural & Media Studies, 26(5), 762-787. doi:10.1080/02560046.2012.744731

Lewis, J. N. (2009). Rethinking trends in minority participation in the sciences. Science Education, 93(6), 961-977.

Wyatt, G. E., Williams, J. K., & Henderson, T. (2009). On the outside looking in: Promoting HIV/AIDS research initiated by African American investigators. American Journal Of Public Health, 99, S48-S53.

(1) National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics. (2011). Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering: 2011. Arlington, VA.
(2) Maton, K.I. & Hrabowski, F.A. (2004). Increasing the number of African American PhDs in the sciences and engineering: A stregths-based approach. American Psychologist, 59(6), 547-556.

Georgia State University librarian Brenna Helmstutler is pleased to offer a series of workshops for faculty on the topic of promotion & tenure tools.    To register, please select the relevant workshop below:

Arts & Humanities, February 26

Sciences, February 27

Social Sciences, February 28

All workshops will be held from 3:00-4:00 p.m. in Classroom 1, which is on the 1st floor of Library North.

Using the tools available within the library’s subscription databases, resources, and free software applications can yield the following benefits for faculty:

• More substantial evidence of scholarly impact than mere citation counts, which offers a stronger promotion & tenure narrative statement in these times of competitive criteria.
• The tools are user-friendly; most are accessible 24/7 online.  These are all available on Helmstutler’s Promotion & Tenure Tools Research Guide.
• Subject librarians for each department are trained and available to assist in using the tools.
• This emerging service addresses the library’s overall mission to support Georgia State University faculty research and more specifically, one of its strategic initiatives: to use new, emerging, and established technologies to support the research, teaching, and learning of faculty and students.

In the editorial, the authors detail five aspects of the new journal that they feel make it unique, summarized here:

1. All articles are free and open to the public
2. Each article has a detailed description of methods used
3. Authors make available all data that underlie the analyses
4. Abstract and Method sections are presented in both plain English and in more technical language
5. Peer review comments and responses are also published for each article

One of the biggest motivators behind the decision to launch Archives of Scientific Psychology was the desire to have more (and wider) impact.  The editors write, “Clearly, research that is free and open to the public via the Internet has an increased probability of finding its way into discussions of policy and practice. This is a circumstance that should be taken advantage of.”

NASA artist's conception of the New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto and Charon

Pluto may no longer be a planet, but it’s still great at engendering public interest in astronomy. On February 11, the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute called on the Internet to vote on the official names of Pluto’s two smallest moons at plutorocks.seti.org. Astronomers at SETI discovered the two moons, currently referred to as “P4″ and “P5″, in 2011 and 2012; each moon has an estimated diameter of less than 15-20 miles.

Voters can choose from a list of twelve names for the moons: Acheron, Alecto, Cerberus, Erebus, Eurydice, Hercules, Hypnos, Lethe, Obol, Orpheus, Persephone, and Styx. All potential names were chosen from Greek and Roman mythology for their connection to Pluto, Roman god of the Underworld; they will match the names of Pluto’s other three moons, Charon, Nix, and Hydra. (The names Nix and Hydra were also chosen for their initials, NH. These initials are shared with the NASA spacecraft New Horizons, which will reach Pluto by July 2015.)

To vote and learn more about SETI’s initiative, visit these links:

Pluto Rocks: Vote once a day until February 25th.
Dramatis Personae: Read about SETI’s rationale for each potential name.
Astronomers Ask Public to Help Name Pluto’s New Moons: Read SETI’s press announcement.

For more on Pluto and its moons, check out these library resources:

BBC Worldwide Ltd. Bye-bye, planet Pluto. New York, N.Y.: Films Media Group. [online video]

Jones, B. W. (2010). Pluto: Sentinel of the outer solar system. New York: Cambridge University Press. [e-book]

Rauscher, E. A., & Amoroso, R. L. (2011). Orbiting the moons of Pluto: Complex solutions to the Einstein, Maxwell, Schrödinger and Dirac equations. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific.

Weintraub, D. A. 1. (2007). Is Pluto a planet?: A historical journey through the solar system. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Or stop by our reference collection to learn more about the twelve candidates:

Dixon-Kennedy, M. (1998). Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman mythology. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO.

• Monday, February 18, from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm in Classroom 1 on the 1^st floor of Library North

• Thursday, March 7, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm in Classroom 1 on the 1^st floor of Library North

• Wednesday, March 13, from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm in Classroom 1 on the 1^st floor of Library North

These workshops are open to all students, faculty, and staff from all disciplines.  In these workshops you’ll learn about resources such as Social Explorer, SimplyMap, Community Analyst, and Business Analyst, which enable you to easily create web-based maps and reports by utilizing their large current and historical datasets.

For more information about these workshops, contact Joe Hurley.

Business Analyst Neighborhood Selection Tool

Population Comparison in Business Analyst

Income Comparison in Business Analyst

PubMed

Because of the importance of this resource, our librarians for health and the sciences are presenting workshops on PubMed several times each fall and spring semesters.  This semester we’ll be hosting five workshops.  Anyone is welcome to attend these sessions.

Workshops will be held:

• Monday, February 18, 3:30 – 4:30 pm
• Tuesday, February 19, 8:30 – 9:30 am
• Wednesday, February 20, 11:00 – 12 pm
• Thursday, February 21, noon – 1:00 pm
• Friday, February 22, 1:00 – 2:00 pm

From the basics to advanced research, we’ll address anything you need.  All workshops will be held in Classroom 2, on the 2nd floor of Library North.

The library is where students and faculty study, collaborate, research, write and learn. With your needs in mind, we’re beginning to centralize our library services at one desk on the first floor of Library North. This will begin with:

• In-depth research consultations with an expert librarian every Sunday from 2–6 pm at the main desk on Library North’s first floor.

In order to make the most of your time using the library, we also offer:

• Research essentials workshops every Friday at noon in Classroom 2 on the second floor of Library North. Topics covered include academic honesty and discovering articles, books and more.

Later this year all library services from book and media checkout to research support will be found at the main desk on the first floor of Library North. Further changes to come include a print kiosk and a technology support area.

It’s easy to use and free. For more information about Zotero, see our Zotero guide or the Zotero home page.

Monday, February 11, 2013: Classroom 1 (next to Saxby’s coffee shop), Library North, 10-11am.

Feel free to bring your own laptop (system requirements: Firefox, Chrome or Safari web browser, any operating system) or use our classroom computers.

Registration encouraged but walk-ins welcome. Sign up on the web or e-mail Jason Puckett at jpuckett@gsu.edu.

Photo CC Licensed by HelpAge

This abuse can be psychological or physical, and can severely damage the quality and length of an individual’s final years. If you are interested in researching how to prevent or recognize elder abuse for a research paper, your career, or a loved one, the University Library can help. Search our catalog, GILFind, use our Discover Search, or use this brief list to get started.

• Elder Abuse Prevention: Emerging Trends and Promising Strategies
  by Lisa Nerenberg, 2008. (Scholarly book)
• Elder Abuse Detection and Prevention: A Collaborative Approach
  by Bonnie Brandl, 2007. (Scholarly book)
• “Evidence-based Practice Guideline: Elder Abuse Prevention“
  by Jeanette M. Daly, 2011. (Scholarly journal article)
• “Risk Factors Associated with Elder Abuse: The Importance of Differentiating by Type of Elder Maltreatment“
  by Shelly L. Jackson and Thomas L. Hafemeister, 2011. (Scholarly journal article)
• Saving Our Parents
  by Jeff Macintyre and Edward Asner, 2008. (Documentary video)

Coverage:

• Inside Higher Ed: Library supporters worry U.S. may back publishers in copyright case
• Techdirt: Obama Administration Considers Joining Publishers In Fight To Stamp Out Fair Use At Universities
• Publishers Weekly: U.S. Attorneys May Weigh in On GSU E-Reserves Case

Additionally, the Plaintiff-Appellants filed their appeal brief.

Coverage:

• Chronicle of Higher Education: Publishers and Library Groups Spar in Appeal to Ruling on Electronic Course Reserves

Population spot map of the Atlanta area (1945) from the Planning Atlanta: A New City in the Making Collection

Join Atlanta scholars for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium. This day-long symposium will be held on April 26, 2013 in Emory University’s Robert W. Woodruff Library.  Emory University’s Digital Scholarship Commons is now accepting proposals for presentations at the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium.

Katherine Hankins, Associate Professor of Geosciences at Georgia State University, and Zephyr Frank, Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Director of Stanford’s Spatial History Project, will each deliver a keynote address.

The symposium seeks to convene an interdisciplinary meeting of scholars and community activists concerned with issues related to Atlanta. We are also eager to highlight the the wealth of resources available at area libraries and museums and to enhance connections between scholars, institutions, and libraries.

Some potential themes for presentation topics include (but are not limited to):

• Population and Place
• Metropolitan Ecologies
• Transportation
• Education

Proposals for papers, talks, or round-table discussions should be no more than 400 words. Proposals on any aspect of Atlanta are welcome, but priority will be given to papers that relate in some way to the themes listed above. Preference will also be given to proposals for fully constituted panels. Cover letters for panels should indicate the theme and identify the panel’s participants. We are eager to make this event as engaging as possible and encourage presentations that represent work-in-progress that would benefit from open conversation. Please include audio-video requirements in your proposal.

Please send proposal via email to disc@emory.edu by 5pm on February 15. Contact Stewart Varner (stewart.varner@emory.edu) with any questions.

This event is free and open to the public.

To discover the many Atlanta studies resources that are available at the Georgia State University Library as well as other libraries and archives across Atlanta, take a look at the Georgia State University Library’s Metropolitan Atlanta Research Guide.

Image courtesy of Nic McPhee on Flickr. (CC BY -SA 2.0)

Planning on submitting a grant to the National Science Foundation (NSF) now or in the future? Make sure to familiarize yourself with the NSF’s new rules for grant proposals, effective January 14. The Chronicle of Higher Education concisely reviews the changes in Karen M. Markin’s column “Don’t Underestimate NSF’s New Grant-Submission Rules.” The changes apply to four aspects of the process: the project summary; the biosketch; reporting of facilities, equipment, and other resources; and the review criteria. None of the changes are major, but correctly completing the application process could make the difference between a successful grant and one that’s rejected off the bat. To see the updated application process for yourself, check out the NSF’s Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide.

For further help writing and submitting grants, University Research Services and Administration (URSA) offers resources on proposal development and submissions, internal and external funding opportunities, and research workshops. Or look at some of these library resources:

Gerin, W., Kapelewski, C. H., Itinger, J., & Spruill, T. M. (2011). Writing the NIH grant proposal: A step-by-step guide (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE.

Hofmann, A. H. (2010). Scientific writing and communication: Papers, proposals, and presentations. New York: Oxford University Press.

Li, P., Marrongelle, K. (2013). Having success with NSF: A practical guide. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Blackwell.

Peachtree Arcade (Peachtree St. at Wall St.), 1957

In 1917, at the beginning of U.S. involvement in World War I, the Georgia School of Technology’s Evening School of Commerce (now Georgia State University) moved into two rooms at the newly constructed Peachtree Arcade near Atlanta’s Five Points.  The commerce college coexisted with arcade merchants until 1921 when student enrollment grew to 364 and the college needed more space (Reed, p. 7).

Robert Rosser Johnson

In the pantheon of distinguished GSU luminaries, the names of George Sparks (first president and recipient of the “Shining Light” award) and Wayne Kell (founder and first director) glow brightly. But there are other leaders and benefactors, now unfortunately forgotten, who were critical to the institution’s survival and growth. Robert Rosser Johnson is one of these.

The new Evening School of Commerce, as GSU was then known, relocated to the downtown Atlanta business district in 1914. Enrollment grew rapidly, requiring the school to move frequently.  Rooms were rented in the following locations, with classes and school administration often sharing the same room:

• Walton Building (1914-1916)
• Peachtree Arcade (1917-1921)
• Murphy Building (1921-1926)
• 106 Forsyth Street NW (1926-1931)

The rooms at Forsyth Street were “dingy,” “overcrowded, ‘unsanitary,’ and a serious fire hazard.”¹ As director Sparks searched for a new building, he found welcome support from Johnson, an Atlanta coal company executive. In spring 1930 the two men found a solidly constructed building at 223 Walton Street which, when renovated, could provide nineteen rooms for the growing student population. The student newspaper noted, “In addition to fourteen fine classrooms, four sanitary and modernly equipped rest rooms, study halls, reception rooms, the building is to house a modern coffee shop and a roof garden on top for recreation purposes….”²

Johnson became chief fundraiser as building committee chair. His task included raising $17,500 for the mortgage and an estimated $10,000 in services and building materials for renovation. It was not easy that hot summer, as the Depression took hold, but Johnson continued, month after month, serving also as unofficial purchasing agent and bursar.

When the completed building was dedicated in May 1931, Johnson had

• raised $33,528 in pledges and in-kind donations for the building fund;
• personally pledged $10,000 (by far the largest pledge of any donor);
• signed a note for $8,500 to cover unpaid invoices.

Nearly 700 students were enrolled in the fall, the largest number ever.

The Evening School, which rented classroom space in four locations over seven years, now had its own building. Sparks commented gratefully: “Homes throughout the land will be blessed because Robert Johnson and his loyal friends wrought well for those less fortunate—but who are now to have an attractive school home for modern business training.”³

Five years later—in 1936—Johnson paid off the remaining $14,000 indebtedness on the building. His personal contributions (in money, services, and kind) to the $80,000 building were estimated to be $40,000.

The next year, on December 10, 1937, Johnson died after a brief illness. He was 53 years old. Grieving students, now more than 1,100 strong, respectfully dedicated their 1938 Nocturne yearbook to Robert Rosser Johnson, “Friend and Benefactor of the Evening College.”

223 Walton Street NW (renovated)

¹ Reed, Educating the Urban New South, pp. 19-20
² Technite, vol. 1, no. 2, October 20, 1930, p. 1.
³ Technite, vol. 1, no. 5, January 20, 1931, p. 3.

Archives and Library Sources Used:

1. Merl E. Reed.  Educating the Urban New South: Atlanta and the Rise of Georgia State University, 1913-1969.
2. University Archives website, “Timeline,” Georgia State University Archives.
3. Bertram Holland Flanders.  A New Frontier in Education:  The Story of the Atlanta Division, University of Georgia.
4. Nocturne (yearbook), 1938.  Georgia State University Archives.
5. Lane Brothers Photographs, “223 Walton St.,” [ca. 1938]; and Georgia State University Photographs, “Walton Street” and “Robert Johnson.”  Digital Collections, Special Collections and Archives Dept., Georgia State University Library.
6. The Atlanta Constitution, May 7, 1931; October 18, 1936; December 11, 1937.  ProQuest Historical Newspapers:  The Atlanta Constitution, 1868-1945.
7. Technite (student newspaper), October 20,1930; December 15, 1930; January 20, 1931.  Georgia State University Archives.