Article/Study/Dissertation Ideas

Summer 2009 Writing Plans

• first draft of novel
• "wire mothers" book review for ImageText
• rewrite IFLA CyberCemetery paper for Library Hi Tech News
• reframe 9/11 comics essay to solely consider 9/11 Report & graphic adaptation
• "eternal smile" book review (need to find publisher)
• Academic Deans project:
  • complete lit review
  • outline research process and submit for IRB approval
  • begin research
• 6240 E-Reference paper into article
  • see if 1998 NCES ALS data is available & download
  • crosswalk to IPEDS distance-learning data for all years (1996 - 2006)
  • ask Dr. Hull about proper statistical analysis of the topic
• 6740 Embedded Librarians:
  • format "binder/report" as PDF package and distribute to interested parties
  • outline potential article on this as a pilot study
  • look into getting IRB approval for archival data
  • think about how to expand the project toward possible dissertation topic

Thesis Chapters to Transform

• Vernicle Iconography (ch. 3)
• Vernicles and the Mass (ch. 5)
• others may be important as background material for these:
  • Review of Literature/Methodology (ch. 1)
  • Historical Context (Hagiography, History of the Relic, etc.) (ch. 2)
  • Location of Vernicles (ch. 4)
  • Conclusion (ch. 6)

Academic Library / Higher Ed topics

• education of academic library deans
  • PhD/other, major subject, ARL/not, private/public, 2yr/4yr/PhD-granting institution, etc. (also gender?)
  • what effect does their education and background have...
    • on their libraries? (ability to lead, demonstrable library outcomes, etc.)
    • on their salary?
  • OR simply study the PhD/other and subject, as a guide to what qualifications are considered when academic library deans are hired
• gender/family issues for students & faculty

  • "Policy and Parental Leave" http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/mama_phd/policy_and_parental_leave

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    Thinking about how this topic keeps coming up, I'm getting that research itch.  :)  Maybe this is an idea we could kick around while executing the deans project, and start when that cycle is slowing down...?  Not sure what it would entail, but I feel like it's an issue that we kind of have a moral, social justice obligation to bring to Higher Ed's attention. 

     

    My favorite quote from the article was the one that described our "flexible" schedules:

    "I can work any 80 hours a week I want!"

    AD = "I'm with you.  I've always thought this is an issue that is given lip service while no real solutions are ever offered."

• using wikis to document projects (within library context)
  • ease of use, collaboration, updated, remotely accessible, available for next person in that position
• library support for distance learning
  • library services (mailing books, document delivery, online reference)
  • library materials (digital collections, online databases, e-books)
    • most interested in library-produced digital collections
  • how to make these services/materials known to students (marketing, communication)
  • how to collaborate with other organizations on campus to provide services and communicate to students

Gov Docs and Digital Collections

• Dot Gov Administration Change Comparison
  • probably study of Homeland Security website before/after the administration change

Other

• study of religious themes in Neil Gaiman's Sandman
  • actually a book chapter proposal
• study of Sandman's influence on Fables
  • artistic (partially due to same artists involved)
  • thematic (conflation and retelling of myths)

Presentations to be Re-purposed

• Development of the CyberCemetery (IFLA paper)
• Encouraging a Reformed Citizenry (CRS Reports)
  • potential for two different articles:
    • what are CRS reports, how to find them, why they are important
    • new features developed in our CRS report archive (abstracts and geographic browse)
• Creating Government Information Webpages
• Keeping Up With It All (SAPL professional development)
• The "How" of Wikis
• Censorship Session / CyberCemetery and other digital collections

Publications to Re-purpose as Presentations...?

• book chapter: "Collaborating with Your Local Public Library"
• book essay: "Drawing on Tragedy: 9/11 in Comics and Graphic Novels"

Academic Comics Journals

• ImageText: online only, PR, accepts book reviews
  • sent two inquiries regarding a book review; noticed that the most recent edition was summer 2008; is this journal still published? correct email address?
  • Email: imagetext@english.ufl.edu.
  • Phone: (352) 392-6650 x278
  • Regular Mail:

• Word and Image: PR; submission requirements; looks like they take reviews; not purely comics but often include stories/reviews on them
• Journal of Popular Culture: PR; email reviews editor; not purely comics but often include stories/reviews on them
• Transformation Works and Cultures: PR; book review submissions; not purely comics but often include stories/reviews on them; looks online-only
• Image and Narrative: they publish book reviews; PR; looks European
• The Comics Journal: does reviews but doesn't often accept unsolicited ones; contact info

Notes on submissions:

• ImageText: already reviewing that title, but offered another title for me to review
• Journal of Popular Culture: only publishes works of members
• Word and Image: no longer reviews individual books--will print a review essay of several books/exhibitions on a related topic at once (Michael Charlesworth is no longer the reviews editor)
• International Journal of Comic Art: looks like it's back in print (?--Fall 2008 issue up now)-- sent email to editor on 2/16/2009

• International Journal of Art & Design Education

• Media, Culture & Society (Sage)

Not Review Options

• SIGNs: doesn't look like they publish reviews

Comics Citation Guide

Hair & Female Identity in Film

Fatal/Fetal Attraction: Psychological Aspects of Imagining Female Identity in Contemporary Film

Elaine Berland ¹ Marilyn Wechter ²

The Journal of Popular Culture

Volume 26 Issue 3, Pages 35 - 45

Published Online: 5 Mar 2004

Title: Beauty rites: towards an anatomy of culture in African American women's art

Authors: Wilson, Judith

Source: International Review of African American Art, v. 11 no3 ({1994}) p. 11-17+. (Peer Reviewed Journal)

Abstract:

The writer discusses the cultural significance of African-American preoccupations with hair. In Spike Lee's film School Daze, Lee's allegorical use of black hair is consistent with the general moralizing, dichotomous, and essentialist tendencies exhibited by black artists such as Bob Thompson, Barkley Hendricks, David Hammons, Jeffrey Scales, and Danny Tisdale. In her film Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash produces a visual poetics of black hair that parallels the documentary impulses of the artists Carrie Mae Weems and Lorna Simpson, sharing their reluctance to assign fixed meanings. It seems evident that the different ways black male and black female artists use hair in their art stem from the fact that competing claims of race and gender destabilize the identity of African-American women to a far greater degree than is true for African-American men.