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Accident at Compound 19: Unraveling a Cold War Medical Mystery
(2020-01-27)
In April 1979, an anthrax outbreak in the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk claimed at least 68 lives. After news of the incident spread, the US government argued that it was the result of an accident at a biological warfare ...
Benchmarking Library Creative Spaces for Research Support and Faculty/Librarian Partnerships
(2020-06-01)
During the course of this research, the author attempted to locate institutions and background information about spaces that would be similar in scope to a digital scholarship lab (or scholar’s lab) being proposed in a ...
Digital Project as Community Outreach: a New Way of Approaching Metadata
(2021)
Describes a Community Scanning Day event held by Joyner Library in March 2017, which was part of a larger project to document the relocated African American Sycamore Hill community in Greenville, North Carolina.
Form and Genre Access to Academic Library Digital Collections
(2020-02-17)
This paper provides an examination of how digital collections in academic libraries provide user access to items by form and/or genre. A review of the literature reveals that this is not an area that has received much ...
Doing the Work: Crafting and Implementing Liaison Competencies
(2020-06-02)
Recently at Joyner Library, the main library for West Campus at East Carolina University, three Heads of Service completed a project to revise the library’s liaison competencies. The Head of Collection Development, the ...
Active Measures: Then and Now
(2020-06-25)
A term used to refer to Soviet efforts to influence and manipulate public opinion in other countries during the Cold War, Active Measures has gained a newfound currency in light of the 2016 election influence campaign by ...
Using Children’s Literature to Discuss Race Relations, Racism, and Injustices
(2020-09-17)
Our nation’s responses to the deaths of Ahmad Aubrey, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and others have made the need to have conversations with children on race, racism and valuing differences more crucial than ...
Discovering The Hidden Women In Your Family History
(2020-08-31)
DIANE RICHARD is the principal of Mosaic Research and Project Management. She has M.E. and M.B.A. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She has
been doing genealogy research since 1987 – professionally since 2004 ...