Should museums return relics to their country of origin?

Should museums return relics to their country of origin?
Bettelheim, A., & Adams, R. “Stolen antiquities.” CQ Researcher 17.14 (2007): 313-336. CQ Press. 13 April 2007.
An ancient vase at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is fueling an intensifying ethical and legal debate about some of the world's most celebrated works of art. Two years ago, Italian authorities produced evidence the ancient vessel had been smuggled from Italy and demanded its return. Such prized artifacts have raised thorny questions about the ownership of cultural treasures in private collections and museums around the world. The controversy — and attendant criminal trials of alleged smugglers — is also shedding new light on the secretive world of antiquities collecting — a realm populated by tomb robbers, wealthy connoisseurs and aggressive dealers and curators. Some experts estimate that up to $4 billion worth of precious art is being illegally traded. Whatever their worth, ancient artworks are priceless to Italy, Egypt and other nations increasingly using cultural artifacts to exert political leverage and stoke national pride. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Books in CBC Library Collection

Feldman, Mark. Archaeology for everyone. New York: Quadrangle, c1977.
Location: Main Collection
Call number: CC75.5 .F44 1977

The dead and their possessions: repatriation in principle, policy and practice. Ed. Cressida Fforde, Jane Hubert and Paul Turnbull. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Location: Main Collection
Call number: CC79.5 .H85D43 2002

Fine-Dare, Kathleen S. Grave injustice: the American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, c2002.
Location: Reserve Reference
Call number: KF8210 .A57F56 2002

Reid, Donald M. Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, museums, and Egyptian national identity from Napoleon to World War I. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002.
Location: American Council of Learned Societies History E-Book Project

Sullivan, Lynne P. and S. Terry Childs. Curating archaeological collections: from the field to the repository. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Altamira Press, 2003.
Location: Main Collection
Call number: CC75.7 .A73 2003 v6

Articles

Kahn, Jeremy. “Is the U.S. protecting foreign artifacts? Don’t ask.” New York Times (8 April 2007): 2.26. ProQuest. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 14 April 2007.

The Cultural Property Advisory Committee has been the focus of fierce battles between archaeologists, who say the art market fosters the looting of historic sites, and dealers, who say that broad import restrictions threaten collecting by private individuals and museums in the United States. Is the Committee making appropriate decisions to help other countries protect their cultural heritage?

McGuigan, Cathleen. “Whose art is it? American museums are returning some of the world’s great antiquities to their original homes. Should they? A new debate over who owns the past is underway.” Newsweek 149.10 (12 Mar. 2007): 54. ProQuest. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 14 April 2007.

Museum directors are seeking a legal way to purchase foreign antiquities. Many artifacts purchased in the past have been stolen or looted; now, citing national pride, some governments are demanding them back.

Briggs, Aaron Kyle. “Consequences of the Met-Italy Accord for the nternational restitution of cultural property.” Chicago Journal of International Law 7.2 (Winter 2007): 623-654. ProQuest. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 14 April 2007.

In February 2006, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Italian Ministry of Culture signed the Italy-Met Euphronios Accord, forever changing the dynamics of the international cultural property trade.

“Getty Museum agrees to return two Greek treasures.” Washington Post (12 Dec. 2006): C.8. ProQuest. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 14 April 2007.

The J. Paul Getty Museum has settled a decade-old cultural heritage dispute with Greece, agreeing to hand over two ancient treasures that Athens claimed had been illegally spirited out of the country, as Greece steps up its campaign to reclaim looted artifacts, thousands of which are prominently displayed in museums and collections worldwide.

CEO PAY

Billitteri, Thomas J. "Curbing CEO Pay." CQ Researcher 17.10 (2007): 217-240. CQ Press. 12 Mar. 2007 . .

Is executive compensation out of control? This spring's shareholder proxy season promises to trigger fireworks among shareholders. Scores of public companies are under scrutiny from shareholders and politicians for rewarding their chief executive officers with huge pay and severance packages, sometimes despite spectacular management failures. Home Depot's Robert L. Nardelli, for example, received a $210 million severance package in January, while Capital One Financial's Richard D. Fairbank took home $280 million in compensation in 2005. Meanwhile, an investigation is proceeding into the possible manipulation of executive stock options at up to 200 companies. New federal rules requiring companies to disclose once-hidden details of their compensation took effect this year, setting the stage for bitter controversy over corporate pay. A coalition of shareholders is petitioning some 50 corporations for the right to advise their boards on the companies' executive compensation, and the new Democrat-controlled Congress has made moves aimed at curbing pay.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

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Technology in Education

Bleed, Ron. "A Disruptive Innovation Arrives." EDUCAUSE Review 42.1 (2007): 72-73. Education Module. ProQuest. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 10 Mar. 2007 .

Indiana University’s 3+1 program that combines distance learning and community college credits is discussed. The hope is that this will better serve students saving them money and commuting time.


Colvin, Sharon. "How to Keep the Audience Awake and Learning." Information Outlook 1 Feb. 2007: 25-27. Education Module. ProQuest. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 10 Mar. 2007 .

The issues of active engagement versus using too much technology are discussed. Rickman and Grudzinski (2000) have found that college students expect technology to be used in the classroom but prefer that it not be used 100 percent of the time.


"E-Learning: Successes and Failures." Chronicle of Higher Education 5 Jan. 2007: B20-B23. Research Library Core. ProQuest. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 10 Mar. 2007 .

At The Chronicle's Technology Forum, the issue of e-learning is debated by two experts. Gene I. Maeroff, a senior fellow at the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Columbia University's Teachers College and Robert Zemsky, chairman of the Learning Alliance for Higher Education.


Maloney, Edward J. "What Web 2.0 Can Teach Us About Learning." Chronicle of Higher Education 53.18 (2007): B26-B27. Academic Search Premier. 10 March 2007. .


"New Technologies Help Build Learning Communities." Distance Education Report 10.13 (2006): 1-6. Academic Search Premier. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 10 March 2007. .

Norman Garrett, a professor in the School of Business at Eastern Illinois University, is interviewed about his use of RSS feeds, blogs, wiki's and podcasts for distance learning.


Oblinger,Diana G and Brian L Hawkins. "The Myth about No Significant Difference." EDUCAUSE Review 41.6 (2006): 14-15. Education Module. ProQuest. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 10 Mar. 2007 .

Does technology make a difference? Sometimes it depends on the question being asked and who’s asking it and it’s not always that simple to answer.


Read, Brock. "How to Podcast Campus Lectures." Chronicle of Higher Education 53.21 (2007): A32-A35. Academic Search Premier. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 10 March 2007. .


Strauss, Howard. "The FUTURE OF THE Web, Intelligent Devices, and Education." Educause Review 42.1 (2007): 32-46. Academic Search Premier. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 10 March 2007. .

The article presents a reprint of a 1999 article from Educom Review called "The Future of the Web, Intelligent Devices, and Education," by Howard Strauss. It discusses trends hardware, software, networking, and education trends.


Young, Jeffrey R. "Better Technology in High Schools Raises Students' Expectations." Chronicle of Higher Education 22 Sep. 2006: A31. ProQuest. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 10 Mar. 2007 .