Sources: Serving Boys through Readers’ Advisory

Understanding boys': thinking through boys, masculinity and suicide.

In the UK, the media are reporting increasing rates of childhood suicide, while highlighting that increasing numbers of pre-adolescent boys (in relation to girls) are diagnosed as mentally ill. In response, academic, professional and political commentators are explaining this as a consequence of gender. One way of doing this has been to apply adult defined understandings of men and masculinitie...

Gender and Sexuality, Self-Identity, and Libraries: Readers’ Advisory as a Technique for Creative (Dis)Assembly

Is Flash Really Accessible When Interacting through Screen Readers?

In this paper we report on a study, which aims to assess whether the recent versions of Flash allow designers to obtain really accessible applications when users interact through screen readers. A Flash application has been analysed for this purpose along with various solutions for improving its accessibility. The results show that in some important cases Flash applications still raise importan...

Educational Technology as Seen Through the Eyes of the Readers

In this paper, I present the evaluation of a novel knowledge domain visualization of educational technology. The interactive visualization is based on readership patterns in the online reference management system Mendeley. It comprises of 13 topic areas, spanning psychological, pedagogical, and methodological foundations, learning methods and technologies, and social and technological developme...

Methods and Techniques for Contaminated Property Valuation

As noted in the previous edition of “Environment and the Appraiser,” 1 assignments involving contaminated properties, or properties that may be impacted by environmental contamination, often require specialized valuation methods and techniques. The Appraisal Standards Board provides guidance on this issue in Advisory Opinion 9 (AO-9), “The Appraisal of Real Property That May Be Impacted by Envi...