Declining rates of public participation in the United States of America have raised questions about the sustainability and effectiveness of U.S. democracy. Some scholars have called for making democracy fun through the use of...
Keyword:
fun, affect, emotion, public participation, and democracy
This manuscript documents a modification to hardware and software for the WheeStatpotentiostat that is used to cut off current between experiments. Beginning with model 7.2, all WheeStats sold will incorporate built in kill...
In the early 1930s, a group of hiking enthusiasts from Knoxville, Tennessee, believed no group of persons anywhere would profit more from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park than they. Their club, the Smoky Mountains Hiking...
Keyword:
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Smoky Mountains Hiking Club, and Appalachian Trail
Subject:
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States, Knoxville (TN), New Deal, 1933-1939 -- United States, and National parks and reserves -- Tennessee
In August 2020, the Cataloging Unit at Western Carolina University’s Hunter Library implemented new tools and online workflows to add finding aids to the library’s catalog. During remote work, catalogers utilized advanced tools...
Keyword:
Remote work, Cataloging, Finding aids, Workflows, and Project management
Creator:
Thompson, Beth, Breedlove, Beth, and Menendez, Emily
This paper investigates the current status of library collections and services in the rural jails of western North Carolina. The authors interviewed sheriffs and jail administrators in 6 of the 7 westernmost county detention...
Keyword:
library services, inmates, rural jails, and western North Carolina
This presentation talks about the WNC jail project, why we did the project, the interviews with WNC sheriffs to collect the information for the NC Libraries article, and working with the two regional jails with Fontana Regional...
This presentation includes a snapshot of the beginnings of the LGBT web-based communities. In particular, it follows the beginnings of the lesbian online group called shevilleafterdark2 that was based in Western North Carolina...
Despite the prevalence of academic libraries adopting web-scale discovery tools, few studies have quantified their effect on the use of library collections. This study measures the impact that EBSCO Discovery Service has had on...
Keyword:
electronic resources, accessibility, interlibrary loan, collections, and circulation
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to describe the challenges associated with identifying newspapers of record for local, regional, and national newspapers, specifically as those challenges pertain to students’ news media...
Keyword:
Newspaper of record, Information literacy, News media literacy, Media literacy, Instruction, and Academic libraries
