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Move over Margaret Mead! Ethnographers are now exploring electronic media, as in this book on the Krueger Library’s retention list.

Machin, David. Ethnographic Research for Media Studies. London: Arnold, 2002.

Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. This is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.

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Story Seventy-One: Move Over Margaret Mead

Move over Margaret Mead! Ethnographers are now exploring electronic media, as in this book on the Krueger Library’s retention list.Machin, David. Ethnographic Research for Media Studies. London: Arnold, 2002.Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. This is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection....

Story Seventy: The Psychological Basis of Multiple Intelligences

Although Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences is popular among educators, some psychologists argue that it is not scientifically valid. This book from the Krueger Library retention list follows the debate.Gardner, Howard. Howard Gardner under Fire: The Rebel Psychologist Faces His Critics. Ed. by Jeffrey A. Schaler. Chicago: Open Court, 2006.Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. This is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection....

Story Sixty-Nine: From the Annals of Poorly Chosen Book Titles: Joking about Incest

Some of the books on the Krueger Library’s retention list have titles that some readers might consider cringe-worthy. Here is our first candidate.White, William L. Incest in the Organizational Family: The Ecology of Burnout in Closed Systems. Bloomington, Ill: Lighthouse Training Institute, 1986.Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. This is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection....

Story Sixty-Eight: Notable Books in the Sciences

In retention story #5 from last February, I mentioned that most of the books on our retention list are not considered especially notable by scholars. In that retention story, I highlighted two books that were both notable and on our retention list. They were from the humanities and social sciences. Here are two more examples—one from chemistry and one from physics—that are both notable and on the retention list.Goldwhite, Harold. Introduction to Phosphorus Chemistry. Cambridge University Press, 1981.Wasserman, Robert. Tensors and Manifolds: With Applications to Mechanics and Relativity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. This is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection....