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The article presents information about a workshop which was sponsored by the North Carolina Collection at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, to familiarize middle school teachers with the Eastern Carolina Digital History Exhibits and provide lesson plans for the site. Academic librarians are actively digitizing their unique historical records, and, like other digitizers, have always recognized the K-12 community as natural and immediate users of their sites. Digitizers know the value of their materials and believe that they will benefit the classroom. The workshop revealed the need for teachers and librarians to work more closely together in the design and use of new digital history resources. It also revealed the benefits of cooperative efforts.

Objective: Clinical and research usefulness of articles can depend on image quality. This study addressed whether scans of figures in black and white (B&W), grayscale, or color, or portable document format (PDF) to tagged image file format (TIFF) conversions as provided by interlibrary loan or document delivery were viewed as acceptable or useful by radiologists or pathologists. Methods: Residency coordinators selected eighteen figures from studies from radiology, clinical pathology, and anatomic pathology journals. With original PDF controls, each figure was prepared in three or four experimental conditions: PDF conversion to TIFF, and scans from print in B&W, grayscale, and color. Twelve independent observers indicated whether they could identify the features and whether the image quality was acceptable. They also ranked all the experimental conditions of each figure in terms of usefulness. Results: Of 982 assessments of 87 anatomic pathology, 83 clinical pathology, and 77 radiology images, 471 (48%) were unidentifiable. Unidentifiability of originals (4%) and conversions (10%) was low. For scans, unidentifiability ranged from 53% for color, to 74% for grayscale, to 97% for B&W. Of 987 responses about acceptability (n=405), 41% were said to be unacceptable, 97% of B&W, 66% of grayscale, 41% of color, and 1% of conversions. Hypothesized order (original, conversion, color, grayscale, B&W) matched 67% of rankings (n=215). Conclusions: PDF to TIFF conversion provided acceptable content. Color images are rarely useful in grayscale (12%) or B&W (less than 1%). Acceptability of grayscale scans of noncolor originals was 52%. Digital originals are needed for most images. Print images in color or grayscale should be scanned using those modalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Looks at the geomorphic change in the Croatan National Forest in North Carolina's lower coastal plain from 1697 to 1997. Indepth look at the geomorphic changes in the landscape; Examination of the three critical points of geomorphic changes; Information on the similarity of human impact with those of Holocene seal level rise.

The article discusses the development of a health sciences library at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. The article discusses the James E. Creek Learning Resources Center, which is the main library at the school and how it was used as a base to begin growing the health resource collection. Aldo discussed is a partnership between Shaw University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The article presents news from chapters of the Art Libraries Society (ARLIS) of North America as of 1985. The second meeting of the New Jersey chapter was held on March 5, 1985. Members of the Northern Carolina chapter gathered for a program at the University of California. Visits to art museums were included in the Southern California Chapter's program held on October 19, 1985.