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Sculpting the Future: Planning for Libraries in Transformation
(Partnership: The Journal of Canadian Library and Information Practice and Research, 2013)Books reviewed Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library. Edited by Joseph Janes. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow press. 2013. Print: 161 pp. 45.00 USD. ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-8714-5 (pbk. : alk. paper); ... -
Seeing the Forest for the Trees on Mars: Locating the Ideology of the “Library of the Future”
(Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2017)For many decades now library practitioners have been generating a vast literature concerned with the “library of the future.” While much of this literature may be classified according to its imperatives for radical versus ... -
Six Shakespeares in Search of an Author (Book Review)
(The Oxfordian, 2018-09-07)A common objection levelled against authorship doubters is that the number of candidates claimed for the authorship of the Shakespeare canon makes it highly unlikely any of them could have been the true author. In My ... -
Some Erroneous Marriages in Bergen's Kings County
(New Netherland Connections, 2001)A number of alleged marriages in Teunis G. Bergen's Register ... of the early settlers of Kings County (1881) derive from the misreading of a single source, namely the seventeenth-century membership lists of the Flatbush ... -
The Spurious Articles In Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography -- Some New Discoveries and Considerations
(Biography / University of Hawaii Press, 1993)Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, published in six volumes between 1887 and 1889, is one of the most comprehensive biographical dictionaries for the New World ever published. Unfortunately, some contributor was ... -
Steinbach Public Transportation Study
(2006-01-01)This document constitutes the final report for the Steinbach Transportation Project Steering Committee (STPSC). This report includes a demographic profile of Steinbach; a literature review dealing with many of the relevant ... -
The Stoughtons of New England: Their alleged Elys-Notebeme ancestry
(Foundations / Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, 2003-01)An interesting descent from Thomas Elys, a late-fourteenth-century M.P. for Sandwich, is claimed for the precursors of the New England Stoughtons in the 1619-21 Visitation of Kent. However, evidence of telescoping in the ... -
Stratfordian Epistemology and the Ethics of Belief
(The Oxfordian, 2022-09-08)This article considers belief in the traditional biography of Shakespeare -- that he was the "man from Stratford" -- in terms of belief ethics, to determine whether or not it is ethical and praiseworthy, or unethical and ... -
Student Housing Overview: Assessing Issues and Potential Options
(2005-09-01)This report sets out for the administration of the University of Winnipeg some of the contexts, considerations and principles necessary when undertaking any future housing-oriented development. The report provides ... -
Sustainable Churchill Discussion Paper
(2009-08-24)This Discussion Paper introduces the Sustainable Churchill initiative between the Town of Churchill and the University of Winnipeg. It provides an overview of major concepts, including what is meant by community sustainability, ... -
Swaentje Jans and her five husbands
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Tongue-Tied by Authorities: Library of Congress Vocabularies and the Shakespeare Authorship Question
(Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2022-09-22)Despite the existence of a vast literature reflecting hundreds of years of scholarship questioning the authorship of the works of Shakespeare, the conventional Library of Congress Name Authority File and Library of Congress ... -
Towards a Pragmatechnic Shakespeare Studies: A Review-Essay on U. Cambridge’s Shakespeare and the Digital World
(2015)A review essay of the 2014 book, Shakespeare and the Digital World: Redefining Scholarship and Practice edited by Christie Carson and Peter Kirwan (Cambridge University Press, 2015). -
A User-Centric Case for Rights Reversions and Other Mitigations: The Cultural Capital Project Submission to ISED Consultation on Term Extension
(2021-03-09)Term extension is unlikely to benefit any but the largest of rightsholders, and indeed, in general independent creators typically do not benefit greatly from the promised financial exploitation promised by copyrights. This ... -
Van Dongen: a new name in the ancestry of the Verveelen family
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2013-03)A power-of-attorney granted by the New Netherland colonist Daniel Verveelen in 1658 mentions his "great-grandmother Catharina Jans van Dongen." This article examines the question of whether she was the same as his known ... -
Van Oudenhoven: Some New Ancestry of the Verveelen Family
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2013)This article extends the Van Oudenhoven ancestry figuring in the author's 2015 publication "A note on the family of Thomas Chatfield, great-uncle of the three Chatfield brothers of Connecticut, and probable father-in-law ... -
The ver Veelen family in Cologne and Amsterdam
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Was Shakespeare a Ramist? (Review of The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship. By Michael Wainwright.)
(The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2020-09)Book review essay discussing Michael Wainwright's book "The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship" -
Winnipeg Site Implementation Final Report
(2014-09-26)This report documents the implementation of the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s At Home/Chez Soi project in Winnipeg. It reports on the viewpoints and perspectives of the site’s stakeholders concerning the fidelity ... -
With Swinish Phrase Soiling Their Addition: Epistemic Injustice, Academic Freedom, and the Shakespeare Authorship Question
(Emerald Publishing, 2020-11-23)This chapter argues that the near-universal exclusion from the academy of the Shakespeare Authorship Question (or SAQ) represents a significant but little-understood example of an internal threat to academic freedom. Using ...