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Integrating information literacy into the curriculum
(CONUL, 2011) Breen, Ellen; Gillespie, Brian; Crump, Monica; Antonesa, Mary; McCabe, Grainne; Harpur, Isolde; Mulcahy, Helen; Kendlin, Valerie; Ó Doibhlin, Donna; Higher Education Authority
This booklet is aimed at all staff engaged in course design and delivery. Its purpose is to show what information literacy (IL) is, how it can be successfully built into courses and programmes of study, and how library staff can engage in collaborative partnerships to achieve this. It offers:» Practical guidance to support the integration of information literacy» Case studies of good practice within the CONUL Libraries» Helpful tips for teaching staff, programme committees and module teams. Information literacy is a key component in the development of the student as an independent learner. It also contributes to the ability of students to work confidently with information and IT tools, and to develop essential critical thinking skills. All these are essential attributes for the modern graduate and the modern employee. The new graduate must not only have specialist knowledge in their field, but also have a range of generic competencies required to participate in a workplace subject to constant change, the skills to continue learning throughout a professional lifetime. (IUA, 2005). Integrating information literacy is about creating a curriculum which enables students to develop the skills to learn independently and to carry on learning, throughout their employment and life.
What is societal collapse? Lessons from the past can help us understand our future, but only to a point
(The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited, 2024-09-04) Steel, Daniel; Giang, Amanda; Mintz-Woo, Kian
As the climate crisis accelerates, it’s hard not to wonder if today’s societies can adapt. Growing worries over climate change have sparked interest in the collapse of ancient civilizations and the rise of the (often apocalypse-themed) “cli-fi” genre in popular culture. But before turning to the past for answers, it is important to think about what collapse is and why it matters.
Effective climate action requires us to abandon viewing our efforts as a ‘sacrifice'
(The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited, 2023-11-14) Steel, Daniel; DesRoches, C. Tyler; Mintz-Woo, Kian
If you’re like most people, you’ve been taught that climate action is a sacrifice. Cutting emissions from fossil fuels, you’ve probably been told, is the economy-squeezing price we must pay for a livable planet. But our research explains why we should look at this issue through a different frame. Frames help us think about complex issues. They suggest starting assumptions, problems to be solved and point towards possible solutions. Sacrifice frames begin with the assumption that climate action is a burdensome cost. Given that assumption, it naturally follows that climate action is all about convincing people to make sacrifices. But scholars have criticized sacrifice frames for being bad at motivating action. Tell a person to sacrifice, and they’re likely to give you a list of reasons why they shouldn’t have to do it. We suggest a different approach. Instead of explaining why you should sacrifice for the climate, we explain why climate action isn’t a sacrifice. We also suggest an alternative, more hopeful frame that fits with current science.
The gendered geographies of the New Woman and the Dublin tramcar: the ‘Jolly Flapper’ incident
(Manchester University Press, 2024) Linehan, Denis
At the turn of the 20th century, the tram system in Dublin became a key site for commentary on the values and behaviour of the New Woman. Following their introduction, trams became a new kind of urban space in Dublin, public but also intimate sites that brought men and women into new forms of proximity and intimacy, which required ongoing cultural negotiation and constant moral revision. While women were largely excluded from the production of railway space, their occupation of these new mobile territories - where they brought onboard a mixture of new and conventional roles- over time displaced patriarchal claims to public space. Tram systems were spaces of intense sociability and modernity in which the modern Irish woman became a spectacle in motion. In this chapter, I bring into conversation scholarship on the gendered histories of public transport, with new work in cultural studies that casts the relational and overlapping characteristics of infrastructure as social and political assemblages. Using this approach, I revisit the Dublin trams' social, spatial and gendered modalities after Irish Independence to interrogate their modernity. In all these cases, the disruptive capacity of New Women ensured the tram became a site where she was constantly located, criticised, and also identified as a symbol of resistance. The chapter offers a close reading of the 'Jolly Flapper' episode, a long series of letters published in The Evening Herald in the autumn of 1928. These exchanges drew a debate about the new claims women made to public space via their treatment on the trams, into a more comprehensive discussion. In this episode, the vitality and agency of New Women are revealed, overturning many of the established narratives about the cultural and social disenfranchisement of Irish women during this period and revising our understanding of the Irish Flapper.
Experimental validation of piezoelectric energy-harvesting device for built infrastructure applications
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018-06-05) Cahill, Paul; Mathewson, Alan; Pakrashi, Vikram
Vibration energy-harvesting devices are increasingly becoming more efficient and useful. The performance of such devices for energy harvesting from vibrations of civil infrastructure can be theoretically quantified, and energy harvesting under harmonic loadings can be validated experimentally. Experimental validation of such devices for civil infrastructure applications, such as bridges, remains an important but more complex and challenging issue, in part due to the more uncertain nature of the dynamic response of structures under operational conditions and problems with access for such testing. Lack of existing experimental benchmarks is also a major obstacle behind adopting this technology for bridges. This study presents a laboratory-based experimental procedure through which a piezoelectric energy harvester was experimentally verified for rail bridges in their operational condition with trains traversing them. A general experimental arrangement required for validating a piezoelectric cantilever energy-harvesting device is presented, along with the fabrication of a prototype device and detailed experimental setup. A model bridge undergoing loadings from an international train fleet was chosen, and the acceleration response from the bridge was used as the excitation source for the energy-harvesting device. Numerically estimated performances of the energy harvester were validated by experimentation for a range of trains. The method is applicable for validating energy harvesting from arbitrary vibrations of built infrastructure within the laboratory environment without the need of scaling. The device and related experimental procedure will serve as a benchmark for similar unscaled tests within a laboratory environment and can be useful for assessing devices or their applications in monitoring built infrastructure under realistic conditions without the need for deployment on site.

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