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Carr, Patrick L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation analyzes how North Carolina State University's (NCSU) James B. Hunt Jr. Library extends the ways in which the information architectures of academic research libraries can function as a technology, as discourse, and as rhetoric. The starting point for the analysis is the libraries of antiquity, which functioned technologically as…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Library Automation, Library Development
Ebright, Wanda K. W. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this dissertation is to illuminate the missing voices of historically black college and university dance programs in the national discussion on the history and development of dance in American higher education. The methodology included the selection of five subject schools that are historically black colleges and universities…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Black Colleges, Web Sites, College Libraries
Morgan, Chad Henderson – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation examines the sources of job satisfaction among 1,833 library and information science (LIS) master's program graduates in North Carolina from 1964-2009. Only respondents who identified themselves as librarians were included in the analysis. The study first examined the effects of traditional work-related variables such as income,…
Descriptors: Library Science, Job Satisfaction, Information Science, Masters Programs
Niu, Xi – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Since the adoption of faceted search in a small number of academic libraries in 2006, faceted library catalogs have gained popularity in many academic and public libraries. This dissertation seeks to understand whether faceted search improves the interactions between searchers and library catalogs and to understand ways that facets are used in…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Technology, Design Requirements, Accuracy
Strecker, Beth L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of academic librarians on two topics: the delivery of services to students and faculty in a time of rapid technological changes and an organizational structure appropriate for delivering services to students in a time of rapid technological changes. Several researchers agree that to…
Descriptors: Librarians, Academic Libraries, Attitudes, Teamwork
Baldwin, Etta M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative study examined the perceptions of the school library media specialists and teachers in middle schools in two school districts located in North Carolina. The study investigated the flexible access and school collaboration aspects of the IMPACT grant from the North Carolina Department of Education. The results of the study derived…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Middle Schools, Librarians, Middle School Teachers