Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World

Muir, J. V.

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“…The concept of preserving historical data has evolved over millennia. In ancient Greece, the word archive had a similar meaning to today: it referred to a collection of books and documents (Montanari, Matthaios & Rengakos, 2015;Muir, 2008). However, since the advent of electronic media, the term has acquired new meanings, such as library networks.…”

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Library Network Security Measures As Determinants of Archives Preservation in Public Libraries in Rivers State, Nigeria

Eno

2023

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This study examined available library network security measures as determinants of archives preservation in public libraries in Rivers state. The descriptive survey design was adopted for this study. The target population of the study comprised 514 library staff drawn from Rivers State library board and staff from Jubilee library Port Harcourt. The sample size for this study was 399 library staff comprising 227 staff from Rivers state library board and 172 library staff from Jubilee library Port Harcourt. An instrument titled library network security measures for archives preservation questionnaire was used for data collection. Face validity of the instrument was ensured by three experts. The instrument consists of 10 items of 2 sections. The instrument yielded reliability coefficients of 0.79 with the use of Cronbach Alpha reliability method. The findings indicated that, among other things, encryption technologies such as firewall protection and secure logins are part of the library’s network security measures that are employed to preserve archives in public libraries in Rivers state, Nigeria. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that public libraries in Rivers state are not lacking security features that would help preserve archives via a networked security system. However, the security measures were not effectively employed because staff members’ security training was not sufficiently available. As a result, it was recommended that more training in security should be provided to staff in all of the public libraries in Rivers state.

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Library Network Security Measures As Determinants of Archives Preservation in Public Libraries in Rivers State, Nigeria

Eno

2023

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“…28.On the interplay of distance and proximity in epistolary communication and the distinct ways in which letters activate desire, see Altman (1982), Carson (1998), 91–107, Gunderson (1997), Rosenmeyer (2001), 1–12, 42–4, Wilcox (2012), 64–78, and Hodkinson, Rosenmeyer, and Bracke (2013), 11–17. For further details on the cultural history and social practice of letter-writing in the ancient Greek and Roman world, see Cribbiore (2001), Muir (2009), Ceccarelli (2013), and Ceccarelli, Doering, Fögen, and Gildenhard (2018). On fictional letters as a Greek literary genre, see Costa (2001) and Rosenmeyer (2006).…”

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THISBE'S NOVEL: WRITING ROMANCE IN HELIODORUS’AETHIOPICA

Olsen

2022

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Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies thoroughly unravels its own ‘marriage plot’. Narrating the romance of the golden Lancelot (‘Lotto’) and the mysterious Mathilde from each protagonist's perspective in turn, Groff's novel exposes countless cracks in the decades-long relationship between a pair of twenty-first-century college sweethearts. The second half of the novel is particularly haunted by a sadomasochistic and dubiously consensual relationship between Mathilde and a wealthy older man upon whom she has become financially dependent, a subplot that includes vivid and erotic descriptions of sexual humiliation and subjugation. Groff is certainly not the only modern author to explicitly and self-consciously interrogate the terms of the romantic novel as such: Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Marriage Plot announces its generic play in its title.

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“…Following Brandt and Clinton's (2002) call for literacy studies to consider literacy's ability to travel beyond the local, and to endure after its writers have left, this study treats correspondence as a durable practice that travels, asking what this practice reveals about the significance and status of everyday migrant literacies. Correspondence also travels as material made to be on the move: Since writers squeezed script on messengers' shoe soles or across leather wound around travelers' staffs, letters, notes, and messages have slipped across borders and among many hands (Muir, 2009). Correspondence practices have endured from writers using ostraca, pieces of broken pottery, as the "scrap-paper of the ancient world" (Bagnell & Cribiore, 2006;Muir, 2009, p. 15), to World War I soldiers writing postcards home (Lyons, 2013), to contemporary Nepali teenagers composing love letters (Ahearn, 2001).…”

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“…While correspondence has been often studied as an epistolary genre—the letter—this study treats correspondence more capaciously as written material made to be sent, including cards, email, postcards, and letters for purposes beyond the personal. Correspondence practices have endured from writers using ostraca , pieces of broken pottery, as the “scrap-paper of the ancient world” (Bagnell & Cribiore, 2006; Muir, 2009, p. 15), to World War I soldiers writing postcards home (Lyons, 2013), to contemporary Nepali teenagers composing love letters (Ahearn, 2001). Correspondence also travels as material made to be on the move: Since writers squeezed script on messengers’ shoe soles or across leather wound around travelers’ staffs, letters, notes, and messages have slipped across borders and among many hands (Muir, 2009).…”

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Writing Through Bureaucracy

Leonard

2015

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Contemporary international migration produces a great deal of bureaucratic writing activity. This article reports on a study of one bureaucratic literacy practice-correspondence-of 25 international migrants in the United States. Contextual and practice-based analysis of data collected through literacy history interviews shows that (a) by virtue of living transnational lives, migrant writers develop correspondence practices that seem vernacular, but in fact take on the hegemonic qualities of modern bureaucracy, and (b) when composing everyday correspondence, migrant writers, rather than being subject to bureaucracy's whims, take up bureaucratic roles that allow them to manage their own and others' economic and geographic mobility. These findings complicate claims that migrant correspondence simply maintains relationships or fosters cultural cohesion. Migrant writers, while often corresponding to keep in touch with family and friends elsewhere, also adopt the practices of bureaucracy, becoming participants in the management of people on the move.International migration has increased in the last two decades, with numbers rising from 154 million in 1990 to 232 million in 2013. A total of 46 million

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Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World

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Library Network Security Measures As Determinants of Archives Preservation in Public Libraries in Rivers State, Nigeria

Library Network Security Measures As Determinants of Archives Preservation in Public Libraries in Rivers State, Nigeria

THISBE'S NOVEL: WRITING ROMANCE IN HELIODORUS’AETHIOPICA

Writing Through Bureaucracy

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