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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 ...
The University of California Pay-It-Forward Open Access Publishing Research Project: An Interview with MacKenzie Smith
(2017-04-12)
In 2014, University of California- Davis University Library and the California Digital Library collaborated on an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded project to explore costs associated with moving scholarly journal ...
Alzheimer’s Care: Getting Better
(2015)
As I was growing up, I still remember going to my grandparents’ house every day after
elementary school and eating orange sherbet, riding bikes around the neighborhood, and going to
the library to get books to read. I ...
Accomplished Teaching, Learning and Schools (ATLAS)
(2016-01-01)
The Accomplished Teaching, Learning and Schools (ATLAS) database is a valuable teaching tool that takes some of the mystery out of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification process, and provides ...
The Charles Waddell Chesnutt Collection at Fayetteville State University
(2016-08)
The history of Fayetteville State University and its Charles W. Chesnutt Library are intimately connected with one of the most important writers from North Carolina. Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 1858-1933, was a celebrated ...
US Dollar verse Chinese Yuan: A Global Currency Cat Fight
(2015)
The U.S dollar is an internationally recognized and well used form of currency. However, just
because the US dollar has been this global monetary benchmark does not secure its position as the
premier internationally ...
The Isaiah Rice Collection at D. H. Ramsey Library, UNC Asheville
(2017)
The Isaiah Rice Collection presents vivid images of African American life in Asheville, North Carolina, from the 1950s through the 1970s, and builds on other existing collections within Ramsey Library.
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 ...
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 ...