In June 2010, the Washington State Historical Society, the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library and the University of Michigan Library all entered milestone records into WorldCat using the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway. The 400,000th milestone record, a record titled, Golden-cheeked Warbler 1, was entered by the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library (www.worldcat.org/oclc/614416763 ). The record, Golden-cheeked Warbler 1, is a sound recording and part of the Western Soundscape Archive.
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Jul 092010
SALT LAKE CITY, UT (kuer) – As the human population grows, studies show that human-caused noise is growing too. The roar of automobile and airplane traffic extends across the landscape, and even reaches into remote environments. Scientists are starting to wonder what sort of effects this might have on animal species. Jeff Rice reports for the Western Soundscapes radio series.
Permanently housed in the Multimedia Archives of Special Collections, below are just some of the new videos available on Marriott’s YouTube Channel
Nov 252009
Tim Garrett, an associate professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah, has been in local and world news recently. His provocative study, Are There Basic Physical Constraints on Future Anthropogenic Emissions of Carbon Dioxide?, was published online this week in the journal of Climatic Change. We uploaded it today to USpace. At the foundation of his study is Garrett’s use of physics to create a new global economic growth model. The article has created some controversy because of the study’s indications that energy conservation ultimately increases economic growth and therefore leads to accelerated energy consumption; and that stabilizing CO2 emissions even at current rates is not possible. A good summary of the study can be found here.
Oct 272009
USpace now has the capability to archive research posters created by students and faculty at the UofU in a media-rich format. Posters in USpace may now include embedded audio and video, PowerPoint slides, PDF or Word documents, and Web links.
Today’s article, then, is a research poster. It’s a poster created to highlight a class for researchers and other creators here at the U, called Publishing SMART: How to Make your Article Visible. The aim of the class is to help scholars achieve the most impact for their publications through the publishing and archiving choices they make.
Aug 182009
As the summer winds down and school is about to start for learners of all ages, I find myself wondering where the summer went. Many of us have the same feelings, I know. I think of my two teenagers, in particular, and the various ways they have filled their summer hours: sleeping-in, reading, swimming, paid employment, etc. I poked around UScholar Works for an article related to this general topic and came across a working paper by Professor Cathleen Zick titled Over-Scheduled or at Loose Ends? The Shifting Balance of Adolescent Time Use.
In this paper Professor Zick notes that, over the past decades, there has been a decline in the number of hours adolescents spend working a job. She uses two time diary studies (one from 1977-78; the other, 2003-2005) to obtain data to answer the following questions: How are adolescents spending their time, given that they’re working less? Are they filling their time with more developmentally enriching activities? Is the employment decline related to family income levels and/or declining wage rates? Visit the full paper here if you would like some answers to those questions.
Aug 052009
The mission of USpace, the University of Utah’s Institutional Repository is to collect, maintain, preserve, record, and provide access to the intellectual capital and output of the University of Utah, to reflect the University’s excellence, and to share that work with others. The University’s excellence emanates through a range of venues including its teaching, research and service. While research is sometimes thought of in terms of scientific laboratories, clinics, journal articles and books, it also occurs within studios devoted to art, music, and movement with outcomes such as paintings, sculptures and performances. One such example of this is De metal y madera: for flute, cello, percussion, and electronics. Written in 1999 by Professor Miguel Chuaqui, the musical score represents a culmination of his research interests which include “collaborations with colleagues in areas as diverse as Modern Dance (interactive dance systems) and the School of Medicine (interactive software development for therapeutic musical applications).” While reading the score in USpace, you can listen to a brief performance. This kind of research represents a growing area for USpace as we look toward fulfilling our goal of collecting, maintaining, preserving, recording and providing access to the intellectual capital of the University of Utah.
Jul 282009
We recently uploaded this article to UScholar Works. It’s by Elijah Millgram, Professor of Philosophy here at the University of Utah. The article takes as its topic Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality. Written in 1887, Nietzsche’s Genealogy is considered by many scholars to be one of his greatest works, and an important work in the ethical canon. What Millgram lays out step-by-step in his article is a new way of reading the Genealogy. Briefly, Millgram’s new reading of the work postulates that in his Geneology Nietzsche presents his position on the origin of moral values in precisely the way he seems to be condemning in the work; and that he does this in order to show the effectiveness of that which he is condemning. In Millgram’s words, “The Genealogy of Morals is a very sophisticated critique of morality—for intellectuals, and that is because it is, at the same time, an exposé of the intellectuals themselves.”
Jun 252009
Selected images of Salt Lake City from the Utah State Historical Society Shipler Photograph Collection