LIS Theory
Cataloguing Realia with AACR2 and CCO
A comparative essay on AACR2 Chapter 10 and the Cataloguing Cultural Objects (CCO) standard for creating bibliographic metadata for 3D artifacts, particularly those held in museum and gallery collections.
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The Value of Uniform Titles in Access
An analysis of the practice of adding uniform titles for translated and collected works, under the circumstances of cutbacks in a cataloguing department of an academic research library.
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Challenges to LGBTQ Materials
An essay on responding to challenges to LGBTQ-friendly children's material within the public library, specifically books such as Daddy’s Roommate and Heather has Two Mommies. Addresses both practical advice for dealing with patrons as well as ethical implications.
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Knowledge Management Practices among Law Firms
An analysis of popular knowledge management and knowledge transfer practices among private law firms as well as challenges and solutions unique to the culture and organization of law.
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Resource Reviews
JSTOR Resources for Librarians Review
A review of JSTOR's Resources for Librarians, a white paper or toolkit for training and marketing materials. This review was done according to the guidelines and components for publication in The Charleston Advisor.
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Gale Directory of Databases Review
A brief review of the Gale Directory of Databases, according to common standards for book reviews published in journals for collections librarians, and with the constraint of 300 words.
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Literary Theory
Kafka and Welles' The Trial
An essay on film noir tropes, French existentialism, and modern anxiety within the novel and film The Trial by Franz Kafka and Orson Welles, respectively.
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The Superman in Shaw and Shelley
An examination of the Nietzschean Superman in Shaw's Man and Superman and Shelley's Frankenstein and parallels with Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution, the Miltonic Satan, and the Prometheus mythology.
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Language in Richard III
An essay on the patterns of repetition, ritual, and imagery in language among secondary characters in Shakespeare's Richard III in comparison to Richard's own wit and irreverence.
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Deconstructing Woolf's The Lady in the Looking Glass
A deconstructionist reading of Woolf's short story The Lady in the Looking Glass and its prefiguring of post-modern theory.
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To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization.