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Bibliofiles Spring 2013 Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU Bibliofiles Library Newsletters Spring 2013 Bibliofiles Spring 2013 Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/library_newsletters Recommended Citation "Bibliofiles Spring 2013" (2013). Bibliofiles. 5. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/library_newsletters/5 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Library Newsletters at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Bibliofiles by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. SPRING 2013 2012-13 2012-13 First-Class Mail University Libraries Friends of the Presorted Advocates Board University U.S. Postage PAID Bowling Green State University Colleen Boff Libraries Board Bowling Green THE FRIENDS OF THE William T. Jerome Library Sara Bushong Sara Bushong State University Sharon Hanna Matt Donahue Bowling Green, Ohio 43403-0179 Flora Hockenberg Stacey Dudley UNIVERSITY Richard Hockenberg Fleming Fallon Gary Hoppenstand Robert Graham Jonathan D. Iten Elizabeth Hertenstein Bibliofiles LIBRARIES Kari Johnson Beth Hoag Robert W. Maurer Beth Hofer UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES David Miller Kari Johnson Janet Parks Daniel Klein BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY Clayton Stewart Juli McCarroll Marty Stiffler Mark Nelson Paul W. Stiffler Gaynelle Predmore Katerina Ruedi Ray Library Staff News B. Lee Cooper and Frank W. Hoffmann, with Civil War,” (June 2012), SHARP Conference. Marilyn Shrude research assistance from Debbie Edens, Trinity College. Dublin, Ireland. Michael Turner was appointed Library Matthew J. Masters and William L. Schurk Linda Kramer and Kathy Yoder Lifelong Associate 1 at the Northwest Ohio Cooper, B.L.; Hoffmann, F.W., Edens, Regional Book Depository (NWORBD) presented “The Best Books of 2011-12 D.; Masters, M.J., & Schurk, W.L. (2013). for Preschool and Kindergarten,” (June Lillian Gish fan effective in October. Turner worked for Prominent Themes in Popular Songs: An the University Libraries as a student 2012), National Association for the Exploration of 53 Persistent Lyrical Topics, Education of Young Children (NAYEC) 21st donates collection assistant at the NWORBD and in Seattle, Washington: Amazon Kindle Direct cataloging and technical services. National Institute for Early Childhood to BGSU Publishing, 359 pp. Professional Development, Leadership Rob Snyder was named the First Year throughout the Early Childhood Experience Coordinator in the Library Presentations Profession. Indianapolis, Ind. Exclamations of surprise and discovery Teaching & Learning department Sara Bushong arose from around a table in Bowling effective in February. Snyder brings a Presented “Strategic Enrollment Grants Green State University’s Center for passion for and experience with both Management: Transformation From Nancy Down, Susannah Cleveland, Linda Archival Collections at Wm. T. Jerome classroom teaching and one-on-one Tutoring Centers to Learning Commons” Kramer and Steve Charter Library as Dr. Ralph Haven Wolfe, instruction, and has served as the interim (July 2012) with former provost Ken Borland Recipients of a 2012 Sparks! Ignition Distinguished Teaching Professor FYE Coordinator since August 2012. and Mark Nelson at the 25th International Grant for Libraries in the amount of Emeritus of English and Gish Professor “Here’s a poster from ‘Hearts of the World,’” Theater, and to Bowling Green State Conference on the First Year Experience in $21,465 for the project, “Enacted Metadata: of Film Studies, and Dr. Brett Holden, an said Wolfe, referring to a World War I University, over the years that helps Publications Vancouver, British Columbia. Video Surrogate Records for Special assistant professor of theatre and film and story from 1918. Another discovery was a chronicle the important contributions Carol Singer Amy Fry Collection Materials.” Gwen Evans was also associate curator of the University’s Gish 1958 film called “Orders to Kill” that was Lillian and Dorothy Gish made to film.” Singer, C. (2012). Fundamentals of Presented “Streamlining Stats: Managing instrumental in helping to write this. Down Film Theater, looked over items donated to unfamiliar to the three, and a scrapbook Light said by telephone that he Managing Reference Collections (ALA Usage Statistics Efficiently and Effectively” is the principal investigator. the Gish Collection, along with University of Bobby Herron memorabilia. “He was remembers well the day he first met Fundamentals Series). Chicago: American (June 2012) as a panelist for the NISO conservator Frederick Honneffer. a major co-star of Lillian’s in the silent Lillian Gish, at an event at which several Library Association. Webinar Making Better Decisions with films,” Holden explained. Honneffer was in the process of cataloging authors were speaking. She spent a good Amy Fry and Linda Rich Usage Statistics with other panelists Peter Young alumni revive historic space as art gallery the 555-piece collection provided by Todd Wolfe, the curator of the Gish Gallery, deal of time with him and his friend. “I Their article was selected for inclusion Shepherd (Project COUNTER) and Oliver Launching a small business is something many dream about doing for years. Former library Light, of Arlington, Texas, an avid fan of Holden and Honneffer are all deeply was trembling; I couldn’t believe it was in the Reference Research Review for Pesch (EBSCO). The webinar presentation is employee, Amber LeFever ‘09 and Adam Soboleski ‘10 didn’t wait. Lillian Gish since the age of 12. Included knowledgeable about the careers of Ohio- happening,” he recalled. “But she just put 2011, a collection of outstanding available at www.niso.org/news/events/2012/ is a newspaper clipping from the early born actresses Dorothy and Lillian Gish; me at my ease. She was always extremely scholarly articles. nisowebinars/usage_statistics The young alumni have opened LeSo Gallery at 1527 Starr Avenue in Toledo. Both are artists and GET CONNECTED! 1970s showing an adoring, teenaged Light however, even they found new information gracious and kind.” Rich, L., Fry, A. (2011). Usability Testing graduates of the BGSU School of Art. Carol Singer was invited to Ohio University Want to hear about what’s going seated next to Gish when she visited his in the collection to marvel over. “There are He had fallen in love with silent films for e-Resource Discovery: How Students on August 8 to teach their librarians how to on at the University Libraries? The two started dating while taking a BGSU course in ceramics, a medium that remains Soboleski’s hometown in Connecticut to promote her poses here I’ve never seen,” Honneffer said, when PBS began showing them in 1968, Find and Choose e-Resources Using search for government documents. Meet up with us on our “Bowling focus and simply fit into LeFever’s first-year class schedule as an art education major and business book “Dorothy and Lillian Gish.” There looking at promotional photos of the he said, and his mother bought him a Library Web Sites, Journal of Academic minor. And just as the gallery’s moniker was derived from a combination of their last names, the iconic actress. Amy Fyn, Vera Lux and Rob Snyder Green State University Libraries” is also a page from a 1979 TV Guide with large book called “A Pictorial History of Librarianship, 37.5, 386-401. business blends their individual passions and skills. presented “Desert or Oasis? Reflecting on Facebook page or follow an appearance of Lillian Gish on the Dick “It’s exciting stuff,” Holden remarked. the Silent Screen.” Peer Reviewed “bglibrarian67” on Twitter to Teaching and Tweaking a Discovery Layer,” “I worked at the library from my first day of college until my last day. Four and a half years of Cavett show circled. “Light’s contributions significantly add to continues on inside Vera Lux, Rob Snyder and (June 6-8, 2012), LOEX of the West, learn about new books, resources, support, flexibility, and learning customer service skills prepared me for my future in owning my an already impressive collection of Gish Cathi Cardwell Burbank, Calif. services and upcoming events. own business. Not only did I learn the best practices for communicating, but also the give-and-take memorabilia donated to the Gish Film Cardwell, C., Lux, V., Snyder, R. (2012). mentality that makes for a happy workplace,” said LeFever. “Working at the library was the perfect Lee McClaird and Steve Charter Beyond simple, easy, and fast: Reflections opportunity for me, my very hectic college career and my overall future.” on teaching Summon. College & Research presented “Social and Political Battlefields Libraries News, 73, 6. in Northwest Ohio Newspapers During the 13LI067 BGSU libraries BGSU unites scholars, librarians, software developers to build new toolkit How to Do the Hitchhiker Gish fan donates collection to BGSU and the Boston Monkey honors Parks for continued from cover support From the Wright brothers’ papers and drawings to issues of Schocket hopes the eventual tool set can serve as a model A video produced by the Music Library “I was looking at a beautiful picture of Lillian Gish and something inside me just the popular “nickel weeklies” from the mid-1860s, a wealth for other institutions and consortia. BGSU graduate student and Sound Recordings Archives Members of the Friends of the clicked. I was thunderstruck with the conviction that she was the greatest actress of fascinating historical material exists in Ohio’s library Nicki Reamer, American culture studies, will help publicize the (MLSRA) was featured in an online University Libraries
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