Reinberger Children’s Library Center
Room 314, University Library
When you think of children’s picture books, you probably don’t think about scholarly research. But scholars come from all over the world to study the colorful collections and resources of the Reinberger Children’s Library Center (RCLC) at Kent State’s School of Library and Information Science.
Opportunities abound for research into countless subjects in children’s and youth literature. Recent scholars have explored such varied topics as contemporary art, linguistic diversity, homelessness and social justice.
Since its opening in 2003, after receiving a gift from the Reinberger Foundation of Cleveland, the center has been a popular gathering space for conferences, workshops, meetings and classes. Originally called the Reinberger Children’s Room, it was conceived as a “demonstration” children’s public and school library center to train students and practitioners.
Not to be overlooked, however, according to the center’s director, Michelle Baldini, MLIS, is the significant acquisition of rich and diverse materials in children’s literature that has made the Reinberger a meaningful research facility.
In 2008, it expanded to house collections donated by the late Dr. Kenneth and Sylvia Marantz. The Marantz Picturebook Collection for the Study of Picturebook Art has grown to include more than 30,000 picture books from the past 40+ years, as well as posters, original artwork, ephemera and character toys.
Today, the Reinberger boasts a non-circulating collection of more than 50,000 picture books, original picture book art, publisher posters from 1924 on, historical children’s books, movable, pop-up and toy books—and more. (See samples below.)
To encourage scholars to explore these rich collections, the school offers two annual research fellowships of up to $1,500 each.
The vision of the center, Baldini says, is “to be a portal of information and inspiration relating to the world of children through the study of children’s literature and youth services librarianship.”
Learn more at www.kent.edu/slis/reinberger-childrens-library-center. To pursue scholarly research using the center’s collections or to schedule a tour, contact Michelle Baldini at firstname.lastname@example.org, 330-672-0017.
1. 19th-Century Collection Pris and JDub’s Historical Children’s Book Nook contains 19th-century historically significant children’s books.
2. Pop-Up Book, 2010 Paper Blossoms: A Book of Beautiful Bouquets for the Table by paper engineer Ray Marshall is one of more than 600 pop-up and movable books in the Carol G. Davis Pop-Up Collection.
3. Punch and Judy Puppets, circa 1876 Donated by Priscilla Drach, these are the oldest puppets in the Reinberger’s large puppet collection.
4. Artist Donation, 2013 Yuyi Morales, illustrator and author of many award-winning children’s books, spoke at Kent State’s annual Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Children in 2013; she drew this sketch of a deer at the event.
5. Original Artwork, 1998 This cover illustration for The Horn Book Magazine, by Caldecott-award-winning author and illustrator Chris Raschka, is part of the Wolfenbarger Collection of Original Picturebook Art.
6. Pop-Up and Movable Book, 2011 Encyclopedia Mythologica: Dragons and Monsters, by renowned paper engineers Matthew Reinhart and Robert Sabuda, is a popular book in the pop-up and movable collection. Sabuda gave the keynote address at Kent State’s symposium on children’s movable books in 2014.
7. Beatrix Potter Books and Figurines The Margaret Alexander Beatrix Potter Collection contains all first editions and even pirated books by Beatrix Potter, along with collectible figurines.
8. Marantz Correspondence Dr. Kenneth Marantz (a professor of art at Ohio State University) and his wife, Sylvia (a librarian), reviewed thousands of “picturebooks” (his preferred spelling), which they donated along with letters and cards from publishers, editors, authors and illustrators.
9. Process Book Best-selling children’s author and illustrator Rosemary Wells gave the keynote at Kent State’s 2015 symposium on early childhood literacy. She donated manuscripts, original art and dummies from her 2014 book Stella’s Starliner. Pictured: the dummy she submitted to the publisher (above) and the finished book (below)


Macbeth Paper Writing
If your assignment is to write an assay on Macbeth, one of the most famous plays by William Shakespeare, it doesn’t mean that knowing the plot of the play is enough. While you should possess good knowledge of Shakespeare’s biography and literary style, these facts need to be revealed only in connection with the question under your exploration. In a Macbeth essay, your main task is to study a certain aspect of the play in accordance with the topic, but not make an all-inclusive analysis in general words.
Macbeth Research Paper
Though writing a Macbeth research paper is not a rare assignment, its complicacy should not be undermined. Unfortunately, literary criticism is often regarded as an easy area for research writing. In the reality, you are going to carry out a profound analysis of this well-known play by an author we actually know little about. Your research may use the classical techniques of tragedy analysis together with your personal underlined viewpoint.


You can specify a collation for ordering characters when you create or alter a table or create a domain or a user-defined type.
If you have specified a collation for a column, the collation is used implicitly in SQL statements.
You only need to explicitly use a collate clause in SQL statements if you want to override the default collation or the collation you specified when creating or altering the table or creating the domain or user-defined type.
SQL only permits compatible character strings to be compared. That is, you can compare character strings only if the source and target strings belong to the same collation or can be coerced into having the same collation.
A character string that is defined with a named collation can only be compared or assigned to a character string that is either defined with the same named collation or is defined without a collation.
In the case where one of the strings is not associated with a named collation then it will be implicitly coerced to the same collation as the other string.
String Comparison Examples
The following three comparisons are all legal (and equivalent):job_title = 'developer' COLLATE english_1 job_title COLLATE english_1 = 'developer' job_title COLLATE english_1 = 'developer' COLLATE english_1
But -job_title COLLATE english_1 = 'developer' COLLATE swedish_1
is illegal because different collations are specified.
When creating or altering a table, you can specify a collation in the column-definition, for example:CREATE TABLE employees (surname CHAR(20) COLLATE swedish_1 ...
CREATE DOMAIN and CREATE TYPE
When creating a domain or a user-defined type, you can specify a collation for the character and national character string data types, for example:CREATE DOMAIN name_type AS VARCHAR(48) COLLATE english_1; CREATE TYPE car_models AS VARCHAR(48) COLLATE english_1;
All properties of a domain or a user-defined type apply to the column when the domain/type is used in a
To improve performance when retrieving data, you can create more than one index for a column using different collations, for example:CREATE INDEX cnt_eng_ind ON countries (country COLLATE english_3); CREATE INDEX cnt_swe_ind ON countries (country COLLATE swedish_3);
Which index that will be used depends on the situation. For example:SELECT * FROM countries ORDER BY country COLLATE english_3;
will use the
AndSELECT * FROM countries ORDER BY country COLLATE swedish_3;
will use the
A collation specified in the column-definition will take precedence over a domain or user-defined type collation.
Continuing with the example above, the domain collation was set to
english_1, but in the following example the column
countryis set to
swedish_1, which takes precedence over the domain setting:CREATE TABLE countries ( code CHARACTER(2), country name_type COLLATE swedish_1, ...
Altering Collations on Columns
You can change the collation specified for a column by using the
ALTER TABLEstatement, for example:ALTER TABLE countries ALTER COLUMN country CHAR(20) COLLATE english_1;
To return to the default (
ISO8BIT)sorting order, you would enter:ALTER TABLE countries ALTER COLUMN country CHAR(20) COLLATE ISO8BIT;
By altering a collation, for example to the default
ISO8BITcollation, you can remove any dependencies associated with the collation. This makes it possible to drop the collation - see the next section.
Dropping a Collation
You can drop a collation only if there are no dependencies, for example:DROP COLLATION collation_name RESTRICT;
Finding Out the Default Collation For a ColumnYou can find out which collation a column uses by reviewing the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNSview, for example:
SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE table_name = 'table1' AND column_name = 'col1';
For more information, see the Mimer SQL Reference Manual, INFORMATION_SCHEMA.
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Planet Earth pays too much for cheap apparel. Clothes can in fact also be colored ecologically
It is striking that up to 20% of industrial water pollution in China comes from dyeing or coloring textiles.
According to the World Trade Bank, up to 20% of industrial water pollution in China comes from dyeing of textiles. The survey says there are about 72 toxic chemicals in water, of which 30 can not be removed from the water at all.
China and India are among the two most important textile giants in the world. Turnover from their production and export counts in billions of dollars.
People working for these textile factories though are rewarded by only a fraction of this dizzying sum. Many have to work under conditions that they can hardly call suitable. In addition, their own health is endangered. Insufficient regulation in companies producing and dyeing textiles is also a burden on the surrounding environment.
Discharging of colored waste into rivers with near zero regulation
At present, pollution of industrial waste streams in these countries is alarming.
Chinese textile industry will use more than two and a half trillion liters of water per year in its factories. However, the neutralization of such wastewater is incredibly costly and therefore many companies neglect it.
Given the lack of regulation by the authorities or the absolute absence of suitable wastewater treatment plants, China releases toxic metals such as tributyltin, phthalates, perfluorooctane sulfonate or aniline into its watercourse.
Many of these substances are subject to very strict regulation in other countries. These are substances that are highly toxic and can cause cancer and dangerous hormonal changes in the body.
The tax on high turnover is paid by the poorest
An example is one of the 133 Chinese cities dedicated exclusively to the production and sale of textiles. The environmental impact in the city of Xintang, also known as the "World city of Jeans", on its Dong River is disastrous.
As a result of the discharge of wastewater form local textile producer, this river became completely unusable for the city's population. The water is not drinkable, people can not do the laundry or swim in it. In addition, water is often discharged from its bed and degrades crops near human homes.
City Xintang covers approximately 40% of denim demand in the US per year. Source: Greenpeace.org
Belgian scientists have come up with a sustainable solution
The unnamed coloring house in Belgium, in 2017, tested a new method for wastewater treatment in conjunction with scientists from the European Research Project. In this way, the factory wanted to reduce the environmental impact and costs of treating its wastewater.
Water stained with blue color. Source: Euronews.com
The project worked with a two-step cleaning method that is capable of removing the color, toxic substances and salts contained in the wastewater with almost 96 % efficiency:
stage – involves electrocoagulation that removes dye from the water
stage – continues with reverse osmosis, which gets the water rid of salt
According to scientists, the water thus purified can be reused in the future for dyeing textiles.
A similar two-stage cleaning will create a cycle that will ultimately save the factory up to 75% of the cost of new water.
Apparel does not have to kill us
A method known from ancient Egyptian times has been sought to be revived by various eco-friendly startups in recent decades. It is a method of coloring using natural pigments.
They are more friendly to the human organism and nature, they do not contain dangerous chemicals, toxins or salts. The clothing is mostly natural indigo on blue, resin on violet, certain plants on red, brown and yellow plants and minerals on gray and black.
This is how the clothing is manufactured by the method thousands of years old. Source: Industry of All Nations
Pollution of water and watercourses is one of the biggest ecological problems of the present. If we buy cheap and fast fashion made for short consumption, we also have a share of it.
Therefore, do not ignore the urgency of this topic and try to contribute to the improvement of the world situation with our own decisions.
Are you interested in this topic? Also read our article on the world´s 9 most colorfull rivers, whose unusual shade caused is caused by hazardous waste escaping from the factory.
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From a Botanical point of view the bamboo species is not considered to be a Tree, instead it is seen to be a kind of Grass. The Bamboo Family is composed by a large group of about 1000 perennial evergreen species. Some of these species are relatively small and some of them run among some of the largest types of grass known to man. New Bamboo shoots can grow up to 3’ feet per day. The bamboo tree is a plant native to the Asian continent, but it may also be found in various parts of the world. The Bamboo species is extremely important within China and has been used for centuries in the production of things such as paper, construction materials and food.
Botanical Name: Phyllostachys spp.
Country of Origin: The Bamboo species which is used predominantly for Hardwood Flooring is found growing mostly in China and Vietnam. There are other types Bamboo species which grow all over the world, in areas such as Australia, India, Africa and the Americas.
Species and Names: There are over 1000 bamboo species in the world. Each Culture has its own unique name for the bamboo. For example, in China the Bamboo wood species is called Zhu, in Japan you can find it under the name Take and Tre in Vietnam.
Look and Color: The Bamboo is not a real wood and the process of making Bamboo Hardwood Flooring is unique and different from other hardwood flooring manufacturing. There are two looks available: Bamboo Natural and Bamboo Carbonized. The Natural Bamboo has a very bright creamy yellowish color, which is very similar to that of the Maple Natural color. The Carbonized Bamboo Hardwood has darker brownish color which looks somewhat similar to the color of the Oak species. Another kind of Bamboo Hardwood available is the Strand Woven style. This style comes in both Natural and Carbonized colors and is considered to be much stronger and durable than its Bamboo alternatives. This is because the Strand Woven Bamboo is layers upon layers of handcrafted Bamboo, which makes it even stronger and longer lasting than Classic Solid Hardwood Flooring.
Grain Texture: The grain pattern on Bamboo is derived from the specific manufacturing process used when creating the Bamboo Hardwood. There are two ways of laminating the bamboo strips: Horizontal Bamboo and Vertical Bamboo. Both of these Laminating styles come in Natural and Carbonized color. The Strand Woven Bamboo is a hybrid of the Horizontal and Vertical styles.
Hardness and Strength: In not being a “true” wood, the Bamboo species varies in strength and durability depending on the manufacturing process and the selected Bamboo stalks used. Usually, older Bamboo plants will result in a stronger and harder Bamboo Hardwood. On the Janka Hardness Test the Carbonized Bamboo received a score of 1180 while the Natural Bamboo is slightly harder with a score of 1380. When comparing to popular Hardwood styles, the Red Oak Hardwood receives a score of 1290, a way between the two Bamboo styles. Strand Woven Bamboo Hardwood is considered to be the strongest, hardest style within the Bamboo industry. As for the Dimensional Stability test, the Bamboo plant reacts very well to moisture, which is an effect of the specific engineered construction and manufacturing of Bamboo Hardwood.
Uses in the Wood Industry: The Bamboo plant is a very useful wood species that is growing in popularity around the globe and being used in a variety of industries. In Asia it is well known as a source of food and is used for all kinds of materials and constructions. Within the Hardwood Industry, the Bamboo species has nearly an infinite amount of uses. It is well used in residential construction, fences, bridges, toilets, walking sticks, canoes, tableware, furniture, chopsticks, food steamers, toys and much, much more. The Bamboo Wood has also been used for making musical instruments, skateboards and surfboards. The Bamboo Hardwood flooring industry is constantly growing, with new products made daily. Bamboo has had an increase in demand due to its fast reproductive features, unlike the “Tree” species such as Oak, Brazilian Teak and Maple, the Bamboo Hardwood takes a couple years to mature, making it one of the most environmentally friendly products.