• Postmodernism 

  Fischer, Rachel K. (2014)

  This article introduces the concept of Postmodernism. It provides a list or recommended resources that can be included in a library collection on the subject.
• Genocide 

  Fischer, Rachel K. (2013)

  This article provides an introduction to the topic of genocide for the purpose of developing a collection on the topic for a library. It includes a bibliography of essential resources.
• Connecticut Community Colleges Join Forces to Share Library System 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (2001)

  Libraries of the twelve community colleges in the state of Connecticut recently joined together to purchase and share the Endeavor Voyager integrated library management system.
• New Rates of Exchange: Technological Integration and University Libraries in Central and Eastern Europe 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (2000)

  Over the course of the past ten years, Central- and Eastern-European Countries have seen significant changes in virtually all sectors of society. Higher education has been transformed, bringing western philosophies to ...
• Leadership and Decision-Making in Team-Based Organizations: A Model of Bounded Chaotic Cycling in Emerging System States 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (2013)

  This article discusses the results of both intrinsic and instrumental case study investigations of team-based leadership and decision-making in an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institution undergoing dramatic ...
• Collective Case Study Method and Fractal Geometry: Instrumental and Intrinsic Cases in Organizational Research 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (2009)

  In case study methods of organizations, researchers are often limited to the aggregation of individual cases within the context of the organizational case. Borrowing from Stake’s (1995) use of instrumental and intrinsic ...
• Critical Reflection as an Irreversible Process: Epicurus, the Arrow of Time, and an Ontology for Organizational Learning 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (2010)

  Time’s Arrow has been widely debated in scientific and philosophical circles, yet this theoretical construct is relatively nascent in the social and behavioral sciences. More specifically, we may have much to discover ...
• Digital Literacy and the Emergence of Technology-Based Curriculum Theories 

  Gilstrap, Donald L.; Mallon, Melissa N. (2014)

  A shifting focus in education is resulting in more networked, technology-enhanced classrooms. Contemporary educators need to be aware of the skill sets students require to thrive in twenty-first century educational ...
• Le Délégué de la Compagnie: Claude E. Boillot and the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956-57 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (1995-08)

  For 90 years the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez played an integral role in the economic development and stability of the world. The Suez Canal connects the western world to the eastern, and, consequently, ...
• Librarians and the Emerging Research Library: a Case Study of Complex Individual and Organizational Development 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (2007)

  The purpose of this case study was to increase the knowledge base of how research librarians experience and cope with the turbulence of change within their library system. This research also examined the issues that ...
• XML and Better Web Searching 

  Gilstrap, Donald L.; Jackson, Joe (1999)

  This article addresses the implications of the new Web meta-language XML for World Wide Web searching. Compared to HTML, XML is more concerned with structure of data than documents. These XML data structures, especially ...
• Developments in Central and Eastern Europe: The Alliance of Universities for Democracy and Higher Education Reform 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (2000)

  This article highlights the tenth conference of the Alliance of Universities for Democracy (AUDEM) held in Budapest, Hungary. Over the past ten years, AUDEM members have been instrumental in the reform of higher education ...
• A Regression Model of Predictor Variables on Critical Reflection in the Classroom: Integration of the Critical Incident Questionnaire and the Framework for Reflective Thinking 

  Gilstrap, Donald L.; Dupree, Jason (2008)

  This research study investigates the influence of independent variables on students’ critical reflection scores in a library instruction program. A student sample (n= 321), enrolled in English Composition II courses, ...
• Dissipative Structures in Educational Change: Prigogine and the Academy 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (2007)

  This article is an interpretive study of the theory of irreversible and dissipative systems process transformation of Nobel Prize winning physicist Ilya Prigogine and how it relates to the phenomenological study of ...
• Managing World Wide Web Information in a Frames Environment: A Guide to Constructing Web Pages Using Frames 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (1998)

  This article serves as a guide for building World Wide Web pages using frames-based HTML. It covers the basic of frames tags and provides descriptions and examples for writing frames HTML code. Advanced concepts are ...
• Why Do We Teach? Adult Learning Theory in Professional Standards as a Basis for Curriculum Development 

  Gilstrap, Donald L.
• Dialogic and the Emergence of Criticality in Complex Group Processes 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (2008)

  This article suggests how Paulo Freire’s ontology of subjective reality is influenced through nonlinear and non‐deterministic perspectives of a world of open and irreversible rather than dynamically conservative systems. ...
• Human Ecological Complexity: Epistemological Implications of Social Networking and Emerging Curriculum Theories 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (2011)

  This article explores the growing use of social networking among contemporary students and researchers in education. It is argued that social networking systems exhibit many of the characteristics of complex systems, ...
• Quantitative Research Methods in Chaos and Complexity: From Probability to Post Hoc Regression Analyses 

  Gilstrap, Donald L. (2013)

  In addition to qualitative methods presented in chaos and complexity theories in educational research, this article addresses quantitative methods that may show potential for future research studies. Although much in the ...
• Assessing Learning, Critical Reflection, and Quality Educational Outcomes: The Critical Incident Questionnaire 

  Gilstrap, Donald L.; Dupree, Jason (2008-09)

  This research study incorporates Brookfield’s Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ) as a qualitative instrument to assess the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education in one library’s instructional ...

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