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The purpose of this paper is to examine formal and informal communication and documentation related to the creation and development of the Katrina Research Center (KRC) including its mission, vision, organizational structure, funding, collection development, community outreach, research, and educational activities.

This paper takes the form of a qualitative case study.

Recurrent themes identified in the study include multi‐disciplinary affiliation of KRC faculty and staff; cooperation and resource‐sharing with other university departments and faculty; and networking with community groups such as local historical societies, public schools, and libraries.

The documentation of the creation and development of the KRC can be useful as a model for other research centers and/or subject repositories affiliated with academic libraries.

The documentation and examination of factors related to a multi‐disciplinary research center and subject repository can form the basis for further, more comprehensive studies.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Hurricane Katrina‐related narratives of Library and Information Science students at the University of Southern Mississippi's School of Library and Information Science, in order to gain insight into the role of public libraries post‐Hurricane Katrina.

Qualitative NVivo software was used to code the narratives for themes related to public libraries post‐Hurricane Katrina.

Post‐disaster problems include physical damage or destruction of the libraries and inundation of the libraries by refugees and evacuees seeking communication and information. Post‐disaster services provided by public librarians include providing communication and information, helping fill out aid forms, listening, offering comfort, volunteering, and donating.

This study can inform practitioners of the value of the public library as a quality of life issue since providing people with information and communication in public libraries played a crucial role in light of a catastrophic circumstance.

The unique context of local rural and small‐town public libraries faced with devastating catastrophic circumstances can add to the body of literature related to the value of public library services post‐disaster and form the basis for further, more comprehensive studies.

This review reports on the first Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference held in Chania, Crete, Greece.

The methodological approach is anthropological participant observation.

Approximately 150 attendees from 50 different countries participated and exchanged ideas, methodologies, and techniques related to library research.

Presentation of research related to various types of libraries is a way to disseminate research results as well as promote and stimulate further research.

There is a need to expand the body of both qualitative and quantitative LIS research related to library research, particularly the evaluation of library services.

THE Reference Department of Paisley Central Library today occupies the room which was the original Public Library built in 1870 and opened to the public in April 1871. Since that date two extensions to the building have taken place. The first, in 1882, provided a separate room for both Reference and Lending libraries; the second, opened in 1938, provided a new Children's Department. Together with the original cost of the building, these extensions were entirely financed by Sir Peter Coats, James Coats of Auchendrane and Daniel Coats respectively. The people of Paisley indeed owe much to this one family, whose generosity was great. They not only provided the capital required but continued to donate many useful and often extremely valuable works of reference over the many years that followed. In 1975 Paisley Library was incorporated in the new Renfrew District library service.

To clarify needs and requests of the young generation to the contemporary and future education on food systems, this paper aims to examine the following issues: students’ background knowledge, students’ behaviour as consumers and food citizenship, most interesting topics of SFS for students and students’ preferences and expectations in developing different skills, topics and preferences in teaching/learning methods.

This study was performed as an online-survey amongst eight European Universities in seven European Union (EU) countries to which 1,122 students responded. Data was analysed with descriptive and multivariate statistical analyses.

Taste and Health are the most important values and motives that influence students’ food buying and consumption decisions, but significant differences were found amongst students from different universities and countries. The most important topics for students for future teaching courses are “organic food”, “fair trade”, “organic agriculture” and most important skills to learn are “ability to make a judgement and justify decisions” and the “ability to create and innovate”. Excursions and field trips as teaching methods was given the highest ranks.

Different study programmes and cultural backgrounds of the participating students in the different universities could be a limiting factor for the interpretation of some results.

These results provide a basis for improvement of higher education in the EU towards sustainable food systems based on experiential learning/teaching methods.

In a multicultural context like the one that can be found in Dallas (Texas), foreign language teachers must be prepared to deal with an ever-growing group of multicultural, multilingual students. This chapter discusses the work done in a university MA classroom that teaches Spanish-as-a-foreign-language school, high-school, and university instructors how to improve their teaching methods by including real literature examples in their classrooms. As the class included a particularly diverse multicultural group, the authors provide concrete examples on how to approach such a classroom. By outlining the different methodologies used by the main professor and some of the techniques employed by the students themselves, this chapter explores some of the major translanguaging strategies that can be used in a multilingual classroom.

Many authors have called for a more humane and effective type of leadership. This article seeks to propose a research program on the content and process of integral leadership. This type of leadership has been exemplified by leaders known for their ethical and spiritual maturity, such as Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Mohandas Gandhi and Rachel Carson, among others, and by many men and women who have not achieved fame.

As this research requires a multi‐disciplinary, multi‐level and developmental approach, Ken Wilber's integral model is described and used as a frame for the research program, going beyond the limitations of current leadership inquiry.

After having presented both the critics offered on leadership research and the tenets of the integral model, the article proposes a research program articulated by the analysis of individual cases of this leadership pattern and the collective analysis of these cases. Further, it adopts a micro, meso and macro perspective through the use of three methodologies: interpretative biography, institutional analysis and historical inquiry.

This research program contributes to a developmental theory of leadership. Researchers will find in this paper an innovative and sounded research program which can generate results on both the practice and development of a type of leadership we badly need.