| Academic Libraries as Hubs of Innovation and Engagement: Workshopping Information Literacy to High School Educators [poster] |
2019 |
210 |
Poster presented at the Innovative Library Classroom Conference in Williamsburg, VA, June 6, 2019. |
| The Battle of New Orleans in History and Memory [book review] |
2017 |
240 |
Book review of: The Battle of New Orleans in History and Memory. Laura Lyons McLemore, ed. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8071-6465-5 (Hardback). $38.00. 232 p. |
| Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland by Jeremy B. Jones |
2014 |
2063 |
This article is a review of the book “Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland” by Jeremy B. Jones. |
| Best practices for scrapbook collections in CONTENTdm: lessons from the University Archives Scrapbook Collection at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro [slides] |
2014 |
2602 |
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... |
| Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine [book review] |
2018 |
383 |
Book review of: Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent AmericanCuisine. Deetz, Kelley Fanto. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2017. ISBN 978- 0-8131-7473-0 (Hardback); $29.95. 192 p. |
| A Call to Remember: Documenting American Service and Sacrifice in the Great War [Poster] |
2019 |
172 |
Poster presented at the 2019 International Society for First World War Studies Conference in Leeds, UK. |
| The Case of a Scrapbook Collection that Tripled in Size: The Benefits and Unforeseen Consequences of Digitizing a Hidden Collection |
2012 |
1718 |
This paper will examine the benefits of a cross departmental approach (Special Collections and University Archives, Cataloging, and Digital Projects) to manage a digital project and discuss the practical steps of devising a work plan that encompasses... |
| The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War [book review] |
2015 |
1438 |
This article is a review of the book "The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War" edited by David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis. |
| A Collaborative Reimagining of Collection Management Using ArchivesSpace [poster] |
2021 |
117 |
This poster illustrates how SCUA transitioned its entire collection to ArchivesSpace, specifically recent rare book acquisitions. It also outlines project objectives, including developing collaborative communication methods among our Special Collecti... |
| Collecting Textiles: Is It Worth It? |
2013 |
1445 |
This article describes both the benefits and
disadvantages of collecting textiles in an archival repository
based on an analysis of three different collections housed at
the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and
University Archives at Th... |
| Descriptive metadata for scrapbooks: Interdepartmental collaboration to support efficiency and discovery |
2013 |
2197 |
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 |
1313 |
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... |
| Future Directions of the North Carolina Literary Map |
2012 |
698 |
Poster presented at the American Library Association Conference in 2012: http://ala12.scheduler.ala.org/m/node/2498
Partnering with the North Carolina Center for the Book, the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro ar... |
| The Ghost Will See You Now: Haunted Hospitals of the South [book review] |
2015 |
830 |
Randy Russell believes hauntings can happen anywhere, but that ghosts may actually prefer theSouth. This premise has led him to pen several books about Southern ghosts, including GhostCats of the South and Mountain Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of ... |
| The Golden Band from Tigerland: A History of LSU’s Marching Band [book review] |
2016 |
1043 |
No one who has heard the thrilling first four notes of “Four Corners,” the pregame salute at each of Louisiana State University’s (LSU) home football games, could forget the “Golden Band from Tigerland.” Authors Tom Continé, alumnus of the LSU marchi... |
| Haints on Black Mountain [book review] |
2023 |
32 |
Book review of: Haints on Black Mountain. Ann Hite Macon: Mercer University Press, 2022ISBN: 9780881468526 243 p. (Pbk) $20.00 |
| Homefront Mobilization, Patriotic Service, and Suffrage: North Carolina Women's Colleges during World War I [poster] |
2017 |
246 |
Poster presented at the American Historical Association (AHA) Conference in Denver, CO, January 2017. |
| Honoring those who served : citizen archivists documenting the Great War [Slides] |
2021 |
85 |
Slides presented at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archivist Conference (MARAC) on October 2021 in Gettysburg, PA. |
| Mobilizing Citizen Archivists: North Carolina Documents the Great War |
2020 |
116 |
Upon entering the Great War in April 1917, the United States found itself ill-equipped to fight an overseas conflict and equally unprepared to systematically document it as a historical phenomenon.1 In contrast to many European nations, the United St... |
| Mommy Goose: Rhymes from the Mountains [book review] |
2016 |
717 |
Mother Goose has long been a beloved character in children’s literature. With her origins steeped in European folklore, she is most commonly portrayed as an elderly woman with a tall hat who flies through the skies on a large gander. She is also depi... |
| Organizing Exhibitions: A Handbook for Museums, Libraries, and Archives. [book review] |
2015 |
1399 |
Creating an effective exhibit is a challenging prospect at best. Whether it is a small exhibit or a large one, it takes a great deal of planning and organization. In her new book, Organizing Exhibitions: A Handbook for Museums, Libraries, and Archive... |
| Paging through history: lessons learned from a scrapbook digitization project [slides] |
2014 |
1089 |
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. |
| Photo synthesis: Collaboration and compromise on a historic photograph digitization project |
2013 |
692 |
Slides from a presentation on a collaborative historic photograph digitization project. Delivered in February 2013 at the ACRL Image Resources Interest Group (IRIG) Meeting by David Gwynn and Kathelene McCarty Smith. |
| Preserving Our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age [book review] |
2021 |
117 |
Some books are so significant that it is necessary to bring them to the attention of those who are unfamiliar with their relevance and to remind others why they should be an important part of their libraries. That is certainly the case with Preservin... |
| Reimagining Outreach When You Can’t Meet Face-to-Face: Archivists Adjust During the Pandemic [Slides] |
2022 |
118 |
Slides presented at the virtual Society of North Carolina Archivists Conference on March 17, 2022. |
| Short-Term Staffing in Special Collections [Poster] |
2019 |
152 |
Poster presented at the RBMS conference in Baltimore, Maryland on June 12, 2019. |
| Smothered and Covered: Waffle House and the Southern Imaginary [book review] |
2023 |
57 |
Book review of: Smothered and Covered: Waffle House and the Southern Imaginary. TyMatejowsky. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2023. ISBN: 9780817394301 210 p.(Hbk) $39.95 |
| Stepdaughters of History: Southern Women and the American Civil War [book review] |
2017 |
801 |
The representation of southern women, during and in the aftermath of the Civil War, is varied and complex. In Stepdaughters of History: Southern Women and the American Civil War, Catherine Clinton integrates recent scholarship and historical research... |
| Take a CHANCE: Academic Library Outreach to Hispanic and Latinx High School Students [slides] |
2019 |
395 |
Slides from a presentation given at the NCLA Biennial Conference in Winston-Salem, NC in October 2019. |
| The Travelers’ Charleston: Accounts of Charleston and Lowcountry, South Carolina, 1666-1861 [book review] |
2016 |
615 |
The lowcountry of South Carolina has long held sway over all who have lived there, but surprisingly, those from outside of the South often offer the most interesting perspectives on the region. The Travelers’ Charleston: Accounts of Charleston and Lo... |
| Uncovering social history: An interdepartmental approach to scrapbook digitization |
2016 |
2970 |
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... |
| Varieties of Southern Religious History: Essays in Honor of Donald F. Mathews [book review] |
2016 |
503 |
Varieties of Southern Religious History: Essays in Honor of Donald G. Mathews is comprised of fifteen chapters written by former students of renowned historian Donald G. Mathews. A distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Nort... |
| Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922 [book review] |
2019 |
82 |
“A picture is worth a thousand words” is the perfect idiom for a book that so effectively conveys the power and intimacy that can be captured by portrait photography. Before the reader even opens the book, Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of ... |
| “Who’s Driving the Bus?” or How Digitization Is Influencing Archival Collections |
2019 |
428 |
Archivists who work directly with unique collections, as well as librarians and other professionals who coordinate digitization, generally agree that access should be prioritized. However, each group has its own goals, standards, and timelines that m... |
| “Winning the War” for Visual Literacy: Using Padlet for Primary Source Instruction [Poster] |
2022 |
147 |
Working with students in person as they engage with historic materials is a bedrock of primary source instruction. When COVID-19 pushed classes online, that experience was removed. Special Collections Librarians at UNCG devised an exercise using Worl... |
| The World of Jak Smyrl: South Carolina Artist, Journalist, Cartoonist [book review] |
2021 |
174 |
In the recent biography The world of Jak Smyrl: South Carolina Artist, Journalist, Cartoonist, the narrative begins at the end of Smyrl’s life as he is honored by the South Carolina General Assembly for his distinguished career as an artist and write... |
| Youth as Design Partners: Age-Appropriate Websites for Middle and High School Students |
2012 |
730 |
This study explored the impact of using best practices identified in previous studies in designing age-appropriate websites for middle and high school youth. Utilizing a mixed-method approach, 31 middle and 22 high school youth took part in six focus... |