Michael Dudley
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The Role of Multidimensional Library Neutrality in Advancing Social Justice: Adapting Theoretical Foundations from Political Science and Urban Planning
(2022)There is an ongoing, polarizing debate in the library profession and scholarship regarding the perceived incompatibility between library neutrality (embedded in the profession through the American Library Association’s ... -
Tongue-Tied by Authorities: Library of Congress Vocabularies and the Shakespeare Authorship Question
(Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2022-09-22)Despite the existence of a vast literature reflecting hundreds of years of scholarship questioning the authorship of the works of Shakespeare, the conventional Library of Congress Name Authority File and Library of Congress ... -
Stratfordian Epistemology and the Ethics of Belief
(The Oxfordian, 2022-09-08)This article considers belief in the traditional biography of Shakespeare -- that he was the "man from Stratford" -- in terms of belief ethics, to determine whether or not it is ethical and praiseworthy, or unethical and ... -
With Swinish Phrase Soiling Their Addition: Epistemic Injustice, Academic Freedom, and the Shakespeare Authorship Question
(Emerald Publishing, 2020-11-23)This chapter argues that the near-universal exclusion from the academy of the Shakespeare Authorship Question (or SAQ) represents a significant but little-understood example of an internal threat to academic freedom. Using ... -
Was Shakespeare a Ramist? (Review of The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship. By Michael Wainwright.)
(The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2020-09)Book review essay discussing Michael Wainwright's book "The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship" -
Necessary Mischief: Exploring the Shakespeare Authorship Question (Book Review)
(Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2019-09)Book review of Bonner Miller Cutting's 2018 book, Necessary Mischief: Exploring the Shakespeare Authorship Question. -
Liberating Knowledge at the Margins: Towards a Discursive-Transactional Research Paradigm in LIS
(Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2019-05)This paper proposes an LIS research paradigm by which the transactional relationships between knowledge organization systems (KOS) and external scholarly discourses may be identified and examined. It considers subject ... -
Joseph Rosenblum, “The Authorship Questions,” in The Definitive Shakespeare Companion: Overviews, Documents, and Analysis (vol. 1): 79-94
(Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2018-11)An early chapter of the 2018 reference work, The Definitive Shakespeare Companion: A Comprehensive Guide for Students concerning the Shakespeare Authorship Question, is found to be inadequate, poorly-researched and filled ... -
Six Shakespeares in Search of an Author (Book Review)
(The Oxfordian, 2018-09-07)A common objection levelled against authorship doubters is that the number of candidates claimed for the authorship of the Shakespeare canon makes it highly unlikely any of them could have been the true author. In My ... -
Becoming an Oxfordian: The Phenomenology of Shifting Research Paradigms in Shakespearean Biography
(2018-06-16)This essay seeks to gain a phenomenological understanding of the journey from skepticism in the traditional biography of Shakespeare to belief that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was the poet-playwright, and how this ... -
Seeing the Forest for the Trees on Mars: Locating the Ideology of the “Library of the Future”
(Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2017)For many decades now library practitioners have been generating a vast literature concerned with the “library of the future.” While much of this literature may be classified according to its imperatives for radical versus ... -
Knowledge Ill-Inhabited: The Subjugation of Post-Stratfordian Scholarship in Academic Libraries
(The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2015-09-13)Since 2000 there has been a surge of scholarly and popular publishing supporting the proposition that the name “Shake-Speare” was a pseudonym disguising a nobleman named Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, while the ... -
Looking Not on His Picture, but His Books: Two New Histories of Folger’s Quest for First Folios Shed Unintended Light on the Authorship Question
(Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2016-05)A review of two recently-released books, The Millionaire and the Bard by Andrea Mays and Stephen Grant’s Collecting Shakespeare, both of which explore Henry and Emily Folgers’ shared obsession with collecting First Folios ... -
Community Distress Towards a National Measure
(Policy Research and Coordination Directorate, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, 2008-01)This report developed and tested a proposed Canadian Distress Index (CDI) model capable of exploring distress across and within Canadian cities. The proposed index is discussed in terms of its ability to inform policy ... -
A Library Matter of Genocide: Native North American Genocides in Library of Congress subject Headings and Classification
(2016-02-03)The ways in which genocides, war crimes and atrocities are recognized by history can often depend on political considerations and alliances, and are, as a result, reflected in the language used to describe them. So it is ... -
Towards a Pragmatechnic Shakespeare Studies: A Review-Essay on U. Cambridge’s Shakespeare and the Digital World
(2015)A review essay of the 2014 book, Shakespeare and the Digital World: Redefining Scholarship and Practice edited by Christie Carson and Peter Kirwan (Cambridge University Press, 2015). -
Cinema and the ‘City of the Mind’: Using Motion Pictures to Explore Human-Environment Transactions in Planning Education.
(Springer, 2010)This chapter examines the pedagogical use of film in planning education, specifically as it relates to the teaching of environmental psychology. The intersections between film, theory, and pedagogy are important because ... -
Steinbach Public Transportation Study
(2006-01-01)This document constitutes the final report for the Steinbach Transportation Project Steering Committee (STPSC). This report includes a demographic profile of Steinbach; a literature review dealing with many of the relevant ...