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Item Item Beyond the annual book sale : a model for an environmentally sustainable post-weeding process(2012-05) Halpern, Rebecca Katharine; Feinberg, Melanie, 1970-; Roy, LorieneSocial activism is a foundation in librarianship. As community stewards,librarians regularly develop solutions to complex social issues from discrimination in the workplace to open source academic publishing. Increasingly, one of those issues is climate change. As the reality of climate change becomes more apparent, libraries are faced with their role in supporting healthy communities and environmental sustainability through activities like reducing carbon emissions. There has been much work on how to build greener collections and improve library facilities, but little attention has been paid to the role of weeding—specifically, what happens to deaccessioned materials. The Austin (Texas) Public Library developed an innovative, creative, and long-term model for recycling their core commodity. The Recycled Reads bookstore offers a useful example of how an urban library system recycles weeded print and media materials in such a way that 100 percent of their materials are diverted away from landfills. Through stakeholder buy-in and working closely with community and corporate partners, Austin Public Library's Recycled Reads facility is a model any library system could adopt to address environmentally responsible weeding policies.Item The foundations of Red Power : The National Indian Youth Council 1968-1973(2013-12) Jenkins, James Fitzhugh; Bsumek, Erika MarieThe period from 1969 until 1973 represented the height of “Red Power” for American Indians. Pan-tribal activists participated in hundreds of demonstrations and dozens of militant takeovers demanding tribal sovereignty. The National Indian Youth Council (NIYC) was at the forefront of this period of direct action even though it continued to receive funding for educational programs and advocated reform through legal means. Operating under an entirely new leadership, the NIYC of the early 1970s resembled the Youth Council of the mid-1960s by continuing to balance indirect action and legal reform with direct action and militant language. But by the end of 1973, the Youth Council ceased supporting direct action as a legitimate tactic for pressuring social change. By 1973 it became clear that pan-tribal protests could quickly upset the gains that American Indians were making in federal reform. Wealthy benefactors funded the NIYC throughout the period, but they never overtly pushed the Youth Council into a more moderate direction. Instead, outside funding increased the NIYC’s operational space and allowed it to gain a modicum of power within the federal agency responsible for Indians, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). The NIYC found itself able to pressure the BIA into negotiating on a range of issues, and the NIYC developed allies that shared its goals and ideology within the agency. However, the NIYC’s continued ability to negotiate with the federal government was vulnerable to controversy, and the highly confrontational episodes led by the American Indian Movement (AIM) tended to upset the pace of reform within the federal government. AIM’s 1972 takeover of the BIA national headquarters and AIM’s 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee created setbacks for the NIYC even as the events garnered national attention and support. Moreover, the political climate became receptive to supporting the self-determination of tribal governments, and pan-tribal organizations like the NIYC had to shift their focus in the context of newly empowered tribes. Foundation support allowed the NIYC to help open the way for tribes to negotiate with the U.S. state directly, and this very success made pan-tribal demonstrations increasingly obsolete by the mid-1970s.Item Hill Country Ranger Station Headquarters/Interpretive Center(Texas Tech University, 1985-12) Lemons, BarryNot Available.Item Reconceptualizing environmental exhibits: postmodern critiques of exhibits in American natural history museums(Texas Tech University, 2004-12) Leem, So YeonWith the growth of the environmental awareness, natural history museums have had an important position in environmental debates as informal educational institutions. This study examines the concept of environmental exhibits in a broad contextual setting which includes museums, environmentalism, and society. In the United States, both the development of museums and wilderness-inspired environmentalism are considered an integral part of the modem condition. Four case studies demonstrate that current environmental exhibits in natural history museums have epistemological and ideological limitations in making connections to nature, "right here where we live." Lastly, this study attempts to reconceptualize the concept of environmental exhibits through a three-dimensional theoretical framework. Based on the postmodernized condition of society, environmentalism, museums, and exhibits, the concept of environmental exhibits is reinvented through museological and museographical implications concerning the environment. By deconstructing illusionary images of nature and reconstructing multifold narratives, museums can lead visitors to realities of environmental issues. In this way, museums can complete their social responsibility in society.Item Reptiles Interpretive Center, Everglades National Park(Texas Tech University, 1987-05) Mat, Idrus BNot Available.Item The National New Technology Observatory, South Baldy Peak, New Mexico(Texas Tech University, 1988-05) Phillips, MarkNone