Liberty Hall Volunteers, a Company of Washington College Students and Others Who Formed in April1861 to Fight for the Confederacy I Folios
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Liberty Hall Volunteers, a company of Washington College students and others who formed in April1861 to fight for the Confederacy I FOLios TABLE OF CONTENTS Fall2012 THE UNIVERSITY News from the University Librarian 1 LIBRARY COMMITTEE Special Collections and Archives 2 The University Library Committee Educational Support 4 acts as an advisory board to the Recent Donors -1 i I . 8 librarians and the Provost on matters ..? 1 pertaining to the maintenance and Telford Science Library ) 5 development of the library and its Friends of the Library 6 collections. The issues the committee 't" ) } Calendar of Events - ( 10 usually considers concern public and f . I technical services and may include 11 Services other areas in which the University How You Can Help 12 Librarian seeks advice. The committee consists of nine university faculty members (appointed by the Provost), the University Librarian, and three student representatives (one each from sophomore, junior, and senior classes with multi-year appointments encouraged), appointed by the President upon nomination by the Student Body Executive Committee. Faculty members for 2012-13 are: Richard Bidlack, History William (Bill) Connelly, Politics Kenneth Lambert, Computer Science Richard Marks, Religion Dan Mazilu, Physics and Engineering Adam Schwartz, Business Administration Angela Smith, Philosophy Michael Smitka, Economics David Touve, Business Administration Committee members also serve as liaisons to the rest of their respective colleges, sharing information from the once-a-term meetings and taking information from their college to the University Librarian and other committee members. Friends of the :tibtary; 540.458.86412 friend$aftrrelibrar,y@wlu.~du Leyburn Libl!'ary: §4Cl.458.864ltl UNNERSITY LIBRARY 540 458 811tJ WASHlNGTON & LEE tJNIVERSHY 'Felford Science LibEary: • • LEXING"j; QN, VA 24450 . -. ' THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY • The Importance and Value COMMITTEE ~ ·• of Library Employees ' ' Terry Metz, University Librarian .... Committee's Update t By the time this issue of our newsletter reaches your hands, you may already be aware of several library employees who have ~;~ left W &L employment or are preparing to do so: Franr;oise Karin O'Callaghan retired from her position as Administrative Services Fregnac-Clave, Coordinator on August 24. chair of the Kwangsoo Han stepped down from his position as Systems Librarian on August University Library 31. He accepted a library position at the Community College of Baltimore County. Committee Laura Turner will close out her service as Head of Technical Services on September 30. She's accepted a library position as Head of Technical Services, Copley Changes at the University Library Library, University of San Diego. Vaughan Stanley will retire from his post as Special Collections kept us very busy during 2011-2012. Librarian effective January 1, 2013. In the fall, we welcomed our new University Librarian, Terry Metz, Desired Competencies for Library Personnel: coming to us from the Naval War Examples, but not a comprehensive list, of key functions in an academic library College (RI). Togethe1~ with Terry, John include: Tombarge (whose smooth, diligent and • Identifying the information needs of the library's user community forward-looking interim as University • Selecting from available options the most usable, accurate, and reliable Librarian should be recognized), Laura sources of that desired information, including both for-fee and more freely Turner and Karin O'Callaghan, we available information discussed budget constraints (this • Acquiring-through purchase, subscription, or other means-the direct was another flat year for the budget), physical ownership of some of these materials while arranging for alternative and the new factors which shape access to other materials academic libraries' evolution, such as • Organizing these materials in systematic ways new suppliers' policies, the explosion • Providing convenient access to library materials through furnishing locations of digital information availability, that both house physical materials and encourage library patrons to use them • Providing expert guidance to assist users in getting the most value from the and the move from physical to virtual library's services and collections, including providing context for how these resources. The $1.3 million Howard materials (and the work of the user) relate to the scholarly communication Hughes Medical Institute Grant that the process university received in May 2012 to boost • Ensuring responsible stewardship and preservation of those items and its biological science programs also will content that we expect to be of value to future users of the W&L University have an impact on the management Library of both the Telford Science Library Because we're a relatively small academic library, employees at W&L's university (mission and design) and Leyburn library are expected to become expert in at least two or three (and sometimes more) (storage capacity). of these areas and be familiar with and sensitive to all of them. If one or more of these This new environment demands a functions is performed poorly, the entire library operation may suffer and service to new strategy and difficult arbitrations, students and faculty would diminish. Of course, we aim to avoid diminished service all the more problematic at Washington during this period of staffing transition. You may be wondering how we identify candidates who are most likely to and Lee as the Library increasingly thrive in the W &L University Library. When we have opportunities to recruit new functions not just as a research center, colleagues, we seek in them competencies beyond those of being technically capable but as a physical space for teaching and of performing the work. Some of these competencies reflect W &L' s intimate size learning as well. We are pleased to see when compared with most academic institutions. Others reflect the nature of how that the Library staff are very aware technology is changing the look and feel of library services in general. They include: of the specific needs of the different • The ability to build and sustain effective work relationships constituent audiences they serve, and • The ability to employ sound professional judgment that they will continue to operate the • The ability to receive and offer feedback Library as the vital educational and • The ability cope with, adapt to, and thrive amid change to intellectual center it has become for the We send our departing library colleagues best wishes on the next portion of W &L community. their lives' journeys. They leave large shoes to fill. However, to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson's statementto members of the French diplomatic core when he was charged by the U.S. Congress to stepin.for the retiring Benjamin Franklin as the chief U.S. diplomat to the.Erench Nation, "No one can replace Karin, Kwangsoo, Laura, and Vaughan .... rut pt~erswill succeed them." FOLios SPECIAL COLLECTIONS The Stonewall Jackson Cemetery Project Emily Crawford '14, Special Collections Summer Assistant As a student working in the University Library Special Collections I have had the opportunity to work on a project with Carol Karsch, Emily Crawford '14 Data and Statistical Specialist, that has given me greater insight into the local history of Lexington, Virginia, and the surrounding area. The current project pertained to the Stonewall Carol Karsch Jackson Cemetery. I resized, sorted, and labeled several thousand tombstone photos to prepare them for a new website that provides an online record of those interred at the Photo of tombstones in Stonewall Jackson Cemetery. cemetery. Each entry has photos, dates, names of relatives, and the location in the cemetery. Ms. Karsch designed names, marital status, accomplishments, "erected in memory of' a loving mother, an easily readable and searchable and at times a loving epitaph. a brave soldier, a small child. One format that includes links to W &L In addition to using inscriptions tombstone even explicitly told the cause Special Collections and the Rockbridge on gravesites, the Ancient Greeks often of death of a small child-the child had Historical Society, among others. The wrote poetry telling the life stories of drowned in a terrible accident at the age Stonewall Jackson Cemetery website the deceased since they believed that the of four. Another inscription told of the located at library.wlu.edu/SJCemetery/ dead could speak beyond their graves. "long and fruitful life" another person SJCroster.php is a useful asset to relatives Centuries later the poet Edgar Lee had led. and historians alike, especially those for Masters created a literary masterpiece As I went through the digital whom travel would be difficult. that is elegant, clever, and insightful: photos, I realized that there were stories A cemetery provides a treasure Spoon River Anthology. Masters, inspired that had been forgotten or untold, voices trove of information about the by the Greeks, wrote "poetry from the that had been silenced. Because the inhabitants, their families, and the grave"-poems written in deceased stories were forgotten this meant too area in which they lived. As a Classics characters' voices of his fictional town, that people now deceased may have major, I have studied numerous burial Spoon River, that told of their triumphs been forgotten. In the oldest sections practices of the Greeks, Etruscans, and losses, joys and sorrows, pleasures of Stonewall Jackson Cemetery lie and the Romans that provided many and pains. Although the poems in graves that are worn down, overgrown insights into the lives of the people in Masters' work have fictional content with plants, and sinking into the the ancient world. All of these ancient the stories reflect the reality of human ground with the inscriptions barely civilizations had a habit of making an existence. visible. Tom Kastner, a local resident inscription of some sort on a gravesite, Unlike the poems of Masters, who started the project to document a practice that is still done at modern the voices that speak to us from the the gravesites, told me how much he gravesites.