Fa l l Is s u e 2008

Fa l l Is s u e 2008

From the Dean Bonnie MacEwan

Last year was a busy one for We’ve undertaken many efforts to move our goals forward. the libraries and you may notice Some are changes to the building including a major expansion of we haven’t slowed down since the Digital Resources Lab with generous funding from Provost the summer. As we prepare for John Heilman and Executive Vice President Don Large. The the future, we can step back and DRL now includes Movies, Music and More bringing our non- assess all we’ve accomplished print media resources together with our digital capabilities and and take stock of the next providing both production and viewing spaces. On the third projects we hope to tackle. floor, we’ve designated space for graduate student and faculty After a broad-ranging individual study. With funding from the Concessions Board and series of assessment activities input from the Graduate Student Council, we will be furnishing with students, faculty and the area for comfortable and productive research. You may notice community members, we our new color scheme selected in collaboration with the Student developed a strategic plan for Advisory Council. Watch for new carpeting to be installed on the next five years. It is available the first and second floors during the winter break. Two of at www.lib.auburn.edu/summit. our instruction labs have been renovated to allow for laptop I’d encourage you to take a look and let us know what you think. computer use or reading when classes are not in session. You’ll The plan is guided by strategic indicators that: find one lab just inside the Mell Street entrance. • Develop, implement and maintain user-driven services that Not all of our changes are to the facilities. We continue to add are responsive, highly collaborative and broad-based to meet to the collection of digital resources we create in the libraries, diverse user needs; which can be found at www.diglib.auburn.edu, and we work • Build and maintain a robust technological infrastructure that diligently for funding to continue the rich array of licensed is responsive to the changing needs of the libraries’ users and resources available from commercial sources. More than 10 employees and that will support increased flexibility in the million users access these resources a year so it is clear we must delivery of resources; continue to build and maintain both the locally developed and • Build and sustain collections that support the university commercially licensed electronic collections. In partnership mission and provide convenient, seamless access to information with the Graduate School, we are working to provide access resources in optimal formats; to the electronic dissertations written by Auburn students and • Redesign the libraries’ space to provide a dynamic, comfortable providing national leadership for the development of a strategy learning environment that is conducive to productivity, yet to archive digital materials so they will be available for future flexible enough to meet the varied needs of our staff and users; generations. • Recruit and retain well-trained, diverse and talented staff who A library is only useful if it is used, so we are working hard are dedicated to the mission of Auburn University and Auburn to try to understand the services our users need and want. Our University Libraries and to the service of the libraries’ users. continues … From the Associate Dean for Collections Glenn Anderson from the dean … Student Advisory Council includes graduate and undergraduate For a large academic library students, and we meet with the Graduate Student Council at like Auburn’s, descriptions of the least once a year to augment the information we get from the books, journals and databases members of the SAC. With their help, we’ve improved security, purchased tend to be something requesting an escort service available during evening hours. We’ve like this: in 2007/08, we added expanded hours to be open 24 hours a day five days a week, and 34,484 volumes and now hold we’ve worked with Chartwell’s to improve food services. The a total of 3,016,986 volumes, council requested a vending machine for school supplies located 36,635 journal titles, and 260 near the circulation desk. The Library Committee of the Senate databases. Such statistics-based continues to urge us to maintain and strengthen the collections summaries have little meaning to and subject expertise of the librarians. With their help we have most of us. Instead of taking that worked to make a strong case for the materials budget even in approach, this brief article will try these difficult budget times and have filled key librarian positions to show how the Auburn University Libraries spends the budget including Amia Baker, our new business librarian; Melanie allotted for books, journals, databases and other library materials. Brooks, our new reference/instruction librarian; Marliese Let’s imagine that the Auburn University Libraries has one Thomas, our new database enhancement librarian; and Suzy dollar to spend for materials. From that dollar, we spend 67 cents Westenkirchner as the art and education librarian. for journal subscriptions, 18 cents for electronic databases, 14 It’s our goal to tell everyone what we have to offer and to cents for books, less than 1 cent to bind the journals we receive urge them to use our services. We’ve reached out to the Osher and maintain the bindings on the books we have and less than Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) to include community one half cent to borrow journal articles and books from other members and make them aware of the services they can use. libraries for faculty and students. We’ve briefed the parents of incoming students through Snacks Because we spend two-thirds of our budget on journal in the Stacks during Camp War Eagle. We tell them we were subscriptions, that category deserves further analysis. Of the 67 surprised to learn that many students call their parents when they cents we spend for journal subscriptions, 38 cents pays for large get a writing or research assignment. Based on that information, packages of electronic journals from a handful of publishers. The we worked with the CWE staff to make sure the parents knew largest packages are from ScienceDirect, SpringerLink and Wiley we were here when they got that phone call. We offer “Library Interscience: costs for these packages total 34 cents. We spend Oasis” to new students on the first few days of classes to let only 7.5 cents for subscriptions to paper journals. them know what we have to offer and urge them to visit the We pay 18 cents for the 200 or so electronic databases licensed libraries. It is our honor to join the provost in recognizing our by the libraries. Twelve of those cents pays for databases in newly tenured and promoted colleagues each fall with a book science, technology and medicine. (Three databases--Web of recognition and reception. Our annual open house, Tailgate @ Science, IEEE Xplore and SciFinder Scholar--account for six of the Libraries, was held August 29. It was fun for everyone and those 12 cents.) Databases in the social sciences and humanities an opportunity to meet us and learn what we have to offer. One account for the remaining six cents. student told me she came for a free hotdog but learned about our Of the 14 cents we pay for books, almost six cents buy the Special Collections, returning later in the year to use the archives university press monographs and other books we receive from for a research project. our blanket order plans with Blackwell’s and other vendors. We hope you visit us often to use the collections, consult with The remaining eight cents is used to purchase books and other a librarian, attend a lecture or find a cup of coffee in Stacks Café. materials requested by Auburn faculty and students. Because It’s our goal to continue to make the libraries responsive to the some of these requests are for journals and databases rather needs of our many and diverse users. We want to hear from you than for books, one cent is used to buy requested journals and so let us know what you think. databases. So the actual expenditure for books is 13 cents. When I came to work at Auburn 30 years ago, the libraries had a budget goal to spend 60 cents of every dollar on journals and 40 cents on books. All of the journals were paper subscriptions. In 2007, we spent 20.5 cents of every dollar on paper subscriptions and books. So when people say things like “today’s library is not the same library your parents used,” they’re not exaggerating. Fa l l Is s u e 2008

From the Associate Dean for Public Services Marcia Boosinger

In the past year or so the Input from all user groups emphasized the desire for a library Auburn University Libraries staff that is welcoming and comfortable. Students mentioned the has begun a series of significant availability of food and drink in their description of an ideal changes to the Ralph Brown library space more often than any other requirement. Working Draughon Library designed with University Dining Services, we have planned for a full- to provide a better physical service Caribou Coffee in the second-floor lobby space to include environment for productive an expanded seating area that will be adjacent to the new books learning, collaborative work and and current periodicals collections. Materials formerly shelved research. The staff has collected in the large area just inside the Mell Street entrance have been input from a diverse group of relocated on the second floor or moved to closed-stacks storage, library stakeholders including the providing users easy access to that area as an attractive place to Library Student Advisory Council, browse the most recent acquisitions. Also easily accessible on the a group of interested students appointed by the SGA president. second floor near this entrance is the new Assistive Technologies Much of the input focused on recommendations for improving Lab built by Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity aspects of the library’s space as varied as the newly updated paint and maintained by the Program for Students with Disabilities. colors and soon to be installed first-and second-floor carpeting Looking ahead to additional improvements in the near future, and a dedicated quiet space for faculty and graduate students the libraries hope to use an endowment from Birmingham-based currently being furnished on the third floor. We implemented a EBSCO Industries to move toward an information/learning number of these recommendations recently with more changes commons that will provide more collaborative workspace and planned for the coming year. combine reference and technology service points to support The Media and Digital Resources Laboratory, a heavily student learning and faculty teaching and research. used first-floor area of the library providing access to the latest multimedia hardware and software, was remodeled to nearly double the previous square footage, allowing an increase of available workstations from 17 to 38. To make room for that expansion without decreasing the size of the collection, we reorganized the microformat materials and shifted the government documents collection while moving lesser-used materials to closed-stacks storage. We merged the Movies, Music and More collection of CDs, DVDs and videos into the MDRL for one-stop access to multimedia materials and hardware. The Newspaper Reading Room, also on the first floor, has increasingly served as the libraries’ multipurpose space. A gift from the Alabama Newspaper Association will provide funding for new furnishings. Last spring student volunteers participated in a “sit test” of seating for the room, voting on their favorite side and lounge chairs. We will use their input as we select furniture to make the room into one that can be reconfigured to suit a variety of functions. Large-screen monitors will be installed in one corner to provide broadcast journalism in the area adjacent to the print newspapers. Access to electrical outlets to save wireless laptop batteries surfaced as a major concern for students working with 21st century technology in a late 20th century library with limited available power outlets. Using funding from two General Fund Equipment grants from the Provost’s Office, we designed and equipped two spaces with laptop “garages,” convertible workstations with built-in power receptacles. The “laptop labs,” which opened this past year, offer a total of 60 additional outlets available to users anytime they are not in use for information literacy instruction. Digital Collections

The Auburn University Digital Library is a specialized unit The Auburn University Photographs Collection: of the Auburn University Libraries. Its purpose is to develop This collection includes photographs of notable people, places publicly accessible digital collections that support the teaching, and events in the history of Auburn University, from the late research and outreach missions of Auburn University. Based in 19th century onwards. Drawn from the holdings of the Auburn the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, the Auburn University University Special Collections and Archives Department, this Digital Library draws on a variety of collections, including the collection contains images of student life, sporting events rich holdings of Auburn University’s Special Collections and and campus leaders and landmarks during some of the most Archives Department, and makes them available to educators turbulent decades in Auburn’s history, including the last quarter and students in Alabama and beyond. The Auburn University of the 19th century, World Wars I and II, and desegregation in Digital Library has also played a leading role in promoting digital the 1960s. library projects with other colleges, universities and libraries in Alabama. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES) Collection: The ACES Collection contains hundreds of black-and-white photographs depicting the service’s programs in the first half of the 20th century. It offers a unique and evocative glimpse into Alabama agriculture, education, rural life and rural pastimes in the first decades of the last century, including African-American extension activities.

Barbecue at the Prattville Fishing Club, 1925 Harold Franklin on Auburn University campus, January 1964 The Auburn Football Auburn University Programs Collection: Board of Trustees Minutes Collection: This collection includes descriptions of games from Images of the minutes The Glomerataand colorful of the Board of Trustees covers of Auburn football of Auburn University programs from the 1930s, beginning with its 1940s and 1950s, many incorporation as East by famous commercial Alabama Male College illustrators. in 1856 and continuing into the first half of the Auburn vs. Florida, 20th century comprise November 30, 1939 this collection, which is (illustration by Lon Keller) searchable by keyword. East Alabama Male College Article of Incorporation, 1857 Fa l l Is s u e 2008

Eugene B. Sledge Collection: Coming Soon Born in Mobile, Ala., in 1923, Eugene B. Sledge enlisted in Margaret Olivia Sage Collection: the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942 and saw combat on Peleliu and Called “America’s forgotten philanthropist,” Margaret Olivia Sage Okinawa. After the war he obtained graduate degrees in biology (1828-1918) established the Russell Sage Foundation in 1907 at Auburn and the University of Florida and taught for many with a gift of $10 million. This collection is based on materials years at the University of Montevallo. In 1981, Sledge published collected by Professor Ruth Crocker of the Auburn University With the Old Breed: at Peleliu and Okinawa, a memoir of his Department of History while researching her biography of experiences in the Pacific during the World War II. A second Mrs. Sage: Mrs. Russell Sage: Women’s Activism and Philanthropy memoir, China Marine: An Infantryman’s Life after World War in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America (Indiana University II, was published posthumously in 2002. Both books figured Press, 2006). prominently in Ken Burns’ 2007 documentary, “The War.” He donated his personal papers to the Auburn University Libraries, portions of which appear in the Digital Library.

Eugene B. Sledge (front row, center) and comrades, Okinawa, 1945 Eddie Rickenbacker Collection: Rickenbacker (1890-1973) was a pioneering American aviator and business executive. This collection documents his life and the lives of his family members. Rickenbacker is the subject of an authoritative biography by the late Professor David Lewis of the Auburn University Department of History: Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).

Mrs. Russell Sage with chauffeur and female companion, early 1900s

Eddie Rickenbacker on a round-the-world tour during World War II The Alabama Digital Discover Auburn in 2008-2009 Preservation Network Dwayne Cox Aaron Trehub The Discover Auburn Lecture Series, jointly sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities Auburn University Libraries is gaining national recognition as and the Auburn University Libraries, continues during the a leader in the field of digital preservation—that is, preserving 2008-2009 academic year. The series features Auburn University digital collections that are created by libraries, archives, museums faculty members and other members of the Auburn family who and other cultural heritage organizations. It’s a big challenge. discuss their research interests. The director of the leading federal funding agency for libraries In fall 2008, the three speakers for the Discover Auburn and museums recently said that hundreds of millions of digital Lecture Series represented disciplines concerned with scientific objects in the United States alone are at risk of being lost forever principles and their application. On September 17, Art Slotkin, if not preserved. an Auburn University engineering graduate who holds a master’s Auburn is helping to lead the way toward a solution. In degree in the history of technology, discussed engineering 2006, the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded education at Auburn during the 19th century. On October a two-year National Leadership Grant to the Network of 16, Tom Vaughan, dean emeritus of the College of Veterinary Alabama Academic Libraries, the Auburn University Libraries Medicine and a specialist in equine medicine, lectured on the and six other Alabama institutions to build a low-cost, low- history of the horse “throughout time.” Finally, on November 5, maintenance distributed digital preservation network using Troy Best, professor of biological sciences and an authority on the open-source LOCKSS (“Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe”) mammals of the order Chiroptera made a presentation on bats, software. Originally designed for electronic journals, LOCKSS “friendly masters of the night sky.” harvests digital content at its point of creation and stores exact In spring 2009, all three speakers hail from the Department copies of that content in a network of geographically dispersed of English. At 3 p.m. on January 21, Bert Hitchcock, a specialist server computers. These copies can then be used to restore lost in Southern literature, will discuss “the code duello” in Alabama. or damaged content in the case of equipment failure or natural At the same hour on February 19, Susana Morris, a professor of catastrophe, like a hurricane or a flood. Aaron Trehub, director African and African American literature, will lecture on the role of library technology at Auburn University, heads the project. of the Griot in contemporary African-American and African- The participating institutions are the Alabama Department of Caribbean women’s literature. The Griot is a west African figure Archives and History, Auburn University, Spring Hill College, who kept the oral history of the village and entertained its Troy University, the University of Alabama, the University of residents with stories, poems and songs. Finally, at 3:30 p.m. Alabama at Birmingham and the University of North Alabama. on March 5, Paula Backscheider, an authority on 18th century At its inception, the project’s goals were to build a low- English literature, will make a presentation on women, poetry cost, high-reliability distributed digital preservation network and social movements in Britain during that period. for Alabama and to serve as a model for similar networks in Special Collections & Archives, located on the ground floor other states. It succeeded on both counts. The Alabama Digital of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, hosts the lectures in the Preservation Network has been up and running for more than Discover Auburn Series, all of which are free, open to the public a year and currently contains almost 300 gigabytes of digital and followed by a reception. content from all seven participating institutions, with more content being added every month. As the first statewide network of its kind in the country, ADPNet is getting noticed. In the past eight months, the Auburn team shared its experience with academic libraries in Virginia, the state libraries of Montana and Nevada, museum directors in Colorado and Oklahoma, and a consortium of Canadian research libraries. ADPNet was mentioned several times at the IMLS “Connecting to Collections” conference in Denver, Colo., in June 2008 and LOCKSS director Victoria Reich is promoting ADPNet as an exemplary model for state-based or regional distributed digital preservation networks. Fa l l Is s u e 2008

Auburn University Libraries Auburn University Libraries Student Mark ARL Anniversary Advisory Council Dwayne Cox

Auburn University belongs to the Association of Research Libraries, a group consisting of the leading research libraries in the United States and Canada. In 2008, the association celebrated its 75th anniversary. To mark this milestone, ARL compiled Celebrating Research: Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the Association of Research Libraries, that samples the remarkable abundance of special collections at member institutions. The entries begin with the University of Alabama’s African-American cookbook collection and run through the collection of rare maps at Yale University. Auburn University’s entry highlights the history of flight collection housed in Special Collections & Archives at the Ralph Council members, left to right: Matthew Greene, Katie Wilson, Brown Draughon Library. This collection consists of rare books, Allison O’Brien, Lauren Hayes, Brittany Fishel, Katherine Davis manuscripts, still pictures, motion pictures and sound recordings and Tori Bray related to both military and commercial aviation. These materials Mission Statement document not only the development of aircraft as weapons and The AU Libraries Student Advisory Council will help for commerce, but also tourism, labor-management relations, enhance the resources and services of the libraries through open popular culture, the evolution of engineering and individuals communication channels and strengthened relationships between significant to the history of flight. students and the libraries’ administration and staff. They will The collection includes the personal papers of Eddie make recommendations and bring new ideas to augment the Rickenbacker, founder of Eastern Airlines, as well as corporate libraries’ mission. The work of the Student Advisory Council will records of that company. In addition to Rickenbacker’s career as complement the strategic vision of the libraries and its partners- a pioneer in commercial aviation, the papers document his days in-collaboration. as a race car driver, his exploits as America’s ace-of-aces during The members of the Student Advisory Council will: World War I, the 24 days in October and November, 1942, • Serve as a “think tank”; when he was lost at sea following a crash landing in the Pacific • Participate and provide input to help the libraries respond Ocean and his devotion to conservative causes during the 1960s. better to changing information needs; Many of the Rickenbacker photographs are available through • Give a voice to a student constituency; and Auburn University’s Digital Library at http://diglib.auburn.edu/ • Solicit advice from other students in order to enhance the collections/rickenbacker. libraries’ resources and services. Scholars, graduate students and undergraduates from Auburn University and other institutions of higher learning have Projects and Accomplishments employed the history of flight collection in the production of The recent Library Survey that was created by the Student senior theses, master’s theses, doctoral dissertations, scholarly Advisory Council was completed by 1,677 Auburn students. articles and scholarly books. Most notably, these have included From those responses, 1,184 separate recommendations were Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century made. The goal of the survey was to discover ways in which the (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005) by the late Auburn University Libraries could better serve the student body. W. David Lewis, who served as a member of Auburn University’s Thanks to the responses and suggestions from the survey, the Department of History. In fact, Auburn’s history of flight following changes have been made: collection is a monument to Lewis, whose skill and energy stand • The Ralph Brown Draughon Library has extended its hours behind its creation. to be open 24 hours a day five days a week; • There is now a greater variety of snacks and meal choices available at the two dining locations in RBD; • Renovations are under way to expand and provide greater resources in the Digital Resource Lab; • More group study rooms will soon be available to students; and • Plans are currently being made to renovate the entire library to create a more comfortable atmosphere. These plans include creating a new color scheme and purchasing new carpet and furniture. Libraries Recognize Newly Information Literacy – What is it? Promoted and Tenured Faculty Does it matter? Nancy Noe

Once upon a time (or “back in the day” as our students might say), when one searched for credible, reliable, well-researched and documented data, a library was THE place to go for information. There were books, magazines and journals, encyclopedias, print indexes to newspapers and government documents and knowledgeable librarians to help one navigate through endless drawers of catalog cards and row upon row of books. Times have changed. The library is no longer the sole provider of information. Consider all of the sources and resources to which one has access on a daily basis. Need a book? Go to amazon.com or barnesandnobles.com. Daily newspaper? NYTimes.com. Looking for some general information? Our students will either search the internet using Google or go straight to Wikipedia. Information is just a few keystrokes and mouse clicks away. Obviously, finding information today is not a problem. For many users, the challenge is in sorting through and selecting Auburn University Libraries recognized faculty members appropriate and credible information. To begin to navigate the that received a promotion and/or tenure in 2008 at a reception myriad of available resources, it is essential that students develop held in Draughon Library. This reception is part of the Faculty skills that prepare them to not only locate information, but to Recognition program, the result of an initiative from Provost critically evaluate, interpret and apply that information. They John Heilman and Auburn University Libraries Dean Bonnie need information literacy. MacEwan. The Faculty Recognition program is an annual event The Association of College and Research Libraries defines and invites the newly promoted or tenured faculty members information literacy as “the set of skills needed to find, retrieve, to identify a book that is special to them. A copy of the books analyze and use information.” In other words, the information identified, each with a commemorative bookplate including the literate student should be able to: faculty member’s name and the year of promotion or tenure, • Determine the nature and extent of information needed; is added to the libraries’ collections. The volumes selected • Access needed information effectively and efficiently; range from scholarly monographs crucial to research to distant • Evaluate information and its sources critically and memories of a book read-or heard-during childhood; from the incorporate selected information into his or her knowledge book that articulated ultimate truths to the book that inspired or base and value system; encouraged its reader. • Individually, or as a member of a group, use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose; and • Understand many of the economic, legal and social issues surrounding the use of information and accesses and use information ethically and legally.

Associate Dean and Professor Emmett Winn is congratulated by friends and colleagues. Fa l l Is s u e 2008

Librarian Researches the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women Tim Dodge

As the history subject specialist in Montgomery. As I write this, I have recently discovered and as someone with a PhD in another possible archival resource for this project to consult at history, my research activities the Birmingham Public Library Department of Archives and have covered the fields of history Manuscripts. While much of my research has involved poring and library science. My current through endless statistical reports, I have also savored the project is a history of the Julia discovery of eyewitness accounts providing some insight into life Tutwiler Prison for Women. behind bars at Tutwiler. According to administrative files of the Located in Wetumpka, Ala., 1940s providing accident, disciplinary and physician’s reports, Tutwiler is the only women’s life at the prison was surprisingly violent. There are accounts of prison in the state, not counting inmates attacking one another with broken bottles or attacking work release centers. Since the guards on the prison farm with garden hoes. More recently, issues prison was not established until of the Alabama Prison Project Newsletter provide first-person late 1942, I am covering the time accounts by inmates of the 1980s complaining about poor period up through the present conditions and abusive treatment by the prison staff. day. The primary focus of this project is on the almost constant Most of my history research pertains to criminal justice struggle to fulfill the ideal of rehabilitating the inmates in the history. If all goes well, my current project on the Julia Tutwiler face of frequent fiscal crises, neglect and lingering patriarchal Prison for Women will appear in a refereed history journal. attitudes concerning the appropriate standards of female Ideas for future history research projects include a history of the behavior. The state’s prison administration loudly proclaimed Alabama Highway Patrol, poor relief in Alabama before World the goal of rehabilitation of the inmates as a major reason for War II and, perhaps, an article concerning Alabama’s rich history establishing Tutwiler, and this goal has been reiterated several of gospel music. times more over the past 65 years. The realization of this goal has generally proven to be disappointing. Where are the Presidents? I have tentatively titled the manuscript “Good Intentions, Disappointing Results: History of the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women.” I hope the title is not a prediction of the fate of this project, because I have had unusual difficulties with it. I am currently in the process of revising the manuscript for the third time in response to suggestions made by the editor of and reviewers for a refereed history journal. Research for this project has involved the use of published annual reports of the Alabama Department of Corrections, administrative files of the same, newspaper stories and additional primary sources located in the Special Collections and Archives Department in the Ralph Brown Draughon Library and the Alabama Department of Archives and History located

The Auburn University presidential portraits have been relocated to Samford Hall. Making Movies in Alabama Joyce Hicks

Alabama possesses an atmosphere so stimulatingly diverse that filmmakers find it hard to resist being captivated by its charms. The state that has forever nurtured giants of literature, music, art and theater provides a stunning contrast of environments – the most biologically diverse place in America outside of California. The past still lives in Alabama’s towns and cities, while modern industry and space-age technology flourish. With legendary southern hospitality, Alabama has catered to everything from small, independent clips to massive Hollywood films, including Norma Rae, Murderball, Big Fish, The Long Walk Home, Space Camp, and Cobb. There are countless advantages of filming in Alabama, some of which include beautiful scenery, diverse resources and, of course, the climate. The economic benefits of film industry productions in Alabama are many. First, are direct economic benefits of the money spent on wages, products and services. The production company itself spends dollars with local businesses on lodging, clothing, groceries, restaurants, fabrics, lumber, hardware, office supplies, and laundry services. Individual cast and crew members may spend money on any or all of the above plus leisure activities, books and magazines, souvenirs – the list could go on and on. Even temporary “extras” and curious visitors from neighboring areas will leave additional dollars within the community hosting a production company. Because most of the money spent is brought in from out of state and otherwise wouldn’t be here, economists project that it has an impact in buying power for Alabama businesses and employees three and a half times the actual amount. Productions also play a part in creating and retaining jobs within the state, as they allow Alabama’s freelance film crew members and support services to earn their living. These commercial media projects resemble having a new, medium-size business move into the community, except that they generate thousands or millions of dollars of activity over a few months instead of a few years. During the past year, the Special Collections and Archives Department of the Auburn University Libraries recognized Alabama’s role in the film industry with an exhibit, which included posters and write-ups of movies filmed in Alabama and trivia questions to test the knowledge of movie buffs. Fa l l Is s u e 2008

Thank You Faces & Places 2008

Auburn University Libraries received Ms. Franzetta Kay Judkins ’01 We welcome these new faculty and tremendous support during the Faculty Ms. Pambanisha L. King staff members and congratulate those and Staff Campaign and would like to Mr. Randall L. Ledkins ’95 who have been promoted. recognize our generous donors. Ms. Jean Liddell New Faculty & Staff Ms. Bonnie J. MacEwan Mrs. Oyinkansola Aladebumoye Amia Baker Mrs. Fariedeh T. Maghsoodloo Mr. Glenn A. Anderson Business Librarian Mr. Raymond B. Anderson Dr. Thomas O. Manig Melanie Brooks Ms. Sharon L. Awtry ’99 Mr. Robert K. Martin Reference/Instruction Librarian Dr. Nickolas A. Backscheider Dr. Henry H. McCurley Ms. Amia L. Baker Dr. Barbara Pitts Miller Clint Bellanger Mrs. Denise Cosby Baker ’89 Dr. German Mills Information Technology Specialist IV Ms. Janet Jones Bandy Mr. Chris Mixon Cory Latham Mr. Jon Bell Ms. Beth Nicol Library Assistant I Ms. Barbara A. Bishop Ms. Nancy W. Noe Reuben Pasquini Ms. Christine Black Ms. Melinda Nunn Information Technology Specialist III Mr. Tony Oravet ’04 Ms. Marcia Boosinger Marliese Thomas Mr. Reuben Pasquini Ms. Margaret Bozeman Database Enhancement Librarian Ms. Patricia Branum Ms. Linda Peabody Suzy Westenkirchner Ms. Mary Alfrieda Brummitt Mr. JP Pendleton Art and Education Librarian Dr. Bob Buchanan Ms. Donnice Pink Ms. Yolanda Callaway Ms. Brenda Ray Faculty Promoted & Tenured Ms. Dana Caudle Mr. Thomas W. Reese Bob Buchanan Mr. Adam T. Chalkley Ms. Gwendolyn Ferris Reid ’81 Chemistry and Veterinary Medicine Ms. Yvette Rivera Ms. Marilyn Christianson Librarian Mrs. Sandra Todd Clay ’86 Ms. Betsy J. Robertson Ms. Cora Cobb Dr. Juliet Taylor Rumble Faculty & Staff Changes Mr. Thomas Ray Sanders Ms. Harriet B. Cosby The Veterinary Medical Library Mr. Greg Schmidt Mr. Larry Kenneth Cosby welcomes Bob Buchanan as head Mrs. Carole Covington Ms. Cecilia Schmitz and, from the Library of Architecture, Dr. Dwayne Cox Mrs. Christi K. Screws Design and Construction, Cora Cobb Dr. Tim Dodge Ms. Sonia Sieveking as Library Assistant VI. Ms. Debra A. Dowdell Ms. Kitty Siu Mr. Patrick F. Dye Ms. Sarah H. Smith Ms. Jackie C. Edwards Ms. Juanita A. Stephens Dr. Yucheng Feng Mr. Andrew Jerrell Stewart ’97 Ms. Marilyn Floyd Ms. Colleen R. Strickland Mrs. Frances Anna Fornier Ms. Paula Sullenger Mr. Michael David Garrett ’88 Ms. Marliese Thomas Ms. Helen E. Goldman Ms. Diane E. Thorne Ms. Melissa Gortney Ms. Linda L. Thornton Ms. Rose Grady Ms. Victoria J. Throckmorton Mr. Jim Gravois Ms. Phyllis V. Tyner Ms. Eileen Hall Mr. John Varner Ms. Mary M. Hammett Ms. Donna Marie Walker ’06 Mr. Gary Hawkins ’97 Ms. Liza Weisbrod Ms. Susan Ramey Henderson ’76 Mr. Brian Keith Wells ’94 Ms. Joyce Hicks Ms. Suzy Westenkirchner Ms. Laura Newland Hill Mrs. Antonia Wickersham Mrs. Susan Lewis Hinds ’70 Ms. Mary L. Williams Mr. Kirk Victor Iversen Mr. Andrew J. Wohrley Ms. Gail Austin Jones Mr. Bob Yerkey

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