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Charley Darkey Parkhurst (1812-1878) was a legendary stage-coach driver who, upon her death was discovered that  he was  a she. She was the first woman to vote in the U. S., on Nov. 3, 1858.

No library relishes the thought of a system migration. Preparations can take as long as time allows. Imagine the surprise and anxiety of the UCSC implementation team when we discovered that we would be going live with our new Alma environment 40 days sooner than our timeline had assumed. This presentation will detail how UCSC made quick and pragmatic decisions about what services and integrations were deemed necessary for go-live and what was saved for the other end. Though no one hopes for an accelerated timeline for go-live, our experience would be of interest to libraries planning migrations, as well as those libraries already in Alma, since many of our configurations and integrations have, by necessity, been implemented in our production environment. In our session, we will cover the communication, collaboration, management, and leadership that went into our rapid implementation. We will cover the choices we had to make, how we communicated with staff about the core competencies needed for go-live, the importance of data testing for our smooth implementation, and how much we did. As the resource management functional expert and the acquisitions functional expert, we were responsible for a large percentage of the migrated records and the decisions surrounding those records

Poster presented at the 2014 ARL Assessment Conference, Seattle, WA. August 4-6, 2014

The UCSC University Library Synergy Lecture Series is excited to welcome Distinguished Professor Dr. Barry Sinervo as our Synergy Lecturer for Spring 2013.  He will present a climate change extinction model that has been validated by known lizard extinctions, and explain how this model can be extended to other vertebrates.

Presented April 24, 2013, 3-4pm in the  Ching-Yi Dougherty Reading Room of the UCSC Science & Engineering Library.

Since the late 19th century, Jews and Arabs have been locked in an intractable battle for national recognition in a land of tremendous historical and geopolitical significance. While historians and political scientists have long analyzed the dynamics of this bitter conflict, rarely has an archaeology of the mind of those who reside within the matrix of conflict been attempted. This book not only offers a psychological analysis of the consequences of conflict for the psyche, it develops an innovative, compelling, and cross-disciplinary argument about the mutual constitution of culture and mind through the process of life-story construction. But the book pushes boundaries further through an analysis of two peace education programs designed to fundamentally alter the nature of young Israeli and Palestinian life stories. This book argues that these popular interventions, rooted in the idea of prejudice reduction through contact and the cultivation of “cosmopolitan” identities, are fundamentally flawed due to their refusal to deal with the actual political reality of young Israeli and Palestinian lives and their attempt to construct an alternative narrative of great hope but little resonance for Israelis and Palestinians. Grounded in over a century of literature that spans the social sciences, this book's analysis of young Israeli and Palestinian lives captures the complex, dynamic relationship among politics, history, and identity and offers a provocative and audacious proposal for psychology and peace education.

This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the University of California Libraries.