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STAFF Coeditors Cy Dillon Ferrum College Virginia P.O. Box 1000 Ferrum, Virginia 24088 (540) 365-4428 [email protected] Libraries C. A. Gardner Hampton Public Library July/August/September, 2007, Vol. 53, No. 3 4207 Victoria Blvd. Hampton, Virginia 23669 (757) 727-1218 COLUMNS (757) 727-1151 (fax) [email protected] Cy Dillon and 3 Openers C. A. Gardner Editorial Board Pat Howe 5 President’s Column Lydia C. Williams Sara B. Bearss, Ed. 35 Virginia Reviews Longwood University Library Farmville, Virginia 23909 (434) 395-2432 [email protected] FEATURES Alex Reczkowski 7 VLA Paraprofessional Forum Ed Lener College Librarian for the Sciences 2007 Conference Virginia Tech University Libraries Kyrille Goldbeck, 19 Telling the Tale: Creating a Successful P.O. Box 90001 Michelle L. Young, and Library In-Service Day Blacksburg, Virginia 24062-9001 Annette Bailey (540) 231-9249 [email protected] Jessica Zellers 23 In Blog Heaven: A Painless New Approach to Readers’ Advisory Karen Dillon Manager, Library Services Andrew Smith 25 The Gift of Gab Carilion Health System Sylvia Rortvedt 27 Text, Image, and Form: P.O. Box 13367 The Altered Book Project Roanoke, Virginia 24033 (540) 981-7258 Otis D. Alexander 29 Fabric Arts Classes at the (540) 981-8666 (fax) Danville Public Library [email protected] Julie Ramsay 31 The Power of Libraries Douglas Perry Director Hampton Public Library Virginia Libraries is a quarterly journal published by the Virginia Library Association whose 4207 Victoria Blvd. purpose is to develop, promote, and improve library and information services and the profes- Hampton, Virginia 23669 sion of librarianship in order to advance literacy and learning and to ensure access to infor­ (757) 727-1153 (extension 104) mation in the Commonwealth of Virginia. (757) 727-1151 (fax) The journal, distributed to the membership, is used as a vehicle for members to exchange [email protected] information, ideas, and solutions to mutual problems in professional articles on current top­ ics in the library and information field. Views expressed inVirginia Libraries are not necessarily endorsed by the editors or editorial board. Editor, Virginia Books The Virginia Library Association (VLA) holds the copyright on all articles published in Virginia Libraries whether the articles appear in print or electronic format. Material may be Sara B. Bearss reproduced for informational, educational, or recreational purposes provided the source of Senior Editor, Dictionary of the material is cited. The print version of Virginia Libraries is designed by Lamp-Post Publicity Virginia Biography in Meherrin, Virginia. The electronic version of Virginia Libraries is created by Virginia Tech’s The Library of Virginia Digital Library and Archives and is available at http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/VALib or as 800 E. Broad Street a link from the Virginia Library Association website (http://www.vla.org) and the Directory Richmond, VA 23219-8000 of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/). Virginia Libraries is indexed in Library Litera­ [email protected] ture, a database produced by the H.W. Wilson Company. Items for publication and editorial inquiries should be addressed to the editors. 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 On the cover: “The Romance be sent to the VLA Newsletter, Kevin Tapp, Box 7024 Radford University, Radford, VA 24142, of Leonardo Da Vinci” by Jorge [email protected]. Vasquez. See page 27. The guidelines for submissions to Virginia Libraries are found on page 2. PAGE 2 VIRGINIA LIBRARIES JULY–SEPTEMBER, 2007 Guidelines for Submissions to Virginia Libraries 1. Virginia Libraries seeks to publish articles and reviews of inter­ est to the library community in Virginia. Articles reporting research, library programs and events, and opinion pieces are all considered for publication. Queries are encouraged. Brief an­ nouncements and press releases should be directed to the VLA Newsletter. 2. Please submit manuscripts via email as attachments in Microsoft Word, rich text, or plain text format. Articles should be double- spaced with any bibliographic notes occurring at the end of the article. Please avoid using the automatic note creation function provided by some word processing programs. 3. Articles in Virginia Libraries conform to the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style and Webster’s Third New International Dic­ tionary, Unabridged. Accepted articles are subject to editing for style and clarity. Authors will be consulted on points of fact. 4. All articles submitted for consideration are reviewed by the edi­ tors and may be refereed by the editorial board. Articles that are not selected for publication will be returned within three months. 5. VLA holds the copyright on all articles published in Virginia Li­ braries. Contributors of articles receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears. 6. Illustrations are encouraged and should be submitted whenever appropriate to accompany a manuscript. Hard copy illustrations will be returned if requested in advance. Digital images should have a resolution of at least 300 dpi. Authors are responsible for securing legal permission to publish photographs and other illustrations. 7. Each contributor should provide a brief sketch of professional ac­ complishments of no more than fifty words that includes current title, affiliation, and email address. Unless specified otherwise, this information will be shared with readers of Virginia Librar­ ies. Physical addresses should also be provided for the mailing of contributor’s copies. 8. Articles should generally fall within the range of 750–3,000 words. Please query the editors before submitting any work of greater length. 9. Email manuscripts and queries to Cy Dillon, cdillon@ferrum. edu, and C. A. Gardner, [email protected]. Please be sure to copy both editors. 10. Virginia Libraries is published quarterly. The deadlines for submis­ sion are: December 15 for Number 1, January/February/March; March 15 for Number 2, April/May/June; June 15 for Number 3, July/August/September; and September 15 for Number 4, Octo­ ber/November/December. VL JULY–SEPTEMBER, 2007 VIRGINIA LIBRARIES PAGE 3 Openers by Cy Dillon and C. A. Gardner ometimes inspiration comes to copies of electronic mono­ ence and Technology, which I can from deep left field. Every graphs. Now owned by OCLC, the read one article at a time. Alex­ reference librarian knows company is much more conserva­ ander Street Press databases give Sthe experience of having a poorly tive about how long books will be me fairly large chunks of text that thought-out question from a user maintained on their servers, but aren’t paginated like the originals; who knows little about the subject there are still “permanent” deals the books are mixed in with other under consideration turn into a available elsewhere. We recently types of documents, and the pur­ perfect opportunity for both par­ purchased some Wiley science titles chases are one-time payments. ties to discover new intellectual and Springer monographs that our Columbia International Affairs territory. I recently had that expe­ Online mixes e-books, working rience with a question from, of all papers, articles, policy briefs, maps, people, an auditor. It has taken me a while and even course packs, but in lots An accountant with the firm of the books I can only read a that audits Ferrum’s finances to think through chapter as a downloadable PDF file. emailed us asking—on behalf of Early American Imprints gives me another private college—how we just how complex the one page at a time, scanned from estimated the capital value and labyrinth of electronic the original book. Gale’s Literature calculated the depreciation on Resource Center is another mix of our electronic book collection. book purchasing journal articles and encyclopedia Since I had no idea that we were articles with an annual fee. I am doing this, I swallowed my pride has become…. stopping at G. I don’t even want and asked our head of Technical to think about Greenwood Press, Services to explain just what we PsycBOOKS, or Oxford Reference reported. “I give the business office license says we have permanently, Online. I do like to think that at the amount we paid for e-books but they, like NetLibrary books, some point the marketplace will and the number we catalog, just as are kept on a server over which we determine a standard licensing you instructed me last year,” said have no real control. The same can practice for electronic books, but Peggie without a trace of a smirk. be said for our Evans Early Ameri­ that probably won’t happen during That innocent report apparently can Imprints. my working years. led to our e-books being counted On the other hand, many of While digital audio becomes as an asset in a way that I knew at the e-books in our catalog require ever more popular in the music once was far too simple. Of course, some sort of annual fee for contin­ marketplace, the multiple methods I don’t blame the auditors for try­ ued access. That doesn’t mean that for accessing and purchasing elec­ ing. Nonprofit institutions have the various agreements are stan­ tronic audiobooks can also pose something to gain from property dard, or even that they resemble problems for libraries. Compa­ they can list as capital assets. Like it one another. Let’s consider a few nies such as OverDrive may allow or not, our collections—make that of the models I can find by look­ patrons to check out audiobooks physical collections—contribute ing through our A to Z list of data­ from home, but they also require to our bond rating and to getting a bases.
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