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Title: Inter-institutional mobile hotspot lending program handbook
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Price, Bob, McCallister, Kelly, Dusto, David, McLellan, Amanda, Bourne, Brandy, Collogan, Jessica, Brown, Wanda Kay
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Web-based instruction, Internet access
Description: This handbook outlines key components of a inter-institutional mobile hotspots lending model that was developed as a collaborative initiative between seven University of North Carolina System institutions. The project was made possible by grant fu...

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: Libraries : spaces to experience and reflect on digital games
Author: Sorrell, Melanie, Bahamon, Julio Cesar, Price, Bob
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Computer science--Study and teaching (Higher), University cooperation, Computer games
Description: In 2016, a partnership between the J. Murrey Atkins Library and the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina Charlotte launched a gaming lab to support the educational needs of computer science students in the Artif...

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: Planning and coordinating an exhibit of photomicrographic art by science faculty and students in an academic library
Author: Sorrell, Melanie, Joseph, Kenya, Norton, Derek R., Reichard, Sharon, McAdams, Jeff
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Exhibitions, Universities and colleges--Faculty
Description: In 2015, the J. Murrey Atkins Library recruited faculty, staff, alumni, and students to submit digital images of photomicrographic art, which were printed and placed on exhibit in the library’s main lobby. Visualizing Science: Microscopic Images f...

Title: Process mapping as an academic library tool : five steps to improve your workflow
Author: Ornat Bitting, Natalie, Moorefield, Renee K.
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Reengineering (Management)
Description: The academic library is a complex organization whose staff executes numerous processes each day to deliver materials and services in a timely manner to patrons. A process where tasks, information, or documents are passed from one participant to th...

Title: Process mapping for assessment and collaboration in libraries
Author: Ornat Bitting, Natalie
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Reengineering (Management)
Description: Commonly used in the business world, process mapping is the practice of gathering information on a specific workflow and diagramming it visually, usually in the form of a flowchart. This visual can than be analyzed for process improvement. Besides...

Title: Quantifying library engagement : aligning library, institutional, and student success data
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Moore, Anne Cooper
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries
Description: To determine which engagement factors correlate with student success at a large, public, research university in the southeastern United States, the university library, along with representatives from Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and other ac...

Title: Quantifying the value of the academic library
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Moore, Anne Cooper
Subjects--Topical: Libraries and students, Academic libraries, Longitudinal studies, Prediction of scholastic success
Description: To determine which engagement factors contribute to student success at a large, public, research university in the southeast, the university library—along with representatives from Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and other academic and support ...

Title: Re-imagining the users' experience : an ethnographic approach to web usability and space design
Author: Kim Wu, Somaly, Lanclos, Donna M., 1970-
Subjects--Topical: Library Web sites--Design, User-centered system design, Academic libraries, Libraries--Space utilization
Description: The purpose of this paper is to describe the process and work undertaken by the library anthropologist and the Usability Task Force (UTF) for reconfiguring the library's physical and virtual spaces to meet the educational needs and expectations of...

Title: Remediation by degrees : enhancing ETD metadata to improve discoverability
Author: Lake, Savannah, Nicholson, Joseph
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Electronic dissertations, Metadata
Description: In 2022, staff at J. Murrey Atkins Library launched a project to remediate metadata for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in the Niner Commons institutional repository, which hosts UNC Charlotte faculty, staff, and student scholarship on ...

Title: Rethinking resources : personalizing open access outreach by discipline
Author: Lake, Savannah, McCreery, Brigid
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Open access publishing, Academic libraries
Description: Open access scholarship can increase the impact of researchers’ work. However, open access policies, funding, and procedures can prove difficult to understand, and authors may face conflicting and ambiguous messages when navigating the publishing ...

Title: Students, in the academic library, with a white noise machine
Author: Ornat Bitting, Natalie, Lampkowski, Christin, Patterson, Olivia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Self-care, Health, Collection development (Libraries)
Description: Conference poster presented at 2022 Metrolina Library Association Conference, outlining the creation of a self-care collection at Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte. Sections include: tips for creating your self-care collection; collection policies; pu...

Title: Supporting community care through a self-care collection at an academic library
Author: Lampkowski, Christin, Ornat Bitting, Natalie, Patterson, Olivia
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Mental health, Self-care, Health, Academic libraries, Collection development (Libraries)
Description: Learn how librarians at a large, public university took a holistic approach to recognizing and responding to students' mental health needs and the burnout crisis (both enhanced by the COVID-19 pandemic and persistent racism) by building a special ...

Title: The BizLibratory : collaborative blogging for professional development and networking
Author: Truesdale, Angel, Lovas, Nancy, Krstevska, Summer
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Business librarians, Career development, Blogs
Description: In March 2019, I (Nancy) met Angel Truesdale and Summer Krstevska at the spring workshop organized by the Business Librarians in North Carolina (BLINC) section of the North Carolina Library Association (NCLA). We had all recently started our posit...

Title: Value in disruption : a “reading is research” pedagogy for library instruction
Author: Tingelstad, Catherine, Otis, Stephanie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Research--Methodology, Academic libraries
Description: Our collaborative project and resulting pedagogy emphasize student-centered learning and critical reading and introduce a disruptive challenge for students to question assumptions, challenge binary thinking, and tolerate ambiguity. Using class rea...

Title: Visualizing COUNTER metrics with SUSHI : exploring Alma Analytics for e-resource evaluation
Author: Boardman, Erika
Subjects--Topical: Library science, Academic libraries, Electronic information resources, Academic libraries--Statistics
Description: Electronic resources are more frequently acquired for library collections, and the need to obtain and analyze e-resource usage data for collection decisions is a key component to the day-to-day work for e-resource librarians. The ability to effect...