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Designing Library Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities
(2013)
East Carolina University is the home of an innovative program for students with learning disabilities, Project STEPP. Librarians at ECU’s Joyner Library have collaborated with Project STEPP since 2010 to provide library ...
Universal Design for Learning, the Library, and STEM: Common Cause, Uncommon Ground
(2013-07-01)
In summer 2012, the Science Librarian and Instructional Design Librarian at Joyner Library, East Carolina University, came together to design a series of interactive tutorials to assist with questions related to an assignment ...
Beyond Discovery Tools: The Evolution of Discovery at ECU Libraries
(2013-10-17)
At East Carolina University (ECU) Libraries, the term “discovery” has been in a state of evolution over the past few years. “Discovery” initially became an important part of librarians’ vocabulary with the introduction ...
The Academic Library in Institutional Assessment: Seizing an Opportunity
(East Carolina University, 2010)
This paper reviews
the major forces that led to a new climate of assessment in
higher education, some of the instruments commonly used
to assess undergraduate student learning and growth, and
the programs ...
Cross-Generational Valuing Among Peer Academic Librarians
(2015)
This study addresses a gap in the research concerning generational roles in the academic library workforce, particularly with regard to Millennials.
ORCID Identifiers: Planned and Potential Uses by Associations, Publishers, and Librarians
(2014-05-03)
ORCID is an international, interdisciplinary, non-profit organization with a twofold goal: provide an open registry of unique identifiers for researchers and work with the scholarly community to ensure that this persistent ...
The Joint-Use Library in Carrboro: Bringing Together Orange County Public Library and Chapel-Hill/Carrboro City Schools
(2015)
Joint-use libraries have been created to share resources, reduce facilities costs, and more efficiently serve patrons. There have been several notable examples in the news. In the summer of 2013, a joint-use facility opened ...
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 ...
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 ...