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From information commons to learning commons and learning spaces: An evolutionary context
Mary M. Somerville and Sallie Harlan
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The Cal Poly digital learning initiative
Mary M. Somerville, Erika Rogers, Anita Mirijamdotter, and Helen L. Partridge
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Cooking in Europe: 1250-1650
Ken Albala and Lisa Cooperman
Ever get a yen for hemp seed soup, digestive pottage, carp fritters, jasper of milk, or frog pie? Would you like to test your culinary skills whipping up some edible counterfeit snow or nun's bozolati? Perhaps you have an assignment to make a typical Renaissance dish. The cookbook presents 171 unadulterated recipes from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Elizabethan eras. Most are translated from French, Italian, or Spanish into English for the first time. Some English recipes from the Elizabethan era are presented only in the original if they are close enough to modern English to present an easy exercise in translation. Expert commentary helps readers to be able to replicate the food as nearly as possible in their own kitchens.
An introduction overviews cuisine and food culture in these time periods and prepares the reader to replicate period food with advice on equipment, cooking methods, finding ingredients, and reading period recipes. The recipes are grouped by period and then type of food or course. Three lists of recipes-organized by how they appear in the book and by country and by special occasions-in the frontmatter help to quickly identify the type of dish desired. Some recipes will not appeal to modern tastes or sensibilities. This cookbook does not sanitize them for the modern palate. Most everything in this book is perfectly edible and, according to the author, noted food historian Ken Albala, delicious!
Illustrations by Lisa Cooperman, University of the Pacific
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Cooking in America 1840 – 1945
Alice McLean and Lisa Cooperman
This cookbook covers the years 1840 through 1945, a time during which American cookery underwent a full-scale revolution. Gas and electric stoves replaced hearth cookery. Milk products came from commercial dairy farms rather than the family cow. Daily meals were no longer bound by seasons and regions, as canned, bottled, and eventually frozen products flooded the market and trains began to transport produce and meat from one end of the country to the other. During two World Wars and the Great Depression women entered the work force in unprecedented numbers and household servants abandoned low-paying domestic jobs to work in factories. As a result of these monumental changes, American home cooking became irrevocably simplified and cookery skills geared more toward juggling time to comb grocery store shelves for the best and most economical products than toward butchering and preserving an entire animal carcass or pickling fruits and vegetables.
This cookbook reflects these changes, with each of the three chapters capturing the home cooking that typified the era. The first chapter covers the pre-industrial period 1840 to 1875; during this time, home cooks knew how to broil, roast, grill, fry, and boil on an open hearth flame and its embers without getting severely injured. They also handled whole sheep carcasses, made gelatin from boiled pigs trotters, grew their own yeast, and prepared their own preserves. The second chapter covers 1876 through 1910, a time when rapid urbanization transformed the United States from an agrarian society into an industrial giant, giving rise to food corporations such as Armour, Swift, Campbell's, Heinz, and Pillsbury. The mass production and mass marketing of commercial foods began to transform home cooking; meat could be purchased from a local butcher or grocery store and commercial gelatin became widely available. While many cooks still made their own pickles and preserves, commercial varieties multiplied. From 1910 to 1945, the period covered by Chapter 3, the home cook became a full-fledged consumer and the national food supply became standardized to a large extent. As the industrialization of the American food supply progressed, commercially produced breads, pastries, sauces, pickles, and preserves began to take over kitchen cupboards and undermine the home cooks' ability to produce their own meals from scratch. The recipes have been culled from some of the most popular commercial and community cookbooks of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taken together, the more than 300 recipes reflect the major cookbook trends of the era. Suggested menus are provided for replicating entire meals.
Illustrations by Lisa Cooperman, University of the Pacific
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Wagnerism
Robin L. Imhof
Wagnerism essentially has to do with the music, theoretical writings, political ideas, and aesthetics of the German composer-conductor and essayist Richard Wagner (1813–1883). One of the most influential cultural figures of the nineteenth century, Wagner has had both swooning admirers and rabid detractors.
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Salons
Robin Imhof
No one has disputed the significant contribution of women in the cultural history of salons, but what is often overlooked in mainstream publications on the topic is that many of these salon hostesses and attendees were lesbian, bisexual, or gay.
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Networks and Resource Sharing in the 21st Century: Re-Engineering the Information Landscape
Mary M. Huston-Somerville and Catherine C. Wilt
Visionary thinkers reflect on key aspects of the contemporary information landscape in Networks and Resource Sharing in the 21st Century. In this thought-provoking volume, contributing authors provide multiple lenses from different industry viewpoints to help readers understand current opportunities and challenges facing information providers and their organizations. These authors provide analysis, propose inventions, cite barriers, and target opportunities, stimulating readers to devise solutions appropriate to their personal situations. The book considers the changing face of resource sharing within the context of a rapidly exploding information landscape, and it investigates critical dimensions of network developments as they relate to access and delivery of data and "documents" in multiple media. It helps readers understand the escalating changes which are irrevocably altering their professional environment and information access choices.
Networks and Resource Sharing in the 21st Century is divided into three sections. Contextual Viewpoints sets the stage for considering the subject. Converging Technologies discusses converging computing and telecommunications technologies which promise to transform information systems as they are known today. Musts, Can'ts, and Myths investigates implications of today's emerging trends for information professionals’ futures. Topics addressed in individual chapters include:
- an examination of the library environment and the work of librarians in the emerging digital world
- models of strategic issue analysis and their applicability to past, present, and future issues related to library networking
- the effect of multimedia technology on sharing of resources, and issues and barriers associated with multimedia
- sci-tech information resources and information networks in Western Europe
- the future of bibliographic utilities
- the future of digital collections
Networks and Resource Sharing in the 21st Century provides a much-needed context to aid readers as they shape the resource sharing environment of tomorrow. It is a stimulating guide for practicing librarians, MLS students, and network staff as they strive to make libraries and information centers a vital part of the future.
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Brigham Young and the Environment
Michael J. Wurtz
Brigham Young led the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the wilderness of Utah in the 1847. This arid region required new ways to consider the environment and the human impact upon it.
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In the Spirit of 1992: Access to Western European Libraries and Literature
Mary M. Huston and Maureen Pastine
This exciting volume is required reading for every librarian who needs to understand the rapid changes in Western European information services resulting from the new European Community. As Western Europe moves toward a unified economic market, librarians must prepare for a corresponding unification of information services and databases. In the Spirit of 1992 provides vital information on the linkage of information services in the newly established European community. This important volume represents a commitment to increase access to an impressive European databank by an expanded global clientele. Through an elaboration of the information infrastructure supporting political, economic, social, and bibliographic interconnections among Western European nations, readers will gain a detailed understanding of this multifaceted landscape. In the Spirit of 1992 encourages the furthering of human and technological partnerships through enhanced information exchange to ensure that the world will enjoy better access to information for improved international decision making.
Librarians will gain detailed understanding of contemporary developments in Western European librarianship from informative chapters on topics such as information policy and library status in the European Community, standardization and other cooperative strategies among libraries in Europe, bibliographic access in the United Kingdom, access to information stores in Nordic countries, access to selected European online databases, and implications of European libraries’cooperative developments for American libraries. This revelatory book features the thinking of distinguished experts on key initiatives in the European information community. Some of the important contributors to this groundbreaking volume include Harold Dierick, chair of the European Community and Associated Institutions Library Cooperation Group, Paula Goossens, chair of the European Library Automation Group, and Philip Bryant, Director of the Office for Library Networking in the United Kingdom. Reference librarians, international library consultants and planners, and library school faculty will find essential information on subjects such as the Western European information environment, past, present, and future cooperative access strategies for sharing individual resource collections across geopolitical boundaries, and recent developments in the "Plan of Action for Libraries in the European Community" in this groundbreaking book.
A collection of books and book chapters from the librarian and staff members of University of the Pacific Libraries.
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