Published Works http://hdl.handle.net/2022/321 Articles, book chapters and other published works by librarians and staff of the IUB Libraries 2017-08-19T07:42:27Z Feeling like a clerk in H. G. Wells http://hdl.handle.net/2022/21577 Feeling like a clerk in H. G. Wells Higgins, Richard In three turn-of-the-century novels about clerks and scholarship boys, H. G. Wells illustrates the emotional impact of social hierarchies on individual lives. By portraying the conflicted, class-related emotions of lower-middle-class men, Wells departs from the common contemporary image of the clerk as a figure synonymous with his function. But Wells depicts other emotions -- specifically, those associated with domesticity and recklessness -- to push against what he sees as the classed nature of emotional lives. He rewrites Victorian domesticity as a zone of sexuality and desire for his lower-middle-class clerks, and he mobilizes an emergent cultural appreciation of recklessness to instill them with vitality. The "significant selves" that develop as a result help to offset their ultimate failure to escape their class. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Waste and Value: Thorstein Veblen and H. G. Wells http://hdl.handle.net/2022/21576 Waste and Value: Thorstein Veblen and H. G. Wells Brantlinger, Patrick; Higgins, Richard Introducing Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life, William Cohen declares: “polluting or filthy objects” can “become conceivably productive, the discarded sources in which riches may lie.” “Riches,” though, have often been construed as “waste.” The reversibility of the poles -- wealth and waste, waste and wealth -- became especially apparent with the advent of a so-called consumer society dur- ing the latter half of the nineteenth century. A number of the first analysts of that economistic way of understanding modernity, including Thorstein Veblen and H. G. Wells, made this reversibility central to their ideas. But such reversibility has a much longer history, involving a general shift from economic and social theories that seek to make clear distinctions between wealth and waste to modern ones where the distinctions blur, as in Veblen and Wells; in some versions of post-modernism the distinctions dissolve altogether. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Who's Talking about Scholarly Communication? An Examination of Gender and Behavior on the SCHOLCOMM Listserv http://hdl.handle.net/2022/21340 Who's Talking about Scholarly Communication? An Examination of Gender and Behavior on the SCHOLCOMM Listserv Hayes, Clayton; Kelly, Heidi Elaine INTRODUCTION This study analyzes the gender dynamics of the American Library Association’s SCHOLCOMM listserv in order to determine the accuracy of concerns expressed by participants in early 2016 regarding the dominance of male voices on the listserv. METHODS Utilizing the SCHOLCOMM listserv archive, openly available online, the authors analyzed metadata related to individual messages in order to create a comprehensive list of participants, which was then analyzed to determine gender identity. The authors utilized this information to correlate the frequency of new messages and replies sent to the list with the gender identity of participants. RESULTS While men represented 35% of the SCHOLCOMM list’s participants, they contributed over half of the messages sent to the listserv and two-thirds of those sent as replies on existing message threads. DISCUSSION The opinion of several SCHOLCOMM participants that male voices were overrepresented in listserv discussions proved to be true. The gender identity breakdown of those most active on the list may also influence the perceptions and/or behaviors of other listserv participants, however, and should be investigated further. CONCLUSION While this study substantiates the opinion of several listserv participants that male SCHOLCOMM participants account for a disproportionately large amount of listserv discussion, we argue that the dynamics of the listserv can and should be changed in order to better represent the participant population. 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Discovering user behavior: Applying usage statistics to shape frontline services http://hdl.handle.net/2022/21280 Discovering user behavior: Applying usage statistics to shape frontline services Cohen, Rachael; Thorpe, Angie This investigation sought to develop a broad view of discovery service user behavior by analyzing vendor-provided and Google Analytics usage data from discovery service implementations at two Indiana University campuses. The results of this analysis demonstrate how usage data can communicate both intermediary and end results of user interactions within discovery services. The findings reveal user behavior trends, which may be used to develop strategies to improve information literacy instruction techniques, as well as discovery service interface enhancements. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
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