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‘Breaking Bread with the Dead’: W. H. Auden, Seamus Heaney and Yeats’s legacy
(2007-05-14) Connolly, Sally
A postprint version of ‘Breaking Bread with the Dead’: W. H. Auden, Seamus Heaney and Yeats’s legacy, by Sally Connolly, published in Yeats Annual 17 (2007).
Review of Letter from an Unknown Woman by Stefan Zweig
(2000-11-24) Connolly, Sally
A review of Letter from an Unknown Woman by Stefan Zweig published in The Times Literary Supplement
Review of Consequences by U. A. Fanthorpe
(2001-04-13) Connolly, Sally
A review of Consequences by U. A. Fanthorpe published in The Times Literary Supplement
Review of Pictures of You by Matt Thorne
(2001-09-21) Connolly, Sally
A review of Pictures of You by Matt Thorne published in The Times Literary Supplement
Review of Mr Strangelove, by Ed Sikov
(2002-10-18) Connolly, Sally
A review of Mr Strangelove, by Ed Sikov published in The Times Literary Supplement
Review of Madonna: An Intimate Biography by J. Randy Taraborrelli
(2001-07-27) Connolly, Sally
A review of Madonna: An Intimate Biography by J. Randy Taraborrelli published in The Times Literary Supplement
An Excerpt from Grief and Meter: Elegies for Poets After Auden
(2016-11-09) Connolly, Sally
The elegizing of poets is one of the oldest and most enduring traditions in English poetry. Many of the most influential and best-known poems in the language—such as Milton’s "Lycidas," Shelley’s "Adonais," and Auden’s "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"—are elegies for poets. In Grief and Meter, Sally Connolly offers the first book to focus on these poems and the role they play as a specific subgenre of elegy, establishing a genealogy of poetry that traces the dynamics of influence and inheritance in twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry. She identifies a distinctive and significant Anglo-American line of descent that resonates in these poems, with British poets often elegizing American ones, yet rarely the other way around. Further, she reveals how these poems function as a means of mediating, effecting, and tracing transatlantic poetic exchanges. The author frames elegies for poets as a chain of commemoration and inheritance, each link independent, but when seen as part of the "golden chain," signifying a larger purpose and having a correspondingly greater strength. Grief and Meter provides a compelling account of how and why these poems are imbued with such power and significance.
Review of Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy, by Diana Fuss
(2013-04-26) Connolly, Sally
A review of Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy, by Diana Fuss published in The Times Literary Supplement
An Excerpt from Ranches of Isolation: Transatlantic Poetics
(2018-10-26) Connolly, Sally
An excerpt from Ranches of Isolation: Transatlantic Poetics by Sally Connolly, published by Madhat Press
Review of The Bluebird Café by Rebecca Smith
(2001-05-04) Connolly, Sally
A review of The Bluebird Café by Rebecca Smith published in The Times Literary Supplement
Review of All the Rage by Paul Magrs
(2001-08-17) Connolly, Sally
A review of All the Rage by Paul Magrs published in The Times Literary Supplement
Review of The Oxford Handbook of Poetry, Ed. Karen Weisman (Oxford University Press) and The Elegies of Ted Hughes by Edward Hadley (Palgrave Macmillan)
(2011-03-25) Connolly, Sally
A review of The Oxford Handbook of Poetry, Ed. Karen Weisman (Oxford University Press) and The Elegies of Ted Hughes by Edward Hadley (Palgrave Macmillan) published in The Times Literary Supplement
Co-Production for Equitable Governance in Community Climate Adaptation: Neighborhood Resilience in Houston, Texas
(2024-03-28) Munenzon, Dalia
As urban areas grapple with the pressing impacts of climate change, fostering community-level resilience becomes imperative. Co-production, emphasizing active stakeholder engagement, offers a pathway to robust, equitable, and inclusive adaptation strategies. This article delves into the co-production processes within neighborhood resilience planning in Houston, Texas, revealing how collaboration between communities, planners, and municipal leaders can address climate vulnerabilities and support disadvantaged groups. Through an empirical analysis of three Houston neighborhoods, the study evaluates co-production’s role in promoting neighborhood-scale adaptive capacity and reshaping power dynamics to advance equity and environmental justice. The results highlight the significance of local institutions and the necessity of municipal commitment to co-production efforts. The study contributes actionable insights on the application of co-production in neighborhood climate adaptation, emphasizing the need for direct municipal engagement to implement transformative spatial projects and rebalance governance frameworks for effective climate action.
A Virtual Linked Data Study Group: Our Experiences and Perspectives
(2024-02-15) Crane, Jill; Hood, Martha; Pappas, Jodene; Ramirez, Ada Laura; Vandale, Susan
At the University of Houston Libraries in 2018, a virtual Linked Data Study Group took root and grew to include a total of seven librarians from multiple institutions across the country. This presentation highlights a collaborative model for learning and professional growth in technical services.
Resource Sharing with Born Digital Music Materials
(2024-02-16) Martin, Leonard, Jr.; Nichols, Maurine
This lighting talk presentation discusses how UH Libraries' Acquisitions and Resource Sharing (ARS) and Resource Management and Metadata (RMM) departments collaborated on the acquisitions and description of a digital born music resources. This presentation discusses the challenges and successes of acquiring and describing a digital born music score, a documentary film issued as a USB thumb drive, and a sound recording issued as a CD with a digital download code. The presentation concludes by discussing controlled digital lending (CDL) opportunities on the horizon at UH Libraries.
A Computational Mapping of Online News Deserts on African News Websites
(2023-09-28) Madrid-Morales, Dani; Rodríguez-Amat, Joan Ramon; Lindner, Peggy
To date, the study of news deserts, geographic spaces lacking local news and information, has largely focused on countries in the Global North, particularly the United States, and has predominantly been interested in the causes and consequences of the disappearance of local media outlets (e.g., newspapers and TV stations) to the social fabric of a community. In this article, we extend the concept of “news deserts” by drawing on literature on the geography of news in Africa, where information voids have long been documented but have not been studied within the conceptual framework of news deserts. Using computational tools, we analyse a sample of 519,004 news articles published in English or French by news websites in 39 African countries. We offer evidence of the existence of online news deserts at two levels: at a continental level (i.e., some countries/regions are hardly ever covered by online media of other African countries) and at a domestic level (i.e., online news media of a given country seldom cover large areas of the said country). This article contributes to the study of news deserts by (a) examining a continent that has not been featured in previous research, (b) testing a methodological approach that employs computational tools to study news geographies online, and (c) exploring the flexibility of the term and its applicability to different media ecosystems.
Images, An Overview
(Elsevier, 2023-06-23) Jones, Jerrell
Images have been historical records since the advent of photography. High-resolution photography laid the groundwork for the digitization process known today and has continued to bolster the cultural heritage sector. An overview of images in the context of library and information science (LIS) is a story of how libraries have adopted aspects of the commercial image production environment, expensive digitization equipment, and considerable information technology infrastructure to provide image resources to their users. This entry discusses images in the LIS field and considers the concepts, tools, and best practices that surround the prevalence of images as primary sources.
Structured Narrative Literature Review Template
(2022-11) Williamson, Katherine; Reilly, Michele; Thompson, Santi
The “Structured Narrative Literature Review Template” was developed by Katherine Williamson, Michele Reilly, and Santi Thompson in November 2022. It is intended to be discipline-agnostic but has been primarily used for research in Library and Information Science domains. Other researchers are free to use/repurpose this template. The authors are making this template available via an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. This template replaces a previous version, titled “Literature Review Template”, found here: https://hdl.handle.net/10657/12663.
Implementing Strength-Based Dialogue to Reframe Clinical Education and Community Engagement
(Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2023) Mills, Monique T.
Purpose: Healthcare professionals want to solve problems. When health disparities are observed, the solution often rests on expanding access to clinical services. But what are the varied paths that persons with communication disorders might take to access speech, language, and hearing care? Where are these paths successful and where does a well-intended initiative have an absent or limited effect in altering disparities? Multiple, complex factors affect access to healthcare in underserved communities. However, current practice tends to frame the goals and metrics of outreach programs in terms of access to healthcare services, which risks privileging the perspective of the providers who want to increase the volume of services accessed over the voices of the community members for whom access to healthcare is only part of the larger course of their lives. Solutions that do not reflect those community strengths outside the service provision framework likely yield minimal impact on quality of life, since the community members are less likely to fully embrace the solution. Method: In this clinical forum, we describe a community-informed strengths-based framework for clinicians and clinical researchers whose work is designed to reach underserved communities by employing mutual trust, empathy, active listening, and patient-centered care planning. Through case scenarios we exemplify key tenets of the framework. Conclusion: The community-informed strengths-based framework detailed in this clinical forum supports a paradigm shift from a biomedically-informed strengths-based framework to a model of healthcare service provision that focuses on individual or community strengths. Eliciting guidance from those receiving care and framing the totality of encounters in terms of the process of responding to community strengths can build a collaborative and sustainable path forward toward achieving health goals. Keywords: strengths-based service delivery, health outcomes, developmental language disorder, cognitive decline, community health workers, clinical education
The Effects of Visual Stimuli on the Spoken Narrative Performance of School-Age African American Children, with Erratum
(Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2015-10-01) Mills, Monique T.
Purpose. This study investigated the fictional narrative performance of school-age African American children across 3 elicitation contexts that differed in the type of visual stimulus presented. Method. A total of 54 children in Grades 2 through 5 produced narratives across 3 different visual conditions: no visual, picture sequence, and single picture. Narratives were examined for visual condition differences in expressive elaboration rate, number of different word roots (NDW) rate, mean length of utterance in words, and dialect density. The relationship between diagnostic risk for language impairment and narrative variables was explored. Results. Expressive elaboration rate and mean length of utterance in words were higher in the no-visual condition than in either the picture-sequence or the single-picture conditions. NDW rate was higher in the no-visual and picture-sequence conditions than in the single-picture condition. Dialect density performance across visual context depended on the child's grade, so that younger children produced a higher rate of African American English in the no-visual condition than did older children. Diagnostic risk was related to NDW rate and dialect density measure. Conclusion. The results suggest the need for narrative elicitation contexts that include verbal as well as visual tasks to fully describe the narrative performance of school-age African American children with typical development. ---Erratum--- In the original article, the text in the Abstract on p. 337 reads, “Dialect density performance across visual context depended on the child's grade, so that younger children produced a higher rate of African American English in the no-visual condition than did older children. Diagnostic risk was related to NDW rate and dialect density measure.” The text should have stated, “African American English production across visual context depended on the child's grade, such that younger children produced a lower rate of AAE in the picture sequence condition than did older children. Diagnostic risk was related with NDW rate but unrelated with dialect density measure.” In addition, on p. 346, the original text reads, “As shown in Table 2, these children produced DDM rates that were similar in the no-visual (M = 0.02, SD = 0.01), picture-sequence (M = 0.03, SD = 0.02), and single-picture (M = 0.03, SD = 0.02) conditions.” For clarity, the text should have stated, “As shown in Table 2, older children produced DDM rates that were similar in the no-visual (M = 0.02, SD = 0.01), picture-sequence (M = 0.03, SD = 0.02), and single-picture (M = 0.03, SD = 0.02) conditions.” We sincerely apologize for this error.

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