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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: 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: Artivism, virtual workshops, and the pandemic
Author: Bennett, Adreonna
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Social justice, Photography, COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-), Academic libraries, Internet videoconferencing
Description: I was hired as a Community Engagement Archivist in the Special Collections and University Archives unit at J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte in June 2019. Not only was this my first full time library job but it wa...

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: 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: Braving our blind spots : using a virtual book discussion group to continue conversations on implicit bias in libraries
Author: Harris, Ryan, Jones, Shannon, Bartley, Kelsa, DeSantis, Melissa, Jason, Don, Rios, Dede
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Diversity in higher education, Book clubs (Discussion groups)
Description: Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the workforce in libraries throughout the United States has been a strategic priority for years, yet statistically the homogeneous nature of library staffs remains the same. Statistics from the America...

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: Implementation of FAST in two digital repositories : breaking silos, unifying subject practices
Author: Nicholson, Joseph, Lake, Savannah
Subjects--Topical: FAST subject headings, Metadata, Academic libraries
Description: This study traces evolving approaches to the use of the FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) in digital repositories at Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where changes in staffing, the launch of an insti...

Title: Conversations that matter : engaging library employees in DEI and cultural humility reflection
Author: Lampkowski, Christin, Truesdale, Angel, Looby, Kimberly, Moore, Abby
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Multiculturalism, Cultural competence, Career development
Description: The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Programs Subcommittee of the Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Committee at the Atkins Library of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) formed in 2019 and created a series of DEI-theme...

Title: Beyond assumptions : using design thinking to build better library employee training
Author: Bess, Marc
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Employees--Training of, Academic libraries
Description: Design thinking is a flexible problem solving process that can be used in a variety of settings. While design thinking may be traditionally associated with fields such as product development, it is increasingly being used as an innovative approach...

Title: How do we publish when our work is collaborative and everyone's too busy?
Author: Caruso, Beth
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Scholarly publishing
Description: In the current world of academic librarianship, where collaboration is mainstream and high workloads are commonplace, publishing about collaborative initiatives with colleagues, though ideal, is not always feasible. Sometimes, publishing alone is ...

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: Culture of collaborative creation
Author: McAdams, Jeff, Lake, Savannah
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Internet videoconferencing, Academic libraries
Description: An unexpected discovery of the pandemic was a new working style that proved more generative than previous in-person collaboration. Using Zoom to facilitate synchronous coworking sessions on volunteer projects led to fruitful results. People from d...

Title: Creating an online scientific art exhibit formatted for people with a visual impairment
Author: Sorrell, Melanie, Norton, Derek R., McAdams, Jeff, Winterling, Rachael, Dipple, Kathleen
Subjects--Topical: People with visual disabilities, Accessible Web sites for people with disabilities, Academic libraries
Description: An online exhibit accessible by people with a visual impairment was created to accompany a university library’s physical exhibit of microscopic images generated by researchers on campus as “scientific art.” This online exhibit consisted of a Web p...

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...

Title: Client/provider relationship: Library as client and art students as provider
Author: Rinalducci, Jenna
Subjects--Topical: Art, Correspondence schools and courses, Arts, Teaching, Academic libraries, Mural painting and decoration
Description: What started as a discussion about how to bring more art into the library developed into a valuable collaboration with faculty and students that brought murals into the architecture library. The arts and architecture librarian reached out to one o...

Title: Claims returned process : using our values to improve the service
Author: Boardman, Erika, Norton, Derek R., Miller, Ryan J.
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Library science, Academic libraries, Library circulation and loans
Description: Through collaboration among Collections Maintenance, Circulation, and Technology and Digital Strategies, an online Claims Returned Form was established and has drastically improved the process for claims returned items. Featuring a unique API comp...

Title: From matriculation to graduation : alignment of library data with university metrics to quantify library value
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: 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: 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...