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Item TRPNP: Phase 1(2017-10-13) Sly, JordanItem Digital Approaches to Understanding the Recusant Printing Network(2018-04-07) Sly, JordanThis project illustrates how the use of data-driven visualizations of sixteenth and seventeenth-century title page imprint information can illuminate aspects of the recusant printer network in the era of high-recusancy, c.1558-1640. This period represents the era of the Recusancy Acts which made non-conforming- that is non-Protestant- practice of faith illegal. Recusant literature, therefore, represents the body of literature designed to maintain the faith (through both materials for hidden priests and or personal devotion) of the Catholic communities in England to actively work to subvert the message of the Protestant Church). This project is largely one of experimental remediation with the goal of investigating whether new insight into an established field can be gained by collating, analyzing, and graphically displaying like information —in this case Recusant literature— that is distinct from traditional forms of scholarship. I argue that by removing the impediments of shelf-bound and geographically separated volumes and by quantifying elements of their creation, the network and nature of recusant literature is made more immediate by illustrating trends and anomalies at the same level of access and visibility and thereby potentially opening new avenues of research. Additionally, the aim is to combine methodological approaches of traditional book history — in this case merging bibliographic studies with quantitative history— and also utilizing new methods of corpus mining and data visualization to help make the obscure known. While much has been written about recusancy, there are still new stories to be told by investigating new forms of evidence made available through newer methods of humanities scholarship. New methods can potentially lead to new evidence to help settle old historiographical debates.Item Digital Humanities and the Recusant Printing Network: An Experiment in Research Format(2017-11-11) Sly, JordanItem The Recusant Print Network Project: Experimentation in Research Format(2018) Sly, JordanItem Bourdieu’s First Year: First-Generation Students, Habitus, and Retention(2017) Sly, JordanThis presentation will investigate the use of theory, in particular Pierre Bourdieu’s Habitus, in researching library populations and developing a complex, multi-dimensional understanding of an important library community. By utilizing the framework of Habitus, we seek to investigate Pierre Bourdieu’s thesis of Habitus, which is to say, a social theory of determinism that centralizes behavior without essentializing groups. The aim of the project is to study first-generation students and the issue of retention. Habitus, in many respects, speaks to an unwritten language, sense, or code (le sens practique) in which certain members of a group are naturally and unconsciously conversant and which other members must constantly use cognitive energy to work within. The hope is to investigate some aspects of this language by studying both college-normative students (i.e., those for whom college was a foregone conclusion) and first-generation students to understand, perhaps, an aspect of the difference in experience and to use some of the findings to propose some sort of library intervention.Item Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence(2018-04-14) Sly, JordanIn this review of the National Gallery of Art’s new exhibit, Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence I look at the internal composition of the exhibit, the argument lead curator Andrew Butterfield has advanced about Verrocchio’s importance to the development of Renaissance art, and how the use of Verrocchio’s more recognizable students overshadows the master’s own presence in the exhibit. Additionally, I discuss the importance immediacy of this exhibit allowing visitors a focused and up-close view of Verrocchio’s work in ways not allowed in their home seating. Finally, I also discuss areas where this exhibit could have been in conversation with concurrent exhibit, Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain and the past exhibit, The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy. Ultimately, I discuss the immense importance of this exhibit in brining Verrocchio’s work to the forefront, even from the National Gallery of Art’s own collection, in this first ever focus on the master’s work in the United States. Jordan S Sly is a research and instruction librarian at the University of Maryland in College Park. Additionally, Jordan is a Ph.D student in the University of Maryland department of history focusing on seventeenth-century religious, intellectual, and political history. Finally, Jordan is an affiliated faculty member of the University's iSchool.Item The Time Has Come...To Build, Reflect, and Analyze Connections Between Qualitative and Quantitative Data(Charleston Conference, 2019, 2019-11-06) Sly, Jordan; DePope, Leigh Ann; Frank, Cindy; Ritchie, StephanieThis poster will address the development process of a qualitative evaluation tool to aid in the thorough analysis of library resources at the University of Maryland. Specifically, our project looks at the use and added value of this tool for the building, reflecting, and analyzing connections between qualitative and quantitative data. This will allow for more meaningful justifications of budgetary decisions than compared to cost and use metrics alone. Given the necessity for meticulous review of continuing resources, our project addresses a request for enhanced transparency from the university faculty and library oversight body and serves as a useful tool for accountability and justification of impactful decisions for stakeholders internally and externally. We will discuss the extant literature and the need for this type of tool, the development process including the output planning and data input format, the initial reception of the project, and future goals and planning for our initial usageItem Rethinking Library Services for First-Generation Students: Do We Need to Change Existing Models?(2019-02-08) Sly, Jordan; Coren, AshleighThis poster examines the results of our research project into the needs of first-year transfer and first-generation students as they begin their college careers. We seek to understand how first-generation students’ perceive libraries and library services as a touchpoint in their education. We chose to focus on expanding the portrait of these students as presented in the existing library literature on critical pedagogy by adding personal student experiences and voices to inform our future interactions with this population. Particular to this study is our utilization of Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of Habitus as a founding theoretical framework. By using this theory, we are able to turn student input into a useful model while maintaining the individuality of the student while also attempting to dissuade harmful and problematic notions of essentialism. This project explores the tenets of Critical Librarianship like self-reflection, critical thinking and examination of our teaching practices.