The Power of Collaboration
Thursday, April 6, 2023, 6:00 pm
Clark Memorial Library, Flohr Lecture Hall
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Amy Pawlowski
Executive Director,
OhioLINK
We’ve all been told that working together is essential, the benefits plentiful, and when done right goals are achieved more efficiently. As the Executive Director of OhioLINK, Amy Pawlowski is fortunate to witness the power of great collaboration every day.
Academic libraries across Ohio have been collaborating efficiently for over 30 years to make a vast collection of shared resources available to all academic libraries across the state at a fraction of the cost. Thanks to the OhioLINK consortium’s 89 member institutions and more than 500 librarians who work with OhioLINK in standing teams each year, Ohio’s academic libraries can offer print and digital resources that rival the top research universities.
How does collaboration work in practice? What is it like to work this way day-to-day ? And what do the individual institution and the collective get out of collaborating?
Amy will talk about the power of collaboration and outline key attributes of great collaboration. In addition, she’ll give listeners pragmatic advice on how to be a good collaborator and how to best approach this kind of work.
Democracy at the Ballpark
Friday, April 7, 2023, 11:00 am
Clark Memorial Library, Flohr Lecture Hall
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Thomas David Bunting
Associate Professor of Political Science
Coordinator of Political Science Major
Department of Social Sciences,
Shawnee State University
Baseball is often hailed as especially democratic and American, and yet, political scientists have not examined how America’s pastime interacts with American politics. This project seeks to examine this relationship looking at the question primarily from the lens of spectatorship. Doing so, I argue, shows that spectatorship forms a community of spectators who actively participate in the construction of baseball games and events. Examining this community shows how baseball can mirror politics of the time, and at times, baseball can shape politics.
To make this argument I examine the politics that emerge in the sport around community, equality, virtue, and technology. Spectatorship of sport, I show, can empower people to interact with a form of everyday politics that is not as grand as a heroic vision of the politic, but these everyday politics are more constant and accessible. While democratic theorists often focus on elite politics, I show that democracy at the ballpark deserves consideration as well.
