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Virginia Libraries Journal STAFF Editor Cy Dillon Stanley Library Virginia Ferrum College P.O. Box 1000 Ferrum, Virginia 24088 (540) 365-4428 Libraries [email protected] July/August/September, 1999, Vol. 45, No. 3 Associate Editor Nancy H. Seamans Virginia Tech COLUMNS University Libraries Blacksburg, Virginia Cy Dillon 2 Openers: An Interview with Alyson Hagy (540) 231-2708 [email protected] Sandra Heinemann 4 President’s Column: Committees Fuel the VLA Fire Editorial Board Karen W. Dillon Julie A. Campbell, Ed. 28 Virginia Books Contract Manager SWING (Southwest Information Network Group) FEATURES 3045 Dugspur Road Callaway, Virginia 24067 Scott Silet 6 Anatomy of the Internet Reference Resources (540) 334-5089 Web Page: a UVA Library Experiment [email protected] Patricia C. Bangs 11 Washingtonpost.com Publisher Marc John T. Kneebone Teren Links Future of Libraries and Media Publications Division Library of Virginia Marna Hostetler 13 Hollins University’s New Wyndham 800 E. Broad Street Robertson Library Richmond, Virginia 23219 Pat McKay and 16 ‘Teen Read Week’ Sparks Regional (804) 786-7311 [email protected] Janet Baumgardner Cooperation in Metropolitan Richmond, Virginia Rebecca R. Laine 18 The VLA Paraprofessional Forum’s 1999 Longwood College Library Farmville, Virginia 23909 Conference (804) 395-2441 Mary Dessypris 23 Accessing Virginia Statistics on the Internet [email protected] Anne Lawrence and 26 University of Virginia’s Alderman Café Melissa Norris Earns High Marks from Faculty, Students, and Customer Survey Virginia Libraries is a quarterly journal published by the Virginia Library Association whose purpose is to develop, promote, and improve library and information services and the pro- fession of librarianship in order to advance literacy and learning and to ensure access to information in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The journal, distributed to the membership, is used as a vehicle for members to exchange information, ideas, and solutions to mutual problems in professional articles on current topics in the library and information field. Views expressed in Virginia Libraries are not necessarily endorsed by the editor or edito- rial board. Information in Virginia Libraries is copyrighted by the Virginia Library Associa- tion. Material may be reproduced for informational, educational, or recreational purposes. Virginia Libraries is indexed in Library Literature. Items for publication and editorial inquiries should be addressed to the editor. Inquiries regarding membership, subscriptions, advertising, or claims should be directed to VLA, P.O. Box 8277, Norfolk, VA 23503-0277. All personnel happenings and announcements should be sent to the VLA Newsletter, Mary Hansbrough, P.O. Box 90001, University Libraries, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24062, (540) 231-8832, fax (540) 231-3694, e-mail maryhans@ Graphic Design by Lamp-Post Publicity, Meherrin vt.edu. Virginia Libraries is available by subscription at $20 per year. Printing by Farmville Printing, Farmville The guidelines for submissions to Virginia Libraries are found on the inside back cover. PAGE 2 VIRGINIA LIBRARIES JULY–SEPTEMBER, 1999 OPENERS An Interview with Alyson Hagy by Cy Dillon lyson Hagy, a native North Carolina. My guess is of Franklin County, that I’m intrigued by survi- Virginia, will pub- vors, by people who work on Alish her third collection of land or water where their short stories and her first livelihoods are affected by novel during the coming natural forces far beyond year. She teaches writing at their control. Why would the University of Wyoming. anyone want to live on a bar- rier island or in a mountain How did growing up on hollow? Because it’s beauti- VL the edge of the moun- ful and challenging, and tains in Virginia affect your because independence and a development as a storyteller? high level of solitude are Isn’t your father something often desirable. I don’t think of the old-time country doc- that everyone should live in tor? such places; I don’t think Growing up on the edge most of us would want to do AH of the Blue Ridge moun- so. But people who live on tains, just at the intersection our American margins — of Appalachian and Pied- geographically, economically, mont cultures, had a great culturally — deeply intrigue effect on me as a writer. I me, perhaps because they are was raised on a farm just out- always in “conflict” with side of Rocky Mount, Vir- weather or economic success ginia, so the richness of the rural black and white, poor and poorer, as we usually define it. landscape — the large vegetable since I often saw families on the I cannot tell which landscapes garden, the ancient barns, the hay edge of grief. I was also welcomed will trigger my imagination. I’ve fields, the murky Blackwater river onto the porches of those families recently completed a novel set on — fed my imagination, though I and became familiar with the care- a racetrack in Kentucky, which is wasn’t consciously aware of that ful, hard-working rhythms of their not a project I would have pre- fact. Southerners are grand story- lives. Even now, after years away dicted for myself. I think I was tellers, so I think being raised in a from Virginia, I am still drawn to drawn to the track because it har- tale-telling culture also influenced rural areas, to places that are often bored a rich microcosm of Ameri- my imagination. My father, who beautiful (as the Virginia moun- can dreamers, but I’m not abso- was a general practitioner in Frank- tains are) but difficult to live in. lutely sure. lin County until I was 15 (he still practices as a family doctor in Roa- Why do you think you set so You have a knack for captur- noke), is a great talker, and he col- VL many of your stories in ex- VL ing the language of different lected anecdotes and tales from his treme landscapes? The Outer Banks characters and narrators. Do you colleagues and patients, often and the Upper Peninsula are quite have a method for absorbing the bringing them home to share with different from western Virginia. idiom, or does it come naturally? us. I also think that traveling on I wasn’t aware of my predilec- I suppose I’ve become a house calls with my father (which AH tion for “extreme landscapes” AH trained listener. I wasn’t con- we often did) deepened my appre- until I was deep into my collection scious of this tendency, either. The ciation for a wide range of people, of stories about the Outer Banks of only conscious “training” I did as a JULY–SEPTEMBER, 1999 VIRGINIA LIBRARIES PAGE 3 young person was read, and I read are likely to connect me to the rea- writing goals do you have for your- because I loved it, not because I listic tradition of Eudora Welty, self in the next few years? dreamed of being a writer. I Carson McCullers, etc. Which is I’d like to get to work on a dreamed of being a veterinarian. not a bad place to be. AH new novel, perhaps some- Or an archaeologist. Or an eques- thing set in Wyoming where we trienne. You say that your sister Mel- have plenty of intriguing ex- My parents are both excellent VL chora is your ideal reader. Do tremes. And I’m always writing singers, so maybe the ability to you use the reactions of readers in stories…about lots of different hear idiom comes from some half- writing and revising your stories, places and characters. There is buried musical ability. I wish I or do you keep them to yourself probably at least one more Vir- could sing. I wish I could make until they are in final form? ginia book in me, as well. I’m regu- people’s skin prickle at the sound When I’ve done all I can with larly haunted (in a good way) by of my voice the way the great sing- AH a story (after many, many some half-formed, Blue Ridge-type ers do. Maybe I’m a writer…one drafts), I’ll try it out on a tough characters in my imagination. with an interest in sound and reader or two. Even after 20 years rhythm…because I can’t sing. Not of experience, I’m not always my Do you find that teaching well enough to go beyond the own best editor. Skilled readers are VL creative writing at a university church choir, in any case. very important to me. My sister is helps or hinders your own writing? not a writer, but she is a devoted Have you had students who are You have said that you are reader of all sorts of books. She’s a successful writers themselves? VL “right in the middle of the great one to test fiction on. I can still teach effectively realist tradition.” Do academic crit- AH and get my own writing ics accept this of you, or do you Your story “Sharking” is nar- done, but it seems to get harder get the feeling they’d rather see VL rated from the point of view and harder. Writing becomes more you go in a different direction? of a character who is almost the demanding the better you get at it, It’s hard to say what the crit- polar opposite of you. He is a disil- so it can become difficult to share AH ics think of me. I haven’t lusioned loner who reveals human your best wisdom with your stu- made much of an appearance on compassion almost begrudgingly. dents when that wisdom is so the critical scene though I am Why did you select such a charac- hard-earned and more difficult to occasionally contacted by a gradu- ter to inhabit? define.
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