Monday, January 21, 2008

Books about Dewey from "For Further Reading: Works about Dewey"

*Campbell, James. Understanding John Dewey: Nature and Cooperative Intelligence. Chicago and La Salle: Open Court, 1995.
---Available at URI: B945 D4 C36 1995.

*McDermott, John J., ed. The Philosophy of John Dewey: 2 vols. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.
---Ordered volumes 1 and 2 from PC.

*Sleeper, Ralph William. The Necessity of Pragmatism: John Dewey's Conception of Philosophy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986.
---Available at URI: B945 D44 S58 1986.

*Welchman, Jennifer. Dewey's Ethical Thought. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
---Available at URI: B945 D4 W45 1995.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

AMNH Retrieval

*Simpson, George Gaylord. Horses; the story of the horse family in the modern world and through sixty million years of history. New York: Oxford University Press, 1951.
---Available at URI: QL737 U6 S5. Obtained.

*Biagioli, Mario. "Confabulating Jurassic Science." In Technoscientific Imaginaries. 1995.
---Ordered.

*Starn, Randolph. "A Historian's Brief Guide to New Museum Studies." in American Historical Review 110 (2005).
---Link to full text: http://0-web.ebscohost.com.helin.uri.edu/ehost/viewarticle?data=dGJyMPPp44rp2%2fdV0%2bnjisfk5Ie46bdIrqy1Sa%2bk63nn5Kx95uXxjL6nrVGtqK5ItpaxUrCnuE2xls5lpOrweezp33vy3%2b2G59q7RbCmr0%2b2rrFOs6akhN%2fk5VXj5KR84LPfiOac8nnls79mpNfsVa%2bssE%2bxrbRKpNztiuvX8lXu2uRe8%2bLqbOPu8gAA&hid=107 Printed.

*Mitman, Gregg. "Cinematic Nature, Hollywood Technology, Popular Culture and the American Museum of Natural History." Isis 84 (1993).
---Link to full text: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-1753%28199312%2984%3A4%3C637%3ACNHTPC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D Printed.

Updated To Do List, 1/9/07:

Updated To Do List, 1/9/07:

1. Track down Dewey CD-Roms---So far: Yale has them, Harvard has correspondence) Ordered from Worldcat 11/2/07... had it in Queens, Texas, Dayton, and Louisville.
---Do we still want these, or are we sticking with the text version?

2. Keep an eye out to see if Levine's new bibliography (1996+) has been released.

3. Miscellaneous searches: Check out Google/other search engines: dewey + inquiry + technology, Run all of our Dewey-related searches (and any others you can think of) through CompPile (here: <http://comppile.tamucc.edu/>), "Dewey + Technology" title searches in reference databases
---1996+ articles only

4. Scan Middle Works

5. Fred Newton Scott search (Compile, etc)

6. John Stuhr search

7. Dewey Early Works Transcribing

8. Web of Science search for Hickman citations