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Longwood University Digital Commons @ Longwood University Friends of the Library Library, Special Collections, and Archives Fall 2010 Friends of the Library Newsletter Volume 4 Issue 2 Greenwood Library Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.longwood.edu/libfriends Recommended Citation Greenwood Library, "Friends of the Library Newsletter Volume 4 Issue 2" (2010). Friends of the Library. Paper 23. http://digitalcommons.longwood.edu/libfriends/23 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Library, Special Collections, and Archives at Digital Commons @ Longwood University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Friends of the Library by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Longwood University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Special points of interest: Emilie Richards to Speak Volume 4, Issue 2 Rosemary Sprague: Longwood Educator and Award-Winning Author Fall 2010 Multimedia Expansion Honor Roll Emilie Richards to Speak at the Fall Friends of the Library Event USA Today bestselling publishing’s Oscar®, for her author, Emilie Richards, will earlier work in the genre. In speak at the Janet D. addition, Romantic Times Book Greenwood Friends of the Reviews magazine has presented Library event on Friday, her with numerous awards October 1, 2010 in the including an award for career atrium of the Greenwood achievement. Library. Richards, whose Richards is married to her name resonates with the college sweetheart, a Unitarian hundreds of thousands of Universalist minister. Richards’ readers who have embraced years with her husband and her works of family fiction church life influenced the and romance, is a full-time creation of the Ministry Is writer and avid quilter. The Murder mysteries, her series Friends of the Library look that chronicles a minister’s forward to Richards regaling human condition. According wife who solves murders in a us with her life experiences. to Richards, “I began writing small Ohio town. She and her Richards received her just to please myself, realized husband have three grown undergraduate degree in that I would be even more sons and a daughter. Born in American Studies from pleased if other people read Bethesda, Maryland and raised Florida State University and me, and set out to make that in St. Petersburg, Florida, her master’s degree in happen. Sixty plus novels Richards has moved frequently Family Development from later, I think I’ve due to her husband’s Virginia Tech. Before succeeded.” profession. They have lived in becoming a full-time writer, As her star has risen in Virginia, Louisiana, California, she was employed as a the publishing world, Arkansas, Ohio, and parent services coordinator Richards has appeared on Pennsylvania. They also spent for Head Start families, as a national television and has two four-month sabbaticals in therapist in a mental health been quoted in Reader’s Australia. When not writing or center, and in several Digest, placed between such quilting, Richards enjoys pastoral counseling centers. noted figures as Oprah and traveling and turning her No doubt Richards’ Thomas Jefferson. Although suburban yard into a country background as a relationship she has broadened the scope garden. She is currently counselor is reflected in her of her writing to women’s plotting her next novel for award-winning novels. fiction and mysteries, she Mira Books. Richards draws on her was recently awarded the ® vocational background to prestigious RITA deliver richly textured family (Romance Writers of stories that explore the America) Award, romance The Friends of the Janet D. Greenwood Library Greenwood ofThe Friends D. the Janet VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2 Page 2 Rosemary Sprague: Longwood Educator and Award-Winning Multimedia Expands, Author Classrooms Enriched An accomplished teacher, scholar, Longwood College. These works can be In June 2010 the Library staff said and author, Dr. Rosemary Sprague was found in library collections throughout th farewell to the Governor’s School of one of Longwood’s 20 century the country. Southside Virginia. The Governor’s School, celebrities. As an instructor, her dramatic Dr. Sprague also lent her expertise a statewide initiative that works with stage presence added flare to her and energy to the local community and localities to “serve gifted high school teaching style, and outside of the professional organizations. She was an students during the academic year,” classroom, she was a well-known award- active member of Johns Memorial occupied three classrooms on the Library’s winning author. Greenwood Library has Episcopal Church and the Daughters of second floor. The school’s departure the privilege of housing the Rosemary the American Revolution, serving as provided Dean Barbour the opportunity to Sprague Collection, the contents of State Historian of the DAR from 1986 to expand the increasingly popular Multimedia which afford a unique glimpse into the 1989. An accomplished actress, she Lab and to enrich the technology in the life of a local “renaissance woman.” loved the theatre her entire life, she was Library’s classrooms. Dr. Sprague graduated from Bryn a member of the Waterworks Players Since its opening in 2007, Multimedia Mawr College, received her master’s Board of Directors and played major Lab staff have supported students as they degree and doctorate from Case Western roles in many of their productions. In developed digital, graphic, audio, and video Reserve University and did post- 1971, Dr. Sprague established the content for their coursework. Increasingly, graduate work at Oxford University, the Victorians Institute in collaboration with faculty ask for more than the “10-page University of London, and the two colleagues from the University of research paper” as evidence of learning in Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-on- North Carolina. The Institute has the classroom. Instructors now ask students Avon. Before coming to Longwood, Dr. developed into an international literary to work collaboratively and create multi- Sprague was director of dramatics at society. media projects that include video, images and sound in a Web 2.0 environment. Notre Dame College in South Euclid, Dr. Sprague passed away in the fall of Ohio. Initially, the Multimedia Lab was 1991. The Greenwood Library is located in room 148, adjacent to the Sprague began teaching English privileged to carry on her legacy through Information Center. In the new literature at Longwood in 1962 and was our collection of her books and papers. configuration, Multimedia Services will promoted to full professor in 1965. In These include her personal expand into the two adjacent classrooms, 1967, she became Longwood’s first correspondence, research, publication now used by Library faculty for instructional Board of Visitors Distinguished drafts, documents related to her teaching purposes. The redesigned Multimedia Lab Professor. and writing careers, and personal and will be equipped for: Dr. Sprague’s legacy lives on through biographical information. To gain a green screening, her published works, which include nine glimpse into the life of this very audio production, passionate and talented writer, actress, historical novels for young adults, converting of various video formats, and educator, please contact Lydia biographies of Robert Browning and high-end multimedia computing, and Williams, Special Collections, at George Eliot, a study of five American use of its newest equipment including poets entitled “Imaginary Gardens," and 434.395.2432 or [email protected]. five digital cameras, six camcorders, the Sesquicentennial History of three voice recorders and a large drawing tablet. To expand Multimedia Services, the Library’s classrooms currently located in 147A and B will move to two of the three rooms previously occupied by the Governor’s School. Library faculty use the classrooms in collaboration with teaching faculty to provide discipline-based information literacy instruction for students. However, when not used for instructional purposes, these rooms are available for faculty meetings and gatherings, cultural events and lectures, group tutoring sessions offered by the University’s Learning Center staff, and open study space. (continued on page 3) Page 3 THE FRIENDS OF THE J ANET D. GREENWOOD LIBRARY Honor Roll The Janet D. Greenwood Library gratefully acknowledges the following donors and friends who made gifts to the library. Greenwood Society Amanda Carter Chase ‘84 Chesta Hubbard Morrissette ‘34 Raymond J & Patricia P. Cormier Patricia Shaw Christian ‘72 Frieda E. Myers Richard D. & Linda Givens Giles ‘65 Carolyn M. Craft Jessie Bruce Paciocco ‘77 Diane N. Easter Mr. & Mrs. Neil Pappalardo Collector Gwen S. Eddleman Tatiana B. Pashkova-Balkenhol William F. & Martha J. Dorrill John W. & Paula J. Ellison Mr. & Mrs. Theodore R. Reinhart Androniki John Fallis ‘63 Deborah Lynn Reno ‘94 Patron Ray A. Gaskins Elizabeth Conner Riffey ‘83 Beverly Ann James ‘75 Stephen H. Goldberger Audrey S. Robinson C. Sue McCullough Shirley Ann Gunn ‘65 Margaret M. Scott Betty Coley Neal ‘73 James & Ann Harris Gussett ‘80 Alice Garrett Shawver ‘72 Publisher Anne Lancaster Hall ‘67 Marguerite Irene Shiffler ‘73 Wendell A. Barbour Scott M. & Susan M. Harwood Maurice P. Sneller William L. & Angeline Webb Frank ‘80 Juanita Higgins Hazlegrove ‘92 Homer L. & Mrs. Maryann C. Springer Emily Jane Ott ‘82 Gerald D. ‘92 & Gyanneth Susan Hess ‘90 Massie & Mary Jane Burnette Stinson ‘78 Connie Hom Rosemary Henry Thomas ‘62 Editor Jack O. & Sherry Honeycutt Nancy H. Vick Jo Leslie Andrews ‘64 Frank J. & Patricia A. Howe Carolyn Wells June Willings Ashmore ‘95 Edward L. & Virginia R. Kinman Lydia Chappell Williams ‘97 Patrick G. Barber Kathryn Alise-Noel Kostura ‘07 Robert Blackman & Kelly M. Nelson Lee Kovacs Author Shirley V. Blackwell Abbie Vestal Landry ‘77 Patricia Carlson Eleanor Weddle Bobbitt ‘52 Mark N. Lenker Betty Andrews Eike ‘65 Rhonda Brock-Servais Janet Worthy Loveless ‘76 Cynthia B. Elliott Lisa A. Burns ‘08 Michael & Keary Mariannino ‘98 Joseph C. & Elizabeth Kocevar-Weidinger Pam W. Butler Paula Rowe Marshall-Hughes ‘78 Ben Lansing Billy & Regina M. Caldwell Robert D. & Susan H. May Alan C.