Browsing Joyner Library by Type"Presentation"
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Evaluating the Library’s Open and Affordable e-TextbookProgram as a Student Success Initiative
(2023-10-19)Academic Library Services at East Carolina University leads a two-part affordable and alternative textbook program as part of a key initiative for its Strategic Framework. One part of the program is the Course Adopted ... -
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 ... -
Finding and Using Open Educational Resources in k-12
(2019-02-23)Presentation from the Librarian to Librarian Networking Summit -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Future of Reading and Academic Libraries
(2014-11-07)The rise of the ebook is raising fundamental questions around the dynamics and habits of reading, and a perennial question - the importance of books in the academic library. Print and digital texts foster different styles ... -
The Future of Reading: The Importance of Preserving Hybrid Collections in the Digital Age
(2012-05-11)As e-books continue to grow in popularity and usage, it appears quite possible that they will one day not just supplement but outright replace print books. A growing body of evidence, however, suggests that reading off a ... -
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Data Migration: a Case Study with ECU
(2018-05-31)In 2016, East Carolina University sought a user-friendly, innovative system for faculty activity reporting to replace their current technology. Although their requirements were straightforward—integration with institutional ... -
Google Wave
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Herding Cats: Project Management for Digital Scholarship
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HUAC Investigates North Carolina: How Federal Documents Can Help Uncover State and Local History
(2016-06-29)Federal government documents tend to be all too often overlooked when providing general reference assistance, especially on topics involving state and local history. Reasons include the unique and often arcane nature of ... -
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 ... -
Information Moshing: Open Educational Resources; What they are, Where they are, and What can we do with them.
(2018-04-20)Open Education Resources (OERs) are becoming more common throughout educational institutions; however, there is still a need for conversation and to promote the free resources that are available. OERs can be used as an ... -
Just keep clicking Till You Find It: Building a Library Digital Collection Interface with Browsing in Mind
(East Carolina University, 2009)This session will explore how East Carolina University's Joyner Library developed an interface to their digitized special collections to facilitate user browsing. The library's digital collections contain thousands of items ... -
Know your FSB from your KGB: Researching Soviet/Russian Intelligence in America
(2017-10-19)In light of last year’s election-related hacking, and the popularity of programs such as The Americans, the topic of Russian intelligence activity in America is once again prominent in the news and in popular culture. This ... -
LibQUAL+ Spring 2009 Survey Analysis
(East Carolina University, 2009-08-31)PowerPoint presentation analyzing the results of the Spring 2009 LibQUAL+ survey at East Carolina University and comparing results with those from the 2003 and 2007 surveys. -
Linked data in ECU digital collections
(2019-10-16)Presentation given as part of a panel entitled Linked Data Experiments in North Carolina Libraries, at the North Carolina Library Association Biennial Conference, Winston-Salem, N.C., 2019. -
Making beautiful music: The state of the art in mobile technology and how we can make the most of it in libraries
(2012-06-08)Mobile technology is in a great state of flux and competition and the bar keeps getting set higher. What models of service are leading the pack? Should libraries be providing mobile devices or rather, should libraries ... -
Making Connections: Developing Textbook Affordability Initiatives Across Multiple Campuses
(2019-10-07)In order to address rising textbook prices, libraries have started to create textbook affordability initiatives that include encouraging faculty to use open educational resources as well as developing stipend programs for ... -
Navigating 21st Century Digital Scholarship: Open Educational Resources (OERs), Creative Commons, Copyright and Library Vendor License
(2018-06-09)Digital scholarship issues are increasingly prevalent in today’s environment. We are faced with questions of how to protect our own works as well as others’ with responsible attribution and usage, sometimes involving a ...