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North Carolina's Roadside Eateries: A Traveler's Guide To Local Restaurants, Diners, And Barbecue Joints, Melinda F. Matthews Feb 2017

North Carolina's Roadside Eateries: A Traveler's Guide To Local Restaurants, Diners, And Barbecue Joints, Melinda F. Matthews

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North Carolina’s Roadside Eateries: A Traveler’s Guide to Local Restaurants, Diners, and Barbecue Joints by D.G. Martin. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN: 9781469630144 (pbk.alk. paper) $11.85. 176 p.


Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles Of Cynthiana And Harrison County, Carol Walker Jordan Feb 2017

Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles Of Cynthiana And Harrison County, Carol Walker Jordan

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Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles of Cynthiana and Harrison County by William A. Penn. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8131-6771-8 (cloth); 978-0-8131-6772-5 (epub). $45.00. 400 p.


Censorship: Filtering Content On The Web, Lizabeth Elaine Stem Feb 2017

Censorship: Filtering Content On The Web, Lizabeth Elaine Stem

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The World Wide Web has become a vehicle of free expression for millions of people around the world. It also represents a type of international library with no geographical or physical boundaries, bringing a vast array of information into private homes, schools and businesses. Because the Web allows anyone to post anything at any time, many believe some sort of censorship should be imposed. Censorship of the Web comes in the form of software which filters Web sites, blocking those which publish content deemed unsuitable by those administering the filtering software. Most content filtering software is used on computers in …


News Articles Feb 2017

News Articles

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Recent activities from the Southeastern Library Association, developments from SELA member institutions, and personnel news.


Customizations Of Web-Scale Discovery Tools In Alabama's Public & Independent College And University Libraries: A Longitudinal Study, Harry Nuttall, Hanrong Wang Feb 2017

Customizations Of Web-Scale Discovery Tools In Alabama's Public & Independent College And University Libraries: A Longitudinal Study, Harry Nuttall, Hanrong Wang

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As digital technology developed to a point that electronic searching for information became practical, librarians began a quest for the Holy Grail of a single-search option that had the potential to harvest search results from the entirety of a library’s holdings. Initially it was hoped that federated searching might be this option, but federated searching was found unequal to the task. Response time was slow and could skew relevance rankings (Thompson, 2013). Further, the first generation of federated search engines proved not nearly capable of searching the totality of a library’s holdings. Something more was needed. That something more was …


The Southeastern Librarian V 64, No. 4 (Winter 2017) Complete Issue Feb 2017

The Southeastern Librarian V 64, No. 4 (Winter 2017) Complete Issue

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