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Title: Forging the future of a growing institutional repository : leveraging citation databases as a tool for outreach
Author: Lake, Savannah, Regenauer, Steph
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Institutional repositories, Open access publishing, Communication in learning and scholarship
Description: Many institutional repositories continue to struggle with low engagement. A combination of factors are often at play, including overburdened faculty, confusion about copyright, lack of awareness, and limited staff resources. Atkins Library at UNC ...

Title: From guest star to director : transitioning from a one-shot model of instruction to a semester-long course on banned books
Author: Ornat Bitting, Natalie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Prohibited books
Description: Instruction librarians are experts at developing one-shot instruction sessions where information literacy concepts are explored in little more than an hour. Serving in a “guest star” role, we arrive as expert visitors within a classroom with an al...

Title: Game design as environmental activism
Author: Brtis, Chelsea
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Video games, Environmental protection, Mass media--Study and teaching, Digital humanities
Description: Video games, like all media, act as a lens into how we as a society perceive our world. Through games we can see the environment being treated as a resource of unlimited consumption, non- reactive to harm, and something to be conquered. Game Desig...

Title: Gentrification, housing costs, & healthcare accessibility
Author: Smithey, Morgan, Banks, Erin, Cao, Nhi
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, Public health, Housing policy
Description: Rapidly rising home values often accompany gentrification, leading to increased property taxes for homeowners (Ding & Hwang, 2020). Higher property taxes increase the risk of becoming cost-burdened, “in Mecklenburg County, 75% of homeowners earnin...

Title: Grand challenges in assessment : leveraging data visualization to support data-informed decision-making
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Svirsky, Amy
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Information visualization, Educational evaluation
Description: How can you make sure decision-makers on your campus see and understand assessment data? A great first step is to encourage the use of data visualizations and dashboards that can allow decision-makers to rapidly grasp key assessment findings. Join...

Title: Hedda Grab-Kernmayer in Theresienstadt
Author: Sheffield, Emily, Grymes, Jay
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Music, Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945), Nazi concentration camps, Gender identity, History
Description: During the Holocaust, mezzo-soprano Hedda Grab-Kernmayer (1899-1990) was one of the most prominent musicians in the Nazi ghetto of Theresienstadt (Terezín). During the earliest days of the ghetto, she organized and starred in various unaccompanied...

Title: Image dilution using Harris corner detection and geometric kernels
Author: James, Aiden, Li, Xingjie Helen
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Sparse matrices, Matrices
Description: Image files contain large amounts of data. An image is essentially a matrix of values, often represented as RGBA (red, green, blue, alpha) arrays. A large three dimensional matrix with a height and width likely in the hundreds can take long for a ...

Title: In search of a predictive model for aflatoxin insurance claims based on temperature data
Author: German-Jimenez, Fausto, Terejanu, Gabriel
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Machine learning, Statistics, Agriculture
Description: Aflatoxin is a carcinogenic product of mold that affects thousands of corn-producing farms in the United States every year, so being able to predict when a county will have compromising aflatoxin levels could be beneficial for insurance companies....

Title: In-person, remote, or hybrid? Planning a conference that works for all
Author: Binder, Amanda, Lake, Savannah
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Career development, Internet videoconferencing, Academic libraries
Description: In April 2022, Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte hosted the Digital Humanities Institute, a conference that brings together digital humanities enthusiasts from across the state of North Carolina to discuss digital pedagogy, digital research methods,...

Title: Information literacy portfolio for curriculum mapping
Author: McAdams, Jeff, Glauberman, Julia
Subjects--Topical: Information literacy, American Society for Engineering Education
Description: A portfolio of information literacy (IL) assignments was created for undergraduate engineering students. The portfolio, which includes 29 assignments shaped by the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, was designed in conju...

Title: Learn photovoice : see qualitative research from a new point of view
Author: Moore, Jon, Croxton, Rebecca A., Daly, Emily, Davis, Tiffany
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Qualitative research, Libraries--Evaluation
Description: Have you ever wanted to see your library from the user's point of view? Are you concerned that some users don't have a voice in traditional assessments? Do you sometimes feel like you just don't know the right questions to ask? In this workshop, y...

Title: Legacy ETDs with legacy problems : changing ETD workflows to improve discoverability
Author: Nicholson, Joseph, Lake, Savannah
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Electronic dissertations, Academic libraries, Metadata
Description: Atkins Library receives ETD metadata records from ProQuest, delivered in Proquest’s XML standard. This metadata includes student-supplied keywords and controlled terms from ProQuest’s own subject vocabulary—but no terms from the FAST subject vocab...

Title: Leveraging lateral leadership : strategy, communication, motivation
Author: Moore, Anne Cooper, Croxton, Rebecca A., Saines, Sherri
Subjects--Topical: Lateral thinking, Organizational effectiveness, Educational leadership
Description: Lateral leaders, those who lead but are not the bosses, influence, persuade, and elicit constructive contributions from others at all levels of an organization. Being a lateral leader doesn't mean you can take over and issue orders. In fact, to re...

Title: Modeling of ssDNA binding protein structures
Author: Jariwala, Maanav, Guo, Jun-tao
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: DNA, Protein binding
Description: Single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding proteins are crucial for biological processes including replication, transcription, and genomic integrity. We can better comprehend the function of the proteins and their interactions with ssDNA with structures ...

Title: ModuleLog : module based approach to anomaly detection in parallel file system logs
Author: Egersdoerfer, Chris, Dai, Dong, Zhang, Di
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer networks, Anomaly detection (Computer security), Computer science
Description: With the increasing prevalence of Parallel File Systems (PFSes) in the context of vast and complex server networks, the importance of accurate anomaly detection on runtime logs of parallel file systems is increasing. But as it currently stands, ma...

Title: Molecular mechanisms underlying glial inflammatory responses to Neisseria meningitidis
Author: Davis, Erin
Date Created: 2022, 2022, 2022
Subjects--Topical: Meningitis, Immune response

Title: Nothing ever changes ... or maybe it can! Let's begin by listening
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Krumbine, Tracie, Looby, Kimberly
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Work environment, Academic libraries
Description: “Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right” (Jane Goodall). In Fall 2022, J. Murrey Atkins Library created the "Library Workplace Climate Committee" to coordinate in...

Title: One-size-doesn't-fit-all : differentiated engagement pathways for transfer student success
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Moore, Anne Cooper
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: College students--Transfer, Academic libraries--Services to transfer students
Description: Transfer students are an increasing sub-population of college and university students. However, transfer students, on average, drop out before completing their degrees at higher rates than FTIC freshman, with these trends reflected both nationally...

Title: One-size-doesn't-fit-all : differentiated engagement pathways for transfer student success - appendices
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Moore, Anne Cooper
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: College students--Transfer, Academic libraries--Services to transfer students
Description: This Appendices document is a supplement to the paper, "One-Size-Doesn't-Fit-All: Differentiated Engagement Pathways for Transfer Student Success", that was submitted as part of the Proceedings of the 2022 Library Assessment Conference (2022, Nove...

Title: Pay by position
Author: Jackson, Daniel
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Pay equity, Gender identity in the workplace, Sexism
Description: This community-engaged project is in partnership with the League of Women Voters Charlotte Mecklenburg Chapter. The purpose of the project is to compile data to inform a corporate scorecard on the important metrics of the gender equity gap. With t...