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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' ... -
'Summon'-ing Music: A Discovery Tool Journey
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Taking the Guess Work out of Collection Development: Using Syllabi for a User-Centered Collection Development Method
(2011-07)Over the course of a year, 98 syllabi were collected from history, English, philosophy, religion and foreign literatures and languages departments at a large university in the Southeast. The syllabi were analyzed for ... -
Talking to our faculty about open access and authors' rights
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Teach, Assess, and Redesign: Creating a Framework of Universal Design for Students with Learning Disabilties
(2013-04-12)At the main library of a public, four year university, we are collaborating with an innovative campus program to improve our information literacy services for students with multiple learning disabilities. The poster session ... -
Textbook Affordability Initiatives: Supporting Teaching faculty for Student Success
(2018-02-02)In this roundtable discussion, we will discuss the role of textbook affordability in student success. Librarians from Joyner Library will share their experiences with their textbook affordability initiatives ...