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Copyright: Policies, Resources, and Questions for School Librarians
(2022)
School librarians are often the professionals in their schools responsible for helping faculty and students locate, use, and create content responsibly. This article shares data from an East Carolina University survey of ...
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 ...
Analyzing Institutional Open Access Publishing Activity
(2022)
Scholarly communication librarians routinely promote Open Access (OA) publishing, encouraging their institutions' authors to increase their impact for the benefit of a greater number of readers. Researchers at East Carolina ...
eBooks and Efficiencies in Acquisitions Expenditures and Workflows
(2013-04)
East Carolina University’s Joyner Library acquires ebooks through several different methods, including packages, firm orders, and most recently, a Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) program. Because we expect our volume of ...
Demystifying the Institutional Repository for Success (Review)
(2014-11)
Review of Marianne Buehler's Demystifying the Institutional Repository for Success (Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2013).
E-Books, Soup to Nuts: Considering Workflows for Electronic Books
(2012-05-11)
Many libraries have already have access to packages of electronic books, and are either considering or putting into place two other methods of acquisition: title-by-title selection and patron-driven acquisitions (PDA). ...
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 ...
Professionally Pinching Pennies
(East Carolina University, 2009)
The effects of current economic conditions on technical services in public, community college, and university libraries.