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GLAMR placements from four perspectives: Placement students, higher education program providers, placement host institutions, and accreditation bodies. This issue of JALIA features papers presented at the 2022 I Research Applications in Information and Library Studies i (RAILS [6]) conference held virtually over two half days on the 29th and 30th of November 2022. [Extracted from the article]

And the final chapter demonstrates the rewards of making oral history a part of your library. Nicole Hennig suggests that it is important for librarians to become familiar with voice-first computing for several reasons: Voice-first computing will likely be the next big revolution in the information technology arena Voice-first computing can be used in a variety of ways in the work place Voice-first computing opens up opportunities for the elderly, those who have difficulty typing, and for the disabled. Chapter 1 in I Library Services for Immigrants and New Americans i provides an overview of the waves of immigration to the United States and how libraries have responded to these newcomers over time. This book is highly recommended for public libraries with local history collections or libraries wishing to create a local history collection. [Extracted from the article]

AbstractPatients with aphasia (PWA), particularly those with agrammatic aphasia, experience problems in sentence comprehension. Studies have found that Mapping Therapy (MT) can improve sentence processing in PWA. This paper aims to review the literature on therapeutic studies using MT for the treatment of sentence processing in PWA. All studies on the treatment of sentence comprehension using MT were found by searching Cochrane Library, ISI Web of Knowledge, Google Scholar, Pubmed, and Scopus from 1986 until December 2023, with the combination of these search keywords: ‘aphasia, sentence, comprehension, mapping therapy, treatment, rehabilitation’. All studies (single-subject or group design) on the treatment of sentence comprehension using MT in PWA were reviewed. An adaptation of the Cochrane Collaboration’s risk of bias (RoB) tool was used to assess the risk of bias (RoB) in the reviewed studies. A total of 14 studies on 81 participants were selected and reviewed. All studies (13 studies) had employed a single-subject design, except for one study that had used a group design. Twelve studies (86%) showed that MT is effective in the remediation of sentence comprehension in PWA. Generalization to untrained sentences similar to the trained structure was also observed in 12 studies (86%). Generalization to untrained structures (usually passive sentences) was limited. In addition, cross-modal improvement in sentence production was observed in 8 studies (57%). This review highlights the need for a more detailed investigation of the effect of MT on cross-modal generalization using elicited production of the sentence types trained during comprehension treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the role of personal writing in processes involving writing, processing loss and grief, and identity consolidation, employed in shaping the character of Emily Starr in the book "Emily of New Moon" by Lucy Maud Montgomery, well known for her series "Anne of Green Gables" and for the character of Anne Shirley. Emily, who is dealing with orphanhood following the childhood loss of both parents in a short span of time, uses writing to vent her feelings when in distress and as a way of maintaining contact with her father who died, by writing to him. Later on, the possibility of renewing her emotional connection with her mother through an encounter with the room where she grew up and by writing to her, removes Emily from her state of existential loneliness and brings her closer to her true self, manifested in the creative and spontaneous elements within her. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The June 2024 issue of the Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association (JALIA) features two research papers, two research-in-practice papers, an information-in-practice paper, an obituary, and ten book reviews. One research paper examines the challenges and prospects of public library services in rural Australia, highlighting their value to communities. Another research paper focuses on codesigning public library spaces and the challenges in achieving genuine codesign. A research-in-practice paper discusses cataloguing Indigenous knowledge and the need for more accurate representations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Another research-in-practice paper explores the views and experiences of opera librarians. An information-in-practice paper presents a unique approach to a community literacy project in Kerala, India. The issue also includes an obituary for a dedicated librarian and various book reviews covering a range of topics. [Extracted from the article]

This empirical paper provides an experiential account of learning from self-help books by the teachers of the management stream from the Indian context. The current environment is posing new and unprecedented challenges to academicians, management teachers being one of them. Self-help books have for centuries helped readers to deal with such challenges. Hence, this exploratory study, using the narration method, has inquired through qualitative interviews with management teachers about their personal experiences of reading self-help books. The findings provided a broad understanding of how they learn, get inspiration, get the guidance, get healed and thus cope with the challenges in their life as a result of reading self-help books which may be extended to Poetry Therapy or unstructured Bibliotherapy in some ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a rationale and methods for creating and supporting recovery reading groups in public libraries. Recovery reading groups are learning circles designed to connect people to both information and peers who will provide intellectual and social support in making life changes. Research in public health demonstrates the value in social support in aiding recovery or creating new habits. Familiarity with bibliotherapy and recovery support for mild to moderate substance abuse disorders can help librarians situate the public library meaningfully in the lives of patrons who want to explore personal growth in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reading has long been acknowledged as beneficial to physical and mental health. Many studies confirm bibliotherapy, or reading for therapy, has a meaningful place in the treatment toolkit for mild to moderate mental health conditions, chronic pain and loneliness. However, the joy and health benefits of reading can be denied to those undergoing cancer treatment because reading can become a frustrating, demanding activity due to cancer-related cognitive impairment. Fortunately, listening to a story provides a way to share stories with those suffering from this common side-effect. Integrative oncology employs a number of complementary therapies, however there is also a potential place for bibliotherapy. Utilising the warmth of real-time, in-person reading aloud, this research explores the extent to which a read-aloud program is associated with improvements in the emotional wellbeing of people undergoing cancer treatment. Bibliotherapy comes in many guises and fiction was utilised in this study. A potential outcome of this study may be to help make a case for the use of bibliotherapy as a psychosocial intervention for people affected by cancer, in particular under the guise of bibliotherapy via reading aloud. This project was presented at the 2022 RAILS conference and this paper describes the background and methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Concern about student wellbeing and related mental health is a global issue, and schools are increasingly expected to support student wellbeing. While the focus on libraries and wellbeing in research is more commonly on public libraries, school libraries can also play an important supportive role in this regard. Robust research evidence is needed from school library contexts to support targeted advocacy in order to enhance student wellbeing. This paper explores how school libraries may support student wellbeing by operating as safe spaces for young people, promoting and resourcing mental health and wellbeing initiatives, and supporting and promoting bibliotherapeutic practices and reading for pleasure. It then highlights implications for future research to support the development of a sound, research-supported evidence base for advocacy moving forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most Chinese pre-arrival training programs are focused on English language training without preparing students with psychological readiness to overcome potential adversities. This paper explores the effectiveness of an innovative six-week pre-arrival training program that integrated English training with resilience training through the lens of social constructionism. The program involved a mix of English proficiency training using stories with an underlying resilience theme coupled with further reinforcement of resilience skills through interactive narratives, bibliotherapy and art therapy. Thirty Chinese students who were enrolled in a joint venture training program between China and the U.K. were randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group. The result of the pretest and posttest comparison after students participated in the training program showed a significant improvement in the experimental group's overall English skills and resilience, and a decrease in their anxiety, stress, and depression compared to the control group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to explore the evolution tracks of occupational low back pain (OLBP) studies during 2000 ∼ 2020 through strict and systematic bibliometric analysis. The analysis began with data retrieval in Web of Science using defined search terms associated with OLBP. Bibliometric tools, including BibExcel and CiteSpace, were employed to conduct performance analysis and co-citation network analysis. Totally, 4,127 documents were identified from 2000 to 2020. The United States contributed the most publications. The leading journals mainly focused on medicine and ergonomics. The co-citation analysis illuminated the development of OLBP studies and the top three published keywords were musculoskeletal disorder, risk factors, and fear avoidance. This paper can help researchers have a broader and deeper understanding of OLBP studies, provide a general insight into aggregate performance in the OLBP field, and find further research directions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This semester-long study attempted to investigate 122 (M: 21; F: 101) Taiwanese undergraduates' responses to bibliotherapy and two textbooks in an Advanced English Reading classroom. Data collection included an anonymous 6-point Likert scaled questionnaire with a space for free comments and the students' reflection papers to show their perceptions. The results of the study showed that bibliotherapy effectively helped the students (a) understand the importance of self-knowledge, life growth, emotion management, positive thinking, and behavior awareness, (b) understand the importance of (literature) reading, (literature) reading course, and the benefits of (literature) reading, and (c) enhance self-understanding, positive thinking, mental growth, and (positive) behavioral change. Moreover, the study found that the two textbooks could effectively boost the students' bibliotherapeutic energy, including their positive thinking ability, mental growth, and mature behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The objective of the current study was to identify the 100 top-cited studies in cancer immunotherapy. Materials and methods: A retrospective bibliometric analysis was performed in March 2019. Studies were searched on the Web of Science to identify the 100 top-cited studies in cancer immunotherapy. Studies were identified and analysed for authorship, journal, study type, year of publication and institution. Results: The 100 top-cited papers were cited from 591 to 5332 times and were published between 1986 and 2016. They were published in 27 journals, and New England Journal of Medicine published most of the studies (n = 14), followed by Nature (n = 11) and Journal of Clinical Oncology (n = 10). They were published from 10 countries, and the USA published most of the studies (n = 82), followed by France (n = 5) and Netherlands (n = 3). National Cancer Institute in USA was the leading institution and Rosenberg, SA was the most productive author. Conclusions: This study provides insights into development and most important papers in cancer immunotherapy and will provide evidence for future research in cancer immunotherapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors of this paper review the efficacy of poetry therapy and introduce a curriculum to be used in the provision of a co-facilitative poetry therapy group process which involves a professional poet and a therapist. Drawing upon best practices of poetry therapy, the paper demonstrates that this innovative approach not only contributes to the field but is transferable among a variety of client populations. The authors present a curriculum, writing exercises, samples of poems, and include a plan for efficacy assessment in the context of a domestic violence survival group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the outcomes of a bibliometric analysis of open access (OA) and non-open access (non-OA) publications from the accounting departments of the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and Auburn University. The research illustrates the extent of the faculties' OA and non-OA publications and their relative scholarly impact and metrics from 2013 to 2018. OA articles have continued to increase in volume gradually in all three academic institutions. The findings suggest that professors of accounting are slowly embracing OA articles, and bibliometric data may strengthen strategic initiatives for librarians to assist faculties and university libraries with collective decision-making processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How to avoid the "Jesus multiplying bread and fish" myth and "Münchausen baron bootstrap" legend in individual bibliometric indices: a simple bimedian method applied to Italian ASPA academic members Dear Editor in Chief, Over a decade ago we assessed the status of the bibliographic indicators of ASPA members (Pulina and Francesconi [10]) and since then much water has passed under the bridge of bibliometric science. Based on the weak or null correlation amongst the indicators above discussed, I have developed some bimedian graphs that can help to discriminate high shared authorship and high self-citation ratio as the worse position in the bibliometric space of the scientific careers of academic ASPA members. Conclusions The ASPA community exhibits a good scientific performance with high values of the main bibliometric indicators, obviously greater for the older compared to the younger scientists, with a limited number of co-authors per paper and a low degree of self-citations. [Extracted from the article]

This paper shows how reading and writing processes contribute to therapist supervision as a means of working through impasse situations and facilitating the development of the therapeutic self. Texts read and written during supervision will mediate resistance, blocked narratives and containment or attention issues, as well as difficulties in change and processing developments during therapy. Texts will serve as a platform to contain the unconscious and conscious realms and shall contain the professional intrapersonal processing of the supervisee, as well as therapist-patient transference and countertransference relations and supervision relations. For this purpose, three variations of supervision shall be presented, demonstrating the transformative power of reading and writing processes for supervision in impasse situations: (1) reading and writing the therapeutic hour's summaries as a means to gain a re-observation; (2) the text's contribution in removing the patient's identity barriers; (3) the text as a release container to expose the iceberg. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The indigenous struggle to secure land rights remains a highly contentious issue. This article offers a qualitative discussion of key concepts and a quantitative description of the state-of-the-art indigenous land rights literature based on bibliometric methods. It argues that a Polanyian conception of reciprocity is vital to understanding the relationship between some indigenous peoples and their land. Conceptually, reciprocity is based on the notion of interdependence. The qualitative exercise shows the difference between land rights and territorial rights. Indigenous peoples are fighting for territorial rights as they are linked to self-determination and foster cultural reproduction. The findings indicate that issues related to indigenous land rights in Latin America have generated much scholarly interest in recent times. Arguably, this trend is linked to several factors, including neoliberal multiculturalism, the pink tide, and the territorial turn. The paper highlights the need for research that focuses on social dispossession and social differentiation in indigenous communities. Specifically, it calls for research on how social differentiation plays out in the context of indigenous land rights, including how social dispossession supports the expansion of capitalism in indigenous communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper includes research into the pervasiveness and dangerousness of intimate partner violence and the ways that poetry therapy can be used to help victims gain perspective on their situation. According to the World Health Organization, over 30 percent of women worldwide have experienced violence at the hands of a partner. The author's personal experience with poetry therapy in leaving an abusive relationship of 13 years is used as an example. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is suggesting a bibliotherapeutic reading of the virtual texts of Israeli blogger moms viaAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland, introducing the reader to the range of literary representations of the mother in Lewis Carroll’s well-known work and the real mother as a patient in the clinical context. Here, the maternal text emerges as a transitional object that allows mothers to cope with the existential paradoxes of their daily lives and experience their lives as meaningful, suggesting that the creative maternal experience is a transitional experience. Like Alice, the playing mothers’ developmental transition is in the form of a shift from daily life into the realm of fantasy and virtual fiction. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper discusses the relations between tonal and atonal regions of the psychic space as being responsible for the relations between movement and stasis. Drawing on a musical terminology, I describe the constant tension between a harmonious pole of thinking and an idiosyncratic one, both in psychoanalytic meta-reflection as well as in the clinical realm, presenting thereby bibliotherapy, poetry therapy, and the poetic zones of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy as the therapeutic forces which “pull” toward the link to atonal psychic areas, enabling in that way the ongoing integration of the homely and un-homely, the syntax and the anti-syntax of the psychic space. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The World Health Organisation suggests that 60–80% of those affected by depression can be effectively treated using medication or psychotherapy within primary care. However, less than 50% of those affected actually receive such treatments. In practice, it remains a challenge to provide access to psychotherapy due to limited numbers of therapists combined with a growing number of treatment guidelines recommending the delivery of evidence-based psychological therapies such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). One way to overcome this problem is to offer therapy in different ways – with so-called low-intensity (LI) working. One example of LI working is CBT self-help (CBT-SH). To provide an overview of the current literature surrounding the effectiveness of CBT-SH with a particular focus on depression and discuss the future directions for both research and policy implementation. It is clear that self-help has a place within a healthcare framework but more work is needed to clarify where and how it should be delivered. The paper concludes that there appears to be enough benefits and sufficient evidence to argue for the introduction of LI working as an appropriate first step for most people facing depression and anxiety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite gains in redefining America as a ‘salad bowl’ versus a ‘melting pot’, stereotypes about racial and ethnic minorities, including African Americans, remain embedded in the fabric of the United States. By acknowledging the significance of stereotypes, race, and culture on the lives of clients, culturally affirming bibliotherapy is a tool that can empower them, validate their experiences, and promote the development of a positive self?identity or self?concept. This paper focuses on its use with African American youth, however, because, race impacts all individuals of African descent, this tool can and should be incorporated into their treatment as well when deemed appropriate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The contribution of stories in biblio-poetry therapy practice and in enhancing personal development is the focus of this paper. Writing, telling and listening to stories open up possibilities for change and new learning windows. Through expressive and communicative stories, therapeutic and developmental dia- and polylogism can expand one's imaginative space and perspectives of action in a “holding framework” and even in virtual communities. Rewriting previous “truth stories” moves and modifies one's conceptions of self, others and life relations. The inhibitions, failures and dislocations inherent in storytelling also provide valuable experiential and experimental touching/moving knowledge. The presence of the “imagined reader” and the “internal supervisor” in the writing process can help in reflecting, evaluating and steering, through meta-emotional and metacognitive processes, one's own and others’ needs, aspirations and goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes a case study evaluating the efficacy of a reading therapy on a Cantonese brain-injured patient, CSH, with hypothesised deficits to the semantic and nonsemantic reading routes. The treatment emphasised the re-establishment of phonetic radical-to-syllable correspondences in regular and partially regular phonetic compounds, and encouraged the patient to make use of the semantic information associated with the signific radical to assist her in arriving at the target pronunciation. By the end of the therapy, CSH read all the treatment items flawlessly and improved significantly on reading generalisation probes, while no observable change was found in the irregular phonetic compound control probes. Specific treatment effect was evidenced by the synchrony between the introduction of training and the marked progress seen at various treatment stages, and greater improvement on treatment than on generalisation probes. In addition, CSH demonstrated an increase in regularisation errors coupled with a decrease in "no responses." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The lack of social work intervention models targeted toward the specific mental health needs of Black women has been recognized as a major gap in our knowledge concerning effective treatment. More recently, group work has been recognized as a useful and effective method of treatment for this population. This paper discusses the utility of a culturally specific, group intervention with Black women aimed at enhancing psychosocial competence as an effective mechanism to assist Black women in coping with the tasks of life and contributes to their ability to master life events. The model incorporates the use of literary works, authored by Black women as an innovative tool for enhancing the group process. Case vignettes are offered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]