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eBooks and Efficiencies in Acquisitions Expenditures and Workflows
(2013-04)
East Carolina University’s Joyner Library acquires ebooks through several different methods, including packages, firm orders, and most recently, a Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) program. Because we expect our volume of ...
Demystifying the Institutional Repository for Success (Review)
(2014-11)
Review of Marianne Buehler's Demystifying the Institutional Repository for Success (Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2013).
E-Books, Soup to Nuts: Considering Workflows for Electronic Books
(2012-05-11)
Many libraries have already have access to packages of electronic books, and are either considering or putting into place two other methods of acquisition: title-by-title selection and patron-driven acquisitions (PDA). ...
Rules of thumb for deselecting, relocating, and retaining bound journals
(2012)
Purpose – Like many other academic libraries, Joyner Library at East Carolina University has experienced pressure in recent years to convert stacks space to other uses. The rise of electronic collections coupled with the ...
Weeding One STEPP at a Time
(2011-11-04)
Joyner Library recently had to make space for a new campus partner. To do so we focused our activity on print journals. We created a set of rules guiding our deselection, storage, and retention decisions.
Trusting Digital Preservation for Print Collection Management, Or How Librarians Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the "E"
(2011-09)
This article advocates planning for the management of print collections in light of digital preservation activities. Three activities include deduplicating print holdings from archival online journal packages, participating ...
Professionally Pinching Pennies
(East Carolina University, 2009)
The effects of current economic conditions on technical services in public, community college, and university libraries.
One Book, One New Hanover: Bringing Community Members Together for Blood Done Sign My Name
(East Carolina University, 2006)
This article looks at a "One Book, One Community" implementation in New Hanover County centered on Timothy Tyson's Blood Done Sign My Name.
Sqeezed Between the E's: Electronic Resources (Print Monographs) Economic Woes
(East Carolina University, 2009)
Difficult economic times are reducing libraries’ ability to purchase print monographs, and continued pressures to provide electronic materials often force libraries to cut their book budgets even more. How are libraries ...
The NIH Mandate One Year On: How Are Libraries Responding?
(East Carolina University, 2009)
About one year ago, the landmark National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy began requiring authors who receive NIH funding to deposit final versions of their accepted manuscripts to NIH’s PubMed Central database. ...