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Today's library is still at the heart of all university activities,
helping students and faculty become better learners, teachers, and
researchers. In recent years there has emerged the formalizing of
one or more of these activities into an Academic Commons. These
centers of information have been labeled variously but they all
share a commonality: the empowerment of students and teachers. In
Creating the Academic Commons: Guidelines for Learning, Teaching,
and Research, Thomas Gould gives a detailed outline of the various
roles and activities that take place in commons located within the
administrative umbrella of the library. Gould provides a roadmap
for libraries seeking to establish their own Academic Commons,
complete with suggestions regarding physical structure and
software/hardware options. And to ensure new ideas are examined,
evaluated, and adopted broadly, Gould shows how the Millennial
Librarian can be at the center of this evolutionary library.
Including information regarding the latest technological advances,
this book will be an invaluable guide for librarians.
Globalization stems from many sources, but as Thomas Gould makes
clear, advertising is a primary driver of trans-global cultural
change. Gould argues that advertising often carries unfiltered and
unblocked cultural messages in addition to commercial speech; as
such, it not only builds consumer demand to open new markets but
also changes consumer expectations and values. At the same time,
the evolution of increasingly targeted mobile and social marketing
is transforming local and regional cultures into a new mix of
global branding and individualized micro-space. Gould examines how
advertising professionals negotiate these rocky and
quickly-changing cultural terrains. He also explores how
advertising-an increasingly global form of communication-is
becoming a platform for change at the individual level, and as a
direct consequence, at the social and political levels.
The current peer review process is broken and unless changes are
made it will soon die. In Do We Still Need Peer Review?, author
Thomas H.P. Gould examines the evolution of peer review from the
earliest attempts by the Church to evaluate scholarly works to the
creation of academic peer review and finally to the current status
of the process. Gould argues that without an immediate effort by
scholars to institute reform, the future of peer review may cease
to exist. As new technology provides authors with a direct,
unsupervised route to publication, the peer review situation is
nearing a tipping point, beyond which the nature of academic
research will be profoundly altered. This book proposes that rather
than tossing out peer review altogether, the process can be saved
and made stronger, offering suggestions on how to do just that.
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