Jean Dickson - Faculty and Staff Profiles - University at Buffalo Libraries

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Degrees

MALS (Master of Arts in Library Science), 1983, University of Chicago; BA, 1973, Cornell University

Liaison

Polish Studies; Romance Languages & Literatures; Linguistics; Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Responsibilities

1) Selection of books, journals, and other materials for the Polish Collection, and in the fields of Romance languages & literatures, and Linguistics.
2) General reference at Lockwood Library
3) Class or individual instruction in the fields above.

Resources By Subject

Romance Languages and Literatures

Subject / Course Guides

French; Spanish; Linguistics

Publications:

1. Journal articles (Refereed)

[In progress] Carlos Curti: ¿compositor, director, rey del xilófono, camaleón?
¿Quién fue Carlos Curti? Heterofonía 2009.

Maria Dąbrowska and the politics of translation, Polish Review 38, no. 3 (1993): 299-310.

Zeromski’s novel in America: a new-found letter sheds some light, Polish Review 35, no. 2 (summer 1990): 149-155.

Authority control and the authority file: a functional evaluation of LCNAF on RLIN, [with Patricia Zadner], Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 9, no. 3 (March 1989): 57-71.

An analysis of user errors in searching an online catalog, Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 4, no. 3 (Spring 1984): 19-38.

2. Contribution to Book

Authority control and the authority file (same as article listed above), published as a chapter in Authority Control in the Online Environment, Barbara Tillett, editor (NewYork: Haworth Press, 1989).

3. Articles / stories (Non-Refereed)

When Mexico Came to Buffalo: Miguel Lerdo de Tejada and his Orquesta Tipica," Western New York Heritage 10 no. 1, Spring 2007: 42-49.

Mandolin mania in Buffalo’s Italian community, 1895 to 1918. Journal of World Anthropology: occasional papers 2 no. 2 August, 2006(accessed online: http://wings.buffalo.edu/research/anthrogis/JWA/V2N2/Dickson-art.pdf).

Mandolin mania: the music that swept WNY from 1880 to 1920, Western New York Heritage 8, no. 3 , Fall 2005: 42-53.

Libraries in Poland, UB International 1, no. 2 (spring/summer 1992): 30-31.

Its shorter in Chinese, The U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D Librarian 74 (February 1990).

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