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Title: “Why so serious?” : antisocial trolling behavior and its relationship with everyday psychopathy and sadism
Author: Siegel, AJ, Peach, Hannah D.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Online trolling, Antisocial personality disorders
Description: Trolling is an antisocial form of online communication in which users, known as trolls, initiate negative and taunting interactions to disrupt digital communication. While trolling is a common online practice ranging from innocent to potentially d...

Title: What makes an assessment professional proficient? Examining and updating Proficiencies for Assessment Librarians and Coordinators through the lens of social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Scoulas, Jung Mi, Oakleaf, Megan, Salvador, Je
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Libraries--Evaluation
Description: Higher education is calling for increased accountability in an evolving climate in which social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (SJEDI) must be a cornerstone of our work. Campus administrators have responded by assigning assessment dutie...

Title: Visualizing alignment in joint attention
Author: Jackson, Daniel, Galati, Alexia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Eye tracking, Psychology, Joint attention
Description: Success in joint tasks requires shared understanding and coordination between team members. Some studies suggest that, in motor tasks, various coordination patterns (including alignment and complimentary) can support achieving shared goals (Wallot...

Title: Using wireless pedometers to measure children's’ physical activity : how reliable is the Fitbit Zip?
Author: Byker, Erik Jon, Xu, Tingting, Gonzales, Monica R.
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Children, Pedometers
Description: Wearable technologies, like wireless pedometers, are promising ways to get children moving through physical activity and kinesthetic learning. The purpose of this study is to investigate the reliability of wireless pedometers in measuring elementa...

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...

Title: The impact of reading and writing during the Siege of Sarajevo
Author: Ornat Bitting, Natalie
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Books and reading, Writing
Description: In the spring of 1992, the city of Sarajevo was surrounded by nationalist Serb troops and bombarded with shells, bullets, and terror for four long years. Isolated from the world, Sarajevans found a refuge and a freedom that took them beyond their ...

Title: Teachers’ and principals’ perspectives of leadership : a search for within-school alignment
Author: Gabriel, Tara
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Educational change
Description: Many school administrators struggle to find a reliably efficient and effective way of stabilizing academic reform implementation within educational institutions. Questionnaire responses were collected from two administrators and six teachers acros...

Title: Teacher perspectives on social justice practices in English language arts (ELA)
Author: Gabriel, Tara, Coffey, Heather, Barnes, Meghan, Steele, Lucy
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Critical pedagogy, Social justice and education, Culturally relevant pedagogy
Description: Research indicates a need for middle and secondary teachers to become knowledgeable about how to teach for social justice. This study aims to better understand current challenges, strategies, and perspectives of English critical pedagogy through t...

Title: Supporting professional development and work-life balance : a new approach to conferences
Author: Binder, Amanda, Lake, Savannah
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Career development, Congresses and conventions, Videoconferencing
Description: Conferences are critical to professional development, serving as spaces for connection and learning. The pandemic challenged the status quo of conferences and the types of meaning that can be generated online versus in person. One library navigate...

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: 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: Second line to front line
Author: Cagle, Lily, Skillen, Joseph
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Jazz, Tuba music
Description: From the early 1960’s to the 1970’s/80’s, there was a period of innovation, experimentation, and musical growth for tubists. The tuba, a bass voice, in music has held the bass foundational role in musical literature ranging from the romantic perio...

Title: Revenge pornography : an examination of state statute inconsistencies
Author: Schutt, Jaden, Coston, Charisse Tia Maria, 1958-
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Image-based sexual abuse, Statutes--U.S. states
Description: Revenge Pornography is an umbrella term used to encompass the crime of distributing nonconsensual sexualized images of an individual. This crime became highly popularized during the latter half of the twentieth century and has continued to plague ...

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: Quantifying reproductive behavior in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
Author: Alexander, William, Justin, Hannah, Reitzel, Adam M.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Cnidaria, Biology, Developmental biology, Marine biology, Sea anemones
Description: The Starlet Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis (Nv) exists widely in coastal estuarine environments across North America. Nv has become a popular cnidarian model organism with a growing number of applications, including evolutionary developmental ...

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: Present and future proficiency : updating the ACRL assessment proficiencies to reflect current and coming realities
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Oakleaf, Megan, Scoulas, Jung Mi
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Libraries--Evaluation
Description: Session presenters who are leading an ACRL task force to update the 2017 ACRL Proficiencies for Assessment Librarians and Coordinators (https://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/assessment_proficiencies) invite conference attendees to engage in active co...

Title: Practices in elementary schools to reduce racial stereotypes that impact students’ academic performance
Author: Park, Goeun Grace
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Stereotypes (Social psychology), Racism in education, Racism
Description: Racial stereotypes in schools negatively influence students’ academic success. There are a variety of methods that can reduce racial stereotypes that influence students’ academic performance and help students who are in groups that face racial ste...

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...

Title: Not credible until proven credible
Author: Manley, Mariah
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Internet literacy
Description: My presentation is an overview of what makes a source credible and what causes it to lose its purpose or credibility. It addresses Authority, Purpose, and Currency while also explaining how this helps individuals find credibility. My poster also t...