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Identifying Best Practice in Recording Copy-Specific Elements in Special Collections Cataloging (2024)
Journal Article
Kither, A., & Appleton, L. (2024). Identifying Best Practice in Recording Copy-Specific Elements in Special Collections Cataloging. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 62(1), 7-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2023.2290725

This paper considers various approaches to the practice of copy-specific descriptive cataloging in rare books and special collections and seeks to identify how practice can be improved to ensure greater discoverability. Through applying a survey meth... Read More about Identifying Best Practice in Recording Copy-Specific Elements in Special Collections Cataloging.

Challenging its imperial origins: towards decolonising SOAS Library (2021)
Book Chapter
Price, L. (2021). Challenging its imperial origins: towards decolonising SOAS Library. In J. Crilly, & R. Everitt (Eds.), Narrative expansions: interpreting decolonisation in academic libraries (213-224). Facet

This chapter outlines the ongoing process of decolonising the library at SOAS, University of London (otherwise known as the School of Oriental and African Studies). It deals first with the history of SOAS and its library, highlighting its deep coloni... Read More about Challenging its imperial origins: towards decolonising SOAS Library.

Ethical Reflexivity and Research Governance: Navigating the Tensions (Online Module) (2019)
Other
Istratii, R., & Hasan, K. (2019). Ethical Reflexivity and Research Governance: Navigating the Tensions (Online Module). SOAS University of London

This module explores tensions that exist between the commitment to take ethical approaches in global research and to abide by UK/EU-based research governance standards. The course considers how researchers can meet these evolving funder guidelines re... Read More about Ethical Reflexivity and Research Governance: Navigating the Tensions (Online Module).

Critical systems librarianship (2018)
Book Chapter
Barron, S., & Preater, A. J. (2018). Critical systems librarianship. In K. P. Nicholson, & M. Seale (Eds.), The Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarianship (87-113). Library Juice Press

West African languages enrich the frequency code: Multi-functional pitch and multi-dimensional prosody in Ikaan polar questions (2017)
Journal Article
Salffner, S. (2017). West African languages enrich the frequency code: Multi-functional pitch and multi-dimensional prosody in Ikaan polar questions. Laboratory Phonology, 8(1), 1-44. https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.94

Cross-linguistically, statements tend to be pronounced with low or falling pitch and questions with high or rising pitch, a form–meaning pairing which has been attributed to the frequency code (Ohala, 1984). In many West African languages, however, q... Read More about West African languages enrich the frequency code: Multi-functional pitch and multi-dimensional prosody in Ikaan polar questions.

The JAL Project in 2 years (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wood, J. The JAL Project in 2 years. Presented at JAL Project 2016: Project for inviting, giving training to, and exchanging with, Japanese-art librarians from outside Japan, Japan

Under the eyes of French adventurers: Social conditions of the Upper Mekong Region in the 1860s (2016)
Journal Article
Khur-Yearn, J. (2016). Under the eyes of French adventurers: Social conditions of the Upper Mekong Region in the 1860s. South-East Asia Library Group newsletter, 7-14

This paper is an attempt of revisiting some old sceneries of the Upper Mekong Region around the year 1867 AD, by following the footsteps of the French Mekong Expedition, also known as the Mekong Exploration Commission. The main discussion will be abo... Read More about Under the eyes of French adventurers: Social conditions of the Upper Mekong Region in the 1860s.