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Foreward
Curt Casetta and Michael J. Wurtz
A Foreword by renowned Muir expert/archivist Mike Wurtz highlighting Muir's love of nature (especially his beloved sequoias) and an Afterword detailing the mistreatment of the Native Peoples who lived in Yosemite before his arrival, help to inspire discussions about how people treat nature, and how we treat our fellow humans. Also included are a timeline and photo section of Muir's life, as well as an extensive bibliography.
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University of the Pacific
Nicole Grady Mountjoy, Michael J. Wurtz, and Lisa K. Marietta
Located in the Central Valley in the city of Stockton, California, the University of the Pacific has thrived. Founded in Santa Clara in 1851, the university moved to College Park in 1871 and then Stockton in 1924, and it now has campuses in Sacramento and San Francisco. Pacific is considered to hold many firsts in California, including being the first chartered university, the first music conservatory, and the first university to open its doors to women. University of the Pacific’s mission is to provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
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John Muir's Grand Yosemite
Michael J. Wurtz
Curation and Commentary by Mike Wurtz
This unique guide takes Yosemite visitors on their own Muir-inspired adventure. With easy-to-follow directions plus a basic map for planning an itinerary, visitors can delight in the stunning mountains, waterfalls, and giant sequoias that Muir himself enjoyed, often from the same enduring spot. Each of the twenty-five scenic locations includes a sketch and brief passage by Muir and engaging commentary by curator Mike Wurtz that enlivens the tour. A sample of the locations feature:
Half Dome, Yosemite Falls, Glacier Point, Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, Hetch Hetchy Valley, Cathedral Peak, Lembert Dome, and more.
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Historical Dictionary of the American Music Industry
Keith Hatschek and Veronica Wells
The US music industry is an exciting, fast-paced, marketplace which brings together creative and business interests to connect artists with audiences. This book traces the history of the music industry from the Colonial era to the present day, identifying trends and the innovative leaders who have shaped its course. This volume embraces the diversity of the American music industry, spanning classical to country and hip hop to heavy metal.
Historical Dictionary of the American Music Industry contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes that provide a comprehensive directory of college music business programs and a listing of all relevant music industry trade associations, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important artists, managers, companies, industry terminology and significant trade associations. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the business of music.
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It’s Your History: Discovering Stockton’s Diversity in the Archives
Michael J. Wurtz
The Holt-Atherton Special Collections and Archives in the University of the Pacific library documents the diverse history and people of Stockton within its hundreds of archival collections. In a series of vignettes, Wurtz explores Stockton’s diversity as represented in Pacific’s archival holdings.
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From transaction to transformation: Organizational learning and knowledge creation experience within Informed Systems
Mary M. Somerville and Christine S. Bruce
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John Muir Observer Journal
Michael J. Wurtz, John Muir Center, and ForestChoice
John Muir was a constant observer, and he recorded his observations in one of his countless journals. The John Muir Observer Journal is a collaboration between the John Muir Center and ForestChoice designed to get you to observe the world around you like John Muir did. Each journal features 16 pages filled with drawings, notes and writings from John Muir’s personal records, along with 144 blank pages so you can record your own observations.
A portion of the proceeds from each journal will be donated to the John Muir Center and their effort to promote the study of John Muir’s work.
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Informed Systems: Organizational design for learning in action
Mary M. Somerville
By fostering principles of systems thinking and informed learning though an inclusive, participatory design process that advances information exchange, reflective dialogue, and knowledge creation, the Informed Systems Approach promotes conceptual change in workplace organizations. Informed Systems explores theory-based participatory action research and provides examples of agile process models for activating sustainable design, dialogue, and reflection processes in today’s organizations. This book also examines forward thinking frameworks for academic libraries, and how they can be used in the context of dynamically changing scholarly communications. Chapters further the expression of collaborative information practices that enrich information experiences by simultaneously advancing both situated domain knowledge and transferable learning capacity. Design (and redesign) activities well integrated into the workplace culture are expressed through sustainable processes and practices that produce rich information experiences. Informed learning both promotes and sustains continuous learning, including collective reflection on information sources, collaborative practices, and systems functionalities. In these ways, transferable topical understandings and information resiliency manifest action oriented intention to ensure improvements of real world situations.
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Diversifying information literacy research: An informed learning perspective
Christine S. Bruce, Mary M. Somerville, Ian D. Stoodley, and Helen L. Partridge
This chapter uses the idea of informed learning, an interpretation of information literacy that focuses on people’s information experiences rather than their skills or attributes, to analyse the character of using information to learn in diverse communities and settings, including digital, faith, indigenous and ethnic communities. While researchers of information behaviour or information seeking and use have investigated people’s information worlds in diverse contexts, this work is still at its earliest stages in the information literacy domain. To date, information literacy research has largely occurred in what might be considered mainstream educational and workplace contexts, with some emerging work in community settings. These have been mostly in academic libraries, schools and government workplaces. What does information literacy look like beyond these environments? How might we understand the experience of effective information use in a range of community settings, from the perspective of empirical research and other sources? The chapter concludes by commenting on the significance of diversifying the range of information experience contexts, for information literacy research and professional practice.
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Information experiences in the workplace: Foundations for an Informed Systems Approach
Mary M. Somerville and Anita Mirijamdotter
Informed learning can be enlivened through explicit and persistent attention to using information to learn during collaborative design activities. The resulting information experiences and accompanying information practices in the workplace, when combined with systems principles, can produce transferable individual and group (and, ultimately, organizational) capacity to advance knowledge in ever expanding professional contexts.
In development in North America since 2003, the Informed Systems Approach incorporates principles of systems thinking and informed learning though an inclusive, participatory design process that fosters information exchange, reflective dialogue, knowledge creation, and conceptual change in workplace organizations. It also furthers expression of collaborative information practices that enrich information experiences by simultaneously advancing both situated domain knowledge and transferable learning capacity. Integrated design activities support participants’ developing awareness of the conceptions of information experience and informed learning, in a cyclical and iterative fashion that promotes and sustains continuous learning.
A shared learning focus evolves through intentional use of information to learn, including collective reflection on information sources, collaborative practices, and systems functionalities, which further participants’ topical understandings and enrich their information experiences. In addition, an action-oriented intention and inclusive participatory disposition ensures improvements of real world situations.
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Diversifying information literacy research: An informed learning perspective
Christine S. Bruce, Mary M. Somerville, Ian D. Stoodley, and Helen L. Partridge
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The library and student life: Activist partnerships in first year experience programs
Michelle M. Maloney, Joanna Royce-Davis, and Elizabeth Griego
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An interactive and iterative evaluation approach for creating collaborative learning environments
Anita Mirijamdotter, Mary M. Somerville, and Marita Holst
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Collaborative design: An SSM-enabled organizational learning approach
Anita Mirijamdotter and Mary M. Somerville
Within the context of a three year applied research project conducted from 2003-2006 in a North American university library, staff were encouraged to reconsider organizational assumptions and design processes. The project involved an organizational leader and an external consultant who introduced and collaboratively applied Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) practice. Project results suggest the efficacy of using ‘soft’ systems thinking to guide interaction (re)design of technology-enabled environments, systems, and tools. In addition, participants attained insights into their new roles and responsibilities within a dynamically changing higher education environment. Project participants also applied SSM to redesign ‘in house’ information systems. The process of employing systems thinking practices to activate and advance organizational (re)learning, and initiating and elaborating user-centered interaction (re)design practices, culminated in a collaborative design (co-design) approach that readied participants for nimble responsiveness to continuous changes in the dynamic external environment.
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Working together – Collaborative information practices for organizational learning
Mary M. Somerville
Around the globe, library leaders are asking: How do we create 'forward thinking' outcomes in the Digital Age? In response, the profession is increasingly recognizing that we must start by transitioning current employees into new roles and responsibilities within redesigned workplace environments. Given the magnitude of external economic, technological, and social changes, merely tinkering with traditional organizational models is inadequate. Rather, the forces at play require pro-actively moving from the old, comfortable model - designed for a world that no longer exists – to fundamentally re-invent professional assumptions, organizational structures, and workplace processes.
Working Together presents a framework for comprehensive redesign of library organizations. In addition to a review of core literature, the author presents workplace examples illustrating the efficacy of collaborative information practices orchestrated by inclusive leadership principles.
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California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo Case Study
Mary M. Somerville and David D. Gillette
A collection of books and book chapters from the librarian and staff members of University of the Pacific Libraries.
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