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South Carolina Libraries Volume 0 Issue 86 South Carolina Librarian v.24 n.1 Article 1 Spring/1980 3-1980 South Carolina Librarian v.24 n.1 Spring/1980 Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/scl_journal Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation (1980) "South Carolina Librarian v.24 n.1 Spring/1980," South Carolina Libraries: Vol. 0 : Iss. 86 , Article 1. Available at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/scl_journal/vol0/iss86/1 This Complete Issue is brought to you by Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in South Carolina Libraries by an authorized editor of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. South Carolina Librarian v.24 n.1 Spring/1980 Abstract South Carolina Librarian v.24 n.1 Spring/1980 Keywords South Carolina Library Association This complete issue is available in South Carolina Libraries: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/scl_journal/vol0/iss86/1 ISSN 0038-3112 THE Vol. 24, No. 1 SOUTH Spring 1980 CAROLINA LIBRARIAN SCLA's "Running Titles" Doing Their Part to Promote Librarie The South Carolina • Reprint Publications - 16 Pulitzer Prize Titles LIBRARIAN . Vol. 24, No. 1 Spring 1980 New titles: John C. Calhoun: American Portrait Cup of Gold lost legacy of Georgia's Golden Isles Books and Librarie Shady Grove Complementary or Competitive? - Wanda L. Forbes ..... ..... .......... 4 So Red the Rose Orientation/Instruction Round-Up · Cerise Oberman-Soroka ............. 7 On-Line Reference Services in S.C ...................... ... .. ......... 8 The Winthrop College Archives - Ronald J. Chepesiuk ................ 13 Review: Public Library Quarterly - Ann Scott Terry ................ 18 • Library & Media Supplies New Documents on South Carolina· Frances Ellison ................... 19 The Association • Library Furniture & Equipment 65 Years Later - John Landrum ...................................... 2 • Media Equipment Your Magazine Needs You - Editorial .............. ................... 3 • Library Skills Instructional Games Logo Contest Open to Artists .......... .... ......................... 12 From the ALA Councilor - Betty Callaham ........................... 20 • Test of Library/ Study Skills The On-Line Interest Group: Here to Serve You - W. Michael Havener .. 22 • English Workbooks Instruction Group Application ....................................... 23 Friend of Libraries Award ........................................... 24 Annual Convention Minutes ......................................... 25 Annual Reports .................................................... 29 • GENERAL CATALOG 1978-79 Editor ............................................. Laurance R. Mitlin Winthrop College Library • CATALOGUE of PUBLICATIONS 1979-80 Business Manager . ancy M. Davidson Winthrop Colleg Library O n Our Co er: The "Running Titles" jogging team are (1. tor) Trish Ridg way, Copies of our catalogs may be Nancy Davidson, Gloria Kelley-Palmer, Pat Rice, and Carol Mciver, all SCLA obtained by writing the members from Winthrop College. Official Publication of the South Carolina Library Association Published in April and October LARLIN CORPORATION 1523 P. 0 . Box Membership of $10.00 per Year Marietta, GA. 30061 404-424-621 0 Includes Subscription o THE SOUTH CAROLI A UBRARJAN Other Subscriptions $3.00, Single Issue $1.75 (Note: Signed articles reflect the writer's opinions, and not those of the South Carolina Library Association). 65 Years Later The fourteen people present at the organizational meeting of the South Carolina Library Association on October 27 , 1915, adopted a constitution with the stated objective "to arouse and stimulate an interest in the building and development of . libraries in the State". In the intervening 65 years, it is evident they were successful in meeting their objective. The membership of the South Carolina Library Association can take pride today in the history of our organization and its role in supporting the establishment of libraries for South Carolinians. There remains much work to be done - expanding Your Magazine Needs You! services, developing collections, and promoting cooperative endeavors. In comparing the original objective of SCLA with our present objective which is "to One of the biggest problems facing an editor of a journal is the obtaining of promote libraries and library service in South Carolina", we realize ther are still articles for publication. Without the many contributors to our past issues, th re challenges facing our profession. would be no South Carolina Librarian. We cannot express sufficient appreciation The public, academic, school and special libraries in South Carolina must work to them. together cooperatively to meet the library and informational needs of South Carolina But there are many more of you out there who could join this elite group of citizens. Much such cooperation in enhanced when librarians of various types of published authors. On the chance that you have not done so becaus you were not libraries come together on a common ground to address problems confronting the quite sure of our guidelines or requirements, the following instruction for contri library profession. The South Carolina Library Association provides a forum for such butions to the Librarian are given: activity. As we enter the 1980's it is important to reaffirm our commitment "to promote libraries and service in South Carolina". 1. All submissions should be on plain white paper measuring BW by llN. John Landrum 2. All manuscripts must be typed, double-spaced, on a 60-space line, 25 lines to President a page. 3. Name and address, including professional affiliation and title of the author should be typed on the upper left-hand comer of the title page. Each succ eding pag The Reprint Company should be numbered and should contain the au hor's last nam in th upp r I ft hand comer. Publishers 4. Footnotes should be at the end of the manuscript. Turabian's A Manual for Writers ofTerm Papers, Theses, and Dissertations should b followed for sty] . :partanburg, outh Carolina 29304 5. A stamped, self-addressed envelope should be included if r turn of the m nu script is desired. 6. Any topic of interest to South Carolina librarians will b consid r d for publi We are proud of our growth in the Ia t few ear in the area of regional cation. and local hi tory with particular empha i on the outhea tern tate . 7. Deadlines are as follows: February 1, for the Spring issue; August 1, forth all In addition to the e ubje t , we are on tantly expanding our li t of issue. reprint of carce and noteworth book in the fields of lonial mer icana, Re olutionar War hi tor , and g nealogical material. I o, we Lauranc R. Mitlin publi h o ca ional original in the e ubject . Plea e write for our late t Editor complete catalogue. HOMA E. MITH P BLI HER PO T OFFICE BOX 401 03-5 2-0732 Spring 1980/ The South Carolina Libra1 ian/5 Co plemen ary or Competitive? T he Medical Univer ity of outh olina The venerable Medical University of South Carolina, organized in 1 24 in South Carolina' Two Medical School Charleston, encompasses six schools: Allied Health, Pharmacy, Nursing, Medicin , Libraries Dental Medicine, and Graduate Studies and University Research. The MUSC library serves all of these constituencies. It participates in the Charleston Consortium which is made up of the libraries of the Baptist College, the Citadel, the Coli ge of Wanda L. Forbes Charleston, and Trident Technical College. C/ouer Health science practitioners across the state use the MUSC library's extension services. The library is the hub of a bio-medical communications network comprised Edi or' Note: Mr . Forbe of South Carolina's Area Health Education Center facilities which are lo ated in i a former member of the Columbia, Florence, Greenville, Spartanburg, and Rock Hill . The MUSC library Commis ion on Higher Edu tion. operates as one of the Southeast Regional Resource Libraries under the Regional Medical Library Program. The two medical school libraries in South Carolina are disparate from several In 1975 the operating budget of the library had grown to 564,627. Ten y ars perspectives; among these are age, size, location and reputation. Unheralded, earlier the budget was only $38,462 . The increase furnished South Carolina health informal cooperative planning was initiated between the staffs of the libraries quite service practitioners much needed services, including MEDUNE searches, early after the advent of the second medical school. In the light of current economic document delivery and interlibrary loan on a more adequate basis.5 MUSC's realities more such interinstitutional cooperative efforts should be taking place "academic and hospital resources combine to support a statewide system for the among curriculum planners and decision makers in higher education. continuing education of health practitioners and a statewide system for the delivery of information to health practitioners in rural areas."6 Background The chool of e di in in o lumbia The Janet Doe Lecture delivered to the Medical Library Association in 1974 was Although only an infant by comparison, The University of South Carolina's entitled by the speaker, "Library Cooperation: Wave of the Future or Ripple?" The School of Medicine is thriving as the offspring of a university which was found d 1n subject was a significant one which has become more pressing with each new 1 01. The freshman class in 1977-78 was the school's first student body. The School of economic indicator of inflationary trends and their devastating effects on higher Medicine will soon be housed in its new quarters near the Veteran's Hospital on the education. The sp aker stipulated that "a joining together for a common purpose, a Sumter Highway. Already the library has reached resource library status and is 1 union stronger than mere library cooperation," was needed. serving nineteen of the forty-six counties. It has become the MEDLI E center for In 1974, also, Schoolman predicted that the decade beginning would be critical: medical and hospital libraries in the area which serves some seven hundred primary th most effective u of resources must be planned, with much attention given to the care physicians.