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Searching for Carnegie: a Visit to the World’S Oldest Carnegie Library Calls to Mind a Chapter of Mississippi’S Library History (4) Matthew Grifs Page 1 Mississippi Libraries Vol. 78 No. 1 Spring 2015 Contents Information Entrepreneurs: Nonproprietary resources in the academic library (2) Ashley Dees Searching For Carnegie: A isit to the !orld"s #ldest Carnegie $ibrary Calls to Mind a Chapter of %ississippi"s $ibrary History (') Matthew Grifs News )riefs (*+) ,eople in the News (*-) )oo. /eviews: (*1) Delta Dogs: Photographs by Maude Schuyler Clay Shaking the Sugar Tree The Civil War in Mississippi: Major Campaigns and Battles Rivers Medgar Evers: Mississippi martyr. Co0er image: !,A poster for the Illinois Art ,ro2ect in Chicago3 encouraging reading in the new year4 Image modi5ed from an original in the $ibrary of Congress collections (loc4go06pictures/item617-*+*886)4 Page 2 Mississippi Libraries - Vol. 78 No. 1 Information Entrepreneurs: Nonproprietary resources in the academic library Ashley Dees resources that would be most bene- ans step outside of the library and Reference Librarian & ficial to the students were in fact become information entrepreneurs? Assistant Professor not library resources. Was that ac- More and more universities are University of Mississippi ceptable? Should she try harder to looking toward OERs as a way to wiggle in more library resources save students money and libraries just because they are library are supporting those efforts along Introduction owned? In the end, relevant library with efforts for open access jour- resources along with many non- nals. Fister (2014) acknowledges Libraries are always looking for library resources were added to re- the shift in academic libraries to- ways to ingratiate themselves to search guides and demonstrated be- ward open access, by way of insti- their patrons and if they are not fore the various classes. tutional repositories, providing ac- they should be. Without the stu- cess to open access materials and dents and faculty who frequent the Proprietary vs. Nonproprietary OERs through the library, and by academic library, the library itself Resources helping users understand copyright would have no purpose. To further (p. 45). These are lofty and noble add value to the library, most aca- The professors were happy with the pursuits. The fact remains that fac- demic librarians teach library in- resources shown and all ended well, ulty support for institutional reposi- struction sessions for those profes- but the question lingered. Should tories and OERs can be difficult for sors understand the importance of librarians push proprietary re- some institutions to obtain. In this the library in their students’ aca- sources over non-library resources? light the promotion of free re- demic careers. It is in the request It seemed that the two faculty who sources directly to students via li- for library instruction sessions on had asked for the career resources brary instruction sessions seems a the topic of career resources and sessions viewed the business librar- worthwhile and potentially easier projects that this article is interest- ian as the person to introduce career endeavor. Colon-Aguirre and Flem- ed. resources to their students even ing-May (2012) reported finding A novice business library though the resources could have that “library avoiders” , students beginning her first full semester as been accessed from their own class- who avoid the library, purposely an academic librarian was asked by rooms or by the students them- avoid using that library because of two separate professors in com- selves from any location as can the fear of feeling bewildered with pletely different disciplines to intro- most proprietary library resources library resources and instead search duce students to career resources. can these days. Perhaps that makes out free online resources (p. 394). One professor simply asked for the the two different types of resources Can the promotion of free easy to librarian to show the students the less distinguishable. use resources bring these avoiders library’s career resources while the If the library were to pro- into the library? other named specific resources that mote free and user friendly re- they wanted demonstrated, none of sources on it guides and web site, Conclusion which were propriety library re- would it then lead to students using sources. In both instances the librar- more proprietary library resources It seems that at least a portion of the ian more than delighted to have as well. Can the academic library population on academic campuses been asked for assistance readily rebrand itself as not the gatekeepers view librarians as the ones who agreed to the sessions for each in- of proprietary information but as should show and instruct students structor. the ushers to a vast array of infor- with their information searches While preparing for each of mation resources both free and pro- whether the resources are library the instruction sessions the librarian prietary? Should academic librari- owned or not. Many librarians are realized that the vast majority of the Page 3 Mississippi Libraries - Vol. 78 No. 1 already actively promoting non- proprietary resources on their re- search guides. The question re- mains, however, is that the best that can be done and should be done? The navigation of free resources is an opportunity for librarians to demonstrate their value beyond re- stricted library resources and teach students how to use and access real world resources that will continue to prove useful long after they have lost access to their university librar- ies. References Colón-Aguirre, M., & Fleming- May, R. A. (2012). “You Just Type in What You Are Looking For”: Undergraduates' Use of Library Resources vs. Wikipe- dia. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 38(6) 391-399. Bell, S., Dempsey, L., & Fister, B. (2014). New Roles for the Road Ahead: Essays Commissioned for ACRL's 75th Anniversary. Chicago: ACRL, forthcoming 2015. Selected List of Resources Brookings CareerLeak CNN money: Calculators Glassdoor Guide Star Internships.com LinkedIn Marketwatch.com Peterson's Grad School Bound Pew Research Center Sperling's Best Places U.S News & World Reports YahooFinance Page 4 Mississippi Libraries - Vol. 78 No. 1 SEARCHING FOR CARNEGIE: A Visit to the World’s Oldest Carnegie Library Calls to Mind a Chapter of Mississippi’s Library History Figure 1 - Carnegie statue in Pittencrieff Park Matthew Griffis Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Science University of Southern Mississippi Introduction On the morning of July 16th, Drs. Matthew Griffis and Teresa Welsh, both of the University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Library of Information Science, and eight MLIS students from the school’s British Studies program toured one of Dunfermline, Scotland’s most famous landmarks, the Carnegie Library of 1883. The library was originally a gift from the town’s most famous native, the American steel mogul Andrew Carnegie, and has the dis- of his native Canada, has begun to The “Patron Saint” of tinction of being the first Carnegie look more closely at those in the Public Libraries library opened anywhere in the American south, particularly in this world. The tour, made possible by state. The purpose of this article is There was perhaps no greater stim- special arrangement with the li- to review what information is cur- ulus to modern public library devel- brary, ended up a highlight of this rently available about Carnegie li- opment in the United States than year’s LIS British Studies program, braries in Mississippi and begin to the Carnegie library grant program, for it not only emphasized the value assess what contribution, if any, which funded the construction of of studying library history as part of Carnegie’s program made to the 1,689 public and academic libraries librarian education, it also served as state’s public library development. at the turn of the last century an introduction, for some partici- Although Mississippi did (Jones, 1997). In their day, Carne- pants, to the story of Carnegie li- not receive nearly as many grants as gie libraries were more than just braries. other states, the eleven Carnegie charming buildings; they fueled a It is well documented that public libraries that opened here growing enthusiasm among the Andrew Carnegie’s library grant between 1910 and 1916 appear to masses for the existence of free, tax program played an important role in have made some contribution to -supported public libraries that the spread of free public libraries in library progress. However, despite would enrich their communities. many parts of the world, most par- the available work on the subject, to Until the early twentieth ticularly in the United States date no scholarly study can be lo- century, however, usually only larg- (Bobinski, 1969; Van Slyck, 1995). cated that explores the full extent of er centers could manage the tax de- This writer, whose work to date on this contribution. mand of funding a free public li- the subject has focused almost ex- brary. Many smaller centers, partic- clusively on the Carnegie libraries Page 5 Mississippi Libraries - Vol. 78 No. 1 ularly in more rural parts of the educational institutions. these libraries were not free to use; country, could not. And even when However, Carnegie saw free collections were small by today’s they had a desire to establish such a public libraries as the most worthy standards and rarely occupied more library, these communities were recipients of his gifts since, in his than a couple of rooms. sometimes unaware how to design opinion, wherever they existed any- The small collections of var- an efficient and attractive facility, one would have access to educa- ious academies and literary socie- where to place it in the community, tion. After funding the construction ties also account for many of Mis- and how to properly maintain it. of several free libraries in Scotland sissippi’s antebellum libraries Enter America’s Steel King. in the 1880s, Carnegie funded sev- (Rice, 1924). Common and high Born in 1835 in Dunfermline, Scot- eral more in his Pennsylvanian steel school libraries later appeared in land, Andrew Carnegie was the son towns in the 1890s.
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