Copyright (c) 2009 University of Connecticut All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu Recent documents in DigitalCommons@UConn en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:43:25 PST 3600 http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/sodm_masters/169 http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/sodm_masters/169 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:45:25 PST S. Kirk Huffaker http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/sodm_masters/168 http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/sodm_masters/168 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:01:56 PST Murad Hadi Shaqman http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/bot_agendas/121 http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/bot_agendas/121 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:17:37 PDT http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/libr_pres/23 http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/libr_pres/23 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:55:51 PDT A discussion of three methods of making digital collection metadata extensible for greater and more accurate online digital object discovery. Michael J. Bennett http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/libr_news/3 http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/libr_news/3 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:23:49 PDT Page 2 The Vice Provost for University Libraries contends the library's new organizational structure, which aligns with the University's Academic Plan, will improve services to users.Page 3 UConn alumna and former UConn librarian Nancy Mattoon Kline '59 pledges seed money to establish the Earl and Dora Mattoon Ward Fund for Human Rights Photojournalism Collections at the Dodd Research Center.Page 5 The new director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies traces its 35 year history and future plans. Suzanne Zack http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/philo_articles/11 http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/philo_articles/11 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:31:51 PDT Can we vindicate the common sense conviction that a person's beliefs and desires are causally efficacious--that they shape that person's behavior? Three obstacles stand in the way. First, there are no exceptionless laws linking beliefs and desires to behavioral outcomes; second, the microphysical (or neurochemical) states of affairs on which beliefs and desires supervene have as strong a claim as beliefs and desires themselves to causing behavioral outcomes; third, even if we could surmount the threat of causal exclusion, we would still face "the problem of mental quausation" for beliefs and desires--we would have to show that beliefs and desires cause outcomes in virtue of having the contents that they do. I argue that the "manipulationist" account of causation not only side-steps the first obstacle, but also shows that there is no competing causation at the level of microparticles or neurochemistry. I then briefly suggest that "the problem of mental quausation", as applied to beliefs and desires, is confused. Crawford L. Elder http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/libr_pubs/20 http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/libr_pubs/20 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:35:21 PDT Colleges and universities' missions are typically comprised of educating students, training professionals, engaging in scholarship and research, promoting creative activity, improving healthcare, and providing public service. Academic libraries exist to support these core functions, yet most academic libraries are organized based on library functions rather than the primary missions of their college or university. This paper describes one academic library's attempt to align library strategy and structure with its university's academic plan. Brinley Franklin http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/dcuconn/17 http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/dcuconn/17 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:15:10 PDT This is a short executable demo geared towards Graduate School Masters Theses series administrators on the steps involved with publishing theses to UConn's Digital Commons institutional repository. Michael J. Bennett http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/dcuconn/16 http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/dcuconn/16 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:57:59 PDT This is a short executable demo on the steps involved for students to upload theses into UConn's Digital Commons institutional repository. Michael J. Bennett http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/chem_educ/87 http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/chem_educ/87 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:32:09 PDT A scheme is introduced which allows computer readable multiple choice forms used in traditional examinations to be employed for constructed response items. Carl W. David