eInside Recognition

Athena Salaba, School of Library and Information Science, Yin Zhang, School of Library and Information Science, presented "Research, Development and Evaluation of a FRBR-Based Catalog Prototype" at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference, ALA ALCTS, in Anaheim, Calif. on June 24, 2012.

Summary: The presentation covered major findings from a number of user studies conducted with funded support through an IMLS Grant.

Marcia Zeng, School of Library and Information Science, presented "Contributing to the Smart City Through Linked Library Data" at the 6th Shanghai International Library Forum in Shanghai, China, on July 17-19, 2012.

Joe Rozsa, Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation, will share his entrepreneurial story at the North Canton Public Library Aug. 22, 2012.

Richard Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, authored the journal article "Limitations of Language for Conveying Navigational Knowledge: Way-finding in the Southeastern Solomon Islands," American Anthropologist, Volume 114, Issue 2, (2012): 336-350.

Abstract: Investigators have tended to view navigation either through the lens of cognition or of experience and embodiment. The cognitive approach assumes that perceptually salient aspects of the environment are mapped and retrieved in the mind (so-called cognitive mapping). The alternative is that navigators “feel” their way by ongoing sensations of movement, assessing their position through the sequential, temporal order in which salient environmental information is perceived. Recently, others have challenged models of knowledge that analytically separate cognitive and experiential modalities of knowing, suggesting that the navigator combines cognitive with visual, auditory, and kinesthetic information into an integrated whole. Such a holistic approach to spatial orientation and way-finding raises an important methodological challenge to cognitive anthropology, as certain forms of knowledge are not easily expressed in words. This is particularly true of kinesthetic knowledge of a canoe’s motion, which provides navigators with an indirect assessment of wave patterns. Here, we explore one of the authors’ observations during a voyage with a demonstrably accomplished navigator from the Solomon Islands’ Temotu Province who, nonetheless, appeared to provide inconsistent and self-contradictory accounts of his surroundings and performance.

Stephen Paschen, University Libraries, edited Arizona Historical Dictionary: A Reference Compendium, 1st ed., Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.

Peter Kratcoski, Department of Sociology, and Leonard Schlup, authored "Editorial Comments on Special Issue: Police-University Collaborations", Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, Vol. 13, Issue 4, (2012): 302-305. Summary: Comments on how police agencies and universities are mutually benefited through collaboration in training, educational programs and research.

Daniel Roland, School of Library and Information Science, authored "The Information Behavior of Clergy Members Engaged in the Sermon," Journal of Religious and Theological Information, Volume 11, Issue 40910, (2012): 1-15.

Peter Kratcoski, Department of Sociology, Kent State University at Stark, authored the section, "Legislative and Programming Initiatives to Prevent and Control Financial Crimes in the United States" in Financial Crimes: A Threat to Global Security, 1st ed., (Boca Raton, Fla.:CRC Press/ Taylor Francis Group) Maximillian Edelbacher, Peter Kratcoski, Michael Theil, (2012), 373-390.