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Volume 79, No. 3 Fall 2016 Mississippi Libraries Vol Volume 79, No. 3 Fall 2016 Mississippi Libraries Vol. 79 No. 3 • Fall 2016 Page 71 A Quarterly Publication of the ISSN 0194-388X Mississippi Library Association ©2016 Editorial Staff Contents President’s Page ................................................................................................ 72 Editor Tina Harry Virtual Reference Services in Level VI Higher Education Institutions in Catalog & Asst. Automation Librarian the SACS Region: A Content Analysis ......................................................... 73 The University of Mississippi [email protected] Michael Mounce 2016 Annual Conference ................................................................................ 79 Assistant Editor Mississippi Authors’ Awards Tracy Carr Library Services Bureau Director Keynote Speaker Mississippi Library Commission Poster Sessions [email protected] Conference Schedule at a Glance Copy Editor News Briefs ....................................................................................................... 85 Audrey Beach People In The News ......................................................................................... 88 Resource Librarian Mississippi Delta Community College Book Reviews ................................................................................................... 91 [email protected] The Jim Crow Routine: Everyday Performances of Race, Civil Rights and Segregation in Mississippi News Reporter The Littlest Bunny in Mississippi: an Easter Adventure Sarah Mangrum Access Services Librarian / Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi: Race, Class, and Nation Building in the Assistant Clinical Professor Jim Crow South, 1830-1977 University of Southern Mississippi [email protected] The Mississippi Secession Convention: Delegates and Deliberations in Politics and War, 1861-1865 Book Review Editor Mark your Calendars ...................................................................................... 93 Michele Frasier-Robinson Librarian for Education & Psychology University of Southern Mississippi [email protected] MLA Reporter Antoinette Giamalva On the cover: Nectar Drinking Bats of Arizona by Amanda Myers, McCain Library & Archives, Branch Manager University of Southern Mississippi. This 5-color relief print shows the Mexican long-tongued Ridgeland Public Library bat and the long-nosed bat, the two species of nectar drinking bats found in Arizona. These bats [email protected] pollinate various cactus species such as agave, saguaro, and the organ pipe cactus. You can find more works by this artist on Instagram at acmyers621 or at etsy.com/shop/admers 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 widest possible audience for the works 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. 3 • Fall 2016 Page 72 2016 Executive Board President’s Page President Molly McManus “Mississippi Libraries: The Heart Systems Librarian U.S. Army Engineer Research and of Our Communities” is the theme Development Center of the Mississippi Library Associa- tion 2016 Annual Conference that Vice-President Jenniffer Stephenson will be held in Vicksburg, 18-21, Director 2016. Your vice president, Jenniff- Greenwood-Leflore Public Library System er Stephenson, and her committees Secretary have planned a great schedule of Jamie Bounds Wilson events. As always, there will be a Electronic Resources & wide range of programs and events Web Services Librarian Millsaps College that will be of interest to library staff from public, academic, school, or Treasurer special libraries. While profession- Blair Booker Assistant Librarian al development and continuing ed- Holmes Community College ucation are well-known benefits of our annual conference, perhaps one at 465. The membership commit- Immediate Past President Patsy C. Brewer of the most important parts is the tee recently conducted a survey to Library Director ability to network with colleagues see what current and former MLA Waynesboro-Wayne County Library across the state. The MLA executive members expect from and hope ALA Councilor board recently passed a conference to gain by MLA membership. In Ellen Ruffin cancellation policy to formalize pol- the survey, we were happy to see McCain Library and Archives icies and to clarify our procedures that ‘overall satisfaction’ with MLA Curator, de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection for accepting purchase orders. You is high with 41% of respondents can find additional information ‘mostly satisfied’ and 35% of re- SELA Councilor about the conference in this issue spondents ‘extremely satisfied’. A Melissa R. Dennis Head of Research & Instruction Services of Mississippi Libraries and on our lack of communication outside of University of Mississippi Libraries association website at http://www. conference was an area of concern misslib.org. and some suggested regional or Hattiesburg is the location for our multiple events throughout the year. Section Chairs 2017 conference and our Vice Pres- Although 71% of those responding Association of College and Research ident-elect, Sarah Mangrum, will thought that their return on invest- Libraries (ACRL) Section Chair be soliciting the help of volunteers. ment of membership was fair, many Michele Frasier-Robinson Please contact her if you want to vol- lapsed and non-members men- Public Library Section Chair unteer to help with the conference. tioned the cost of membership as a Jennifer Wann The executive board is in the midst deterrent to joining. The executive School Library Section Chair of collecting RFPs for our 2018, 2019 board and membership commit- Venetia Oglesby and 2020 conferences. We hope that tees will continue to use the survey many locations throughout the state results to inform decisions. If you Special Libraries Section Chair Joyce Shaw will submit proposals. The confer- have any suggestions about MLA, ence site selection committee will the conference, or membership, Trustees Section Chair begin the review process after the please contact me or any member of Rickey Jones conference. the executive board. For more information, visit: I’m delighted to report that our http://misslib.org/Executive-Board association membership is currently Mississippi Libraries Vol. 79 No. 3 • Fall 2016 Page 73 Virtual Reference Services in Level VI Higher Education Institutions in the SACS Region: A Content Analysis Michael Mounce is to examine the extent to which librarians at Mississippi State “con- Reference and Instructional Services virtual reference services are avail- tinue to investigate effective ways Librarian, Professor of Library Services able in Level VI institutions in the to provide virtual reference services Roberts-LaForge Library Delta State University SACS region. In this study, the au- where our patrons are, when they thor presents data and information need us.” (Powers et al. 2010). 1 pertaining to those services in 107 Other articles in the literature Abstract Level VI institutions. These institu- included examples of institutions This study examines virtual ref- tions were located in eleven states in providing virtual reference services erence services in academic librar- the southeastern and south central via text messaging. For example, ies of Level VI higher education United States. Also, some institu- Brooks and Zubarev discussed the institutions in the SACS region. A tions were excluded from this study. implementation and use of those content analysis study was used to The institutions there were excluded services via text messaging at the analyze the web sites of the institu- were institutions at other levels (i.e. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, tions’ libraries. When analyzing the Level V), unaccredited institutions, a college within the City Universi- web sites, the author collected in- and institutions outside the SACS ty of New York. The authors men- formation pertaining to the librar- region. tioned that their institution’s library ies’ virtual reference services. The had used a Blackberry phone to pro- purpose of this article is to provide Literature Review vide those services. Sometime later, the results of the study. In addition, the library staff decided to make a Virtual Reference Services in this article also includes a review of change by switching to a software Particular Universities the literature, a discussion regard- interface instead of continuing to In the library literature, the au- ing the results, conclusions, and use a phone for providing the ser- thor found examples of academic recommendations. vices (Brooks and Zubarev 2012). libraries providing virtual reference Some articles in the literature fo- services to their patrons. Some of Introduction cused on changes or improvements the articles found in the literature Virtual reference services have that have been made to services discussed various academic librar- become more common in academic provided by librarians. For example, ies
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