The Southeastern Volume 52, No. 4 Librarian Winter, 2004/2005

Message from the President

As I write this, our Southeastern Celebration hosted by North Carolina Library Association is only a memory. But what a wonderful memory it is! From start to finish, the conference planning committee gave us a grand plethora of events, programs and networking opportunities. Special thanks are extended to Mark Pumphrey, Polk County North Carolina Public Library, who served as my co-chair; John Via from Forsyth County, North Carolina, conference chair; Pauletta Brown Bracy, President of the North Carolina Library Association; and Faith Line from Sumter County, South Carolina, who diligently served on the Planning Committee. The hearty crew from NCLA made us feel welcome and did their best to accommodate the needs of SELA in Charlotte.

The past biennium was a true learning experience for me. The camaraderie exhibited by the 2003 - 2004 executive board was a true gift. Under the leadership of Ann Hamilton as President, from Georgia Southern University, and with the guidance of Barry Baker, Past-President, from the University of Central Florida, Faith Line as Secretary and Diane Baird, Treasurer, Middle Tennessee State University, we cooperated on a variety of projects to enhance SELA. As editor, Frank Allen, University of Central Florida, raised the bar for The Southeastern Librarian and worked diligently to build and maintain a quality publication for our membership. Another UCF colleague Raynette Kibbee, served as web master for the organization. At the close of the biennium their duties were assumed by Perry Bratcher from Northern Kentucky University as SELN editor, and Paula Barnett-Ellis from Jacksonville State University, Alabama, as web master.

We also had a change in our association management in 2004. Lauren Fallon who resourcefully handled our office under an agreement with SOLINET, was succeeded by Gordon Baker and Bob Fox, who also handle administrative services for the Georgia Library Association from their office in Rex, Georgia.

This is also a welcome to my colleagues on the 2005 - 2006 Executive Board. Faith Line will be successfully piloting SELA through our April 5 - 7, 2006 joint conference with Tennessee, slated for the Hilton Hotel in East Memphis. Faith has just finished two successive terms on the successful Charleston and Charlotte planning committees. Bill Nelson from Augusta State University, Georgia will bring his varied library and SELA credentials to the organization as Treasurer. Carol Brinkman from the University of Louisville, Kentucky is our new secretary. Carol and I will have the opportunity to work together in another capacity since I served as her Secretary when she was President of the Kentucky Library Association.

Please put May 13, 2005, on your calendars. Decatur, Georgia will be the site of our Biennial Leadership Conference where we will begin revitalizing SELA through a review of our strategic plan. It is also the beginning of our journey to Memphis and our next SELA joint conference.

All the best,

Judith Gibbons

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SELA/NCLA Conference: A Splendid Combination it Was!

The SELA/NCLA joint conference in Charlotte was a highly successful affair with numerous events on a wide range of subjects. SELA sponsored or co-sponsored over 25 programs. Congratulations to all SELA members who were involved with the program efforts.

Conference Photos Headlining the conference photo highlights, President Ann Hamilton (pictured below) ceremoniously hands over the gavel to incoming president, Judith Gibbons, at the SELA board meeting.

Naslund, (below), won the distinction for her 1999 work Ahab’s Wife: Or, the Star Gazer: A Novel. Ahab’s Wife has won wide acclaim, including being chosen by Time magazine as one of the top five novels of 1999, and being selected by the New York Times as a Notable Book.

Yvonne Crumpler (next column), co-chair, SELA Outstanding Southeastern Author Awards Committee, introduces fiction award winner, Sena Jeter Naslund at the SELA awards and business luncheon.

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Co-chair Jan Ruskell, below, State College of West Georgia, introduces Louis D. Rubin, winner in the non-fiction category for his memoir, An Honorable Estate: My Time in the Working Press.

SELA members Bill Nelson, left, and Jim Ward, right, share a moment together at the Conference.

Rubin (pictured below accepting his award), is distinguished professor of English emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and founder of Algonquin Books. The book traces his early career as a newspaper journalist, and subsequent realization that his passion for writing lay in more creative literary pursuits.

Rothrock Winner Announced In a special conference moment, Ann Hamilton announced that Charles Beard has been posthumously chosen to receive this year’s Rothrock Award. Charles’ contributions to librarianship are legendary in the south and beyond. Ann added that Charles knew he would be receiving the award.

Gale/SELA Grants Awarded Ann Hamilton poses for a photo with Joyce SELA wishes to thank Thomson Gale for their Baldwin, recipient of this biennium’s continuing support of the Gale/SELA Frankenthaler Scholarship. Ms. Baldwin is a professional development grants. A special librarian at the Ponte Vedra branch library of the thanks goes to Ed McBride, Vice President, who St. John’s County Public Library System, introduced this year’s winners, and for his Florida. longstanding interest in the program. For more information about the Gale/SELA grant program go to http://sela.jsu.edu/GaleGrant.htm. This year’s award winners, each of whom received a

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$500 stipend to help support attendance at the helped her, she discovered how much work was conference, are: involved in teaching the class as she also • Dorothy P. Everette, Branch Manager, became their advisor and “personal librarian.” Edgecombe County Memorial Library, Finally, Michael Wilson, Shorter College (School Tarboro, NC of Professional Studies), shared his experience • Brenna K. Helmstutler, Education and in working with nontraditional students in a lock Public Health Liaison/Reference step program. Each course lasts for five weeks Librarian, Georgia State University and is taught during the evening hours. Overall, • Adrienne Lee, Information Services each participant provided valuable information Librarian, University of Southern for those wanting to begin a credit-bearing Mississippi in Cook Library course on their campus. • Laura Slavin, Cataloging Librarian, Troy - Reporter: Jennifer Little, Reference/Instruction State University, AL Librarian; University of South Carolina Aiken

Information Commons: An Emerging Trend Selected Program Reports from the In Libraries SELA/NCLA Conference Before a standing room only audience, panel members began by showing images of their

respective information commons as well as The Bibliographic Instruction Classroom facilities at the University of Southern California, Course: Instructors’ Perspectives Emory University, Colorado State University, (Sponsored by SELA Library Instruction Brookdale Community College, and Elon Roundtable) University. Information commons, they This panel discussion featured speakers from explained, is a term that has been used since five different institutions who described their the early 1990’s to reflect technology-rich, one- courses and gave their personal stories of what stop, and seamless integrated service centers worked, what didn’t, and what they would developed for learners. The lines between improve for the next time. Betsy Williams, computer labs, the library, and library services Appalachian State University, teaches a one are blurring. Establishing an information credit hour general studies class. Her class commons can be a catalyst for change and includes instruction on WebCT, written exemplifies collaboration. exercises, and a final project of a web page.

The university has an active first year program in The panel then shared some planning and which all students complete a library tutorial and implementation issues, as well as lessons then come to the library for two general learned. Having a clear mission is important. sessions. Janet Ferguson, University of North Changing the mindset of the staff can be Carolina Asheville, teaches Library Research difficult. While some saw the need to hire 102, a one-hour introductory course to individuals with talents in both information and information literacy. It follows the model of Mary technology, others were creating new job Washington College of having two intensive classifications, and forming partnerships. Cross- courses in the curriculum for information literacy. training and communication between affected They have plans to introduce an upper-level parties was considered crucial. Aesthetics, course next fall. Linda Colding, University of security, and providing just-in-time services are Central Florida, shared her experience of co- key issues to consider. Panel members teaching a class in Criminal Justice Information recommended holding focus groups to Acquisition with another faculty member. While determine needs. Students appear to love she was excited that the faculty member specialty labs (e.g., an imaging lab, scanning approached her to help design and teach the lab, MacIntosh lab) and other technological class she soon learned the importance of having services (e.g., collaborative study rooms, a a contract or agreement between partners. She presentation rehearsal studio, digital camera lost her faculty partner early in the semester due and video recorder borrowing, television studio to events related to September 11, 2001. When facilities). Having tutors and mentors, holding all was said and done, she said emphatically “game nights” where tournaments are hosted, that “Yes!” she would do it again. Jennie Hunt, and incorporating a café are all services that can Greensboro College, taught a First Year 101 encourage students to visit the library and its class at her institution entitled “Internet and information commons. Panel members found College Life.” Although a teaching assistant 4

that an information commons can become the enthusiastic discussion about the possibility of best place to study, be the best computer lab on the College and University Section sponsoring a campus, influence the work culture and second program. It was decided to return to this classroom technology, have an impact on issue at the May 2005 Leadership Conference to classroom assignments, and result in a much be held in Decatur, Georgia. higher gate count. - Reporter: Pat McGee, Tennessee Technological University, Secretary The panel was comprised of Russ Bailey, (picturon the next page) University of North Carolina-Charlotte; David S. Goble, Central Piedmont Community College; Pat Ryckman, Charlotte Latin School; Crit Stuart, Georgia Institute of Technology; and Barbara Tierney, University of North Carolina-Charlotte. The presentation is available at http://library.uncc.edu/infocommons/conference. - Reporter: Allison King, University of Central Florida Libraries.

Colleges and Universities Section Conference Report At the November 12, 2004 meeting of the Colleges and Universities section of SELA, Vice Chairman Sarah Hammill introduced the New Voices: Ideas from New Librarians presentations, which were sponsored by EBSCO. Pamela Aban, Marcia Kalayjian, Judy Polak, and Beth Weixler presented “Good to the Last Drop: Dimensions and Cultural Implications of Coffee Service in Libraries.” Adrienne Lee presented “Striving for Success: Practical Advice for Reference Graduate Assistants (and Other New Reference Providers).” There was some 5

Arkansas Stateside News Clinton Presidential Library Opens, Draws Alabama Record Crowds The William J. Clinton Presidential Library and University of Alabama awarded Grant Museum, located in Little Rock on the banks of University Libraries at The University of the Arkansas River, opened in November amidst Alabama (UA), in partnership with the UA much fanfare. The current and two former School of Library and Information Studies presidents, entertainment and political (SLIS), has been awarded a $449,201 grant celebrities, and a crowd of 30,000 were on hand from the Institute of Library and Museum for opening ceremonies despite rain and cold Services (IMLS) under the program “Recruiting st temperatures. Visitors to the library can easily and Educating Librarians for the 21 Century”. spend a day in the complex and may wish to Funding will cover tuition for ten students who begin in the orientation theater. From there they have completed a graduate degree in another can stroll along a 110 foot timeline covering the subject to study academic or research years of the Clinton administration, see replicas librarianship through the SLIS program. The of the White House Cabinet Room and the Oval grant also covers a stipend for these students, Office, stop by interactive visitor stations, and who will work 20 hours per week each semester much more. On December 27th the library in University Libraries. Practical training and welcomed its 100,000th visitor, an elementary classroom theory will be combined with a school principal from Dallas, Texas. More mentoring experience to prepare students in the information about the library may be obtained at program for a career in academic or research www.clintonlibrary.gov. librarianship. The purpose of the 26 grants awarded by ILMS under this program is to Annual Conference Held recruit and educate new librarians to help to The Arkansas Library Association held its 2004 offset a national shortage of library Annual Conference in October at the professionals. DoubleTree Hotel in Little Rock. The conference theme was Building Libraries, Building Post-Ivan Update - Orange Beach Public Communities. Among the featured speakers Library, Orange Beach were former Arkansas librarian Barbara Orange Beach Public Library suffered extensive Stripling, author Kevin Brockmeier, and attorney damage from trees which fell on the roof during Bettina Brownstein. Officers elected for 2005 Hurricane Ivan (September 16, 2004). While the include Art Lichtenstein, president; Diane damage seemed superficial at first, inspections Hughes, vice-president, and Jamie Melson, by structural engineers revealed that the entire secretary/treasurer. roof would have to be replaced. The library will be closed while the roof is installed and interior If All Arkansas Reads the Same Book repairs are made. Library staff are doing their The latest addition to the statewide reading best to meet the public's informational and program has been named by the Arkansas State recreational needs. Library functions have been Library's Center for the Book. The selection is A consolidated into the front meeting room where Secret Word by Jennifer Paddock. Paddock new books, periodicals, newspapers, DVDs, grew up in Fort Smith, Arkansas, received an Videos and computers have been moved. M.A. in creative writing from New York Library patrons can ask staff to retrieve books, University, and lives with her husband in movies, etc. from the stacks. The library's Fairhope, Alabama. Paddock's mother, Anita, is wireless Internet access is up so Web surfers the manager of the Miller Branch of the Fort can log on from the parking lot, front patio or the Smith Public Library. The book is a coming-of- meeting room. Library programs are being held age story that follows the lives of three young at the Orange Beach Senior Activity Center women from Fort Smith. located next door to the library. The library is also looking for temporary office space in the Arkansas State Library Plans Festivals city. We all look forward to having our library The Arkansas State Library is one of the back in Spring, 2005. community partners for the second annual Arkansas Literary Festival. The festival will be held in April 2005 in the River Market District of

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Little Rock. Proceeds will be used in the Broward County Library has won a 2004 campaign to fight illiteracy in the state. Achievement Award from The National Association of Counties (NACo) for ‘English Café’, a program series that offers adult Florida speakers of other languages an opportunity to improve their English speaking skills. The NACo Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature Series awards honor innovative county government at the Tamarac Branch Library programs that improve service delivery and The Tamarac Branch Library of the Broward enhance efficiency to promote responsible and County Commission Libraries, Florida, is hosting effective county government. English Café is a five-part reading and discussion series coordinated by the library's Learning Services January through March, 2005 called "Let's Talk unit and is presented at nine branches. The About It: Jewish Literature, Identity and program is designed for people who speak Imagination." The series explores Jewish English at an intermediate level and have at literature and culture through scholar-led least the equivalent of a high school diploma discussions of contemporary and classic books from their native country. In a casual classroom on a common theme. Books to be discussed setting, participants are encouraged to practice during the series are: Lost In Translation by Eva English conversation without worrying about Hoffman; Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow; making mistakes. Focusing on vocabulary, Out of Egypt by Andre' Aciman; Centaur in the pronunciation and grammar, the classes are Garden by Moacyr Scliar’; and Kaaterskill Falls conducted in English by library staff and by Allegra Goodman. Dr. Rita Botwinick, volunteers. A variety of activities are presented Professor of History at Florida Atlantic to enhance language skills, including University, will lead a discussion at each discussions of newspaper articles, word games, session. Dr. Botwinick is a published author of role-playing, storytelling and improvised several books including A Holocaust Reader: conversation. More than 500 students are From Ideology to Annihilation. currently enrolled in the program. Vonda Bryant is Literacy Services Coordinator for Broward Central Florida Reads County Library and administers the English Café Be a part of Central Florida Reads Before and Crossroads Café program. Bryant has Women Had Wings, by Connie May Fowler. trained more than two dozen staff members in Sponsored by the Orange County Library how to present these programs at their libraries. system and Orlando Sentinel Communications, this seven county initiative encourages everyone The Art of the Cigar Label Exhibit Opening & to celebrate reading through conversations and Reception events related to the book. This year’s book is a The Ybor City Museum Society, in conjunction best-selling novel set in Florida. The story is told with the University of South Florida Libraries, from the viewpoint of a young girl called Bird. Tampa, opened its newest exhibit, The Art of the Her mother named both her children after birds, Cigar Label, on Friday, October 15th, 2004 at thinking they would be able to fly above the the Ybor City Museum State Park, Tampa. The horrors in their lives. The book was the winner of beautiful, multi-colored and embossed labels the 1996 Southern Book Critics Choice Award that once graced cigar boxes are windows into for Fiction. Fowler, a powerful yet sensitive Florida's past and are now highly collectible writer, explores abuse and survival. The Central items. Cigar labels explored themes of sex Florida Reads steering committee consists of appeal, politics, patriotism, celebrities and social Libraries (Orange County Library System, life. The exhibit will display some of these rare Maitland and Winter Park), Barnes & Noble, labels as illustrated below, and will give exhibit- Orlando Sentinel newspaper, University of goers an inside look at the German immigrants Central Florida, Rollins College and Orange and the printing houses that produced these County Public Schools. For more information go extraordinary works of art through rarely viewed to www.centralfloridareads.org. photographs. The exhibit is co-produced with the University of South Florida Libraries' Special Broward County Libraries Announces Collections Department, which loaned many of Program Series that Assists New Speakers the items on display. Sponsorship is also of English provided by The Newman Foundation and Juengling Brewery. Additional funding for the 7

exhibit is made available by the Arts Council of Danowski's gift will have on Emory and the Hillsborough County. scholarship of poetry in the years to come. The breadth and quality of the collection are breathtaking, according to Stephen Enniss, director of special collections at Emory. Highlights include the rare first printing of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" (1855); T.S. Eliot's "Prufrock and Other Observations" (1917), inscribed to Miss Emily Hale by the author; W.H. Auden's first collection of poems, privately printed; Allen Ginsberg's second book, "Siesta in Xbalba," printed on a mimeograph machine on a ship near Icy Cape, Alaska. The collection, considered the largest ever built by a private collector, comprises some 60,000 books as well as tens of thousands of periodicals, manuscripts, correspondence and other materials, and makes the university one of the

world's most renowned destinations for the study Gabriel Horn Helps USF Libraries of contemporary English-language poetry, says Commemorate Native American History Enniss. A retired London art dealer who now Month resides in South Africa, Danowski began his University of South Florida (USF) alumnus and efforts in the 1970s. He became a full-fledged award-winning author Gabriel Horn (White Deer bibliophile, and as years passed and his of Autumn) spoke about following the tradition of collection grew, Danowski and his books began primal wisdom in comparison to Western to attract interest themselves. By the early '90s, ideologies on Nov. 17, 2004, in the USF Tampa Danowski's collection was so massive that Library's Grace Allen Room. The event, entitled selling it whole would be impossible. He would “Writing the Wrongs: A Perspective of Primal either have to break it up or essentially give it Wisdom that Challenges the Ideologies of away. Once he learned the kind of home Emory Western Civilization from the Writings and would provide for the collection, Danowski chose Reflections of Gabriel Horn”, is a part of the USF the second option. But the collector wanted Tampa Library's Native American History Month more than just safety. He wanted these celebration. Gabriel Horn is a nationally materials to be shared and celebrated within the recognized lecturer on writing as well as Native world of literary scholarship. And that's exactly American philosophy and its intricate connection what Emory can deliver. ”Whole chapters of the to the rights of indigenous people, animals, and literary history of our time will be written here at the environment. He has written several award- Emory," Enniss said. "This gift makes Emory a winning children's books and critically acclaimed true destination for literary scholarship." In the books for adults used in secondary and meantime, the task of cataloging the Danowski university curriculum around the country. collection unfolds. Enniss said it will be years Gabriel Horn has been an instructor at the before everything is fully recorded and Poynter Institute for Media Studies and an described, but every box and wooden crate is a adjunct professor of Native American History treasure chest of verse. and Culture at USF. He is currently an associate professor at St. Petersburg College. Sequoyah Library System Offers Audiobook Collection Georgia Starting in early January, the Sequoyah Regional Library System is introducing its Emory Receives Private English Language patrons to a new way of accessing audiobooks Poetry Library by offering a collection of 500 downloadable It took four tractor trailers to transport Raymond audiobooks from Recorded Books/netLibrary. Danowski's collection of English language poetry Recorded Books, a publisher of unabridged to Emory University, but even those four trailers audiobooks, and netLibrary, a leading provider may not be enough to encompass the impact of downloadable eBook and Internet-based 8

services, have teamed up to offer audiobooks be available online, including newsletters, via the internet. Sequoyah Regional is one of policies and procedures, board meeting minutes, the two public libraries in Georgia to offer this and section and roundtable reports. KLA service. The library’s service allows patrons to anticipates saving thousands of dollars in access audiobooks remotely from their home PC postage and printing costs. and features access to all 500 titles in the database. Patrons may download any KLA has a new standing committee, audiobook at any time with no holds. Assistant Recruitment, Mentoring, and Diversity, chaired Director for Public Service Nanette Kicker says by UK Librarian Reinette Jones. Reinette was that the service will provide information as well instrumental in the formation of a new as entertainment. “With the number of tapes roundtable AALERT (African American available for download, patrons will be able to Librarians and Library Employees Roundtable) find a book that reflects their interests. There will and authored the salute to and proclamation for be a wide range of books to choose from, Sir Thomas Blue. including romance, mystery, western, inspirational fiction, science fiction, and many The Association continues to be financially non-fiction topics.” Busy professionals can find sound, due to careful management, growing guidance about career growth, personal membership, and continued partnerships with development, and finance. They can even begin Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Kentucky learning a foreign language. As an added now claims three notables in SELA leadership feature, the entire Pimsleur Language Learning positions; Judith Gibbons (Versailles, KY) is the series consisting of 38 languages, and The Holy current President. Carol Brinkman (Louisville, Bible will be available for download anytime KY) is the current Secretary and Perry Bratcher patrons wish. Ms. Kicker noted that the library (Erlanger, KY) is the new editor of The system made the decision to offer downloadable Southeastern Librarian. audiobooks due to the increasing interest in books on tape and books on CD by current library patrons, as well as the advancements in Louisiana technology. Louisiana 2005 Young Readers' Choice Award Ballot Kentucky Louisiana students are invited to help select the winners of the Young Readers' Choice Awards Kentucky Library Association Report for 2005. Children who read three or more of the The Kentucky Library Association (KLA) held a 15 outstanding titles on the annual Young successful joint conference with the Kentucky Readers' Choice Award ballots can vote for their School Media Association in September at the favorite book. The Louisiana Young Readers' Galt House in Louisville. Over 600 attended. Choice Award, a reading enrichment program of New officers were installed during the business the Louisiana Center for the Book in the State meeting. The 2005 KLA Executive Board is as Library, was created in 2000 for children in follows: grades three through five. This year a separate ballot of age-appropriate titles is offered for • Linda Kompanik – President students in grades six, seven and eight. Hibernia • Christine McIntosh - President-Elect National Bank underwrites the program, which • Laura Whayne – Secretary promotes reading by enabling participants to • Carol Nutter - Immediate Past President help choose the winning book. The ballots for • Tom Underwood - Executive Secretary each year contain recent titles that have been selected by a committee of Louisiana school and The Association's new web site is being public librarians. The lists are a diverse mix of developed and will have three web managers, interesting, well-written children's books, Patrick Davison, Terri Kirk and Randy Matlow. including fiction, non-fiction, folklore and poetry. These three individuals represent academic, Most books are also part of the Accelerated public, and school libraries. The web site will Reading Program used by many schools. have several new features, among which will be Librarians and teachers are invited to read the online membership application and renewal. books on the ballots aloud to their classes and Many of the items that are currently mailed will provide curriculum-related activities. A study 9

guide for each title and other information about Oktibbeha County businessman Charles H. the program are available via the State Library Templeton Sr. is being memorialized at web site http://www.state.lib.la.us/ by clicking on Mississippi State with a permanent music “Center for the Book”, then “LA Young Readers' museum in his honor at the university’s main Choice Award”. Student participation in the library. Templeton, an avid music lover who Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award died in 2000, was a 1949 MSU accounting program continues to grow each year. In 2004, graduate who played both oboe and piccolo a total of 15,269 third, fourth and fifth graders during his student days in the Famous Maroon cast ballots--a significant increase since 2000, Band. At a campus ceremony last month his when 5,485 votes were tallied. The 2004 Young wife Mary Ann Templeton was formally thanked Readers' Choice Awards were presented on for funding the renovation of an existing room in Saturday, November 6th at the third annual Mitchell Memorial Library to permanently house Louisiana Book Festival in downtown Baton the massive collection. Expected to open in Rouge. Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood March, the Charles Templeton Music Museum (Dial Books for Young Readers) is the 2004 will be located on the fourth floor. winner. Speaking on behalf of the university, Mississippi State President Charles Lee expressed Mississippi “Mississippi State’s deepest and most sincere appreciation to Mary Ann Templeton for her United Nations Research Guide Recognized generosity in making the Charles Templeton The Mississippi State University Libraries’ Music Museum a major addition to MSU’s United Nations Research Guide has been cited central repository of learning.” Pictured below at in The Infography as one of the best sources of the ceremony are, left to right, Charles "Chip" H. information about the subject of the United Templeton Jr., Mrs. Mary Ann Templeton, J. Nations. The Infography is an online reference Charles Lee, President, Mississippi State tool that enables, students, teachers, and University and Mary Beth Templeton Langston. librarians to identify exemplary sources of information on the Internet. The subject specialists who select the citations published in The Infography are professors, librarians, and other scholars who are experts in the selected areas and who are charged with selecting only those resources considered “seminal for research.” The Infography is freely available online at http://www.fieldsofknowledge.com . The United Nations Research Guide was developed by LaDonne Delgado, Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Government Documents and Microforms Department. The guide was developed to augment the United Nations collection at the Mississippi State Dating from approximately 1897 through the University Libraries. MSU is the only UN 1940s, the 22,000 pieces of Templeton’s sheet depository library in the state of Mississippi. The music have been, since 2001, in the process of United Nations Research Guide provides being digitized so they may be accessible researchers with a comprehensive annotated instantly for online researchers around the listing of core materials, both in print and world. Together with some 200 musical electronic formats. The United Nations instruments, the collection represents what Research Guide is freely available at: Templeton called “the business of music”—the http://library.msstate.edu/resources/guides/unite popularization of music that ranges from ragtime dnations.asp and blues to Irving Berlin ballads and a generation of tunes documenting World War I. In its previous and temporary location in a MSU Opening New Home for Templeton campus residence off Blackjack Road, the Music Collection collection became a popular stop for campus visitors. 10

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NCSU Libraries Presents GI Bill Exhibit Furman University Celebrates New Library The NCSU Libraries mounted an exhibit in the Addition, Renovation D. H. Hill Library between October 14 and After a $25 million makeover that required over December 22, 2004, to celebrate the sixtieth four years of planning and two years of anniversary of the Servicemen's Readjustment construction and renovation, Furman Act of 1944 and to honor the veterans who have University’s James B. Duke Library celebrated attended NC State. Combining historical the completion of the project with a dedication materials with testimonies of current students, ceremony held this fall. The featured guest Transforming Society: The GI Bill Experience at speaker for the Oct. 28 dedication was Vartan NC State, documents the local impact of one of Gregorian, president of the Carnegie the best-loved and most successful public Corporation of New York, former president of policies ever adopted in the United States. The Brown University and former president and chief exhibit draws mainly on University Archives and executive officer of the New York Public Library. manuscript materials from the Special In June of this year, he was awarded the Collections Research Center at the NCSU Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s Libraries, including photographs, letters, student highest civilian honor. Other speakers included essays, campus publications, and artifacts. Russell M. Robinson II, chair of The Duke Professor Serow and librarian Anna Dahlstein Endowment trustees, and Mary Peace Sterling, interviewed ten current and former NC State a Greenville resident and former trustee. The students who took advantage of expanded Duke Endowment made a gift of $9.5 million educational opportunities they earned by serving toward the library project, and the new wing of in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia- the library is named for Mrs. Sterling’s father, the Herzegovina, Iraq, and other arenas. Their late Charlie Peace, a longtime executive with stories have become a part of the University The Greenville News-Piedmont Company. The Archives in the form of oral history recordings. renovated James B. Duke Library has a dramatic new look, which includes an atrium. It On June 22, 1944, President Franklin Delano has expanded from less than 70,000 square feet Roosevelt signed the Servicemen's to more than 120,000 square feet. Its book Readjustment Act of 1944, better known as "the capacity has doubled to more than 800,000 GI Bill of Rights." The GI Bill contributed to the volumes, and the study space now includes 25 growth of NC State and its transformation from a group study rooms, more than 900 seats, and land-grant state college into a nationally ranked wireless access throughout. Building planners research university. In the late 1940s, around strove to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy 50 percent of all the college students in the and Environmental Design) certification at the nation were veterans. At NC State, that figure Silver level through a variety of environmentally was closer to 80 percent. Enrollment doubled in friendly features such as use of natural light, comparison to pre-WWII levels and continued to recycled materials in construction, and use of grow in the 1950s, partially because benefits carbon dioxide sensors to optimize oxygen were extended to those who served in Korea. levels in the building. The library is also home to the new Multimedia Computing Commons, the Vice Provost and Director of Libraries Susan K. Computer Help Desk, the office of Academic Nutter is amazed and moved by the number of Assistance, and the Center for Collaborative people she has met over the past year who Learning and Communication. The cost of the credit the GI Bill for broadening their expansion and renovation project includes a opportunities. "So many NC State students were $3.5 million endowment that will ensure the touched by this legislation, and not just following building’s future maintenance and operations. World War II," she noted. "Even today, the benefits represent the most generous financial aid for college provided by the federal government."

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Tennessee the TLA Scholarship Committee became a more formalized committee late last summer and has Tennessee State Librarian Recognized as already begun recognizing excellence from Namesake for Tennessee Library students entering the library/information science Association Scholarship Program profession by selecting two applicants as Dr. Edward S. Gleaves was recognized at the Conference Interns at this year’s annual 2004 Annual Conference of the Tennessee conference. The conference interns, Beverly Library Association in Knoxville for his Simmons of Knoxville and Susan Fisher of dedication and commendable service to his College Grove, TN, worked in conjunction with profession as the namesake for the newly Scholarship Committee members on projects created TLA Scholarship Program. Dr. Gleaves designed to help raise money for the scholarship received a BA in English/Speech from David program funds, and were selected from a pool of Lipscomb College in 1958, an MA in five extremely qualified applicants. In addition to Librarianship in 1960, a PhD in English in 1964 the continuation of the conference internship from Emory University, and a Certificate of Program, a $500 scholarship will be awarded Studies in Spanish in Mexico during the Summer annually to at least one student member of TLA of 1962. His work experience spans five who works in a Tennessee library and is decades not only in Georgia, Washington state, pursuing a Masters of Library/Information and Tennessee, but also Mexico, Colombia, Sciences degree in an ALA-accredited program. Venezuela, and Paraguay, as well as work as a For more information concerning the Tennessee Fulbright Program lecturer at the University of Library Association, criteria and deadlines for Costa Rica. Most notably, Dr. Gleaves served the Conference Internship Program, go to the as Director of the Peabody/Vanderbilt Library TLA website at http://www.tnla.org. School from 1967 to 1987. His work as the State Librarian and Archivist for the Tennessee State Library and Archives began in 1987 and continues to date. Conceived two years ago, July 1, 2004, Dr. Baker assumed the position of Head of Public Services at the People News Clayton College & State University Library in Morrow, GA. Dr. Baker has worked as a part-time reference librarian at CCSU for 25 Carolyn Ashcraft has been named the new years. associate director of the Arkansas State Library. Ashcraft has been with the State Margaret Virginia Baker, retired director of Library since 1993. She received a the South Georgia Regional Library, passed bachelor's degree in English at the away in February 2004. Miss Baker was a University of Arkansas at Monticello and a graduate of Waynesboro (GA) High School. master's degree in library science at the She attended Randolph Macon Woman’s University of Alabama. Ashcraft will direct College in Lynchburg, VA. She graduated several areas of service for the State Library from Georgia State College for Women (now and will serve as director during absences of Valdosta State University). She received the director, Jack Mulkey. her degree in library science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Gordon N. Baker, immediate past Her career as a librarian began at Valdosta president of GLA, retired June 30, 2004 from High School. During her career she also the Henry County School System with 30 served as librarian at Emory Junior College years of service. Dr. Baker served as a in Valdosta, the University of Florida, the classroom teacher, media specialist, and University of Georgia, and Washington Coordinator of Instructional Technology and Seminary in Atlanta. She served the South Media Services during his tenure. He Georgia Regional Library System as director supervised the opening of the library/media from 1948 to 1970. During her tenure at centers of Edwin S. Kemp Elementary SGLS she oversaw the construction of the School in Clayton County, Eagle’s Landing new headquarters library on Woodrow High School, Union Grove High School, and Wilson Way. Miss Baker was a life member Luella High School in Henry County. On of the Georgia Library Association and also 12

held memberships in the Southeastern appointed to a task force of the Corporation Library Association, American Library for Public Broadcasting to examine national Association, and the Georgia Association for metadata standards for digital programming. Instructional Technology. Miss Baker is Ms. Bazirjian received her bachelor's degree survived by one sister, Rosemary Strother of from the City University of New York, a Macon and one brother, Dr. Howard F. Master of Science in Library Science from Baker of McDonough. She is survived by 5 Columbia University, and a Master of Social nieces and nephews, including GLA Science from the Maxwell School of Public Immediate Past President, Dr. Gordon N. Administration at Syracuse University. She Baker. succeeds Doris Hulbert, who has retired after nearly 24 years at UNCG, 14 of them Janis Bandelin, Director of Libraries at as Director of the Jackson Library. Furman, is one of 60 representatives worldwide to be elected to the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Members Council, an international nonprofit cooperative dedicated to furthering access to the world’s information and reducing information costs. She will represent the libraries of SOLINET -- the Southeastern Library Network -- for a three-year term.

Newkirk Barnes has been appointed Assistant Professor and Education Reference Librarian at Mississippi State University Libraries. Ms. Barnes has a MLIS from the University of Alabama and a BA in Communications from Tulane University.

Ms. Rosann Bazirjian (next column) has been appointed University Librarian at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro effective August 15, 2004. Ms. Bazirjian, pictured below, comes to UNCG from the Patrick L. Carr has been appointed Pennsylvania State University, where she Assistant Professor and Serials Librarian at served as Assistant Dean for Technical and Mississippi State University Libraries. Mr. Access Services in the Pennsylvania State Carr has a MLS from Clarion University, as University Libraries since 1999. In this well as a MA in English from the University position she was responsible for all aspects of Rochester and a BA in English from of library access (including interlibrary loan, Bonaventure University. lending, disability services, and reserves), acquisitions, business operations, and Timothy F. Daniels recently became cataloging. She previously held positions at electronic resources librarian at Georgia Florida State University, Syracuse University State University Library. He previously was and the University of West Florida. She is a information services librarian at the Georgia member of the PALINET Board of Trustees Institute of Technology. Daniels is working to and of the OCLC Members Council and has obtain his Master of Instructional served on committees and task forces of Technology degree from the University of several professional library organizations. Georgia, Athens. He obtained an MLIS The author of 28 articles, chapters, and degree from the University of North Carolina reviews, Ms. Bazirjian has co-edited four at Greensboro (2000). volumes of the annual Charleston Conference Proceedings. At Penn State, Beth Ellington has been appointed she was involved in several projects Personnel and Planning Librarian at UNC involving the use of information technology Greensboro Jackson Library. Her to enhance library services and was recently employment history includes 16 years in

manufacturing and 5 years of teaching as a Lateka Grays has joined the staff of the member of the faculty at Appalachian State Goizueta Business Library at Emory University and Elon University. Ellington is University as its first Librarian Resident, a currently pursuing a MSIS and a PhD in two-year position. Grays was previously the Information and Library Science at UNC librarian at the Conrad N. Hilton College of Chapel Hill. Hotel and Restaurant Management at the University of Houston. She received her Lucia M. Gonzalez (below) has been MSLS from the University of North Texas in named Broward County Library's Associate 2003. Director for Youth Services. Gonzalez, pictured below, joined the Broward County Susan Hall has been appointed Associate Libraries Division in February of 2003 as Professor and Architecture Librarian for the Assistant Section Manager of the Main Architecture Branch Library, Mississippi Library's Youth Services Section. The State University Libraries. Ms. Hall was the following year she was promoted to Youth Coordinator of Document Delivery/Electronic Services Coordinator for the Broward Theses and Dissertations at the MSU County Library system. An accomplished Libraries prior to her current appointment. storyteller, Gonzalez is the author of two award-winning bilingual books, The Bossy Kathryn Hall Field joined the staff of Gallito, winner of the Pura Belpré Literature DeTamble Library, St. Andrews Presbyterian Honor Medal, and Señor Cat's Romance College, Laurinburg, NC, as Catalog and Other Favorite Stories from Latin Librarian in August, 2004. Kathy comes to America, an Americas Award Commended St. Andrews from Rockingham County Title. Before coming to Broward County Public Library System located in Mayodan, Library, Gonzalez was Programs NC where she was the Branch Supervisor. Coordinator for the Miami-Dade Public Kathy holds a BA in English from St. Library System. She is a member of the Andrews Presbyterian College, a MSLS National Storytelling Association, the from UNC-Chapel Hill and a BSEE from American Library Association (ALA), the Tennessee Technological University. Association of Library Services to Children (ALSC) and the Young Adult Library Janet Harper has been appointed Project Services Association (YALSA). Gonzalez Cataloger for a National Endowment for the holds a Master of Arts degree in library and Humanities two-year grant at the Woodruff information science from the University of Library of Emory University. She will catalog South Florida. approximately 4,000 pamphlets dealing with African American religion and politics. Janet received her MLIS from Wayne State University and previously worked as a project archivist at the Butler Street YMCA in Atlanta and for the Cooperative Historically Black Colleges and Universities Archival Survey Project.

Virginia Kay Williams has been appointed Assistant Professor and Assistant Collection Development Officer, Mississippi State University Libraries. Ms. Williams has a MLS and a JD from the University of South Carolina.

Steven Mandeville-Gamble (next page) has been appointed Head of the Special Collections Research Center at the NCSU Libraries, effective December 1, 2004. In this key leadership role he will provide strategic management of collections, policy,

budget, and personnel. He will also be with the Oktibbeha County School System. involved with the renovation and expansion Prior to coming to MSU, Dr. Nowak worked of the Special Collections space and the for five years at West Virginia Wesleyan opening of a new reading room and gallery. College as a reference librarian and taught Mandeville-Gamble, pictured below, has French at a number of institutions including extensive professional experience in special the College of William and Mary, California collections and archives. He previously State University, and Ohio State University. holds the position of Assistant Dr. Nowak had a B.A. in French from the Head of Special Collections at Stanford University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an University. Mandeville-Gamble holds the M.A. in Library and Information Studies and Masters of Library and Information Studies Ph.D. in French from the University of degree from the University of California, Wisconsin-Madison. Berkeley, the Master of Arts Degree in Sociolinguistic Anthropology from the Lee Pasackow has joined the Goizueta University of Michigan, and the Bachelor of Business Library at Emory University as a Arts Degree in Cultural Anthropology from Business Research Librarian. Previously, Stanford University. He is a member of the she was Manager of Market Intelligence for Society of American Archivists and the PeopleSoft for six years. She received her Society of California Archivists, and is a MSLIS from Simmons College. contributing author to the Handbook of American Women's History, NCSU Libraries Fellow Catherine 1st and 2nd editions. Pellegrino has been named the first Cyma Rubin Libraries Fellow. As such, she will benefit from a professional development stipend supported by the annual income from the Cyma Rubin Endowment for the NCSU Libraries Fellows Program. In addition to earning the Master of Science in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Pellegrino holds the Doctor and Master of Philosophy degrees in Music Theory from Yale University and the Bachelor of Music in Clarinet Performance and Music Theory from Oberlin College.

Dr. Derrie Perez (next page) has been appointed Dean of the University of South Florida (USF) Library System through 2007. Dr. Perez, pictured below, has served as Interim Dean of the USF Library System since 1999. Prior to joining USF, she was the Associate Vice President of Learning Resources Services for Hillsborough Community College. She holds a doctoral degree from Florida State University, and a M.L.S. and B.A. in English and Liberal Arts The Mississippi State University Libraries is from Louisiana State University. Dr. Perez sad to report that Dr. David Nowak, 59, has has held leadership roles on many boards died. Dr. Nowak had been with the MSU and task forces including her service as Libraries since 1994, serving as associate President of the Florida Library Association, professor and reference services librarian. President of the Tampa Bay Library During this time, Dr. Nowak worked closely Consortium, President of the Florida with graduate students through the Libraries' Chapter of the Association of College and Research Consultation service and was also Research Libraries, and Inaugural Chair of instrumental in the implementation and the Advisory Board and Executive development of the Libraries' partnership Committee of the College Center for Library

Automation (CCLA). In 1995 she received the National Award for Program Development from the Community and Junior College Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries for her work with CCLA.

John Russell has joined the University Library at Georgia State as liaison librarian to the departments of history and anthropology/geography. Russell previously was reference assistant at Indiana University. Russell obtained an MLS degree from Indiana University (2004), and an ABD in European History from Boston College (1998). Nancy Reinhold has been appointed Team Leader for Research and Instructional Scott Salzman, systems librarian for the Services at the Woodruff Library of Emory Furman Libraries, has been appointed as University. Previously, she served as the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) Instruction Services Team Leader for three Environmental Fellow at Furman University years and Reference Librarian for nine years for 2004 - 2005. In this role will serve as the at Emory. She received both her M.Ln. and key campus spokesperson for the ACS BA from Emory. Environmental Initiative and as a catalyst to stimulate environmental and sustainable Scott Rice, (next column), has been named development activity on campus. He has a Networked Information Services Librarian B.S. in Physical Education from the State and Coordinator of Library Services for University of New York at Cortland, an M.A. Distance Education for Jackson Library at in Fitness Management from New York UNC Greensboro. He was previously University, and an M.L.S. from the University Information Technology Librarian for Rowan of Arizona. Before coming to Furman, he Public Library, North Carolina. served as systems librarian at Mankato State University, Carleton College, St. Olaf College, and at Mercer University Law School.

Mary Hurlbert Stein was named Assistant Director of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library system on October 3, 2004. She began her library career at Louisiana State University as a Library trainee in 1980. In addition to LSU, she has also worked at the New Mexico State University Library and the East Baton Rouge Parish Library. Stein, pictured below, earned a bachelor’s degree in Music Theory from LSU in 1979, a

bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance Library at UC-Santa Cruz. She has also from LSU in 1980, a master’s degree in served as Head of the Biological Sciences Library and Information Science from LSU in Library at Ohio State University. 1981, and a master’s degree in Vocal Performance from New Mexico State Cynthia Wilkinson is retiring as Manager of University in 1982. She began her career at Human Resources after 25 years at the East Baton Rouge Parish Library in 1984 SOLINET (Southeastern Library Network). as a Circulation Librarian and was named Ms. Wilkinson, pictured below, participated Assistant Head of Adult Services in 1985. In in and was instrumental in implementing 1998, Stein assumed the responsibility of SOLINET’s many changes as the Head of Teen / Young Adult Services. She organization developed over time in is the fourth assistant director in the sixty- response to member needs. Ms. Wilkinson five-year history of the East Baton Rouge is also an active member of the Georgia Parish Library. Employer Committee Executive Board, an advisory committee to the Georgia Department of Labor, and serves on the Fulton County Workforce Board of Directors. Mary Ellen Templeton, one of the founding members of the Goizueta Business Library at Emory University, retired August 31, 2004, after nearly twenty-two years with Emory. Mary Ellen made significant contributions to the library and Emory as the Goizueta Business School has grown and as library services have expanded with the school. Mary Ellen came to Emory as one of two business reference librarians who were based in the reference department of the Woodruff Library. The business librarians provided reference and research services to the business school and developed the library's collections and resources in the various fields of the business programs. As the faculty and student body grew, Mary Ellen helped initiate new and more focused business information services, serving as acting supervisor of Business Information Services (1992-1994) before the business library was established with its own director in 1994. In 1991, Mary Ellen published a widely used and popular book, Help! My Job Interview is Tomorrow, that guided readers in using the library for research on Elizabeth L. Winter has been named employers; it was released in a revised electronic resources librarian at Georgia edition in 1997. State University, Atlanta. She previously was a library assistant at the Harvard Law Victoria Welborn has been appointed School Library. Winter obtained an MS in Science Librarian at Furman, where she will Library and Information Studies from Florida play a major role in planning a new science State University (2003) and a BA degree in library. Welborn has a B.A. in Biology from English from Furman University, Greenville, Wake Forest University, an M.L.S. from Kent South Carolina (2000). State University, and is completing a Master’s in Ocean Sciences from University Li Zhang has been appointed Assistant of California at Santa Cruz. Formerly, she Professor and Reference Web Services served as Ocean Sciences/Biological Librarian, Mississippi State University Sciences Librarian and Head of the Science

Libraries. Ms. Zhang has an MLS from the Secretary: Doris Mitchell University of South Florida. Assistant Director, F.D. Bluford Library North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro Correction [email protected] The article in the fall, 2004 issue (No. 3) entitled Libraries and Donors: Maintaining Past-Chair: Linda S. Harris the Status Quo, contains a printing error. Head of Reference Services The paragraph on page 35 starting with the Mervyn H. Sterne Library phrase “But before that is likely to happen University of Alabama at Birmingham ….”, and subsequent text on page 36 are [email protected] not a part of the article. The article properly concludes with the sentence on page 35 “Without such generosity our collections SOLINET Co-Sponsors Pacific Northwest would not be as bountiful as they are”. The Preservation Management Institute full text e-version available through Library The Southeastern Library Network Literature has been corrected. The (SOLINET) is proud to partner with the Southeastern Librarian regrets this error. Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), Amigos Library Services, Inc., the Conservation Center for Art and Historic News from SELA and the Artifacts (CCAHA), the Online Computer Southeast Library Center (OCLC), and the University of Washington Libraries (UW) in presenting The Pacific Northwest Preservation SELA Election results for 2004-2006: Management Institute, which will take place • Judith Gibbons, President during the fall and winter on the campus of • Faith Line, Vice- the University of Washington. The institute is President/President-Elect funded in part by a National Leadership • Carol Brinkman, Secretary Grant from the Institute of Museum and • Bill Nelson, Treasurer Library Services (IMLS), through NEDCC. Targeting primarily small to mid-sized Please congratulate them! I want to take institutions in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and this opportunity to thank all the candidates Washington, the program is designed for for agreeing to run for office since that is librarians, archivists, curators, and records such an important contribution to the managers who have at least part-time association. I would also like to thank Barry preservation responsibilities but who lack Baker for stepping in and chairing the preservation management training. The Nominating Committee when Charles Beard series of three week-long sessions will was unable to do so. Looking forward to provide the information needed to prepare, another exciting biennium for SELA, implement, and maintain an effective - Ann Hamilton preservation program for documents, books, photographs, and other paper-based SELA African-American Issues Round materials. Instructors for the institute are Table New Officers Julie Arnott, SOLINET Preservation Chair: Wanda K. Brown Services Manager; Tom Clareson, OCLC; Team Leader, Technical & Access Services Steve Dalton, NEDCC; Lori Foley, NEDCC; Z. Smith Reynolds Library Gary Menges, University of Washington; Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC Gayle Palmer, OCLC; Jill Rawnsley, [email protected] CCAHA; and Shelby Sanett, Amigos Library Services. In addition, guest speakers will Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Thelma Glover address special topics. More information on Associate Director for Technical and the institute is available at www.nedcc.org. Automation Services Cobb County Public Library, Marietta, GA SOLINET Launches Online Job Bank [email protected] SOLINET is pleased to announce the addition of a new and useful member

service – the online SOLINET Job Bank. With the convenience of the internet, administrators may post positions available within the SOLINET region – the Southeastern United States and the Caribbean. Persons seeking employment within the region may browse the spectrum of available positions or search by the specifics of a particular job or by geographic location. In addition, the SOLINET Job Bank will have links to other library electronic job banks in the region.

In launching the new web-based service, Kate Nevins, SOLINET’s Executive Director, said that “libraries of all types and related institutions are welcome to post opportunities. Pooling the listings of many institutions in this way provides a much broader distribution, to the benefit of both employers and potential employees. We believe the entire library community stands to benefit from this service.” Access to the SOLINET Job Bank is permanently highlighted on the SOLINET homepage at www.solinet.net

Book Reviews black minister in Birmingham, who gradually assumed a leadership role in city politics.

Mills, Thornton J, III. Dividing Lines: In the course of Montgomery, Birmingham, Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil and Selma’s histories, various incidents are Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and important both in the political system as well Selma. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama as the judicial system. These include Press, 2002. 733pp. challenges to administrations, problems with

schooling, access to jobs, and bussing. This book explores municipal politics in Schools were not open or even available to three Alabama cities during the civil rights everyone who wanted to attend. In addition, era showcasing the complex relationship local black leaders tried to find incidents that between city politics and civil rights. Forces they could take to court in an effort to for change and equality for minorities drove overturn current laws and policies. Local the civil rights movement. City politics were black leaders tried to get black policemen in return heavily influenced by the social, hired by following the established economic, and industrial trends of their day. procedures for employment even when this The author focuses on the local grassroots didn’t work. Cases such as the Montgomery politics of each of these three cities. bus segregation, the bus boycott, and the Thornton begins the analysis with a brief integration of public schools all helped to synopsis of the political history and the challenge local, state, and national laws. unique political issues facing each municipality. This background information However, as some of these leaders started further assists the reader in understanding to push for civil rights the violence directed the cities of Montgomery, Birmingham, and toward blacks and even toward whites Selma since each of these cities had their intensified. In 1957, the Ku Klux Klan own local issues and problems to contend revived after being dormant for several with and resolve. Throughout this analysis, years. However, violence in the cities is not the reader gains an understanding of the always associated with the Klan. White people, political leaders, and the forces at individuals targeted black suburbs and work in each of these municipal destroyed homes. Some local black leaders governments during this era. even had their homes bombed. Blacks and

whites both experienced abuse and Thornton also briefly traces the backgrounds violence. For instance when the Freedom of the key political and local leaders, such as Riders came through Alabama and tried to T. Eugene “Bull” Conner of Birmingham and stop in Birmingham, they were met by force describes how each leader wielded their to stop their efforts. People used local power to their advantage. For some local politics, violence, and any other means white leaders, political careers depended on available to them to either advance or hinder the incumbent staying in office. Winning the civil rights cause based on their own local elections also meant that these leaders ideological beliefs. remained in power, made decisions, and were viable in the local community. In By focusing on three particular cities and addition, they wanted to support the tracing the history of events of civil rights in dominant political structure and not support each, the reader sees how events in this the black demands for equality. Other microcosm reflect those activities happening leaders, both black and white, tried to voice on the national level. For each city, their opinions to their own municipal Thornton describes the previous political government in an effort to overturn various situation and what occurred during the time decisions, public policies, and laws in favor frame of the civil rights movement. This of segregation. The author discusses the helps set the scene for understanding the role that some of these leaders played and root causes of violence and the events that explains briefly their rise to becoming local occurred afterwards. Overall, the book leaders in the community. One such offers detailed information on municipal example is Fred Shuttlesworth, a young politics and its impact on civil rights. Thoroughly researched, this work offers an

intriguing look at civil rights and politics in moments. And always there are passages of the south. It provides detailed information heart-piercing insight, as this: about this period in both Alabamian and American history. This is a worthy addition “We have to trust, even when we’re to any academic library’s collection dealing vulnerable, even when we have been hurt with the South, black studies, urban studies, and maybe hurt again. Family is more race relations, and political science. rewarding than pride, love and cooperation Melissa Roberts, Reference Librarian, more honorable than fear. The soul is a jar, Northwestern State University of Louisiana with each act of love and bravery earning us [email protected] a thimbleful of wisdom. There are two ways of being in the world: you can choose fear, # or you can choose love. Everything that is not love is fear.” Ray, Janisse. Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home. Milkweed Editions, 2003. Trust Janisse Ray in “Wild Car Quilt.” Hers 308pp. is an etrancingly stitched book of heart and mind. And don’t be surprised if she picks up Thomas Wolfe told us many years ago that a few more awards, too. you can’t go home again. Janisse Ray found she not only could go back home, but there William W. Starr is a former newspaper book she could piece together a new and editor, the author of two books and meaningful life in a community of human executive director of the Georgia Center for and wild alike. Her account of that struggle the Book. for homecoming is the essence of “Wild Card Quilt,” a beautifully written, insightful, # sometimes funny, sometimes fierce book packed with wisdom and charm. Harkins, Anthony. Hillbilly. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. 324 pp. Ray is a native of Baxley in South Georgia. Her first book, “Ecology of a Cracker Anthony Harkins, Assistant Professor of Childhood” (1999) recounted her years history at Western Kentucky University, growing up in rural isolation along with her examines the term “hillbilly” and the growing passion for the preservation of the perception of southern mountain people natural environment. That book won several from colonial times to present day. Known notable literary prizes and was selected by as the “other whites,” rural southerners have the Georgia Center for the Book for the first always been perceived as backwards, rustic, book in the All Georgia Reads project in and simple. Even worse, popular literature 2002. in the 1800s began fortifying some of the common stereotypes of southern mountain With “Wild Card Quilt,” her new book, Ray people that prevail well into modern times. continues her compelling story. Having In stark contrast to this image, an idealistic turned 35 years old, and now 17 years after view of rural life as being pure and unspoiled leaving home for what she believed would and a desirable alternative to immoral, be the last time, she has decided to corrupt city living began to appear. abandon Montana with her young son and make a new life back in South Georgia, Murky in its origins, “hillbilly” probably comes “where longleaf forests flourished no less from the Scottish terms “hill folk” and “billie,” than communities of people.” which means “fellow” or “companion.” Widespread usage of the term “hillbilly” That new life is packed with difficulties large became commonplace in the beginning of and small, from confronting powerful family the 20th century. Early country music, then memories to cleaning out a broken septic called “hillbilly music” launched the term into line to finding a Friday night date. Ray writes the forefront. Films, comic strips, and of all of them with a special grace honoring popular magazines employed the term and life’s tumultuous as well as its quiet began to portray stereotypical southern mountain people in unflattering lights.

Painted as lazy, immoral, lustful, of Appalachia and the Ozarks. Hillbilly uneducated, fertile, and extremely violent, deserves a place among any Southern southern mountain people became not only Culture collection. vilified, but cartoonish caricatures worthy of national derision. Claudene Sproles, Government Documents Reference Librarian Reaction of southerners to the term “hillbilly” Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville was mixed. Some found the term degrading and insulting, while others called themselves # “hillbillies” with a sense of pride, arguing that the term captured the essence of back Peck, Robert Newton. Bro. New York: woods independent living, a spirit born of the Harper Collins Publishers, 2004. 150pp. pioneers who first settled the land. Some southern mountain people made a grudging Bro is a fast moving, compelling novel set in realization that the term, while insulting, 1930’s rural North Florida and South highlighted the uniqueness of the regions, Georgia about a family suffering from years and they employed the stereotype as a path of self-neglect. The protagonist, young Tug to eventual understanding of the culture. Dockery, doesn’t speak as a result of witnessing a traumatic family event six years In the years following World War II, the earlier. Thus we read the story largely in the portrayals of the cartoonish mountain men first person through his eyes and mind. began a decline in popular literature, as Author Robert Newton Peck slowly and more and more rural people began migrating cleverly dolls out pieces of the incident, to the cities and tempering the portrait of leaving the reader anxiously wondering just rural life. However, the 1960s saw a return what could have seared the boys mind so focus on Appalachia as social concerns and badly as to cause him to lose his speech. the “war on poverty” entered the national consciousness. Popular culture also painted There are several parallel story lines in Bro. a sanitized, homogenized, wholesome On one level we have the story of nine year picture of southern culture through TV old Tug, who is orphaned in the opening shows like The Real McCoys, Green Acres, pages of the book when his parents are and the Beverly Hillbillies in direct response killed in an auto accident. He is soon placed to the burgeoning civil rights movements of in the charge of a reluctant caregiver, his the era. On the other hand, the film bad tempered grandfather Branch Dockery, adaptation of James Dickey’s novel who we find out was instrumental in the Deliverance (1971) breathed fresh life into traumatic event six years earlier. The boy’s the darker hillbilly myth. The idea of poor, older brother Broda Joe (Bro), whom Tug dirty, violent, incestuous, homosexual adores, but just about everyone else thinks predators that the outside world should fear is worthless, is doing time in the state again became the norm. Quotes one penitentiary for aiding and abetting newspaper “Deliverance did for them [North bootleggers. Tug and Bro, the only Georgians] what Jaws…did for sharks.” members of the family who seem to display [206]. true affection for one another, long to be reunited and as the book unfolds events Harkin argues that over the years, the start playing out toward a reunion. Bro is perception of southern mountain people, as also the story of a bitter and shamed a separate “white” race provided a safe seventy something year old rancher battleground for political and social issues (Branch) who after living for years in self- that plagues society. Mountain culture was seclusion following “the incident”, is provided often painted as what was ideal about an opportunity late in life to make amends to American civilization and also what was very his family and friends. It is also a story of wrong. During this time, the mountaineers eighteen-year-old Bro Dockery who breaks themselves have had a myriad of reactions out of prison the day before a local judge to the portrayal of their culture, mixing both serves papers securing his release, a pride and outrage. It is an important development unknown to Bro at the time of analysis of the national and local perception his escape. When the prison warden

catches up with Bro and takes out his one of the underrated classic The revenge for the escape, we are reminded of Shawshank Redemption. Bro offers many the sad irony that life can deal out. If only other examples of irony. The warden Bro had known that his release was less represents the law but is wicked. Bro is a than 24 hours away. If only …. Thus we convict but is inherently good. A sheriff have a novel of love, redemption and stretches the law in order to do the right tragedy all rolled into a touching, sweetly thing. Branch is mean-spirited but ultimately told story from an expert on rural southern loving. The symbolic highpoint of the story life. Author Rob Peck knows his subject comes when Branch enlists Tug’s and how to paint pictures with words. He assistance in birthing a foal, symbolizing the describes the correctional facility holding rebirth of a relationship between grandfather Bro, which is located in an alligator infested and grandson. swamp, as “centered in thirty square miles of wet death”. The gators “floated in the Don’t let the brevity of this book fool you. black water . . . some stretched to thirteen Peck packs a lot of poignancy and pathos foot, all prehistoric teeth, jaws and hunger.” into 150 pages. Highly recommended for all ages, especially young adult readers. Peck strikes a Bronte-esque pose with the tragic irony of Bro’s escape and short-lived Frank R. Allen, Associate Director for freedom. Bro’s meticulous planning, the Administrative Services, University of genius of the escape itself, and the warden’s Central Florida Libraries; and outgoing rage upon discovering the breakout reminds editor, The Southeastern Librarian

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