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    • Singularity terrorism: Military meta-strategy in response to terror and technology 

      Evans, Woody (2013-08)
      This 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, ...

    • Swarms are hell: Warfare as an anti-transhuman choice 

      Evans, Woody (Journal of Evolution & Technology, 2013-12)
      The 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 ...

    • Why they won't save us: Political dispositions in the conflicts of superheroes 

      Evans, Woody (Organization for Transformative Works, 2014)
      Comic 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 ...

    • 2013 System Department Accomplishments 

      Schuster, David (2014-01-10)

    • POAR presentation for TXLA Poster Session 

      Schuster, David (2014-03-25)
      This 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 ...

    • Ebooks: Are your students getting a return on your investment 

      Reed, Kristine; Maxwell, Connie (Texas Woman's University, 2014-04-25)

    • Free Comic Book Day 

      Osborn, Allison; Wilson, Johnathan (2014-05-01)
      Free Comic Book Day event held at Texas Woman's University, Denton campus on May 1, 2014.

    • Conducting research on the college level 

      Wilson, Johnathan; Maxwell, Connie (Texas Woman's University, 2014-05-22)
      Presentation done at the AISL conference.

    • Your library : There's an app for that 

      Wilson, Johnathan; Jones, Leigh Ann, Dr. (Texas Woman's University, 2014-05-22)
      Presentation by Johnathan Wilson and Dr. Leigh Ann Jones about using Mobile website apps in libraries.

    • Comic Books and Academia: One Library’s Participation in Free Comic Book Day 

      Osborn, Allison; Wilson, Johnathan (2014-07-25)
      For 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 ...

    • Getting In Touch With EBooks 

      Reed, Kris (2014-07-25)

    • If you see a cyborg in the road, kill the Buddha: Against transcendental transhumanism 

      Evans, Woody (Journal of Evolution & Technology, 2014-09)
      A 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 ...

    • Google Books: Shamed by snobs, a resource for the rest of us 

      Whitmer, Susan (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015)
      On 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 ...

    • Action items for new librarians 

      Whitmer, Susan; Cool, Christina; Mims, Amanda; Townsdin, Suzanne (Texas Library Association, 2015)
      A 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 ...

    • Back to the Future: Re-examining the Need for Shelf–Ready Processes in the E-Book Environment 

      Martin, Susan; Ward, Pamela; Washington, Brittney (2015)

    • Derechos posthumanos: Dimensiones de los mundos transhumanos 

      Evans, Woody (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2015)
      There 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 ...

    • The Struggle for Open Mathematics Software 

      Evans, Woody (Information Today, Inc., 2015-03)
      Google 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 ...

    • The path to government funding 

      Evans, Woody (Information Today, 2015-07)
      The 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). ...

    • Visualizing Library Data 

      Schuster, David (Texas Woman's University, 2015-08-07)
      Presentation 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 ...

    • Charleston Library Conference 2015 Poster Session 

      Martin, Susan (2015-11-23)
      Shelf-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. ...