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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Libraries at The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in University Libraries Annual Report by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact [email protected]. UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES THE UNIVERSITY OF LIB.USM.EDU FY 2016-17 SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI AA/EOE/ADAI UC 77367 1.18 ANNUAL REPORT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI INSIDE FRONT COVER [this page should be blank when printing] UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries are undergoing many of the same transformations seen in higher education lately. As dean of University Libraries, I can attest to the continuous changes occurring in our libraries across our campuses. We are steadily becoming more digital, using technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness, and rethinking how we support research and teaching. We are more intensely focused on student success, delivering content and services that help students and faculty work more productively. And we are working harder to establish relationships and partnerships that will develop into positive, natural arrangements to benefit students.
Case in point, funding has been identified and planning has begun to remodel a substantial portion of Cook Library to improve spaces for student-athletes, as well as the general student population, providing better, more inviting and functional spaces A MESSAGE for study. On the Gulf Park campus, new spaces have been created, including a 24/7 study area. We are investing in technology to better manage digital collections so access is improved and researchers are able to carry out their work more efficiently. FROM Projects like the Golden Eagle Textbook Initiative help students neutralize the cost of textbooks, and the Open Textbook Initiative moves our campus toward a more sustainable position in delivering THE DEAN course content to students efficiently and economically.
In University Libraries, we are implementing our best ideas to deliver excellent service and provide relevant research material so our campus community can flourish and grow academically. Access to knowledge and the latest ideas is key to the success of any research university. So we are determined to act strategically to maximize our resources to benefit students, faculty and staff.
JOHN EYE Dean of University Libraries TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 02 LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY 04 PUBLIC SERVICES 08 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 12 TECHNICAL SERVICES 18 GUNTER LIBRARY AT THE GULF COAST RESEARCH LABORATORY 22 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES EVENTS AND PROGRAMS 25 FY 2016-17 ANNUAL REPORT FACULTY AND STAFF ACHIEVEMENTS 34 LIB.USM.EDU
1 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 OUR MISSION UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES University Libraries aims to create University Libraries provides a dynamic physical and virtual learning environment that supports the intellectual development an information-rich environment that and creativity of the University community. Joseph Anderson Cook Library, William David McCain Library and Archives, the Gulf Coast Library, and the Gunter Library at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL) offer services that meet information fosters the intellectual development and needs and support the research, teaching, learning and service of the University’s faculty, staff and students. An extensive creativity of the University community website provides access to the Libraries’ holdings, including full-text and article databases, electronic journals and books, and digitized collections and services, such as reference and research assistance, tutorials and document delivery. by providing services, collections and other resources to meet the needs of Joseph Anderson Cook Library the University’s students, faculty, staff The Joseph Anderson Cook Library contains the principal holdings of books, journals, microforms, music, media and other materials, which support the and other researchers in a changing research and instructional programs of the University. Cook Library has five floors of book stacks, study areas and computers, and access is provided to over academic landscape. five million books and microforms and over 150,000 journals. Library services, such as circulation, reference and interlibrary loan, can be found on the first and second floors, with the collections being housed on all five floors. GOALS VALUES
Special Collections Provide, strengthen, maintain and preserve Deliver exemplary service. Special Collections offer a variety of historical resources ranging from the Libraries’ information resources. Evaluate, select and provide access to a 15th-century illuminated manuscripts to Civil War letters, civil rights documents and Pursue additional funding opportunities broad range of information resources. current Mississippiana. The University of Southern Mississippi’s Special Collections to stabilize the operating budget and are located in the William David McCain Library, built in 1976. Four units comprise enhance collections and services. Protect the privacy of individuals and their Special Collections: University Archives, Rare Books and Mississippiana, Historical rights to find and use information relevant Manuscripts, and the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection. Research services Educate students and other researchers to educational and research needs. are directed from the Cleanth Brooks Reading Room and are available to the public to successfully find, evaluate and use information resources. Form partnerships that support or and University community. Materials are discoverable through the online catalog and advance the Libraries’ mission. additional descriptive finding aids. Inform stakeholders, through public relations and outreach, about the evolving nature and Provide access to the library and its value of library resources and services. resources without regard to national Gulf Coast Library origin, background or views. Collaborate with potential partners inside and The Gulf Coast Library, located on the Gulf Park campus in Long Beach, has print and outside the University to strengthen and expand Respect the richness of different non-print materials that support the research and curriculum needs of the students, existing services and collections and to explore ideas and cultures. faculty and staff. All of the University Libraries’ electronic holdings are accessible to new mutually beneficial opportunities. the students on the Gulf Coast, and materials are available for campus-to-campus loan. Support student success and The Gulf Coast Library includes 37,000 volumes of curriculum resource materials and Adopt new technologies to enhance professional development. provides study space and access to computers throughout all three floors of the facility. the experience of library patrons and Be a vital and welcoming center for to improve employee efficiency. educational and cultural activity. The Gunter Library Recruit and retain highly skilled faculty and staff and facilitate the professional development The Gunter Library, located in the Richard L. Caylor Building, at the Gulf Coast of all University Libraries employees. Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs, provides technical information for the research staff, resident faculty and students. A collection of 1,663 print journals Manage physical and virtual library spaces to provide and over 30,000 books, reprints, reports and gray literature, environmental impact environments conducive to learning and research. statements, fishery management plans, and other materials supporting the research and teaching of Division of Coastal Sciences and GCRL scientific staff are available to support research, education and services in the coastal sciences.
ABOUT UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 2 AT3 UNIVERSITY SOUTHERN LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 MISS ORGANIZATIONAL DOCUMENTS 18 5,658
PAGE VIEWS DISSERTATIONS 917 90,308
NURSING CAPSTONE PROJECTS A QUIL A 224,271 34 14,311 DIGITAL HUMANITIES OBJECTS N/A 7,302 UPLOADS FACULTY PUBLICATIONS 1,259 5,501 2,838 JOURNAL/PERIODICAL ARTICLES 179 90,229 HONORS THESES 177 117,365 DOWNLOADS 388,503 PRESENTATIONS 28 2,424 MASTER’S THESES 106 32,196 MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS 120 23,209
MISSISSIPPI DIGITAL LIBRARY
27,162 VISITORS FROM 92 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES SPENT 1,275 HOURS VIEWING 91,572 PAGES AND DOWNLOADING 3,447 ITEMS
IN 2017, MDL ADDED MORE THAN 2,000 NEW ITEMS COMPOSED OF 4,400 INDIVIDUAL LIBRARY SCANS AND WELCOMED THE ADDITION OF 10 NEW CULTURAL HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS. TECHNOLOGY OF 2,149 37% HOURS SPENT VISITORS ON THE Library Technology creates and supports the technical infrastructure within DOWNLOAD PAGE VIEWS WEBSITE VISITS UNIQUE USERS DIGITAL MATERIAL FROM COLLECTIONS THE COLLECTIONS University Libraries to better serve the needs of the University community 141,462 31,839 20,596 WEBSITE and aims to advance scholarly communication and keep University Libraries VISITORS on the cutting edge of research and technology. 2.88 FROM TOTAL PAGES DOWNLOADS TOTAL ITEMS TERABYTES OF NEWLY DIGITIZED 113 88,606 7,692 19,968 MATERIALS COUNTRIES DIGITAL COLLECTIONS DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 4 5 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 AQUILA Aquila houses research and scholarship created by Southern Miss faculty, staff and students, and most of its content is open access, making it freely available to researchers. Since its launch in January 2012, items in Aquila have been downloaded by individuals from 27,708 different institutions in 231 countries across six continents.
Aquila began as a joint venture between University Libraries, the Office of Research and the Office of the Provost and was originally conceived as a means of preserving and displaying faculty publications. As Aquila grew and its capabilities became more robust, it became the repository for student works, event recordings, committee DIGITAL COLLECTIONS MISSISSIPPI DIGITAL LIBRARY minutes and resolutions, and even served as a Digital Collections has been digitizing and increasing Mississippi’s rich abundance of cultural and In May 2017, MDL was the recipient of a mini-grant provided publishing platform for academic journals. Now access to the University’s Special Collections historical resources is held by institutions and by the Knight Foundation and Digital Public Library of in its sixth year, Aquila also includes research materials since 1999. Comprised of images, text, repositories all across the state, and the mission America (DPLA). During the upcoming fiscal year, MDL will datasets and open textbooks. Aquila continued audio and video formats, Digital Collections’ website of the Mississippi Digital Library (MDL) is to travel across the state to assist various historical societies, its rapid growth in 2016–17, reaching just shy provides continuing access to research materials for provide an online space to search and explore libraries, museums and other cultural heritage institutions of one million downloads at the year’s end. a worldwide audience. In 2016-17, Digital Collections this wealth of materials available in Mississippi. with the development of digital archives and collections. began implementing a digital preservation system, From photographs to oral histories, the treasures In fall 2016, Aquila sponsored open access events remediating metadata to new national guidelines, contributed to MDL exhibit the incredible diversity New Institutions that focused on open textbooks and highlighted and hosting multiple Digi Day workshops – teaching of resources that can be found in the state. the Open Textbook Initiative, a program designed digitization basics through hands-on training. Marion County Courthouse Columbia, MS to encourage faculty to adopt or create open In 2017, MDL introduced a new web design educational resources for their courses. In Mississippi Library Additionally, Digital Collections continues to digitize the to provide a friendlier, more customized April 2017, Aquila hosted the Southern Miss Commission, Jackson, MS expansive H.A. and Margret Rey Collection, as well as interface for professional researchers and Institutional Repository Conference, where Mississippiana and Rare Books, Historical Manuscripts everyday users, as well as advanced statistical Oren Dunn City Museum, librarians and institutional repository managers and University Archives. Project highlights include reports for partner institutions. The new site Tupelo, MS from around the country came together to learn partnering with the Athletics department to preserve design provides convenient, open access to Pearl River Community from each other. The conference featured a historic and current digital recordings of Coaches’ Shows the digital collections throughout the state. College, Poplarville, MS keynote address from Dr. Paul Royster of the and USM sports history, digitizing the Evelyn Gandy University of Nebraska at Lincoln, along with panel Roman Catholic Diocese of Collection and books from the de Grummond Children’s Jackson, Jackson, MS discussions, concurrent sessions and short talks. Literature Collection, and enhancing the yearbook digital The Cultural Heritage Digitization Award (CHDA), Singing River Genealogy-Local collection by adding full-text searching capabilities. now in its second year, was awarded to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jackson. The CHDA is a highly History Library, Pascagoula, MS competitive cultural heritage digitization award State Law Library of Lastly, Digital Collections introduced a robust digital presented to one cultural heritage institution that Mississippi, Jackson, MS preservation system to support the preservation of demonstrates an immediate need for archival Tennessee-Tombigbee its digital materials. Compliant to the International digitization services. This new digital collection Waterway Transportation Organization for Standardization in the field, captured the culture and growth of the church Museum, Columbus, MS Preservica ensures the safety and long-term access and the state from the late 1800s, including Tippah County Historical and to materials in Digital Collections, as well as supports many structures and places that no longer exist. Genealogical Society, Ripley, MS research data initiatives across the Libraries. Digital The Bishop Richard Oliver Gerow Archive and Collections is dedicated to retaining the long- Records Collection houses historic documents, Tishomingo County Historical and Genealogical Society, Iuka, MS term accessibility and integrity of the historical and including the papal bull establishing the diocese academic digital objects in its charge, making digital and bishop correspondence, such as the letter holdings accessible for generations to come. books of Civil War Bishop William Henry Elder.
LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 6 7 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY COOK LIBRARY GULF COAST LIBRARY Public Services strives to deliver exemplary service as identified in University Libraries’ strategic plan. Responsible for providing access, 704,440 22,376 11,310 instruction and research assistance, Public Services serves as the ENTRANCE LOANS ITEMS USED COUNT [I.E., ITEMS CHECKED OUT] IN-HOUSE information gateway for Southern Miss. 75,421 3,681 1,127
1,445 3,880 1,108 ITEMS LOANED ITEMS BORROWED PRINT TO OTHER FROM OTHER RESERVE ITEMS INSTITUTIONS INSTITUTIONS CHECKED OUT [I.E., FOR OUR PATRONS] 188 675 54
10,451 4,832 120 RESEARCH LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY ITEMS DELIVERED ASSISTANCE DESK ASSISTANCE DESK TO DISTANCE TRANSACTIONS TRANSACTIONS EDUCATION STUDENTS 3,198 N/A 1
237 ATTENDED BY 4,404 PERSONS 84 WITH 95 PERSONS CLASSES, WORKSHOPS AND TOURS RESEARCH CONSULTATIONS 44 ATTENDED BY 631 PERSONS 26 WITH 30 PERSONS
ARTS AND LETTERS 30% PUBLIC ENGLISH COMPOSITION 30% BUSINESS 7%
EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY 7% SERVICES HEALTH 10% LIBRARY NURSING 6% INSTRUCTION
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 10% BY UNIT
PUBLIC SERVICES THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 8 9 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 PUBLIC SERVICES APA, MLA, Chicago and Turabian style guides to ACCESS SERVICES INTERLIBRARY LOAN write and format academic work, with a special In pursuit of the goal to obtain additional funding Interlibrary Loan (ILL) continued to leverage existing emphasis on proper citation formatting. Academic opportunities to stabilize the operating budget agreements with other libraries to provide the integrity workshops were also added to the and enhance collections and services, the Access Southern Miss community with access to resources Libraries’ repertoire as part of the University’s Services librarian and the Collection Development not otherwise available in our own collections. new Academic Integrity Remediation Program. and Acquisitions librarian were awarded a $10,000 Resources are provided electronically, when available, Southern Miss Fund grant to begin the Golden and in physical format, when necessary, typically at Eagle Textbook Initiative (GETI). GETI is designed no cost to the patron. Electronic delivery time for Librarians created course-specific research guides. to provide students access to required textbooks articles continued to improve with many delivered Among the courses supported by these guides are for courses in the University’s General Education in PDF format within 24 hours. During this first full Biological Sciences 197, Family Relations 455, History Curriculum. Funds were used to purchase copies year that patrons were able to opt in to receive text 474 and School Counseling Services 617. New online of textbooks, which were placed on reserve message notification of items available for pickup, guides were also published about autism spectrum at Cook Library for checkout by students. The the ILLiad system sent out 347 text messages. Many disorder, dyslexia therapy, faculty development, purpose of GETI is to allow students to have patrons also took advantage of the new function family relations, tests and measurements, World War a back-up plan while securing financial aid or of renewing eligible interlibrary loans online. II, and the Foundation Center Funding Information additional funding to purchase their textbooks. Network resources at Gulf Coast Library.
ILL services are often mentioned in the introductions The Libraries continue to seek new, innovative of dissertations, as many doctoral students deem the In October 2016, two Research Services librarians and efficient methods of operation. The five- services provided by Interlibrary Loan as invaluable taught a seminar titled, “OER Building Blocks: member Access Services team at Cook Library to their work. Borrowing a direct quote from the Identifying Resources for Open Textbooks” in created a series of video tutorials to be used 2016 Spring User Survey results, one patron wrote, support of the Libraries’ Open Textbook Initiative. In in training student assistants, which cover “The Interlibrary Loan department is fantastic–always December 2016, three Research Services librarians a mixture of circulation-specific topics and helpful and willing to get hard-to-obtain materials. were paired with recipients of the 2016-17 Open general workplace topics, such as customer The Interlibrary Loan staff is friendly, too.” Textbook Initiative awards. One of these pairings service and professionalism. If successful, resulted in publication of the first open textbook to the model will be expanded to provide a be produced by the project—An Introduction to Police standardized training mechanism for student Operations and Methods: The Connection to Law and employees in other units or at other libraries. History by R. Alan Thompson and Anne Hudson. RESEARCH SERVICES
Faculty and staff in Hattiesburg and on the Gulf Research Services educates students and other “THE INTERLIBRARY Coast are consistently examining new ways to researchers to successfully find, evaluate and use meet the needs of students. The Gulf Coast Library information resources. Librarians at Cook and Gulf adjusted its standard weekday opening time from Coast Libraries accomplish this primarily through LOAN DEPARTMENT IS 8 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. at the start of the fall 2016 term. course-integrated library instruction that ranges New technology was added when 3D printing was from providing students with general introductory established in the Gulf Coast Library, following the information to teaching complex subject-specific acquisition of a MakerBot Replicator 3D printer. research skills. This course-integrated instruction FANTASTIC—ALWAYS is supplemented by workshops, online video tutorials and online subject guides, which all create Cook Library made several portable dry erase opportunities for students to learn on their own time. HELPFUL AND WILLING boards available during the fall 2016 term in response to anecdotal evidence of student demand. In the spring 2017 term, the boards Library instruction increased approximately 20% TO GET HARD-TO-OBTAIN were distributed among the seating areas on in 2016-17. This increased use of the Libraries’ the first through fourth floors of Cook Library, instructional services occurred at both Cook making them available without checkout. and Gulf Coast Libraries, whether measured by MATERIALS.” the number of classes taught or the number of students who attended those classes. The Libraries added six new courses to the Libraries curriculum, including workshops on the use of
PUBLIC SERVICES THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 10 11 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 PUBLIC SERVICES DE GRUMMOND COLLECTION Much of the prominence and importance of University Libraries as a learning and research environment is derived from its special collections. The collections held in 176 REFERENCE INQUIRIES 171 RESEARCHERS 44 TOURS WITH 711 PEOPLE the McCain Library and Archives offer a variety of historical resources ranging from fifteenth-century illuminated manuscripts, Civil War correspondence, Civil Rights documents, as well as current Mississippiana. 18 SPECIAL EVENTS WITH 1,622 PEOPLE 404 DONORS GAVE 5,802 BOOKS
50 DONORS GAVE 111.30 CUBIC FT. OF MANUSCRIPTS
690 BOXES USED FROM 164 COLLECTIONS 13 INSTRUCTION SESSIONS WITH 201 PEOPLE
HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS AND UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
95 20 334 ACCESSIONS RETENTION TOTALING SCHEDULES NUMBER OF 77,346 TRANSFERS DOWNLOADS 71 OF THE 93 CUBIC FEET APPROVED B Y TALON, DONATIONS FROM PRIOR MISSISSIPPI BULLETIN YEARS STATE RECORDS AND TO UNIVERSITY RECEIVED LOGGED COMMITTEE YEARBOOKS ARCHIVES
164 ADDITIONAL CUBIC FEET ADDED TO UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES AND HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS, BRINGING THE TOTAL HOLDINGS TO 7,599
RARE BOOKS AND MISSISSIPPIANA
SPECIAL 3,611 BOOKS USED BY PATRONS 69 INSTRUCTION CLASSES TO 1,178 STUDENTS COLLECTIONS 82 RESEARCH CONSULTATIONS WITH STUDENTS 87 DONORS DONATED 2,725 ITEMS
3 NEW GUIDES CREATED FOR RESEARCHERS 1,088 PATRON VISITS TO THE READING ROOM SPECIAL COLLECTIONS THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 12 13 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DE GRUMMOND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE COLLECTION HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS AND UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
The de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection Researchers from across the United States, around The University Archives collects and documents the is one of North America’s leading research centers the world, and from all disciplines at Southern Miss history and services of the University, including records in the field of children’s literature, focusing on visit the collection on a regular basis to study its and publications, such as all printed materials relating American and British children’s literature, historical fables, fairy tales, folklore, alphabet books, nursery to the development of the University; publications and contemporary. Founded in 1966 by Dr. Lena rhymes, textbooks, religious books, moral tales, of departments, schools and agencies; records of Y. de Grummond, the collection holds the original fantasy, fiction, primers and children’s magazines. organizational activities, campus offices and campus manuscripts and illustrations of more than 1,300 In particular, the collection received visits from a branches; and University theses and dissertations. authors and illustrators, as well as 180,000+ variety of individuals interested in completing projects published books dating from 1530 to the present. on H.A. and Margret Rey and/or Curious George. The USM Foundation awarded Special Collections a Southern Miss Fund Grant for the conservation and digitization of 34 recordings of the Honors College The Ezra Jack Keats/Janina Domanska Fellowship, Such researchers included a doctoral candidate University Forum lectures dating from the 1980s and established by the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, completing a dissertation; a Rey scholar gathering early 1990s. The lectures, several of which had been Among the most notable accessions of historical the Janina Domanska Literary Estate and the additional material for a blog and upcoming speaking edited for broadcast on WUSM, feature such notable manuscripts in 2016-17 were from civil rights activist, de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection, engagements; a graduate English class, whose and diverse speakers as Lord Harold Wilson, former UK Christopher Wilson’s Freedom Summer papers; awards grants to scholars engaged in projects professor required the use of primary sources to Prime Minister; Faye Wattleton, president of Planned Hattiesburg photographer, Jerry Keith’s photo and based substantially on the holdings of the de develop a digital humanities project and exhibit; Parenthood Federation of America; Governor William clipping collection, documenting the region during Grummond Children’s Literature Collection. Dr. an undergraduate English class investigating book Winter; and David Woods, South African journalist and the mid-20th century; the papers of Justice Henry L anti-apartheid activist. The African-American lecture series Allison Kaplan from the University of Wisconsin history, using the Rey papers and presenting their Rodgers, who served on the Mississippi Supreme Court also featured prominent guest speakers, including Rhupert was the recipient of the 2016-17 Keats/Domanska findings at an undergraduate symposium; and a from 1961-76; globetrotting journalist, Cherry Burns’ Richardson and Horace Julian Bond of the NAACP and the Fellowship. Kaplan conducted her research on Houghton Mifflin Harcourt filmmaker, who discussed collection; and Professor Max L. Grivno’s antebellum Reverend Jessie Jackson. The final phase of the project the Tana Hoban papers and plans to present at various aspect of the Reys’ lives and accessed letters, documenting the Mississippi slave trade. the 2018 Children’s Literature Conference. images from the collection to be used in a video. will enlist students in the transcription of the recordings, which will become part of the University Archives. Each year, the Dixie Darling Alumnae Association reunites The H.A. and Margret Rey Fellowship, established University in Hattiesburg during by the Rey Foundation, is awarded for the purpose Archives Homecoming weekend. In of translating works into languages other than continued to fall 2016, the Dixie Darlings’ English. This grant has been broadened to allow an lead the way Homecoming events included individual to visit the collection to conduct research. across the a reception in the Cleanth A Rey scholar and graduate student requested state in the Brooks Reading Room and to have Margret Rey’s diary translated from old establishment Samuel Woods Room in German, the language in which it is written, into of a campus- McCain Library and Archives. wide records a more modern version. This translation allows More than 100 current and management for more researchers to utilize the document. former members viewed program. items on display from the The Archives works closely with the Mississippi Dixie Darling Historical Department of Archives and History (MDAH) Records Collection. The Dixie Darlings Committee to develop a records management subsequently made more than a dozen gifts to their program that can be used as a model for other collection, including a uniform worn by Freddie Taylor state universities. Two rounds of record retention in the 1950s. A similar event is planned for fall 2018. schedules, covering 20 record series, were submitted and approved by the MDAH Records Committee.
The Historical Manuscripts Collection includes primary source materials documenting the political and social history of Mississippi. The collection is especially strong, covering events in Hattiesburg connected with the civil rights movement in the 1960s; prominent politicians’ papers; the American Civil War and other conflicts; the lumber industry; the Natchez Trace; the railroad industry; and Southern history and culture.
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 14 15 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS publication. These classes received an overview of RARE BOOKS AND MISSISSIPPIANA the collections, and for the assignment, each person Rare Books and selected an item from Special Collections to research Mississippiana and wrote a synopsis of the book, photograph or focuses on manuscript. This assignment originated from the providing learning popular Item of the Month online feature in Special opportunities and Collections that showcases and provides information resources for about the item. Submissions from this assignment students at Southern were selected as Items of the Month for 2017 with Miss. Bibliographic an undergraduate student’s selection on the The instruction sessions, Monstrosity of Loyalty and Greed in Ali Baba: or, taught as part of the Forty Thieves (1889) published online in June. classes, allow students to become familiar with The Mississippi Community Cookbook Project is an initiative Special Collections that focuses on cookbooks published by Mississippi churches, and its offerings. In 2016-17, instructional sessions clubs, women’s groups and other organizations, and what brought 52% more classes to Special Collections these cookbooks teach us about the food and the people than the previous year, with a student increase of of the state. This initiative has led to extensive cookbook 59%. One-on-one research consultations increased donations, with a 48% increase in 2016-17 over the previous by 50% this year. These drastic increases reflect year. The successful collaboration between Jennifer Brannock the efforts to increase collaborations with faculty to and Dr. Andrew Haley has resulted in cookbook events and provide resources and services in the classroom. a book chapter, written by Brannock and Haley, about the Mississippi Community Cookbook Project that will be published in Digital Humanities, Libraries and Partnerships (Chandos).
Dr. Max Grivno, associate professor of history, uses Special Collections as a working laboratory. Grivno’s economic history class spent seven sessions in Special Collections, conducting research using primary GULF COAST LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS sources about local businesses and Superfunds in the The Gulf Park diplomas and other memorabilia, such as graduation region. This opportunity provided these history majors College for Women dresses and other clothing, trophies and ribbons, with additional experience using primary sources and Through online features like the Item of the Month, operated from framed artwork by students, and items bearing the archival material that will complement their future exhibits like this year’s Some Hair, a Chew Toy, and a 1917-71 on the site Gulf Park College emblem. Each year, there are two goals as educators and historians. Exploring new Grocery Cart Walk Into a Bar: Stories Told by Artifacts of what is now the Gulf Park College reunions, and attendees visit the methods to use Special Collections, Grivno brought in Special Collections and sponsored events, Special Gulf Park campus archives. In 2016–17, an additional 2,741 guests, two sections of History 101 students to explore Collections explores ways to highlight collections and of The University many from out of town, visited the collection. materials in the archives that explain different aspects services. In September, Dr. Max Grivno presented a lecture, of Southern of Mississippi history, including political papers, “The Last Slave: The History of Sylvester Magee,” about Mississippi, and popular culture in the area, and Southern Miss history. Magee, who claimed to be the last living slave in the 1960s. the Gulf Coast The Hurricanes Collection at the Gulf Coast Library In collaboration with Dr. Joyce Inman, assistant The presentation focused on materials found in Special Library holds consists of books on the subject of hurricanes, professor of English, an exercise was designed for Collections. The Hattiesburg American published an article the archives of this important piece of history for the with a current emphasis on Hurricane Katrina. English 102 students, where they explored resources about the lecture that was picked up by USA Today, where campus. The archives contain copies of its yearbook, All hurricanes, past and present, are represented, from Special Collections for possible online news of the event was publicized worldwide. The Sea Gull, issues of the campus magazine, photos, and the collection continues to grow.
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 16 17 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS TITLES HELD VOLUMES HELD (ALL FORMATS) (ALL FORMATS) 1,665,381 E-BOOKS AVAILABLE 2,278,417 338,701
TITLES ADDED FOR LIBRARIES AND COLLECTIONS
COOK LIBRARY 6,736 CURRICULUM MATERIALS CENTER AT COOK 565 GULF COAST LIBRARY 1,398 CURRICULUM LAB AT GULF COAST LIBRARY 126 GUNTER LIBRARY AT GCRL 2,114 TECHNICAL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RARE BOOKS 760 MISSISSIPPIANA 439 SERVICES DE GRUMMOND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE COLLECTION 5,126 HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS AND ARCHIVES 36
Technical Services aim to keep the collections vital and current by acquiring ONLINE RESOURCES and providing optimal access to all types of library materials in a complex and E-BOOKS 17,941 E-JOURNALS 25,010 ever-changing environment. Technical Services works to maintain the physical OTHER ELECTRONIC RESOURCES 5,221 and electronic collections, online catalog, link resolver, e-resource discovery systems, and numerous finding tools for special and digital collections. TOTAL TITLES ADDED 65,474
TECHNICAL SERVICES THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 18 19 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 TECHNICAL SERVICES Boyds Mill Press, associated with Highlights ACQUISITIONS Inc. (a longtime donor of books, periodicals and SERIALS AND Acquisitions orders and receives new materials for manuscript materials to the de Grummond Children’s University Libraries through firm order and/or slip Literature Collection), sent approximately 6,000 ELECTRONIC RESOURCES approval plans; formulates and updates unit policies books, booklets, CD’s, plus manuscript materials Serials and Electronic Resources oversees the and procedures; ensures audit requirements are related to the publication of the books. Because acquisition, cataloging and management of serials followed to maximize productivity; manages and there are multiple copies of almost all the items in all formats for University Libraries. Serials are expends the Acquisitions budget; reviews current in this donation, the impact will go beyond the de publications issued on a continuing basis, such as and prospective vendors to assess services and Grummond Children’s Literature Collection. A copy of journals and magazines, newspapers, reference pricing; and renegotiates discount/pricing structures most titles will be placed in the Juvenile Collection materials, book series, microforms and audiovisual wherever possible. Productivity is tracked and in Cook Library, and another will become part of the media. In addition to traditional print materials, the reported, and financial statistics are collected, Curriculum Lab collection at Gulf Coast Library. Libraries offer electronic resources, such as e-journals, along with financial reports, which clearly track e-books, streaming video and databases to support monies allocated, encumbered and expended for the needs of faculty and students across all sites, Special Collections has continued to build a unique different types of collections and subject areas. particularly those enrolled in online degree programs. research collection of community cookbooks. There are now approximately 1,000 cataloged community Acquisitions manages incoming material gifts from cookbooks, with about 200 of these cataloged Serials and Electronic Resources maintains donors that are processed and added to University during the year. Additionally, several hundred bibliographic information, coverage statements, and Libraries’ collections. Items not added to the collections pamphlets and books about railroads and railroading linking data for serials in the online catalog and is are made available for the Libraries’ book sale. In 2016- in the late 1800s and early 1900s were cataloged responsible for electronic resource management, 17, 13,565 gift books were received. The partnership for Special Collections during the year. Overseas including administration of the link resolver, with Friends of University Libraries, which secured travel and excursion brochures, transcripts of compilation of detailed usage statistics, and funds to support a popular reading collection, continued speeches to railroad associations, attorney briefs integration of holdings with the discovery service. for a second year, with new selections added each submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission, The online catalog and discovery service are the month. There were 199 titles added in 2016-17. as well as financial, managerial and mechanical public interfaces for locating library materials. publications are part of the railroad pamphlets.
In 2016-17, Acquisitions, in collaboration with Access The Libraries hold more than 7,000 Confederate Services, secured a grant from the USM Foundation for imprints cataloged for the microform collection in $10,000 to fund the Golden Eagle Textbook Initiative. THE GOAL OF CATALOGING IS TO Cook Library. Additionally, Special Collections holds Textbooks were purchased and placed on reserve for a collection of original paper Confederate imprints, all general education courses beginning fall 2017. MAKE INFORMATION ACCESSIBLE which are important sources of Civil War history. Confederate imprints are items published in the TO SEARCH, IDENTIFY, SELECT Southern states, but only in those areas under the actual governmental control of the Confederate CATALOGING AND THEN USE. States of America, dating roughly from 1861 to 1865. Approximately 10,000 books and documents were Faculty and staff catalog a variety of information printed in the Confederate States of America during resources for University Libraries and the collections, Approximately 900 books in 21 Roman alphabet the Civil War. The imprints provided Southerners with which serve the University, community members languages (Western European languages, Bantu, entertainment, such as music through songbooks, and outside researchers. The goal of cataloging Croatian, Hmong, Shona, etc.) were completed sheet music, and broadside ballads; and literature is to make information accessible to search, for the de Grummond Children’s Literature in the form of novels, poetry and drama. identify, select and then use. Books, curriculum Collection. The remaining 250 books are in non- and teaching materials, musical and nonmusical Roman scripts, such as Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Greek, Urdu and others. recordings, motion pictures, dissertations and Other major genres included educational texts and theses, atlases, maps, juvenile literature, oral history religious publishing. To assist researchers, care is transcripts and manuscript collections are some of Cataloging is offering a practicum in advanced cataloging being taken to add the Crandall number to the records. the materials cataloged for library collections. to a Hattiesburg area student enrolled in the master’s The Crandall number is a unique number assigned program in the School of Library and Information Science. to confederate imprints in Confederate Imprints: A Oral history transcripts, which require a specialized set of Checklist Based Principally on the Collection of the cataloging guidelines, will be the focus of the practicum. Boston Athenaeum compiled by Marjorie Lyle Crandall.
TECHNICAL SERVICES THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 20 21 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 TECHNICAL SERVICES 13,904 570 PATRONS ENTERED PRINT JOURNALS, BOOKS AND THE LIBRARY 718 REPRINTS USED IN-HOUSE REFERENCE, REFERENCE CONSULTATION, TECHNICAL AND DIRECTIONAL INQUIRIES
342 10 ITEMS BORROWED/RECEIVED DONORS TO THE COLLECTIONS FROM OTHER LIBRARIES AND TO SUPPORT PROGRAMS 105 GUNTER NEW BOOKS LIBRARY 388 9 Gunter Library provides technical information for the ITEMS LOANED/PROVIDED TO GCRL SCIENCE CAFÉS WITH OTHER LIBRARIES 366 PARTICIPANTS research staff, resident faculty and students at the 27 Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL). WORKSHOPS, INSTRUCTION SESSIONS AND TOURS WITH 224 PARTICIPANTS
GUNTER LIBRARY THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 22 23 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 GUNTER LIBRARY THE GUNTER LIBRARY Providing the faculty, staff and students, who are sited at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL), with the support and resources they need for their academic and research success continues to be the main priority at Gunter Library. From hosting training on citation management and specialized databases to sponsoring a two-day Sharing Science 2.0 workshop and practicum for graduate students and early career scientists, Gunter Library actively seeks opportunities to create and enhance the scholarly environment at GCRL. The Sharing Science 2.0 workshop and practicum was supported by a sponsorship from Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium and held in conjunction with the 20th annual National Ocean Science Bowl regional high school marine science competition called the Hurricane Bowl.
Gunter Library filled 388 requests from marine research libraries throughout the country and the world, with most of these requests coming through a resource-sharing utility supported by the International Association of Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC). Marine research libraries from Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Croatia, Ecuador, India, Kenya, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines and Ukraine have all contacted Gunter Library to access digital copies of scientific articles. Gunter Library’s collection of over 1,388 titles is the seventh largest and the largest North American library represented. As a part of IAMSLIC resource sharing, Gunter Library participates as both a requestor and provider, and uses the resource to a disaster recovery effort that brought a total of fill requests for GCRL-based faculty, students and $6,000 in aid to the Livingston Parish Library in associated researchers. In 2016-17, nearly 350 Louisiana and 10 of its staff members affected requests were filled by Gunter Library to support the by the devastating flooding of August 2016. EVENTS research, education and service mission of GCRL.
The GCRL Science Café, managed by Gunter Library, Gunter Library partnered with two civic and had its second highest attendance since the program professional organizations to promote and support began in fall 2011, with over 300 people attending AND community service. Food boxes were sited at nine programs. The wide range of topics included Gunter Library to support the Rotary Club of tiny houses, manatees, the science of beer, and Ocean Springs and the North Bay Civitan Club women in science, which spurred a women in Thanksgiving collections for the Lord Is My Help, science group at GCRL. A special effort was made to the Ocean Springs food pantry and soup kitchen. feature the School of Ocean Science and Technology PROGRAMS New and gently used teddy bears were collected graduate students and former graduate students, for the North Bay Civitan Club’s annual Teddy who presented at three of the nine Science Cafés. Bears on Patrol service project. Head librarian GCRL’s Science Café is supported by Coffee Fusion and Ocean Springs Rotarian, Joyce Shaw, led and the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium.
GUNTER LIBRARY THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 24 25 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 EVENTS AND PROGRAMS CURIOUSCurious George GEORGE Celebrates CELEBRATES 75 Years75 YEARS “SINCE CURIOUS GEORGE HAS MANAGED TO TRAVEL The year 2016 marked the 75th birthday of Curious George, who continues to be one of the most beloved characters from children’s literature. The de Grummond AROUND THE WORLD, MAKING FRIENDS EVERYWHERE Children’s Literature Collection hosted events in fall 2016 to celebrate his milestone birthday. HE GOES, WE DECIDED TO CELEBRATE HIS 75 YEARS BY
Curious George and the papers of H.A. and Margret ENCOURAGING WALKING AND HEALTH.” Rey came to Southern Miss through Dr. Lena de Grummond’s steadfast work of collecting original materials from authors and illustrators to use as to celebrate his 75 years by encouraging walking resources for students. She achieved her goal by and health,” says Ellen Ruffin, curator of the de MONKEY BUSINESS: THE ADVENTURES CURIOUS GEORGE TRAVELS TO JAPAN sending handwritten letters to authors and illustrators, Grummond Children’s Literature Collection. including the Reys. The image of Curious George OF CURIOUS GEORGE’S CREATORS The documentary of H.A. and Margret Rey sparked a headed to Hattiesburg with his manuscript was hand- connection with Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Japan’s Over 150 individuals, from as far away as Texas, Researchers travel from around the United States and the drawn on a letter from the Reys to Dr. de Grummond. national public broadcasting organization. NHK had Correspondence from authors and illustrators often Nevada and Cuba, signed up for Go George Go and world to access the Rey papers, which contain creative previously been interested in organizing a traveling included hand-drawn images, which made the letters began their own journey to walk or run. During the works, correspondence, financial records, photographs, eight-week challenge, participants logged over 19,000 exhibit, and their desire to bring Curious George to even more personal. artifacts, audio and video recordings, along with diaries and miles. Awards were given to the person with the most Japan was fulfilled in 2017. As many as 14 individuals other personal papers. It is a remarkable collection that gives miles, the most “experienced” (oldest) participant, affiliated with NHK visited the de Grummond Collection and the participant from farthest away. The overall insight and perspective to a politically fraught time period. to select items for the exhibit. Special crates were made winner walked 489.91 miles, the most experienced and used to ship these priceless pieces, and the staff of participant walked 112 miles, and the participant from farthest away walked 188 miles in Reno, Nev. the de Grummond Collection was closely involved in the organization of the exhibit and the shipping of the items.
The challenge began on September 15, and concluded on November 12, at the Hattiesburg Zoo with a community The exhibit traveled to birthday party for Curious George. Curious George and five different locations the Man in the Yellow Hat greeted an estimated crowd of over 800. Families and fans of all ages were treated across Japan and to an animal show, featuring a hedgehog, a snake and a Much attention was given to Curious George following drew approximately The Reys created Curious George—then called rabbit, all friends Curious George encountered during his his 75th birthday in 2016. The fascinating story of 10,000 people each Fifi—possibly while staying at Chateau Feuga in the journeys around the world. Following the animal show, George’s creators, H.A. and Margret Rey, captured the day. Amanda Myers, a Hattiesburg fireman read Curious George, the original Dordogne region of France in early 1940. He was based attention of a young NYU film school graduate, and she de Grummond’s on a character from their Rafi et les 9 Singes (1939). book written in 1941. The party concluded with birthday decided to create a documentary. Ema Ryan Yamazaki Collection specialist, When the German army approached Paris in June of cake and Curious George blowing out birthday candles visited the collection numerous times over a two-year 1940, the Reys fled on bicycles to Orleans, where they while his friends sang “Happy Birthday.” All children traveled to Japan to boarded a train for the Spanish border. They moved on were treated to a free train ride, courtesy of the Fay B. period to conduct interviews, research the Reys’ papers, oversee the unpacking to New York City via Spain, Portugal and Brazil between Kaigler Children’s Book Festival, and were able to take and make connections with people who knew the Reys. and inspection of June and October. Settled in New York City, the Reys photos with George and the Man in the Yellow Hat. the pieces being sealed a contract with Houghton Mifflin of Boston for used in the exhibit. Ellen Ruffin, curator of the de four children’s books in February 1941. They published Much of the footage of the documentary, Monkey “We couldn’t be happier with the success of the Grummond Collection, also traveled to Japan during Curious George later that year, although it would not Business: The Adventures of Curious George’s Creators, become popular for another decade. events surrounding Curious George’s 75th birthday. the installation and opening of the exhibit. The enthusiasm of the challenge participants was contains personal interviews with friends of the Reys and more than we could have imagined, and the birthday scholars. While some of the film is animated, artifacts To celebrate George’s 75th birthday, University party was a huge hit. Curious George has not only from the de Grummond Collection are featured, as well The use of the Curious George materials for the Libraries at Southern Miss and the de Grummond been around for 75 years, but he has been loved for as interviews with Lay Lee Ong, the executor of the Rey Japanese exhibit was a great opportunity for the de Collection implemented a challenge, Go George Go, 75 years, so it is no surprise we had the participation literary estate; Louise Borden, author of The Journey Grummond Collection. Not only did it further solidify the to walk 75 miles in eight weeks to bring recognition that we had,” said Dawn Smith, University Libraries to Curious George and the de Grummond Collection, assistant to the dean for publicity and outreach. That Saved Curious George; and surviving relatives. collection’s top place in children’s literature, it also put The while encouraging health and fitness. “Since Curious “Curious George will continue to be beloved for Yamazaki secured actor Sam Waterston as the narrator University of Southern Mississippi in front of thousands George has managed to travel around the world, a long time, and we hope that one day, his 100th of the film, which was released in August 2017. of people each day on the other side of the world. making friends everywhere he goes, we decided birthday will be an even bigger celebration!”
27 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 EVENTS AND PROGRAMS EXHIBIT BY AWARD-WINNING ILLUSTRATOR, WENDELL MINOR “WENDELL MINOR’S AQUILA HOSTS THIRD INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY AMERICA IS A CONFERENCE
WORLD–CLASS EXHIBIT. University Libraries at Southern Miss hosted the Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference MOST PEOPLE ARE (SMIRC) on April 12 and 13, 2017. SMIRC featured speakers, panel discussions and workshops that addressed topics ranging from the basics of institutional FAMILIAR WITH repositories (IR) to new ideas for longtime IR managers. The presentations included speakers who use a WENDELL’S WORK AND variety of IR platforms, thus allowing attendees to compare the different options available to them.
The de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection DON’T EVEN REALIZE IT.” presented over 150 original works by award-winning Serving as keynote speaker was Dr. Paul Royster, illustrator, Wendell Minor, in spring 2017 at Oddfellows Minor has created cover art for coordinator of scholarly communications at the Gallery in downtown Hattiesburg. Made possible by a many award-winning authors and University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he manages donation from the CE&S Foundation, these pieces were the current paperback cover of To the DigitalCommons institutional repository (90,000 part of a traveling exhibit organized by the Norman Kill a Mockingbird. The exhibit included those, along items, 40 million downloads) and oversees Zea Books, Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. with the original art for many of his children’s books. the library’s monograph publishing imprint (50+ titles Wendell’s collaborations are legendary, having worked to date). He is an impassioned advocate for Green with Buzz Aldrin, Mary Higgins Clark and many others. Open Access and library publishing. Before joining Minor is a longtime friend of the de Grummond Children’s Perhaps his most important collaboration has been the library world, he was director of the University of Literature Collection and the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s with Florence, his wife,” says Ellen Ruffin, curator of Nebraska Press, design and production manager at Yale Book Festival. The de Grummond Collection holds Minor’s the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection. University Press, project editor at Barron’s Educational illustrations of the award-winning book, Trapped! A Series, and production director and CFO for the Library Whale’s Rescue. In 2013, he attended the festival as a of America. He has a PhD in English and comparative speaker and returned for the 50th Children’s Book Festival Minor is nationally known for the artwork he has literature from Columbia University and an MA in with his wife, Florence, where they presented together. created for over 50 award-winning children’s books. American culture from the University of Michigan. “I believe children’s books to be the highest form of His many collaborators include Jean Craighead New York Times-bestselling author and National Book creative expression for artists and writers. It is a noble George, Robert Burleigh, Buzz Aldrin, Tony Johnston, Award-winner, Nathaniel Philbrick, offered remarks cause to inspire children through words and pictures. during a special event in March. Minor illustrated Mary Higgins Clark and, last but not least, his wife SMIRC is an opportunity for IR managers to Many thanks to the de Grummond Collection and the Ben’s Revolution: Benjamin Russell and the Battle of Florence. In 2009 Wendell and Florence’s If You Were come together and learn about new ideas and Fay B. Kaigler Book Festival for 50 years of excellence in Bunker Hill and Revenge of the Whale: The True Story a Penguin, was chosen by Pennsylvania for their 2009 strategies that their colleagues are using at their preserving the best in children’s literature,” says Minor. of the Whaleship Essex for Philbrick. In 2000, Philbrick One Book, Every Young Child early literacy program, institutions to meet the needs of their faculty, staff published the New York Times bestseller, In the Heart and they enjoyed the month they spent speaking to and students. It is also a chance for institutions of the Sea, which won the National Book Award for Wendell Minor’s America: 25 Year of Children’s Book Art traced children in Pennsylvania’s libraries, schools, Head that do not currently have an IR to discover the nonfiction. The book was the basis of the 2015 movie the personal and artistic journey of the acclaimed book illustrator Start facilities and museums. benefits an IR can offer in terms of promoting the of the same title directed by Ron Howard, and inspired and admirer of Norman Rockwell, through original artwork, scholarship and research of their universities. artifacts and references from Minor’s expansive visual chronicles, a 2001 Dateline special on NBC, as well as the 2010 as well as commentary about his collaborations with our nation’s Minor is also the cover artist and designer of PBS American Experience film, Into the Deep by Ric most prominent authors, scientists and historians; highlights over 2,000 books for authors Pat Conroy, David Burns. Since then, he has published numerous New include original work from such books as Reaching for the Moon McCullough, Fannie Flagg, Nathaniel Philbrick and York Times-bestselling historical, non-fiction works. and Look to the Stars by Buzz Aldrin; Sitting Bull Remembers many others. His portrait of Truman for the cover by Ann Turner; Abraham Lincoln Comes Home by Robert of David McCullough’s book is in the permanent Minor was the guest of honor and offered remarks at an Burleigh; Arctic Son by Jean Craighead George; Shane by Jack collection of the National Portrait Gallery in exhibit reception in April that also celebrated the 50th Schaefer; and America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates. Washington, D.C. anniversary of the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival.
EVENTS AND PROGRAMS THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 28 29 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 EVENTS AND PROGRAMS Preceding the event, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS CELEBRATES MISSISSIPPI’S BICENTENNIAL an exhibition on the The year 2017 marked Mississippi’s bicentennial, As a young woman, Clark enrolled in the Art Students Mississippi State and Special Collections hosted a series of events League in New York to study under many great Penitentiary at examining different aspects of Mississippi’s artists of the day, most notably William Merritt Parchman was installed past and encouraging audiences to envision its Chase. For six consecutive summers, she attended in Cook Library. Over future. Lectures, Lore and Lessons: Mississippi his Shinnecock Summer School in Long Island, 2,000 students and at the Bicentennial began in February and where she mastered the plein air technique. Chase visitors viewed the continued through the spring, summer and fall considered Clark his “most talented pupil.” Upon exhibition, which semesters. The official bicentennial projects were returning to her home in Holly Springs in 1923, focused on Parchman made possible by a grant from the Mississippi Clark abandoned painting. It was not until after during the era in Humanities Council, through support from her death in 1957 that the town learned about her which it operated as the Mississippi Development Authority. life and painting career in New York. Clark left all a prison farm, from the beginning of the of her art, which had been stored for 40 years in a David R. Davies, director of the School of Mass 20th century through warehouse in New York, to the town of Holly Springs. Communication and Journalism, delivered a talk The series began with “Lost Bodies and Stolen the mid-1970s. The about the pioneering printers and newspapers History: Slavery and Memory in Mississippi,” a lecture exhibit addressed the in the Mississippi Territory. This event focused by Southern Miss history professor, Dr. Max Grivno. Special Collections reforms that brought on how historians generally ignored the early Grivno used the defacing of markers commemorating enlisted criminal changes to the penitentiary; life “on the inside;” the Mississippi press, even though state histories the murder of Emmett Till as a starting point for justice associate civil rights era; and personal accounts of some of its of early printers and newspapers can provide a discussion of how the state has attempted to professor, Alan wardens and inmates. It also included the recordings valuable insights into the unique circumstances obscure the histories of the black Mississippians Thompson, to Alan Lomax made at Parchman from 1947-59. of press development on the frontier. Davies whose bodies were broken and histories erased moderate a forum explored the unique circumstances of press over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. on the current development in the Mississippi Territory, He explored how those histories were expunged and future of At the close of the exhibition, visitors gathered in the particularly the territory’s pioneering printers and and sanitized in a range of settings, ranging from criminal justice in Cook library art gallery for a public reading. Panelist newspapers and their political entanglements. textbooks to official state histories to museums. the Mississippi Kim Rushing read excerpts from his recent book, State Penitentiary Parchman; panelist Dilworth Ricks discussed victims’ letters; Big House Books co-founder, Shelby Parsons, system, “Justice in the Mississippi State Penitentiary: In conjunction with the FestivalSouth Film Expo Carolyn Brown’s read selections of prisoners’ letters requesting Past Reflections, Present Challenges and Future Festival (FSFX), deputy director of the Mississippi book, The Artist’s books: and Curator Lorraine Stuart read excerpts Directions.” The forum discussed current conditions Film Office (MFO), Nina Parikh, presented "Film Sketch: A Biography from Louis Bourgeois’ Unit 30: New Writing from in the state’s prisons and efforts to reduce crime Mississippi: 1914-2017". Film director, FSFX of Painter Kate Parchman Farm (2016), a recent collection of prison and recidivism. Mississippi Senator Willie Simmons organizer and USM professor, Miles Doleac, Freeman Clark, writing from Vox’s Prison Writes Initiative (PWI). served on the panel with Mississippi Department provided the introduction. In the intimate setting highlights Clark’s Following the readings, volunteers packaged 450 of Corrections (MDOC) general counsel, Leonard of downtown’s Little Building, the pair provided life through books donated during the exhibit to Big House Books Vincent; MDOC Victim Services director, Dilworth stills, clips and anecdotes, as well as insight on the primary sources for inmates in the Mississippi penitentiary system. Ricks; and R. Kim Rushing, author of Parchman. current status and future prospects of the industry. and enlightens readers about the significance of Special Collections’ “Lectures, Lore and Lessons: her work. Brown, Mississippi at the Bicentennial” aimed to present a an award-winning multifaceted view of Mississippi’s first 200 years. author from To achieve its goals of bringing history to life, Special Jackson, provided Collections partnered with numerous individuals insight into Clark’s and entities at the University and in the Hattiesburg life and work and community. Partners included Big House Books, the discussed her Hattiesburg Public Library; Mississippi Department significance at a of Archives and History; Oddfellows Gallery; and lecture during the the University’s Department of History, Department spring bicentennial of Political Science, International Development and events. International Affairs, and School of Criminal Justice.
EVENTS AND PROGRAMS THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 30 31 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 EVENTS AND PROGRAMS 31ST EZRA JACK KEATS BOOK AWARD
2017 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Winner 2017 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Winner for NEW WRITER for NEW ILLUSTRATOR Jeri Watts for A Piece of Home Micha Archer for Daniel Finds a Poem Published by Candlewick Press Published by Nancy Paulsen Books, a Penguin Random House imprint
When Hee Jun’s family moves from Korea to West Influenced by the work of Ezra Jack Keats, Archer’s Virginia, he finds it difficult to adjust to his new life. exquisite, colorful collages, created using handmade Everything feels different, and he feels different paper, celebrate the poetry found in the world around from everyone. Eventually, Hee Jun learns English, us. The story begins when a young boy named and one day a classmate invites him home. He spots Daniel notices a sign on the park gate: “Poetry in a familiar flower from his grandmother’s garden the Park. Sunday at 6 o’clock.” Intrigued, he poses in Korea—mugunghwa (his friend calls it “rose of the question, “What is poetry?” to his friends in the The University of Southern Mississippi Fay B. Kaigler The award recognizes artists who provide, in the Sharon”). Hee Jun brings a shoot to his grandmother park—a squirrel, a cricket and other creatures—and Children’s Book Festival serves as the host event for spirit of Keats, books that increase familiarity and to plant a “piece of home” in their new garden. Jeri in their answers, he finds his own. As author and the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award, given in partnership acceptance in children of the many different cultures Watts’ lyrical prose, combined with lovely illustrations illustrator, Archer combines simple text with detailed between the de Grummond Collection and the Ezra that combine to make our country strong. by Hyewon Yum, a past EJK Book Award winner, images to introduce early readers to a richly textured Jack Keats Foundation. In 2012, the Foundation moved tells a realistic story about making connections in an world, where everything from a cool pond to sun- the award, now in its 31st year, from the New York unfamiliar world. warmed sand and moonlight on the grass is poetry. The 2017 award ceremony took place on April 6, during Public Library to the de Grummond Collection, which is the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival at The the repository for all of Keats’ works. Last year, 2016 Watts said, “My book is based on a true story—a Archer said, “I grew up in a small town and currently University of Southern Mississippi. The winners each marked the 100th birthday, and Keats was celebrated by few years ago, I taught a student who, like my main live in the woods, but my decision to set my story received a gold medallion, as well as an honorarium honoring those whose books, like his, are wonderful to character, had moved from Korea. His struggles in a city park is a tribute to Ezra Jack Keats, who of $1,000. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, an award-winning read, view and reflect our multicultural world. affected me deeply, as I can only imagine how difficult made books in which children who live in cities could author for children and young adults, presented this it is to be displaced as a child, especially when you feel seen and celebrated. I’m a person who learns year’s Ezra Jack Keats Book Award. Andrea Davis have no choice in the matter. Winning the Ezra Jack best through pictures, so Keats’ clear, beautiful Pinkney, award-winning author of A Poem for Peter, a In 1962, Ezra Jack Keats quietly inspired change with Keats Book Award is overwhelming in a good way! collage compositions became part of my early visual lyrical celebration of Ezra Jack Keats and The Snowy his groundbreaking book, The Snowy Day—the first The name Ezra Jack Keats means so much, and it’s vocabulary, inspiring me to eventually work in collage Day, delivered the Keats Lecture. to feature an African-American child as the hero in a hard for me to believe that I’ve written something myself. His keen understanding of the child’s point-of- mainstream picture book. With this book, Keats broke other people in the publishing world respect and value view also deeply influenced the gentle and observant the color barrier in children’s publishing by making it To be eligible for the 2017 Ezra Jack Keats Book in the way they respect Keats’ work.” nature of Daniel, my little ambassador of poetry.” possible for all children, regardless of race or ethnicity, Award, the author and/or illustrator must have no to dream. A Caldecott Award-winning children’s book more than three children’s picture books published author and illustrator, he went on to create a large body prior to the year under consideration. The selection of work, including such well-loved books as Whistle for committee is comprised of nationally recognized early Willie, A Letter to Amy, Peter’s Chair and Goggles!. childhood education specialists, librarians, illustrators 2017 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Honor Winners and experts in children’s literature: K.T. Horning (chair), Rita Auerbach, Jason Chin, Angela Johnson, When the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award was Claudette McLinn, Sean Qualls, Caroline Ward, Junko NEW ILLUSTRATOR HONOR Daisy Hirst for The Girl With the Parrot on Her Head established in 1986, there were very few book awards (Written by Daisy Hirst, published by Candlewick Press) Yokota and Paul O. Zelinsky. that celebrated diversity in children’s literature and none that celebrated new talent in the field. The Ezra NEW WRITER HONOR Francesca Sanna for The Journey AND NEW ILLUSTRATOR HONOR (Published by Flying Eye Books) Jack Keats Book Award aimed to fill that gap and Ex-officio members are Deborah Pope, executive give encouragement to new authors and illustrators director of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, and of children’s books, who create wonderful books that Ellen Ruffin, curator of the de Grummond Children’s NEW WRITER HONOR Stacy McAnulty for Excellent Ed celebrate and reflect our diverse population. Literature Collection. (Illustrated by Julia Sarcone-Roach, published by Alfred A. Knopf)
EVENTS AND PROGRAMS THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 32 33 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 EVENTS AND PROGRAMS EMILIE APLIN COOK LIBRARY CIRCULATION Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association. EVENING SUPERVISOR Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Greenville, SC, 2016. Refereed. Completed Master of Library and Information Science
Graduate Certificate in Archives PRESENTATIONS and Special Collections Englert, Tracy; Azadbakht, Elena; Shaw, Joyce. Inducted into Beta Phi Mu (Beta Psi Chapter) Sharing Science. Mississippi Library Association 2017 William Tracy Award for Professionalism, Annual Meeting, Vicksburg, MS, 2016. Scholarship and Service Azadbakht, Elena. Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: Humor in Library Instruction. Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual ELENA AZADBAKHT COOK LIBRARY HEALTH Meeting, Greenville, SC, 2016. Refereed. AND NURSING LIBRARIAN, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
PUBLICATIONS GRANTS AND AWARDS Hudson, A; Azadbakht, E. (2016). "Redesigning Co-recipient of a Friends of University library instruction for English 102: A preliminary Libraries Grant for $1,302.83 report." Mississippi Libraries, 79(4). Research Award, Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, second place for the presented paper, “Stop Me If You’ve JENNIFER BRANNOCK CURATOR OF RARE Heard This One: Humor in Library Instruction” BOOKS AND MISSISSIPPIANA, PROFESSOR
NATIONAL COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS AWARDS
Medical Library Association MLA Scholarship Best Effort by an Individual Library to Publicize Jury Chair, May 2017 – present Library Services Around a Single Theme or Event Member, May 2016 – 2017 (for Big Read – Edgar Allan Poe events) – with Sarah Mangrum and Dawn Smith
POSTERS PRESENTATIONS Azadbakht, Elena; Englert, Tracy; Mangrum, Sarah. Crafting Collections: Supporting the Student Success Haley, Andrew P.; Brannock, Jennifer. New Initiative at Southern Miss. Mississippi Library Recipe for Archiving Old Recipes: The Association Annual Meeting, Vicksburg, MS, 2016. Mississippi Community Cookbook Project at Southern Miss. Society of Mississippi Archivists FACULTY AND STAFF Azadbakht, Elena. Color It Out: Setting Up a Annual Conference, Columbus, MS, 2017. Low-Tech Stress Relief Area for Finals. Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual Brannock, Jennifer. Mississippi’s Queer History in Meeting, Greenville, SC, 2016. Refereed. Special Collections at The University of Southern Mississippi. Presenter on the panel Gay Purges, ACHIEVEMENTS Brennan, Emily; Bickett, Skye; Pomputius, Ariel; the University, and the South: Queer History and Leonard, Kelsey; Azadbakht, Elena; Wright, Andrea. the Archives, Organization of American Historians Revitalizing the Social Media Presence of the Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2017.
FACULTY AND STAFF ACHIEVEMENTS THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 34 35 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 FACULTY AND STAFF ACHIEVEMENTS Haley, Andrew P.; Brannock, Jennifer. Dining From Brannock, Jennifer. Special Collections at The JOSH CROMWELL INSTITUTIONAL XIAOJIE DUAN CATALOG LIBRARIAN, Natchez to Columbia: Community Cookbooks University of Southern Mississippi. Archives REPOSITORY COORDINATOR ASSISTANT PROFESSOR and What They Tell About Mississippi’s and Digital Humanities 101, Digital Archives Past. 2017 Grace MacNeil Lecture, Natchez Working Group, Hattiesburg, MS, 2016. Cromwell, Josh; Briskin, Lauren. “Limited PRESENTATIONS Historical Society, Natchez, MS, 2017. Resources, Unlimited Services: A Brannock, Jennifer. Salvaging and Preserving Partnership to Support Specialized Publishing Guest lecturer in cataloging classes (LIS 405 and Brannock, Jennifer; Johnson, Greg; Ruffin, Ellen. Collections After a Disaster. Alliance for Response Programs.” Webinar, May 4, 2017. 505) for the School of Library and Information Keep Mississippi Weird: Unusual “Jewels” in Talk, Pascagoula Public Library, Pascagoula, MS, 2016. Science, fall 2016 and spring 2017 semesters Special Collections. Mississippi Library Association Brannock, Jennifer. Salvaging and Preserving Annual Conference, Vicksburg, MS, 2016. Collections After a Disaster. Alliance for Response Talk, Bay St. Louis-Hancock JENNIFER CULLEY ACQUISITIONS POSTER Brannock, Jennifer; Davies, David R. “Help! County Library, Bay St. Louis, MS, 2016. LIBRARIAN, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Help Keep America American”: The National “Do You Really Satisfy Them? A Conversation Anti-Communism Crusade of L.E. Faulkner’s Brannock, Jennifer. Salvaging and Preserving Co-recipient of a $10,000 USM Foundation Grant Between Chinese Students, Virtual Reference Bill Smith Letters. Gulf South History and Collections After a Disaster. Alliance for for the Golden Eagle Textbook Initiative Services and the Librarian.” American Library Humanities Conference, Mobile, AL, 2016. Response Talk, Maritime and Seafood Association Annual Conference Poster Session, 2017. Industry Museum, Biloxi, MS, 2016. Culley, Jennifer. “Self-Published Books: Should Haley, Andrew; Brannock, Jennifer. Kissin’ Libraries Buy or Not?” The Southeastern Brannock, Jennifer; Ruffin, Ellen. Bizarre Don’t Last; Cookery Do: Unlocking Mississippi’s Librarian, 65:1 (Spring 2017) p 2-6. PUBLICATIONS Books @ USM Libraries. Osher Lifelong History Through Its Cookbooks. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Hattiesburg, MS, 2016. Cromwell, Joshua; and Culley, Jennifer. Duan, Xiaojie. “How they search, how they feel, Learning Institute, Hattiesburg, MS, 2017. “Institutional Repository Day at The and how to serve them? Information Needs and Seeking Behaviors of Chinese Students Brannock, Jennifer. Archives Documenting University of Southern Mississippi.” Journal Using Academic Libraries,” International the Civil Rights Movement. Osher Lifelong PUBLICATIONS of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 28.3 (September 2016) p. 196-197. Information and Library Review, 48:3 (2016). Learning Institute, Hattiesburg, MS, 2017. Brannock, Jennifer; Johnson, Greg. “Exploring Civil Rights Through Mississippi Collections.” Duan, Xiaojie. “2016 CALA IFLA Registration Grant Brannock, Jennifer. Theodore G. Bilbo: The Life Urban Library Journal 22, no. 2 (2016). Refereed. Reports,” CALA Newsletter, 2016 Fall Issue (2016). and Career of Mississippi’s Rabble-Rouser. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Hattiesburg, MS, 2017. Johnson, Greg; Brannock, Jennifer; Ruffin, Ellen. PETER DEAN GULF COAST LIBRARY, EDUCATION “Keep Mississippi Weird: Unusual “Jewels” in Special AND PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARIAN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SERVICE Haley, Andrew; Brannock, Jennifer. Why Collections.” Mississippi Libraries, 80, no. 1 (2017). Cookbooks Matter: Special Collections and Dean, Peter “IS and Al-Qaeda.” The New Islamic Board Member, Chinese American the Mississippi Community Cookbook Project. State: Ideology, Religion and Violent Extremism Librarian Association (CALA) Don’t Mention Age Group, The University of SERVICE in the 21st Century, Ashgate Publishing, 2016. Organizer, CALA Southeast and Southwest Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, 2016. President, Society of Mississippi Archivists Chapter Joint Online Conference Brannock, Jennifer. Primary Sources in Special Co-chair, Regional Archival Associations Consortium Member, CALA Bylaws and Collections at USM. Teaching with Archives: Organizer, Regional Archival Associations Constitutions Committee A Pedagogy Workshop, Digital Humanities Consortium Symposium, Atlanta, GA Working Group, Hattiesburg, MS, 2016. Co-editor, CALA newsletter Chair, Education Committee, Regional Davies, David R.; Brannock, Jennifer. Mississippi Archival Associations Consortium Editorial team member, Journalists: The Writings That Made History. Osher CALA Occasional Paper Series Managing Editor, The Primary Source Lifelong Learning Institute, Hattiesburg, MS, 2016. Member, International Relations Round Chair, MLA-ACRL Nominating Committee Haley, Andrew; Brannock, Jennifer. Why Cookbooks Table of American Library Association Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, Mississippi Matter: Special Collections and the Mississippi Library Association Annual Conference Community Cookbook Project. Daughters of the American Revolution Meeting, Hattiesburg, MS, 2016. Judge, Archival Research Award, National History Day
FACULTY AND STAFF ACHIEVEMENTS THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 36 37 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 FACULTY AND STAFF ACHIEVEMENTS MICHELE FRASIER-ROBINSON ANNE HUDSON COOK LIBRARY ARTS AND EDWARD MCCORMACK GULF COAST Rotary District 6840 Baton Rouge Flood Area Disaster Recovery Grant: $2,000 for Livingston Parish Library COOK LIBRARY EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY LETTERS LIBRARIAN, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LIBRARY, ASSOCIATE DEAN, PROFESSOR (for collections) and $4,000 for 10 Home Depot LIBRARIAN, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR gift cards for employees whose homes flooded PUBLICATIONS PRESENTATIONS POSTERS Thompson, R. Alan; Hudson, Anne. “An Introduction “Academic Faculty Members and Academic Librarians PRESENTATIONS Frasier-Robison, Michele. "The Education, Experience, to Police Operations and Methods: The Connection Working Together: Areas of Opportunity,” 2016 National to Law and History.” aquila.usm.edu/textbooks/1. Association of the African American Studies and Affiliates and Competencies of Subject Librarians." Presented at Dehart, L.; E. Winiarz; and J. M. Shaw 2017. National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies the American Library Association Annual Conference. Hudson, Anne. Review of Emmett Till in All Aboard for Story Telling, What Story Do You (NAHLS), National Association of Native American Studies Different States: Poems, by Philip Kolin, Have? SAIL Annual Conference, May 16-18, 2017 (NANAS), and International Association of Asian Studies Mississippi Libraries, 80, no.2 (2017): 29. (panel talk, invited panelist). Madison, WI. (IAAS), Baton Rouge, LA. PUBLICATIONS Hudson, Anne; Azadbakht, Elena. “Redesigning Shaw, J. M.; A. McPhaul; T. Englert; and J. Kastler. Library Instruction for English 102.” Mississippi “The Changing Typology of Library Buildings in an 2017. Sharing Science: Communication Skills Frasier-Robinson, Michele review of “Child and Libraries, 79, no.4 (2016): 100-103. Information-Overload Environment,” 2016 Georgia for Scientists to Build Public Trust, SAIL Annual Adolescent Psychopathology: Resources for COMO/SELA Joint Conference. Georgia Library Conference, May 16-18, 2017 (presentation). Clinicians, Researchers, Educators, and Parents.” Hudson, Anne. Review of The Mississippi Secession Association, Georgia Association for Instructional Madison, WI. Convention: Delegates and Deliberations in Technology, and Southeastern Library Association Reference Reviews 31:5 (May 2017): 1-6. Shaw, J. M.; T. Englert; and J. Kastler. 2017. Politics and War, 1861-65, by Timothy B. Smith, Bridging the Public Trust in Science Gap: Sharing Mississippi Libraries, 79, no.3 (2016): 92-93. “Integrating Southern Gulf Coast Library Into the Local Community,” Co-presented at the 2016 Mississippi Library Science. Mississippi Academy of Science. February PRESENTATIONS 23-24, 2017 (presentation). Hattiesburg, MS. Hudson, Anne. “Academic Librarian Outreach to Association (MLA) Annual Conference, Vicksburg, MS. Veterans.” Mississippi Libraries, 79, no.2 (2016): 47-49. Frasier-Robinson, Michele. “Step Right Up and Get Shaw, J. M.; T. Englert; and J. Kastler. 2016. Sharing Science: Bridging the Public Trust in Science Gap. Your Free Educational Resources!” Fay B. Kaigler TEACHING Bays and Bayous, November 30-December 1, 2016 Children’s Book Festival, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. PRESENTATIONS HIS 307 (Survey of Africa), Gulf Park Campus (poster presentation). Biloxi, MS. Frasier-Robinson, Michele; Hudson, Anne. Englert, T.; J. Shaw; and E. Azabrakht. Hudson, Anne. “Reinventing First Year “Russian History During the Life of Dostoevsky, “OER Building Blocks: Identifying Resources 2016. Sharing Science. Mississippi Library Instruction.” Alabama Library Association Annual 1822-1881,” AP English Literature, for Open Textbooks,” Open Access Workshop, Association Annual Conference, October Conference, Montgomery, AL, April 2017. St. Patrick Catholic High School, Biloxi, MS. The University of Southern Mississippi. 18-21 (presentation). Vicksburg, MS. Hudson, Anne. “Human Trafficking in the United States.” Southeast Human Rights SERVICE Conference, Hattiesburg, MS, April 2017. PUBLICATIONS SERVICE United Way Community Impact Committee Hudson, Anne. “Librarian Outreach: What Works Peterson, M. S.; N. Brown-Peterson; Procedures Committee, Association and What Doesn’t.” Library Association Annual Judge, Leo Seal Innovative Teacher Awards J. M. Shaw. 2017. Obituary: Dr. Marius Conference, Vicksburg, MS, October 2016. Dusti Bonge Art Foundation Board of College & Research Libraries Brouwer. Gulf and Caribbean Research, 28 Hudson, Anne. “Academic Outreach to Special Ambassador, NAAAS, NAHLS, NANAS, IAAS (1) aquila.usm.edu/gcr/vol28/iss1/5. Membership and Orientation Committee, Populations on Campus: What Works, What Association of College & Research Libraries Doesn’t.” Half-session presentation, Joint Conference of the Georgia Council of Media SERVICE JOYCE M. SHAW GCRL GUNTER LIBRARY, Organizations and the Southeastern Library HEAD LIBRARIAN, PROFESSOR Vice-chair, Mississippi Library Association Association, Athens, GA, October 2016. Special Libraries Section LINDA GINN CATALOG LIBRARIAN GRANTS member, Gulf and Caribbean Research COMMITTEE SERVICE Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Editorial Advisory Board PUBLICATIONS Consortium support for Gulf and Caribbean Assistant Governor, Rotary International District 6840 Planning Secretary, Association of College and Research Research, November, 2016: $500. Review of Kaleidoscope: Redrawing an American Libraries Instruction Section’s 2018 Conference Family Tree, by Margaret Jones Bolsterli, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium News Editor, Mississippi Library Association sponsorship for Sharing Science 2.0 Workshop Mississippi Libraries, vol. 80, no. 1 (Spring 2017). and Practicum, February 2017: $200.
FACULTY AND STAFF ACHIEVEMENTS THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 38 39 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY 2016-17 FACULTY AND STAFF ACHIEVEMENTS LORRAINE A. STUART HEAD OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, CURATOR OF ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPTS
GRANTS AND AWARDS
“Conservation of Honors Forum Lectures, 1983-1992” Project. Southern Miss Fund Grant, December 2016: $8,216.
Co-recipient. “Lectures, Lore and Mississippi at the Bicentennial” Mississippi Humanities Council, February 2017: $7,000.
PRESENTATIONS
Stuart, Lorraine A.; Adamczyk, Pietr; Barbera, Katherine; Blanch, Kate; Delmas-Glass, Emmanuelle; Newbury, David; Newman, Alan; Regina, Kristen; Sanderson, Rob. “Libraries, Archives and Museums Interoperability Special Interest Group.” Panel, Museum Computer Network Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. November 4, 2016.
Stuart, Lorraine A. “An Introduction to Special Collections.” Presentation, Gulfport Historical Society, Gulfport, MS, May 11, 2017. INSIDE
PUBLICATIONS BACK
Stuart, Lorraine A. “’The Essentials of Good Citizenship’: A Newly Discovered Archival Document in the Evelyn COVER Gandy Papers.” Southern Quarterly, 54, no. 2 (2017). [this page should be SERVICE
SAA Representative, American Libraries Association/Society blank when printing] of American Archivists/American Alliance of Museums Joint Committee on Archives, Libraries and Museums
Secretary, Society of Mississippi Library Association Association of College and Research Libraries Section
TISHA ZELNER HEAD OF PUBLIC SERVICES, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
AWARDS
The University of Southern Mississippi Excellence in Service Award 2017
SERVICE
Mississippi Library Association Scholarship Committee
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