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THE FORT JACKSON POST LIBRARY By {AUDE C. DowTJ• , Chief Librarian
Tl1c Pos t ibrary S y~ t em at Fort Jackson i s made up ade, isolated u nits,
S.C. REGIONAL LIBRARY DEMONSTRATION RE ADY TO GO By DoROTHY C. UITH, Field Consultant, . C. tate Library Board The Aiken-Barnwell-Edgefield Regional Library, \ hich will be th e largest regional demonstration yet undertaken on the Eastern Seaboard, will soon begin service. Fo tered by the Library Services Act, the new librarv will serve a tliree-coun ty area having a population of around 100,000 people and will operate o n an an nual budget of $1 pet capita. It will m ean the cooperation of two already well Editors Susie N. McKeown , Annette H. Shinn establi h eel libraries to achieve better service and extension Winthrop College Library of good public library sen·ice to a county that heretofore has had none. The establi hment of the new library was effected in EDITORIAL COMMITIEE three step . The first came early last January when the Mrs. Louise F. Brunson Allendale-Hampton-Jasper Aiken and Barnwell County Library Boards at a joint Regional Library, Allendale meeting vo ted unanimously to join in a regional library. Miss Nancy Burg e University of South Carolina, Columbia Since under the terms of the South Carolina Plan for the use of federal funds avajlable from the State Library Mrs . Jeosie Cannon Greenville Junior High School, Board, priority is g iven to regions which include one Greenville county that h as not previously had service, the ne.xt step Miss Madeleine Mo si mann Charleston Country Free Librar) was to draw Edgefield County in to the new organization. Charleston This was accomplish ed by a whirlwind campaign con Miss Kathleen Gilleland Harr y County ducted by local people that resulted in the passage during Memorial Library, Conway the final clays of the General Assembly's session of the Edgefield County Library Law. enator Frank E. Timmer Busi neos Ma nager C. Merl e Bachtell man was heard to remark at the time the bill was intro Ruzicka's, Greensboro, N. C. duced that never before in his yea rs as Edgefield County Publisher Joseph Ruz icka enator had h e seen as much interest hown in any one Greensboro, North Carolina lSS Ue.
Once the new Edgefield County Library Board had Officia I Publ ication of the been appointed and organized, the third step in the estab South Carolina lishment of the region could be taken. This was the Library Association for mal organization of the regional library board. Each of Membership of $2.00 per Year the three participating county library boards elected from Includes Subscription to its membership three representati,·es to the regional board. THE SOUTH CAROLINA LIBRARIAN These nine met in Aiken on June 4 and organized them selves as the Aiken-Barnwell-Edgefield Regional Library Board. \V. B. S. \ Vimms of Ajken was elected Chairman most important considerations in regard of the regional board. Mrs. Ben P. Davies, Jr., of Barnwell to the latter h ave and E,·erette D errick of Johnston are to serve as Vice been those of obtaining a regional staff and of planning Chairmen and General Hugh ifinton of Aiken was chosen service for Edgefield County. As this is written final ap Treasurer. Miss Josephine Crouch, Librarim1 of the proval of the contracts is expected moment RECRUITING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP By Ac ES L. R EAGAN (Editor's note: Practi call y every library administrator, have been able to attend this yea r. l also feel that library tru tee, or even library patron has r alized the need each yea r I waited would decidedly lessen my chances for trained librarians througli whom library service may be of ever attending library school. both continued and improved. There is a need, also, for These three statements indicate cl earl y some of the all who arc interested in this problem to become well difficulties encountered bv the profe'sion in recruiting. acquainted with the background of the situation, the cxi t imultaneou lv, thev s ugges t three stages through which ing conditions, and the responsibility resting with each in an indi vidual i11av go in selecting librarianship as a career. dividual to contribute to its solution . Given a person ~ with abilities, intere ts, and attitudes ln keeping with this line of thought, yo ur Editors which m ark him as a desirable prospect for the profession, asked 'fi ss Agnes R eagan, Associate Director of the Di it is first of all necessa ry, if he is to become a recruit, for vision of Librarianship at ' mory University, Georgia, to him to be con cious of librarianship as a possible field of contribute a paper for the outh Carolina Librarian on the work. llc cannot con icier it unless he is aware of it. Once subject of recruiting. lis R eagan h a made an extensive librari an hip is brought to his attention, he must then, in studv of recruiting in the field of librarianship and is well order to consider it fairl v, have full and reliable informa qualified to offer much needed and greatl y a ppreciated tion about it. On no other basis can he make an intelli ideas which should h elp us as librarians to draw promising gent decision regarding a library career. Finally, having young people in to the career of Librarianship. ) decided that he wishes to become a librarian, he has still In an article on recruiting for librarianship which is to obtain his professional education. For many prospective to appear in a journal read chiefl y by librarians, con ider recruits, a consideration that may loom large is the finan able knowledge of the s ubject on the part of the readers cial problem posed by this final step. ca n be taken for granted. These readers are aware, not \Vc have no way of knowing how many potential li only from all that has been written and sa id but often brarians are lost to the profession becau e they never reach from direct experience as well, of the general dimensions the s tage at which an individual becomes aware of li of the present shortage of personnel in the library fi eld. brarianship a a career. \ Ve do know, however, that li Thcv are familiar , too, with the profession's activities to brarians as a group mak their ,·oca tional choice later than increase the supply of recruits-in fact, they themselves do member of a good many profe sions. As a matter of individually, ha,·e in all li kelihood been engaged in omc fact, research studies show that as many as half of the kind of recruiting acti vity. This being the case, nei ther individuals who decide upon librarianship make this de the s hortage nor the s tep being taken to all eviate it need cision sometime after graduation from college. mong reiteration here. In tcad, it may be benefi cial to review these librarians arc one who will say, when questioned, the experiences of several young people who have come that the idea of a library career never occurred to them reccntlv to the field of librarianship and to con id er these either in high school or in college. They had u eel libraries cxperic.nccs as they relate to library recruitment. and thev had seen people working in librarie , but this For some little time now, student in the Division of experience in it elf had not made them think of librarian Librari an hip (Introduction by ,\ l iss Eli::abeth Porcher, Librarian, for the librarv patrons' selecti on, there is much t o be done Greenwood City cmd County Public Library) to them . Fi\·e or six public libraries in outh Carolina have Firs t th ere is the job of ordering, cl one u u all v bv the avail ed themselve of th e opportunity o f acquiring an in head libra rian with suggestions from other m embe.rs of the tern whose salary is paid by the South Carolina tate staff as well as from the public. She is always glad to Library Board with money proyided by th e recent Library hear your ideas on what yo u w ould like to read so that she Federal Services Act. The Greenwood City and County may order b ooks w hich will be o f interes t t o many Public Library is mos t fortunate in having the services of readers. Sh e will check several sources for lists o f b ooks 1Iiss Sara Catherin e \ \'ilki nson a a recentlv acquired from which t o c h oose. She is lim ited in her choice, of interne. A newspaper woman, and for ome- yea rs the course, by the b udget and the tastes of h er readers. Society Editor of the Index-Journal, she brings to t he \Vhen the books come in, thev must b e c h ecked into library profession of South C arolina a most f ortunate com their p roper classifi ca tion in the ·library's coll ection, let bination of enthusias m f or librarv work and an alert mind. tered with their particular call letters o r numbers a nd Before s he left for C hap 1 llili, o rth Carolina, w h ere listed in the card ca talogue for easy reference. Each book she a ttended the s ummer session of the U niversity of is given its own number and a card to be used in its c ir N orth Carolina Libra rv School, s he wrote an article for the cul ation . The library's book coll ection is divided into local paper giving h er. impressions o f library work. Some ma in, coun tv and c hiidren's secti ons, and all this m u t be of these impres ions a re quoted b elow: clone fo r books in each department. Everyone w ho has ever vis ited a library is fam ili ar with the proces of h av ing the books he selects c hecked in and out, but he may not stop t o think of the work involved in keeping the books i n r epa ir and in their proper p laces on the s helves, and of calling them b ack in when they have been kept out too long. All this al o occupies the library worker's time. In addition t o the book , the library must keep up with current and back iss ues of n ewspapers and magazines to which it subscribes and to pamphlets and c lipping collected on m any topics of interes t. If the reader lives outside the c ity a nd ca nnot easil y vi it the lib rary regul arl y, the library will come to him- by bookmobil e. Thro ughout the year this library o n wheels makes regul ar stops in every community in the county wh ere interested r eaders a re located. And all this regul ar r outine o nly begins to provide the good service which yo ur library ca n provide for yo u. All this the libraria n and her h elper plan and do for yo u on their own. The res t i s up to you, the reader. If yo u onl y ask they can p rovide yo u with numerous s peciali zed serv ices and information unlimited . They will help select the youngster's books a nd, when ti me p erm its, entertain him wi th stories. They keep up wi th t he i nteres ts of young people, guide them in their readi ng, poi nt out books o n growing up and help them fi nd material f or their school papers and book reports. From the librarians, the adult may get h elp in finding any in formation h e needs. They will help him select books giving advice o n family matters, entertainment, informa tion about his job or outside in tere ts, hO\ -to-do-i t ideas or in any oth er fi eld of knowledge. T he reference librarian BORROWER BECOMES will guide him to specialized information on doctors, LIBRARIAN recipes, lawn care, atomic e nergy wedding etiquette, Bv ' n A ' I ' II Et~ r NE \ · l LKINSO where to buy-just about anything he needs to k now. he \Vhat' it like to be on the i n i de of a lil ra r\' looking will help the club-woman ecure material for h er cl ub out after bei ng for mam· years a borrower looking in . program and the churchwoman plan h er deYo tionals. T o a libran· \·i it r, it i s a place to find the i nform a The reader can make his public library his open door tion h e need ur to provide cnterhlinment for h is leis ure to the wisdom and experience of all mankind. For the time. ~ J m · be he lu1s though t how pleasa nt it would be student, it can scn·e as a second cla s room and for the to be a libmrian with nothing to do hut read and browse adult a place to continue hi education. thro ugh booh.s ail clay. For th e librarian, it's not only educational and stimu Ilc would prohablv fi nd the job plea ant, all right, but lating. it is a lso hard work combined wi th .infinite variety he would soon leam 'tha t there i ~ more to be clo ne than and a lot of in triguing intell ectual puzzl es that quite as e nj o ~ · himself in reading. 'eein g t he worker there qui e t]~ · often g i\'c her real pleasure a they cause h er t o fini h off going al out their ,·ari ous jobs, l1 c may h aYe been d eceived. a long hard clav wi th a ti red brain:__or even more likely Before the book ca n be nea tl y lined on the helves an aching back. 6 OUT IJ CAROLIN Vol. ), 1o. l LIBRARY SERVICES ACT IN SOUTH CAROLINA B1• E !ELLENE P. \ ALKER, Director tate Librarv Board Public libraries throughout outh Carolina are getting share some of her duties \\ ith a young and cn thmiastic into "The Act" through participation in one or more of trainee. the projects being carried on under the 'tate Plan for the As a part of the Personnel l'ro1ccts small grant~ of 100 usc of federal funds allotted to the 'tate under the Library were madc to six counh· libmrics for a member of the 'crviccs Act. staff to attend the workshop held at Louisiana ' talc on The initial grant for 1956-57 was 40,000. Thi~ was Libran en·ices for Young Adults. i\ttcndancc at this spent getting the interlibrary loan en·ice into cperation, worksliop has resultccl 111 a gcncr::tl impro,·cmcnt in service tmproving reference scn·icc at the local level and expand to young people and a better under tanding of the prob ing the 'tate Libr arv Board's en·iccs by employing a lems incident to gi' ing good sen icc in thts field. Reference Consultant, a Cataloger, an additional field nder the ountv Ltbrary Project worker, and others to strengthen the rural dcmcnstration a demonstration is being gi,·cn in Anderson Cotmty of thc imprm cmcnt program. The ' tate' grant f or 195 -5 was spent to con of public Jibrarv en icc to rural re. idents in counties with tinue the expansion of the reference projects, to ~ctup an urban centers and in whtch more than one library "internship" program designed to attract qualified young system was maintained. ndcrson ,·otcd to consolidate all people into the librarv profession, to help counties with of its existing public libraries into one system and thus qualified out libraries to join \vith others in a regional libm·y sys for the first demonstration of this type to be gi,·cn in the tem and to provide funds to counties with more than on.c tate. Under tl1is project a grant of S25,000 public library sy tem supported by tax funds to consoh di,ided O\'er a three year period is pro' ided for the dat into a strong county library y tcm. qualifying count~. The R egional Library Project which was he federal allocation for 1958-59 i 135,000. These dcsigncd to dcmonstrate good public library scn·icc OYer an fund will be spent according to the same plan as in effect area with approximately 100,000 population has aroused the interest in 1957-5 with the additi on of one project for a regional of many cou.nty libraries throughout proces ing demonstration. the State. The first three counties to qualify for participation in this program The Library en·iccs ct program in 'outh Carolina arc iken, Barnwell and Fdgcficld counties which ha,·c ha made sati factory progress to date. The project to joined together in a new regional library and h:l\'c signed impro,·e reference sen·ice from the ~tate Libr~ry Board a contract with the State Library Board for a two-year to the local librarv and the local hbrar~ to 1ts publtc demonstration of good public librarv sen icc. Barnwell and has been a spectactilar succe s. Librarie throughout outh ikcn counties had well established count~ libraries, but Carolina are u ing the reference and interlibrary loan scn· Edgefield ounty had almost no public libr.ary scr\icc out ice to a gratifying extent. During the pa t year 3,009 ide of the book deposits maintained by the tate L il>r NATIONAL Ll BRARY WEEK 1959 By EsTELL! E P. V ALKE R, Director tate Library Board Plans have been announced for the second observance of ational Librar. \Veck under the sponsorship of Ameri ca n Library Association and ational Book C om· mittcc. The sloga n for the week, pril 12-18, 1959, is " For a Better-R ead, Better-Informed Ameri ca" and dur in g this peri od, the nation will publicize its librari es, their rc ourccs and servi ces. The South C arolina State Libra ry Association will again be the orga ni za tion responsible for the form ation of a tate ommittcc for ati onal Library \ Vcek. L a~ t year's experi ence indica te the desirability of a single State C ommittee compo eel of lay people and librari ans with a citizen ( lavman ) as chairman. Thi tate C ommittee will be rc ponsiblc for the de1·elopmcnt and execution of the program within the state. . . The initiati ve in forming a local ational Library \Vcck C ommittee must be taken b y the librarians in each community. I ati onal Library \ cek is a program in which librarians from all kinds of libraries should be in· voh·ecl , but som eone must take the important first step of getting the others together in planning. It cems mos t [J racti cal for the public library, which serve all segments of the community, to ass ume this initial res ponsibility and enlist the cooperati on and assistance of all librari ans of the community in the project. I ational Li brarv \Veck is not an end in itself but a means of helping i.1s to attain many objecti ves. T o be to the Library of C ongre s cla ifi cation sys tem was com- most effecti ve, it should be regard ed not as a separate, pleted in 193 5. - isolated pro ject, merely to be ob en·ecl , but an integral part of all effort - whether those of profes ional librari ans U nablc to secure the sen ·ices of an outsid e survcvor in or interes ted laymen- to strengthen upport for librari es, 1946, Ii s Graham and ser cral m cmb r of her taff pre to encourage their usc, an I to heighten the community's parcel a sta tement of the fa cilities, services and needs of sense of the importance of reading to our national life. · the Clemson Libn1 n •. The purpose of this survey was to give the Pre icl cnt of the C ollege a concise summary of the Let's p r p~uc now for a N ational Librarv \Veek which will introduce each South C arolinian to the librarv fa cili- book and peri odical needs which could be u eel ' in sup tic of his ccommunity. · port of an applica tion to the G en eral Educa tion Boa rd for a grant of funds for retrospective book purcha ing. The p roof of the cffecti,·cncss of the sun·e\· was the $30 000 MISS CORNELIA GRAHAM which Clem on recci,·cd fro m the G eneral Educa tion By J. B. TlowELL, University of G eorgia Boa rd . S LA welcomes to honorarv life membership Ti s 1fiss ra ham's interes t in the library world is par- orn clia . Graham, who re ti r c1 on ugust 31 after tiall y indica ted bv her membership in three librarv orga ni thirty-s ix yea rs of service to lem on ollcgc. za tions-the nierica n LibrarY Association, the outh A graduate of corgia State College for \Vomcn, I\lis eastern Librarv Associa tion an·d the outh C arolina Li raham join ed the lcm on staff on cptembcr 4, 1922, brary ssociatfon. he has sen ·ecl both as president and a a sistant to i\ !iss Katherine T rc cott, the first li braria n secretary of L ; and it was during her secretaryship to ervc lcmson ollcge in an offi cial ca pacity. During that Dr. E. \V. 'ikcs, then presid ent of lemson, called til , ensuing sum mers fi ss C ra ham took course · 1 ading the fir t meeting of the itizens' L ibrary ommittcc. The to a degree in library science, and in 1930 she rccei,·ccl a work of this committee ultimat tely led o the es tablish ertifica te in Libran· Scn ·ice fro m olumbia ni,·er it\ . ment of the ' outh C arolina tate Lib ran· Boa rd. On Jul y 1, J9i2, ·riss raham was appointed l i brar i ~ln On the national level fi G ra ham ha contributed of !em on College. frccl ) of her time in pro,·iding information for ,·ari ous i\ [is Graham ha participated in the cl c,·clopment of sun·e,·s \\·h i.:-h have helped to advance the library pro the lcmson ibrary in cc the clays when it wa a small fession. ' he ha assi ted ,·isiting writers in thei r resea rch coll ection housed ii1 three classrooms in T illman Thill. and i; acknowl edged in numerous publica ti ons, including T oday, outgrowing the cparatc b uilding in which it has l\1 argaret L . Coit's Pulitzer p rize-winning biograph\· of been housed si nce 193 , the lemson Library contain · John . alhoun. · the large t technical collection in ~ o ulh arolina. Jumeri O ne of three outh arolina libraria ns included 111 calh•, the library ha, grown d uring li s G ra ham'; admin \'(' ho's \'(' ho in t\mericcJ. Iiss Graham is also listed in is tra tion fro m about 25 ,000 rolumcs in 1932 to approxi \1'/zo's \\' It o in the outh and outhwest, W' ho' W' ho in m a t cl ~ 17 5,000 . The library becam e a parti SOUTH CAROLI N lANA medical center had alreach attracted man1· mcriean ·, and in October, I 79 , Poimc'tt began hi\ stttdies there. T he 'outh Carolina and outh aroliniana arc alway of strenuous tud~ prO\ed too much for his fr::til phy iquc, interest to outh Carolinians-and we hope to "adopted" and he sought the milder clnnate of Li~bon in search of South Carolinians. BclieYing that the intellectual and health. cultural history of our people is as important as our fter se,·er;ll months in Portugal, he returned to Eng political and economic history, the editors requested Ir. land determined to pursue a military caner, and . o he E. T. Crowson of \ Vinthrop College to write a paper on went to \ Voolwich, the scat of the Roval l\ 1ilitarv . cad an eminent contributor to outh Caroliniana . .\lr. Crow emv, where he obtained private imtructlon from ·1. !at son is well qualified for such an assignment. An ssistant boi's, a former teacher of the Acadcm). The military Professor in the H istory Department of \Vinthrop Col theory and practice was \Cr) appc;1ling to Poinsett. lege, fr. Crow on ha a one of his special fields of inter In the spring of 1800 he returned home to Charleston est nineteenth century American intellectual history. His in good plwsical condition. li e wished to make the mili choice of a subject is - tary his life's profession, but his father objected sternly, and instead had Jocl read hm . Law was not suited to his taste, and so his parents agreed that he might take JOEL POINSETT an extended tour of Europe beginning in 1810, before he MAN OF LETTERS cttled do" n to perform the duties of a citizen. For the greater part of the next seven years, Poinset t By E. T. ROW ON, I1 is tory Department tra,·clcd through Europe and the 1\ 1iddlc J•:ast, observing \ Vinthrop College the countries and comcrsing with many clistingui heel statesmen of the period. To him and a few other culti In the wake of the war of 1812 came a great wm e of vated tra,·clcrs of the period, the nited ' tatcs owes a national fen·or that left no doubt of the fact that the debt of some magnitude since he wa a prize exhibit of United tates had arri,·ed as a nation. The leader hip of the be t we had to show abroad. Surely a nation is judged the nation had been heretofore in the hands of the south to a great extent bv the character anci culture of its citi ern people and now there wa increasing e,·idencc of ris zens and Poinsett rcprc en ted us at our best. ing stars in the \ est, like Clay and Jackson, who were to That he was not a mere tourist is revealed by his give the nited tates new leadership. letters and )Omnals, which arc now a part of the twenty During the early part of thi nationali~tic period, three ,·olumcs of his papers in the Pcnnsyhania Jlistorical southern and northern sectionalism was brought into sharp Societv Collection. Poinsett sought to learn the character focus. This era was also associated with diplomatic and ci.tstoms of the countries visited, and this proved lo achievement abroad and the shaping of merican culture be good training for his futme career in the foreign sen·icc at home. One of the best example of the co mopolitan of his countn. Tra,cl abroad seemed to help him better and cultured merican of this time was Joel Roberts understand ti1c mission of the nitecl States as a liYing Poinsett, scion of a prominent Ilugucnot family in example of aggressi\c dcmocr::tcy . Charleston, outh arolina. On the C\'C of indepcndence in Latin mcrica, the Joel was born in 1779 during the tumult of the Revo nited tales selected in 1810 as their special agent in lution. lie was the son of the prominent phv ieian, Dr. the R io de Ia Plata, one of our most wiclelv tnn·clecl Elisha Poinsett, and Ann Roberts Poinsett, 'an English citizens, Joel Poinsett. llc reached his post at Buenos lady of good family. fter sen·ing in the Re,·olution, Dr. Airc in 1811, where he was supposed to explain the Poinsett, like SC\eral other prominent Charlcstonians, de mutual ad,anlagcs of commerce with the nitcd Stales. cided the patriot cau e was lost. lie renewed his allegiance H is instruction also carried the snggc~tion that he was to the crown and in 1782, took his family to England supposed to encourage the mm em en t for indcpcnclcncc. where he remained for six years. · Poinsett W \ >\/hen Pres id ent V an Buren took offi ce in 1837, he Jones, Katharine M.acbeth. The Plantation outh. Indian call ed Pa in ctt to b e ecretarv of " ' ar. Poinsett becam e apolis: Bobbs-M errill Co., 1957. an outstanding secretary as h e grea tly impro,·ccl the mili Manning, \ Villiam R ay eel. Diplomatic Correspondence tary department by adding a general staff, improving our of the nited States concerning the Independence of artillery, and b roadening the course of study at \Ves t the Latin-American ations. 3 \'Ols. Tew York: Ox Point. Poinsett o ffered a plan for universal military train ford U n i versi tv Press, 19 2 5. ing and frontier defense and he is generall y credited with 1anning, \ Villiati1 R ay. Early Diplomatic R elations be a much improved military department which was well tween the United States and i\1 exico. Baltimore : The prepared for " the grea t reh earsal' in 1846. Johns H opkins Press, 1916. 1n 1841 P in ett returned home and perhaps the next ra tional Institu c for the Promoti on of ci ences, \\lash ten yea rs-his last ten-were the m ost pl easant which h e ington, D . C . Papers R elative to the ational Insti spent in his nati ve land. As the 'enior Director of the tute. \ • ashington, D. C. : The ational Institute, ation al Institute for the Promotion of Science, Poinsett 1841. m ade a scholarl y pl ea in 1841 to help arouse the govern Parton, D orothy Iartha The Diplomatic Caree r of Joel ment and the citizens to the defi cicnces in the United Roberts Poinsett . . \ Vashington, D. C .: Catholic States for the tucly of cience. lie showed him elf to be Uni,·ersity, 1934. quite up-to-el ate when h e pl ed in his 42 page report for Poinsett, Joel R oberts. otas sobre 1exico (1 21). Tra- more resea rch in bas ic scien ce as a key to m ore enlightened duccion de Pablo Martinez. del Campo. Prologo )' and b etter living. lie wish ed to have a central agency notas de Eduardo Enrique Rios. .I cxico : Edito ri al Jus, cl ccli ca tecl to the pursuit of high er knowl edge, with fin an 1950. cial aiel from the government. His views on the science [Poinsett, Jo I R oberts] otes on .Jexico, 'f ade in the of astronomy arc worthv of anv scholar of the modern Autumn of 1822 . Accompanied by an II i.storical space age. Poinsett wa a h c mptit~ g to alert the nation that ketch of the Revolution, and Translations of Official we were b ehind Europe in our scientific in ves tigation, Reports on the Present tate of that Country, with a and he offered the blue-prin t whcrcb v we would become map. By a citizen of the United tates. Philadelphia: a leader of the world in science. cccli ess to sav, his vi ews H. C. Carev and I. Lea, 1824. were too adva ncedh for is time. · Poin ett, Joel Roberts. Oration, on the Life and Character Freclrika Brem er, the celeb ra ted wedish woman of of Andrew Jackson, Delivered on the -fth of July, 1845 . . . at the 1\equest of the Citi:.ens of Greenville, S. C. letters, ca me to m criea in 1849. Andrew D owning, the [Greemille, . C .: 1 45] pioneer landsca pe gardner of Am eri ca, ccurccl for her an Poinsett, Joel R oberts. C. invitation to th e h ome of Mr. Poinsett on the Pee D ee Speech of J\lr. Poinsett, of S. on Bill . .. \ Vashington, D. C .: G ales and River in outh C arolina. This eli tingui sh ed tra veler wa th e Tariff ea ton, 1824 . most impressed b y h er ho t, whom she referred to a "one Poin ett, Joel R oberts. of the 1cw \\' oriel 's wise m en." he aw him as a con tatement of the Comparative Ad vantages of Charle ton, over the Cities South of Te w tented sch olar, weary of statesmanship, "a gcntilhommc York, 'V?hich re Constructing Railroads and Canals of refin ement and natural courtesy, with the traight to Facilitate Their Communications with the Countr • forwarclness of the true m erican." \V est of th e Alleghan y 1o untains, Charl eston, . C .: And so in 1 51 ~ lr. Pa in ctt pas eel from the worldly J. . Burgess, 1833. scene h a,·ing contributed much to the betterment of his Putnam, H . E. Joel Roberts Poinsett: a Political Biog- country through the en couragement and practice of ba ie ra(Jh y. \ Vashington D . .. fimeofonn Pres, 193 5. ch olarl v activitie . ca rdinal belief of his life seem ed Rippy, Jamc Fred. Joel R. Poinsett, V ersatile American . to b e that knowledge contributes grea th· to understand Durham, . .: Duke Univer itv Pres, 193 5. ing am ong natio ns and also to the pros r>c ritv and w<..'a lth Rippy Jamc Freel. Hivalry of the U1iited tales and Great of nations. · Britain over Latin America. Baltimore: The Johns H opkins Pres , 1929. JOEL ROBERTS POINSETT . Embassy. Jcxi o. Exposicion de Ia conducta politica cle los E tado -Unidas para con las uevas Republicas A BIBLIOGRAPHY de m rica. Texico: Impr. en Ia Ex- Inqui icion, a Books cargo de l. ' imeno, 1 27. ( igned at end b v J. R . Poinsett ) · Bouch er, h auncev 'amucl. The i ullifi.cation Contro- [ani ga ult, Gabriel E.] Biographical k tch of the ver y in outh ·c aroli11a. hi ago: T11 c niver ity of lion. Joel 1\ . Poinsett, of outh Carolina. Cha rl e ton, hicago, 1916. ' .. Cha rl e ton Yem Book, 1 C ollier, \ Villiam 1' iller, and ruz, Guillermo F eliu. La Primer a J\1 is ion de los Estc1d os 11idos d merica en Articles and Per iodicals Chile. antiago de h ilc: Imprcnta cn ·antes, 1926. [Blanding, bram] " Internal ImprO\·cm ent 111 ' outh lJamer, Philip ~ [ ar. T he ecession .\lovement in outh arolina. 1 -f ·- l 51. ll cntown , Pa.: II. R . llaa & Ca.rolina ': a letter from b ram Bland ing to Joel R . Pom ett, II and 0., 191 . outh Carolina istorical Genealogical lleilman, G race E., and Le\'in Bernard . Calendar of ,\/aga;:ine, ' LII ( 19-tl ), 53-54. foe/ !\. Poin ett paper in the llenrv D. Gilpin ol handler, harle Lyon. "Theo L ife f Joel Roberts Poin lection. Philadelphia: Pcnnsyh·an ia Tl istorical ocicty, ett", Pen ns)'lvania ,\[aga;::in e of Ili tory an d Biogra 1941. . phy, LL, ( 193 5). 1-3 1. JJ cnnig I.l elen K. real outh Carolinia11s. hapel Hill : " The Flower That 'rmbolizes Chri ~ tm a " . Pan American ni,·ersity of lorth arolina Pre , 1940. Bulletin, L r, C (D ecember 194 ) , 6 9-690. 10 OUTll CAR O L! TA LIBRARIA1 Vol. 3, o. 1 " Joel Poinsett", Home Garden X (D ecember, 1952 ), apparently \'alueless \'olumc into a respectable addition -+ 1--+2. to the library. " Joel R . Poinsett", with portrait, Uniteel States 1\1 agazine Grease or wax spots arc remO\·cd by h olding a hot iron and Democratic Review, 1 (1838) . close to the injun•; another remcdv is to wash with ben- J\tfiller, L ewis R ex. "For Christmas Cheer", American zine or ether. · · Forest Service Joumal, XV (1938), 705-706, 7-+ 6. If the corner or edges of Lh e boards arc broken or Obituary. Charleston Courier, D ecember 16, 1851. frayed a little g lue well brush d in and allowed to almost Poinsett, Joel R oberts. " Discourse on the ational Insti set before shuping will work wonders. tute", outhem Quarterly, VIII ( 1850 ). H ammer the corn ers or edges into shape and fasten tille, Charles J. "The Life and Services of Joel R . the ragged lea ther securely into its place. Fill up all cracks Poinsett", Pennsylvania Magazine of History 11 SOU Til CAROL! A LlBRARf A in ord er to get a reaction of the members to the revised scn·ing as part time a sistant in the Ilarts,·ill c T own hip standards. The buzz sessions proved a stimulating experi if cmorial Library. ence for all those parti cipating and led to a lively dis Mrs. . M . M e air, A. B. \ Vinthrop; A. B. in L. ' . cuss ion at one of the general m eetings . Miss Frances Universih· of Oklahoma, and former Librarian at H arts Ilcnnc, one of the C o-Chairmen for the standards, pre vill e Iligli School, is Assistant Librarian at C oker C oll ege. sented a summary of these to the meri ca n Library Asso ciation . \ Vh cn publish ed, these standard s should furnish 1Irs. Doyle \ V. Boggs, former Librari an at 1 Iartsville the school librari ans with a bas is upon which to work in Junior High choo\, is serving as Librari an at H artsville impro,·ing school library service in our individual schools. High chool. · Irs. James II. F elkel, Jr. of H artsville, S. C., is the new Librarian at Hartsvill e Junior Iligh School. DEGREE A WARDED lis Ann Kinken, who worked this summer in the Robert C. Tucker, Furman University Librari an, has pecial Services Librarv at the Air Force Base at Jvrtlc completed work for his Ph.D. degree at the Universitv of Beach, is attending \ Vake Fores t C oll ege this fall. ~· f iss 1orth C arolina and rccci,·ed the degree in Augu t. · Kinken plans to enter the librarY pro fession after the Dr. Tucker's graduate tudies were in meri ca n hi - completion of the required training. tory, with special emphas is on the life of James H enry Irs. Lillian Freeman, Librarian at M vrtlc Beach Ai r H ammond, outh Carolina planter, politician and de Force Base, attended A. L. A. in San Fra{lcisco last July. fender of slavery in the pre-Civil \Var peri od. A nati ve of Mississippi and a graduate of Loui siana Mis Hilda IcKievcr, a 1957 graduate of State C oll ege State University, he has been head librarian at Furman at Orangeburg, began work on O ctober 1 with the H om · incc 1947. llc' is a past pre ident of the South C arolina County Library as a trainee under the provisions o f the Library Association, i li ted in \Vho's \ V Iw in the South Library en ·ices ct. and Southwest, is a m ember of Phi Kappa Phi and Beta f r. !fred Rawlinso n and Mr. J. Iitchell Ream es of Phi 1u honorary library fraternity. the cKi ss ick Iemori al Library at the University of lie is the on of fr. and 1\frs. B. . Tucker of Baton outh C arolina attended the meeting of the outheastcrn Rouge, La. llc has a brother Ben N. Tucker, an attorn ey, Library Association in Louisvill e, O ctober 22-25 . at H ammond, La. · The mo,·in g to the new ca mpus and to the new James Buclt anan Duke Library Building at Furman U ni ver it\· PERSONALS was completed in time for classes on Sept. 18. Mr. Tucker, Librarian of the new library, with his sta ff , sun·ived the .Miss D enyse M osimann, of the Charleston Library ord eal of transferring the book coll ection and now extend ocicty, p ar ti ~ip a t e d in a program gi,·cn Sept. 22 at the a cordial invitation to anvone to come and sec the new ooper River if emorial Library. The topic under discus building. · sion for the evening was " he E njoyment of Literature, if usic, and the rts." The Presbyteria n C oll ege Library at Clinton has ex panel ed it recorded music coll ection' to about 1900 eli cs. l'vl iss Rachel lartin is the Reference DRAPER MANUSCRIPTS friends will mi s him and his lilmH) contributions in South Carolina, and all will wish him well in his new An outstanding acquisition of the \ · inthrop Librar~ · work. during this past school year wa the purchasing on micro film of the complete manuscript collection of L yman C. Draper. G eographically the field co1·ered i from the H ud son River to the i\fiss issippi, from Charleston to Loui s MEETING IN CHARLOTTE ,·ille, and the peri od co1·ered is from the year 1735 until At the invitation of ~[ r. IT oyt R . alvi n, Director of the close of the \ Var of 1812-15. This collection was the Charlotte Public Library, a large number of librarians widely used during 195 summer school by students doing from orth arolina and South Carolina met in Char graduate work in history. It may be used by students of lotte, eptcmbcr 25, to discuss and exchange id ea con history and of genealogy. cerning library supplies and equipment. lfr. John Otte millcr, Associate Librarian of Yale, led the discussion for Six South Carolina school librarian attended the An the day, which centered around a program to prepare and nual Conference of the American Library As ocia tion in adopt standards and specifications, The School and Children's Libraries section of the Both the Conference and an Francisco afford ed in 'outhca tern Library ssocia ti on presented a panel dis teresting and stimulating experiences. The school librarian cussion on the work of the 'outhcrn States \ Vork Con group was particularly interes ted in the discussions cen ference's study on ~chool libraries. The moderator of the tered around the revised standards for school librari es eli cussion was fiss ancy Jane Day, State Supervisor of which arc in the process of being set up and a report of Library Scn·iccs for South arolina and Miss Sarah Jone, the study made b y the Research Division of EA on the Chief Cons 1ltant for , chool Libraries in eorgia. Partici library and the secondary chool teacher. This study will pating in the panel group were !iss Louise lcrcdith, be publi heel in the fall. Supervi or of Instructional latcrial and Libraries in Tcnnes~ee; l\liss Eloise Jones, of Colquitt I Jigh School Carnegie Library, \ Vintllrop College, Rock llill, S.C., Library, Georgia; l\ fi ss ora Bomar, Stale School Libmrv is interested in obtaining a copy of OUT11 CAROL! 1A Advisor, orth Carolim1; and liss Virginia ilcjcnki1;, LIBRARY B LLETI , , .. 4, no. 3 ( 1948 ). Tran porta Supervisor of School ibraries and 1aterials of Fulton bon charges will he refunded. County, eorgia. t the D aytona Beach conference this past summer, CORRECTION there were 75 people participating in the school librarv ~ t udy. This included superintendents, principals, teacher;, i\.lr. Chapman J. filling Jr., Librarian of the Carnegie lihrariam, supervisors, and professors of library science and Public Library of Sumter, writes that his father and not education. he was the author of the article, "The l\Ien \ ho l et the Boat". This article appeared in the introductory i sue ( pril 16, 1958 ) of the outh Carolinian, and dealt with ANNOUNCEMENT the Indians of outh Carolina. It is with much satisfaction and pleasure that the announcement is made concerning the new Editor of the APPOINTMENT South Carolina Librarian. 1r. Herbert JJ ucks, Librarian of \ Vofford College Librar), Spartanburg, S. ., will be l\fr. J. B. llowcll, formerly of the Library staff of come the South Carolina Librari LETTERS TO LIBRARIANS SELA-A BRIEF REPORT (Editors' note: The following letter from Mr. H uck, outh Caroli na was well represented at Louisvill e at Librarian of \ afford College, could easil y initiate a much the meeting o f the Southeastern Library Ass ocia tion , needed and grea tl y e nj oyed feature o f the OUTH CAR O ctober 23-25 , 19 58, by librari ans from all areas of OLI A LIBHA1UA . Comments on this ubject or other librarv work . 1 he meeting, under the direction of M r. subj ects pertinent to o ur work should b e welcomed b y th e Randolph \ V. Church, Librarian of the Virginia State Editor. ) Library, had as its theme " Regionalism", sa nd the peakers and discuss ion groups dealt with vari ous as pects o f this Librarians: theme. SCL members, who a re a lso members o f ELA, have Outstanding a mong the addresse of the ssociation read in the ELA Program f or the Louisville meeting were: " Regional Implications of the Program of the O ctober 23- 25, 1958, of the pan el discu sia n on " Rela C ouncil on Library Resources", by Mr. V erner \ V. Clapp, ti onship between the SRLA and the State Library Asso Presid ent of the Council ; " 'outhcrn Regionalism, ow ciations", scheduled f or Thursday morning, Octob er 23. and in th e Future", b)' 1 r. Fitzgerald Bemiss, Chairman, Our representative o n this discuss ion w a Mr. J. \ V. Public Library Board, Richmond, Virginia; and "Library Gord on G ourl ay, Clemso n College Librarian, and Pres i Educa ti on with Special Reference to Preparing Librari ans dent-elect of CLA. Recently he wrote me for idea -and, for College and Uni,·ersity Library Positions", by E. J. as I wrote him, frankly, l found it rather difficult to g ive fl umes to1, Jr., Uni\'. of Kentucky. him much help, because CL , a lthough n ow a c hapter of ALA, is C LA, and EL i s EL ! A grea t deal of discu ion and study was done 111 th e secti onal groups, with topics as, " cademi c Librari es in For sc,·enJl years now I h a\'e wondered why more o f Foreign Countribes", led y :Mr. Archie L. M cN eal, Uni u arc not m embers o f SELA, and the fir t conclu ion I \'ersity of lV! iami Library: " lone in a Cones toga \ agon have made is that m os t of u s, unlcs expenses arc paid by urroundecl by Tclcvi ion Sets", by ~ I r. \ illiam C . Bagg , our institutions, im ply a re not going to a ttend both of the 1\l iami Tews; "\ hat Is a Classic?", by l r. Leland CLA and EL the sa me yea r-and usuall y very c lose Mile , D ept. of English, IlanO\·cr Coll ege; "Trustees and together (which ca nnot b e helped, o f course). I do be Publi c R elations"; " Cooperati on and Communica ti on" , li eve, howe,·er, that many more would attend, if their led by [iss Edith cott, Chairman, Council of Regional school, coll ege, or public library, or library boa rd would Croups, assi t ed b, [r. Porter \ . Kellam, Editor, The sec to it that m emb r of the rcs1 ecti ve taffs were urged outheastem Librarian; "\ hat Is a Good chool Library to attend, with expense paid by the institution. I d o not and \ Vhat D oes It Do for B oy and Girl ", led b y Iiss know the exact n umber of SCLA memb rship in EL Taney Jane D ay; "Public Library R eference urvcy", led now, but so mewh ere in the 80' seems familiar. Tf that is by l r. 1 . Ilan ·cy Deal, Uni\'ersity true, what is wrong? of Virginia Library; " om mcnts o n L ocal Ilistory a nd rchives", led by l\l is Personally, I h a\'e alway enj oyed attending both 1 abel! Ilowell , T ennessee 'tate Library; "Book Re,·iews, C LA and SEL , a nd look f orward to each m eeting, to orth C arolina School Librari ans Book Reviewing C om tr to gather new ideas, and see old fri e11ds, and I'm sure mittee", led by li s Lottie IJood, atawba County tl~a t alma t C\'ery other librarian I know f eel the sa me 'chool Librari e ; and ' pccial Projects under the Library way. Then h ow ca n L and EL b e more compati cn ·ices ct", led by [is Evelyn l ull en, Department of ble. I sec it, C L i, our local organiza ti on, while Tl ealth, \ Vcalth. and \ Velfarc, \ a hington . EL is the regional one. That' s 11 0t a new idea and is even trite, but \\'hat else ca n be sa id, except that the c orga ni za ti ons s hould hel p each oth er. when -possible. OPPORTUNITIES FOR \ Vord ca n be passed through th outh Carolina Librarian and the outh ea tern Librarian to keep u s all inform ed SOUTH CAROLINA LIBRARIANS of projects which arc compa ti ble for the ·amc groups which contain the ~a me per on ·, but on a diffen.: nt level. Tn all fi elds o f lib ra r~ · work, there is much cl one 111 relating books to ~pccia l e\-ent or seasonal occa io Perh aps schedul ing CL in the priH", con istcntly, ns. The picture below, whic h is ur el~ o nly one f many \\'hen ' L!\ m ets in the fall would hel p. 1 t could be tried bulletin board displays, l ea d ~ u t o think that picture o more o ften . l am a firm believer in both, and hope that f other bull etin boards mig ht be sent to the both will continue to grow in member hip a11 d acti\'i t\'. outh Carolina Libraria n. ,\ n exchange of ide-as in li brary publicit: could IJ crbcrt Tl ucks, Jr. be a s timulating, helpful contribution f or the e ntire library . C . r-. rember, EL E xec. Board group. H DIS PLAY OF THE MONTH For the grace of liYing, for the b oon of h ealth! Ended i s the labor, now ensucth rc t! . ing with lute and tabor, shout with merry zc t! Skies arc cloudl e \ o'er us; smile the ea rth with light; Join the jocund choru , clap your hand with might! As we bow before Thee, sin g we nothing loth , All ·nw so ns a dore Thee, C od of 'ahaoth! All fru it whatsoever th 15 BULK RATE Joseph Ruzicka U. S. POSTAGE Libt·aty Bookbinding PAID. GREENSBORO, N. C. Permit No. 39 Greensboro, N . C. 'iss Estellene P . tal er S. C. State Library Board 1001 Main St. Columbia , S. C.