Christine M. Fischer

Christine received her BA in Humanities from East Tennessee State University and received her MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her interests include topics related to library resources, streaming video, collections, and the evolving electronic scholarship and publishing environment.

There are 15 included publications by Christine M. Fischer :

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Crystal Clear? Today’s Libraries, Tomorrow’s Library Users 2006 1082 The Fifteenth North Carolina Serials Conference, hosted by the North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Library and Information Sciences (SILS), was opened by Carol Nicholson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Dr. Irene Owens, D...
Electronic Resources Pricing: A Variety of Models 2006 2658 Building and maintaining library collections is increasingly complex. Determining pricing for physical resources actually housed in the bricks and mortar facility is relatively simple. In contrast, libraries must select electronic resources that rang...
Group Therapy: Database Trials 2008 914 Practicing librarians respond to a question about the advantages and disadvantages of making database trials available to university faculty.
Group Therapy: Managing OA Journals 2007 849 Experienced librarians respond to a question on how academic libraries can best provide links to open access journals from the web page or catalog.
Group Therapy: Moving fully to Electronic Journals 2008 818 Experienced academic librarians respond to a question on how to identify which journals can be electronic-only and which titles faculty still need to see current issues of in a physical form.
Group Therapy: Screening of Donations 2007 1089 Experienced academic librarians respond to a question about best practice for preliminary screening or filtering of prospective book donations.
Ideas Roadshow: Streaming video and more [Slides] 2017 68 Streaming Media Providers: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – or maybe a little of each?Presented on September 29, 2017A panel of librarians discussed streaming video providers for this ASERL webinar, with Fischer presenting on Ideas Roadshow.
Implementing and assessing use-driven acquisitions: a practical guide for librarians [book review] 2016 371 With a changing publishing environment, flat or reduced collections budgets, lack of space for physical collections, and the convenience of conducting research with electronic resources, many libraries are looking at ways to provide access to titles ...
In Celebration of University Faculty: The Promotion and Tenure Recognition Event 2007 1513 Earning tenure and being promoted in the university setting should be reasons for celebration. Yet, all too often these milestones in the lives and careers of faculty get little celebratory notice. In the past, a few of the individual schools and the...
Joining the Library Profession: Getting Hired, Attending Regional Conferences, and Finding a Mentor [Slides] 2018 232 Attending regional conferences is a valuable professional development opportunity for graduate students in library and information science as well as librarians new to the profession. These presentation slides are from this panelist's portion of a NA...
Streaming Film: How to Serve Our Users 2014 1126 Streaming video is an integral part of the curriculum for many academic courses. While faculty may have used DVDs in the classroom, the increase in online course instruction and the expectations of students comfortable with using streaming video in t...
UNC Greensboro & Kanopy 2015 781 These slides from an ASERL webinar present the UNCG experience with the Kanopy streaming video site.This presentation was part of a larger presentation entitled, "ASERL Members' Experiences with Kanopy Streaming Video", a ASERL Webinar, co-presented ...
UNC Greensboro and Our Experience with Swank Digital Campus 2015 701 The presentation describes the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's experience with the digital streaming video service through Swank Motion Picture's Digital Campus portal. This was the beginning segment of the "Overview of ASERL Offer from ...
Watch this! Including streaming video in our collections [Slides] 2016 595 Watch This! Including Streaming Video in Our Collections Angela Dresselhaus, Head of Electronic Resources, East Carolina University Christine Fischer, Head of Technical Services, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In this presentation, s...
Watch This: Promoting Streaming Video on Campus 2015 684 Promoting streaming video is important in ensuring use of the resource. These presentation slides cover the UNCG experience with promoting a variety of streaming services to faculty and the wider campus community.This presentation was part of a large...