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Volume 75, No. 3 Winter 2012 VOL Volume 75, No. 3 Winter 2012 VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES A Quarterly Publication of the ISSN 0194-388X Mississippi Library Association ©2012 EDITORIAL STAFF CONTENTS EDITOR Alex P. Watson FEATURES J. D. Williams Library President’s Page ..............................................................................................................65 The University of Mississippi Stephen Cunetto, President, Mississippi Library Association P.O. Box 1848 A Database Comparison of ERIC and Google Scholar ................................................66 University, MS 38677-1848 Peter Klubek [email protected] 662-915-5866 Library Lunchtime Lecture: Invite, Involve and Inform a Community .....................70 Charlcie K. Pettway Vann ASSISTANT EDITOR Creating and Utilizing a Mobile Website & QR Code for the Library .......................72 Blair Booker Courtney M. Hicks Holmes Community College Mississippi Library Association Author Award Winners, 2012 ....................................80 [email protected] Amy Poe Mississippi Library Association Award Winners, 2012 ................................................81 COPY EDITOR Barbara Evans Tracy Carr Seabold Mississippi Library Commission [email protected] IN EVERY ISSUE ADVERTISING EDITOR People in the News ..........................................................................................................................74 Alex P. Watson News Briefs ......................................................................................................................................75 The University of Mississippi About Books ....................................................................................................................................77 [email protected] REPORTER On the cover: A photomosaic of medieval manuscripts held by the Department of Archives and Special Tina Harry Collections at the University of Mississippi. Ranging from the 9th to the 15th centuries AD, they are available for full-resolution viewing online at http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/archives/medieval.php. The University of Mississippi [email protected] BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Jennifer Brannock The University of Southern Mississippi [email protected] MLA PUBLICITY COMMITTEE CHAIR Mississippi Libraries is a publication of the Mississippi Library Association (MLA). The articles, reports, and features herein David Schommer represent the viewpoints of their respective authors and are not necessarily the official opinions of the Association. Subscription Rates: $16.00 per year ($4.00 per issue); $24.00 per year outside of the U.S.; free to MLA members. Back issues Watkins Elementary School are available from University Microfilms International. Advertising Rates: Rates are available upon request from the Advertising Editor. [email protected] Advertising Deadlines: Spring: February 10; Summer: May 10; Fall: August 10; Winter: November 10 Submissions: Manuscripts must be submitted in electronic format in Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or ASCII text format. Documents can be sent as an attachment via e-mail. INDEXER Deadlines for submission: Spring: February 2; Summer: May 2; Fall: August 2; Winter: November 2. In order to assure the widest possible audience for the work published in Mississippi Libraries , that work is added in electron - Shirlene Stogner ic form to the Mississippi Library Association Web site and, by contractual agreement, to one or more EBSCO Publishing data - The University of Southern Mississippi bases. Mississippi Libraries is also indexed in Library Literature and Information Sciences Abstracts. Dues must be paid by March 15 in order to receive the Spring issue of Mississippi Libraries . [email protected] MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES VOL. 75, NO. 3 • WINTER 2012 PAGE 65 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] Susan Sparkman [email protected] Special Libraries Section Chair Sheila A. Cork [email protected] 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
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