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Item Singularity terrorism: Military meta-strategy in response to terror and technology(2013-08) Evans, WoodyThis paper examines the responses to advanced and transformative technologies in military literature, attenuates the conclusions of earlier work suggesting that there is an “ignorance of transhumanism” in the military, and updates the current layout of transhuman concerns in military thought. The military is not ignorant of transhuman issues and implications, though there was evidence for this in the past; militaries and non-state actors (including terrorists) increasingly use disruptive technologies with what we may call transhuman provenance.Item Swarms are hell: Warfare as an anti-transhuman choice(Journal of Evolution & Technology, 2013-12) Evans, WoodyThe use of advanced technologies, even of so-called transhuman technology, does not make militaries transhuman. Transhumanism includes dimensions of ethics that are themselves in direct conflict with many transhuman capabilities of soldiers in warfare. The use of advanced weapons of mass destruction represents an anti-humanism that undermines the modern, open, and high tech nation state.Item Why they won't save us: Political dispositions in the conflicts of superheroes(Organization for Transformative Works, 2014) Evans, WoodyComic book superheroes tend to be conservative and their opponents progressive. Here I explore the reasons for heroic conservatism, review recent disruptions to the trend, and consider what superhuman politics can tell us about our own transhuman and science fictional conditions.Item 2013 System Department Accomplishments(2014-01-10) Schuster, DavidItem POAR presentation for TXLA Poster Session(2014-03-25) Schuster, DavidThis poster was presented at the poster session of the Texas Library Association Conference in 2014 of the Texas Woman's University's Institutional Repository. Since November 2013 this has been the process used to select items to place into the Pioneer Open Access Repository(POAR). By using Dissertations and Theses requested through Inter-Library Loan the Library has scanned about 6 dissertations a week since November 2013. New Dissertations and Theses from Proquest are being submitted directly into POAR. The Poster also shows how the usage of these items once made digital provide better access.Item Ebooks: Are your students getting a return on your investment(Texas Woman's University, 2014-04-25) Reed, Kristine; Maxwell, ConnieItem Free Comic Book Day(2014-05-01) Osborn, Allison; Wilson, JohnathanFree Comic Book Day event held at Texas Woman's University, Denton campus on May 1, 2014.Item Your library : There's an app for that(Texas Woman's University, 2014-05-22) Wilson, Johnathan; Jones, Leigh Ann, Dr.Presentation by Johnathan Wilson and Dr. Leigh Ann Jones about using Mobile website apps in libraries.Item Conducting research on the college level(Texas Woman's University, 2014-05-22) Wilson, Johnathan; Maxwell, ConniePresentation done at the AISL conference.Item Comic Books and Academia: One Library’s Participation in Free Comic Book Day(2014-07-25) Osborn, Allison; Wilson, JohnathanFor the first time ever, Texas Woman's University libraries participated in Free Comic Book Day, a nationwide event that promotes the reading and adoption of comic books and graphic novels. Being an academic library, it was important to relate the comic book day to a university environment, so a presentation was included about the merits of comic books in academia. Ideas for partnering with comic book shops, marketing, and displays will be including in the presentation.Item Getting In Touch With EBooks(2014-07-25) Reed, KrisItem If you see a cyborg in the road, kill the Buddha: Against transcendental transhumanism(Journal of Evolution & Technology, 2014-09) Evans, WoodyA stream in transhumanism argues that the aims of Buddhism and transhumanists are akin. It is the case that transhumanism contains religious tropes, and its parallels to Christianity are readily apparent. It does not share much, however, with Buddhism’s Zen tradition. Zen tends to focus its practitioners on becoming fully present and human, not on becoming transcendent, super-powered, or posthuman. This paper explores some of the tensions between transhumanism and Buddhism through the lens of Zen, and suggests that transhumanist Buddhists should be careful not to conflate moments of spiritual enlightenment with permanent techno-social transcendence.Item Action items for new librarians(Texas Library Association, 2015) Whitmer, Susan; Cool, Christina; Mims, Amanda; Townsdin, SuzanneA librarian’s first year of professional work is full of expectations – both from the new librarian and the employer. Job responsibilities can range from serving as the LibGuides administrator to library instructor for first-year English composition classes. Library and information science schools prepare new librarians with theory. However, it is on-the-job training and the ability to adapt to an institution’s culture that determines successItem Back to the Future: Re-examining the Need for Shelf–Ready Processes in the E-Book Environment(2015) Martin, Susan; Ward, Pamela; Washington, BrittneyItem Google Books: Shamed by snobs, a resource for the rest of us(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015) Whitmer, SusanOn my first day at the university library reference desk, four students requested The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities by Lawrence C. Ross Jr. The Divine Nine is suggested reading for pledges to African American fraternities and sororities at the University of North Texas (UNT). The UNT Libraries’ three copies were checked out and each copy had holds on their catalog records. During my first week at the reference desk, requests for The Divine Nine were at the top of the frequently asked questions list. This book chapter describes my experience helping students locate the title using Google Books.Item Derechos posthumanos: Dimensiones de los mundos transhumanos(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2015) Evans, WoodyThere are at least three dimensions to rights. We may have and lack freedom to 1) be, 2) do, and 3) have. These dimensions reformulate Locke’s categories, and are further complicated by placing them within the context of domains such as natural or civil rights. Here the question of the origins of rights is not addressed, but issues concerning how we may contextualize them are discussed. Within the framework developed, this paper makes use of Actor-Network Theory and Enlightenment values to examine the multidimensionality and appropriateness of animal rights and human rights for posthumans. The core position here is that rights may be universal and constant, but they can only be accessed within a matrix of relative cultural dimensions. This will be true for posthumans, and their rights will be relative to human rights and dependent on human and posthuman responsibilities.Item The Struggle for Open Mathematics Software(Information Today, Inc., 2015-03) Evans, WoodyGoogle announced in September 2014 that it would be working with SageMath to power the new SageMathCloud. The collaboration throws down a gauntlet against claims of ownership of mathematical truths. Wolfram Research is arguably the world's dominant mathematics software provider. Since its release in 1988, its flagship Mathematica software has become the world's definitive system for modern technical computing, as its own ad verbiage says. Mathematica contains libraries of mathematical functions, computational tools for everything from machine learning to data mining, and even "free-form" inputs for natural English queries. Due to the cost and "closedness" of proprietary software such Mathematica and MATLAB, many "open" mathematics software projects have begun to appear. Beginning in the 1990s, the advent of Berkley Software Distribution licenses have allowed flexibility, general openness, and compatibility with the "General Public License" for many new mathematics software projects.Item The path to government funding(Information Today, 2015-07) Evans, WoodyThe U.S. Department of Education and IES (Institute of Education Sciences) awarded their 2015 Small Business Innovation Research grants to 21 educational startups this spring (ies.ed.gov/ sbir/2015awards.asp). FedScoop reported that this year’s grants will total more than $9 million and cover initiatives in two phases. Phase I grants run for some 6 months and help startups develop prototypes for educational products; Phase II helps them move on to “fully scale their products over two years to be used in classrooms.” Nearly one-fourth of the grantees’ products focus on environment simulations through augmented and virtual realities.Item Visualizing Library Data(Texas Woman's University, 2015-08-07) Schuster, DavidPresentation done at the Cross Timbers Library Consortium. This is a review of Dashboards and how Texas Woman's University Libraries has started to visualize and prepare data for future use. Getting the data organized and in a format in which it can be collected decentralized, gathering it in one place and automatically update the data without lots of intervention. Making it more sustainable and easy to access. Look to next and future steps in our process of assessment and visualization.Item Charleston Library Conference 2015 Poster Session(2015-11-23) Martin, SusanShelf-ready processing of print materials is a commonly available service from library book vendors, and many libraries outsource these services in order to help save staff time and costs, and to expedite the process. However, in the age where print monographs are increasingly replaced with e-books, do these services still make fiscal sense? In the Spring of 2015, the Libraries were looking to expand shelf-ready services to a second vendor, but before doing so opted to do a feasibility study to see if shelf-ready services were still needed and economical. This paper presents the findings of a two month study done at the Texas Woman’s University Libraries’ on the Libraries’ outsourced and in-house cataloging workflows. The study examined the amount of time it took to receive the materials after ordering, the various costs involved: shelf-ready fees and internal staff costs, as well as the numbers of print materials being purchased over the past three fiscal years.
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