| Best practices for scrapbook collections in CONTENTdm: lessons from the University Archives Scrapbook Collection at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro [slides] |
2014 |
2882 |
Slides from a presentation on an interdepartmental scrapbook digitization project, geared toward an audience of CONTENTdm users. Delivered May 21, 2014 at the CONTENTdm Southern Users Group Meeting in Columbia, South Carolina. Co-presented by Anna C... |
| Building communities of practice while building learning spaces [slides] |
2018 |
405 |
Slides from a presentation on open access journal publishing, Open Educational Resources (OERs), and the Journal of Learning Spaces. Delivered October 5, 2018 at the Consortium of College and University Media Centers conference in Salt Lake City, Uta... |
| Champagne wishes, caviar dreams: incorporating ereaders into leisure reading while on a beer budget |
2011 |
1779 |
In the spring of 2010, staff at Western Carolina University’s Hunter Library began investigating how to use end of year funds. One of the chosen ideas was to experiment with circulating Kindles loaded with leisure reading titles. The pilot program wa... |
| Champagne wishes, caviar dreams: incorporating ereaders into leisure reading while on a beer budget [slides] |
2011 |
831 |
Slides from a presentation on the use of e-readers, specifically Kindles, for delivery of leisure reading content in an academic library. Delivered November 3, 2011 at the Charleston Conference in Charleston, SC. Co-presented by Anna Craft, Elisabeth... |
| Civil Rights Greensboro and the Women Veterans Historical Project: Migrating existing digital collections into CONTENTdm [slides] |
2015 |
1248 |
Slides from a presentation on UNCG's effort to migrate two of their most visible digital collections from an internally developed content management system into CONTENTdm. The process used was a collaborative effort that involved four groups within t... |
| Collection Creation as Collection Management: Libraries as Publishers and Implications for Collection Development |
2019 |
1616 |
Digital collections, institutional repositories, open educational resources, open access publishing, and new forms of digital scholarship are all ways in which academic libraries are growing their collections from the inside out as well as making thi... |
| The Craft Revival Project: library leadership in creating connections between small cultural institutions |
2010 |
1601 |
The Craft Revival Project is a collaborative digital project partnering a mid-sized academic library with six small cultural heritage institutions in order to document the historic effort to revive handmade crafts in the western part of North Carolin... |
| Creating connections, building community: The role of oral history collections in documenting and sharing campus diversity |
2018 |
1275 |
The collection and sharing of oral history is a growing area that libraries and archives are using to connect with their communities and document campus diversity. This column discusses opportunities for libraries and archives to include diverse and ... |
| Critical cataloging: What? Why? How? [slides] |
2022 |
308 |
Slides from a presentation given March 17, 2022 for the Southeast Collaborative Online Conference. Critical cataloging practices can help library personnel address inequities in bibliographic description while helping library users to identify accura... |
| Descriptive metadata for scrapbooks: Interdepartmental collaboration to support efficiency and discovery |
2013 |
2430 |
In the fall of 2011, The University Libraries of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro embarked on the digitization of a collection of approximately 250 historical scrapbooks that documented university history and spanned most of the twentie... |
| Descriptive metadata for scrapbooks: Interdepartmental collaboration to support efficiency and discovery [slides] |
2013 |
1433 |
Slides from a presentation on an interdepartmental scrapbook digitization project. Delivered April 4, 2013 at the Archiving Conference held at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Co-presented by David Gwynn, Anna Craft, and Kathelene McCarty Sm... |
| Digital scholarship planning: A perspective on the CNI-ARL workshop |
2018 |
1187 |
The CNI-ARL Digital Scholarship Planning Workshop at Brown University, November 8–10, 2017, was an intensive, focused workshop for institutions at all stages of the digital scholarship planning process. This report, based on one participant's experie... |
| Driving the development of library spaces by supporting and sharing the scholarship of learning spaces [slides] |
2019 |
432 |
Slides from a presentation on the open access Journal of Learning Spaces. Delivered March 11, 2019 at the Librarians' Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Co-presented by Anna Craft... |
| Embracing open access as a means to move forward [slides] |
2018 |
269 |
Slides from a presentation discussing the impact of open access repositories, open access publications, open educational resources, and other open digital scholarship projects on the active learning environment. This presentation was delivered on Feb... |
| Empowering our users, educating ourselves: Getting started with critical cataloging [slides] |
2021 |
169 |
Slides from a presentation given October 20, 2021 for the North Carolina Library Association Biennial Conference, SEE the Future (Support. Educate. Empower.), online. Library cataloging has traditionally been directed by standards and structures that... |
| Ethics and equity considerations in electronic resources work: An introduction to basic resources and practices to support librarians during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond |
2021 |
1921 |
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought innumerable changes to the lives of individuals and institutions across the country and around the world. In this uncertain time, access to information is crucial. Electronic resources were a significant content type... |
| From foundation to tower: building blocks for your library career [slides] |
2013 |
1639 |
Slides from a presentation on library career stages. Delivered October 18, 2013 at the North Carolina Library Association biennial conference in Winston-Salem, NC. Co-presented by Nataly Blas, Anna Craft, Beth Filar Williams, and Mary Krautter. |
| Getting started with critical cataloging [slides] |
2022 |
367 |
Slides from a presentation given February 10, 2022 for the Amigos Library Services Changing Standards, Local Choices: Navigating the Current Cataloging Landscape conference, online. Library cataloging has traditionally been directed by standards and ... |
| Help, we started a journal! : adventures in supporting open access publishing using Open Journal Systems [slides] |
2015 |
2153 |
Slides with notes from a presentation on library support for open access publishing using Open Journal Systems (OJS). Delivered November 5, 2015 at the Charleston Conference in Charleston, SC. |
| “Help, we started a journal!”: Adventures in supporting open access publishing using Open Journal Systems |
2015 |
680 |
The University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) have an active and growing implementation of Open Journal Systems (OJS), a free, open source scholarly publishing platform. But even a free software system is not witho... |
| Helping authors navigate open access publication funding options: Growing library support to meet challenges and opportunities [Slides] |
2024 |
17 |
Slides from a presentation given April 18, 2024 for the All Things Open Conference, hosted online by Kennesaw State University. With open access established as a sharing and publishing practice in many academic disciplines, authors are increasingly e... |
| Introducing scholarly communications: A cross-departmental approach for reaching students and faculty [slides] |
2020 |
1043 |
Slides from a presentation discussing cross-departmental efforts to provide scholarly communications training to graduate students and faculty members at UNC Greensboro. This presentation was delivered on May 27, 2020 at the Azalea Coast Library Asso... |
| Is this a quality journal to publish in? How can you tell? |
2016 |
1991 |
This article summarizes a presentation delivered by Beth Bernhardt at the 2016 North Carolina Serials Conference. Bernhardt's talk provided an overview of predatory and unethical publishing practices, provided resources to consult when evaluating ope... |
| Liaison and Functional Team Structure Review Task Force Report, 2017-2018 |
2018 |
776 |
The Liaison Team Structure Review Task Force was convened in the 2017 fall semester, with the purpose of examining the liaison functional and subject team structure implemented in 2013-14 to determine how well it is functioning and what changes shoul... |
| Libraries as publishers and promoters of OA scholarship: OJS at UNC Greensboro and The Journal of Learning Spaces [slides] |
2017 |
828 |
Slides from a presentation delivered March 20, 2017 at the Library Publishing Forum in Baltimore, MD. In 2010, the University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro began offering support for open access journal publishing via Op... |
| Libraries as publishers: one library's experience creating and supporting open access journal publication [slides] |
2017 |
1068 |
Slides from a presentation delivered June 9, 2017 at the Metrolina Library Association Conference in Charlotte, NC. Libraries are re-envisioning their services in many ways, including the exploration of roles in scholarly publishing and support for a... |
| Library roles in supporting creation of serials: Open Journal Systems at UNCG [slides] |
2016 |
1169 |
Slides with notes from a presentation discussing roles for librarians in supporting researchers who are creating serials using Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open source journal management and publishing system. This presentation discussed UNCG’s OJS... |
| Local name authorities and linked data: The landscape |
2019 |
1321 |
Name authority control—the process of selecting and maintaining a set of headings or access points for named entities—brings consistency to names in online systems and can help users locate needed items and identify related materials. Linked data pro... |
| Managing researcher identity: Tools for researchers and librarians |
2020 |
615 |
Researchers have increasing opportunities to identify themselves and raise the profile of their research and scholarship through online researcher identity management and researcher profile systems. This column provides a basic introduction to resear... |
| Onboarding and training new electronic resources personnel in libraries: An overview of literature and resources |
2021 |
1395 |
Onboarding is the process in which new employees are introduced to an organization and its vision, mission, and values. Library literature reflects the importance of onboarding in welcoming new employees and positioning them for success in their role... |
| Online documentation portals in library technical services: Shedding light on local practices and procedures |
2019 |
1002 |
The creation, sharing, and maintenance of documentation are critical to support the often detailed and complex work of library technical services units. This column examines documentation portals that share technical services policies and procedures,... |
| Open access / closed coffers: repositioning an institutional repository to reflect reality |
2012 |
1632 |
During 2011, a combination of budgetary and staffing factors led the NC DOCKS institutional repository system at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) to restructure its staffing, policies, and procedures, particularly with relation t... |
| Open access / closed coffers: repositioning an institutional repository to reflect reality [slides] |
2012 |
625 |
Slides from a presentation on the restructuring of policies, procedures, and staffing for UNCG's locally-created institutional repository system, NC DOCKS. Delivered November 9, 2012 at the Charleston Conference in Charleston, SC. |
| OpenUNC: Collaborating to increase the visibility of open scholarship from the UNC System [slides] |
2022 |
122 |
Slides from a presentation about the OpenUNC initiative (https://openunc.org/), which strives to increase the visibility of open access research and open educational resources that are being created across the UNC System. This presentation was delive... |
| Paging through history: lessons learned from a scrapbook digitization project [slides] |
2014 |
1189 |
Slides from a presentation on an interdepartmental scrapbook digitization project. Delivered April 8, 2014 at the Society of North Carolina Archivists Meeting in Raleigh, NC. Co-presented by David Gwynn, Anna Craft, and Kathelene McCarty Smith. |
| Professional applications of information literacy: Helping researchers learn to evaluate journal quality |
2021 |
977 |
Evaluating journals can be challenging, especially for new researchers. This article discusses the application of information literacy skills and techniques, such as lateral reading, in the context of teaching researchers to evaluate journal quality ... |
| Professional applications of information literacy: Helping researchers learn to evaluate journal quality [slides] |
2021 |
387 |
Slides from a presentation discussing the applications of information literacy techniques--particularly lateral reading--in teaching researchers to evaluate journal quality and avoid predatory journals. This presentation was delivered on April 9, 202... |
| Remote work in library technical services: Connecting historical perspectives to realities of the developing COVID-19 pandemic |
2020 |
2099 |
The concept and practice of remote work in library technical services is not new, but the scale and speed of the transition to remote work for many libraries due to the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. This column provides an overview of pre-pande... |
| Remote work in technical services: What have we learned? [slides] |
2021 |
203 |
Slides from a presentation on remote work in library technical services and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on that area. Delivered November 3, 2021 at the Charleston Conference. |
| Remote work in technical services: What have we learned? Where are we going? [slides] |
2022 |
124 |
Slides from a presentation discussing perspectives on remote work in library technical services as documented in the library literature, including pre-pandemic challenges identified and lessons learned that can help personnel navigate some of the iss... |
| Research data support at UNCG: A metadata perspective [slides] |
2015 |
822 |
Slides from a presentation discussing the integration of support for data set sharing and management in an established institutional repository system, within the larger framework of an academic library that is working to expand its research support ... |
| Scholarly communications for librarians: Developing a mentoring program to support tenure-track library faculty [slides] |
2022 |
144 |
Slides from a presentation discussing the professional development component of a mentoring program for tenure-track faculty librarians at UNC Greensboro (UNCG). The presentation addressed this library-based mentoring program’s inception, development... |
| Scholarly communications training: Professional development for the next generation of scholars |
2020 |
1292 |
Many campuses are seeing increased needs for support in scholarly communications areas such as open access, research identity management, scholarship metrics, and related topics. This article discusses a professional development program that addresse... |
| Scholarship as conversation: Encouraging inclusive and equitable practices [Slides] |
2023 |
93 |
Slides from a presentation given July 28, 2023 for the Lifelong Information Literacy (LILi) Conference. Information literacy skills are critical for learners at all levels, but sometimes it can be challenging to make connections from theoretical conc... |
| Southern Highland Craft Guild |
2011 |
2874 |
The collections of the Southern Highland Craft Guild are available to visitors at the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville, North Carolina. Here visitors can explore library and archival materials that document traditional and conte... |
| Staying relevant: the new technical services [slides] |
2014 |
1165 |
Slides from a presentation on changes in library technical services careers. Delivered May 13, 2014 at the Triad Academic Library Association (TALA) conference in Greensboro, North Carolina. |
| Supporting open access publishing via Open Journal Systems [slides] |
2014 |
1309 |
Slides from a presentation on open access educational publishing via Open Journal Systems (OJS). Delivered virtually on October 22, 2014 as part of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) virtual conference, "Using the Web as an E-Cont... |
| Supporting research data: a collaborative library approach [slides] |
2016 |
808 |
Slides from a presentation discussing the UNCG University Libraries' research data management services, which strive to best meet the needs of the campuses while also maximizing limited resources. At UNCG, librarians collaborate across departments to... |
| Thinking critically about scholarly communication: Helping researchers integrate inclusive practices in the research lifecycle [Slides] |
2023 |
50 |
Slides from a presentation delivered March 30, 2023 for the Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy (online). Librarians are uniquely positioned to model and encourage critical thinking and inclusive research and publishing practices... |
| Thinking outside the search box: redefining roles for catalogers in an academic library [slides] |
2012 |
1082 |
Slides from a presentation on the changing role of the cataloger in academic libraries. Delivered June 24, 2012 at the ALCTS Metadata Interest Group meeting at the ALA Annual conference held in Anaheim, CA. Co-presented by Anna Craft and David Gwynn.... |
| Thinking practically about metadata for digital projects in your library [slides] |
2011 |
847 |
Slides from a presentation on metadata basics for library projects. Delivered October 6, 2011 at the North Carolina Library Association biennial conference in Hickory. Co-presented by Anna Craft and Elizabeth Gregg. |
| Travelers Rest [review] |
2012 |
960 |
In Travelers Rest, her ninth novel, North Carolina-based author Ann Tatlock reminds readers that hope can be found in the midst of the most difficult struggles. |
| Uncovering social history: An interdepartmental approach to scrapbook digitization |
2016 |
3315 |
In 2011, staff at the University Libraries of the University of North Carolina at Greensboroembarked on a collaborative, cross-departmental project to digitize a large collection ofscrapbooks—a notoriously difficult material type. This article docume... |
| Under construction: building research data services at UNCG [slides] |
2017 |
681 |
Slides from a presentation discussing the development of the UNCG University Libraries' research data management services. Many university libraries are expanding their research services to include support for research data needs. But in a climate of... |
| We’ve got support for that: Building an open access publishing community through library support [Slides] |
2023 |
147 |
Slides from a presentation given October 20, 2023 for the North Carolina Library Association (NCLA) Biennial Conference. With open access established as a sharing and publishing practice in many academic disciplines, some authors are increasingly exp... |
| What exactly do you do here, anyway? : advocating for technical services in our libraries [slides] |
2012 |
603 |
Slides from a presentation on advocating for technical services in libraries. Delivered October 22, 2012 at the North Carolina Library Association Resources and Technical Services Section workshop held at The University of North Carolina at Greensbor... |
| Writing groups and the library: Building community and supporting scholarship [Slides] |
2023 |
117 |
Slides from a presentation given October 18, 2023, for the North Carolina Library Association (NCLA) Biennial Conference. From the creation of training materials, workflow documentation, and marketing content to the authorship of articles, presentati... |