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2023 report on the experiences of neurodivergent students at Atkins Library
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Author
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Moore, Jon, Barbour, Triston
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Academic libraries, Neurodiversity
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Description
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This report describes the study our team conducted to better understand the needs and experiences of students at UNC Charlotte who identify as neurodivergent and/or as having a disorder related to mental health or function, specifically as they re...
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8 reasons researchers should use the GetFTR browser extension
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Author
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Boardman, Erika
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Academic libraries, Communication in learning and scholarship
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Description
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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...
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Beyond assumptions : using design thinking to build better library employee training
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Author
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Bess, Marc
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Employees--Training of, Academic libraries
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Description
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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...
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Creating co-curricular and extracurricular engagement pathways for timely degree completion
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Author
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Croxton, Rebecca A., Moore, Anne Cooper
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Student activities, Academic libraries
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Description
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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...
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How do we publish when our work is collaborative and everyone's too busy?
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Author
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Caruso, Beth
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Academic libraries, Scholarly publishing
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Description
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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 ...
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Nothing ever changes ... or maybe it can! Let's begin by listening
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Author
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Croxton, Rebecca A., Krumbine, Tracie, Looby, Kimberly
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Work environment, Academic libraries
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Description
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“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...
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Remediation by degrees : enhancing ETD metadata to improve discoverability
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Author
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Lake, Savannah, Nicholson, Joseph
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Academic libraries, Electronic dissertations, Metadata
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Description
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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 ...
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Rethinking resources : personalizing open access outreach by discipline
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Author
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Lake, Savannah, McCreery, Brigid
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Open access publishing, Academic libraries
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Description
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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 ...
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Supporting community care through a self-care collection at an academic library
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Author
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Lampkowski, Christin, Ornat Bitting, Natalie, Patterson, Olivia
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Mental health, Self-care, Health, Academic libraries, Collection development (Libraries)
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Description
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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 ...
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Value in disruption : a “reading is research” pedagogy for library instruction
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Author
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Tingelstad, Catherine, Otis, Stephanie
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Research--Methodology, Academic libraries
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Description
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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...