Cherokee print was the vehicle for the tribe's national rhetorical strategy, as it contended ... more Cherokee print was the vehicle for the tribe's national rhetorical strategy, as it contended with the United States and Georgia during the Removal Crisis of the late 1820s and 1830s. Cherokee print manifests an ambivalence concerning acculturation, and an attendant class struggle. This paper provides a historical and social framework for judging the place of Cherokee printing within this charged cultural moment, describes the roles, experiences, and interrelationships of the five men at the heart of this print production, and examines the political role of Cherokee printing through their experiences. Samuel Austin Worcester, Elias Boudinot, Isaac Harris, John F. Wheeler, and John Candy played critical parts in the production of tribal print, but are almost unknown, and seldom discussed. Finally, I want to encourage further study of Cherokee printing and its relation to the forces shaping Cherokee identity in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) often spark debate regarding restrictions on access an... more Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) often spark debate regarding restrictions on access and students’ opportunities for later publication. Most other studies have found publishers are in fact willing to work with submissions based on open access ETDs, but these studies have been conducted broadly on scholarly journals across a variety of disciplines rather than focusing specifically on creative writing. Librarians from East Carolina University identified a group of creative writing publishers and surveyed them to determine their attitudes towards manuscript submissions from ETDs, embargoes, and restrictions on access. Survey respondents by and large view open access ETDs as prior publications, although many were still willing to work with authors on an individual basis. The authors discuss the continued importance of offering creative writers options for restricted access and/or embargoes while publishers and creative writers work out the place of ETDs in the publishing chain.
Extracted text; Joint-use libraries have been created to share resources, reduce facilities costs... more Extracted text; Joint-use libraries have been created to share resources, reduce facilities costs, and more efficiently serve patrons. There have been several notable examples in the news. In the summer of 2013, a joint-use facility opened in Virginia Beach, a partnership between the Virginia Beach Public Library and the Tidewater Community College, whose campus houses the facility.2 A decade before that, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library opened in San Jose, merging the San Jose Main Public Library with the San Jose State University Library.3 But did you know that North Carolina has had a joint-use library in Carrboro for some 20 years?
One of the tools collection managers can use to guide the selection and retention of books and jo... more One of the tools collection managers can use to guide the selection and retention of books and journals is citation analysis. Although time-consuming to collect and analyze, citations by library users provide compelling evidence for keeping certain titles or growing collection support for specific subject areas, and may provide a good sense of which materials may be safely weeded. Citation analysis can also give an indication of how well the collection is meeting the needs of the students of the home institution. Research at East Carolina University confirms that the library provides substantial electronic journal coverage and somewhat less satisfactory monograph availability. Future research on the impact of open access is suggested, as well as an examination of the methods dissertation authors are using to access materials.
This article describes early cooperative efforts among North Carolina's Community Colleges to... more This article describes early cooperative efforts among North Carolina's Community Colleges to provide open educational resources for campus programs and encourage their adoption.
Librarians at East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro receive... more Librarians at East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro received a 2-year grant to support a combined alternative textbook project. This project engages in a two-pronged approach to reduce students' textbook costs and increase their academic engagement. One strategy is to award departmental faculty mini-grants to use materials that would have no cost to their students, including OER or library resources. The second strategy is to identify required texts that the library already owns or can purchase as unlimited-user e-books. Benefits to students include reduced costs and an increased opportunity for engagement and academic success.
, holds many treasures within its city limits. One of those treasures is the Archives of the Mora... more , holds many treasures within its city limits. One of those treasures is the Archives of the Moravian Church, Southern Province. The Archives provide a historical record dating back to 1753, documenting the rise of the modern Piedmont from what was the North Carolina frontier. It was in 1753 that the Moravians, a denomination small in numbers but great in importance came to settle this area. The Moravian Records available in these archives offer the "only consecutive historical account" for this part of the State for some of the crucial years in its development. 1 Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is the seat of the Southern Province of the Moravian Church in America. The Northern Province's headquarters are in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Total membership for all Moravian congregations in the United States was about 50,000 in 2000; the Southern Province had 19,764 adherents reporting that year. Of that number, 18,180 lived in North Carolina, and 13,631 of them lived in Forsyth County. 2 With such a large percentage of adherents in the Winston-Salem area, Moravians, in addition to historians of North Carolina, look to the Archives on Church Street in downtown Winston-Salem. Background of the Moravian Church A liturgical Protestant Christian church, the Moravians are also known commonly as the Brethren, and officially as the Unitas Fratrum. The denomination traces its origins to 1457, when a leader known as Brother Gregory organized a community in Moravia, gathered together to live according to principles of the Sermon on the Mount and the example of the Apostles. 3 Brother Gregory and this group, known collectively as the Unitas Fratrum (Unity of the Brethren), had been heavily influenced by the teachings of John Hus, a Czech reformer who was burned at the stake in 1415 at the Council of Constance. 4 Persecution kept the numbers of the church small, and in 1722, the group moved to the Saxon estate owned by Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf. There, the Brethren, by now beginning to be known as Moravians, built the town of Herrnhut, which became a model for later mission settlements. Zinzendorf 's patronage revived the church and energized its first missions, which were to St. Thomas in 1732, Greenland in 1733, South Africa in 1736, and around that same time, to America. 5
The effects of current economic conditions on technical services in public, community college, an... more The effects of current economic conditions on technical services in public, community college, and university libraries.
The 1821 creation of a written syllabary for the Cherokee language by Sequoyah and its use in the... more The 1821 creation of a written syllabary for the Cherokee language by Sequoyah and its use in the Nation’s newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix, are routinely examined within the context of the tribe’s discourse surrounding removal in the 1830s, but scholars often overlook the influence of the missionary Samuel Austin Worcester and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in shaping the parameters of that discourse by arranging the syllabary, typesetting the characters, and establishing the press. This article illuminates these significant historical and technical aspects of Worcester’s influence on the creation of Cherokee print. Worcester’s influence on the Cherokee syllabary is important, given the enduring nature of his influence and the rapid adoption of the written language: within fourteen years of its introduction, and seven years of the first printing, more than half of all households in the Cherokee Nation had a reader of Cherokee. Today, nearly 180 year...
Difficult economic times are reducing libraries’ ability to purchase print monographs, and contin... more Difficult economic times are reducing libraries’ ability to purchase print monographs, and continued pressures to provide electronic materials often force libraries to cut their book budgets even more. How are libraries responding to both these forces? The authors report on a survey asking how libraries are budgeting for print monographs, taking into account both approval plans and firm order allocations. The speakers are interested in whether libraries are revising, eliminating, or creating new approval plans, whether changes in approval plans correspond to changes in firm order budgets, and what changes occur in print approval plans as a result of library ebooks acquisitions. Between the worsening economy and increased pressures to provide electronic content, how will libraries change their collection development decisions for print monographs? The authors conclude that approval plans must continue to evolve, and that ebook publishers need to change faster to allow libraries to pu...
Cherokee print was the vehicle for the tribe's national rhetorical strategy, as it contended ... more Cherokee print was the vehicle for the tribe's national rhetorical strategy, as it contended with the United States and Georgia during the Removal Crisis of the late 1820s and 1830s. Cherokee print manifests an ambivalence concerning acculturation, and an attendant class struggle. This paper provides a historical and social framework for judging the place of Cherokee printing within this charged cultural moment, describes the roles, experiences, and interrelationships of the five men at the heart of this print production, and examines the political role of Cherokee printing through their experiences. Samuel Austin Worcester, Elias Boudinot, Isaac Harris, John F. Wheeler, and John Candy played critical parts in the production of tribal print, but are almost unknown, and seldom discussed. Finally, I want to encourage further study of Cherokee printing and its relation to the forces shaping Cherokee identity in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) often spark debate regarding restrictions on access an... more Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) often spark debate regarding restrictions on access and students’ opportunities for later publication. Most other studies have found publishers are in fact willing to work with submissions based on open access ETDs, but these studies have been conducted broadly on scholarly journals across a variety of disciplines rather than focusing specifically on creative writing. Librarians from East Carolina University identified a group of creative writing publishers and surveyed them to determine their attitudes towards manuscript submissions from ETDs, embargoes, and restrictions on access. Survey respondents by and large view open access ETDs as prior publications, although many were still willing to work with authors on an individual basis. The authors discuss the continued importance of offering creative writers options for restricted access and/or embargoes while publishers and creative writers work out the place of ETDs in the publishing chain.
Extracted text; Joint-use libraries have been created to share resources, reduce facilities costs... more Extracted text; Joint-use libraries have been created to share resources, reduce facilities costs, and more efficiently serve patrons. There have been several notable examples in the news. In the summer of 2013, a joint-use facility opened in Virginia Beach, a partnership between the Virginia Beach Public Library and the Tidewater Community College, whose campus houses the facility.2 A decade before that, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library opened in San Jose, merging the San Jose Main Public Library with the San Jose State University Library.3 But did you know that North Carolina has had a joint-use library in Carrboro for some 20 years?
One of the tools collection managers can use to guide the selection and retention of books and jo... more One of the tools collection managers can use to guide the selection and retention of books and journals is citation analysis. Although time-consuming to collect and analyze, citations by library users provide compelling evidence for keeping certain titles or growing collection support for specific subject areas, and may provide a good sense of which materials may be safely weeded. Citation analysis can also give an indication of how well the collection is meeting the needs of the students of the home institution. Research at East Carolina University confirms that the library provides substantial electronic journal coverage and somewhat less satisfactory monograph availability. Future research on the impact of open access is suggested, as well as an examination of the methods dissertation authors are using to access materials.
This article describes early cooperative efforts among North Carolina's Community Colleges to... more This article describes early cooperative efforts among North Carolina's Community Colleges to provide open educational resources for campus programs and encourage their adoption.
Librarians at East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro receive... more Librarians at East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro received a 2-year grant to support a combined alternative textbook project. This project engages in a two-pronged approach to reduce students' textbook costs and increase their academic engagement. One strategy is to award departmental faculty mini-grants to use materials that would have no cost to their students, including OER or library resources. The second strategy is to identify required texts that the library already owns or can purchase as unlimited-user e-books. Benefits to students include reduced costs and an increased opportunity for engagement and academic success.
, holds many treasures within its city limits. One of those treasures is the Archives of the Mora... more , holds many treasures within its city limits. One of those treasures is the Archives of the Moravian Church, Southern Province. The Archives provide a historical record dating back to 1753, documenting the rise of the modern Piedmont from what was the North Carolina frontier. It was in 1753 that the Moravians, a denomination small in numbers but great in importance came to settle this area. The Moravian Records available in these archives offer the "only consecutive historical account" for this part of the State for some of the crucial years in its development. 1 Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is the seat of the Southern Province of the Moravian Church in America. The Northern Province's headquarters are in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Total membership for all Moravian congregations in the United States was about 50,000 in 2000; the Southern Province had 19,764 adherents reporting that year. Of that number, 18,180 lived in North Carolina, and 13,631 of them lived in Forsyth County. 2 With such a large percentage of adherents in the Winston-Salem area, Moravians, in addition to historians of North Carolina, look to the Archives on Church Street in downtown Winston-Salem. Background of the Moravian Church A liturgical Protestant Christian church, the Moravians are also known commonly as the Brethren, and officially as the Unitas Fratrum. The denomination traces its origins to 1457, when a leader known as Brother Gregory organized a community in Moravia, gathered together to live according to principles of the Sermon on the Mount and the example of the Apostles. 3 Brother Gregory and this group, known collectively as the Unitas Fratrum (Unity of the Brethren), had been heavily influenced by the teachings of John Hus, a Czech reformer who was burned at the stake in 1415 at the Council of Constance. 4 Persecution kept the numbers of the church small, and in 1722, the group moved to the Saxon estate owned by Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf. There, the Brethren, by now beginning to be known as Moravians, built the town of Herrnhut, which became a model for later mission settlements. Zinzendorf 's patronage revived the church and energized its first missions, which were to St. Thomas in 1732, Greenland in 1733, South Africa in 1736, and around that same time, to America. 5
The effects of current economic conditions on technical services in public, community college, an... more The effects of current economic conditions on technical services in public, community college, and university libraries.
The 1821 creation of a written syllabary for the Cherokee language by Sequoyah and its use in the... more The 1821 creation of a written syllabary for the Cherokee language by Sequoyah and its use in the Nation’s newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix, are routinely examined within the context of the tribe’s discourse surrounding removal in the 1830s, but scholars often overlook the influence of the missionary Samuel Austin Worcester and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in shaping the parameters of that discourse by arranging the syllabary, typesetting the characters, and establishing the press. This article illuminates these significant historical and technical aspects of Worcester’s influence on the creation of Cherokee print. Worcester’s influence on the Cherokee syllabary is important, given the enduring nature of his influence and the rapid adoption of the written language: within fourteen years of its introduction, and seven years of the first printing, more than half of all households in the Cherokee Nation had a reader of Cherokee. Today, nearly 180 year...
Difficult economic times are reducing libraries’ ability to purchase print monographs, and contin... more Difficult economic times are reducing libraries’ ability to purchase print monographs, and continued pressures to provide electronic materials often force libraries to cut their book budgets even more. How are libraries responding to both these forces? The authors report on a survey asking how libraries are budgeting for print monographs, taking into account both approval plans and firm order allocations. The speakers are interested in whether libraries are revising, eliminating, or creating new approval plans, whether changes in approval plans correspond to changes in firm order budgets, and what changes occur in print approval plans as a result of library ebooks acquisitions. Between the worsening economy and increased pressures to provide electronic content, how will libraries change their collection development decisions for print monographs? The authors conclude that approval plans must continue to evolve, and that ebook publishers need to change faster to allow libraries to pu...
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