Browsing SUNY Plattsburgh by Author "Beatty, Joshua F."
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Developing Scientific Womanpower: Gender and the Cold War-Era Science Fair
(2014-05-24)This paper examines the intersection of gender and science in the U.S. during the Cold War by looking at girls' participation in science fairs. Official rhetoric encouraged both boys and girls to develop their skills in ... -
Digital Commons as a Tool for Outreach
(2013)This presentation describes SUNY Plattsburgh’s use of Digital Commons to increase outreach to faculty and students. I explain the origins of this approach, discuss how librarians work with faculty to co-administer series, ... -
Digital Publishing at Feinberg Library: The Institutional Repository as Outreach Initiative
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The Foundations of Naval Science: Alfred Thayer Mahan’s The Influence of Sea Power on History and the Library of Congress Classification System
(Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2017)This article is a history of the creation of the Naval Science class within the Library of Congress Classification System (LCCS) during that system’s fashioning and development at the turn of the 20th century. Previous ... -
The "French Traveller," Patrick Henry, and the Contagion of Liberty
(2011-03-26)In 1921 the American Historical Review published the journal of a "French traveller" describing his trip to Britain's North American colonies in 1765. From the West Indies, the traveler sailed north to the North Carolina ... -
Locating Information Literacy within Institutional Oppression
(In the Library with the Lead Pipe, 2013-09-24)The ACRL's draft Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education represents a chance to undo the neoliberal assumptions of earlier information literacy standards. Despite some positive changes, the language of the ... -
Reading Freire for First World Librarians
(2015-06-02)Librarians in the nascent critical information literacy movement have embraced the dialogical, problem-posing educational model that Paulo Freire described in Pedagogy of the Oppressed. But less well known are Freire's ... -
Zotero: A Tool for Constructionist Learning in Critical Information Literacy
(Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook, 2016)The chapter describes a method for teaching Zotero, a bibliographic management program, to undergraduates over the course of a one-shot library instruction session. The session is intended to help students take control of ...
