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Helping Keep the Costs of Textbooks for Students Down: Two Approaches
(2018-05)
Librarians at East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro received a 2-year grant to support a combined alternative textbook project. This project engages in a two-pronged approach to reduce ...
The University of California Pay-It-Forward Open Access Publishing Research Project: An Interview with MacKenzie Smith
(2017-08-18)
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 ...
Information Literacy Concepts
(2017-08-29)
Overview: Purpose and goals
This open educational resource provides learners with an overview of major information literacy concepts identified in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy. Information literacy skills ...
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 ...
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 ...
An Overnight Success?: Usage Patterns and Demographics of Academic Library Patrons During the Overnight Period From 11 p.m.–8 a.m.
(2014-10-08)
During the Fall 2013 semester East Carolina University's main library piloted 24/5 hours of operation by opening on Sunday morning and not closing until Friday night. This article details the planning and execution of the ...
Patron preference for receipt
(2018-10-11)
During spring 2018 the Circulation & Interlibrary Loan Department had internal conversations about the desirability of continuing to print and give receipts for circulation transactions. Since various staff had differing ...
Shared Outcomes, Shared Practice: Evaluating an Instruction Program with One Assessment Technique
(2018-12-05)
Purpose: When it comes to instruction program assessment, we often define “program” as those common curricular experiences that students encounter during their academic careers, such as first-year seminars, composition ...