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Our Experience with User Experience: Exploring Staffing Configurations to Conduct UX in an Academic Library
(2015-10-13)
A research project was undertaken by a university library system to develop a sustainable user experience strategy. A task force was convened to conduct a pilot project with members from both libraries in the system to ...
Adding a Use Factor Measure to a Materials Allocation Plan for Books in an Academic Library
(2013-05)
Tasked with re-working East Carolina University's Joyner Library materials allocation plan to better align it with current needs, two librarians, Lisa Barricella (Acquisitions) and Cindy Shirkey (Collection Development) ...
ORCID Identifiers: Planned and Potential Uses by Associations, Publishers, and Librarians
(2014-05-03)
ORCID is an international, interdisciplinary, non-profit organization with a twofold goal: provide an open registry of unique identifiers for researchers and work with the scholarly community to ensure that this persistent ...
The Future of Reading and Academic Libraries
(2015-01)
The e-book is raising fundamental questions around the dynamics and habits of reading; the role of books in the academic library; and the role of librarians in addressing new realities of reading and learning. Print and ...
Creating a safe haven for university students: How are we doing?
(2012-10-05)
Too frequently and often too late, academic librarians learn of patron experiences involving problem patrons, misdemeanor criminal activity, or poorly secured areas. Regrettably, these experiences can irrevocably diminish ...
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 ...
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 ...
2010 Top Ten Trends in Academic Libraries: A Review of the Current Literature
(East Carolina University, 2010-06)
The ACRL Research, Planning and Review
Committee, a component of the Research
Coordinating Committee, is responsible for
creating and updating a continuous and
dynamic ...
The Structure of Scholarly Communications within Academic Libraries
(2013-03-15)
Academic libraries often define their administrative structure according to services they offer, including research services, acquisitions, cataloging and metadata, and so on. Scholarly Communications is something of a ...
Library Management Tips that Work (Review)
(2013-02)
Book review of Carol Smallwood's Library Management Tips that Work (ALA, 2011).