The North Carolina Folk Festival is a nonprofit organization that honors, celebrates, and shares the meaningful ways communities express their creativity and cultural traditions through music, dance, food, crafts and other folk arts to enhance appreciation of diverse traditions and contribute to community vibrancy and inclusivity. Their signature annual event, the NC Folk Fest, takes place each September and features…
Category: Terry Brandsma
Modernized Interface of University Libraries’ Catalog Provides a New Experience for Users
In our rapidly changing educational environment, academic libraries are continually looking for tools that shine a light on their vital contributions toward the success of their users and their institutions. To entice, excite and maintain those users, library services and collections need to be familiar, available on-demand, and beneficial to them. In the case of…
Terry Brandsma Recognized as a Top Contributor to OCLC’s Community Center
Terry Brandsma, information technology librarian and associate professor in the Electronic Resources and Information Technologies (ERIT) Department for University Libraries, has been recognized as a top contributor to OCLC’s Community Center. The value expressed by these top community contributors, like Brandsma, is only possible thanks to everyone who has asked or answered a question, submitted…
OCLC Celebrates 50 Years of Innovative Technology and Research
The Online Computer Library Center, Inc., also known as OCLC, is a global library cooperative that provides shared technology services, original research and community programs for its membership and the library community at large. Librarians, technologists, researchers and learners came together as OCLC to make information more accessible for users. This collective environment also created…
