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MISSISSIPPI LIBRARY ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 13687 Jackson, MS 39236-3687 PRESIDENT’S PAGE Office Hours: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. M, Tu, Th, F E-mail: [email protected] Executive Secretary: Mary Julia Anderson MLA Web site: http://misslib.org It’s hard to believe that another goals and to be financially solvent. Webmaster: [email protected] year and another conference The committees discontinued MLA EXECUTIVE BOARD have passed. I had no idea include: Conservation; Con - Stephen Cunetto President what this year would bring as stitution, Bylaws and Organi - Administrator of Systems, Mitchell Memorial Library President of MLA, but I was zational Review; Copyright Mississippi State University [email protected] certain that I would learn a Review; Credentials; Hand - 662-325-8542 great deal about our Associa - book; Information Literacy; tion and its members. It goes Insurance; Intellectual Free - Lynn F. Shurden Vice President/President Elect without saying that we have dom; Memorial Fund; Mis - Director a strong Association whose sissippi Libraries; Publica - Bolivar County Library System [email protected] members are passionate about tions; Reprint; Right to Read 662-843-2774 ext. 102 what they do. Whether your and Salary. Likewise, the Board Patricia Matthes specialty is reference, cataloging, voted during the December Board Secretary youth services or administration Meeting to discontinue inactive Assistant Dean for Technical Services Stephen Cunetto Mississippi State University or you represent schools, 2012 MLA President Round Tables. These include: [email protected] colleges/universities, special Collections, Automation and 662-325-7662 libraries or public libraries, the Networking, Educational Com - Kathy Buntin common theme that we can and will perse - munications & Technology, Government Treasurer vere runs through our membership, our Documents, and Library Instruction. Consultant Mississippi Library Commission Association and our libraries. Yes, our envi - Many of you participated in the Long [email protected] ronment is continuously changing with Range Planning discussions we had this 601-432-4111 budgets dwindling and technologies con - year under the leadership of Jeff Slagel and Jennifer A. Smith tinuing to emerge, but we continue to Catherine Nathan. This has been invaluable Immediate Past President Assistant Director adapt and change with the times! to the Board and resulted in the creation of Warren County/Vicksburg Public Library This year, after being published in print a Strategic Plan for MLA, something we [email protected] for over thirty years, the Board voted to dis - haven’t had for many years. I invite you to 601-636-6411 continue the print version of Mississippi look at the Plan that has been added to our Jeff Slagell Libraries and to move it to an online-only website. The document will be a living doc - ALA Councilor Dean of Library Services, Roberts-Laforge Library publication with one issue per year’s being ument that will guide the Board and the Delta State University peer-reviewed. Moving Mississippi Libraries Association. [email protected] 662-846-4441 to an online publication will greatly save the I thank all of the committee chairs and Association money and will also allow us to members, the officers and the section chairs Deborah Lee SELA Councilor join the ranks of other associations that are for their hard work and dedication. Con - Coordinator/Professor now publishing their journals online using gratulations to Lynn Shurden and her con - Mississippi State University open source software. ference committees for another successful [email protected] 662-325-0810 The Membership voted in October to conference. I also thank the MLA sponsors discontinue some of the committees that for supporting the Mississippi Library Asso - Melissa R. Dennis ACRL Section Chair are no longer active. These committees can ciation. If you work with any of these ven - [email protected] be resurrected by future Boards as the needs dors, please be sure to thank them for spon - Public Library Section Chair of the Association change. Also, the Mem - soring MLA! Jenniffer Stephenson bership voted to increase annual dues. The Thank you again for allowing me to [email protected] Board greatly appreciates your understand - serve as your President. I feel confident that School Library Section Chairs ing of our need to increase dues. This will Lynn will do an excellent job as your new Venetia Oglesby allow us to serve you better, to achieve our President. I [email protected]

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For additional information and a list of committees and roundtables, see the Mississippi Library Association’s Web site at http://www.misslib.org/. PAGE 66 VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES A Database Comparison of ERIC and Google Scholar

Peter Klubek, Reference Librarian The search engine was established in 1998 Precision: a formula where the number Magnolia Library by Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Miller of documents retrieved is divided by the Baton Rouge Community College 2009, 303). Miller wrote that the design of number of relevant items retrieved (Walker Google worked on a system called PageR - and Janes 1999, 263). ank, which functioned on a link-based Limitation INTRODUCTION retrieval system. The exact nature of the This study is limited to the ERIC and Online access of databases has had web-crawler design is a closely guarded Google Scholar databases. Journal articles tremendous growth in recent years. Google secret and the number of pages indexed retrieved will also be limited to include Scholar brings another resource to library daily changes frequently (Miller 2009, “peer reviewed” and “featured articles” pub - and information professionals. For educa - 303). Since its creation, Google Scholar has lished in the academic year 2007-2008. tion, ERIC has long been one of the most been an indexer of scholarly peer reviewed frequently accessed databases, and has journals, desertions, books and other mate - Assumptions gained notoriety among scholars in that rials (Dougan 2010, 78). Dougan added It is assumed that the information from field. As more users access Google Scholar it that the methodology for acquisition of the databases was indexed completely and too has become more widely accepted as an these items is similar to that used by the correctly so that only pertinent articles were information gathering tool. A comparison Google search engine. As such, the precise retrieved. between these two resources could help size and scope of this on-line database has Importance of the Research inform more accurate searches and illustrate not been firmly established (Dougan 2010, This study may inform library and infor - best practices for information retrieval. 78). Dougan wrote that the ability to access mation professionals on the usability of As a database for scholarly literature in scholarly material from any computer, each of these databases as research tools. the field of education, ERIC was estab - using any Internet connection, has been a This study may also aid in the development lished just after World War II. The design of huge draw for the use of this database. this database served to illustrate the creation of more accurate search strategies when Problem Statement of bibliographic indexes in an accessible for - using one or both of these databases. mat, and inspired the creation of many This study examines and draws compar - LITERATURE REVIEW other databases (Weiner 2009, 456). Wein - isons between the ERIC database, and the er added that ERIC was created by the US Google Scholar database. This investigation Howland, Wright, Boughan, and Department of Education as the Education - will include coverage and search results for Roberts (2009, 227-234) noted that since al Resource Information Center and was selected search terms relating to occupa - the debut of Google Scholar , many meant to be a comprehensive resource of tional education in the community college. researchers debated how useful it was when compared to other databases. Their study peer reviewed and unpublished documents Research Questions was undertaken to establish an answer to covering all aspects of education. The early R1. What was the coverage of ERIC this question of usefulness, and to attempt version of ERIC was accessible by micro - compared to Google Scholar? to describe how searches conducted using fiche provided to libraries that subscribed to R2. How much, and what types of mate - Google Scholar vary by discipline (How - the database (Weiner 2009, 456). In order rial were retrieved from ERIC compared to land, Wright, Boughan, and Roberts 2009). to expand and develop a broad collection of Google Scholar using the selected search The methodology for this study material, Weiner stated that ERIC estab - terms for occupational education in the involved seven librarians from the Brigham lished a clearinghouse system. He added community college? that this resource went on-line in 1971. Young University Library (Howland, Definitions Weiner wrote that in 2002, developments Wright, Boughan, and Roberts 2009, 229). in the scientific community impacted the Occupational Education: an adaptive The authors asked the librarians for sample education program providing flexible, low- questions typically asked by patrons, a scope and content of ERIC . A restructuring commenced and the clearinghouse model cost, job-specific skills to learners primarily structured search strategy undertaken to was replaced with a technological emphasis, found in two-year community and techni - answer such a question, and an indication resulting in a selective database that could cal colleges (Education National Research of the library database that would most more easily be accessed on-line (Weiner Center for Career and Technical, et al. likely be consulted in order to locate an 2009, 456). Although smaller in content, 2010). answer. From this Howland, Wright, Weiner stated that ERIC is still widely used Scholarly Articles: Articles that have Boughan, and Roberts created a search and accepted as an authoritative resource. been peer reviewed, and described as a fea - string that could be used simultaneously in Google Scholar was released in 2004 as ture article. Does not include letters to the both the library database and Google Schol - an addition to the Google search engine. editor, opinion papers etc. ar. The results from each database were then MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 PAGE 67 examined using a predetermined rubric in her results to peer reviewed, and feature Because users rarely access listings after the order to establish the scholarly nature of the article, and examined only those articles first three pages, only the results listed on returned citations (Howland, Wright, published 1994-2009 for abstracted results, the first three pages using the default 10 Boughan, and Roberts 2009, 228-229). For and 1996-2009 for results in full text. The results per page were included, as in the returned results in Google Scholar, How - author entered five search terms in each methodology by Howland, Wright, land, Wright, Boughan, and Roberts only database that included; gifted education, Boughan, and Roberts (2009 227-234). included items from the first three pages, as special education, advanced learner, gifted The version of ERIC accessed was through studies have indicated most users do not children, and gifted disabled children. Ebscohost . search beyond the third page. After conducting the search, Finch These terms were also entered in Google The authors reported that in general, reported that the results obtained from Scholar using advanced scholar search, with they found Google Scholar to have a 17.6% ERIC were greater than that of Education the terms appearing anywhere in the article, higher score of scholarliness than the library Full Text . It was also noted that ERIC and limiting the years 2007-2008. Results databases. Across disciplines Howland, offered more search options and parameters were also limited to those listed on the first Wright, Boughan, and Roberts reported for conducting searches (Finch 2010, 11- three pages using the default 10 results per. that this also held true. However, they 12). The author added however, that Educa - This methodology was adopted to acquire added that when using their scholarly tion Full Text had a much easier navigation the most scholarly results possible related to rubric, results of both databases were found method. the search terms for one designated publica - to be more scholarly together than when Finch stated that in order to gain a more tion year selected randomly. The precision accessed independently (Howland, Wright, complete picture of these two databases, of the scholarly articles retrieved were calcu - Boughan, and Roberts 2009, 232). The more studies should be done. One aspect lated as described by Walker and Janes authors wrote that Google Scholar provided offered for further investigation was the (1999). Returned results were examined to much broader results, and that the library amount of overlap between these databases determine relevancy by reviewing the bibli - databases tended to be more focused. (Finch 2010, 13). The author wrote that if ographic record and paying particular Howland, Wright, Boughan, and there was little overlap between the two attention to the subject terms and abstract Roberts stated that despite Google Scholar databases, the perceived value of Education in ERIC , and the keywords and abstract in providing a greater amount of scholarly Full Text would increase. She added that Google Scholar. Items were deemed rele - content, it could not serve as a research tool examination of these databases by subject vant in how closely they related to the sub - independently. They added that it was specialists could better evaluate the preci - ject of “occupational education” in the through the cooperation of publishers that sion of each index. community college, as defined by Githens, Google Scholar functioned, and said that Howland, Wright, Boughan, and Crawford, and Sauer (2010). The results this function was based on serving as a dis - Roberts (2009, 227-234) examined the use - from each search were then placed in tables covery aid. It was determined that library fulness of Google Scholar . This study is created in Microsoft Word. The results in databases were the tools that provided the similar, in that Google Scholar will also be the tables were used to identify how many, access to the content with which Google examined as a research tool. The Finch and what types of material were retrieved. Scholar only referenced (Howland, Wright, (2010, 9-13) article relied on a similar Boughan, and Roberts 2009, 233). The methodology to this study, and was also RESULTS authors concluded by recommending the focused on the examination of education What is the precision of ERIC compared use of both Google Scholar and library databases. to Google Scholar? databases in concert in order to obtain the This question was answered by conduct - most complete results in a search. METHODOLOGY ing a series of searches. Tables for the results Finch (2010, 9-13) examined the ERIC Many studies conducted to compare retrieved are located in the appendix. The and Education Full Text databases. She databases have similar methodologies that calculation of precision was followed as out - explained that with increases in electronic relied on a search using a predetermined set lined by Walker and Janes. These authors resources it was difficult for scholars to of search terms and drawing comparisons identified the precision of a database search know about the complete search features from the results. For this study, in order to as a formula where the number of relevant available to them, and that in the field of determine the precision and features of items retrieved is divided by the number of education it was particularly important to ERIC compared to Google Scholar a search documents retrieved. With this informa - remain actively involved with the most cur - was also conducted. Data were collected tion, the precision of each database for each rent resource gathering methods. This study from the returned results of this search search was examined. was developed to identify features in the guided by the five terms, each entered For the search term “occupational edu - ERIC and Education Full Text databases, accordingly: “occupational education,” cation,” ERIC returned a total of 12 results. and to draw comparisons from each as “workforce education,” “labor force devel - Of the citations retrieved four were rele - research tools (Finch 2010, 9). opment,” “vocational education,” and vant, so the precision of ERIC in this search In order to explore the characteristics, “workforce development.” These terms were was 0.33 or 33 percent. The results from features, and coverage of each of these data - entered individually in ERIC using Google Scholar numbered in the thou - bases, the author conducted the same struc - Boolean/Phrase, and limited to peer sands. However, the limitation of including tured search in each resource. Finch limited reviewed items published 2007-2008. PAGE 68 VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES only the first three pages provided a sample points . It was found that ERIC returned the DISCUSSION number of 30 citations. This was found to most relevant articles when using the search For each individual search, the two data - be the case for each of the five searches. Of terms “workforce development,” and Google bases were usually within 10 percentage these 30 items, only seven directly related to Scholar had its highest number of articles points of precision. The exception being occupational education in the community with the terms “workforce education” and “workforce development” where 50 percent college. This gave Google Scholar a preci - “labor force development.” of the items returned in ERIC were on- sion score of 0.23, or 23 percent. How much, and what types of material topic, but only 13 percent of those form For the search term workforce education, were retrieved from ERIC compared to Google Scholar related to the search. How - ERIC returned 28 items, of which 10 were Google? ever, the pertinent coverage on the topic of relevant. The precision of ERIC for this For ERIC, the search terms “occupation - “occupational education” in the communi - search was 0.36, or 36 percent. Google Schol - al education” returned 12 items. Eleven of ty college was greater in ERIC. ERIC had ar again retrieved a minimum 30 documents. these were journal articles, with only one an average precision rate of 35.8 percent, Of these, there were 11 relevant articles item identified as a report. Google Scholar while on average Google Scholar ranked retrieved. The precision for Google Scholar in returned several thousand items. However, 27.8 percent. Although Google Scholar this search was 0.36, or 36 percent. this study only examined the first three returned more results, many more of these The next search term included “labor pages leaving 30 results. Of these, 22 were citations were off topic. force development.” For ERIC, 144 items journal articles, three were research papers, There was greater variety of material were returned. However, since the majority three were books, and two were government returned with Google Scholar. ERIC pri - of researchers do not examine results documents. marily returned journal articles. Google beyond the first three pages, only the first For workforce education ERIC provided Scholar returned journals, books, manu - thirty (with 10 results per page) were sam - 28 citations. These were made up of 15 scripts and other scholarly items. However, pled. Of this number 11 were found to be reports, 12 journal articles, and one meet - despite these higher returns many of the relevant, providing a precision of 0.367 or ing proceeding. More than half of the 30 items in Google Scholar were citation only. 37 percent. The precision of Google Schol - items returned from Google Scholar includ - Often a link was provided to obtain the ar for this search was found to be one arti - ed journal articles with 21 titles. Four were document in question, but this was not cle out of 30 (0.03), or three percent. identified as books, two government docu - always the case. In contrast, most of those For the search terms “vocational educa - ments, two reports and one research paper. citations found in ERIC were full-text, and tion,” ERIC retrieved 475 results. With the The term “labor force development” were obtainable as part of the subscription limitation of 10 results per page for the first returned 144 results in ERIC . By relying on to ERIC . three pages, this again provided a sample of only the first three pages, this limited the The Howland, Wright, Boughan, and 30. Of these 30, only seven were pertinent sample to just 30 items. These results were Roberts (2009) article found that the items to occupational education, providing a pre - made up almost exclusively of journal arti - returned using Google Scholar were in cision of 0.23 (23 percent). Of the 30 cles with 29. One item was identified as a greater variety, and scholarly in nature. results examined from Google Scholar, 11 report. Google Scholar returned 17 journal They also noted that many of the returned were found to be relevant. The precision articles, eight books, four reports, and one results were citation only, and stated that it here was at 0.366, or 37 percent. paper. would be difficult to rely on Google Schol - The final search terms “workforce For “vocational education,” ERIC ar alone (Howland, Wright, Boughan, and development,” retrieved 31 results. Using returned several hundred results but only Roberts 2009). This study also noted the the limit of 30, this provided a sample of 30 were analyzed. All 30 items were from variety and scholarly nature of the items 30. Of these, half of the items retrieved journal articles. Of the 30 items Google returned using Google Scholar. This study were relevant for a 50 percent precision Scholar retrieved, 15 were journal articles, was in additional agreement in that many of rating. Google Scholar returned four rele - 10 were books, and five were identified as these returned results were citation only. vant results out of the 30 total. The preci - reports. Considering these findings Google Scholar sion calculated for this search was .13 or For the final search terms of “workforce could be used as a tool to initially develop a 13 percent development,” 30 results from ERIC were search. Related topics, and key citations to When the numbers from each search examined. All 30 results were identified as studies on a designated discipline could be were added, ERIC returned 47 relevant journal articles. Google Scholar returned 30 found using Google Scholar . With this items out of 130 total. This gave the database items with 21 journal articles, five reports, information a follow up search in another a combined precision of 36 percent. For two research papers, one government docu - database could be used to obtain the actual Google Scholar, 40 relevant items were ment, and one book. items. Further studies could examine how found, out of a total of 150. This placed the Google Scholar retrieved a greater vari - the simultaneous use of Google Scholar and precision of Google Scholar at 26 percent. ety of material from each search. Some of another database might enhance the preci - Although Google Scholar returned more these items included books, research papers, sion of returned results. I items the coverage, as defined through preci - and journal articles. The items retrieved sion, was greater for ERIC by 10 percentage from ERIC were primarily journal articles. MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 PAGE 69

APPENDIX

TABLE 1 TABLE 2 Database results using the term “occupational education.” Database results using the term “workforce education.”

TABLE 3 TABLE 4 Database results using the term “labor force development.” Database results using the term “vocational education.”

BIBLIOGRAPHY TABLE 5 Dougan, Kirstin. “Music to our Eyes: Google Books, Google Scholar, and the Open Content Alliance.” Portal 10, no. 1 (January 2010): 75-93. Database results using the term “workforce development.” Githens, R. P., Crawford, F. L., Sauer, T. M., & National Research Center for Career and Technical, E. Online Occupational Education in Community Colleges: Prevalence and Contextual Factors. National Research Center for Career and Technical Education , (2010). Retrieved from Ebscohost. Finch, Kristin. “A Comparison Analysis of Education Databases: ERIC and Education Full Text.” Mississippi Libraries 74, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 9-13. Howland, Jared L., Thomas C. Wright, Rebecca A. Boughan and Brian C. Roberts. “How Scholarly Is Google Scholar? A Comparison to Library Databases.” College & Research Libraries 70, no. 3 (May 2009): 227-234. Miller, J. B. Internet Technologies and Information Services . Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2009. Walker, G and Janes, J. Online Retrieval A Dialogue of Theory and Practice. West - port, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 1999. Weiner, Sharon A. “Tale of two databases: The history of federally funded informa - tion systems for education and medicine.” Government Information Quarter - ly 26, no. 3 (July 2009): 450-8. PAGE 70 VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES Library Lunchtime Lecture: Invite, Involve and Inform a Community

Charlcie K. Pettway Vann approved. Because of the small size of the libraries can offer, why would libraries be General Library Instruction and Reference committee, a request went out via email wel - useful? Therefore, marketing and promot - Librarian • Houston Cole Library coming other JSU librarians interested in pre - ing the library and its various services is Jacksonville State University senting at lectures. Since many of JSU’s staff imperative to informing its potential users. members are extremely knowledgeable about Western Kentucky University held internet INTRODUCTION librarianship as well as a number of non- workshops, book festivals, writers’ confer - In the spring semester of 2008, the library topics, the chair invited all JSU facul - ences, Black History Month lectures, and Library Instruction Committee of the ty and staff members to speak at these ses - numerous other events. The benefits of the Houston Cole Library at Jacksonville State sions. However, attendance was so poor that outreach project were plentiful. Major University (JSU), in Jacksonville, Alabama, the Committee decided to change the mis - advantages experienced by WKU were: decided to offer Brown Bag lectures for stu - sion to a promotion of the library as a place 1. Excellent community service dents, faculty, staff and the community. for everyone to find scholarly as well as pop - The Committee set out to teach those will - ular information. In addition to JSU staff and 2. Positive marketing of its libraries ing to come and learn about library skills in faculty, the Committee also invited commu - 3. Connecting and partnering with local the library’s computer classroom. Two nity leaders and citizens to present on any businesses months of weekly instruction was sched - topic. The purpose of opening the lectures to uled with topics ranging from “How to find any topic was to demonstrate that the library 4. Using technology and media to adver - books and articles” to “How to cite research can assist in all areas. The goal was to create a tise the libraries’ events material.” After a lack of attendance by stu - shared learning and outreach forum welcom - Another creative community and library dents, faculty and staff, the chair proposed ing all to the library and more importantly, to information sharing projects is taking place at to the committee to open the lectures to increase information literacy. the Lismore City Library in Australia. The anyone willing to present. Therefore, the When performing a literature search on Lismore’s Living Library project is a unique purpose of the lectures changed from teach - the benefits of library brown bag instructions, collaboration of a public library serving as a ing library skills to promoting information the term “brown bag” appeared to be dated. learning resource in an informal setting. literacy and networking on campus and In addition, when searching for community According to Lucy Kinsley, the author of throughout the community. and academic library articles, the number of “Lismore’s Living Library: Connecting Com - published articles was low. One article con - munities Through Conversation” “…The BACKGROUND taining similar elements to the HCL Living Library gives the city’s diverse commu - Jacksonville State University (JSU) was lunchtime lectures is “Communication Out - nity the opportunity to talk to people and founded in 1883 in Jacksonville, Alabama, reach Is Self-Promotion and Marketing: learn from them – people they would not and is a public comprehensive teaching Proactive Community Outreach Is an normally meet. This is promoting and lead - institution serving more than 9000 under - Unshirkable Responsibility (sic) of Academic 1 ing to better communication and under - graduate and graduate students. The Libraries.” The author, Haiwang Yuan from 3 standing within the community.” Library Instruction Committee’s mission is Western Kentucky University, states: In the article Kinsley writes that the to help promote JSU’s library instruction It is not enough to transform a con - community, not the library, first developed program at the Houston Cole Library ventional library of book storage and the idea of having individuals as talking (HCL) on campus. The committee reviews lending into an electronically driven books. The largest music festival in Den - methodology and instructional aids to powerhouse of digitization. In addi - mark sparked the idea of living books; make recommendations and incorporate tion to increasing and enhancing its organizers of the event wanted to prevent revisions to enhancements, and has decided collections, facilities, equipment and violent riots and a nongovernmental youth to seek creative ways to promote the library patron services, a library needs (sic) group thought of a creative way to “Stop and its services. also act proactively to reach out to its the Violence.” patrons and its community. Outreach PLANNING Concert goers were invited to be projects and programs will help build The committee’s plan was to educate new Books, to tell their Reader about community and thus library’s support students and faculty members about services aspects of their life. This could be bases. Besides, community outreach offered at the HCL, as well as refresh some of their country of origin, their lifestyle, is one way to extend library services the veteran faculty and staff members. Dur - and their beliefs. To facilitate this to the society and help build it into a ing a brainstorming session, a proposal offer - communication, Living Dictionaries harmonious one. 2 ing informal lectures to JSU students, faculty were also established to accompany and staff was proposed by the chair and If individuals are not aware of the treasures Books and to act as interpreters to the MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 PAGE 71

dialogue between Book and Reader. Marketing also played an integral part in and informative exchange highlighting the This idea, a Living Library, proved to attendance for the lunchtime lectures. importance of purchasing natural and local - be able to involve all nationalities and Fliers, emails and electronic announce - ly grown foods. Over 20 people attended ages, leading to more communication ments on the university’s newswire and ver - the session and nearly all of the attendees and understanding. 4 bal announcements were all used. Due to stated that they learned about the impor - budget issues, there was no food allowance tance of supporting local farmers (the few Once the festival was completed and the and not having refreshments and/or food which exist) and eating all natural foods. Living Library was well received, a group of also was a reason for low attendance. After Mr. Bevis gave suggestions about the types citizens from the Lismore City Library and reviewing the outcome of the library of vegetables individuals can plant during the city council representatives combined instruction sessions, one observation was the fall and how to take care of them. Books efforts to recruit Living Books and Readers. that there was no student representative or concerning natural foods and farming were Readers were invited to attend a media pro - student input to what is needed or desired displayed. Two books were actually checked motion, intended to be a one time event by students; knowing what the students out of the library after this successful ses - with occasional special events. However, want and when they want it would be ben - sion, which was attended by a mix of facul - due to the overwhelming success of the eficial to the committee. ty, staff, students and community members. occasion, the Living Library was requested The next presentation was given by two again the next month, and the Lismore City RESULTS active and well known local citizens: Mr. Library volunteered to arrange monthly The first non-librarian to present at the David Zeigler, a JSU administrator and events. brown bag session was Mr. Simon Bevis –a active Habitat for Humanity board member local and natural farmer of Noah Valley and Mr. Ron Hindman, executive director OUTREACH Farm in Jacksonville, Alabama. Since it was of the Calhoun County Habitat for Attendance was extremely low at the first close to Thanksgiving 2008, it was a fitting Humanity. One of the guests, a community JSU library lunchtime lectures: only one faculty member attended the first library instruction session; the second instruction session was attended by two faculty mem - bers/librarians, one paraprofessional and a student worker. Unfortunately, the next ses - sion was only attended by the presenters. These two librarians/professors decided that it would be great practice for them to pres - ent their findings, even though no other students, faculty, or staff members were present. Both librarians learned from each other so the two did not consider their preparation to be a waste, agreeing that obtaining knowledge during the prepara - tion period was beneficial. The next library instruction session was the exchange book/material partnership of several aca - demic libraries in Alabama. One library manager and one reference librarian attend - ed the presentation. Since the library lunchtime lectures had low attendance, the chair of the committee asked the members to provide feedback concerning their thoughts of the sessions. All of the librarians wanted to continue with the lunchtime lectures, though they recommended the following: • Changing the time of the year for the lec - tures • Changing the time of day they were held • Changing the frequency of the lectures • Allowing non-librarians to present PAGE 72 VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES counselor, needed to find organizations tips to prepare and eat vegetables and fruit” displaced highly skilled individuals, and searching for volunteers. Habitat for and nearly all of the students from the well - networking of this sort is essential to meet Humanity needed volunteers and after the ness class attended. Refreshments were possible future employees or employers by inspirational talk, the two leaders met for served and overall attendance was high: this congregating in an inviting and informal the first time and began a partnership. The was the most-attended library lunchtime environment. Finally, the library lunchtime library lunchtime lecture therefore served as lecture to date. The students did an out - lectures advertised to the community that an informal referral system. standing job of presenting the material the library has access to nearly any topic The library was also honored to have the using PowerPoint and speaking from the and can assist in meeting the informational first African American student to enroll at knowledge they gained from their class and needs of students, faculty, staff, and the Jacksonville State University, Mrs. Barbara research. Suggestion forms were available to community it serves. I C. Curry, talk at the February (Black Histo - the audience to give comments and to sug - ry Month) 2009 library lunchtime lecture. gest additional presentations. She discussed how her family sacrificed to Snacks were provided by the committee REFERENCES send her to the “white school” because it chair and once the chair explained the lack was the closest school to her home and of funds for refreshments, some of the 1. American Library Association. Presidential about how her brother gave up his car to speakers volunteered to bring snacks. Committee on Information Literacy. Final help her complete her education. Market - Advertizing the provided food for the guests Report. (Chicago: American Library Associa - tion, 1989.) ing the session was challenging: not many and door prizes increased the numbers. In 2. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/stan - students attended. The low attendance may order to keep accurate records of the dards/informationliteracycompetency.cfm have been due to the midday hour and/or lunchtime lectures, recordings were made of 3. “Integrity in Communications Com- various other Black History events which the sessions that will serve as a reference mittee Presents Final Report To JSU were scheduled on campus around the same source and a history of library and commu - President.” JSU News Wire . 2007-08-24. http://www.jsu.edu/news/july_dec2007/0824 time. Mrs. Curry was asked to return and to nity events. 2007e.html. possibly record an oral history of her expe - 4. Yuan, Haiwang. 2006. “Communication riences for the HCL collection on universi - CONCLUSION Outreach Is Self-Promotion and Marketing: ty history. Despite the attendance issues, Offering weekly library instruction ses - Proactive Community Outreach Is an Mrs. Curry’s lecture inspired the Commit - sions at the beginning of the fall semester Unshirkable Responsiblity of Academic Libraries – A Case Study of Western Kentucky tee chair to continue the lunchtime lectures. was not initially well received by students, University Libraries’ Partnership with the The next lecture was well presented and faculty or staff. A plan was needed to Community’s Public Library and Bookseller. well attended after the word got out that involve students and ask their opinions DLPS Faculty Publications. Paper 1. these lectures were interesting and a JSU about lunchtime library research sessions. If http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlps_fac_pu faculty member called the chair of the the sessions are needed, details of how and b/1 5. Kinsley, Lucy. 2009. “Lismore’s Living Committee and became the first presenter when the instruction sessions should be Library: Connecting Communities Through to volunteer. The Wellness Center Director, offered must be addressed. Conversation” APLIS 22 (1) March. Ms. Gina Mabrey, needed a forum for her The lectures indicated that the exchange 6. Ibid p. 23 students to give a presentation. This was the of information and networking is a vital 7. Brinkman, Stacey, and Frances Yates Wein - perfect opportunity to give students prac - part of the learning process. Gathering stein. 2008. “Promoting partnership.” College & Research Libraries News 69 (3) (March) tice in public speaking and to promote the together is essential in the networking 147-150. library’s materials. The topic was “Creative process: in today’s economy, there are many Creating and Utilizing a Mobile Website & QR Code for the Library

Courtney M. Hicks site access helps meet users on the grounds Doing this, however, requires keeping in Reference Librarian • R.C. Pugh Library that they prefer and are accustomed to. The mind both cost and time. R.C. Pugh Northwest Mississippi Community College following describes the basics of creating Library at Northwest Mississippi Commu - and utilizing a QR Code and mobile web - nity College (NWCC) is no different. INTRODUCTION site to its greatest potential. When we think of what engages students With declining library usage, libraries today, two things instantly come to mind: must find new and creative ways to reach REACHING OUT TO OUR USERS Facebook and mobile devices. Since the their users. One way is to develop a QR Libraries are always looking for new and library already reaches out to its user com - code that makes the library’s website easily innovative ways to reach out to their munity via Facebook, mobile devices are accessible on a mobile device. Mobile web - patrons and meet their information needs. the next logical step. So, NWCC decided to MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 PAGE 73 test the water and create a QR code that saved as a “Bookmark.” The device should PROMOTING THE SERVICE would link to information available on the prompt the user then to add a name for the Students are told during instruction library’s webpage, while costing the library App. After adding a title, the icon will then classes and have the opportunity to config - little or no money. be placed on the user’s “Home Screen” for ure their devices with the help of librarians. easy access in the future. From the first scan But what about the students who do not WHAT IS A QR CODE? and/or save of the library mobile site, the have the opportunity to attend any more What is a QR Code exactly and what does users will have the library’s information instruction sessions while at NWCC? How it do? QR codes (quick response codes) are readily available on their mobile device! would the library reach out to these users? two-dimensional matrixes that when scanned The codes will be hung around signs dis - using a Smartphone, will link directly to played with road signs around it along with a page displaying information, most com - the phrase “Have you been here?” This will monly a webpage or advertisement. intrigue students to find out more and thus gaining more users. It’s also a possibility that the code be printed on bookmarks that students take or are given when they check out a book.

METHODS FOR CREATION AND IMPLEMENTATION BUT…WHY? After researching different strategies, the The QR code has become a new and library found that the best way for creating exciting way for the library at NWCC to CONCLUSIONS a QR code would be to use a Plug-in avail - reach out to students. It is obvious from a The library staff and faculty are very able through WordPress. Once the plug-in, quick visual scan of the library that a large excited about the features offered through called inbox, was installed on the server, a majority of the students have some sort of the mobile application. There is a link to blog was created. This resulted in the cre - mobile device whether that is a Smartphone, the hours as well as a staff directory that will ation of a mobile-friendly site. A plug-in an iPod, or a tablet. Any of these are sufficient allow students and faculty to call any staff linked to the existing library page would for employing the new technology. member with one click of their screen. have caused problems. Without a mobile When the question, “how many of you Other features include the library’s online site, the information on the library’s page carry a device capable of supporting an catalog, a link to the Ask a Librarian virtual would not display correctly for mobile application such as a mobile webpage?” was reference feature, plus location and floor users. With the blog completed, the URL asked to a freshman orientation class, 81% plan of the library. The application also was put into a free QR Code generator and of the students responded that they did. All includes a “Video of the Month” section for the mobile site was ready to launch! these students also use their mobile device users to view for informational and enter - The total fees for creating the mobile site regularly to access the internet. tainment purposes. were less than fifty dollars. The total Within hours of hearing the news of the amount of time spent to create and ensure new application for Northwest Mississippi properly functionality four to six hours. Community College, faculty members responded positively about the app using it THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT! to call and e-mail librarians from their One additional feature that will also be phones. available to users with mobile devices is the Library users can now contact the library ability to create an App. Just follow these anytime, anywhere. Everyone at Northwest steps: open the internet browser, type in the Mississippi Community College looks for - URL for the mobile website and press “Go” ward to seeing an increase in usage of the or enter. Once the site is open, it can be library due to this great new feature. I PAGE 74 VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES People in the News

Tina Harry Michigan – Ann Arbor and his Bachelor of gan Public Health Institute, Seattle Public Associate Professor/Catalog and Assistant Arts in History from Truman State Univer - Library, University of La Verne (CA), Rancho Automation Librarian sity in Kirksville, Missouri. Santa Ana Botanic Garden (CA) and University of Mississippi • [email protected] The Mississippi Department of Archives Chadron State College (NE). Personal inter - and History is the second-oldest state depart - ests include gardening, orchid growing, travel, The University of Southern Mississippi ment of archives and history in the United classical music, and of course reading! School of Library and Information Science States. The department collects, preserves, Brian Young joined the University of is pleased to welcome a new tenure-track and provides access to the archival resources Mississippi Libraries as the new Engineer - faculty member, J. Brenton Stewart , Ph.D. of the state, administers various museums ing Reference Librarian. He received his Dr. Stewart recently earned his doctorate in and historic sites, and oversees statewide pro - degree from University of North Carolina Library and Information Studies from the grams for historic preservation, state and at Chapel Hill and his B.S. in Electrical University of Wisconsin-Madison. His dis - local government records management, and Engineering from Clemson University. Pre - sertation was “Informing the South: On the publications. The department is headquar - viously he worked in reference as a graduate Culture of Print in Antebellum Augusta, tered in the state-of-the-art William F. Win - assistant at N.C. State University and Duke Georgia, 1828-1860 and areas of interest ter Archives and History Building, located University and at Milliken & Co. as a include Southern print culture, history of on the corner of North and Amite Streets in process/industrial engineer. libraries, and social informatics. Dr. Stewart downtown Jackson. For more information Jennifer Brosek joined the University of earned a M.S. in Library Science from call 601-576-6850 or see the MDAH Web Mississippi Libraries as the Electronic Clark Atlanta University and a B.A. in His - site, www.mdah.state.ms.us. Resources Librarian. She received her MLS tory and African-American Studies from from Indiana University. She also has a BA UNC Greensboro. He was recently a — N — in Political Science and MA in Internation - Stephan Botein Fellow at the American al Relations from the University of Chicago. Antiquarian Society, has presented at vari - Ellen Hunter Ruffin , Previously she worked as the WISPALS ous conferences including the Association Curator of the de Grum - Library Consortium Coordinator. for Library and Information Science Educa - mond Children’s Literature tion (ALISE), and has papers under review Collection, has been elect - — N — for journal publication. ed to serve on the Laura Ingalls Wilder Committee Laura Beth Walker has been selected as — N — for 2013-2015. The the new Head Librarian, Lafayette County Wilder Committee, a com - Ellen Hunter & Oxford Public Library replacing The Mississippi Department of Archives mittee of Association for Ruffin Dorothy Fitts, who is retiring after 44 years and History is pleased to welcome three Library Services to Children (ALSC), selects a of service to the Oxford and Lafayette new staff members to the Archives and lifetime achievement award for a children’s County communities. Records Services Division. author or illustrator. Some of the previous Laura Beth graduated from Ole Miss in Indira Bhowal joined MDAH as the recipients of the Wilder Award are Tomie 1995. She was received her Master’s Degree section head of published information. She dePaola, Ashley Bryan, Eric Carle, Maurice in Library and Information Science in worked at the Mississippi Library Commis - Sendak, Theodor S. Geisel (Dr. Seuss), and 2001. Laura Beth has been employed by the sion in Jackson for twenty years, most Laura Ingalls Wilder. Ruffin looks forward to First Regional Library since March 1997. recently as the technical services director. serving on this prestigious committee. She currently serves as the Library’s Refer - She received her Master of Library Sciences ence Librarian. Laura Beth will begin at from the University of Southern Mississippi — N — Head Librarian on November 1, 2012. in Hattiesburg. Mississippi State University Libraries is Jeff Gambrone joined MDAH as a his - Harvey Brenneise , new proud to welcome a new faculty member to torian in the archives research library. His Associate Dean for its Acquisitions Department. previous work includes historical researcher Research Services, began James Rodgers joined MSU Libraries’ and writer for Communication Arts Com - work at USM on July 16. faculty as an Assistant Professor/Acquisitions pany in Jackson and historian at the Old His MSLS is from Univer - Librarian in July of 2012. He completed his Courthouse Museum in Vicksburg. He sity of North Carolina at MLS from Indiana University in 2009. James received his Master of Arts in History from Chapel Hill, and he also also holds a MA in musicology from Indiana Mississippi College. has an M.A. in history Harvey University and a BM in Renaissance lute per - Tyson Koenig joined MDAH as an (Andrews University). Prior Brenneise formance from Clayton State College. archivist. He earned his Master of Science to his appointment at USM, he has worked in For more information on MSU Libraries, in Information from the University of libraries at Andrews University (MI), Michi - please visit: https://library.msstate.edu/ I MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 PAGE 75 News Briefs

Tina Harry MSU’S COMPLETE REVEILLE NOW events of Mississippi State University (previ - Associate Professor/Catalog and Assistant AVAILABLE ONLINE,1898-2008 ously named Mississippi Agricultural & Automation Librarian Mississippi State University’s Reveille Mechanical College and Mississippi State University of Mississippi has gone digital. College) throughout the institution’s history. [email protected] Every volume of the student-published MSU Libraries partnered with the Lyrasis yearbook is now freely available online via Mass Digitization Collaborative to complete MSU LIBRARIES RANKS MSU Libraries’ website. The project to dig - this digitization project through a subsidy NATIONALLY IN LIBRARIES itize all Reveille volumes began in April grant from the Sloan Foundation. Each of the JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS 2012, and was completed in August. Pages volumes from 1898 to 2008 is searchable – Based on preliminary study results from from the yearbooks have typically been the thanks to the use of optical character recogni - the University of Illinois at Chicago, Missis - most often-requested material for digitiza - tion (OCR) software – and freely available for sippi State University is the tenth most tion from the University Archives. While partial or complete download. productive institution in terms of journal the more recent volumes are pretty sturdy, For more information on MSU Libraries publications by librarians. some of the oldest books are not able to be and to peruse the yearbooks, please visit The preliminary study results were handled by the public due to their frail con - http://library.msstate.edu/Reveille. revealed in “Publication Patterns of U.S. dition. Now, due to the completion of this Academic Librarians: 2003-2011,” a poster digitization, anyone can access all years of – Submitted by Angela M. Patton, Library session presented at the American Library the Reveille from anywhere in the world. Associate, Mississippi State University Association Annual Conference in Ana - The Reveille chronicles the lives and Libraries heim, CA in June of this year. Deborah Blecic; Stephen Wiberley, Jr.; Sandra De Groote; Mary Shultz; John Cullars; and Vivian Chan examined issues of 32 previously studied peer-reviewed library and information science journals published between 2003 and 2011. They determined the frequency of publication by U.S. academic librarians and compared the productivity of individual institutions. Of the top fifteen institutions listed in this study, MSU Libraries ranks tenth in number of author instances in the journals studied, and the Libraries tied for sixth with the University of Illinois at Chicago in number of refereed articles. The higher number of author instances is a result of co-authorship, which the study authors attribute to collaboration among librarians. A PDF of the poster with a list of the top fifteen institutions, description of methodology, list of journals studied, and more is available at http://ala12.sched - uler.ala.org/files/ala12/pubpatternsposter - REVISED.pdf. The authors plan to extend the study through 2012 and similarly examine additional journals. For more information on MSU Libraries, please visit http://library.msstate.edu/.

– Submitted by Angela M. Patton, Library Associate, Mississippi State University Libraries PAGE 76 VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES

Pictured at the contract signing are (l to r) Celia Fisher, Member, Mississippi Library Commission Board Jeff Tomlinson (left), Director, Lee-Itawamba of Directors; Vicki Gault-Farmer, Member, Lee-Itawamba Library System Board of Directors; Stephen Library System, and Mark Keenum, President, Cunetto, Administrator of Systems for MSU Libraries & Executive Director, Mississippi Library Partnership; Mississippi State University sign the contract offi - Glenda Segars, Member, Lee-Itawamba Library System Board of Directors; Jeff Tomlinson, Director, Lee- cially merging the Lee-Itawamba Library System Itawamba Library System; Mark Keenum, President, Mississippi State University; Dalton Anthony, Presi - with the Mississippi Library Partnership on Thurs - dent, Friends of the Lee County Library; Julie Battaile, Chair, Board of Trustees for the Lee-Itawamba day, August 23, 2012, during a ceremony at Mis - Library System; and Frances Coleman, Dean of Libraries, Mississippi State University. sissippi State University Libraries.

LEE-ITAWAMBA LIBRARY SYSTEM ment of the Mississippi Library Partnership. school libraries.” JOINS MSU-BASED MISSISSIPPI The affiliation of the Lee-Itawamba Library The Lee-Itawamba Library System will LIBRARY PARTNERSHIP System with the Partnership brings even be live on the MLP system beginning Octo - Mississippi’s largest library consortium more strength and prestige to this impor - ber 18, 2012. added new libraries in September. After the tant consortium.” Since its establishment, Starkville High acquisition, the system will serve 55 Lee-Itawamba Director Jeff Tomlinson is School, Tombigbee Regional Library Sys - libraries in 16 Mississippi counties. pleased with the decision to join, remarking tem, Starkville-Oktibbeha Public Library The Mississippi Library Partnership “We are very excited about joining the Part - System, the East Mississippi Community (MLP) welcomed the Lee-Itawamba nership as a way to provide additional College Libraries, the Mid-Mississippi Library System to the consortium in an books to our patrons and also as a way to Library System, Columbus-Lowndes Public official contract signing on Thursday, save taxpayer dollars; when we can borrow Library System, and the First Regional August 23, 2012. The Lee-Itawamba the books from another library, we don’t Library have joined the Partnership. Train - Library System currently serves Tupelo’s Lee have to buy those titles.” Tomlinson went ing and ongoing development and support County Public Library & Fulton’s Itawam - on to share “Once our patrons get familiar for the Partnership is handled by the Missis - ba County Public Library. with this service, I expect we will see many sippi State University Libraries. The Lee-Itawamba Library System joins requests for books from other libraries. This For more information on the Mississippi the MLP, which serves libraries on the cam - is just too good a deal to pass up, and the Library Partnership, please visit: puses of Mississippi State University, Missis - people of our community know a good http://library.msstate.edu/gtrlc. sippi University for Women, East Mississippi thing when they see it!” Community College, Starkville High School, The Mississippi Library Partnership was – Submitted by Angela M. Patton, Library and in the cities of Aberdeen, Ackerman, established in 1993 as a means of increasing Associate, Mississippi State University Amory, Artesia, Batesville, Caledonia, the sharing of resources and automation Libraries • Photographs by Jim Tomlinson, Carthage, Coldwater, Columbus, Como, costs as well as the sharing of technical MSU Libraries Crawford, Crenshaw, Duck Hill, Durant, expertise. The mission of the Partnership is Eupora, Goodman, Hamilton, Hernando, to provide a central database that customers Horn Lake, Jackson, Kilmichael, Kosciusko, can utilize to provide easy access to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN Lexington, Louisville, Maben, Mathiston, resources available in the North-Central MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES RECEIVES Mayhew, Meridian, Nettleton, Olive Branch, regions of the state. Building upon the suc - CIVIL WAR 150 GRANT Oxford, Pickens, Sardis, Scooba, Senatobia, cess of the venture between charter mem - The University of Southern Mississippi Southaven, Starkville, Sturgis, Tchula, Tuni - bers Mississippi State University and Mis - Libraries received the Civil War 150 grant ca, Walls, Walnut Grove, Weir, West, West sissippi University for Women, the Partner - from the Gilder Lehman Institute of Ameri - Point, Winona, and Wren. ship continues to impact libraries and pro - can History. As part of the grant award, The During the contract signing in Missis - vide exceptional service to its members. University Libraries will receive a traveling sippi State University Libraries’ John “We are very pleased to have the Lee- exhibit that will focus on various themes of Grisham Room, Dr. Mark Keenum, presi - Itawamba System join the MLP,” said the American Civil War including slavery, dent of Mississippi State University, wel - Cunetto. “With the addition of these new Civil War literature, and the home front. In comed the new members to the MLP stat - libraries, the Partnership, the only one of its addition to the exhibit, the library will receive ing “We are very proud of Mississippi State kind in the State, now includes over 55 $1,000 for event programming which will University’s role in the growth and develop - libraries, including academic, public, and include additional exhibits highlighting col - MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 PAGE 77 lections in University Libraries’ Special Col - the 150th Anniversary of the Morrill Land- John Marshall Stone (from 1899-1900), lections and presentations from numerous Grant Act, October 3-6, 2012,” and the second President of the College. This col - Southern Miss professors on various aspects national recognition of October as Archives lection can be accessed by visiting of the war. The exhibits and programming Month, the MSU Libraries announce a http://library.msstate.edu/specialcollec - will take place in September 2013. number of online and onsite resources cele - tions/archive/founders. Jennifer Brannock, Curator of Rare Books brating the Morrill Land-Grant Act. In addition, “The Morrill Act, Celebrating and Mississippiana, with assistance from An exhibit detailing the land-grant ori - Land-Grant Universities,” a new research guide, Library Grants Administrator Ann Branton, gins of MSU is newly installed on Mitchell is now available, providing users with access to successfully wrote the grant proposal. The Memorial Library’s second-floor Informa - information on the Morrill Act, land-grant University of Southern Mississippi Libraries tion Mall. Utilizing materials from the vast institutions in the United States, agricultural was the only institution in Mississippi to collections of the University Archives, this resources on the web, books and journals deal - receive the award. For more information, exhibit hosts for visitors documents, photo - ing with agricultural and mechanical topics and contact Jennifer Brannock at Jennifer.Bran - graphs and memorabilia related to the early a variety of digital resources related to land- [email protected] or 601.266.4347. days of the University, known then as the grant institutions and their missions. This Agricultural and Mechanical College of research guide can be accessed by visiting – Submitted by Jennifer Brannock, Curator of Mississippi. Among the items on display are http://guides.library.msstate.edu/MorrillAct. Rare Books and Mississippiana,The Univer - excerpts from the original Board of Trustees For more information and to begin sity of Southern Mississippi meeting minutes from 1878, showing the accessing these resources, please visit selection of Starkville as the site for the Col - http://library.msstate.edu/ or contact MSU lege and of Stephen D. Lee as the College’s Libraries Assistant Archivist Ryan Semmes NEW ONLINE AND ONSITE first president. at 662-325-9355 or by email at RESOURCES AT MSU LIBRARIES The MSU Libraries have also created [email protected]. CELEBRATE LAND-GRANT The Mississippi State University Founders INSTITUTIONS Digital Collection as a supplement to the – Submitted by Lyle Tate, Administrative In conjunction with Mississippi State exhibit. This collection features the com - Assistant/Special Events, Mississippi State University’s historical investigation of the plete 1878 Board of Trustees meeting min - University Libraries I sesquicentennial land-grant university, utes and the Presidential Papers of both “Thinking Land Grants: A ‘Cerebration’ of Stephen D. Lee (from 1880-1899) and About Books

Jennifer Brannock duty whenever the need arises. Bubba rapidly this beverage in the future”), Cochran nails Curator of Rare Books and Mississippiana finds out that the need has arisen. There is a southern life. Bubba is a character whom is University of Southern Mississippi series of unsolved murders happening in Eng - easily identified with and definitely breaks [email protected] land, and they appear to be leading to the the mold of the “slow southerner.” Royal Family. Despite his protests that he is a This fiction novel is best suited for public FICTION farmer, not a detective, Bubba is taken to and academic libraries. Due to some mild England and plunged into a world complete - language, it is not recommended in an ele - Cochran, Michael . Sir Bubba . Castroville, ly opposite of the one he has always known. mentary school library. High school students TX: Black Rose Writing, 2010. 230 pp. Not long after his arrival, an attempt is made and older would enjoy this tale of intrigue. $16.95 (paperback) on his life, and the pace never slows down. Bubba brings new insight – and cuisine to his Cesarina Dancy In the novel, Christian “Bubba” McCall is new comrades and turns the investigation on Librarian a typical Mississippi farmer who works hard, its ear. Sacred Heart School (Southaven, MS) loves his family and plays by the rules. One Michael Cochran does an excellent job day, the simple Delta life he loves so much is of describing life in the Mississippi Delta. — N — turned on its end when he is paid a visit from From the weather this area is known for a man from England. Bubba, who was (“the humidity is at 90% and it is so oppres - McMullen, Margaret . Sources of Light . orphaned as a teenager and adopted by the sive that it is like soaking a wool blanket in Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. 240 pp. neighbors, is told more of his lineage. He hot water, putting it over your head and $16.00 (hardcover) learns that he is a descendant of The Knights walking around in 100 degree heat”) to of the Round Table. A condition of being a describing an Englishman’s first sip of iced After her father’s death in Vietnam, 14- member of this organization is that all future tea (“He felt a cooling effect on his body year old Samantha moves with her mother male heirs are promised to be available for and decided that he needed to remember from Pittsburgh to her mother’s home state PAGE 78 VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES of Mississippi. The year is 1962. The story Movement, Bracey’s work provides a candid and death of her parents with chapter five is told from the point of view of a young look into the life of one of Mississippi’s providing details of her marriage and the white girl observing the beginnings of the most respected civil rights leaders. The adoption of her children. The author pro - Civil Rights Movement. twenty-two chapters in this work chronicle vides painful details on Hamer’s forced ster - Samantha interacts with her mother, an Hamer’s life and the many difficulties she ilization, which was unfortunately not art teacher at a Jackson College, her friends at faced from her beginnings as one of twenty uncommon for black women during that school, the family maid, and her mother’s siblings growing up in the Mississippi time. The next chapters provide in-depth boyfriend, Perry. It is Perry, a photographer, Delta. The first chapter vividly describes detail on Hamer’s life as she becomes more who teaches Samantha how to look at the Hamer’s childhood and takes the reader on involved in activism and civil rights. world through the lens of a camera. She a journey to a time where picking cotton Hamer’s remarkable work in regards to vot - begins to take photos, first of ordinary scenes provided most families with their sole ing rights, her speeches that mesmerized from her everyday life, but then begins to source of income. It is in these fields that a many audiences, and her unsuccessful record some of the events that are taking young Hamer daydreamed of better days attempt at a freedom farm, it is apparent place around Jackson, including sit-ins at the ahead. The author provides a look into her that Hamer never stopped fighting for the local soda fountain, and the integration of an thoughts of one day living a life without rights of African Americans in Mississippi audience listening to author Eudora Welty limits…a life where she would not be and throughout the world. speak. Samantha also witnesses the effect that looked down upon because of the color of The book ends by taking you to the end the struggle for integration has on her friend, her skin. Chapter two, which continues of Hamer’s life where she suffers from a the family’s maid, Willa Mae. A subplot of much along the same lines, provides more nervous breakdown and eventually suc - the book involves Samantha’s burgeoning insight into Hamer’s childhood and the cumbs to cancer. She endured a long, romance with Stone. Stone is caught between days her family spent as sharecroppers. painful battle that ultimately stole the his desire to be a boy who Samantha can Chapters three and four cover the life strength for which she was so well known. admire and his loyalty to his family, who believe that segregation should remain a way of life. When Perry is murdered, Stone has to make a difficult decision that could change his life forever. The author lived in Mississippi during some of the most violent years of the Civil Rights Movement. Although the events have been fictionalized, many are based on true events, such as Eudora Welty’s speech at Millsaps College. By incorporating per - sonal experiences with fiction, McMullen has been able to bring this powerful part of history to life. Sources of Light is recommended for all school and public libraries. It would also be a valuable addition to academic libraries that maintain children’s literature collections.

Allisa Beck Collection Management Librarian University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast

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Bracey, Earnest . Fannie Lou Hamer: The Life of a Civil Rights Icon . Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2011. 199 pp. $38.00 (softcover)

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Overall, this is a very sound and interesting sound basis for the future work and study of workers who had died from exposure to work. It seems that the author could have any scholar wishing to produce a deeper asbestos. A decade later, Scruggs led the mas - combined some of the very short chapters examination of Klan activity, purpose, and sive class action suit against the nation’s four while still retaining the integrity of the influence than Newton does. The field is largest tobacco companies. That litigation work. However, it is still a very interesting still open for an in-depth comparison of the turned political when Scruggs used a variety work on a very remarkable woman. There - three distinct incarnations of the Mississip - of legal and public relations maneuvers to fore, Fannie Lou Hamer: The Life of a Civil pi Klan as well as a psychological probing of extract a settlement worth over $200 billion. Rights Icon is recommended for academic why and how a “social club” purportedly Many reporters and politicians lionized him and public libraries especially for readers founded to “have fun, make mischief, and and the legal team who took on the Goliath with a interest in civil rights and African play pranks on the public” transformed tobacco conglomerate. Scruggs and the Mis - American history. itself into a night-riding, rhetoric spewing, sissippi Attorney General Michael Moore hate-mongering, murdering, lynch mob of were even portrayed during a pivotal scene in Chameka Robinson domestic terrorists sometimes deeply Michael Mann’s The Insider , the 1999 film Outreach Librarian involved in and supported by politicians, about the tobacco industry. Rowland Medical Library, law enforcement, and organized religion. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, University of Mississippi Medical Center Newton’s book may not be the definitive Scruggs went after insurance companies who history of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi, refused to pay claims. In 2007, during this — N — but it is certainly a seminal one. It is deserv - insurance litigation, Scruggs’ associates ing of consideration by public and academic attempted to bribe a Mississippi judge in Newton, Michael. The Ku Klux Klan in Mis - libraries and by other institutions that sup - return for a favorable ruling. A decade after sissippi: A History . Jefferson, North Carolina: port African-American studies, Mississippi the monumental tobacco settlement and the McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, and southern history collections, and sub-col - accumulation of a massive fortune earned 2010. 252 pp. $75.00 (hardback) lections related to the study of violence, vigi - from legal fees, Scruggs, his son, several asso - lantism, and hate groups in the United States. ciates, and even a Mississippi judge were Michael Newton presents his readers with imprisoned for bribery and corruption. A an authoritative account of Mississippi’s old - Teresa Neaves federal sting operation caught them and has - est and most virulent hate group. While he Librarian tened the downfall of the Scruggs law firm conveys this story in a straightforward and Mitchell, McNutt & Sams Law Firm and the career of the “King of Torts.” In the almost dispassionate manner, it is, neverthe - end, Wilkie believes Scruggs ceaseless attempt less, grim reading. The sheer accumulation of — N — for money and victory had turned opponents documented accounts of man’s inhumanity and friends into enemies. They pursued to man is both daunting and sobering. Wilkie, Curtis . The Fall of the House of Zeus: Scruggs until he handed them the sword that The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi is divid - The Rise and Ruin of America’s Most Powerful would bring him down. ed into six chapters, beginning with the Trial Lawyer . New York: Crown Publishers, While the story may compel some to read Klan’s inception in 1866 and its role during 2010. 385 pp. $25.99 (hardcover) The Fall of the House of Zeus , the often con - Reconstruction. Newton follows its rise, the fusing cast of characters and intricate legal cycles of decline and resurgence, and its Curtis Wilkie’s new book, The Fall of the maneuvering will lose many casual readers. graphic and deadly presence during the House of Zeus , attempts to cast the rise and Furthermore, Scruggs comes across less than 1960s civil rights era. He concludes with fall of Richard “Dickie” Scruggs as a Greek compelling in the book, despite Wilkie’s the Klan’s’ virtual self-destruction in the tragedy. Instead, the book comes across as a effort to humanize and understand him. In 1970s. The work is illustrated, contains gritty true crime novel detailing corruption, fact, nothing seems to have propelled Scrug - extensive notes, a good index, and a sub - favoritism, and jealousy in the world of gs’ success than the simple drive to win at all stantial bibliography. The somewhat prosa - Mississippi law and politics. In fact, after costs. While the asbestos, tobacco, and insur - ic narrative is largely a catalog of racially, reading the book, readers may wonder pre - ance cases were developed to help the power - socially, politically, and economically moti - cisely who is looking after the public inter - less against the powerful, money seems to vated crimes perpetuated mostly against est. Wilkie, a friend of Scruggs, sees him have been Scruggs’ primary motivator. Blacks but also against Jews, Catholics, very much as “a plaintiff’s lawyer represent - Wilkie’s book is a valuable and interesting bootleggers, adulterers, and others by the ing the powerless masses” (7). Early on we story, despite some flaws. This important KKK and Klan-like sympathizers in Missis - realize that Wilkie believes Scruggs’ down - examination of Mississippi’s recent legal and sippi over a hundred-year period. It is not fall resulted from his enemies rather than political history should be widely read in Mis - slanted or biased and does not indulge in from his own shortcomings. There is even a sissippi and available in every university, col - prurient sensationalism; it is devoid of the halfhearted attempt to blame Scruggs’ lege, and public library in the state. hyperbole of mythology. downfall on prescription drug addiction. Some readers may see The Ku Klux Klan Scruggs, a Mississippi-based attorney rev - Aaron Crawford in Mississippi as a long-on-facts-short-on- olutionized personal injury law when he Assistant Editor analysis rendering of Klan history in our developed a successful class action lawsuit The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant state. Nevertheless, the book provides a against Pascagoula shipyards on behalf of Mississippi State University I PAGE 80 VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES Mississippi Library Association Author Award Winners, 2012

Amy Poe, Staff Development Coordinator Mr. McMillan is the fourth generation First Regional Library System • Hernando born and raised in Kosciusko, Mississippi, the county seat of Attala County, where the At the recent Mississippi Library Associ - events of One Night of Madness occurred. ation Conference in Natchez, Mississippi, While writing is his sideline, his day job is officials were proud to present the annual at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Mississippi Author Awards to three out - Texas, where he works for NASA as an engi - standing authors. Those present were privi - neer on the Space Shuttle. McMillan lives leged to hear the charming Stokes McMil - with his wife in Houston. “One Night of lan, the vivacious Margaret McMullan, and Madness” is his first book. the endearing Ramona Bridges.

Margaret McMullan

The special award went to Margaret McMullan who endeared herself to an audi - ence of librarians with her special thanks to those who work in libraries and how much they have meant to her and her writing career. In “Sources of Light,” fourteen year old Sam and her mother move to Jackson, Mis - sissippi. It is 1962 and racial tensions are Ramona Bridges high. All Sam wants to do is live life her way Stokes McMillan while staying out of the way. This becomes The Fiction Award went to Ramona difficult when their family is a target of a Stokes McMillan won the Non-Fiction Bridges who proved to be as sweet and white supremacist group. Given a camera award and for his book “One Night of engaging as the book she wrote. She was by her mother’s friend, Perry, she uses it to Madness” and spoke about how he came to excited to share about the main character in record the sit-ins, voter registrations, and write about the subject and the personal her book, Addie, and to let everyone know the violet rage provoked by peaceful connection he has to the tragedy. Guests that her adventures will continue in her protests. In the black and white world of were also treated to a scrapbook almost as next book published. 1962, Sam learns to see shades of gray. large as the table it laid on, detailing the “Sweet By and By” is the story of thirty- Margaret McMullan is a native of New - newspaper coverage of the event and other three year old Addie Coulter who is certain ton County, Mississippi, and although she related documents. life cannot get worse: a drunken husband, moved with her family at the age of ten to “One Night of Madness” is the true invalid mother, and a son banished from Chicago, she returned in 2007 as the Eudo - story of a dark event in American and home. However, life is full of surprises and ra Welty Visiting Writer at Millsaps College Southern history. Mary Ella Harris, a black after a tragedy, Addie’s faith is tested. On in Jackson. She has authored six award-win - mother of five, works with her sharecropper the road to recovery, she meets Hiram who ning novels, including “How I Found the husband who has a likeness for gambling, could be the answer to a prayer or the Strong,” winner of the 2006 MLA Author drinking and hanging with a rough crowd. beginning of another tragedy. Award for Fiction. She currently teaches at One of that crowd, is Leon Turner, an ex- Ramona Bridges is a native of Mississip - the University of Evansville, in Evansville, convict who sparks the largest manhunt in pi, where she resides with her family. She Indiana, where she is Professor and Melvin Mississippi history when he tries to rape and her husband have three sons, and she is M. Peterson Endowed Chair in Literature Mary Ella and escapes leaving a bloody employed as a nurse at a facility for war vet - and Writing. I revenge in his wake. erans. “Sweet By and By” is her first book. MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 PAGE 81 Mississippi Library Association Award Winners, 2012

Barbara Evans nut Grove Public Library, a branch of the tion as Distinguished Citizen of the Year by Assistant Director for Public Services Mid-Mississippi Regional Library System. the Hattiesburg Lions Club. First Regional Library • Hernando Under the leadership of President Mike The Past Presidents Award was given to Johnson, this chapter, helped by many Mr. Jorge Brown, Access Services Librarian Awards honoring Mississippi’s profession - other groups and agencies, worked to at the University of Southern Mississippi. al librarians, paraprofessionals, library Friends acquire the funds to renovate the much Jorge is a member of ACRL, the Association and library advocates as well as scholarships loved and well used library. The newly ren - of College and Research Libraries, and for those pursuing Master’s degrees in Library ovated facility opened on May 6, 2012. chairman of TWO roundtables-Library Sciences are given out at the annual Mississip - Two individuals were honored with the Instruction and New Members! pi Library Association Conference. These Ruby Assaf Presidential Award this year. The Library Champion Award honoree awards are always one of the highlights of the Claude Jones, Board member, library advo - this year was Vicksburg’s Randy Sherard. A conference, and those awarded at MLA 2012 cate and fundraiser extraordinaire, was one professional engineer and practicing attor - in Natchez were no exception. of the honorees. Mr. Jones is a member of ney, Mr Sherard served on the Board of These annual awards and scholarships the Friends of the Pontotoc County Library Trustees from 1986-1993, guiding the War - can only be given if the respective commit - in Pontotoc, a member of the Dixie Region - ren County-Vicksburg Public Library sys - tees receive nominations and those nomi - al Library System. tem through the arduous process of separat - nees meet the guidelines set by each com - The other honoree was Ms. Pat Mon - ing itself from the Jackson Metropolitan mittee and the Mississippi Library Associa - sour of the Friends of the Madison Public Library System, and protecting its interests. tion. This year, the School Library Section Library in the Madison County library Sys - He served four years as Chair of the Missis - received no nominations, so no Carroon tem. In addition to serving as a Library sippi Library Association’s Trustees section. Apple Award was given out in Natchez. It is Trustee, Ms. Monsour helps select titles to He attends every MLA Legislative Day in hoped next year will be different! take to area nursing homes. While there, Jackson and has often served as a Mississip - The Black Caucus announced the winner she chats with the residents about books pi delegate to the American Library Associ - of the Virgia Brocks-Shedd Scholarship at a and solicits requests for additional materials ation’s National Library Legislative Day in luncheon Thursday, October 25. This year, to bring the next time. Washington, D. C., and advocates tirelessly the award went to Roberta Martinez Fotter. The rest of the awards are usually given on behalf of MS Libraries at every opportu - Mrs. Fotter works at Lakeshore High School, out during the luncheon on Friday. However, nity. Congratulations, Mr. Sherard! Saint Tammany Parish in Mandeville, this year’s winner of the Outstanding Mrs. Nettie Moore, Youth Specialist at the Louisiana as a Special Education Coordina - Achievement Award could only attend the M. R. Davis Public Library in Southaven, a tor, Teacher and Librarian. She is presently MLA conference for one day, Wednesday. branch of the First Regional Library System, attending University of Southern Mississippi Thanks to Deb Mitchell, Director of the was the recipient of the 2012 Mary Julia and is enrolled in the Masters of Library and Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library Anderson Award. Given for outstanding per - Information Science Program, with projected and MLA President Stephen Cunetto, formance by a paraprofessional working in a completion May,2013. arrangements were made to present the award Mississippi Library, Nettie personifies the This year’s recipient of the Peggy May at the MLA Business meeting Wednesday to energy and enthusiasm of the dynamo for Scholarship is Jaclyn Lewis, Youth Services a very surprised Pamela Pridgen, Director of which this award is named. She has served as Director for the Madison County Library the Library of Hattiesburg, Petal and Forrest the Youth Specialist at the Southaven Public System. Jaclyn is a member of the MLA County. Deb had made arrangements for Library for nine years. For many in the com - Special Libraries Section and is enrolled in Pamela’s family and staff to be present, all munity, Nettie IS the face of the library. She the University of Southern Mississippi’s unbeknownst to Pamela. What fun! goes beyond the basics with her program - MLIS program. She hopes to complete the Pamela was honored for her efforts on ming, looking for new ways to involve the program with her Master’s degree and behalf of Mississippi Libraries with her serv - community, which includes Family Sto - Graduate Certificate in Archives and Spe - ice on the Mississippi Library Board of Com - rynights at Chick-Fil-A and Texas Roadhouse cial Collections by 2014. missioners, her very active role in MLA activ - as examples. The Friends of Mississippi Libraries ities, including the Presidency of the organi - She was the only First Regional Staff honored the winners of the Chapter One zation, longtime membership on the legisla - member selected to work with the PBS pro - Award and the Ruby Assaf Presidential tive committee and other committees too gram Between the Lions in 2007 and is now Award at the Afternoon Tea with Authors numerous to mention. Her efforts to secure the trainer for FRL. She helped submit the Wednesday, October 24. The Chapter One funding for and oversee the building of a new grant and plan the many activities involved Award this year went to Friends of the Wal - library in Hattiesburg led to Pamela’s recogni - with having the Smithsonian exhibit Jour - PAGE 82 VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES neys at the branch in 2009. On her own, she Como and a long term loan of the Hill skillfully and quietly challenged the status recently took classes sponsored by the State Country Blues Photography Collection quo, pushing herself and others to exceed Library of Virginia about connecting from the Jesse Mae Hemphill Foundation. expectations in the delivery of quality serv - libraries with families with autism. This led Como was the first Mississippi commu - ices by: mentoring many library staff, to a series of programs at the branch, a Jack nity to be selected to receive copies of the encouraging personal and professional Ezra Keats Foundation grant, and a poster Lomax materials from his archives. Because growth and development; by educating session at MLA 2012. We look forward to of his prominence in the world of folklore elected officials and local residents on the seeing what other exceptional ideas this tal - and musicology, this was reported by value of the public library to community ented woman comes up with in the future. National Public Radio and The New York vitality and quality of life; and by exploring Awards were given in two Public Relations Times, among others. Branch manager possibilities for new services and new roles categories. The winning entry for “Best coor - Alice Pierotti further targeted the interna - for public libraries. dinated effort of several libraries to publicize tional crowd by hosting the Hill Country The second honoree was Catherine library services around a single theme or Blues Celebration on the coattails of Blues Nathan, Director of the First Regional event” went to First Regional Library system Foundation’s International Blues Challenge Library System. Catherine spent several for “Our Library Story.” FRL’s Public Rela - in Memphis. The event was wildly success - years with the then Shelby County-Mem - tions Specialist David Brown combined pho - ful, and names from countries as far away as phis Public Library System before coming tos and testimonials collected from patrons at Norway were discovered in the guest book. to First Regional in 1994. She became each branch, telling how the local library had I was there, and it was an unbelievable day Director in 2004 and has been going strong helped them, with brief statistics and a for a town with only 1,291 citizens, one ever since. She is a tireless advocate for pub - “Library Values” calculator showing how very dedicated, energetic and enthusiastic lic library services, always seeking new and wisely FRL spends the funds given to them branch manager, a small cadre of teen vol - better ways to improve citizens’ lives with each year. The end result was an eye catching unteers and two part time staffers. great library services, locally and statewide. document to show funding officials just how The Peggy May Award was the last one She has been an active member of the important and vital their support of the presented this year. This honors the memo - MAGNOLIA steering committee since its libraries is to their communities. 18 different ry of Peggy May, an exemplary librarian inception and has worked long and hard to brochures were created by David, one for whose life was cut short at the age of 36. In educate legislators on the impact of this each of the five county Board of Supervisors her memory and to celebrate her life, this project. and one for each of the 13 Boards of Alder - award was created to honor the librarian She sent staff down to the MS Gulf men. This has morphed into an ongoing who embodies the same characteristics she Coast to help out libraries after Katrina hit; project as a tumblr blog, which can be viewed did: a love of life, a love of people and a she has partnered with Mississippi State on at http://firstregionallibrarystory.tumblr.com desire to bring the best in library service to early childhood initiatives, and collaborated The second award was for “Best effort by all people. Two nominees were SO out - with many other libraries, institutions and an individual library to publicize library standing, the awards committee decided community groups on several other projects services around a single event or theme” they both deserved recognition. too numerous to mention; encourages staff The Emily Jones Pointer Public Library in The first went to Kaileen Theiling, at ALL levels to participate in professional Como, MS won for the promotion of the Director of Central Mississippi Regional development, and sends staff off to share Hill Country Blues with two major pieces: Library System. She has served in Mississip - ideas/train others at various conferences the repatriation of Alan Lomax’s recordings, pi libraries for over 26 years, and has been state and nationwide. She asks EVERY - field notes, photographs and videos of Director at CMRLS for the past 11. To ONE if they have ever thought about going Como, MS blues musicians to the library in quote one of the nominees, “Kaileen has to library school! I

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INDEX TO MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES Creating and Utilizing a Mobile Website & Harry, Tina, Editor. People in the News , 36, Volume 75, 2012 QR Code for the Library , 72-73 62, 74 Shirlene Stogner, Indexer Culture After the Hurricanes: Rhetoric and Hackler, M.B., ed. Culture After the Hurri - A Reinvention on the Gulf Coast (book canes: Rhetoric and Reinvention on the About Books , 37-44, 62-64, 77-79 review by Margaret A. Swanson), 63 Gulf Coast (book review by Margaret A. Anderson, John Aubrey. The Cool Woman D Swanson), 63 (book review by Jamie Elston), 37 Dancy, Cesarina, book review by, 77 Hawkins, Larry. Flags Used by Mississippi Argandona, Duvy and Scott David Reinke. A Database Comparison of ERIC and Google during the War Between the States (book Storage Room to Conservation Lab: How Scholar , 66-68 review by Alyssa Wilson), 39 the University of Miami Libraries Built Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man and the Academic Henderson, Mantra and Lynn Varner. Back the First Lab in South Florida, 53-56 Instruction Librarian: Striving for Bal - to School with Information Literacy: One Annual Index, 83-84 ance , 9-14 Library’s Plan , 2-6 Henderson, Mantra, book review by, 42 B Digitization of the John Elon Phay Collection , 15-17 Henderson, Mantra. Library Renovation Les - Back to School with Information Literacy: sons Learned…and Still Learning , 47-49 E One Library’s Plan , 2-6 Hicks, Courtney M. Creating and Utilizing Elston, Jamie, book review by, 37 Bahr, William L., book reviews by , 40, 63-64 a Mobile Website & QR Code for the Englert, Tracy, book review by, 63 Balius, Angie H., book review by, 43-44 Library , 72-73 Evans, Mary Anna. (book Beaman, John. Walking is the Worst Exercise: Floodgates Hilkert, Judith, book review by, 37 review by Donna Phelps Fite), 37 and other Challenges to the Conventional Historic Photos of Mississippi (book review Wisdom of Medicine (book review by F by William L. Bahr), 40 Tracy Englert), 63 The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Hubbell, Macklyn (text) and James Gold - Beck, Allisa, book review by, 77-78 Ruin of America’s Most Powerful Trial man (photography). Goldman’s Gold: An Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Lawyer ( book review by Aaron Album of Photographs Taken in 1968 of Mississippi Gulf Coast (book review by Crawford), 79 the Marks’ Mule Train (book review by Adrienne McPhaul), 42-43 Fannie Lou Hamer: The Life of a Civil William L. Bahr), 63-64 Bowers Rick. Spies of Mississippi: The True Rights Icon (book review by Chameka Hughes, Casey, Susan Cassagne, and Mari - Story of the Spy Network That Tried To Robinson), 78-79 anne Raley. If You Build It, They Will Destroy the Civil Rights Movement , ( book Ferris, William. Give My Poor Heart Ease: Come: Development of a Library Teen review by Ellen Ruffin), 38 Voices of the Mississippi Blues (book Room , 56-58 Bracey, Earnest. Fannie Lou Hamer: The review by Alisa St. Amant), 38-39 I Life of a Civil Rights Icon (book review Fite, Donna Phelps, book review by, 37 If You Build It, They Will Come: Develop - by Chameka Robinson), 78-79 Flags Used by Mississippi during the War ment of a Library Teen Room , 56-58 Brannock, Jennifer, Editor. About Books , Between the States (book review by The Impact of School Libraries on Student 37-44, 62-64, 77-79 Alyssa Wilson), 39 Achievement and Success , 18-22 Bridges, Ramona. Sweet By and By: A Story Floodgates , ( book review by Donna Phelps Irons, Jenny. Reconstituting Whiteness: The About Love (book review by Ann Fite), 37 McGraw), 62 Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse: African (book review by Joyce M. Shaw), 39 Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism: American Education in Mississippi, Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi 1862-1875 (book review by Mantra J Civil Rights Movement (book review by Henderson), 42 Jefferson, Lila, book review by, 41-42 Angie H. Balius), 43-44 Johnson, Greg, book review by, 41 G Jury Discrimination: The Supreme Court, Public C Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Opinion, and a Grassroots Fight for Racial Cassagne, Susan, Casey Hughes, and Mari - Mississippi Blues (book review by Alisa Equality in Mississippi (book review by anne Raley. If You Build It, They Will St. Amant), 38-39 Chameka Simmons Robinson), 43 Come: Development of a Library Teen Goldman, James (photography) and Mack - Room , 56-58 lyn Hubbell (text). Goldman’s Gold: An K Cawthon, Richard J. Lost Churches of Album of Photographs Taken in 1968 of Kelley, Jesse, book review by, 41 Mississippi (book review by Jason the Marks’ Mule Train (book review by Kimbrell Jr., Bill. Code 936 (book review Kovari), 38 William L. Bahr), 63-64 by Judith Hilkert), 37 Children and Young Adult Library Services Goldman’s Gold: An Album of Photographs The Klu Klux Klan in Mississippi: A History Supported by the Mississippi Library Com - Taken in 1968 of the Marks’ Mule Train (book review by Teresa Neaves), 79 mission , 25-27 (book review by William L. Bahr), Klubek, Peter. A Database Comparison of Cochran, Michael. Sir Bubba (book review 63-64 ERIC and Google Scholar , 66-68 by Cesarina Dancy), 77 Grabowsky, Adelia and Melissa Wright. Koch, Kathleen. Rising from Katrina: How Code 936 (book review by Judith Hilkert), New Job, New Setting, New…Everything: My Mississippi Hometown Lost It All and 37 The Story of Two New Reference Librari - Found What Mattered (book review by Cole, Hunter. The Legs Murder Scandal (book ans and How They Survived a Library Peggy Price), 39-40 review by Pamela Williamson), 64 Renovation Project , 49-52 Kovari, Jason, book review by, 38 The Cool Woman (book review by Jamie H L Elston), 37 Harry, Tina, Editor. News Briefs , 30-35, Lee, Deborah. The 2011 Horizon Report: Crawford, Aaron, book review by, 79 59-62, 75-77 Emerging Technologies , 7-8 PAGE 84 VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES

The Legs Murder Scandal (book review by P Storage Room to Conservation Lab: How the Pamela Williamson), 64 Parr, Katherine. The Impact of School University of Miami Libraries Built the Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Libraries on Student Achievement and First Lab in South Florida , 53-56 Delta Hip-Hop Story (book review by Success , 18-22 Swain, Martha H., Elizabeth Anne Payne, and Greg Johnson), 41 Payne, Elizabeth Anne, Martha H. Swain, Marjorie Julian Spruill, eds. Mississippi Librarians and Architects: Q & A , 46 and Marjorie Julian Spruill, eds. Missis - Women: Their Histories, Their Lives-Volume Library Lunchtime Lecture: Invite, Involve sippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives- 2 (book review by Lila Jefferson), 41-42 and Inform a Community , 70-72 Volume 2 (book review by Lila Jeffer - Swanson, Margaret A., book review by, 63 Library Renovation Lessons Learned…and son), 41-42 Sweet By and By: A Story about Love (book Still Learning , 47-49 People in the News , 36,62, 74 review by Ann McGraw), 62 Lost Churches of Mississippi (book review by Pettway, Charlcie K. Library Lunchtime T Jason Kovari), 38 Lecture: Invite, Involve and Inform a The 2011 Horizon Report: Emerging Tech - M Community , 70-72 nologies , 7-8 McCarver, Paul. Remembering Jay Barton President’s Page (photo), 1, 45, 65 Trethewey, Natasha. Beyond Katrina: A Med - Spencer, 1965-2011 , 28-29 Price, Peggy, book review by, 39-40 itation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (book McGraw, Ann, book review by, 62 R review by Adrienne McPhaul), 42-43 McKee, Anne B. Historic Photos of Mississip - Raley, Marianne, Casey Hughes, and Susan V pi (book review by William L. Bahr), 40 Cassagne. If You Build It, They Will Varner, Lynn and Mantra Henderson. Back McCullen, Margaret. Sources of Light (book Come: Development of a Library Teen to School with Information Literacy: One review by Allisa Beck), 77-78 Room , 56-58 Library’s Plan , 2-6 McPhaul, Adrienne, book review by, 42-43 Reconstituting Whiteness: The Mississippi W McWhite, Leigh, book review by, 43 State Sovereignty Commission (book Waldrep, Christopher. Jury Discrimination: Mattox, Ginger, book review by, 64 review by Joyce M. Shaw), 39 The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and The “M” Word: Migrating Bibliographic Reinke, Scott David and Duvy Argandona. a Grassroots Fight for Racial Equality in Data to a New Integrated Library System , Storage Room to Conservation Lab: How Mississippi (book review by Chameka 23-24 the University of Miami Libraries Built Simmons Robinson), 43 Mississippians (book review by Leigh the First Lab in South Florida, 53-56 Walking is the Worst Exercise: and other Chal - McWhite), 43 Remembering Jay Barton Spencer, 1965- lenges to the Conventional Wisdom of Med - Mississippi Library Association Author 2011 , 28-29 icine (book review by Tracy Englert), 63 Awards, 2012 , 80 Rising from Katrina: How My Mississippi Wells, Kathleen L. The “M” Word: Migrat - Mississippi Library Association Awards, Hometown Lost It All and Found What ing Bibliographic Data to a New Integrat - 2012 , 81-82 Mattered (book review by Peggy Price) ed Library System , 23-24 Mississippi Library Commission, Public 39-40 “When People Were Nice and Things Were Libraries Bureau Staff. Children and Robinson, Chameka Simmons, book Pretty”: A Culinary History of Merigold: A Young Adult Library Services Supported by review by, 43, 78-79 Mississippi Delta Town (book review by the Mississippi Library Commission , 25-27 Ruffin, Ellen, book review by, 38 Jesse Kelley), 41 Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their S White, Neil, ed. Mississippians (book Lives-Volume 2 (book review by Lila St. Amant, Alisa, book review by, 38-39 Jefferson) 41-42 review by Leigh McWhite), 43 Shaw, Joyce M., book review by, 39 Whitt, Jan. Burning Crosses and Activist N Shaw, Joyce M. and Philip W. Shaw. Librar - Journalism: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Neaves, Teresa, book review by, 79 ians and Architects: Q & A , 46 Mississippi Civil Rights Movement (book Neff, Ali Colleen. Let the World Listen Shaw, Philip W. and Joyce M. Shaw. Librar - review by Angie H. Balius), 43-44 Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop ians and Architects: Q & A , 46 The Wildmons of Mississippi: A Story of Story (book review by Greg Johnson), Sir Bubba (book review by Cesarina Christian Dissent (book review by 41 Dancy), 77 Ginger Mattox), 64 New Job, New Setting, New…Everything: Sources of Light (book review by Allisa Wildmon, Allen. The Wildmons of Missis - The Story of Two New Reference Librari - Beck), 77-78 sippi: A Story of Christian Dissent (book ans and How They Survived a Library Span, Christopher M. From Cotton Field to review by Ginger Mattox), 64 Renovation Project , 49-52 Schoolhouse: African American Education Wilkie, Curtis. The Fall of the House of Zeus: News Briefs , 30-35, 59-62, 75-77 in Mississippi,1862-1875 (book review The rise and Ruin of America’s Most Newton, Michael. The Klu Klux Klan in by Mantra Henderson), 42 Powerful Trial Lawyer (book review by Mississippi: A History (book review by Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Aaron Crawford), 79 Teresa Neaves), 79 Network That Tried to Destroy the Civil Williamson, Pamela, book review by, 64 Nuttall, Harry D. Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Rights Movement (book review by Ellen Williamson, Pamela M. Digitization of the Man and the Academic Instruction Ruffin), 38 John Elon Phay Collection , 15-17 Librarian: Striving for Balance , 9-14 Spruill, Marjorie Julian, Elizabeth Anne Wilson, Alyssa, book review by, 39 O Payne, and Martha H. Swain, eds. Wright, Melissa and Adilia Grabowsky. 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