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Title: Collaborative blogging : a sustainable professional development and networking tool
Author: Truesdale, Angel, Lovas, Nancy, Krstevska, Summer
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Business librarians, Career development, Blogs
Description: Three academic librarians, from three institutions, blog together to share their perspectives on the inspiration and challenges they face as business specialists. Through peer collaboration and reflective blogging they are learning and expanding t...

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: 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: The open access author toolkit : growing a campus community and practice of open access scholarship
Author: Lake, Savannah, McCreery, Brigid
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Open access publishing, Communication in learning and scholarship
Description: The August 2022 memo from the White House Office of Science and TechnologyPolicy, which released guidance that any federally funded research must be madeopenly available immediately starting in 2026, signals a growing understanding in thebroader r...