After reading Lailah's Lunchbox, a book about a young girl celebrating Ramadan, a circle of teachers discussed Ramadan through the perspective of the main character, Lailah. 1 Not only did the teachers in this graduate-level ...

With growing populations and ever increasing pressure on resources, the need to live sustainably with our environment has increased in significance. When considering such anthropogenic pressures, karst landscapes are as vulnerable, if not more so, ...

Karst environments, unique from other environments, require their own disturbance index. Karst resources are increasingly disturbed by a variety of processes related to social, physical, and economic factors. Recent studies have begun to qualify and ...

The ability of public institutions to provide efficient and equitable potable water services is key to reducing water-borne diseases, one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the developing world. In this article, ...

This study focuses on the perspectives of library staff at a medium-sized academic library who directly participated in the restructuring of reference and information services from a “just-in-case” reference model (defined as librarians sitting at ...

Karst environments have been impacted by human activity for thousands of years, ever since people started living in caves for shelter, needing building supplies and water. As human population has increased, so has its disturbance ...

Learning Objectives: Identify the distinctive qualities of abstracts and introductions. Define “annotated bibliography” and why it is used. Describe the types of annotations and when they are used. Describe the purpose of a literature review. ...

This presentation describes a research project in which reiterative visitor observation and focus group research was conducted over the span of one year, during which high-impact and low-cost design changes were made to the first ...

Karst environments have been impacted by human activity for thousands of years, ever since people started living in caves for shelter, needing building supplies and water. As human population has increased, so has its disturbance ...