Surveys scholars of children's literature to investigate role of informal information channels in humanities research. Finds that, rather than working in isolation, more than 50% of all respondents indicated that at least 50% of the time they discussed their work in its early stages, discussed specific primary sources, and found ideas for their…

Discussion of information retrieval as a process of communication focuses on the concept of symbolic interaction. Topics addressed include communication, interaction, and information retrieval; information retrieval as symbolic interaction and as social interaction; and examples from a study of the information behavior of humanities scholars at…

Reviews scholarly research (from journalism, communication, business, and the humanities) on the specialized business press. Notes the lack of theory building and ties across disciplines, and anticipates that new advances in CD-ROM technology may increase research into the field as well as strengthen ties across disciplines. (SR)

Discusses the role and function of the Center for Applied Humanities at the University of South Florida. Pays particular attention to programs relating literary perspectives to social and psychological problems. (RS)

Compared students' (n=101) interpretations of tutors' written comments on essays with the tutors' intent in three humanities classes at an Australian university. Found almost half the students did not interpret the comments in the way their tutors intended. Concludes that grading comments need to be carefully explained, with discipline-based…

The humanities broaden nurses' awareness of human experience, helping them respond to the patient as a person while using scientific knowledge and technical skills. They help nursing students integrate empirical knowledge with experiential and aesthetic learning. (SK)

Explores service learning as a potential antidote to the over-specialization, market consciousness, and civic disengagement that drain the contemporary humanities of their practice and theoretical vitality in a liberal education. Also considers the conceptual terrain of service learning. (Author/SLD)

Describes the history and major features of XML and TEI, discusses their potential utility for the creation of digital libraries, and focuses on XML's application in the humanities, particularly theater and drama studies. Highlights include HTML and hyperlinks; the impact of XML on text encoding and document access; and XML and academic…

Discusses the relation between professional training and a humanities education. Notes that the humanities in general education and English studies in particular face pressure, in the wake of poststructuralism, to address extra-academic audiences--particularly working-class, working-poor, and lower-middle-class families--with a revised…

Surely the health and vitality of any academic field relies on the periodic review of its intellectual history, evolving theoretical frameworks, and thematic shifts. Attempts to define a field typically involve lively debates over boundary maintenance. Indeed, the question of whether comparative education is a "discipline" has been debated at…

Citation patterns in the field of composition studies are analyzed and compared with patterns in other humanities fields. Results showed marked differences in citation patterns between composition studies and other humanities fields, including literary studies. Librarians can use this information to forge more productive relationships with…

A pilot survey was carried out on current problems in the emergence of open education in Russia. Participants were students (n=300) and instructors (n=100) from higher educational institutions of humanities and technical profile in Moscow. Findings suggest certain tendencies and problems in the development of open education in Russia.

Describes the American Antiquarian Society, including its history, the evolution of its collections, and the relationship between its staff and readers that make it a leading humanities research center. Discusses the institutional culture and the development of a new area of study, the history of the book in American culture. (Author/LRW)

The percentage of school students specializing in math and science is particularly low. The current research suggests that this is due to prototypes about math and science being highly dissimilar from self-prototypes students have or want to have of themselves. Going beyond previous studies on self-to-prototype matching, we assumed that students…

In the present humanities educational scene, whole areas have become little more than the celebration of simulacra. According to this author, it is obvious that, despite all of the references to texts and linguistics made by its practitioners, what deconstructionism really does is formalize criticism as criticism. In its final analysis,…