2013-14 Annual Report Template
Atkins Library
A. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR
Major accomplishments (including student accomplishments) of unit/department/college during the year reported by
Academic Affairs Goal.
1. To offer a portfolio of educational programs that are forward looking and responsive to the intellectual, cultural,
and economic needs of the region:
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Living Charlotte website launched: http://library.uncc.edu/livingcharlotte
This website is a gateway to the documentation of Charlotte history through the digitization of the
collections in the Library’s Special Collections Department, the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte, and those of the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library.
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Bonnie Cone Exhibit: Spanning the years 1940 to 1965, this exhibit traces Bonnie Cone’s drive and
perseverance as she steered the development of UNC Charlotte from a temporary extension
center, serving the needs of returning GIs, to a full-fledged university. http://bonniecone.uncc.edu/
The library collaborated with a French lecturer from CLAS on an event featuring Piranesi prints
from the library’s Special Collections to help celebrate the Year of French Culture in America.
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Special Collections worked with the Multicultural Resource Center, the Levine Museum of the New
South, and the city’s LGBT community to create a repository of historic photos and documents to
capture the history and progress of the city’s LGBT movement.
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Co-sponsor Personally Speaking Series with the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, featuring four
published professors from the college discussing their most recent book. The series is free and
open to the public.
2. To advance programs of research and scholarship that expand the frontiers of knowledge, including those that
solve problems at the interface of disciplines and leverage discovery for the public benefit:
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Worldshare Management Services (WMS)
The most important project at the Library this year was managing the implementation of WMS.
Once we went into production in July of 2013, we found that the system had many important
problems that required immediate attention. We reacted in two ways:
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Some staff members were re-directed from other projects to WMS
implementation.
We wrote OCLC, the system vendor, to negotiate a new agreement relating to
prioritized access to WMS planners and programmers, and the cancellation of the
invoices we would ordinarily have paid OCLC this fiscal year.
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The result has been phenomenally successful (and free), including significant improvements in all
phases of the software, and the prospect of further improvements in the near future.
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New Collections Purchased with One-time Funding:
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NEW OR OVERHAULED WEB ELEMENTS
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The Library’s home page was redesigned, resulting in improved navigation, increased
usability, and new features.
NEW SERVICES
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Significant efforts have been made this year to provide eBook options for textbook
selection. Licenses have been negotiated to provide unlimited, permanent access to the
titles we purchase. The average cost of these eBooks amortized over 1 year is about 10
cents per title. These new options have been heavily promoted to faculty, and the
number of titles adopted has increased significantly.
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Atkins Library has established an institutional repository, as part of NC DOCKS.
(http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncc/) The Library also created the associated submission
forms, policies and workflows.
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The Library’s new Dataverse Network
(http://guides.library.uncc.edu/content.php?pid=272010&sid=2929233 is available to
publish, share, reference, extract, and analyze research data for our faculty and graduate
students. It facilitates making data available to others: researchers and data authors get
credit; publishers and distributors get credit; affiliated institutions get credit. Each
Dataverse contains studies or collections of studies, and each study contains cataloging
information that describes the data plus the actual data files and complementary files.
FACILITIES
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The Halton Reading Room renovation was completed, providing a beautiful new quiet study
space for students, as well as a state-of-the-art facility for events.
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Print journal discard project continues as a result of increasing access to journal backfiles.
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The First Floor service desks are being redesigned and reconfigured, with a new staffing model
to offer improved patron services.
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A new student study space has been opened on the 10th Floor.
New journal added to http://Journals.uncc.edu :
NHSA DIALOG4
NHSA Dialog: The Research-to-Practice Journal for the Early Childhood Field provides a
quality outlet for research results to the Head Start and broader early childhood community, and
provides a forum for communication between researchers and practitioners. This journal is a
publication of the National Head Start Association (NHSA) and the Center for Educational
Measurement and Evaluation (CEME) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Collection Visualization: The first version of Collection Visualization has been created allowing
Library Patrons to search our physical collections visually by Subject, Author, and Title.
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New Study Connect (https://library.uncc.edu/groupstudy/spaces/ ) function created
allowing students to reserve space to create a study group open to others who are taking the
same course. The new Study Connect feature lets students reserve a group study room for a
specific course or section, and then allows other students to join. Classmates can search for a
reserved space by name, group name, course, or instructor. Or, students can use the "show
all" list to see all the reserved StudyConnect groups and their dedicated topics.
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3. To graduate students prepared for personal success and civic responsibility in the 21st century by offering
challenging degree programs, encouraging community engagement, and integrating the values of liberal
education throughout the undergraduate curriculum:
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The Library has an active and innovative instruction program, delivered in numerous ways,
including modular, web/Moodle based systems.
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Atkins Library is serving as an institutional partner for Project Information Literacy's latest study,
focused on recent college graduates in fast-growing cities like Charlotte. The study is designed to
examine how this group of young adults put information literacy competencies into practice as they
meet their lifelong learning needs for staying competitive and employable in the workplace and
engaging in civic affairs and personal development in life at large. The study begins with telephone
interviews to be conducted in early summer 2014, and will include broader surveys and other
research over the coming 18 months. As an institutional partner we will receive the raw data of our
own students' responses as well as an executive summary of the complete project.
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Berlin Digital Collection Site: In Collaboration with Dr. Werbeck from the Department of Languages
and Culture Studies, a new digital collection site was created that leverages the Neatline plug-in.
This will allow students will to create rich interactive exhibits from their experiences in Germany
using new geospacial software capabilities.
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The library sponsored the 3rd Annual Undergraduate Research Conference (URC), and welcomed
the addition of the Levine Scholars Program and the merging of its Sustainability Conference into
the URC. The URC 2014 was moved from the library to the SAC due to a substantial increase in
participants. In addition to the regular awards, students also competed for Honors College and
Sustainability awards.
4. To integrate at the graduate level quality teaching and mentoring with research to prepare the next generation
of leaders:
5. To respond to the educational needs of a diverse community of learners through innovative programming and
delivery of credit and non-credit programs of study:
6. To promote student achievement and personal development by providing high quality advising, academic
services, curricular enrichment, and international experiences:
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A pilot online information literacy module project was successfully launched in three sections of freshman
seminars in Fall 2013. Students engaged with eight modules embedded within their course Moodle page,
each of which introduced an essential concept for scholarly research at the undergraduate level. Students
also received in-class sessions from the instruction librarians, and the instruction coordinator worked
closely with course instructors and the University College and First Year Writing curriculum teams to help
integrate information literacy concepts throughout the freshman seminar and first-year writing
curriculum. In Fall 2014, a revised set of inquiry modules will be used with all sections of the University
College Freshman Seminar. The Instruction Coordinator and Instruction Librarian are working over the
summer with Seminar instructors to plan activities and assignments that connect the modules to one of
two tracks – one focused on ethical issues in the disciplines, and one on the Common Reading selection.
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Hosted educational activities for 5 days of Open Access (OA) week in October 2013. Organized an Open
Access Symposium as part of this week, featuring internationally renowned experts on the topic. Other
activities for this week included multiple presentations; webinars; distribution of brochures and other OA
handouts; outreach on multiple levels in multiple forums, including faculty departmental and college
meetings.
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Launched Social Media Campaign that increased student engagement by delivery of library news and
information with campus communities using Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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Librarians from Research Services provided the following services to students (Instruction, consultations,
reference):
Number of students
9824 (in-office and classes)
Number of faculty
1303 (in-office)
Number of classes
407
Number of research questions (desk)
3024
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Ethnography Projects:
o Collaboration with University College of London and the Institute of Education, University
of London, doing comparative library ethnography during the month of March. This
Faculty Research Grant funded project has already yielded two days of seminars in the
UK, and will provide (once analysis is complete this summer) research data that we can
use along with ongoing work at UNCC about student behavior around academic work on
and off campus.
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space/collections enhancements:
Revisions to reading room use and access policies
10th floor quiet study space
Planning for UA offsite storage
Continuing attention to library physical spaces, via ethnographic observations and the use
of the new SUMA tool. We have refined the furniture/workspace arrangement on the
ground floor, and have contributed to plans for the new service model on the 1st floor as
well as the workspaces on that level. The ethnography project also helped inform the
decision to configure and open up the new 10th floor study space.
The library’s Digital Scholarship Lab held numerous workshops to discuss the library’s repository,
data management and publishing services, as well as other resources available through the DSL.
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There was a 30% increase in bookings for the Library’s Group Study Rooms over the past year,
and a 25% increase in the number of students making these requests:
2012/2013
2013/2014
% Increase
Bookings: 34,287
Bookings: 44,536
+30%
Patrons: 140,963
Patrons: 176,324
+25%
7. To engage in focused efforts to creatively address university and community needs through internal
collaboration and partnerships with public, private, and non-profit organizations:
Exhibits and outreach
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Piranesi exhibit, Angels in America (partnership with CLAS and Italian Consulate)
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No Roadmap: Integrating the Charlotte Medical Community 1951-1965 (Partnership with
Johnson C Smith University & Levine Museum of the New South
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Harry Golden Marker Unveiling with the Levine Museum of the New South
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Participation in statewide consortium to share metadata with the Digital Public Library of
America
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The library collaborated with a French lecturer from CLAS on an event featuring Piranesi
prints from the library’s Special Collections to help celebrate the Year of French Culture in
America.
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Special Collections worked with the Multicultural Resource Center, the Levine Museum of
the New South, and the city’s LGBT community to create a repository of historic photos
and documents to capture the history and progress of the city’s LGBT movement.
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The library co-sponsors the annual Personally Speaking Series with the College of Liberal
Arts & Sciences, featuring four published professors from the College discussing their
most recent book. Events are free and open to the public.
8. To support the success of faculty and staff through career development opportunities, mentoring, and access to
supportive infrastructure:
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Generous expenditure on professional development, training programs, conference attendance
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Flexible work arrangements in support of staff seeing advanced degrees
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Faculty mentoring program in effect
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Library faculty’s Professional Activities Committee presents forums for discussion of research projects,
professional writing, service work
9. To actively promote diversity among faculty, students, and staff and in the curriculum:
10. To create a flexible, responsive culture that uses effective review and assessment as the basis for I
improvement:
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11. Other:
B. MAJOR NEW ACTION STEPS PLANNED TO ACHIEVE GOALS IN 2010-2015 STRATEGIC PLAN
Describe major new action steps planned (if any) to achieve goals in the 2010-2015 Strategic Plan. (Note: this section
was included in the event that major new action steps became necessary after the 2010-2015 Strategic Plan was
developed. For most units/depts./colleges, this section will be blank.)
C. ANNUAL EVALUATIONS BY UNIT
Briefly describe any annual evaluations conducted by units/departments/colleges to assess outcomes that are not included
in the unit/department/college’s 2010-2015 Strategic Plan (.e.g., scholarly productivity.)
Marcus Bess:
Presentations:
“New Frontiers: Rethinking Library Instruction in Online Learning Spaces,” Metrolina Library Association Annual
Conference (June 12, 2014)
“Expanding Library Instruction Through Digital Learning Objects,” North Carolina Library Association –
Technologies and Trends Round Table Webinar Series (June 19, 2014)
“Beyond One-Shots and Tutorials: Supporting Inquiry Through Online Library Instruction,” Library Instruction West
2014 (July 23-25, 2014)
Grant:
LSTA EZ Innovation Grant ($24,434) to fund the development of 49er Alerts proximity marketing mobile
application to enhance library outreach and promotion (2014)
Professional Meetings/Conference Attendance:
Designs on eLearning Conference (2013)
NCLITe Winter Meeting (2013)
Transfer Students and the Library Workshop at Appalachian State University (2014)
Metrolina Library Association Annual Conference (2014)
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American Library Association Annual Conference (2014)
Library Instruction West Conference (2014)
Amanda Binder:
Presentations and Webinars:
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30-Minute CTL “How Do I” Webinar: Incorporating Streaming Media into Moodle, Fall 2013, UNC Charlotte
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“What I Did Last Year” Lightning Talks on Library Faculty Research, Fall 2013, Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte
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Binder, A., Cox, K., & Morrill, D. (2014, March). Public and Digital History. Roundtable discussion at 26th Annual
Graduate History Forum, UNC Charlotte
Awards/Honors:
2013 ALA Emerging Leader
Professional Service:
Social Media Coordinator and member of Publications Committee for Literatures in English Section of ACRL (a
division of ALA)
Publication:
Author of blog used to communicate library news and ideas to faculty in my departments, and beyond:
http://lib411.wordpress.com/
Denelle Eades:
Selected to participate in the ALA Career Development Facilitator Training Pilot program, ALA National Convention,
Las Vegas, Nevada (2014) June 27 & June 28
Meredith Evans:
Grant:
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Living Charlotte large-scale digitization project, funded with an LSTA grant, Awarded year 2 for $99,625
Professional Service:
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Participant in ARL Strategic Planning
Award:
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Accepted into national library leadership program, Associate Research Libraries Leadership Fellows Program
Christopher Geissler:
Professional Service:
Serve on ArchivesSpace User Advisory Council (UAC).
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Donna Gunter:
Poster Session at UNC Chapel Hill: Answering Genealogy Questions with Little Time, Less Money, and No
Genealogy Expertise (May 8, 2014)
Peggy Hoon:
Overview Activities 2013 (calendar year) Peggy Hoon
• Presentations
-Provided presentations and workshops to individual classes at instructor request (regular presenter at the
Responsible Conduct in Research course as well as others by individual request)
-Guest online speaker on the TEACH Act for an online copyright course offered by the Center for Intellectual
Property at UMUC
• Open Access/Major Events
-Researched, wrote, and presented frequently and in-depth on Open Access and the Open Access initiative on
UNC Charlotte’s campus.
-Developed and executed or participated in execution of Open Access week daily activities, including multiple
presentations, webinars, selection of brochures and other OA handouts; working on outreach on multiple levels in
multiple forums, including faculty departmental and college meetings, the Office of Legal Affairs campus-wide
symposium, as well as manning a table during OA week.
-Participated in the development and execution of all aspects of our two-day OA Symposium, November 4th and
5th, which featured speakers from national publishing organizations, campus faculty involved in OA publishing,
campus units that work with the faculty.
-Chair of ULAC’s Open Access working group
• Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) Collaboration
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Provided regular copyright ownership and author’s rights workshops both spring and fall semester: open to entire
campus community
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Worked extensively with DSL member Somaly Kim on developing, authoring, adjusting, administering and advising
regarding Atkins Library Open Access Institutional Repository policies, ingest forms, and required license for
submitters. Additionally, worked extensively on Open Access Publishing Subvention Fund online application form.
Also, coordinated with our page on NC DOCKS.
Chuck Hamaker:
Publications:
Charles Hamaker. "Coercion" Online Searcher. (May/ June
2014) http://www.infotoday.com/OnlineSearcher/Articles/Searchers-Voice/Coercion-96759.shtm
Chuck Hamaker “The Nemesis Returns” Against the Grain v. 25 no. 5 (November, 2013)
Presentations:
"Negotiating with Vendors" PreConference presentation, Charleston Conference November 6, 2013
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"Serials Resource Management" PreConfrence presentation, Charleston Conference November 6, 2013
Somaly Kim Wu:
Conferences:
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“American Library Association’s Discovering Librarianship”: Presentation at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor
Relations at the 17th Annual Social Justice Career Fair, April 10, 2014. Link to the program:
http://www.ala.org/offices/diversity/imls . As a field recruiter for the American Library Association’s Office of
Diversity & Spectrum Scholarship, spoke with ethnically diverse high school and college students about
librarianship and pursuing a career in librarianship. Have been a recruiter since 2010.
Library Association’s Mid-Winter Luncheon: Participated in a panel entitled “Working with a Diverse Library
Population”. Spoke about her work as a field recruiter for ALA. December 2013.
Betty Ladner
Book Chapter in: Evangeliste, Mary, and Katherine Furlong. June 2014. Letting go of legacy services: library case studies.
Chapter entitled: “A New Way to Think.” (co-authored with Lisa Nickel)
Conference attended:
Southeastern Library Assessment Conference: October 21-22, 2013, Atlanta GA.
Professional Associations:
1. ALA + ACRL
2. NCLA
3. MLA
Donna Lanclos
Publications:
“’I Always Stick with the First Thing that Comes up on Google…’ Where People Go for Information, What They Use,
and Why.” With Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Erin M. Hood. Nov/Dec 2013, EDUCAUSE Review Online.
http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/i-always-stick-first-thing-comes-google-where-people-go-information-whatthey-use-and-why
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/evaluating-services/ (Co-wrote content for InfoKit)
Presentations/Posters:
March 2014 “Spaces, Places and Practices” University College, London and Institute of Education Joint Library
Anthropology Seminar, organizer and presenter with Lesley Pitman (UCL) and Lesley Gourlay (IOE),
March 31, London, UK.
March 2014 “The intersection of the digital and material practices in contemporary library spaces,” with Lesley
Gourlay, SRHE seminar, The Digital and the Material: Mapping Contemporary Student Practices, School
of Research in Higher Education, March 28, London, UK.
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March 2014 “Qualitative’s Treats” invited presentation at the University of Huddersfield, March 14, Huddersfield,
UK.
November 2013 “Embedded and Engaged in Higher Education: Researching Student Entanglements with
Technology,” organizer and presenter with Maura Smale, Mariana Regalado, Lesley Gourlay, Andrew
Asher, and Lori M. Jahnke, American Anthropological Association, November 22, Chicago, IL.
October 2013 “Finding their Way: A Research-Based, Collaborative Approach to Building a Digital Wayfinding
System,” with Bob Price, poster session, EDUCAUSE, October 16, Anaheim, CA.
October 2013 “Meeting the Needs of Digital Visitors and Residents: Developing Engagement with Institutional
Services,” with Lynn S. Connaway and Erin M. Hood, EDUCAUSE, October 16, Anaheim CA.
Podcast:
December 2013 “The Behavior of Finding Information,” podcast by EDUCAUSE, Dec 6, 2013, with
Connaway and Erin M. Hood.
https://soundcloud.com/educause/the-behavior-of-finding
Lynn S.
Workshop:
March 2014 “Visitors and Residents: Understanding Student Behaviours Online,” with David White (Oxford), Chris
Young (Jisc), Lawrie Phipps (Jisc) and Steven Boneham (Jisc). At Jisc Digital Festival, March 12, Birmingham, UK
Grant:
2013 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant, UNC Charlotte, Towards a Comparative
Approach to Learning Spaces: Library Ethnography in London and Charlotte, ($12,200) (Applied for, Not
funded)
Webinars:
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“Best Practices for Library Website User Experience”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvRbm7ATPWo
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Library Policy and Design: an Ethnographic Approach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PjxUnnDM2g&feature=youtu.be
Heather McCullough:
Publications:
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McCullough, Heather and Joy Taylor. "Supporting Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges." EDUCAUSE Review
Online. December 2013. URL: http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/supporting-innovation-challenges-andopportunities
McCullough, Heather. “Developing Digital Scholarship Services on a Shoestring: Facilities, events, tools, and
projects.” College & Research Libraries News. 75.4 (April 2014): 187-190. URL:
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http://crln.acrl.org/content/75/4/187.full
EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research White Paper by the Research Data Management Group on "Research
Data Storage: Framework for Success." One of several authors. Forthcoming May 2014.
Walker, Judy and Heather McCullough. Chapter in Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for
Subject Specialists. ALA/ACRL Publisher. Chapter accepted.
Kim Wu, Somaly and Heather McCullough. “E-pubs: Development of publishing services at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte.” Special Issue on the Library as Publisher for OCLC Systems and Services: International Digital
Library Perspectives. Article accepted.
Walker, Judy and Heather McCullough. Chapter in Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for
Subject Specialists. ALA/ACRL Publisher. Chapter accepted.
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos:
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McCullough, Heather. "Interview: Heather McCullough, Head of Digital Scholarship at UNC." Interview by Marilu
Goodyear. Audio blog post. EDUCAUSE Review Online. Ed. Gerry Bayne. EDUCAUSE, 21 May 2014. Web. 23 May
2014. <http://educause.informz.net/InformzDataService/OnlineVersion/Ind/bWFpbGluZ0luc3RhbmNlSWQ9NDAzO
Tk2MCZzdWJzY3JpYmVySWQ9MTAwMDAxOTc2Mw== >.
EasyBib Webinar Somaly Kim Wu: “Best Practices for Library Website User Experience”, April 16 th.Recording is
available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvRbm7ATPWo
DSL YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/digitalscholarship/ Published several new DSL and Digital
Humanities videos that are included in the university YouTube channel.
Workshops, Working Group, Committees:
 Digital Scholarship Lab participated in Duraspace eScience Institute, a semester-long program with the intended
outcome being to prepare participants with tools and information in order that they may develop a strategic agenda
for their institution’s approach to e-science. Once the course is over the resulting strategic agenda can then be used
to help institutions develop a strategic plan around e-science. http://duraspace.org/esi-course-description
 CNI Digital Scholarship Center: UNC Charlotte was one of 27 North American Universities asked to participate:
Heather McCollough & Bob Price
 EDUCAUSE ECAR Research Data Management Working Group, Heather McCollough
 IT Master Planning Executive Steering Committee, and Co-Lead for multiple initiatives, Bob Price
 IT Security Assessment, Bob Price
 IT Governance & Client Facing Technologies Co-Chair, Bob Price
 Library Publishing Coalition: http://www.educopia.org/programs/lpc , Somaly3 Kim Wu
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Search Committee Member for: AVC Client Engagement, Executive Director Technology College of Arts &
Architecture, IT Analyst College of Arts & Architecture; Bob Price
 Interviewed prospective candidates for: Communication Studies, German, English, and History; Heather
McCollough
 Facilitating visiting US Department of State professional fellow Taf Makura's visit: http://tinyurl.com/taf-uncc
Grants:
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LSTA EZ Innovation Grant: 49er Alerts: Library Mobile Application to Facilitate Information Discovery. Grant
amount is $24, 434. Marcus Bess, Bob Price, and Somaly Kim Wu
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Heather McCullough co-authored NEH Digital Humanities Grant w/ Ogundiran (not funded but possible for other
grants)
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Seminars & Brown Bags:
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Hosted GIS institute w/ CLAS faculty, fall 2013
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Co-host Digital Humanities Brown Bags with CLAS: http://clas-pages.uncc.edu/dast/dast-brown-bags/
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Partnered with Project Mosaic to offer data workshops, including overview of Data Repository
(https://projectmosaic.uncc.edu/calendar/2014-02-12/overview-unc-charlotte-data-repository) and
Navigating Census Data Sets (https://projectmosaic.uncc.edu/calendar/2014-03-11/navigating-censusdata-sets)
Conferences:
Invited Keynote Presentation: “Supporting Innovation: Opportunities for Collaboration.” University of Alabama System
Scholars’ Institute: Teaching, Research, and Service: United Through Technology. Tuscaloosa, AL. May 2014. URL:
http://uasystem.ua.edu/ua-system-office/academic-and-student-affairs/ua-system-scholars-institute/
Workshops:
Participated in Duraspace eScience Institute, a semester-long program with the intended outcome being to prepare
participants with tools and information in order that they may develop a strategic agenda for their institution’s
approach to e-science. Once the course is over the resulting strategic agenda can then be used to help institutions
develop a strategic plan around e-science.
Professional Committees and Service:
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EDUCAUSE Senior IT Leadership Roundtable, Council Member, 2014-present
EDUCAUSE ECAR Research Data Management Working Group, 2013-present
EDUCAUSE Career Counselor Committee, 2013-present
EDUCAUSE New IT Manager Faculty Member (in training), 2013-present
BRIDGES Academic Leadership Program for UNC System, Board Member, 2012-present
Facilitating visiting US Department of State professional fellow Taf Makura's visit: http://tinyurl.com/taf-uncc
Joseph Nicholson:
Publication:
Collecting, curating, and researching writers’ libraries: a handbook. Edited by Richard W. Oram with Joseph
Nicholson. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442234987)
Presentations:
Presentations for library faculty and staff about new cataloging concepts and standards (FRBR/RDA) and linked
data
Melynda Ozan:
Presentation:
“From Clinic to Classroom: Challenges in Transitioning From a Hospital Library to an Academic Library”
Presentation and panel discussion at the Association of North Carolina Health and Science Librarians (ANCHASL)
2014 Spring Meeting, April 25, 2014, Wilmington, NC.
Other Scholarly Activities:
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Hosting the North Carolina Library Instruction Technology (NC-LITe) group’s Spring meeting, May 28, 2014.
Dawn Schmitz:
Grant:
Living Charlotte large-scale digitization project, funded with an LSTA grant, Awarded year 2 for $99,625
Scholarly Activities:
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Strategic Thinking and Design Research Team, Association of Research Libraries.
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As part of a Mellon-funded project, served on a commissioned team of four researchers conducting an analysis of
ARL libraries’ planning documents and interviewing key players in major academic library collaborations to learn
what makes for successful ventures such as HathiTrust, DuraSpace and Scholars Portal.
Professional Service:
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Society of American Archivists Dictionary Working Group, member of a team that is writing the new Dictionary of
Archives Terminology.
Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellowship in Data Curation for Early Modern Studies,
initial reviewer of applicants.
Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, guest speaker for online session
on archival practice.
Dance Heritage Coalition, Dance Preservation and Digitization Project Tech Summit at UCLA, invited observer and
recorder, wrote an overview of the summit proceedings to advise the DHC’s Board of Directors.
Participant in ARL Strategic Planning
Melanie Sorrell:
Presentation:
Sorrell, M. & Hoon P. Change your approach to faculty collaboration. June 12, 2014 at the Metrolina Library
Association conference;
Charlotte, NC.
Publilcation:
Yan S., Sorrell M., Berman Z. (2014) Functional interplay between ATM/ATR-mediated DNA damage response and
DNA repair pathways in oxidative stress. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. (Accepted for Publication)
Committee Service:
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Association of North Carolina Health and Science Libraries (ANCHASL) Continuing Education committee to plan for
the spring meeting
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North Carolina Library Association (NCLA) Website Committee
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Atkins Library Professional Activities Committee
Stanley Wilder:
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The end of lower skill employment in libraries. Library Journal. June 24, 2013
A reconsideration of information literacy. Communications in information literacy v7n2, 2013
Analyzing Age and Race/Ethnicity Demographics webcast. http://goo.gl/2P0uBH
Elected President Elect, Association of SouthEastern Research Libraries
Michael Winecoff
Conferences attended:
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NCLA – October 2013
Charleston Conference – November 2013
ALA Midwinter – January 2014
WMS Southeast Regional Users Gathering in March at Davidson College – March 2014
ALA Annual – June 2014
Professional Appointments/Offices:
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Member, 2014 Southeast WMS Users Group Meeting Planning Committee
Co-Chair, Technical Services Workflow Efficiency Interest Group of ALA
Presentations
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Using MarcEdit to find MARC Problems – ALA Midwinter – January 2014
Making the Big Move: Moving to Cloud-Based OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services (WMS) – Charleston
Conference – November 2013
Discovering Outlook – Atkins Library – March 2014
D. EXAMPLES OF DATA-BASED IMPROVEMENTS DURING THE YEAR
Describe 3 examples of how the unit/department/college has used assessment data for the purpose of improvement during
the year.
1.
Collected usage and cost data on new e-book packages: projected 120,000 eBook uses in FY14, compared to
150,000 print book circulations in FY13, evidence of phenomenal success of scholarly eBooks. Ebook purchases
will continue to be a focus of collection development efforts. Also collected usage and cost data relating to course
adoption textbooks. Significant efforts have been made this year to provide eBook options for textbook selection.
Licenses have been negotiated to provide unlimited, permanent access to the titles we purchase. The average
cost of these eBooks amortized over 1 year is about 10 cents per title. These new options have been heavily
promoted to faculty, and the number of titles adopted has increased significantly.
2.
The physical spaces of the library continue to be assessed via the ethnography project, using both immersive
observations by a graduate student and the SUMA tool (http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/spaceassesstool).
Results from these methods have informed decisions about space configurations throughout the library. Examples
include:
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The new 10th floor study space was opened in response to identified student needs.
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More furniture has been added to the ground floor to meet the need for more tables and places to sit.
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A renovation of the 1st floor has been planned, using input from ethnographic studies as well as staff
feedback.
The MISO (Measuring Information Service Outcomes) Survey was administered in the Spring 2013 semester to 4
constituent groups: Faculty, Staff, Undergraduate Students, and Graduate Students. The survey is designed to
measure frequency of use, importance, and satisfaction with both Library and IT services. Results of library
services from the survey include:
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Top focus for Faculty, Staff and Graduate students included the Library Search System, Library Databases,
and eBooks.
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Undergraduates had a strong focus on library space needs, such as quiet and group study spaces.
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All constituent groups found the Circulation and Reference staffs to be exceptional, with a more than 95%
satisfaction rate.
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Overall, UNC Charlotte’s Library services for faculty were rated higher than the remaining MISO cohort on
nearly all measures.
E. ASSESSMENT OF EVALUATION METHODS
Comment on the strengths and weaknesses of unit/department/college’s assessment methods and describe plans (if any)
to strengthen outcomes assessment during the coming year.
REQUIRED ATTACHMENTS TO 2013-14 ANNUAL REPORT
1.
ANNUAL PROGRESS ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES FOR 2010-2015 STRATEGIC PLAN
GOALS: After completing sections III I. and III J. of your 2010-2015 Strategic Plan (i.e., the annual report section of
the strategic plan template), attach the entire 2010-2015 Strategic Plan to the annual report.
2.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT DATA: Attach a 2013-14 Student Learning Outcomes Assessment
Plan and Report for each undergraduate and graduate degree program and certificate program, stand alone minor, and
distance education program offered online only by each department. Colleges that do not submit the required
Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Plans and Reports will be contacted by the Office of Academic
Affairs.
3.
(FOR DEANS AND ASSOCIATE PROVOSTS ONLY) MEMORANDUMS TO DEPARTMENT AND UNIT HEADS:
Deans and associate provosts are to attach copies of their written feedback to department and unit heads on the status
of outcomes assessment in the department or unit, and identifying any areas meriting priority attention in the coming
year.
4.
(ONLY APPLICABLE IF ATTACHED) INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS REPORT ASSESSMENT FINDINGS:
Attach the 2013-14 Institutional Effectiveness Report template with assessment findings. This report includes
assessment findings of units that directly support the institutional mission and goals.
5.
(FOR DEANS AND ASSOCIATE PROVOSTS ONLY) OPTIONAL STRATEGIC PLAN SCORECARD EVALUATIONS
Attach the optional 2013-14 Strategic Plan Scorecard evaluation of the annual report. The purpose of this self-evaluation
is to strengthen the quality of the annual reports produced by each unit and to produce annual reports that have a longterm impact on successful attainment of goals.
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