{"title":"UNC-CH SILS Masters Thesis 2014-2015","authors":"R. Scott","doi":"10.3776/NCL.V74I1.722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3776/NCL.V74I1.722","url":null,"abstract":"List of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Library and Information Science Masters Thesis for the academic year 2014-2015","PeriodicalId":30024,"journal":{"name":"North Carolina Libraries","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70035792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Pathfinder for Comic Books and Graphic Novels","authors":"Hugh H. Davis, Ryan M. Smith","doi":"10.3776/NCL.V74I1.717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3776/NCL.V74I1.717","url":null,"abstract":"Alternative media are becoming more widely accepted as forms of literature. Comic books and graphic novels are now mainstream, with characters and storylines appearing in movies, cartoons, video games, television shows, and more. Comics and graphic novels are a billion dollar industry that can often go overlooked in the minds of readers. The resources in this pathfinder will open readers’ eyes to the universe of stories and characters that are contained in comic books. It will also give readers an idea of the rich history of the industry and the powerful impact that comic books and graphic novels have had on popular culture. In addition, it will also provide teachers with a multitude of literary resources that they may otherwise overlook.","PeriodicalId":30024,"journal":{"name":"North Carolina Libraries","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70035758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Orolando Duffus, Tiffany Henry, Jada Jones, S. Krim
{"title":"Diversity from the Inside Out: Eight Years of the UNCG Libraries Diversity Committee","authors":"Orolando Duffus, Tiffany Henry, Jada Jones, S. Krim","doi":"10.3776/NCL.V74I1.728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3776/NCL.V74I1.728","url":null,"abstract":"The Diversity Committee of UNCG Libraries, founded in 2007, develops and supports activity relating to diversity and inclusion. Recognizing that the most successful change begins from within, the Committee’s strategy for promoting diversity began with internal library staff development, and expanded over time to international representation of library faculty. Examples of diversity-related programs undertaken by the committee range from staff development focused on providing support to unique populations on campus, to the creation of the Diversity Resident Librarian position. In this article, members of the UNCG Libraries Diversity Committee will discuss the programs that this committee developed and sponsored, beginning with training from within the Libraries for staff, expanding to regional, national, and international representation.","PeriodicalId":30024,"journal":{"name":"North Carolina Libraries","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70035945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Did We Get Here: binding of print theses and dissertations to processing electronic theses and dissertations?","authors":"Netta S. Cox","doi":"10.3776/NCL.V73I1.415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3776/NCL.V73I1.415","url":null,"abstract":"In today’s economic climate, many academic libraries are faced with shorter budgets and rising costs of materials. Electronic databases and journals are growing in most libraries, while print materials are decreasing. A shift in the change from print to electronic collections has impacted routine serials workflows. This article examines the change from print to electronic resources, the impact of technology on traditional technical services tasks and the serials staff workflow transition from print to electronic theses and dissertations dissemination at F.D. Bluford Library.","PeriodicalId":30024,"journal":{"name":"North Carolina Libraries","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70035332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Pages of North Carolina Libraries - North Carolina Negro Library Association by Mollie Houston Lee v. 34, no.1 (Winter 1977)","authors":"R. Scott","doi":"10.3776/NCL.V73I1.419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3776/NCL.V73I1.419","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30024,"journal":{"name":"North Carolina Libraries","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70036137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wired to the World - Can You Really do Research on the Internet","authors":"R. Scott","doi":"10.3776/NCL.V73I1.418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3776/NCL.V73I1.418","url":null,"abstract":"While working recently with a library user I encountered what is becoming an increasing problem when one tries to conduct research on the Internet. The user was conducting research on vessel departures from American ports using our Early American Newspapers online database. The researcher reported that the list of newspapers available varied from day to day. For example papers he consulted on Monday would vanish from the database on Tuesday and new ones not previously there would appear. Sad to say his experience varied again on other days of the week. What implication does this phenomena have on the ability of scholars to conduct “research” on the Internet? Unfortunately this was not the first time someone reported a vanishing electronic resource to me. In fact just this morning I was looking for the 1729 edition of William Dampier’s Voyages. I located the title in our ILS, clicked on the link “Full Text Online” and promptly got the message “You do not have access to this product. Please contact our online sales specialist at 1-800 blah, blah, blah.” Further research turned up the fact that we had purchased the e-book collection containing this title outright in 2007 and there was no known annual fee, so we should have access right? Wrong. Latest news from the vendor is that “the collection may have expired for us.” So who in the library gets the fun task of taking all of these entries out of the ILS for items that have “expired” access? Or do we just have a new link to a page for these titles that reads “Sorry, access to this title is no longer available due to budget cutbacks by [insert the name of your favorite] administration? How do we even find out what we have lost access to unless a user complains? A number of times when I request articles recently through our e-journal portal, I will click on the pdf file link and receive a blank page. So why do the vendors say they have the pdf image when in fact they don’t? Or is it a glitch in the system, a problem with my computer, or who knows. Or maybe not. Recently a colleague sent me an email:","PeriodicalId":30024,"journal":{"name":"North Carolina Libraries","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70036053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public Library Adult Education for Immigrants in North Carolina","authors":"Jr. Plummer Alston Jones","doi":"10.3776/NCL.V73I1.416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3776/NCL.V73I1.416","url":null,"abstract":"In the period from 1876, the founding year of the American Library Association, to 1924, the effective year of the National Origins Act with its quotas for immigrants, U.S. public libraries of the Northeast, the West, and the Midwest were busy organizing to serve the needs of the flood of millions of immigrants from Southeastern and Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East.1 North Carolina did not receive any significant number of immigrants from this influx as they had earlier immigrants, including Germans, English, French, Irish, and Scots, from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. By 1880, these former immigrants were now established North Carolina citizens who had been assimilated, or Americanized, the term used at in the early twentieth century, and spoke English, albeit in differing and sometimes colorful accents and dialects.","PeriodicalId":30024,"journal":{"name":"North Carolina Libraries","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70035428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Addressing Language Barriers Through Readers’ Advisory: Librarian, Literature, and Locality","authors":"JoAnn Bolick","doi":"10.3776/NCL.V73I1.410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3776/NCL.V73I1.410","url":null,"abstract":"Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:\"\"; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:\"Times New Roman\";} With patience and perseverance, the readers’ advisory (RA) relationship can form a long-term bond between patron and librarian, and can also serve to unite library, literature, and the community. But what happens when something hampers the librarian’s ability to bring patron and book together? The purposes of this survey of public librarians were to ascertain if readers’ advisory librarians were coming into contact with patrons who spoke other languages, to compile best practices and resources librarians used or could use during these types of readers’ advisory interactions, and to gain feedback directly from them regarding the interactions themselves. An electronic survey was distributed to public libraries in North Carolina in March 2014. Responding librarians listed over 29 different languages that they were aware of being spoken within their local libraries. Results also indicated that 8 out of 10 public librarians in North Carolina have encountered communication barriers during RA services, with just over 6 out of 10 of those encounters occurring because of the differences in languages spoken during the exchange. Although North Carolina librarians are resourceful individuals who rely on each other, skillfully employ learning strategies, and turn to technology to solve RA problems, results also indicate frustration at the lack of resources and support available to them in these situations.","PeriodicalId":30024,"journal":{"name":"North Carolina Libraries","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70035517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}