By Merrill Stein

We are excited to announce the addition of Washington Post Historical to our databases. The archive, from the ProQuest organization, offers full-text searching of every available issue of the Washington Post and Washington Post/Times-Herald, from 1877 to 1996 with digital page and image reproductions. The historical coverage will expand annually, by one year. To seek recent Washington Post articles, see Lexis Nexis Academic coverage (1977 – Present).

How did it begin? The name stuck. The first issue contained this letter:
“To the Editor of the Post: I am heart and soul in sympathy with your enterprise, but I am sorry that I did not see you in time, to induce you to call your paper the Washington Statesman. However, the name that you have selected is good enough for me.”

Try your own search. See if history repeats itself. The first issue included an editorial from “Mr. Hayes recent message to Congress,” in which he comments on the eight year insurrection in Cuba and calls for the United States to do something besides abstain from intervention. Or see if this Italian stargazer’s New Year’s predictions for 1960 came true.

The Washington Post Historical archive joins the previously subscribed to Historical New York Times, providing full-text coverage of the New York Times from 1851 to the early 2000’s.

As an added bonus, both databases may be searched together:

1. Click on the yellow arrow at the top left corner of the search screen in either newspaper archive:

2. Select both archives in the drop-down database menu and click on Use selected databases at the bottom right after making your selection.

Questions or comments? Contact us directly (merrill.stein@villanova.edu; jutta.seibert@villanova.edu) or post your comments online.

Public Criminology from The Society Pages
Sociological Criminology from Chris Uggen, Michelle Inderbitzin, and Sara Wakefield.

Prison Culture
Prison Culture is an attempt to document how the current prison industrial complex operates and to underscore the ways that it structures American society.

Grits for Breakfast
The private weblog and nom de plume of Scott Henson, a former journalist turned opposition researcher/political consultant, public policy researcher and blogger. Grits for Breakfast looks at the Texas criminal justice system, with a little politics and whatever else suits the author’s fancy thrown in.

Crime & Consequences
Topics include: Criminal and crime-related civil cases before the U.S. Supreme Court; Significant decisions in the field by other courts; Studies with public policy implications related to crime and criminal justice; Links to and discussion of news items and blogs related to criminal law. We approach criminal law issues from the perspective of victims of crime and the law-abiding public.

Action Committee for Women in Prison
Our mission is to advocate for the humane and compassionate treatment of all incarcerated women everywhere. We work for the release of all women who are unjustly imprisoned, and strive to reduce the over reliance on incarceration. We work to bring fairness and equity into the criminal justice system and to shift the focus to treatment and restorative justice.

Juvenile Justice Blog
Tamar Rebecca Birckhead is an associate professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill… Her research interests focus on issues related to juvenile justice policy and reform, criminal law and procedure, indigent criminal defense, and the criminalization of poverty.

Innocence Blog from the Innocence Project
The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal clinic affiliated with the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University and created by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld in 1992. The project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.

Prison Photography
The Image / Incarceration / Representation / Media / Social Justice / Responsible Photography

Just Policy Blog
Justice Policy Institute is a national nonprofit organization that changes the conversation around justice reform and advances policies that promote well-being and justice for all people and communities. Our research and analyses identify effective programs and policies and we disseminate our findings to the media, policymakers and advocates, and provide training and technical assistance supports to people working for justice reform.

Catholica

American Catholic Historical Society

Elizabeth Sarah Kite Collection (39+ letters/postcards added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:246243]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Dobrodružný svět (2 issues, Czech)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:284419]

El Pirata Negro (1 issue, Spanish)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:284157]

Fame and Fortune Weekly : Stories of Boys that Make Money (2 issues)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:285265]

The Liberty Boys and Paul Jones; or, the Martyrs of the Prison-Ships / by Harry Moore. From:
The Liberty Boys of “76″ : a weekly magazine containing stories of the American Revolution.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:284927]

Captain Ebony; or, bound by the golden fetters.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:283888]

Old Broadbrim into the heart of Australia; or, A strange bargain and its consequences.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:285370]

Non-Fiction

Kellar’s Wizard’s Manual : a practical treatise on ventriloquism and hypnotism
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:284182]

Periodicals

Penny illustrated paper and illustrated times (2 issues)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:285291]

Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner (1 issue)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:285236]

Scholarship

Edward T. LeBlanc, August 1982 Oral History Audio Interviews (3 cassettes)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:283767]

Villanova Digital Collection

Graduate Theses

1942 (Complete: 42 theses added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:283134]

1943 (Complete: 53 theses added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:284896]

The Brighton Boys series is something that may be a bit hard for the modern reader to imagine: books for young boys glorifying the act of going to war, written during an ongoing conflict. Using the same basic hardcover series format as Tom Swift or the Bobbsey Twins, these books provide juvenile adventures in various World War I contexts. Unlike many similar series, though, the Brighton Boys books do not follow the same heroes from title to title; instead, each adventure features different students from the fictional Brighton Academy. Given the subject matter, there is a rather grim reason for this atypical format!

While the overall series concept is itself a bit shocking, The Brighton Boys in the Trenches goes a step further by dealing with what is probably the dirtiest and most horrific aspect of a dirty and horrific subject: trench warfare. The plot is simple enough: after encountering a boastful German, Herbert Whitcomb, a 17-year-old orphan with an eye for shooting, leaves school to enlist along with his Irish sidekick Roy Flynn. Before long, they are engaged in combat in France, facing gas attacks, trench foot and other dangers!

As a work of fiction, the book leaves much to be desired. Its main characters are two-dimensional at best, and the prose is littered with long, awkward, nearly-unreadable sentences. The author’s most ambitious attempt at achieving literary merit appears to be having one of his characters name a gun after a Dickens character. The plot is thin, just a series of action-filled incidents loosely strung together. However, despite its flaws, the book is quite interesting as a piece of social history.

The early portions of the book, set in America, have a decidedly paranoid tone. Germans and their agents are actively trying to turn the public against the war, and the book makes it very clear that acts of physical violence are perfectly acceptable to counter such dangerous speech. Once the action switches overseas, the book’s role as propaganda remains fairly clear. The Germans are generally referred to in dehumanizing terms, and while the conflict is unquestionably portrayed as dangerous, the text is designed to frequently imply American superiority and inevitable victory.

The book’s role as propaganda is not particularly surprising; more startling are its occasional deviations from predictability. There is a heroic depiction of an implicitly homosexual — or at least feminized — character (“He possessed a manner that some would have termed ‘sissy’”). There are occasional philosophical tangents about the madness of war (“In times of peace we regard the murder of one person as something over which to get up a vast deal of excitement and much indignation, but in warfare we plan for the killing of thousands as a business matter and read of it often with actual elation.”) and the pitfalls of stereotyping the enemy (“It is all wrong, unfair and a little small to consider all the people in any land unworthy; don’t you think so?”). And while the book at one point suggests that it is best “to draw the mantle of delicacy over those details of horror that follow a close conflict” it still offers some surprisingly disturbing details, as in this passage:

“They’re both gone! Wiped out! Shell! It hit right at Bill Neely’s feet! I couldn’t see anything but legs and arms and things.”

“Killed?”

“Done for.”

“Poor chaps! The only two boys in the family, too. Their poor old mother’ll miss them.”

“Know them, Pyle?”

“Sure; since we were kids. Just across the street.”

That about sums up the book: a strange mix of series fiction shallowness and gritty realism, an uncomfortable compromise between propaganda and protest, and a rather unengaging read that is nonetheless fascinating throughout.

If you are interested in experiencing the whole thing for yourself, you can read it online or download it in many popular eBook formats at Project Gutenberg.

College Teaching
Publishes peer-reviewed articles on how instructors across all academic disciplines can improve student learning. Each issue includes practical ideas and new strategies for successful teaching. Topics may range from research on teaching methods, educational technologies, classroom management, and assessment and grading, to faculty development, course design, and interdisciplinary teaching.

• Do Bosses Give Extra Credit? Using the Classroom to Model Real-World Work Experiences by Kristie L. Campana & Jamie J. Peterson, March 2013.
• The Use and Abuse of Cell Phones and Text Messaging in the Classroom: A Survey of College Students by Deborah R. Tindell & Robert W. Bohlander, December 2011.

Communication Education
Our mission at Communication Education is to publish rigorous, social science research related to these two focus areas: instructional communication and communication education.

• The teacher‐student relationship as an interpersonal relationship by Ann Bainbridge Frymier & Marian L. Houser, May 2009.
• Raising the Question # 9 Is the Student-Athlete Population Unique? And Why Should We Care? by J. Christopher Jolly, December 2007.

Journalism & Mass Communication Educator
A peer-reviewed, quarterly journal that addresses the professional needs of the journalism and mass communication educator and administrator on both secondary and collegiate levels.

• Protecting the “Impressionable Minds” from the “Impressionable Minds”: The Third-Person Effect and Student Speech, by Adam Marks and Brian Schraum, December 2012.
• Missing Citations, Bulking Biographies, and Unethical Collaboration: Types of Cheating among Public Relations Majors, by Giselle A. Auger, June 2013.

Teaching of Psychology
This indispensable journal offers creative and hands-on articles that help you use a variety of resources (for example, technology as a teaching tool) to enhance student learning.

• Promoting Knowledge Transfer with Electronic Note Taking, Andrew D. Katayama, R. Neal Shambaugh, Tasneem Doctor, April 2005.
• Ideal Teacher Behaviors: Student Motivation and Self-Efficacy Predict Preferences by Meera Komarraju, February 2013.

Teaching Sociology
From the American Sociological Association, Teaching Sociology publishes articles, notes, and reviews intended to be helpful to the discipline’s teachers. Articles range from experimental studies of teaching and learning to broad, synthetic essays on pedagogically important issues.

• A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Applying Image-based Learning to Course Design, by Cameron T. Whitley, April 2013.
• Picture My Gender(s): Using Interactive Media to Engage Students in Theories of Gender Construction, by Carey Sargent and Sarah M. Corse, March 2013.

Journal of Teacher Education
Provides a vital forum for considering practice, policy, and research in teacher education. It examines some of the most timely and important topics in the field.

• What Makes Good Teachers Good? A Cross-Case Analysis of the Connection Between Teacher Effectiveness and Student Achievement, by James H. Stronge, Thomas J. Ward, and Leslie W. Grant, September 2011.
• Preparing Teachers for Culturally Diverse Schools: Research and the Overwhelming Presence of Whiteness, by Christine E. Sleeter, March 2001.

Counselor Education and Supervision
Publishes articles on research, theory development, and program applications with essential information for the preparation and supervision of counselors in various settings.

• Use of Ethnographic Fiction in Social Justice Graduate Counselor Training, by Rita Chi-Ying Chung & Fred Bemak, March 2013.
• A Constructivist Perspective for Integrating Spirituality Into Counselor Training, by Brian M. Shaw, Hannah Bayne, & Sonya Lorelle, December 2012.

Journal of Criminal Justice Education (available 1990-2011)
An official publication of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS). JCJE provides a forum for the examination, discussion and debate of a broad range of issues concerning post-secondary education in criminal justice, criminology and related areas.

• The “Write” Stuff: Simple Techniques: Designed to Teach Students How toAvoid Plagiarism, by Caroline W. Ferree & Heather L. Pfeifer, November 2010.
• Outside the Comfort Zone of the Classroom, by Brian Chad Starks, Lana Harrison, & Kathy Denhardt, June 2011.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

El Pirata Negro (10 issues, Spanish Dime Novel series)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:282731]

Non-Fiction

The amateur’s guide to magic and mystery and the black art : fully exposed.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:282191]

How to entertain a social party : a complete guide to home amusement and entertainment.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:282323]

Periodicals

Golden Argosy (1 issue, 1887)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Record/vudl:283143]

Saturday Night (5 issues)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:283764]

Street and Smith’s New York Weekly (4 issues)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:283181]

The New York Family Story Paper (3 issues)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:277942]

The Boys of New York (1 issue, 1887)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:282635]

Scholarship

Edward T. LeBlanc Bibliography of Story Papers, Dime Novels, and Libraries
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:283769]

900 Series Titles for the Dime Novel Publishing World Resource
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:283777]

A Proposal For A Study of the Civil War In Dime Novels and Story Papers 1861-1923 : presented to the University of Virginia Press / by Lydia Cushman Schurman
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Record/vudl:282809]

Villanova Digital Collection

Theses

1941 (Complete: 39 theses added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:282457]

1942 (Partial: 35 theses added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:283134]

World

Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, v.9
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:54229]

Our first presenter was Dr. Annika Thiem, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy. Annika’s project will investigate the role of New York City as a “shadow-protagonist” in Uwe Johnson’s Jahrestage (Anniversaries) tetralogy (published from 1970-1983), in which the main character Gesine Cresspahl navigates her way around the city while relating her own and her family’s memories. The idea for this project is to create a searchable, interactive map of locations, historical layers, and topics. This project is in its earliest stages, so we do not have a projected launch date, but you can see a screencap of the mockup website below.

The second presenter was Dr. Craig Bailey, an associate professor in the Department of History. Last year, Craig taught a junior research seminar that focused on local history and this year we’ll be bringing that course into the digital realm. Students will have the opportunity to explore the history of Ardmore, PA, through census data, maps, and other archival materials and use their findings to compile an interactive map of the region. We’ll be working with Craig to develop the course so that students will get hands-on experience in Falvey Library’s Special Collections and Digital Library. We’ll be running this course in the fall semester, so stay tuned for more details. For now, you can see a screencap of the website mockup below.

David Uspal, Aurelius’s Digital Humanities Technology Developer, then gave a brief overview of some of the technology he’s been developing to support these two projects, including the interactive map and timeline tools.

I was very excited to see such a great turnout and interest for this event. Stay tuned to hear more as these projects progress and please be in touch if you have your own DH project idea you’d like to collaborate on!

This time around, the subject matter could be viewed as being a bit more ghoulish: taxidermy. How to Stuff Birds and Animals provides instructions on how to preserve a large variety of creatures (including a wide range of mammals, from hedgehogs to dolphins, as well as birds, insects, fish and reptiles). The text is accompanied by some occasionally disturbing illustrations.

If you want to help preserve this vintage book in electronic format, you can join in at the project page. To learn more about the proofreading process, see this earlier post.

This week brings to your readerly attention a large number of Dime Novel and Popular literature titles, including the Lady Monte-Cristo (sequel to the Count of Monte-Cristo) issue of New York Family Story Paper; the issues of the very rare Philadelphia published Clan-na-Gael Journal, and a significant number of pre-WWII theses.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

The New York family story paper (1 issue added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:282145]

The War Library: Original Stories of Adventure in the War for the Union. (9 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:280132]

How to get married, although a woman, or, The art of pleasing men.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:281420]

Original talkalogues / by American jokers.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:281697]

The Liberty Boys and the Traitor; or, How They Handled Him.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:280301]

The Twin Ventriloquists; or, Nimble Ike and Jack the Juggler. A Tale of Strategy and Jugglery.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:281318]

Deadwood Dick Jr. Branded; or, Red Rover at Powder Pocket.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:282127]

Joseph McGarrity Newspaper Collection

The Clan-na-Gael Journal (14 issues, all extant Villanova issues)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:281618]

Villanova Digital Collection

Graduate Theses

1939 (Complete: 26 theses added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:280408]

1940 (Complete: 27 theses added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:281995]

1941 (Partial: 15 theses added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:282457]

Catholic Library Association Collection

Guide to Catholic Literature (v. 1 and 6)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:203546]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature Collection

The War Library (1 issue: Down in Dixie; or, Adventures of a War Correspondent / by Hugh Allen)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:280380]

The Lovers’ Manual : A Love, Courtship and Marriage Guide.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:281072]

The art of kissing : curiously, historically, humorously, poetically considered.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:280182]

Independence Seaport Museum

Series XIX Samuel Comly
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:281307]

Series XX Fanny Crathorne
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:281315]

Villanova Digital Collection

Graduate Theses

1937 (Complete: 24 theses)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:278286]

1938 (Complete: 23 theses)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:280151]

1939 (Partial: 11 theses)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:280408]

World Collection

Le Théatre (11 issues: 1902)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:47598]

The Library will be celebrating the formal inauguration of Aurelius with a launch party scheduled for Tuesday, April 30 at 1:00pm in Room 205 in the second floor Learning Commons of the Library. The event will feature a discussion of the definition of “digital humanities” and how Aurelius will support this emerging trend in scholarly practice, as well as work-in-progress project overviews from Dr. Craig Bailey (History) and Dr. Annika Thiem (Philosophy). Light refreshments will be served. This event is open to the public.

More information about Aurelius can be found on our website.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch!

6th International Conference for Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS)

“Connecting Narrative Worlds”

Istanbul, 6-9 November 2013

Bahçeşehir University

ICIDS is the premier international conference on research and practice covering interactive narrative experiences such as video game narratives, interactive storytelling, interactive drama, and interactive installation art concerned with storytelling. Bringing together researchers, practitioners and theorists presenting cutting-edge works, qualitative and quantitative research, advanced computational narrative techniques and innovative theoretical perspectives, ICIDS serves as the main event for exchanging ideas and perspectives on combining narrative and interactivity for an exciting new form of human expression that redefines the relationship between creators and audiences.

Interactive Digital Storytelling is an exciting area in which narrative, computer science and digital arts converge to create new expressive forms. The combination of narrative and computation has a considerable untapped potential: from artistic projects to journalistic communication, from assistive technologies and intelligent agents to serious games, education and entertainment.

The ICIDS conference series has a long-standing tradition of bringing together theoretical and practical approaches in an interdisciplinary dialogue. The motto for ICIDS 2013 “Connecting Narrative Worlds” expresses this need to build bridges of understanding across different fields to make even better use of the immense potential of interactive narrative. The objective of ICIDS 2013 is to promote understanding and dialogue between A.I. researchers, designers, transmedia and digital artists, narratologists and digital game scholars.

We welcome practical work and theoretical inquiries from fields related to computer science – including (but not limited to) artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, natural language generation and understanding or automated story generation. We invite contributions on the current and future usage scenarios from digital artists, transmedia producers and game designers: original pieces of Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) may be presented, as well as post-mortem discussions of completed projects. Finally, we ask for submissions from the fields of semiotics, narratology, media studies, digital humanities and interactive arts criticism: interested scholars may focus on improved schemas for describing and critiquing Interactive Digital Narratives as well as analyses discussing narrative features across digital media.

We welcome research papers and demonstrations – including interactive narrative art – presenting new scientific results, interactive narrative theory, innovative technologies, case studies, creative insights, best practice showcases, or improvements to existing techniques and approaches in the research field of Interactive Digital Storytelling and its possible applications in other fields, e.g. video games, virtual/online worlds, e-learning, training, and edutainment. We are planning to have a space for art work/demonstrations that will be open (and attended by security) for the duration of the conference. We plan to issue a specific call for artworks closer to the conference.

Suggested research topics for contributions include, but are not limited to:

1) Technological, theoretical, and aesthetic issues in all areas of interactive narrative

2) Interactive Digital Narrative systems, authoring tools and practical/artistic projects

3) Video game narrative

4) User experience reports and evaluations of interactive digital narratives

5) Innovative narrative applications of artificial intelligence

6) Multi-user IDNs: social applications, ubiquitous computing and collaborative environments

7) New frontiers and concrete applications: IDNs and intelligent agents as art pieces, games or tools

Workshops

Workshops are an integral part of ICIDS. A separate call for workshops will be issued at a later date.

Submissions

All submissions must follow the Lecture Notes in Computer Science format, available at:

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Papers must be written in English, and only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered for review.

The submission categories accepted are:

• Full papers (8-12 pages in the proceedings) describing interesting, novel results or completed work in all areas of IDS and its applications.

• Short papers (4-6 pages in the proceedings) presenting exciting preliminary work or novel thought-provoking ideas that are in their early stages.

• Demonstrations and posters (2-4 pages in the proceedings) describing working, presentable systems or brief explanations of a research project.

Submissions that receive high ratings in the peer review process will be selected for publication by the program committee as Springer LNCS conference proceedings. For the final print-ready version, the submission of source files (Microsoft Word/LaTeX, TIF/EPS) and a signed copyright form will be required.

All submissions will be processed using the EasyChair system. Authors are advised to register a new account well in advance of the paper submission deadline:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icids2013

The review process for ICIDS will be double blind. Authors should remove all identifying information from their submissions.

Important Dates

• Deadline: June 14, 2013 Submission deadline for full and short papers, demonstrations and posters proposals. The precise deadline for paper submissions is 11:59PM on June 14, 2013, Hawaii Standard Time. Authors are strongly advised to upload their submissions well in advance of this deadline.

• July 21, 2013 Accept/reject notifications sent to authors.

• August 14, 2013 Camera-ready copy due.

• November 6 – 9, 2013 ICIDS Conference Dates.

This conference is organized by the Games & Narrative research group and hosted by Bahçeşehir University Game Lab (BUG) and organized in collaboration with the Turkish Chapter of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA).

Organizing Committee

General Chairs

Hartmut Koenitz

Tonguc Ibrahim Sezen

Program Chairs

Mads Haahr

Gabriele Ferri

Local Arrangements Chair

Guven Catak

Workshops Chair

Digdem Sezen

More Information

Additional information about the conference can be found online at:

ICIDS conference series:

http://icids.org

Conference home page:

http://gamesandnarrative.net/icids2013/

Questions about the conference should be directed to the organizers via email at:

icids2013@gamesandnarrative.net

Started two weeks ago, here is our regular summary listing of newly available Digital Library content to read, this week sees us many new Dime Novels – many non-English; Newspapers from the early 20th century, and all of the Villanova Theses from 1936 and many from 1937. Read along with:

Dime Novel and Popular Literature Collection

Buffalo Bill (10 Swedish issues)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:279438]

Nat Pinkerton (3 Danish issues)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:280075]

A lad of mettle / by Nat Gould
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:279070]

Army and Navy Weekly (1 issue : v.1 no.1)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:279723]

Leonie, The Typewriter : A Thrilling Romance of Actual Life / by a Celebrated Authoress
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:279366]

Joseph McGarrity Newspaper Collection

The Free state = An saorstát. (4 issues: all extant Villanova content 1922)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:280041]

The Gaelic American (5 new issues: 1 x 1903, 1 X 1905, 3 x 1906)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:266848]

Historical Society of Mongomery County Collection

Ardmore Chronicle (1 issue: 1905)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:279989]

World Collection

Le Théatre (1 issue: 1902)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:263635]

Villanova Digital Collection

Graduate Theses

1936 (Complete: 23 theses)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:180550]

1937 (Partial: 18 theses)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:278286]

Our first selection comes from Cornelia Fletcher’s friendship album (previously written about here), which contains many poems inscribed in the album by friends and family of Cornelia. Most of the poems are transcriptions of poems published elsewhere, but “Cornelia” by A.B. seems to be an original poem. Here is an excerpt from the opening lines:

Dear girl! as young, as sweet as Spring
Who now her blushing beauties flings
To glad all earth, delight the eye,
And flush each flow’r with rainbow dye.
So may you bloom with Virtue’s gem,
How rich her splendid diadem.

 
You can read the whole poem on this page or browse through the whole album here.

Our next poetry selection comes from Eleanor C. Donnelly, a Catholic poetess in the Philadelphia area. The following is an excerpt from her poem “The Conversion of St. Augustine”:

The hour hath come,—the hour of love, ordained
By Him who reigns and hath forever reigned.
—Above that prostrate form, in robes of snow,
With harp of gold and gladsome face aglow,
An angel spreads his shining wings, and floats
To cheer the mourner with ecstatic notes.
For lo! across the sunny air there rings
A tender voice, which “Tolle lege!” sings;
Close to his ear so musical, so mild,
Like the clearest accents of a sinless child,
(Or dulcet strains from some celestial mead:)
“Son of a sainted mother! take and read!
O Tolle lege! take, O take and read!”

Read the entire poem on this page or browse through the whole book The Conversion of Saint Augustine and Other Sacred Poems.

You can find more poems by searching our Digital Library collections. Happy Poetry Month!

Frank Reade and His Steam Horse, an early science fiction dime novel

If you have been following this blog, you will have noticed a lot of activity related to dime novels ever since we discovered our forgotten 19th-century collection.

The latest development is the announcement of a free, day-long conference devoted to the subject.  Paper for the People: A Conference on Dime Novels and Early Mass Market Publishing will uncover some of the fascinating early history of commercial entertainment “for the millions.”  Highlights will include an examination of the origins of science fiction in “steampunk” dime novels, courtesy of expert and world-class collector Joe Rainone; a tribute to legendary bibliographer Edward T. LeBlanc; and the unveiling of a new library exhibit featuring some fascinating rarities.

All are welcome — if you are interested in attending, please register at the conference web site.  We are also still accepting proposals for presentations, should you have a special interest in the subject!

21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook
(online)
edited by William F. Eadie
Sage Publications
2009

An Overture to Philosophy of Communication: The Carrier of Meaning
Ronald C. Arnett & Annette M. Holba
Peeter Lang
2012
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Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media
edited by Pelle Snickars & Patrick Vonderau
Columbia University Press
2012
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The Financial Times Essential Guide to Leading Your Team: how to set goals, measure performance and reward talent
by Graham Yemm
Pearson
2012

Give Me the Money and I’ll Shoot: Finance Your Factual TV/Film Project
by Nicola Lees
Methuen Drama
2011
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“Texas Jack” titles in several languages.

Most of the covers are full of vibrant colors depicting graphic scenes of mischief and mayhem. Many of the illustrations are quite violent and full of the racism that was common at the time these were published. One title in Spanish has already been digitized and is now viewable online: Un hechicero infernal (in English: “An infernal sorcerer”). We will, of course, be digitizing more over time.

A selection of international dime novels.

As we prepare to catalog these titles, we are requesting help in translating some of the information about them. We’re not looking for full-text translations, but rather translations of the basic information such as the title and some possible subjects. To facilitate this crowdsourcing endeavor, we will be posting images of the front covers and/or title pages of these works on our Flickr account. Keep an eye out for more info here on the blog, on Twitter, on Facebook, or on the above-mentioned Flickr account. (If you would like to be notified by email when these images are added to Flickr, please send an email to digitallibrary@villanova.edu and include which language(s) you read.)

Disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline
edited by Sophia Bahena
Harvard Educational Review
2012
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Alcohol and violence: The nature of the relationship and the promise of prevention
by Robert Nash Parker and Kevin J. McCaffree
Lexington Books
2013
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Oxford Handbook of Criminological Theory
edited by Francis T. Cullen and Pamela Wilcox
Oxford University Press
2013
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Understanding parricide: When sons and daughters kill parents
by Kathleen M. Heide
Oxford University Press
2013
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A Companion to Meister Eckhart
edited by Jeremiah M. Hackett (Brill)

From the publisher: This book meets an obvious need in English language studies on Meister Eckhart. It is the first handbook on Eckhart for graduate and undergraduate students. It is divided into three parts. Part one deals with the life, works, career, and trial; Greek, Jewish, and Arabic philosophical sources, and some central philosophical ideas. Part two examines Eckhart as a Latin exegete, vernacular preacher, Eckhart’s understanding of God, Eckhart as a reader of Maimonides and in relation to women’s spirituality. Part three deals with the reception of Eckhart and his works from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first century. It covers fourteenth-century German readers of Eckhart, the fifteenth-century reader Nicholas of Cusa, the sixteenth-seventeenth-century reader Valentine Weigel, the reception of Eckhart in German idealism and romanticism and Eckhart and philosophy in the twentieth century. There is an epilogue on mysticism and philosophy in Eckhart and an appendix on Dominican education in the Middle Ages. Contributors include Walter Senner OP, Allesandra Beccarisi, Dagmar Gottschall, Loris Sturlese, Tamar Tsopurashvili, Jennifer Hart Weed, Jeremiah Hackett, Udo Kern, Alessandro Palazzo, Eliza Rubino, Donald F. Duclow, Bruce Millem, Markus Enders, Yossef Schwartz, Lydia Wegener, Jack C. Marler, Nadia Bray, Elizabeth Brient, Fiorella Rettucci, Andrew Weeks, Cyril O’Regan, Dermot Moran, Karl Albert and Paul Dietrich.

Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World
by Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated by Jane Marie Todd (Harvard University Press)

From the publisher: Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World is the first English translation of a series of lectures Claude Lévi-Strauss delivered in Tokyo in 1986. Written with an eye toward the future as his own distinguished career was drawing to a close, this volume presents a synthesis of the author’s major ideas about structural anthropology, a field he helped establish. Critiquing insights of his earlier writings on the relationship between race, history, and civilization, Lévi-Strauss revisits the social issues that never ceased to fascinate him. He begins with the observation that the cultural supremacy enjoyed by the West for over two centuries is at an end. Global wars and genocides in the twentieth century have fatally undermined Western faith in humanity’s improvement through scientific progress. Anthropology, however, can be the vehicle of a new “democratic humanism,” broadening traditional frameworks that have restricted cross-cultural understandings of the human condition, and providing a basis for inquiries into what other civilizations, such as those of Asia, can teach. Surveying a world on the brink of the twenty-first century, Lévi-Strauss assesses some of the dilemmas of cultural and moral relativism a globalized society faces—ethical dimensions of economic inequality, the rise of different forms of religious fundamentalism, the promise and peril of genetic and reproductive engineering. A laboratory of thought opening onto the future, Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World is an important addition to the canon of one of the twentieth-century’s most influential theorists.

You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics
by Peter Sloterdijk (Polity Press)

From the publisher: In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth – the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on increasing significance in the present: the human as a practising, training being, one that creates itself through exercises and thereby transcends itself. Rainer Maria Rilke formulated the drive towards such self-training in the early twentieth century in the imperative ‘You must change your life’. In making his case for the expansion of the practice zone for individuals and for society as a whole, Sloterdijk develops a fundamental and fundamentally new anthropology. The core of his science of the human being is an insight into the self-formation of all things human. The activity of both individuals and collectives constantly comes back to affect them: work affects the worker, communication the communicator, feelings the feeler. It is those humans who engage expressly in practice that embody this mode of existence most clearly: farmers, workers, warriors, writers, yogis, rhetoricians, musicians or models. By examining their training plans and peak performances, this book offers a panorama of exercises that are necessary to be, and remain, a human being.

Philosophos: Plato’s Missing Dialogue
by Mary Louise Gill (Oxford University Press)

From the publisher: Plato famously promised to complement the Sophist and the Statesman with another work on a third sort of expert, the philosopher–but we do not have this final dialogue. Mary Louise Gill argues that Plato promised the Philosopher, but did not write it, in order to stimulate his audience and encourage his readers to work out, for themselves, the portrait it would have contained. The Sophist and Statesman are themselves members of a larger series starting with the Theaetetus, Plato’s investigation of knowledge, and the whole series relies on the Parmenides, the second part of which presents a philosophical exercise, introduced as the first step in a larger philosophical program. Gill contends that the dialogues leading up to the missing Philosopher, though they reach some substantive conclusions, are philosophical exercises of various sorts designed to train students in dialectic, the philosopher’s method; and that a second version of the Parmenides exercise, closely patterned on it, spans parts of the Theaetetus and Sophist and brings the philosopher into view. This is the exercise about being, the subject-matter studied by Plato’s philosopher. Plato hides the pieces of the puzzle and its solution in plain sight, forcing his students (and modern readers) to dig out the pieces and reconstruct the project. Gill reveals how, in finding the philosopher through the exercise, the student becomes a philosopher by mastering his methods. She shows that the target of Plato’s exercise is internally related to its pedagogical purpose.

Saul Kripke : Puzzles and Mysteries
by John Burgess (Polity Press)

From the publisher: Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a half-century and more. His early masterpiece, Naming and Necessity, reversed the pattern of two centuries of philosophizing about the necessary and the contingent. Although much of his work remains unpublished, several major essays have now appeared in print, most recently in his long-awaited collection Philosophical Troubles. In this book Kripke’s long-time colleague, the logician and philosopher John P. Burgess, offers a thorough and self-contained guide to all of Kripke’s published books and his most important philosophical papers, old and new. It also provides an authoritative but non-technical account of Kripke’s influential contributions to the study of modal logic and logical paradoxes. Although Kripke has been anything but a system-builder, Burgess expertly uncovers the connections between different parts of his oeuvre. Kripke is shown grappling, often in opposition to existing traditions, with mysteries surrounding the nature of necessity, rule-following, and the conscious mind, as well as with intricate and intriguing puzzles about identity, belief and self-reference. Clearly contextualizing the full range of Kripke’s work, Burgess outlines, summarizes and surveys the issues raised by each of the philosopher’s major publications. Kripke will be essential reading for anyone interested in the work of one of analytic philosophy’s greatest living thinkers.

When to use what research design
by W. Paul Vogt, Dianne C. Gardner, Lynne M. Haeffele
Guilford Press
2012
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Successful research projects: A step-by-step guide
by Bernard C. Beins,
Sage Publications
2013
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Reviewing qualitative research
edited by Audrey A. Trainor and Elizabeth Graue
Routledge
2013
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How to conduct surveys: A step-by-step guide
by Arlene Fink
Sage Publications
2013
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Emerging methods in psychology
edited by Emily Abbey and Seth SurganTransaction Publishers
2011
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DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY

Appointment

The Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University invites applications for a 10 month Limited Term Appointment at the Assistant Professor/Lecturer level, effective August 1, 2013.  This position is subject to budgetary approval.  Areas of specialization: Metaphysics, Epistemology. Areas of competence: Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind. The Department also needs classes taught in Understanding Scientific Reasoning and Intro.

The successful applicant will teach courses at introductory, intermediate and advanced undergraduate/graduate levels, with some limited graduate student supervision and committee work. Excellence in teaching and research is required. Applicants must hold (or be about to receive) a Ph.D. in Philosophy. Salary will depend upon qualifications and experience. Course load will be 3 and 3.

Applications should include: a complete curriculum vitae, transcripts (undergraduate and graduate), writing sample, teaching dossier (including evidence of teaching effectiveness),  a statement of research and teaching interests and philosophies, and three confidential letters of recommendation (in hard copy, forwarded separately by the referees). A record of publication will be an asset.

Applications should be sent to Duncan MacIntosh, Chair, Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, 6135 University Avenue, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4R2. (Please use dalphil@dal.ca for correspondence).  The closing date for applications is April 30, 2013.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Dalhousie University is an Employment Equity/Affirmative Action employer. The University encourages applications from qualified Aboriginal people, persons with a disability, racially visible persons and women.

Natural Standard, our new integrative therapies database, now has an extensive recipe section.

In addition to regular exercise, well-balanced meals and sensible portions are important to overall health. The Natural Standard Recipe Database, launched in May 2012, features a wide range of healthy recipes in the following categories: Beans & Legumes, Dairy, Eggs, Fruit, Meat, Pasta, Poultry, Rice & Grains, Seafood, Vegetables and Nuts, Fats & Oils.

Each recipe provides details on preparation time, difficulty, special diet and nutrition information, as well as direct links to Natural Standard evidence-based systematic reviews for studied ingredients.

The new advanced search interface allows users to quickly narrow results by various filters, including servings, cook time, difficulty, main ingredient, meal, cuisine, and special diet, simplifying the search process as the database continues to grow. Users may also continue to scroll through the complete list of available recipes if desired.

To access Natural Standard, start at the library’s homepage: http://library.villanova.edu
Click Databases A-Z and choose Natural Standard.
At the top of the page, click Tools, then Recipe Finder.

Have a journal article citation? Find the full text in a snap!

You’ve noted a reference in the bibliography of an article , and you’d like to get the full text, preferably for free.  Drop in Driscoll 305 anytime between 11:30 and 1:30 on April 11 or April 16, and Barbara will show you how.

Here’s a guide you can download right now.

Questions? Contact barbara.quintiliano@villanova.edu

Manchester University Press has recently expanded its well-received digital collection of medieval sources to twenty-four titles and updated its online platform. The Manchester Medieval Sources series (MMS) makes primary sources from the Middle Ages accessible to students through carefully translated and annotated editions. Among the thirteen new titles are collections of short primary sources focused on a single subject such as Popular Protest in Late Medieval Europe: Italy, France and Flanders, translated and annotated by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., as well as single source editions such as Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg, translated and annotated by David A. Warner. Chapters can be downloaded as PDF files. MMS can be searched on the title and the collection levels. Titles can be browsed on the MMS platform as well as in the online catalog.

Brill’s Medieval Reference Library

Falvey has acquired three online reference titles from Brill’s Medieval Reference Library:

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles in the British Isles, c. 450-1450, edited by Gale Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth Coatsworth & Maria Hayward. This resource covers all aspects of medieval textile production from weaving technology to the wimple and from sumptuary laws to fashion.
(Sample entry: Scarlet)

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage, edited by Larissa J. Taylor et al. Coverage extends to all aspects of medieval pilgrimage from pilgrimage sites to the economy and from pilgrimage narratives to miracles and reliquaries.
(Sample entry: Urban tourism)

The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, edited by Graeme Dunphy. Entries cover about 2,500 medieval chronicles and chroniclers as well as layout and manuscript production.
(Sample entry: Women chroniclers and chronicles for women)

As with all online reference titles, a simple keyword search quickly retrieves the desired information. Each encyclopedia entry has a short bibliography which often lists relevant primary sources. Cross-references link to related content.
Access the online encyclopedias via the library’s catalog as well as via the  Medieval History Reference list on the history subject guide.

International Medieval Bibliography (Brepols)

Last but not least, a quick update about recent changes to the International Medieval Bibliography (IMB). To improve current and retrospective coverage, Brepols is increasing the number of new entries added from 11,000 to 16,000 per year.

A new metrics component features journal and author profiles and subject trends in medieval history. The journal profiles can identify the most suitable journals for your latest research.
If you have never set up an email alert for your favorite journals, maybe it is time to take another look. IMB will manage and email table of content alerts for your favorite journals.

Questions or comments? Contact me directly (jutta.seibert@villanova.edu) or post your comments online.