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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 ...
Weeding One STEPP at a Time
(2011-11-04)
Joyner Library recently had to make space for a new campus partner. To do so we focused our activity on print journals. We created a set of rules guiding our deselection, storage, and retention decisions.
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 ...
Publishing in Open Access Education Journals: The Authors’ Perspectives
(2010)
Abstract
Open access publishing is now an accepted method of scholarly communication. However, the greatest traction for open access publishing thus far has been in the sciences. Penetration of open access publishing ...
Open Access Publishing in Business Research: The Authors’ Perspective
(2011)
Open access (OA) publishing is now accepted as an integral part of the emerging trends within scholarly communication. Business librarians, like their subject specialist colleagues in other disciplines, are increasingly ...
Dethroning the Kings of Cape Fear: Consequences of Edward Moseley’s Surveys
(2011)
There remains a veil of romanticism used in past historiography concerning Edward Moseley that leaves one feeling that he was, as D.H. Hill said, “always on the side of the people.” Arguably, this romanticism has permeated ...
Pearl Harbor: First Hand Accounts of December 7, 1941
(2010)
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the naval and aerial forces of the Japanese Empire secretly attacked the United States Navy at the naval base of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. For over two hours, two waves consisting of over ...
EAD collection-level web statistics for FY2008-FY2010
(2011-07)
These seven files contain online use statistics for the Joyner Library Collection Guide website (http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/) from 07/01/2008 - 06/30/2011. The TSV files have been exported from Google Analytics ...
The Emergence of the Crop-Lien System in Eastern North Carolina
(2010)
The slave-plantation system was clearly evil and a war was fought to end it. The Reconstruction period was a half hearted attempt to institute reforms in former slave states. Regionally and locally the former slave-owners ...
A New Voice: The Undiscovered Histories of the Frederick C. Douglass Ledgers
(2011)
Frederick C. Douglass, an African American lawyer in late 19th century Eastern North Carolina, kept meticulous records of his Union Soldier pension applicants’ claims. These records included the personal testimonies of ...