Library COLUMNS January 2006 Vol. 4 No. 23
Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard Pitts to Speak at UNCG Friends of the Library Dinner March 20
Leonard Pitts, Jr. – columnist, The dinner will be held in Cone Ballroom in Elliott Univer‐ author, and Pulitzer Prize sity Center. Tickets are now on sale through the University winner – will headline the Box Office. The price is $35 for members and $45 for non‐ annual Friends of the Library members. Tickets for the presentation only are available dinner March 20. for $10. Parking is available in the Walker Avenue Parking Deck. Pitts, who won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004, Special thanks to The News and Record , the presenting spon‐ started his career as a former sor for the event. writer for Casey Kasemʹs ra‐ dio program ʺAmerican Top UNCG Friends of the Library Dinner 40.ʺ The Miami Herald hired With Leonard Pitts, Jr. him in 1991 as a pop music critic, but by 1994 he was Monday, March 20, 2006 writing about race and cur‐ 6 p.m. Program begins at 8 p.m. rent affairs in his own column in the Cone Ballroom in Elliott University which was syndicated nationally. His 1999 book Becoming Center on the UNCG campus. Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood was a bestseller. Leonard Pitts was born and raised in Southern California. Tickets for the reception, dinner and pro- Since 1995, he has lived in Bowie, Maryland, a suburb of gram are $35 for members and $45 for non- Washington, D.C., with his wife and five children. members. Tickets for the presentation only are $10. After the September 11, 2001 attack on New York and Washington, DC, Pittʹs Herald column, headlined ʺWeʹll Go Tickets now on sale through the University Forward From This Moment,ʺ was widely circulated on the Box Office at 336-334-4849 or (with addi- Internet and frequently quoted in the press. In the column, tional service fees) online at
Pitt bluntly expressed his anger, defiance, and resolve to an http://boxoffice.uncg.edu/ unnamed evil terrorist: ʺYou monster. You beast. You un‐ speakable bastard.ʺ “One of the most emotionally engaging columnists writing today,” Leonard Pitts “offers candid opinions on culture, race, families, relationships, and the politics of the human condition.” ‐ Tribune Media Services
His column is syndicated nationwide. … a few words from the University Librarian students and faculty. Lots of exciting changes are taking place in the University Of course, our newly combined circulation and reserves Libraries these days. Anyone desk has been very busy. Consolidation of these services who enters Jackson Library again allows us to provide better service to our users. will notice the changes im‐ Physically, this new space has opened up our lobby area mediately. New shelving has and will make an attractive new entranceway to the been acquired for our current library once the EUC/Library Connector is opened. periodicals reading area. The Please give our new self‐service check out machine a sleek new shelving area is try! Much like you see in the supermarkets, book check‐ now open so that our users out can now be done on your own without needing to can retrieve current journals stop at the circulation desk. Try it one time, and you’ll without needing to request be hooked! them through the service desk. We believe that this eas‐ Jackson Library is continuing to look at ways of making ier access to current journals will meet our users’ needs our building more attractive and inviting to our stu‐ more efficiently. New and more attractive shelving and dents. This year, we offered extended hours during furniture has also been acquired for newspapers, cur‐ exam time to give students the opportunity of using our rent literature, our audio books and popular paper‐ collections in the building until 2:00 a.m. in a quiet set‐ backs. Display cases will be spread throughout the first ting or with groups of study partners. We served free floor giving us the opportunity to display some of our coffee during these hours and gave away new UNCG unique collections from the Hodges Special Collections Libraries mugs advertising our relatively new but quite and Archives. We hope to purchase comfortable new successful Instant Messaging reference service. Our seating and tables for the current periodicals room soon students have responded very favorably. in order to provide for a more inviting space for our Rosann Bazirjian
Jackson Library Offers Package of Extended Services During Exams
Extended Hours, Free Coffee/Tea and Give-away Mugs Promote New Instant Messaging Service
Exams. Need a little extra time? Need FREE cof‐ remained open on extended hours as well. fee? With those words, the University Libraries The coffee and mugs were a big hit with students, introduced popular and eased the way new services for stu‐ through late nights of dents studying for ex‐ study. Undergraduate ams last semester. Music major John Hew‐ Beginning on Reading itt remarked, ʺThe cof‐ Day and continuing on fee and tea during the the nights before ex‐ exam period was a ams, the free coffee great idea. It definitely was available begin‐ made studying more ning at 7:30 p.m. while enjoyable and produc‐ it lasted, or until shortly before closing at 2 a.m. tive. Hopefully the library will provide this at the Students could also pick up free coffee mugs pro‐ end of every semester!ʺ Interim Associate Director moting the Library’s new instant messaging ser‐ Kathy Crowe agrees, and says that the coffee and vice. While the Library had for many years ex‐ tea will definitely continue. For at least another tended hours during exams, the 2 a.m. closing rep‐ semester, the extended hours during exams will resented even a further extension, and it is the first continue also. Continuance beyond the spring will time that free coffee has been offered, courtesy of depend on the number of people who visit the li‐ the UNCG Friends of the Library. The SuperLab braries during the extended hours.
2 EUC/Jackson Library Connector Set to Open Dedication is January 30 at Noon
The much‐awaited connector between the Elliott University Center and Jackson Library is near completion and will be dedicated by Chancellor Patricia Sullivan at a ceremony on January 30, 2006. The project provides an enclosed connection linking two of the most fre‐ quently‐visited buildings on campus. It will provide much‐improved access to Jackson Library, and a second major point of entry into the building. First floor services have been renovated and reconfigured Architect’s Drawing of Connector (courtesy of BJAC, Brown Jurkowski Architectural Collaborative) to take best advantage of the new entrance.
Loving Lady Chatterley Exhibit Opens February 14 UNCG Professor is Collector of D.H. Lawrence Materials
The English modernist writer D. H. Lawrence pub‐ movie versions, lished Lady Chatterley’s Lover, his last full‐scale not to mention a novel, in 1928. This story of the illicit love affair wide array of between Lady Constance Chatterley and her hus‐ parodies and se‐ band’s gamekeeper became one of the most notable quels. Lady Chat‐ and notorious books of the 20th century. Lawrence, terley’s Lover, Law‐ fed up with the censorship and bowdlerization he rence’s best‐ had suffered throughout his career, shattered liter‐ known work, has ary taboos in Lady Chatterley. The book is the first long since taken mainstream English novel to include explicit de‐ on iconic status. scriptions of sexual intercourse, and in the bargain From February 14 the gamekeeper uses Anglo‐Saxon four‐letter through April 28 words. Few people realize that in Lady Chatterley, the Hodges Read‐ Lawrence, beleaguered and close to death himself, ing Room will fea‐ places his faith not only in the revitalizing power ture a special ex‐ of sexuality but also in the redemptive force of love hibit titled and tenderness. The novel also offers a trenchant “Loving Lady criticism of modern industrial society. Chatterley: Selections from the D. H. Lawrence Because of Lady Chatterley’s sexual content and Collection of Keith Cushman.” Keith Cushman is a naughty words, Lawrence had the book privately professor in the Department of English. This color‐ printed in Florence. This prevented him from be‐ ful, diverse exhibit will include 1) first editions; 2) ing able to obtain copyright. As a result he had to early unexpurgated editions published in Europe contend with many pirated editions before his and Japan; 3) separate printings of Lawrence’s es‐ early death in 1930. The unexpurgated text of Lady says about the novel; 4) first editions of the first Chatterley’s Lover could not be sold legally in either and second manuscript versions of the novel; 5) the United States or England until landmark legal 1940s and 50s pulp paperbacks of the expurgated decisions–in 1959 in America, in 1960 in Britain– text; 6) translations; 7) parodies, sequels, and declared that the book was not obscene. dramatizations; 8) books about the novel; 9) mov‐ ies; 10) movie posters and other movie memora‐ Lady Chatterley seems tame enough by contempo‐ bilia; 11) ephemera and miscellaneous items. rary standards, but after all these decades the book’s scent of pornography (or at least erotica) Jackson Library is proud to be able to mount this still prevails. The novel has generated numerous unique, eye‐opening exhibit.
3 Cushmans Donate Collection of Books to University Libraries
Collection of Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Mythology Received
Librarian and educator Jerry Cushman has been a book collector for most of his 91 years. Born Sam‐ uel Sivithlopky in Chicago shortly before the out‐ break of World War I, he was adopted as a toddler and his name was changed to Samuel Jerome Cushman. After growing up in Missouri and serv‐ ing in World War II, he became the public librarian in Salina, Kansas. During his 15 years in Salina, he became known for his storytelling in elementary schools and for the cultural programming that he offered at the library and encouraged elsewhere in the community. During his fifteen years in Kansas, and later as the director of the public library sys‐ Jerry Cushman tem in New fields of folklore, fairy tales, and mythology. Orleans Cushman’s son, Professor Keith Cushman of the and as a English Department at UNC Greensboro, arranged senior lec‐ for the donation of this collection to the University turer at the Libraries at UNCG. Other parts of his diverse col‐ UCLA Li‐ lections have gone to Chapman University and the brary University of Michigan. When the time came re‐ School and cently to break up the collections that his father the Depart‐ had created, Professor Cushman moved gener‐ ment of ously to bring the books to UNCG, continuing his English, he father’s lifelong ambition to bring people closer to acquired books. Library Assistant Director for Collections most of the and Technical Services Sha Li Zhang notes that books that students, faculty, and other users of the University comprised Libraries will benefit from these materials in their his profes‐ pursuit of knowledge for years to come. sional collection of more than 1200 titles in the
Professor Keith Cushman writes of his father:
Jerry Cushman was never a systematic book collector. Although he loved literature, he never collected all the works of a single author. Although he loved books, he never collected all the titles of a single fine press. He was never tempted to become a “completist.”
Instead he had book collections of more subjects and categories than you could count. This meant that he could find books to buy in any second‐hand bookstore anywhere in the United States. He was constitutionally incapable of passing a used bookstore without first going inside to browse and buy. If you happened to be in a bookstore with Jerry Cushman when he was buying books, you needed to have a lot of free time. He brought great joy, pas‐ sion, and knowledge to his book‐buying, along with boundless curiosity. What fun he had with so many different collections to add to. Indeed the book collections overflowed his house in the Los Angeles suburbs and filled the two‐car garage in neat library‐like order.
4 Paintings by UNCG Alumnus Decorate Newly Renovated Reading Room on First Floor of Jackson Library
Andy Martin, print making from Bob Gerhart and John Maggio, and many hours of non‐ credit life drawing with Walter Barker. He went to work as a picture framer after college and started to teach picture framing and later art classes for the then Guilford Technical Institute, now Guilford Techni‐ David Thomas ‘77 cal Community Col‐ lege. He taught painting in oil and acrylic, pastels, pottery, and art history in the continuing education
curriculum.
Thomas recalls his relationships with the art fac‐ ulty at UNCG with great fondness. He founded the Artery Gallery in August of 1983 and has had the honor of framing works by many of his UNCG The recently renovated Current Periodicals Read‐ Professors, including Walter Barker, Andrew Mar‐ ing Room on the first floor of Jackson Library has tin, Bob Gerhart, and John Maggio. been enhanced with the gift and loan of a number of paintings by UNCG alumnus David R. Thomas Beginning February 17, the exhibit may be viewed ( ‘77). Included in the exhibit, scheduled to open whenever Jackson Library is open through August February 17, are abstract oil paintings and pastels 15, 2006. of Anna Zheleznyakova with her students of the Russian Ballet. The exhibition is presented in honor of Annaʹs mother, Ann Marie Fela (1926‐2005). Thomas is donating the original pastel “Ballerina Anna Zheleznyakova” of his poster announcing her 2004 appearance at the Carolina Theatre.
Thomas grew up in Newark, Delaware and attended Newark High School. His family is from Virginia and the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, where he spent many sum‐ mers. After attending Brevard College, he entered UNC‐G in 1975 and graduated with the Class of 1977. He studied sculpture with Peter Agostini, took classes in painting from
5 University Libraries Form Institutional Repository Taskforce By Sha Li Zhang, Assistant Director of Collections and Technical Services
repository program at the UNCG. The taskforce The University Libraries formed an Institutional members include: Dr. Gene Rogers (Dept. of Reli‐ Repository Taskforce in fall 2005. An institutional gious Studies, College of Arts & Sciences); Dr. Nir repository (IR) is an institutional‐based program Kshetri (Business Administration, Bryan School); developed in response to the accelerated changes Mary Jane Conger (Cataloging); Steve Cramer in scholarly communication such as the dramatic (Reference and Instructional Services); Lea Lein‐ increase in journal prices. IRs facilitate the dis‐ inger (Reference and Instructional Services); Cat semination and sharing of the scholarly output of McDowell (Electronic Resources and Information our faculty, and provide faculty with the long‐term Technology); Scott Rice (Electronic Resources and storage of research data and publications. The Li‐ Information Technology); and Anders Selhorst brary’s IR Taskforce members are becoming famil‐ (Special Collections/University Archives). Sha Li iar with the framework of IR and the major IR is‐ Zhang, Assistant Director for Collections and Tech‐ sues, developing goals and strategies, and making nical Services, serves as the taskforce convener. recommendations on establishing an institutional
Instant Messaging
The University Libraries have unveiled a new service: Users with AIM, Yahoo and MSN instant messaging I(nstant) M(essage) a UNCGLIBRARIAN! are able to add a reference librarian to their buddy
lists. When the librarian is logged in, the user can IM The Library has offered online reference service for a them and ask a question. This new service will be number of years now. Weʹve decided to broaden the available Monday‐Thursday, 9:30 a.m. ‐ 10 p.m., add‐ appeal of this service by adding instant messaging ing 20 hours a week to our online reference coverage.
software to the mix. This will make online reference service even more convenient and user‐friendly for To IM us, add uncglibrarian to your buddy list in our patrons. AIM or Yahoo, or [email protected] in
MSN. We look forward to chatting with you!
Friends of the Library Book Discussion Group Schedule, Spring 2006
Monday, January 23, 2006 7:00 p.m. Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy, by Carlos Eire Discussion Leader: Dr. Mark Smith‐Soto, Professor of Romance Languages
Monday, March 27, 2006 7:00 p.m. Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson Discussion Leader: Dr. Henry Levinson, Professor of Religious Studies
All sessions in Hodges Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Jackson Library Call 256‐0112 for information or register at http://library.uncg.edu/fol/register/
6 LIS/University Libraries Lecture Series Draws Leaders in the Profession to UNCG
Syracuse’s R. David Lankes to Speak February 10
University’s School of Information Studies, will speak about Customer Service in Libraries in the Alexander Room of the Elliott University Center. The IIS at Syracuse houses several high profile re‐ search efforts including the Educatorʹs Reference Desk and several projects related to the NSFʹs Na‐ tional Science Digital Library (NSDL).
Lankes received his BFA (Multimedia Design), MS in Telecommunications and Ph.D. from Syracuse University. Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on L-R: University Librarian Rosann Bazirjian, Barry Information & Technology from 1998‐2003 and co‐ Miller, Sarah Michalak, and Gerald Holmes founder of the award winning AskERIC project in 1992, . Lankes founded the Virtual Reference Desk Leading figures in the world of library and infor‐ project that is building a national network of exper‐ mation science have been making visits to UNCG tise for education. Lankes was also one of the archi‐ in recent months to participate in the ongoing LIS/ tects of GEM, a standards‐based system for de‐ University Libraries Speaker Series. The Series, scribing and finding educational materials on the which is jointly funded by the LIS Department and Internet. Both GEM and VRD were part of the U.S. University Libraries, was initiated by University Department of Educationʹs Digital Library Initia‐ Librarian Rosann Bazirjian to bring lectures and tive. seminars regarding librarianship to UNCG. Open to librarians, LIS faculty, and LIS graduate stu‐ Lankes’ research is in education information and dents, the Series is intended to foster greater un‐ digital reference services. He has authored, co‐ derstanding and discussion of the issues the library authored or edited eight books, and has written profession is facing in today’s society. numerous book chapters and journal articles on the Internet and digital reference. He has been a visit‐ On October 17, Sarah Michalak, University Librar‐ ing scholar to Harvardʹs Graduate School of Educa‐ ian and Associate Provost for University Libraries tion and a visiting fellow at the National Library of at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Canada. He speaks and consults nationally on spoke about “The Scholarly Work of Digital Li‐ Internet issues in education, libraries and business. braries” to an audience of approximately seventy‐ He has worked closely with the National Library of five. Her presentation may be found on the web Education, Library of Congress, Microsoft, the page cited below. Michalak was previously direc‐ American Library Association, AT&T, OCLC, tor of the University of Utahʹs J. Willard Marriott NEA, the White House Office of Science and Tech‐ Library. Michalak received her M.L.S. from the nology Policy, MCI WorldCom and more. University of California at Los Angeles and has served on the boards of the Association of Research Libraries and the Library Administration and Man‐ agement Association. She has been active in the More information on the Speaker Series, includ‐ American Library Association, the Association of ing a link to past events and some presentations, College and Research Libraries, and the Scholarly can be obtained at a website originally developed Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. by former LIS student and Jackson Library em‐ On Friday, February 10 at 2:00 p.m. , R. David ployee Tricia Juettemeyer: Lankes, Director of the Information Institute of http://library.uncg.edu/speaker_series/ Syracuse (IIS) and Associate Professor at Syracuse
7 F.I.R.S.T. Teaching Resource Center Collection Cataloged Finding it - a Research Skills Tutorial Thanks to the efforts of the Catalog Department, more than Jackson Library announces a new, ADA‐compliant 9000 items in the Teaching Resource Center’s collection are now cataloged and searchable through the Library’s cata‐ revised edition of its research skills tutorial, found at log. The result: more use of Center materials by the stu‐ http://library.uncg.edu/depts/ref/tutorial/. dents, faculty and staff of UNCG, as well as area teachers. The tutorial is web‐based and designed for first‐year Teaching Resources Center Director Karen Gavigan is students and others who are new to UNCG and pleased with the enhanced access the cataloging provides.
The University Libraries or need to brush up on their Library Technical Assistant Cindy Slater and graduate research skills. student Mi Ree Ku cataloged a large backlog of materials ranging from young adult fiction and easy books for young After completing this tutorial one should children to videos, CDs and other materials for teachers and • be able to prepare for a research project; parents of young children. With the materials now search‐ • choose the right information tool or tools for the able on the Library’s new SIRSI catalog system, Gavigan project; compose and revise effective search strategies; has noted a significant increase in calls, visits and requests • search for materials in the Librariesʹ online cata‐ for materials. The reporting capabilities of the system also log by author, title and keyword; allow her to see what materials are being used, and what • search for magazine, journal and newspaper arti‐ other kinds of materials are needed to strengthen the collec‐ tion. She is grateful to Slater and Ku, as well as to Informa‐ cles in a general online periodical database; tion Technology Librarian Terry Brandsma and Reference • search for information on the internet using a Librarian Nancy Ryckman. Ryckman serves on the TRC search engine and an internet directory; Advisory Committee and helped Gavigan arrange for the • integrate research into writing skillfully and re‐ materials to be cataloged. sponsibly; and Gavigan says of the Library’s staff, “I can’t say enough • cite sources in APA or MLA style using simple about what a great job they have done for us. examples.
Star Spangled Girls Highlights Women Veterans Historical Project Annual Luncheon
The Women Veterans Historical Project celebrated Star‐Spangled Girls, performed by the Touring its 8th annual luncheon on Saturday, November 5, Theater Ensemble of North Carolina, premiered 2005. More than 120 veterans and guests attended the following week in the EUC Auditorium and the lunch, which was held in the Cone Ballroom at was performed several more times at the Greens‐ UNCG. Chancellor Patricia Sullivan and University boro Historical Museum. It will return to UNCG Librarian Rosann Bazirjian were also present to in March as part of a conference in Women’s Stud‐ greet the ladies and their families and friends and ies. to welcome them to the campus.
After lunch and an exhibit of women’s military uniforms, the veterans and their guests were treated to a special preview of Star‐Spangled Girls. Written and produced by Brenda Schleunes, this play is based on the oral histories and letters in the Women Veterans Historical Collection. For the vet‐ erans attending the luncheon, it was an opportu‐ nity to see episodes from their real‐life war experi‐ ences told on the stage. For the actresses, it was a chance to meet the inspiration behind their charac‐ ters.
8 Library Appointments
Mary Jane Conger has Christine Fischer is the been named Head of the new Head of Acquisi‐ Cataloging Department. tions for the University Most recently, she Libraries. Most re‐ served as acting co‐head cently, she was the As‐ of the department. She sociate Director for joined the faculty of Technical Services at Jackson Library in 1977 Mercer University in as Assistant Catalog Li‐ Macon, Georgia. She brarian. She holds an holds a M.S.L.S. degree M.S.L.S. from UNC from UNC Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, an M.A. in and a B.A. in Humani‐ History from the University of Virginia, and, and ties from East Tennessee a B.A. in History from Mary Baldwin College. State University.
Amy Harris has accepted a position in the Refer‐ of the Music Library. In addition to a M.L.S. de‐ ence Department as Visiting Professional Librarian. gree from UNCG, Mac received an M.A. in classi‐ Amy finished her MLS at UNCG in December cal guitar performance from the Appalachian State 2005, and has been an intern in Reference since University, an M.A. in medieval studies from the Fall, 2004. She has also worked in the Cataloging University of York, England, and a B.A. in English Department. from Warren Wilson College.
Norman Hines has joined the Access Services De‐ Cat Saleeby McDowell has joined Jackson Library partment as Holds Manager. He previously as Digital Projects Coordinator. Cat received her worked in the library at Randolph Community B.A. in History from Duke University and her Mas‐ College and is currently teaching English courses ters in Public History with a concentration in Ar‐ online at the College of Albemarle and is enrolled chival Administration from N.C. State University. in the Masters of Liberal Studies program at Most recently, Cat worked in Z. Smith Reynolds UNCG. Library at Wake Forest University and as Project Archivist for Digital Services at Winston‐Salem Daniel Nanez joined the Electronic Resources and State University. Information Technology Department staff in Au‐ gust as a Technology Support Analyst. Danny was Katherine J. Nunnally has joined the Cataloging born and raised in a small South Texas town called Department as Library Technical Assistant for seri‐ Alice. He graduated from and was formerly em‐ als cataloging. She has worked in Access Services ployed by the University of Texas at Austin. In since 2001 and as a student assistant on the serials 2003, Danny re‐located to Greensboro with his wife cataloging team since June 2004. Katherine re‐ Lea Leininger, who also works for Jackson Library. places Sue Brusnahan, who has retired.
Mac Nelson has joined the University Libraries. LIBRARY COLUMNS is published periodically by the As part of the Cataloging Department at Jackson University Libraries at The University of North Carolina Library, he works on cataloging of the cello music at Greensboro. collections, succeeding Joan Staples, who has re‐ One thousand nine hundred copies of this public docu‐ tired. During Music Librarian Sarah Dorsey’s ment were printed and distributed at a cost of $717.90 research assignment at the Library of Congress for or 37.8 cents per copy. the spring of 2006, Mac is serving as Acting Head Barry Miller, Editor
9 Library News
Terry Brandsma co‐presented “Transforming Li‐ Kathy Crowe was elected Chair of NCLAʹs Round‐ brary Academic Reserves: Using the Blackboard table on the Status of Women in Librarianship at Content System for Streamlined Access” with Ray the NCLA Biennial Meeting in September 2005 and Purdom, TLC Director, and Gerardo Garcia, Black‐ was also appointed to the Professional Develop‐ board Administrator at the EDUCAUSE 2005 Con‐ ment Committee of the Reference and User Ser‐ ference. Orange County Convention Center, Or‐ vices Association of ALA, 2006‐08. Kathy partici‐ lando, FL. October 20, 2005. pated in a panel discussion, “Online Reference Sources: Connecting the Dots Between Publishers, Tim Bucknall has presented the following papers Technology and Libraries,” at the 25th Annual at professional conferences: Charleston Conference. November 2‐5, 2005, ʺArticles Unbound! Free Journals, Open Access, Charleston, SC. and IRʹs,ʺ presented to the Charleston Conference, Charleston, SC, November 5, 2005. The size and scope of the Carolina Consortium, created by ʺManaging Serials,ʺ presented as a precon‐ Tim Bucknall of Jackson Library, more than doubled this ference to the Charleston Conference, year as compared to last year, with cost avoidance to the Charleston, SC, November 2, 2005. collective membership of 80 million dollars this year. ʺEvaluating the Big Deal; the Carolina Con‐ sortiumʹs Experience,ʺ presented with Jeff Coghill at the Charleston Conference, Charleston, Beth Ellington recently received the Master of Sci‐ SC, November 3, 2005. ence in Information Science degree from the School ʺThe Big Deal. Whatʹs in it for Me?ʺ presented with of Information and Library Science at UNC Chapel Erika Schweitzer at the Charleston Conference, Hill. Her master’s paper was “An Analysis of In‐ Charleston, SC, November 4, 2005. formation Overload Components, Sources, Fre‐ ʺThe Big Deal and its Impact on Innovation,ʺ pre‐ quency, Effect on Performance and Coping Strate‐ sented with Mike Casey, Tim Ingoldsby, and Nick gies Utilized by Full‐Time Undergraduate Univer‐ Evans at the Charleston Conference, Charleston, sity Students.” She also prepared “The Public Li‐ SC, November 4, 2005. brary Workforce”, a literature review completed in ʺThree Perspectives on Open Access ‐ a Public Pol‐ November 2005, for the IMLS national research icy Perspective,ʺ presented with Chuck Hamaker study on “The Future of Librarians in the Work‐ and Rick Johnson at the South Atlantic Regional force” being conducted by the Dean José‐Marie Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, September 29, Griffiths at the School of Information and Library
2005. Science at UNC Chapel Hill. ʺThe Carolina Consortium 2006,ʺ presented at the Beth participated in a New Members Round Table North Carolina Library Association Conference, discussion of personnel issues and trends, as well Winston‐Salem, NC, September 22, 2005. as career planning for those new to the field enti‐ Tim also published the following articles: tled “Planning Your Success: A Guide for New Li‐ ʺGetting More Out of your Electronic Collections brarians and Librarians To Be” at the North Caro‐ Through Studies of User Behaviorʺ Against the lina Library Association, 56th Biennial Conference. Grain, 17(5), November 2005, 1 & 18‐20. She received a Career Enrichment Grant from the ʺEvaluating the Effectiveness of Sharing E‐Journals State Library of North Carolina to attend the 2005 via a Consortiumʺ Against the Grain, 17(5), Novem‐ American Society for Information, Science and ber 2005, 30‐34. Technology (ASIS&T) Conference ʺThe Carolina Consortium: Building an Interstate Buyerʹs Clubʺ in Charleston Conference Proceedings Reference Librarian Gerald Holmes received the 2004, edited by Rosann Bazirjian, Vicky Speck, and REMCO (Roundtable for Ethnic and Minority Con‐
Beth Bernhardt, Libraries Unlimited, 2006, 263‐67. cerns) Roadbuilders Award at the recent North Carolina Library Association meeting in Winston‐
10 Salem. The Roadbuilders Award recognizes ethnic Sha Li Zhang was re‐ minority librarians in library education, academic, cently named public, school, and special libraries who have Assistant Director for served as pioneers in librarianship and also as Collections and Tech‐ positive role models. This award recognizes ethnic nical Services. minority librarians who exemplify courage, integ‐ rity, and perseverance, and contributed to the field She was previously of librarianship for their specific category. Gerald, Assistant Director for who served as Chairperson of the Roundtable for Technical Services. Ethnic Minority Concerns from 2003‐2005, was honored for his ongoing service to the profession of academic librarianship. Assistant Director Lois Miller reports that the Jackson Library Staff Sha Li Zhang Association, as part of its holiday project, delivered ing Needs in University Libraries,” at the 2005 food to the Salvation Army and both food and tow‐ South Carolina Library Association Conference, els to the Greensboro Urban Ministry. The Staff October 25, 2005. Association collected $325 which was split between the two organizations. Pet food was also sent to “Collaborative Role of Library Acquisitions in De‐ the Animal Rescue & Foster Program. velopment and Testing of Vendor Systems,” co‐ presented at the 2005 Charleston Conference, No‐ Sha Li Zhang gave presentations at the following vember 4, 2005. library conferences:
“Authority Control and its Implications in Global UNCG Friends of the Library Book Sale Information Resources Sharing,” at the 2005 Li‐ Searching for inexpensive books for leisure reading or to brary Society of China Annual Conference, July 20‐ add to your personal library? The UNCG Friends of the 23, 2005. Library book sale is back, in a new form. The alcove at “Helpful Organizational Support on Job‐related the entrance to Jackson Library has become the site for Training at University Libraries: Perceptions from an ongoing book sale, featuring books and other materi‐ Support Staff,” at the 2005 NCLA Conference, als donated to Jackson Library that are duplicates and out‐of‐scope materials. Selections change at least September 21, 2005. monthly. Most hardbacks are $1; paperbacks are $.50. “Support Staff’s Perceptions on Job Training Needs Payment is on the honor system, with a deposit box lo‐ in University Libraries,” at the 2005 Virginia Li‐ cated in the alcove with the books. All receipts benefit brary Association Conference, October 20, 2005. the University Libraries. Patrons may purchase books during all hours that Jackson Library is open. “Support Staff’s Perceptions on Technology Train‐
Bindery Unit Takes on New Responsibilities, Is Renamed Preservation Services
In fall 2005, the Library’s Preservation Committee proposed a name change from “Bindery” to “Preservation Services” to reflect the evolving and expanding responsibilities and scope of work of the unit. The proposal was approved by the Library’s Administrative Advisory Group subsequently. In the photos, Jimmy Thompson, supervisor of the unit, and Audrey Sage embraced the new name (Preservation Services) for the unit with smiles, while taking time to mourn the pass‐ ing of the old name (Bindery).
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