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Congress and Countersubversion in the 20th Century: Aspects and Legacies
(2023-06)The core of this book consists of essays originally posted on the blog of the Cold War and Internal Security (CWIS) Collection, belonging to Academic Library Services, East Carolina University. The end result is a collection ... -
The Future of OER Outreach
(2023-05-19)Over the past two decades, Open Educational Resources (OER) have been utilized in all types of education across all disciplines. In addition to saving learners money, OER offers educators the flexibility to customize ... -
Students' Motivations to Use Academic Library Resources and Services
(2023-05-12)Survey responses were gathered from students using Joyner Library at East Carolina University in order to determine why students use the library, which services and resources they use, and the frequency of their visits to ... -
Toward Metaliteracy and Transliteracy in the History Classroom: A Case Study Among Underserved Students
(2022-12)In the last twenty years, scholars have reimagined information literacy to better address an overly saturated world of information and the growing participatory culture of Web 2.0. Outside of library and information science ... -
Disciplinary Differences in Student Use of Library-Provided Materials in Dissertations
(2021-07)Citation analysis is a valuable approach for collection managers to provide evidence of collection use and direct future collection growth. Researchers at East Carolina University reviewed nearly 23,000 citations from 171 ... -
The Minority Voice
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A Favorite Pastime: Disease and Disinformation in the Cold War
(2022-11-16)Disinformation and political warfare were key components of the Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union, and a number of the most notorious of these campaigns centered around allegations involving ... -
Digital Project as Community Outreach: a New Way of Approaching Metadata
(2021)Describes a Community Scanning Day event held by Joyner Library in March 2017, which was part of a larger project to document the relocated African American Sycamore Hill community in Greenville, North Carolina. -
Axial Shear Modulus of A Fiber-Reinforced Composite with Random Fiber Cross-Sections
(1981-04-14)A study is made of the effective axial shear modulus of a fiber reinforced material with random fiber cross-sections so that the micromechanics is governed by stochastic differential equations. A coarse-graining procedure ... -
Building Visual Literacy Skills on Campus: A Toolkit for Multidisciplinary Skills on Campus
(2020-12)Many colleges possess rich art collections that have the potential to expand curricula and address visual literacy in dynamic ways. However, faculty outside studio and art history departments often shy away from integrating ... -
Exploring sustainability of affordability initiatives: a library case study
(2020-09)Purpose The cost of textbooks continues to rise for college students along with the cost of tuition. These costs can impact student success. In response to the rising costs, higher education institutions have started ... -
HUAC vs. the “Greenville Benevolent Association”: Investigating the Klan in Eastern North Carolina, 1965-66
(2020-10-15)In 1965, with the civil rights revolution at its height, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) opened an investigation into the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The committee found that the Klan’s largest presence was in ... -
Building Best Practice for Access to Born-Digital Records
(2018-08-14)Archivists have spent the better part of the past two decades working to establish standards and best practices for acquiring, appraising, arranging, describing, and preserving digital archives. For many reasons, however, ... -
The Civil Rights Movement in Greenville and Pitt County: Documenting the Fight for School Desegregation in Greenville/Pitt County
(2020-10-08)Using documents from the Verona Joyner Langford North Carolina Collection and the East Carolina Manuscript Collection, Patrick Cash will examine the response of North Carolina’s government to the 1954 Brown v. Board ... -
Using Children’s Literature to Discuss Race Relations, Racism, and Injustices
(2020-09-17)Our nation’s responses to the deaths of Ahmad Aubrey, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and others have made the need to have conversations with children on race, racism and valuing differences more crucial than ... -
Discovering The Hidden Women In Your Family History
(2020-08-31)DIANE RICHARD is the principal of Mosaic Research and Project Management. She has M.E. and M.B.A. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She has been doing genealogy research since 1987 – professionally since 2004 ... -
Active Measures: Then and Now
(2020-06-25)A term used to refer to Soviet efforts to influence and manipulate public opinion in other countries during the Cold War, Active Measures has gained a newfound currency in light of the 2016 election influence campaign by ... -
Where SNAC Fits: SNAC in the Workflow at Joyner Library
(2019)Overview of the integration of archival authority records via SNAC into the workflow at East Carolina University's J.Y. Joyner Library.