Browsing Joyner Library by Title
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The Federal Depository Library Program: Anachronism or Necessity?
(East Carolina University, 2004)A look at how the advent of the World Wide Web and transition to primarily electronic distribution of federal publications has permanently altered the FDLP. In order to survive, the program needs to transition from the old ... -
"For ’the making and glimpsing of Other-Worlds’: Literature of the Fantastic in the Schlobin Collection at East Carolina University"
(East Carolina University, 2005)This article provides an overview of the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection at East Carolina University's Joyner Library. The collection houses materials related to science fiction and ... -
Forcing the Moment to Its Crisis: Thoughts on Pay-Per-View and the Perpetual Access Ideal
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From Innovation to Transformation: A Review of the 2006-2007 Serials Literature
(East Carolina University, 2009-01)This paper reviews the leading trends in and contributions to the peer-reviewed and professional literature of serials librarianship published in 2006 and 2007. The review shows that a central topic in the literature is ... -
From the Pen of the Editor
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From the Taiga Forum 2006 . . . OUR future scenarios
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A Fund Allocation Process: Employing a Use Factor
(2014-11-07)Beginning in 2012, two librarians sought to revise the beastly allocation formula used to distribute monographic funds at East Carolina University. After investigating different methods, they decided to develop a formula ... -
Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management (Review)
(East Carolina University, 2010)Book review of the second edition of Peggy Johnson's Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management (ALA, 2010). -
The Future of Reading and Academic Libraries
(2014-11-07)The rise of the ebook is raising fundamental questions around the dynamics and habits of reading, and a perennial question - the importance of books in the academic library. Print and digital texts foster different styles ... -
Giving Patrons What They Want: An Analysis of a Thesis and Dissertation Purchase-on-Demand Project at East Carolina University
(East Carolina University, 2010-04)Joyner Library's Interlibrary Loan Department has been purchasing theses and dissertations that it could neither borrow from other libraries nor find freely available online to fulfill patron requests. Purchased documents ... -
Green Chemistry Web Resources
(2012)This article reviews a variety of authoritative Green Chemistry web resources. -
Information Literacy and Global Readiness: Library Involvement Can Make a World of Difference
(East Carolina University, 2010)Information literacy has evolved to encompass a variety of skills as technology and the availability of information has increased. It is a fundamental concept of academic librarianship and the need for students to obtain ... -
Inventory: catalyst for collection development
(East Carolina University, 2006)Purpose : The intent of this article is to show the direct outcomes of an inventory project, which served as the catalyst for collection development improvements. Design/methodology/approach : An inventory project was ... -
The Joint-Use Library in Carrboro: Bringing Together Orange County Public Library and Chapel-Hill/Carrboro City Schools
(2015)Joint-use libraries have been created to share resources, reduce facilities costs, and more efficiently serve patrons. There have been several notable examples in the news. In the summer of 2013, a joint-use facility opened ... -
Joseph McCarthy: The Face of the Red Scare
(2009)The Red Scare during the 1950’s was one of the most traumatic periods of American history. The decade would later be known as the “Era of McCarthyism” because of a Republican Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy ... -
Joyner Library’s Cold War and Internal Security Collection
(2013-08)In April 2013, Joyner Library announced a new collection: The Cold War and Internal Security Collection (CWIS). The CWIS was created as a Center of Excellence for the Collaborative Federal Depository Program of the ... -
Just keep clicking Till You Find It: Building a Library Digital Collection Interface with Browsing in Mind
(East Carolina University, 2009)This session will explore how East Carolina University's Joyner Library developed an interface to their digitized special collections to facilitate user browsing. The library's digital collections contain thousands of items ... -
LibQual+ in a Distance Education Environment
(East Carolina University, 2007-06)To help us learn more about how DE students perceive and use library resources and services, we administered LibQual+ to 6007 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in one or more online courses in Spring 2007. This ... -
LibQUAL+ Spring 2009 Survey Analysis
(East Carolina University, 2009-08-31)PowerPoint presentation analyzing the results of the Spring 2009 LibQUAL+ survey at East Carolina University and comparing results with those from the 2003 and 2007 surveys. -
Library Management Tips that Work (Review)
(2013-02)Book review of Carol Smallwood's Library Management Tips that Work (ALA, 2011).