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Title: 8 reasons researchers should use the GetFTR browser extension
Author: Boardman, Erika
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Communication in learning and scholarship
Description: What is the problem we’re trying to solve? Researchers are not always able to easily make use of the resources their institution has made available to them. When presented with a plethora of links in a discovery tool, researchers may inadvertently...

Title: Addressing media literacy in K-12 classrooms
Author: Ramsey, L. Heather
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Education, Elementary, Education, Secondary
Description: A study of K-12 core content area teachers’ experiences teaching digital citizenship found that 80% (n=9) addressed topics of media literacy in their classrooms. The study looked at how teachers integrated media literacy topics into instruction, a...

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: Can we chat privately? : how information seeking anxiety increases privacy concerns with live chat
Author: Moore, Jon, Sanders, Bridgette T., Looby, Kimberly
Date Created: 2023, 2023, 2023
Subjects--Topical: Reference services (Libraries), Data privacy, Library anxiety

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: Creating co-curricular and extracurricular engagement pathways for timely degree completion
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Moore, Anne Cooper
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Student activities, Academic libraries
Description: This study investigates which co-curricular, extracurricular, pre-college, and demographic factors contribute to timely degree completion at a large, public university in the southeastern United States. In response to a new statewide performance-b...

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: Digital Humanities Institute 2022 : digital humanities and the environment
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Digital humanities, Education--Environmental aspects, Research--Environmental aspects
Description: The theme of this Institute is “Digital Humanities and the Environment.” From the natural environment to pedagogical environments, this year’s institute will meditate on DH’s impact with its surroundings. What are important considerations for ensu...

Title: Ecological disturbances and recovery : re-imagining accessibility post-pandemic
Author: Walden, Ashlyn C.
Date Created: 2022, 2022
Subjects--Topical: Digital humanities, Web-based instruction, Universal design

Title: Engagement pathways to transfer student success - full paper with statistical details
Author: Moore, Anne Cooper, Croxton, Rebecca A.
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: College students--Transfer, Academic libraries--Services to transfer students
Description: This paper is the comprehensive companion to the paper, Engagement Pathways to Transfer Student Success, that was submitted as part of the 2020 ARL Library Assessment Conference Proceedings. Moore, A. C., & Croxton, R. (2021, March). Engagement Pa...

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: 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: Hyper-theatricality : melodramatic polarities or tragicomic awareness
Author: Pizzato, Mark
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Melodrama
Description: Melodrama became the dominant mode in movies, with spectacular conflicts of good versus evil focusing on clear-cut heroes fighting monstrous villains. Such melodramatic framing continues to be the dominant mode in our mass/social/gaming media. But...

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...