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Y diversa de mí misma entre vuestras plumas ando: homenaje internacional a sor Juana Inés de la Cruz / coordinado por Sara Poot Herrera y Elena Urrutia ; edición de Sara Poot Herrera

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The oval portrait: thirty-seven contemporary Cuban women writers and artists: originally published as El retrato ovalado / edited by Soleida Rios ; translated by Margaret Randall

Hayden Library - PQ7386.5.E5 R48 2018




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The promise / Silvina Ocampo ; translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Jessica Powell

Dewey Library - PQ7797.O293 P7613 2019




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Forgotten journey / Silvina Ocampo ; translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Katie Lateef-Jan

Dewey Library - PQ7797.O293 A2 2019




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How does the Reorg effect the Information Point?

The reorganization does have some effect on all of us on the Information Point. I'm sure there are other issues that will come up over time, but for now, I've addressed the ones I've thought of below.

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With the reorganization we no longer have a Systems Liason in Access Services (or an Access Services for that matter).

The biggest change that will make when you're on the desk is probably in how to report Xerox problems. Before the reorganization we had a flowchart to follow in how to report issues with the Xerox equipment. Well it's a LOT simpler now actually!

If you have patrons reporting any problems with the card machines, printing or copyright equipment, just send a Syshelp email. Be sure to describe the problem, the type of equipment and the location of the equipment (including which floor and library it's in). Systems will handle it from there.

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Other things you might be wondering about:

If you have any questions about Circulation issues, study carrels or anything else relating to the circulation desk Jim Stevens is the guy to see (not Lori).

ILL and Reserves questions still go to their respective units.

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And the big question you've been wondering...what's happening with the Information Point?

As many of you know, I'm now a part of the Access Support unit in the Support Services division (cloud? box? you know what I mean). Since the Information Point is clearly a Library West service, it needs to be coordinated by someone in Library West.

I met with Shelley, LeiLani, Jana and Michael D. yesterday to talk about the transition. While Library West will definitely be taking over the coordination of the Information Point I will continue to coordinate until plans for the transition are complete.

We will also hold a Team meeting sometime this month so we can all meet with the new coordinator (still to be determined). You'll have a chance to ask questions and find out what if any changes are being planned for the future.

For my part, I'm definitely planning on continuing to serve on the Information Point, so I'll still be a member of the team!




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Info Point Meeting Rehash

Thanks so much for coming to the InfoPoint meeting yesterday! It was great to meet all of you, and to talk about the coming semester. Angela is going to be a tough act to follow, but I will do my best to help our team provide great service to the students and faculty of UF.

I thought it might be useful to post some notes from the meeting:

  • Wiki Schedule - the fall semester schedule is now on a wiki, http://infopoint.wikispaces.com/. The advantage of a wiki is that we can have a truly live schedule. All of you can sign on the wiki and note your shift trades. (If you are not yet a member, email me and let me know. I will send you an invite, and will be happy to train you on using the wiki.)
  • InfoPoint blog - other staff have found the blog so useful, that we are expanding the blog to other public service points. This will include the research assistance desk and the Ask A Librarian staff. The old blog will be migrated over to the new library blog server soon.
  • InfoPoint web page will morph into an InfoPoint libguide soon.
  • Training opportunities (to be scheduled soon)
    • Circulation (including the fabulous self-check stations)
    • Library West information and staffing changes
    • Campus Update - where are the typewriters of yore? The faxes, Peabody Hall, etc.?
    • Using Aleph Staff side
    • Ares
    • IT @ West (including "how to Grover," wireless troubleshooting, signing on with the new Active Directory and more)
  • CIRC FAQ- Jim Stevens is pulling together a FAQ for us to use at the desk. Topics will include summer priveleges, proxy borrowing, fines, renewing rooms, laptops, etc.
  • Vending Machine - We may get a vending machine to sell paper, headphones, white out and other popular office items soon. Users will be able to purchase items using their Gator1 card. Administration is in negotiation with the campus bookstore to set this up, and it is looking good!


--Jana




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Tech Expo a Success!

Over 367 students attended yesterday's Tech Expo here in Library West. There were tables representing the Digital Library Center, Ask A Librarian, RefWorks, Mystery in the Stacks, library YouTube videos and games, Second Life, InfoCommons technology, course reserves and interlibrary loan, among others. Students also kept the librarians entertained by playing Guitar Hero.




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Using Data to Keep School Improvement on Track: Focus on Comprehensive Support and Improvement

Research on chronically low-performing schools suggests that monitoring the implementation and progress of these schools’ improvement efforts can help them use limited resources more effectively.




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Using Culturally Responsive Practices to Foster Learning During School Closures: Challenges and Opportunities for Equity

With the closure of school buildings fundamentally disrupting the way students receive services, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the national conversation about education.




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Pourquoi les homophones?


Ask anyone to define “homophone” and chances are they will a) look at you as if you have fallen out of a tree, and, b) be unable to give you an answer. Linguistic terms are generally consigned to the area of the brain housing other nuggets of redundant school knowledge such as the complete noble gases, a conjugation of être and the Fibonacci sequence. We all know that we should remember such facts (if only for vital pub quiz answers) but most of us never do. The homophone is however rather useful and I intend to explain why. Shakespeare would never have arisen to the dizzy heights of fame had he not known how to wield a homophone or two. A virtuoso of the sixteenth century pun, he paved the way for this linguistic conceit to make its way into every corner of modern literature. The oft-ignored part of the Cobbler in Julius Caesar gives us the best example, ‘I am but as you would say a cobbler…a mender of bad soles.’ Little did the Cobbler know how many thousands of students would ponder this very phrase, dutifully recording its dual meaning. Years later, the very same people emblazon on-trend phrases such as “Give peas a chance” on T-Shirts and walls, unsure as to “the exact term” for such hilarity but confident in its linguistic prowess.

Now that we have got our heads around the homophone in English, imagine what happens when you translate into French…poetry. Cynics amongst you may think it cannot be done but in 1967 a little book named Mots d’heures: gousses, rames was published to the glee of dinner party guests across the land. Luis d’Antin van Rooten transformed forty well-known English nursery rhymes into French poetry all thanks to the humble homophone. The trick of the poems was to read phonetically in the manner of Molière, and slowly but surely the English rhyme would emerge. Here’s an example:

Lille beau pipe
Ocelot serre chypre
En douzaine aux verres tuf indemne
Livre de melons un dé huile qu’aux mômes
Eau à guigne d’air telle baie indemne.

Imagine the excitement when Blue Door decided to re-publish this forgotten classic much to the cheer of van Rooten devotees. Published in time for Christmas, this collection of j’aime se will have your sides splitting quicker than you can say ‘Vive les homophones!’




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Guardian Books support Mots d'heures!

To listen to Publisher Patrick Janson-Smith reading some fine examples from Mots d'heures, log on to The Guardian website
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/13/jack-and-jill




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The no-nonsense guide to research support and scholarly communication / Claire Sewell.

London : Facet Publishing, 2020.




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Event-driven mobile financial information services [electronic resource] : design of an intraday decision support system / Jan Muntermann

[Germany] : Deutscher Universit̃ts-Verlag : 2007




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Digital libraries [electronic resource] : achievements, challenges and opportunities : 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2006, Kyoto, Japan, November 27-30, 2006 : proceedings / Shigeo Sugimoto [and others] (eds.)

Berlin : Springer, [2006]




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Russian studies of international relations: from the Soviet past to the post-Cold-War present / Marina Lebedeva ; with a foreword by Andrei P. Tsygankov

Dewey Library - JZ1238.R8 L43 2018




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International negotiation: a process of relational governance for international common interest / Evangelos Raftopoulos

Dewey Library - JZ6045.R335 2019




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The EU's neighbourhood policy towards the South Caucasus: expanding the European Security Community / Licínia Simão

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Gendered agency in war and peace: gender justice and women's activism in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina / Maria O'Reilly

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Great Power Conduct and Credibility in World Politics / Sergey Smolnikov

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Capitalism, hegemony and violence in the age of drones / Norman Pollack

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The politics of peace: a global Cold War history / Petra Goedde

Dewey Library - JZ5574.G64 2019




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Challenges for humanitarian intervention: ethical demand and political reality / edited by C.A.J. Coady, Ned Dobos, and Sagar Sanyal

Dewey Library - JZ6369.C43 2018




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Institutional cosmopolitanism / edited by Luis Cabrera

Dewey Library - JZ1308.I474 2018




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Multipolarity: the promise of disharmony / Peter W. Schulze (ed.)

Dewey Library - JZ1305.M858 2018




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The power of will in international conflict: how to think critically in complex environments / Wayne Michael Hall ; foreword by Patrick M. Hughes

Dewey Library - JZ5595.H35 2018




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No fly zones and international security: politics and strategy / Stephen Wrage and Scott Cooper

Dewey Library - JZ6368.W73 2019




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Handbook of space security: policies, applications and programs / Kai-Uwe Schrogl, editor in chief

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Women and politics of peace: South Asia narratives on militarization, power, and justice / Rita Manchanda

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Gullible superpower: U.S. support for bogus democratic movements / Ted Galen Carpenter

Dewey Library - JZ1480.C37 2019




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Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews / Cathy Gelbin and Sander L. Gilman

Dewey Library - JZ1308.G45 2017




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Construcción de territorios de paz: subjetivaciones, resistencias ciudadanas y pedagogías para la noviolencia / Doctorado en Estudios Sociales (UDFJC), Componente Escuela, Currículo y Pedagogía (IDEP) ; Claudia Luz Piedrahita Echand

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Environmental conflict and cooperation: premise, purpose, persuasion, and promise / James R. Lee

Dewey Library - JZ1324.L44 2020




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Secret wars: covert conflict in international politics / Austin Carson

Dewey Library - JZ1469.C37 2018




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International order: a political history / Stephen A. Kocs

Dewey Library - JZ1308.K63 2019




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Estados Unidos contra el mundo: Trump y la nueva geopolítica / Casandra Castorena, Marco A. Gandásegui, hijo y Leandro Morgenfeld (coordinación y edición) ; Grupo de Trabajo de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos

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Measuring peace: principles, practices, and politics / Richard Caplan

Dewey Library - JZ5538.C37 2019




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Power in peacekeeping / Lise Morjé Howard

Dewey Library - JZ6374.H69 2019




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Fighting for status: hierarchy and conflict in world politics / Jonathan Renshon

Dewey Library - JZ1310.R46 2017




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How statesmen think: the psychology of international politics / Robert Jervis

Dewey Library - JZ1253.J47 2017




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Securing peace: state-building and economic development in post-conflict countries / editors, Richard Kozul-Wright, Piergiuseppe Fortunato

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Transnational cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and justice as a political craft / Inés Valdez

Dewey Library - JZ1308.V35 2019




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Contested world orders: rising powers, non-governmental organizations, and the politics of authority beyond the nation-state / edited by Matthew D. Stephen, Michael Zürn

Dewey Library - JZ1318.C66 2019




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Promoting democracy: the force of political settlements in uncertain times / Manal A. Jamal

Dewey Library - JZ6010.J36 2019




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Canada on the United Nations Security Council: a small power on a large stage / Adam Chapnick

Dewey Library - JZ5006.7.C43 2019




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Defending frenemies: alliances, politics, and nuclear nonproliferation in US foreign policy / Jeffrey W. Taliaferro

Dewey Library - JZ5665.T365 2019




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Conviviality at the Crossroads: The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters / Oscar Hemer, Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Per-Markku Ristilammi, editors

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Soft power: the forces of attraction in international relations / Hendrik W. Ohnesorge

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The European Union's brand of peacebuilding: acting is everything / Birgit Poopuu

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Political hegemony and social complexity: mechanisms of power after Gramsci / Alex Williams

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European Union contested: foreign policy in a new global context / Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués, Martijn C. Vlaskamp, Esther Barbé, editors

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