The talk focused on ways to help 黑料不打烊 students become community members in Alamance County rather than temporary visitors by utilizing collections found in the 黑料不打烊 Archives. Daily, students live, learn and pass by buildings named for Alamance industry leaders without realizing their significance. Akman and Garrison used the May Family Collection of papers and photographs found in 黑料不打烊 Archives to trace the industrial boom in Alamance County in the early 1900s, led by the textile industry, and through the lens of industry and community explained how the Alamance neighborhoods went through boom and bust to the becoming a bedroom community and enabling the revitalization of historic industrial neighborhoods like Glencoe Village.

Furthermore, their presentation advanced the conference鈥檚 goal of data-driven economic instruction by showing how these archival collections can help undergraduates situate current economic conditions in their historical contexts. Through these collections, they were able to trace the history of the regional textile industry from its origins in chattel slavery, to its explosion in the interwar synthetic fabrics boom, and finally its apogee and decline in postwar America.

The article was co-authored with Nina Exner, research data librarian and associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences.

The article examines how students begin their search for data, to what degree students experienced problems finding appropriate data, and whether students used library resources or approached a librarian for help. It concludes with suggestions on ways librarians and faculty can collaborate to teach strategic data literacy.

The article’s abstract reads:

This article investigates the information-seeking behavior of undergraduate economics students to determine their effectiveness in locating data sets for a multiple regression analysis assignment and seeks to discover how students pursue the process of learning to find and use data. A study was conducted in fall and spring 2015 to find out (1) what influences affect students’ ways of seeking data sets; and (2) what changes occur over the course of students’ data search. The findings say that while only about 10 percent of students started with the library, either a library database or a librarian, nearly half eventually used the library in some form for this course project. The conclusion reached as a result of the survey was that undergraduates have widely varying data search concepts, that more of the students look for personal interest data than business discipline data, and that the searching part of economics students’ first regression project can add a noticeable amount of time to the assignment before they can even get started working on the regression itself.

is a peer-reviewed journal; its purpose is to disseminate information of interest to reference librarians, information specialists, and other professionals involved in user-oriented library services.

The panelists focused on choosing the right publisher for the right audience and personal experience and advice for writing and publishing. 

Toddie Peters, professor of religious studies, spoke about her current book publication issues, provided advice about whether to hire a book agent, and talked about how important it is to decide on a personal path to scholarship. Karen Yokley, associate professor of mathematics, provided insight concerning scholarly impact and about impact factor rankings. She discussed acceptance rates for journals and identified the right journal for a scholar’s research topic.

Finally, Betty Garrison, business research librarian, defined so-called predatory publishers as scam opportunists who charge fees to publish quickly then offer none of the expected publisher services like peer-review or archiving for preservation.

Garrison and LePors spoke about embracing change when Belk Library underwent rapid transitions in 2012-15 due to new administrative leadership, a new faculty librarian promotion process, reorganization, and renovation. They shared their experiences and what the Belk staff has done to create, embrace, and thrive in a culture of change.