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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 ... -
That's Mine! How to Cite, Modify, and Create OERs using Creative Commons
(2018-02-24)Open Educational Resource use is on the rise. Due to budget restraints and a general shift of sharing information, many institutions and creators are opening their creative works for other educators to freely use, modify, ... -
They Really Like Us!: Move From Outputs to Outcomes with Your Library's Research Consultations
(2017-10-18)Learn how librarians at East Carolina took an evidence-based approach to those academic library standbys: one-on-one research consultations. This poster presentation will share our experiences developing a post-meeting ... -
Tourism and the Dare County Economy
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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 ... -
Transforming Space in the Curriculum Materials Center
(2013)Transforming space to facilitate and compliment learning has become an integral component in the redesign and renovation of academic libraries. This article offers a framework of discussion based on the redesign and ... -
Trusting Digital Preservation for Print Collection Management, Or How Librarians Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the "E"
(2011-09)This article advocates planning for the management of print collections in light of digital preservation activities. Three activities include deduplicating print holdings from archival online journal packages, participating ... -
Uncommon Conversations: What is Open Access Button? An interview with Joe McArthur
(2017-12-11)Articles published behind a paywall in commercial journals are often inaccessible to potential readers who are not affiliated with a subscribing institution. Open Access Button is an application that assists readers in ...