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Volume 79, No. 2 Summer 2016 Mississippi Libraries Vol Volume 79, No. 2 Summer 2016 Mississippi Libraries Vol. 79 No. 2 • Summer 2016 Page 34 A Quarterly Publication of the ISSN 0194-388X Mississippi Library Association ©2016 Editorial Staff Contents President’s Page ................................................................................................ 35 Editor Tina Harry MLA Responds to HB 1523 with Resolution ............................................... 37 Catalog & Asst. Automation Librarian The University of Mississippi National Library Legislative Day ................................................................... 38 [email protected] Mississippi Library Leadership Institute in Action ..................................... 39 Joy Garretson Assistant Editor Tracy Carr A Serials Weeding Project at the Millsaps-Wilson Library ....................... 43 Library Services Bureau Director Mariah Grant Mississippi Library Commission [email protected] Academic Librarian Outreach to Veterans .................................................. 47 Anne Hudson Copy Editor Quantitative Analysis of Published Articles in the Journal of Mississippi Audrey Beach History .............................................................................................................. 49 Resource Librarian Mississippi Delta Community College Indira Bhowal [email protected] People In The News ......................................................................................... 64 News Briefs ....................................................................................................... 64 News Reporter Sarah Mangrum Book Reviews ................................................................................................... 67 Access Services Librarian / The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch Assistant Clinical Professor University of Southern Mississippi Return to Guntown: Classic Trials of the Outlaws and Rogues of Faulkner [email protected] Country Aaron Henry of Mississippi: Inside Agitator Book Review Editor Michele Frasier-Robinson Slab: On that Hallelujah Day when Tiger & Preacher Meet Librarian for Education & Psychology Mississippians in the Great War: Selected Letters University of Southern Mississippi [email protected] Mark your Calendars ...................................................................................... 70 MLA Reporter Antoinette Giamalva Branch Manager Ridgeland Public Library [email protected] On the cover: Refuge Sunset by Kara Roberts, Starkville Public Library. This is a picture of a sunset over Bluff Lake at the Sam D. Hamilton - Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge. Indexer Kristin Rogers Mississippi Libraries is a quarterly, open access publication of the Mississippi Library Electronic Resources & Discovery Librarian Association (MLA). The articles, reports, and features herein represent viewpoints of The University of Mississippi their respective authors and are not necessarily the official options of the Association. [email protected] In order to assure the widers possible audience for the work published in Mississippi Libraries, the work is added, by contractual agreement, to one or more EBSCO Publishing databases. Mississippi Libraries is also indexed in Library Literature and Information Science Abstracts. For more informaton, visit http://misslib.org/publications Mississippi Libraries Vol. 79 No. 2 • Summer 2016 Page 35 2016 Executive Board President’s Page President Molly McManus Everyone loves libraries…why do Systems Librarian U.S. Army Engineer Research and we need advocacy? Development Center Library advocacy has always been an important part of MLA’s mission, Vice-President Jenniffer Stephenson but advocacy methods are changing Director and there is increased competition Greenwood-Leflore Public Library System for limited resources. It is important Secretary for the future of libraries that Mis- Jamie Bounds Wilson sissippi librarians expand and de- Electronic Resources & velop our advocacy skills and tools, Web Services Librarian Millsaps College but advocacy is not easy. With all of the modern tools and techniques, Treasurer how do librarians choose the best Blair Booker Assistant Librarian method for them? What is the best Holmes Community College way to turn passive support into ed- to all of our community members ucated action by stakeholders? How without discrimination or bias and Immediate Past President Patsy C. Brewer can we fit advocacy into our already opposing the Mississippi Protecting Library Director busy days? To support its members Freedom of Conscience from Gov- Waynesboro-Wayne County Library in their advocacy efforts, MLA is ernment Discrimination Act. The ALA Councilor forming an ad hoc committee on li- resolution was announced via press Ellen Ruffin brary advocacy to work in partner- release and ALA’s Chapter Relations McCain Library and Archives ship with our legislative committee. Office posted it on the ALA website Curator, de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection The advocacy committee will focus on Model Resolutions in Response on advocacy training and tools for to Issues Affecting Chapters. SELA Councilor MLA members. Plans are under- Melissa R. Dennis Stephen Cunetto and the nom- Head of Research & Instruction Services way to host an advocacy training at inating committee recruited some University of Mississippi Libraries this year’s MLA conference. If you excellent nominees for MLA office. would like to be involved in MLA’s The election committee and chair- advocacy committee, please contact Section Chairs person Jennifer Smith held elections me at [email protected]. electronically and there was a great Association of College and Research The MLA Executive Board,response rate from our members. Libraries (ACRL) Section Chair sections and committees had a Michele Frasier-Robinson Congratulations to the newly elect- busy spring. Here are some of the ed 2017 Mississippi Library Asso- Public Library Section Chair highlights: ciation officers Sarah Mangrum as Jennifer Wann The Board drafted and passed a VP/President Elect, Jennifer Wann School Library Section Chair letter in support of the confirmation as Secretary, and Ellen Ruffin as Venetia Oglesby of Dr. Carla Hayden, the current ALA Councilor. Special Libraries Section Chair Chief Executive Officer of the Enoch The MLA Legislative Committee, Joyce Shaw Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Legislative Committee Chair Mara Maryland, as the 14th Librarian of Polk, MLA Administrator Barba- Trustees Section Chair Rickey Jones Congress. The Board responded to ra Price, along with the Mississippi the passage of House Bill 1523 by ap- Library Commission, prepared our For more information, visit: proving a resolution reaffirming the delegation for the American Library http://misslib.org/Executive-Board role of librarians to provide service Association’s 42nd annual National Mississippi Libraries Vol. 79 No. 2 • Summer 2016 Page 36 Library Legislative Day in Wash- book related events around the State. MLA Conference Commit- ington, D.C. on May 2–3, 2016. MLA, for the second year, had a tee Chairs Mississippi Librarians joined sev- table at the Fay B. Kaigler Children's CONFERENCE CHAIR AND eral hundred other librarians and Book Festival and MLA is registered MLA VP/PRESIDENT ELECT: library supporters in the capital to for a booth at the Mississippi Book Jenniffer Stephenson, jstephen- support federal funding for our na- Festival on August 20, 2016. We will [email protected] tion’s libraries and other legislative be looking for volunteers to staff REGISTRATION: Meredith E. priorities. the booth and talk about the great Wickham, mewickham@kep- Ashley Biggs and the member- things happening in Mississippi Li- mer.lib.ms.us ship committee have been conduct- braries. If you would like to volun- EXHIBITS: Jacob Starks, jstarks@ ing research into association mem- teer, please contact Phillip Carter at neshoba.lib.ms.us bership in an effort to increase our [email protected]. LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Ka- membership. MLA will soon be Although the Board has been trina Stokes, kstokes@warren. conducting a survey of current and busy, the busiest MLA members this lib.ms.us past MLA members to determine spring and summer are those plan- HOSPITALITY: Barbara Evans, what members and lapsed mem- ning the MLA Annual Conference, [email protected] bers expect from their association. October 18-21, at the Vicksburg The committee is also working to Convention Center. The theme is Congratulations to the newly create brochures and signage to pro- “Mississippi libraries - the heart of elected 2017 Mississippi Library As- mote membership and membership our communities” and the keynote sociation officers! engagement. speaker will be Zachary Benedict, Sarah Mangrum as VP/President Phillip Carter is chairing chair an architect and urbanist at MKM Elect an ad hoc committee on outreach. architecture + design, a Ft. Wayne, Jennifer Wann as Secretary The purpose is to coordinate MLA’s Ind.-based firm. We look forward to Ellen Ruffin as ALA Councilor participation in various library and seeing you in Vicksburg. Mississippi Libraries Vol. 79 No. 2 • Summer 2016 Page 37 MLA Responds to HB 1523 with Resolution MLA Members: On April 5th, Governor Phil Bryant signed House Bill 1523, known as the “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act” into law. While there has been a good deal of debate about exactly what this new law does and does not do, many of our members have expressed concern that the law, which
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