Library Express Delivery Service: The Evolution of a Campus Delivery Service at Florida State University

Libraries are faced with the challenge of developing new services that respond to the growing needs of their patron base. A library material delivery service is one new service model that is becoming increasingly popular among academic libraries around the country. While this service has shown positive results on college campuses, the service model is still evolving. The purpose of this article is to provide library professionals with a clear and concise overview of policies and logistics currently implemented by the Library Express Delivery Service at Florida State University.     

Illustration

John P. Frisby Seeing: lliusion, Brain and Mind (Mew York: ..Oxford University Press, 1980—$18.95)

Peyton Skipwith The Great Bird Illustrators and their Art, 1730-1930(New York A&W Publishers,1979-$25.00)

Victor Margolin Ira Brichta, and Vivian Brichta's The Promise and The Product: 200 Year of American Advertising Posters (New York: Mcmillan, 1979—$37.50}.

Jeffrey Jones The Studio (London:Big,Q Publishing; Charlottesville, Vs. , Big 0 Publishing, 1979—$12.50. paper)

Arthur T. Turnbull and Russell. N. Baird The Graphics of Communication: Typography, layout; Design, Production (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1986-price not given)     

Books of the Month

William T. Stewart, Arthur F. McClure and Ken D. Jones, International Film Necrology (328 pages, $35).     

From California to Michigan: Race,Rationality, and Neoliberal Governmentality

In this essay, we examine recent developments in battles over race- and gender-based affirmative action across a 10-year period from the California Civil Rights Initiative (1996) to the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (2006). While affirmative action policies have historically been contested within a paradigm of redistribution, our analysis of the Michigan case suggests a new strategic emphasis on disputing the legitimacy of the state's recognition of social difference. Drawing on the work of critical race and critical rhetoric scholars, as well as social theory on citizenship in the post-soul moment, we argue that a neoliberal understanding of difference and neoliberalism's appropriations of multiculturalism have allowed the anti-affirmative action movement in Michigan to avoid racist appeals completely by invoking the neoliberal myth of free, entrepreneurial individuals against a meddling, inefficient, authoritarian state. Further, we find that these shifts have permitted assaults on the positive consideration of gender—a strategy that was not possible when debates were centered over competing claims of racism. Finally, we argue that these strategic adjustments since California have enabled the anti-affirmative action movement to discursively align itself with contemporary neoliberal assaults on a range of social and cultural rights.