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“Liberated from Serfdom”: Willis Conover and the Tallinn Jazz Festival of 1967
This book chapter presents the Charles Lloyd Quartet’s performance at the 1967 Tallinn Jazz Festival, which broke the “stagecraft” of prior jazz diplomacy with the Soviet Union, and proceeded despite numerous official attempts to derail it, as a case study in the effectiveness of Willis Conover’s approach over the twelve years since his Voice of America program began in 1955.
Date:
2018
Creator:
Feustle, Maristella
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Teaming up with Your Graduate School for Academic and Career Success
As libraries continue to reinvent themselves to remain relevant, spaces, services, and instruction targeted specifically for the needs of the graduate student community are essential. This chapter describes how the Library Research Support Services Department (LRSS) of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has collaborated with The Toulouse Graduate School (TGS) to support graduate students through the process of achieving the following three milestones: (1) writing the dissertation or thesis proposal, (2) completing the writing of the dissertation or thesis, and (3) developing an elevator speech for potential employers.
Date:
2018
Creator:
O'Toole, Erin; Barham, Rebecca; Monahan, Jo & Smith, Susan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Disrupting Labor in Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd
This chapter critiques the use of student labor on digital humanities projects in and out of the classroom.
Date:
November 6, 2018
Creator:
Keralis, Spencer D. C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Voice of Their Own—Letting Library Collections Tell Their Story: The UNT Libraries Collection Map
This chapter describes the development and use of a unique collection assessment tool, the Collection Map, to track the needs of academic disciplines and their fulfillment.
Date:
2018
Creator:
Harker, Karen & Klein, Janette
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Inclusivity Instead of Exclusivity: The Role of MOOCs for College Credit
This book chapter reviews the extant model, programs, and available outcomes for the massive open online course (MOOC) credit acceptance process.
Date:
2018
Creator:
Baker, Rose M.; Passmore, David L. & Mulligan, Brian Martin
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Complex Adaptive Systems: Adapting and Managing Teams and Team Conflict
This book chapter provides an overview of teams, complex adaptive systems, conflict stages, and conflict models, while also presenting adaptive leadership as a style that offers organizations with the capabilities of reacting to changing environments quickly.
Date:
August 1, 2018
Creator:
Turner, John; Baker, Rose M. & Morris, Mark
System:
The UNT Digital Library