Browsing Joyner Library by Title
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Review of Library 2.0 A Guide to Participatory Research
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Risk-adjusted survival after coronary artery bypass grafting: Implications for quality improvement
(2014-07-21)Mortality represents an important outcome measure following coronary artery bypass grafting. Shorter survival times may reflect poor surgical quality and an increased number of costly postoperative complications. Quality ... -
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 ... -
Scholarly Communication Boot Camp: Getting Liaisons Up to Speed
(2015-11-06)Liaison librarians everywhere are being asked to share more and more in the work of scholarly communication. In many cases they need extensive training to be prepared to talk about these topics with faculty and students. ... -
Sci-Hub: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter to Academic Libraries? An Interview with Michael Levine-Clark and Peter Katz
(2017-10-27)Piracy of subscription-based scholarly literature has reached a new peak with the advent of Sci-Hub and other sites like it. Sci-Hub is a collection of over 68 million items led by and compiled by a researcher from ... -
Serum metabolomic profiling in acute alcoholic hepatitis identifies multiple dysregulated pathways
(2014-12-02)Background and Objectives While animal studies have implicated derangements of global energy homeostasis in the pathogenesis of acute alcoholic hepatitis (AAH), the relevance of these findings to the development of human ... -
Serving Sci-Tech Library Users With Disabilities
(East Carolina University, 2001)Service to library users with disabilities has been the subject of numerous books, articles, and presentations, but it is useful to consider this issue specifically in the context of science libraries for several reasons. ... -
Shared Outcomes, Shared Practice: Evaluating an Instruction Program with One Assessment Technique
(2018-12-05)Purpose: When it comes to instruction program assessment, we often define “program” as those common curricular experiences that students encounter during their academic careers, such as first-year seminars, composition ... -
Should providers encourage realistic weight expectations and satisfaction with lost weight in commercial weight loss programs? a preliminary study
(2014)Background Attrition is a problem among patients who participate in commercial weight loss programs. One possible explanation is that if patients are unable to reach a weight that they expect to achieve, they may be ... -
Spaces to GROW: Library Student Employment as a High Impact Practice
(2019-10-17)Student employees spend many hours in the academic library workplace each week, frequently more than they spend in the classroom. In addition to the time and effort that having a job requires, other elements of student ... -
Species-specific expansion and molecular evolution of the 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (HMGR) gene family in plants
(2014-04-10)The terpene compounds represent the largest and most diverse class of plant secondary metabolites which are important in plant growth and development. The 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (HMGR; EC 1.1.1.34) ... -
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 ... -
Staffing the CMC for Success
(Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2012)Librarians, paraprofessionals, and student workers employed in the curriculum materials center (CMC) require specialized skills to assist preservice and in-service teachers and faculty. As technology continues to ... -
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 ... -
Student Use of Library-Provided Materials in EdD Dissertations
(2019-08)One of the tools collection managers can use to guide the selection and retention of books and journals is citation analysis. Although time-consuming to collect and analyze, citations by library ... -
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 ... -
A Study of Librarians' Perceptions and Use of the Summon Discovery Tool
(2012-08-20)Next-generation discovery tools such as Serials Solutions Summon seek to provide a more robust and unified search experience for library patrons. Previous disappointment with federated search has tarnished librarians' ...