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A Brief History of Folklore Archiving at Indiana University
(2003) Smith, Moira
A Digital Library Program Show and Tell: Most recent and upcoming!
(Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2011-09-07) Porter, Dot; Dunn, Jon
It has been a busy year thus far in the Digital Library Program, and we'd like to take the first Brown Bag of Fall 2011 to tell you a bit about what we have been working on. We will give a brief overview of several new and upcoming projects and services, including the Photos Service, exciting new projects and functionality in Archives Online at IU, and the DLP's first cross-collection search (will be presented in more detail later in the Semester).
A Mathematician’s Take on Ethnomusicology Modeling of Protest Music Transmission and Cultural Memory using Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Non-Linear Dynamics
(2025) S. S., Karthikhesvaran
Protest music functions both as artistic expression and as a vehicle for collective identity and memory in social movements. Songs born out of resistance often spread across communities and generations, helping to sustain the movements’ ideals and preserving historical memory of struggles. Understanding how protest songs propagate through space and time, and how they evolve within cultural contexts, calls for a rigorous framework that can capture dynamical and stochastic aspects of this diffusion. In this paper, I develop a theoretical framework using Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (SPDEs) and dynamical systems theory to model the transmission and evolution of protest music. This approach treats the spread of songs akin to a propagating wave or diffusive process on a cultural landscape, subject to nonlinear feedbacks (from social reinforcement) and random perturbations (due to unpredictable social events). I leverage concepts such as attractors, Lyapunov stability, bifurcation theory, stochastic resonance, and symbolic dynamics to analyze the model’s behavior. My goal is to reveal structural insights into how protest music contributes to sociopolitical movements and cultural memory, providing quantitative measures for phenomena that ethnomusicologists have observed qualitatively – e.g. the way songs “have work to do” in coordinating and unifying communities and how they serve as repositories of cultural memory . I begin by formulating a general SPDE model for the spatiotemporal transmission of protest songs. I then introduce relevant dynamical-systems definitions (attractors, stability, etc.) and analytical tools to study this model. Existing results from the literature on cultural and linguistic diffusion are incorporated to ground my approach: for example, prior works have used PDEs to model information or language spread in social systems . I adapt such methods to the domain of music and resistance. Formal propositions are stated to characterize the stability of musical traditions and the conditions for their persistence or extinction. Next, I apply the framework to a detailed case study – the role of contemporary Tamil protest music in preserving the legacy of the Tamil Eelam struggle – demonstrating how the abstract model can illuminate real-world cultural dynamics. Finally, I discuss how this mathematical formalism can advance ethnomusicology by offering predictive insight into music as a dynamic carrier of resistance, identity, and memory.
Accessibility Assessment of the Scholars’ Commons Department
([Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2021-05) Isbell, Mariah
The report summarizes the research completed by the author on accessibility in libraries generally and more specifically how the services and webpage information posted by IU Libraries and IU Libraries Scholars’ Commons meets or exceeds recommendations set forth by the ADA. In addition, it details areas for improvement.
An Acquisitions Outing to the Kolkata Book Fair
(American Library Association, 2005-05) Singer, Andrea; Segal, Jane
News report of 2005 Kolkata (West Bengal, India) Book Fair reported by two academic librarians from the United States
Adventures in Yugoland
(Indiana University Department of Chemistry, 1988-12) Wiggins, Gary
describes a trip to Yugoslavia taken by the Wiggins family during the summer of 1988
Advocacy and Positioning: The Context for International Studies Librarianship and Collections
([Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2013-10-30) Neal, James G.
Affectionately Yours, Volume I
(2011) Herald, Elaine; Burgess, Jo
The letters in this first volume of family correspondence range from 1829, the year Andrew Wylie (1789-1851), the first president of Indiana University, moved with his wife Margaret and their growing family from Washington County, Pennsylvania to Bloomington, Indiana, through 1859, the year that Margaret passed away.
Affectionately Yours, Volume II
(2011) Herald, Elaine; Burgess, Jo
Andrew Wylie (1789-1851) was the first president of Indiana University. The letters in this second volume of family letters range from 1860, the year after his wife Margaret passed away through 1918 and chronicle the lives of the children who survived their parents.
Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America
(Elsevier Science, 1996) Morrison, Andrea
Africana Libraries Newsletter - No. 100, Fall 1999
(Office of the Librarian for African Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1999) Africana Librarians Council
Afterthought: A Family Story
(Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Publishing, 2025) Akou, Heather
Afterthought: A Family Story focuses on the life of my grandmother, Lila Slaback, who grew up in a dysfunctional, working-class family in La Crosse, Wisconsin, in the 1930s. In her short adult life, she gave birth to seven children with at least four different men and died in 1958 at age thirty-six. She was a real person, but her family was not proud of her story. This book is my best attempt to recover it. This work of historical fiction can be read like a memoir. With extensive notes and resources, it can also be read as inspiration for researching and writing historical fiction, especially in the United States. As an educational text, it would be appropriate for courses on fashion history, American history, gender roles, family, poverty, healthcare, and generational trauma.
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([Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2013-10) Frank-Wilson, Marion
Ajax, More than Scrubbing the Tub: Web Technologies in the IUB Libraries' Web Site
(Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2007-03-07) Ryner, Doug
Aligning the Principles of Permaculture Design with Sustainable Open Access Practice
(2013-10-25) Konkiel, Stacy; Laherty, Jennifer
Open Access has seen increased acceptance in recent years, yet academic libraries continue to struggle with supporting and growing the Open Access institutional repositories (IRs) and increasing faculty awareness of and buy-in for Open Access and related scholarly communication issues. In this presentation, we propose a reframing of Open Access and scholarly communication strategies using the twelve principles of permaculture, an environmental design theory that provides a sustainable architecture for self-maintained agricultural systems modeled from naturally occurring ecosystems (Hemenway, 2009). Such an approach is beneficial for many reasons. Permaculture emphasizes maximum benefit from minimum effort and resources, which resonates with libraries that face increased strain on budgets and personnel. Further, the theory encourages that waste of resources and efforts be eliminated completely, which can guide libraries as they move towards maximizing efficiency in a changing academic culture. Permaculture also stresses that practitioners respect the diversity of the smaller ecosystems that make up the bigger picture, a principle which OA advocates and humanists are now advocating. We will share these insights and other such distillations of the permaculture design principles and offer our map to how they can be applied to Open Access and scholarly communication endeavors as we continue to make our path toward sustainable dissemination and preservation practices of today’s research output. Hemenway, T. (2009). Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture. Chelsea Green Publishing. p. 5.
Alphabet Soup: Choosing among DC, QDC, MODS, and MARC
(Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2005-02-25) Riley, Jenn
Alternative Methods for Teching Chemical Information to Undergraduates
(1997) Wiggins, Gary; Lee, Wade M.
reviews the two main avenues for teaching chemical information to undergraduate students: in a dedicated course or integrated into existing chemistry courses or laboratories
Altmetrics and Librarians: How Changes in Scholarly Communication will affect our Profession
(2012-05-07) Konkiel, Stacy; Noel, Robert E.
Altmetrics in Institutional Repositories
(2013-11-05) Konkiel, Stacy
Scholars are increasingly incorporating social media tools like blogs, Twitter and Mendeley into their professional communications. Altmetrics tracks usage of these and similar tools to measure scholarly influence on the social web. Altmetrics researchers and practitioners have amassed a growing body of literature and working tools to gather and analyze altmetrics and there is growing interest in this emerging subfield of scientometrics. Panelists will present results demonstrating the utility of alternative metrics from a variety of stakeholders: researchers, librarians, publishers and those participating in academic social media sites.
Altmetrics: A 21st Century Solution to Determining Research Quality
(Information Today, Inc., 2013-07) Konkiel, Stacy
The number of academic articles published annually has risen exponentially in the past decade, making our jobs as librarians ever more challenging as we assist patrons in finding exactly what it is that they are looking for. At the same time, traditional measures of research quality such as the journal impact factor and citation counts have been called into question for being unreliable and slow to accumulate. Though these measures have helped librarians filter for quality content in the past, they show weakness when applied to the rapidly evolving scholarly publication marketplace. Neither can be easily applied to non-traditional scholarly outputs such as working papers, technical reports, data sets, or conference presentations. We have also recently seen a rise in Open Access (OA) publications, which make research easier to access than ever before. Megajournals such as PLOS ONE and Sage Open publish more articles in a day than some journals do in a year. The sheer volume of available scholarship is enough to make one’s head spin. Given these challenges, how can librarians help patrons access what they seek while at the same time make our own jobs easier as we sift through the ever-rising sands of available scholarship? Enter altmetrics, a new approach to determining the quality and popularity of research more quickly than ever before. Altmetrics (http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/) tally online shares, saves, reviews, adaptations, and social media usage related to research outputs of all kinds—not only traditional publications but also grey literature, digital scholarship, research blogs, datasets, and other modes of scholarly communication. When paired with usage statistics (downloads and pageviews) and traditional measures of impact (journal impact factors and citation counts), they can be an excellent way to help sift through high-quality and popular search results to zero in on what patrons seek.

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