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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...