Vol. 4. No. 1 September 2001
Tel. Ext. 3363
EDITORIAL:
The Bulletin enters its fourth
volume with this issue.
We look
forward to a much closer collaboration
with members of Faculty in the course
of bringing the Bulletin to higher
levels of excellence. In this regard we
will encourage Faculty members to
contribute short articles on issues
relating to their research interests.
We
will
also
gladly
accept
recommendations
that
seek
to
broaden the Bulletin’s dimensions.
During the 2000/2001 academic year,
the collection in the Humanities
Division was incessantly surveyed and
consistently refreshed to reflect the
realities of the literary market place
for the Humanities. One thousand, six
hundred and eighty three (1,683) titles
were added to it. The database for
multi-media material was completed.
It is stored in a format that utilities and
programmes pro-cite. This allows the
user to navigate the database within a
number of parameters.
The database is divided into four (4)
categories:- Sound disc; video;
e-mail: hummail@library.uwi.tt
Compact disc; cassette.
There are
currently 1,491 sound discs, 401
videos, 41 compact discs, and 545
cassettes.
Faculty members are invited to the
division for hands-on training at times
that meet with their convenience.
We are pleased to report that The
Main Library is now part on the Latin
American Research Resources Project.
This project is an initiative of the
Association of Research Libraries of
the USA.
It seeks to create a
prototype
for
fully
connected
collections for Latin American studies.
The participating Libraries have
accepted
institutional
collecting
responsibility for a cross-section of
over 500 Journals published in 15 Latin
American countries.
The project
guarantees rapid delivery of journal
articles through inter-Library Loan.
A new electronic resource for the
study of world history is now
available. It is History Study Centre.
It offers all historians a vast and crosssearchable collection of digitized
primary and secondary sources that
make it one of the most extensive
resources of its kind.
In total it
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provides access to over 25,000
separate documents and articles
organized within 500 widely-studied
curriculum topics and links to 2,000
websites.
For further information
please
e-mail
hugh.tomlinson@proquest.co.uk.
Call No. Subject Area
CASBAH is a demonstrator project that
is identifying and mapping national
research resources for Caribbean
Studies and the history of Black and
Asian people in Britain.
In
anticipation of the launch of the
project’s web-accessible database at
www.casbah.ac.uk, CASBAH is hosting
a Black History Month dissemination
event at the Institute of commonwealth
Studies (University of London) on 15th
October, from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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Finally, we extend a warm and hearty
welcome to all new Faculty members
and students. We are at your service
at all times and to the best of our
ability we will seek to fulfil your
information needs.
R. CLARKE
Editor
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PB, -PE
AC
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D-DP
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African History
North American
History
South/Central
America and
Caribbean History
Education
Music
Visual Arts
Linguistics
Greek/Latin
Language and
Literature
Celtic/Romantic/
Germanic Language
6
8
19
9
19
4
6
2
PG
Russian /Spanish
Language Literature
PJ,PK
Oriental Language
and Literature
4
PL
African Language
and Literature
PM
Creole/Indian
Language
PN
Literary Criticism,
Mass Media
12
PQ
French Language
and Literature
3
PR
English and West
Indian Literature
17
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American Literature &
European Literature
17
Z4- Z8387 Library Science
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Z
Bibliographies
3
ZA
Internet
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ACQUISITIONS for the month of
September totalled 150 TITLES in the
following subject areas:Call No. Subject Area
Amount
Total:-
150
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Interesting TITLES included:Black Cuban, black American.
/by Evelio Grillo, 2000.
General Information
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Philosophy
Religion
Archaeology
European History
Eastern History
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7
2
5
“Evelio Grillo experienced the
complexities of life in a horse-andbuggy society demarcated by both
racial and linguistic lines. Grillo
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recaptures in prose this unique
world that slowly faded away as he
grew to adulthood during the
Depression.”
[Call No.: E 184.C97 G73 2000]
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China in transformation, 19001949 /by Colin Mackerras, 1998.
“A lucid introduction to the history
of modern China from the Boxer
Rebellion in 1900 through to the
founding of the People’s Republic
of China in 1949."
[Call No.: DS 761M33 1998]
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Encyclopedia of world history.
Introduction by Patrick K. O’Brien,
2000.
“A fascinating and enlightening
reference
that
provides
authoritative
and
useful
information on all periods of
history, with due weight given to
regions such as Central and South
America, Africa and Oceania –
areas often neglected by other
history encyclopedias.”
[Call No.: D21.E577 2000]
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Ethics and spiritual growth /by
Sayyid Mujtaba Mûsawi Lári.
Translated by Ali Quli Qura’i 1997
“The contents of this book draws
its materials from rich Islamic
sources and represents the ethos
of religious teachings.”
[Call No.: BJ1291M87 1997]
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Maya Script. A civilization and
it’s
writing
/by
Maria
Longhena, 2000
“This
fascinating
handbook
unlocks the secrets of the symbolic
written characters of the ancient
Maya of Mexico, providing a vivid
portrait of their Gods, people and
everyday life”
[Call No.: F1435.3.W75L65 2000]
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Nigerian Chiefs. Traditional
power in modern politics, 1890s
– 1990s / by Ohifemi Vaughan,
2000.
“Ohifemi Vanghan demonstrates
how dynamic tensions of communal
and individual identities often shape
social formations with implications
for
political
and
institutional
development”.
[Call No.: DT515.45.Y67V38 2000]
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Reflection on a ravaged century
/by Robert Conquest, 2000.
“The Main responsibility for our
century’s cataclysms, Conquest
maintains, lies not so much in
impersonal economic and social
forces as in the huge mental
distortions produced by ideologies
like revolutionary Marxism and
National Socialism.”
[Call No.: D421.C595 2000]
 The Silk Roads. Highway of
culture and commerce/ edited by
Vadime Elisseeff, 2000.
“Towards the middle of the 20th
century,
scholarly
research
revealed that the fabled Silk
Roads, far from being mere trade
routes, were cultural highways that
played a pivotal role in linking east
and west, intermittently bringing
together
nomads
and
city
dwellers, pastoral peoples and
farmers, merchants and monks and
soldiers and pilgrims.”
[Call No.: DS12.S57 2000]
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The story of my life by Giacomo
Casanova 2000.
“Seducer, gambler, necromancer,
swindler, good Samaritan, spy,
swashbukler,
self-made
gentleman, entreprenur, wit, poet,
translator, philosopher, Giacomo
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Casanova was not only the most
notorious lover the Western world
has known, but also a story teller of
the first order.”
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[Call No.: D285.8 C4A313 2000]
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Ways to meaning and a sense of
universality/ by John Sahadat,
1998.
“John Sahadat presents a lively
account
of
seven
religious
traditions, which he sees as ways
to Ultimate Reality that must not be
understood as in competition with
each other. He emphasises that
for those within these traditions it is
religious experience which gives
meaning and fulfillment in their
lives.”
[Call No.PE1001E58 W9]
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Essays in Criticism. Vol. L1, No.
3, July 2001.
In this issue you will find: -
[Call No.: BL80.2S24 1998]
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“Pretended speech acts in
Shakespeare’s sonnets” / by
Peter Robinson
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“Work in Our mutual friend” /
by Brian Creadle
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“Dickens in
Matthew Bevis
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“Worldmaking
Spenser:
explorations in the early
modern age”[Review Article]
by Patrick Cheney and Lauren
Silberman
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New
issues
of
the
following
JOURNALS contain important and
helpful articles:
English World-Wide. A journal
of varieties of English. Vol. 22:1
2001
“Was/were –variation in nonstandard British English today”
/ by Lieselottee Anderwald.
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“Ghanaianisms:
toward
a
semantic
and
a
formal
classification”/ by Kari Dako
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“The use of vague language in
intercultural conversations in
Hong Kong” / by Winnie Chen
and Martin Warren.
public”/
by
[Call No. PR1 .E8]
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International Review of applied
Linguistics
in
Language
Teaching. Vol.39, No.2, 2001
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In “ Repairs to L2 syllables
through metathesis,” Marit
Klove and Martha YoungScholten
argue
that
“metathesis, the repositioning
of segments within a word, has
been neglected in analyses of
interlanguage
syllable
structure”.
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“The
idea
that
word
recognition strategies are not
equal in the cognitive demands
they place on learners has
implications for the teaching of
learning strategies generally.”
So conclude Andrea Osborne
In this issue you will find: -
“Non-sexist language reform
and generic pronouns in
Australian English”/ by Anne
Pauwels.
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and Sylvia Mulling in “Use of
morphological analysis by
Spanish L1 ESOL learners”
in the First World” /by Omar
Sánchez.
[Call No. Pl.I I5]
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The Journal of African History
Vol. 42, no. 2 2001
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“Religious change and politics:
comparing
Catholics
and
Protestants in Brazil and Chile”
/by Eric Patterson.
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“The call of the Distant
Fatherland: Spanish migrants in
Argentina and the Cuban war”
/by Ignacio Garcia
The following themes are covered in
this issue :-
Dilemmas of growing up and
growing old.
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Ecology and conflict in the
West African Sahel.
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Citizen and subject in French
West Africa
[Call No. Z1605.I12]
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Philosophy. Vol. 76, No. 297, July
2001
In this issue :-
[Call No. DT1.J6]
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The Journal of Interdisciplinary
History. Vol. XXXII No. 1, Summer
2001
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“Long-term mortality trends in
pre-transition England are now
usually viewed as unresponsive
to economic change.
This
view owes much to analyses of
the back-projection data in
Wrigley
and
Schofield’s
Reconstruction (1981).”
So
posits Jona Schellekens in:
“Economic change and infant
mortality in England, 15801837.”
[Call No. D1.J86 I6]
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Nordic
Journal
of
Latin
American
and
Caribbean
Studies. Vol. XXXI:1, 2001.
In this issue you will find:-
“Mexico’s foreign policy under
Salinas: the search for friends
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“Constraint, empowerment and
guidance:
a
conjectural
classification of laws of Nature”
/ by David Hodgson
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“ A question of silence: feminist
theory and women’s voices” /
by Alice Crary
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“Intentions,
motives
and
causation” /by Richard Scheer
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“Living high, letting die” /by
Nicola Bourbaki
[Call No. B1.P568]
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Texas Studies in Literature and
Language. Vol. 43, No. 3, Fall
2001
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In “Figuring the new woman:
writers and mothers in George
Egerton’s
early
stories.”
Nicole Fluhr tells us that
“neither the mother nor the
woman writer was new figure in
Victorian conversations about
the parameters and perquisites
of feminine identity”.
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“The narrative space that
constitutes the body of The
Woman in White is less a
region of either/or and more a
representation of liminality.”
So contends Ann Gaylin in “The
madwoman outside the attic:
eavesdropping and narrative
agency in The Woman in
White.”
Features from the School of
Education Library.
For the month of September, the
Library received 45 new books.
These include:
Benchmarking and threshold
standards in higher
education/Helen Smith et.al. Kogan
page, 1999
[Call No. PN2.T355 S9]
[Call No.: LB 2341.8 G7 B45J 1999]
World Literature Today. Winter,
2001.
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“In order that Literature
safeguard the reason for its
own existence and not become
the tools of politics, it must
return to the voice of the
individual, for Literature is
primarily derived from the
feelings of the individual and is
the result of feelings.”
So
contends Gao Xingjian in “The
case for Literature : the 2001
Nobel Lecture”
[Call No. WI RES KGJ 160 .A37 M24
2000]
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“Between the individual and
the collective : Gao Xingjian’s
fiction” / by Sylvia Li-Chun Lin
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“Writing new H(er) stories for
Fancophone woman of Africa
and the Caribbean” / by
Valerie Orlando.
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“The City in modern Polish and
Hungarian poetry” / by George
Gomori.
Improving teaching and learning
in the arts/ edited by Mary Kear
and Gloria Callaway.
Falmer
Press, 2000.
[Call No. LB 1591.5 G7 I56 2000]
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Other articles include:-
Elements of child law in the
Commonwealth
Caribbean/
Zanifa McDowell. UWI Press, 2000
Inside Jamaican schools / Hyacinth
Evans. UWI Press, 2001
[Call No. WI RES LC 210. J26 E 82
2001]
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Male underachievement in high
school education in Jamaica,
Barbados and St. Vincent and the
Grenadines / Oddette Parry.
Canoe Press, UWI, 2000
[Call No. WI RES LC 1390.P38 2000]
[Call No. Z1007 B724 A1]
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INTERESTING ARTICLES
IN JOURNALS
1. “Learning to read from television:
the effects of using captions and
narration”. Deborah L.
Linebarger. Journal of Education
and Psychology Vol. 93, No2 June
2001
The author investigated caption
use, and the reading behaviour of
the children who had just
completed 2nd grade. The study
indicated that beginning readers
recognize more words when they
view television that uses captions.
It also showed that television
captions, by evoking efforts to
read, appeared to help a child
focus on central story elements
and
away
from
distracting
information,
including
sound
effects and visual glitz.
2. “Chemisty in camera.”
Jace
Hargis and Jim Stehn Science
Teacher Vol. 68
The writers feel that technology
can help students participate more
easily, learn more effectively and
enjoy learning more. With this in
mind, they develop a relevant,
innovative laboratory exercise
which promotes construction of
ideas that can be used to further
science processing. The unique
aspect of this approach is the
integration of technology in the
form of digital photography, a
portable
computer
and
a
projection device.
This form of
technology integration helps with
attention, retention, reproduction
and motivation – steps involved in
information processing, which help
students learn.
3. “Boys chip away at girls’ exam
supremacy.” Julie Henry. Times
Educational Supplement (TES).
Friday August 24th, 2001
The article deals with male/female
achievement in Britain and states that
the much discussed gender gap has
finally started to close, although there
is still a long way to go. It states that
boys have narrowed the gap for first
time since GCSEs began 13 years ago.
However, the article states, results
reveal boys closed the gulf slightly by
0.3 points. The article also goes on to
say
that
government
has
acknowledged the work schools have
been carrying out to tackle boys’
underachievement.
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Things of Interest to
Teachers and Educators
WEBSITE OF INTEREST
Education World –
hptt://www.education-world.com/
This site is intended to make the
Internet easier for educators to use.
The developers created a search
engine for educational websites only.
It is a place where educators could
find information without having to
search the entire Internet.
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
The School of Education recently
published its latest issue of Caribbean
Curriculum Vol.8 2001.
Three
members of staff of the School of
8
Education contributed to this issue.
Their articles are as follows:- “Explaining Past for Past Perfect
Errors in a Caribbean English Creole
Environment” by Dr. Winford James
Rampersad. Joycelyn Rampersad is a
lecturer at the School of Education,
while Margaret Cain and Anna-May
Edward are both PhD candidates at
the School of Education.
- “Teachers responses to curriculum
innovation:
The
Sierra
Leone
experience” by Dr. Michael Kallon.
DISPLAYS
- “Women and education in the English
speaking Caribbean, 1990 – 2000: An
annotated bibliography”, by Janet
Fullerton-Rawlins. Mrs. Beverly-Ann
Carter of the School of Humanities also
contributed an article. Her article is
entitled:“Myths and reality in foreign
language planning in Trinidad and
Tobago”.
Another publication of interest is a
new
Technical
Report
Series
published by the School of Education.
The first issue published this year is
entitled:– A portfolio training manual:
Using the portfolio as a model for
training – by Margaret Cain, Anna-May
Edwards-Henry,
and
Joycelyn
The Library re-introduced its “Hot
Topics” display series to cater for new
students. Books were displayed on
the following topics:- Classroom
management; Teaching and Learning;
and Educational Administration. The
Educational Titbits display is on going.
OTHER INFORMATION
The Editorial Committee of Caribbean
Curriculum is calling for papers for
next year’s issue. Interested persons
can
contact
the
Librarian/
Documentalist at the School of
Education at Ext. 3338.
Janet Fullerton-Rawlins
Librarian/Documentalist