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Item Open Access Watch How We GROW(2024-10) Gray, Erin; Hathaway, KaylaThe original GROW (Guided Reflection on Work) program developed at the University of Iowa has served as a valuable model for supporting student employees nationwide. However, to better align with the unique needs of student employees at East Carolina University’s Academic Library Services (ALS), we are redesigning the GROW program to adopt a holistic approach that supports the whole person, encompassing mental and physical health while emphasizing career readiness. By addressing these aspects, we expect to see increased engagement and job satisfaction among our student employees. Our objective is to create a comprehensive program that not only prepares student employees for their future careers but also ensures their well-being during their tenure at the library. The new GROW program will integrate resources and services from various university departments, including Career Services, Financial Wellness, and the Counseling Center. This new program is currently in its initial stages and will be gradually implemented this fall semester, with thorough evaluation and assessment to determine the next steps.Item Restricted Building Capacity Around Open Education Through Storytelling and Collaboration(2024-08) McCullough, Heather; McAdams, Jeff; Hoover, Jeanne K.We will share the current status of open education within the UNC System and several specific examples. We also want to hear from attendees how we might collectively amplify our OER voice through shared data collection and storytelling. Our discussion will include ideas about how to share your OER story and generate ideas for how we can collectively work together. After the short presentation, we invite attendees to share their OER stories and assessment strategies as well as discuss needs in supporting open education in North Carolina.Item Open Access No Time for Ivy: East Carolina University, 1907-2007(2006) Ferrell, Henry C., Jr.Item Open Access Strengthening partnerships between faculty and librarians: Using scholarly research metrics to support the campus teaching and research community(2023-10) Hoover, Jeanne K.; Coonin, BrynaAcademic librarians are increasingly involved in supporting faculty with scholarly communication concerns around the most effective ways to showcase their published research. Scholarly impact metrics are sometimes not uniformly understood or accepted as a measure of research success particularly when considered for recruitment, promotion, and tenure. Attention must also be paid to differences among disciplines when scholarly impact metrics are discussed. As academic librarians involved in scholarly communication, we were interested in how best to respond to our campus’ questions and on-going discussions around scholarly impact metrics. We wanted to strategically align our educational outreach to faculty as they communicate the impact of their scholarly research. In order to develop a better understanding of where our faculty stood around the issues related to scholarly research metrics a survey was created. Findings of the survey will be briefly presented, along with relevant details about the survey process itself. We will share how the results of the survey have made an impact on the strategic planning of our library’s Scholarly Communication Department and liaison librarians. We received numerous interesting responses from faculty. This session will also touch upon diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility as it relates to scholarly impact metrics because some concerns were expressed in our survey results around the issue of stereotypes and implicit bias in the evaluation of faculty research. We will be prepared to engage with attendees who wish to analyze the scholarly impact needs of their own campus.Item Open Access Favorable Winds: Robert Morgan & The Circumstances of the 1974 Election Year(2024-05) Stroud, James C.The election year of 1974 was fraught with drama and controversy, and it was not standard fare. While the predictable cycle of congressional midterms churned through their own campaign surprises, the entire nation was watching as President Richard Nixon faced impeachment in the middle of his term. The Watergate scandal, in which President Nixon was implicated, was too large to remain separate from the already ongoing congressional races. Whether politicians liked it or not, the 1974 midterms would act in some capacity as a referendum on Nixon’s alleged involvement. As the scandal intensified and became more prominent, politicians would jockey to have the right opinion for their constituents. Amongst them, certain politicians would do better than others due to their background. Theoretically, this would be the time for a rule-of-law, anti-Nixon champion to capitalize on the Watergate scandal. Enter Robert Morgan, a North Carolina politician with a theoretically ideal background, party affiliation, and circumstance in which to capitalize on a perfect storm of an election-year controversy. This paper will seek to determine if Robert Morgan’s successful North Carolina 1974 U.S. senatorial campaign was due in large part to the surrounding effects of Watergate. To accomplish such a determination, this paper will examine the effects of Watergate against other important campaign trends. Through this determination, the paper will ultimately argue that Watergate only played a tangential role in Morgan’s victory and was not directly utilized.Item Open Access Justice Deferred: Antidumping Legislation in the Robert Morgan Collection(2024-05) White, Elise J.The Robert Morgan papers provide detailed insight into the forming of H.R.8149, the Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978, and the events that led to its creation. This project examines Robert Morgan’s involvement in the Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978 and examines the case as it pertains to the Robert Morgan Papers. The documents in the collection are used to: Evaluate the events leading up to the Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978; Examine Robert Morgan’s impact on Antidumping legislation; Examine a specific legal case that involved Robert Morgan’s work in antidumping legislation; Evaluate Robert Morgan’s total impact on the passing of this billItem Open Access From the Editor(2024-05-30) Thomas, William JosephIntroduction to the issue in which two new columns are beginning.Item Open Access Revamping and Rethinking Popular Reading at an Academic Library(2024-05-30) Bright, LauraMany people think of academic libraries as physical (or virtual) spaces and collections maintained for the purpose of patrons acquiring professional knowledge and practicing scholastic research skills. Academic libraries have much more to offer patrons, as is evident by the diversity of programs and resources increasingly offered by college and university libraries. Popular or leisure reading collections can serve as an important function of academic libraries, which also meet patrons’ needs and interests outside of research and homework completion. Academic libraries serve multiple functions and, to some extent, also act as public libraries to many patrons. Consider, for example, the low likelihood that a university student will visit her public library for leisure reading or programming when her academic library is readily available on campus (and likely a critical stop in her weekly schedule). Academic librarians have many wonderful opportunities to support visiting patrons’ interests, personal and professional growth, literacy, and socioemotional development at their libraries.Item Open Access On the Front Lines(2024-05-30) Gee, C. WilliamThe first article of a new recurring column in North Carolina Libraries where we on the front lines of librarianship can share our experiences, tips, and recommendations.Item Open Access In Step with Library Leaders(2024-05-30) Thomas, William JosephWelcome to the inaugural article for a new column, to be focused on library leadership. Leadership may provide vision, direction, encouragement, or a model, and it may come from those in positions of authority or from coworkers alongside you. This first column asks three questions of three library leaders, Janice Lewis, Melanie Morgan, and Kathy Parker.Item Open Access From Nicholas to Putin: Russia Since 1900(2024-02) Durant, David M.This essay seeks to guide readers wishing to explore the burgeoning literature on modern Russia by offering a survey of 50 works that will be most useful for offering historical perspective and understanding of the invasion of Ukraine and the nature and origins of Putin’s regime. It is by no means comprehensive, in terms of both the books included and the topics covered. Rather, it seeks to provide nonspecialists, undergraduates, and general readers with a starting point for research, one that helps guide the reader toward useful and accurate works and away from instant books and sensationalism.Item Open Access Copyright: Policies, Resources, and Questions for School Librarians(2022) Dotson, Kaye; Parker, Kathy; Thomas, William JosephSchool librarians are often the professionals in their schools responsible for helping faculty and students locate, use, and create content responsibly. This article shares data from an East Carolina University survey of common copyright questions, background knowledge, availability of resources, and policy in North Carolina school libraries. Copyright and fair use resources are discussed, and three sample scenarios are presented.Item Open Access Internship Pivot @ ECU: Responding to Our University’s Transition(2021-07-31) Thomas, William Joseph; Dotson, KayeThe Master of Library Science (MLS) program at East Carolina University (ECU) requires internships for graduate students, pairing them with cooperating professionals to bridge the gap between theory and practice and to provide real-life experiences. The COVID-19 pandemic’s resulting transition to online-only instruction during the spring semester of 2020 impacted the traditional in-person internship significantly. ECU’s MLS internship director described the resulting changes to programming, placement, and cumulative projects; and a site supervisor described the tools and techniques used to communicate, plan, and work collaboratively online. Audience members shared additional tools and strategies for making online-only internships beneficial for students and cooperating field sites. This is an original manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Serials Review on July 31, 2021, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/00987913.2021.1940720.Item Open Access Analyzing Institutional Open Access Publishing Activity(2022) Thomas, William JosephScholarly communication librarians routinely promote Open Access (OA) publishing, encouraging their institutions' authors to increase their impact for the benefit of a greater number of readers. Researchers at East Carolina University (ECU) collected six years of ECU authors' publication data to analyze how much per year was free to read, and how much more could be made free for end-users to read. To do that, bibliographic information about the publications was merged with OA information provided by Unpaywall and Sherpa/RoMEO. Results were collated by author to target potential OA champions and for outreach to encourage green OA deposit when permitted. ECU's top journals, publishers, and funders were identified and our institution's OA rates were compared to those from multiple peer institutions. The authors also identified next steps, including adding data from 2021 and 2022 and analyzing that data for any potential effect of new OA memberships and publishing agreements, as well as continued outreach to authors.Item Open Access Workflows, Management Methods and Deliverables: The Data Dream Team(2020-05-20) Spring, Kelly; Dragon, Patricia M.; McLellan, Amanda HartmanA presentation about East Carolina University Academic Library Services’ migration from Archivists’ Toolkit to ArchivesSpace.Item Open Access Professional Development During a Pandemic: Transforming a Conference for Library Paraprofessionals(2021-09-03) Grace, Andrew; Dunning, John; Dwyer, Kelsey; Lanham, Walter; Barricella, JoeThe annual, one-day Paraprofessional Conference is hosted, planned, and coordinated by East Carolina University’s Joyner Library. Since 2004, the conference has provided professional development opportunities geared to library staff from academic, school, and public libraries across North Carolina. Its unique focus on paraprofessionals has made the conference a consistent success over its 15 years in existence. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic complicated planning and logistics for the conference originally scheduled for early May. This article describes the efforts made by the Paraprofessional Conference Planning Committee to reimagine a face-to-face conference as a completely virtual synchronous experience. We will share our processes, practical lessons learned, successes, and shortcomings to support others who are interested in creating meaningful and engaging virtual conferences, whether by choice or necessity.Item Open Access Respectful Metadata(2022-05-12) Dragon, Patricia M.; Dunning, JohnOutlines some specific projects being done at East Carolina University's Academic Library Services to improve the respectfulness of library metadata, including retrospectively applying newly created Library of Congress Subject Headings, masking and replacing certain controlled vocabulary subject terms, adding subject analysis using alternative vocabularies, and editing cutters in classification numbers.Item Open Access OM Nom Nom: Integrating Yoga with Your Lunch Break(2020) Dragon, Patricia M.; Webb, Katy; Tatterson, RebeccaDescribes a lunchtime yoga group developed by and for library staff at Joyner Library, East Carolina University.Item Open Access Evaluating the Library’s Open and Affordable e-TextbookProgram as a Student Success Initiative(2023-10-19) Thomas, William Joseph; Bright, Laura; Hoover, Jeanne K.Academic Library Services at East Carolina University leads a two-part affordable and alternative textbook program as part of a key initiative for its Strategic Framework. One part of the program is the Course Adopted Textbooks (CAT) initiative to purchase ebook copies of required textbooks. The second part is an alternative textbook mini-award to faculty members who create materials and/or substitute materials that are free or low-cost to students in place of traditional commercial textbooks. Since these programs have been operational for about nine years, an evaluation would help the library realize the impact of these programs on the campus community and determine future areas of growth. Evaluation strategies will vary between CAT and the alternative textbook program. The CAT initiative can be partially evaluated on cost-per-use. We are also interested in the frequency that specific titles, including their later editions, are used, as well as the total number of students and course sections served, and the departments most impacted. Currently, the alternative textbook program’s evaluation focuses on cost savings for students and faculty experiences with the program. The alternative textbook program would benefit from additional evaluations as noted in the Open Education Group’s COUP Framework. Recently, the university’s bookstore changed from being university-owned to being operated by Barnes & Noble. Another significant change in recent years is expanded awareness of OpenStax, particularly for foundations classes that have multiple sections. This evaluation will consider the impacts of these changes as well as impacts of other possible changes related to the university bookstore.Item Open Access Navigating Open Access Initiatives in a Sea of Mixed Support(2023-09) Sewell, Kerry; Hoover, Jeanne K.Since 2008, OA support has grown into a three-pronged approach that includes working with faculty to deposit the appropriate, publisher-permitted version of their article in our IR; providing funding for open access articles through an Open Access Publishing Support Fund (OAPSF); and offering recurring classes to faculty and graduate students on selecting and evaluating journals, with a focus on OA publishing. The three efforts were created to address the informational, financial, and infrastructural and procedural barriers to OA publishing identified through local conversations and in the literature.