The Southeast in Early Maps: With an Annotated Check List of Printed and Manuscript Regional and Local Maps of Southeastern North America during the Colonial Period

1958 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 304
Author(s):  
John E. Pomfret ◽  
William P. Cumming
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Check List ◽  
Early Maps

Negative concord in the Old and New World: Evidence from Scotland

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Smith
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Negative Concord ◽  
Old World ◽  
Colonization Period

In this article, I conduct a quantitative analysis of negative concord in Buckie, a relic dialect from the northeast of Scotland, and compare these findings with transported varieties of English in North America. Two major results arise from the analysis. First, Buckie has high rates of use of negative concord to indeterminates within the same clause, as do all the dialects included in the study. Second, negative concord in other environments is found in certain varieties in the New World that have no counterparts in the Old World. I suggest that the quantitative similarities can be explained in terms of the primitive status of negative concord in vernacular varieties of English, in combination with a shared linguistic heritage during the colonial period. The qualitative differences demonstrate that contexts of linguistic heterogeneity in North America during the early colonization period led to an extension and restructuring of the original rules.

scholarly journals Evaluation and Comparison of Discovery Tools: An Update

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. William Chickering ◽  
Sharon Q. Yang
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
North America ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Check List ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Practical Complexity ◽  
Product Effectiveness ◽  
Library Websites ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Library User

<strong>Abstract:</strong> Selection and implementation of a web scale Discovery tool by The Rider University Libraries (RUL) in the 2011-2012 academic year revealed the practical complexity of the endeavor. Research into the state of adoption of Web-scale Discovery tools in North America and the evolution of product effectiveness provided a starting point. The study reported here evaluated a total of 14 major Discovery tools (3 open source and 10 proprietary). The evaluation involves a check list of 16 criteria recognized as the advanced features of a modern OPAC. Some of the features have been used in previous research on Discovery tools and the next generation catalog. The authors examined 5 to 7 library websites that deployed a Discovery tool before a determination is made as to the presence or absence of a feature for a particular Discovery tool. The purpose of the study is to evaluate and compare all the major Discovery tools. These findings will serve to update librarians on the latest development in the library user interface and assist them in their adoption of a Discovery tool.

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