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Augusta University programming with a different puzzle, coloring, and activity sheets on a Black history theme. Black History Month at Reese Library The committee suggested incorporating
students’ wants into the library’s annual Black How did Black History Month at Reese Library, History Month Display. Augusta University turn from library displays
and passive programming quietly in the In early January 2019, the library placed tear-off background into a Culmination Reception that sheets on easels in high traffic areas of the put a spotlight on the library’s displays, inspiring library. On each easel speeches, and a party the library wrote: of catered “What would you like refreshments, which to see in our library’s the library typically Black History Month cannot afford? displays? Share with
us: book or movie It all began in titles, people, places, December 2018 when subjects, or themes.” the Academic Students suggested Diversity and specific titles and Inclusion Alignment topics, “local black Committee chair gave history,” “a speech by a challenge to each Dr. Seretha Williams” member: highlight (a professor from the diversity and English and Foreign inclusion in some way Languages the following year. The committee is composed department), and “free food.” After two weeks of faculty and staff from a range of departments of response collection, the library shared the and colleges across Augusta University with two responses with the committee. members representing the libraries. The
committee advises one of the vice presidents The director of multicultural student on priorities and initiatives for addressing engagement offered to collaborate with us by diversity and inclusion opportunities within the hosting a reception to highlight the displays, academic programs, recruitment policies, and from there the Reese Library Black History curricular and co-curricular activities, service Month Displays and Reception were born. and outreach, scholarly efforts, and faculty Reese Library partnered with the Office of development. Multicultural Student Engagement for event
planning assistance with the speakers, For years, Reese Library has carefully curated a refreshments, and advertising. For the request book display for Black History Month. In 2018, on local black history, the library invited Corey the library introduced passive programming by Rogers, a historian from the Lucy Craft Laney having a Black history jigsaw puzzle near the Museum of Black History as a guest speaker, display. For the challenge, the library suggested and the library secured Dr. Seretha Williams for a display and expansion of the passive the keynote. The event was open to the public
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and advertised around campus through flyers as and books about various African American well as digital and social media. Event cultures in the United States, the African attendance exceeded expectations, chair count, diaspora, and Caribbean history. and floor space! To learn more about this event and other The library display cases on the first and second programs at Reese Library, visit the library
floors were filled with headshots of notable website at 31TUhttps://www.augusta.edu/library/
African American authors and artists and prints reese/U31T. of their paintings as well as biographies, films,
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Twin Lakes Library System The building serves many functions for the library, including housing a business incubator
Hancock Branch (funded by the Community Foundation of
Central Georgia and the James S. and John L. The newly opened Hancock Branch, part of the Knight Foundation), a makerspace, a teen space Twin Lakes Library System (TLLS), is located in for afterschool programs, a host site for film the heart of downtown Milledgeville, Georgia. screenings and Summer Reading Club events,
administrative A collaborative offices, and a project between the community City of Milledgeville, performance space. TLLS, and architecture The services and firm Arcollab, this programs in this branch is housed in branch allow the an historic building library system to on Milledgeville’s attract new patrons main street. Originally and expand its impact a car dealership built in the community, in 1919, the building adding value to local has lived many lives, residents’ tax dollars. most recently as city
offices and storage. In Founded in 1939, the restoring the Twin Lakes Library envelope and layout System serves the residents of Milledgeville and of the building, attention was paid to preserving Baldwin County. With three branches and historic details while implementing a program almost 100,000 visits in 2019, it continues to be that meets the needs of a modern library. The a vital part of the local community. A recent original trusses, pressed-tin ceilings, millwork, winner of two Knight Cities Challenge grants for and terracotta tiles were uncovered and civic engagement projects, an IMLS-funded restored to their former glory. An outdoor grant for testing innovative rural broadband mural was added to replicate a car advertising technologies, and serving as a pilot site for mural from the 1940s and 50s. As a recent testing student digital cards and a library-driven winner of the Georgia Downtown Association’s ebook platform, TLLS excels at delivering 2019 Award of Excellence for Best Public innovative and engaged service to its patrons. Improvement Project, the Hancock Branch is a
unique example of an adaptive reuse project for For more information about the Twin Lakes public libraries in Georgia. At 7,328 square feet Library System, visit the website at of overall space, the building adds another gem 24TUwww.tllsga.org/U24T or the Facebook Page at to downtown Milledgeville. 24Twww.facebook.com/twinlakeslibrarysystem/24T.
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University of Georgia incoming students and uncertainty about attendance.
Law Library Fest
With a new student affairs team settled in at Fall 2019, the 30TUAlexander Campbell King Law the School of Law, they reconfigured and LibraryU30T at the University of Georgia (UGA) expanded turned library orientation for orientation for incoming students, incoming students and a library into a fest and component was opened the event once again made a up to the entire law requirement. school community. Elements from the The idea for the hybrid fall 2018 Fest was a model such as collaborative one, timing, location, with ideas from and design were other library kept. The flow of orientation students coming programs, 30TUGA’s and going from the staff resource fair30T, library was much conferences like smoother too, 30TCALICon30T, and even thanks to a blocked an 30TAALL poster session30T contributing to the final schedule of four sets of approximately fifty event design and deployment. individuals each hour. This made for easier
scheduling on the library’s behalf. With After many years of being a regular part of the required attendance, even though promotion School of Law’s first year student orientation was less necessary, the library still wanted to (during which one or a few librarians stood in encourage students to embrace the experience. front of a group of more than 100 students at a The library incorporated door prizes and time for roughly an hour), the library went gamified participation with stamp cards. through a transitional period last fall and was
removed as a required part of the schedule. As Students received a stamp card that doubled as a result, the 30Tfall 2018 library orientation30T was a a flier in their law school orientation packet, hybrid program that included heavy marketing along with password cards to the library’s three of an optional in person event, paired with an top databases. For students who forgot to bring 30Tonline video tour30T (housed in a 30TLibGuide)30T. cards with them, the library provided extras at Participation was good, especially considering the entrance on the day of the event. The card this was the library’s very first event of this contained six spots to get a stamp or sticker, kind. The event, which lasted from 10 a.m. until and visiting one of each of the 30Tsix library 4 p.m., burdened librarians and staff alike, due stations30T resulted in a stamp or sticker. to its optional requirement on the part of
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The stations included: • Stress Busters: For this station, a table operated by volunteer librarians • Circulation: At this table located in displayed a variety of stress relief front of the circulation desk, access resources that are normally available services staff and student workers during exams each semester. These shared examples of other items for resources included a giant touchscreen checkout, gave demos of course word search, puzzles, coloring reserves in the library online catalog, materials, and print resources. Students and distributed library branded coasters could take a free tiny animal figurine and ink pens. “study buddy” to start their law school studying journey with. • Reference: This station, operated by law librarians, used the actual reference • Other Resources: This final table was desk to display information about the not operated by librarians or staff, but library’s legal research and legal was merely a location for all other technology course offerings, examples information about UGA and Athens of print and online study aids, free mini resources. It included publications, copies of the constitution, and library pamphlet, and brochures about local bookmarks with hours and reference news, Athens, the UGA offices of well- desk contact information. being, the LGBTQ resource center, and the health center. At this station • I.T. Services: For this table, members of students chose a sticker for their cards. the School of Law Information Technology Services team shared information about what their own Help Desk in the law library assists with. They also had signs and gave information about UGA’s Enterprise Information Technology Services (EITS), WEPA (the printing system) and Microsoft Office software available to students. Plus, there was a basket of free law library branded flash drives to giveaway.
• Library Tours: Throughout the event, a rotating cast of six librarians and staff members gave approximately 10- minute guided tours of the law library. The library also invited its three top database The tour highlighted important sections vendors, Westlaw, Lexis Advance, and of the library, identified where Bloomberg Law, to set up tables and contribute bathrooms and water fountains are to the overall carnival feel of the event. They located, and answered any questions provided additional items to give away such as students had about the library, water bottles, tote bags, and even donut holes including the building and the and candy. Vendors also contributed gift cards collection. to the door prize baskets.
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The library received several positive comments, librarians randomly selecting cards from the and the library tour participation rate went card submission box and announcing the from 37 students in fall 2018 to a whopping 169 winners, which was later shared on social students this fall! The library collected 150 media. The library is hopeful that next fall a completed stamped cards, and awarded 9 lucky similar orientation schedule and format will participants with door prize packages. For the retain the event style from the past two years,
drawing, 30Tthe library captured a video30T of two as well as the required blocks from this fall.
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I am looking forward to serving as the Georgia • Providing professional growth Library Association (GLA) president in 2020 and opportunities continuing the strong year of growth under my • Providing a space for GLA’s constituent predecessor Jennifer Lautzenheiser. I spent the parts to meet and work on behalf of the last year learning all the things the GLA association president does, and while I still have a lot to learn, Jennifer helped me prepare for the year One initiative the board will be working on this ahead. year is a process for incorporating or affiliating with other library groups in Georgia. Several Last year Jennifer and the Executive Board groups have expressed interest in associating worked on two major initiatives. First, GLA with GLA, and we are eager to develop a good transitioned to a new administrative services method of working with other library groups to company, Impact Visual Services. Thanks to strengthen our memberships. Jennifer, Eli Arnold, Mack Freeman, and Ashley Dupuy for serving on the task force. Following The board will also be working early this year to the selection of Impact, the board selected Wild select a site for annual conferences for the next Apricot to handle the membership database. A two years. We will be issuing a request for lot of time and effort has gone into the proposals soon. transition. If you have not yet logged into the site and updated your membership profile, The annual Midwinter Planning Meeting was on please do so. Just click on “Forgot Password” to January 10, 2020 in Macon, Georgia. The set up your account. meeting was a great success, and we had a wonderful turnout with a large number of first- Second, a Conference Planning Task Force led time attendees complementing our loyal by Mack Freeman and Kimberly Boyd presented regulars. Every division and committee met, and the board with a plan to restructure the way several new chairs held their first meetings, and GLA partners with other organizations on the our newest interest group, the Gender and annual conference. The board accepted the task Sexuality Diversities Interest Group, met for the force plan, and the new structure will be first time. We held a GLA 101 session in the implemented in phases over the next few years. morning, where attendees heard about the GLA The board affirmed the goals of the annual organization, social media channels, interest conference: groups, and how to get and be involved in GLA. During the day, the different groups made plans • Adding value to association and brainstormed events for the year and membership possibilities for programs for the annual • Generating revenue for the association conference. • Promoting libraries and related professions This year’s annual conference theme is • Providing a forum for discussing issues Everyone In! This theme reflects our desire to relevant to the profession encourage new and existing members to
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become engaged with GLA, either through members to keep it active. If you have ideas and presenting at the conference or working behind suggestions, please reach out to me or any the scenes. It also reflects the important roles board member. If you don’t belong to a division libraries play promoting participation in the or interest group, you can join by logging into 2020 census, the election year, and the work we your profile on the website. Reach out to the all do in our communities. It also recognizes our chair with your ideas! GLA is YOU! colleagues in the Southeastern Library Association, who will be joining our conference Laura Burtle this year! President, Georgia Library Association 2020
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This summer I excitedly tackled a task I’d been books from his father. Hundreds of titles passed looking forward to for nearly a year: unboxing through my hands, from popular fiction and our books. My new husband and I had moved recent publications to treasured hand-me- into our first house the previous summer but downs from our families, such as his had been unable to unpack dozens of boxes of grandfather’s copy of The Handbook of books due to a lack of shelves. I did keep out a Chemistry and Physics, 31st edition, and my small collection of current reads and well-loved great-grandmother’s self-published friends to tide me over—The Lord of the Rings autobiography. Some genres come almost and Jane Austen’s complete works (Persuasion exclusively from one person (unsurprisingly, I’m is my favorite) were easy choices. My husband’s responsible for all the romance novels and my The Heir to the Empire trilogy, more commonly husband for all the Star Wars books), but most called the Thrawn are a mix of original trilogy by Star Wars owners. fans, was a temporary addition As I found duplicates, that I still haven’t I tried to set them finished (sorry, aside to consider for honey). I made do later weeding. Many with those, and a of these were in the handful of others, science fiction part of while we started the collection, as setting up our first both my father-in-law home. and I have a fondness for Asimov, Clarke, A major project in Heinlein, and their setting up the house contemporaries. included my husband Others were the building me several sets of magnificent typical story of re-purchasing titles due to wear bookshelves. (As an aside, I recommend that all or simple forgetfulness. Some were easy to book lovers consider marrying woodworkers— discard later, but I knew even as I set aside the it’s a natural match.) He completed the first set duplicate copies of The Silmarillion and The of shelves in our newly dubbed “upstairs Hobbit, they would all be staying. Some library” in early July, and we decided that it was duplicates were kept for logical reasons, such as time for me to get to work. In the meantime, simplified versions of classic works for children, we’d agreed that I could sort, catalog, and weed but most of these decisions were made for most of the collection however I wanted, in purely sentimental reasons. (There’s a reason exchange for a promise not to weed or sort the I’m not responsible for weeding in my Star Wars books. In the span of a week, I single- professional life!) handedly unpacked 40 boxes of books, scanning them into my LibraryThing account and roughly Perhaps the most exciting thing about setting sorting genres as I went. Most of the books up my own personal library was the freedom to were new to me, as I was combining not only define categories as I chose. I ended up settling my library with my husband’s, but also many on an unusual array of collections, separating
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science fiction from fantasy, and Star Wars from must first build walls there, those will be a long both (my husband might have a “type” when it time coming. comes to reading). We also created a collection of “old books,” roughly those published before While I await future shelving, I decided to go 1940, mostly to justify putting them out-of- ahead and sort the non-fiction, which I am reach of visiting children. Beyond these, determined to have in Dewey Decimal order. however, we have reasonably common (Since we have libraries on all three floors of categories such as general fiction, foreign our house, as well as an online catalog, I figure language (mostly French and all mine aside there’s no point in stopping short.) This was a from The Klingon point of discussion Hamlet), mystery and with my husband, but thriller, children’s, he eventually gave in romance, comics and when I promised not manga, young adult, to put labels on the and non-fiction. I spines of books. shifted some books Instead, I plan to print back and forth individual bookmarks between genres a few on acid-free paper times before settling (yes, I’m aware I’m on a home. For being “extra” about example, we briefly this). We have books considered pulling in all the major DDC out Asimov as a sections, somewhat separate collection but decided against it when surprisingly, but the majority are in the 900’s we realized we only have around 60 of his more (biography, history, and travel—mostly my than 500 works. With collections sorted out I father-in-law) and 700’s (knitting—all me). I’m could start deciding which would go where, currently in the process of doing some clean-up based on size. work in the catalog while I wait on more shelves. In the meantime, the nonfiction books By this time, my husband had also completed are piled on the floor in our home office, with the shelves in our “main floor library,” and I sticky notes denoting Dewey sections. determined that the large mystery and thriller collection would fit there (a decision I’m now My library is a work-in-progress and always will second-guessing as my father-in-law continues be. The current titles (numbering 2,907) reflect to deliver titles). The upstairs library has foreign the reading habits and interests of three language, romance, and general fiction, but is different people and include many works I will primarily dedicated to fantasy, Star Wars, and never read (e.g., all 150 books in The Destroyer science fiction. All the bookshelves are very full, series). Having organized everything as I see fit, though I tried my best to leave room for future however, makes the entire collection mine in a growth. It’s been several months now, and I way no other library could ever be. The curious
foresee moving several collections (I know can peruse my catalog at 31TUhttps://www.library
weeding would also be prudent, but it’s quite thing.com/catalog/RogueElfU. unlikely). Some collections are completely unshelved for now; we have plans to build more Amy Gratz Barker is Instructional Design shelves in the basement, but as my husband Librarian at Kennesaw State University
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A Circulation Worker Visits Special Collections
By Anne Kristen Hunter
In spring 2019, I started an internship in the Students think that learning criminology, for Special Collections department in Ingram example, will be like watching Law & Order or Library at the University of West Georgia CSI; they expect that studying psychology will (UWG). I worked with Dr. Michael Camp and primarily be about the hunt for serial killers. My learned the basics of archival processing while own mistaken images of archiving probably working with two collections of documents come from television as well, and notably, from donated by Congressman Mac Collins (R-GA, social media. The two images I had in mind 1993–2005). were, first, of the When I started sort of dusty the internship, I backrooms of file had already cabinets that our worked for more heroes break into than a year in the to find the Circulation villain’s personnel department at file, and second, Ingram. The of viral video internship was, montages of for me, a bit of people in white professional gloves cross-training, as painstakingly well as a restoring badly- requirement for the post-baccalaureate preserved Renaissance oil paintings before Certificate in Museum Studies offered by the showing off a dramatic before-and-after reveal Public History program within UWG’s History of the repaired and revarnished art. department. Unsurprisingly, both these mental images missed the mark. I started working with miscellaneous documents and artifacts that were transferred First, I quickly learned that archives are by Congressman Collins when he left office, and primarily for people rather than being for the later moved back in time to process documents materials they house. The purpose of an archive from his final term in office. The first set of is not simply to store old documents, it is to documents and photographs I worked with provide access to those documents to people were part of a larger series of Collins’s who want to see them. While I was working at Washington, DC office files. Then I processed, my internship, I saw professors and graduate from beginning to end, a complete series of students gathering data for their research, a awards and certificates. Finally, I processed a radio journalist preparing for a series of series of invitations received during the 108th broadcasts about the university’s history, Congress, 2003–2005. community members looking up genealogical records and examples of their ancestors’ My initial mental image of archiving was wrong appearances in the local news of the day, and in two major ways. I should add that I know even undergraduate students wanting to view from experience that initial impressions of primary documents as part of a class project. It academic disciplines are nearly always wrong. was not just that I was wrong in thinking that
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the archive was un-used; I was wrong in permanent display of objects from the office of thinking that its purpose was anything other Georgia Representative and Speaker of the than to be used. The archive, I learned, was not Georgia House Tom Murphy. The main archive for preservation-for-preservation’s-sake, it was inside Ingram Library houses the majority of the for people to be able to access the materials processed papers, while the off-site facility that were being preserved. houses the rare books and almost all unprocessed papers. Our first trip off-site was Second, I learned that the vast majority of to retrieve the first batch of papers for me to documents in the archives were far from being process; we returned a couple more times delicate and unique in the manner of 500-year- during the semester for the same purpose. old oil paintings. Many of the documents I was working with were not even 15 years old yet, My reading started with Mark A. Greene and and most of them were far more ordinary than I Dennis Meissner’s (2005) “More Progress, Less had imagined. As archivists have realized at Process,” which Michael said he considered to least since the 1980s, contemporary collections be the most important article currently guiding consist in large part of very routine documents archival practice. Michael also showed me how that have documents were essentially no organized within intrinsic value as the archive. objects; they are Collections only valuable for contain series the historical (and occasionally information they sub-series); series contain (Ham, are made up of 1984). I saw folders. Folders in office manuals, turn are housed Republican Party in numbered conference boxes, which are schedules, housed on countless numbered scheduling emails, and all sorts of payment and shelves. I think one of my biggest surprises, reimbursement vouchers, all printed on early on, was realizing that there is no complete ordinary white office paper, exactly the same inventory of every item in every folder. That is kind we use for our own routine office business simply not how archival records are kept. upstairs in the Circulation department. Michael also showed me the finding aids that act as the archive’s catalog. I saw how scope My supervisor, Dr. Michael Camp, started and content notes described the collection, and introducing me to the internship by giving me a how container lists tracked the folders in each tour of the facilities. He also assigned me some box. Michael explained that he views archiving reading about what he considered to be the as an art, rather than a science. There are some most important issues in archiving today, and norms, precedents, and traditions to follow, but explained his perspective. Special Collections at both the final organization of a collection, and the University of West Georgia includes faculty especially the specific steps taken to arrive at it, offices, a reading room for people to view are necessarily particular to the individual documents, the main archive, and a special “off- archivist. site” storage facility in another campus building across the street. Special Collections also I began processing by simply viewing already- controls a temporary exhibition space and a processed papers from Collins’s DC office files. I
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processed a handful of miscellaneous folders After completing my work on the art shows, holding constituent letters, invitations, and Michael gave me an entire archival series to research Collins’s staff conducted to help complete from start to finish. We pulled all the inform his legislative decisions. Once I had a boxes that contained awards and certificates handle on the basics, Michael moved me on to Collins had received over the years, and I was my first real project, processing a portion of the given responsibility for unboxing all the objects, office files related to Collins’s participation in organizing them, disassembling bulky picture the Congressional Art Caucus’s annual art show. frames when possible, then reboxing the Each year, artifacts in an Collins’s staff order of my helped organize choosing, and an art writing scope and competition content notes among Georgia and container high school lists for the students living in eventual finding his district, a aid. Even the viewing and awards were reception for the more ordinary competition than I originally winners in expected. Collins Georgia, and then had dozens of transportation to Washington DC for the wooden plaques celebrating him as “taxpayer winners to participate in “An Artistic Discovery,” hero” or a “small business champion,” given to the Art Caucus’s annual show. Collins’s staff had him again and again by the same few already created a separate folder for each year, organizations over the years. There were and following surprises as well. current best We found a practices, I simply signed, numbered refoldered these art print from into acid-free American folders (Greene & outsider artist Meissner, 2005). Rev. Howard Collins’s staff had Finster. We also also produced a found an original pair of photo copy of a albums that newspaper spanned multiple political cartoon. years. For these, I It appeared to really did wear have been given gloves, to avoid getting fingerprints on the to Collins as a gift by the cartoonist, although I photographs, as I disassembled the albums and was never sure why, since the content of the put each year’s images into their own folders. cartoon didn’t seem to have anything to do with Seeing how badly the album pages under the him. But those two stand out in my mind photographs had degraded, even just since the because they were unusual. As I’m sure most 1990s, really drove home to me how important archivists and most historians already know, it is that archival storage be acid-free. most of what we collect is usual. The few
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extraordinary items stand out because most was in DC, or vice versa; he rejected events that items are ordinary. posed scheduling conflicts because they were at the same time as other events. A close historical The tail end of the Miscellany collection, the reading might uncover other patterns in his collection of all the things Collins’s staff boxed acceptance and refusal of his various up when he left the House in 2005, held a few invitations, but as Michael pointed out to me, more surprises. I found a couple of oversized interpreting the artifacts is a job for historians. binders with photocopies of press clippings. For Our job as archivists was to make the over a decade, it had been someone’s job to documents available so that historians could find every time Collins showed up in a actually access them. newspaper and to make a photocopy, and all those copies While processing ended up boxed the invitations, I with his awards. I really struggled also found an with Greene and incredibly curious Meissner’s letter. It was directive to unsigned, but engage in “less purported to be process” (Greene from Fidel Castro, & Meissner, and was 2005) to avoid addressed to a paying too much Democratic attention to the Congressperson, individual items explaining why in each folder, he, Castro, was declining to attend the 1999 and to avoid repeated re-handling of the same World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle, folders and items. Partly, I struggled because I Washington. According to the envelope I found was still learning. I didn’t want to remove it in, it had been mailed to Collins by the Swiss staples gratuitously, for example, but each time ambassador to Uruguay, but there was no other I went back through a folder, I felt like I saw accompanying information. I imagine there another batch that needed to be removed. must be a really fascinating story behind that Initially I only pulled a certain style of staple letter, and the circuitous path it took to land on that was already causing rust damage. Then I Collins’s desk, but I have no idea what that story pulled excess staples from documents where might be. I have no idea if the letter itself is Collins’s staff had used a half-dozen staples to genuine, or if its supposed provenance is hold together a dozen pages. Finally, I also authentic, but even as a possible forgery or removed staples from instances where a heavy hoax, it seems fascinating. cardstock invitation was affixed to an ordinary page of office paper, because I realized that the My final archival project was to process all the ordinary paper couldn’t really support the invitations Collins received during his final term weight of the pairing without damage, and I in office, the 108th Congress from 2003 to wanted to prevent that damage as much as 2005. These were perhaps the most ordinary possible. As a second example, I also took documents I worked with all semester. Collins several tries to put all the papers in their folders accepted invitations to attend mandatory GOP staple-side up, successfully alternating folders conference meetings and members’ only with wide corners on the right and left. It’s a briefings about the Iraq War. He rejected simple technique to maximize how many invitations to events held in Georgia while he
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folders fit in a box, but it still took me about half found a few instances of people’s Social the semester to apply it consistently. Security Numbers (SSNs) written on documents. Some I caught the very first time through, But the other challenge of trying not to over- because there were several SSNs on the same process the invitations came because of the page, or because they were displayed fairly same problems Steven Gentry (2014) wrote prominently. But some I didn’t notice until my about in his attempts to apply Greene and second or third pass through the same folder, Meissner’s ideas to a collection of a college because the SSNs were jotted down as a president’s office papers. In addition to needing handwritten note that I hadn’t looked closely to pull staples for the enough at the first time. purpose of document Item-level attention and preservation, I also multiple pass-throughs needed to find and were the only thing that photocopy every sticky let me save those note Collins’s staff stuck people’s privacy. As for on one of his invites. The the billing records, I sticky notes all needed to mostly passed those on be removed, for the same to Michael, so he could reason I had to evaluate what part of disassemble the photo them, if any, needed to albums, to prevent be retained for the sake degradation over time. of any future historians (And as an aside, let me interested in add that Congressional Congressman Collins. staff members, or Collins’s staff at least, are As I said, I struggled with very fond of re- Greene and Meissner’s positionable sticky advice, because I wanted notes!) But finding all to follow it, but I also those notes in the first wanted to do my place required item-level internship work correctly. attention to detail, and And in one sense, doing photocopying and my work correctly meant removing them required following their advice so me to go back again that I was not wasting through folders I had Michael’s time or my already processed, while own. But in another sense item-level attention and trying to follow their multiple pass-throughs advice conflicted with are both practices that Greene and Meissner doing all the tasks my work required. I talked to discourage. Michael a few times about managing this conflict. He encouraged me to focus more on There was also a need to help protect the the quality of my work than on my speed, to be privacy of Collins’s constituents and his staff sure I was doing things correctly, keeping members, as well as a need to avoid retaining appropriate records to add to the scope and historically worthless records like Collins paying content notes, and making accurate container his office phone bill every month, or purchasing lists of my boxes. And together, Michael, his bottled water, printer ink, and copier toner. I graduate assistant, and I worked fast enough to
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finish processing one partially-completed been until now, and I appreciated the collection and to process a second from start to opportunity to participate in that world. finish, all in one semester. To search the finding aids for the Mac Collins
My internship taught me the basics of archival papers, 108th Congress, see 31TUhttp://uwg.galileo. processing, enough that I could now probably usg.edu/uwg/view?docId=ead/POL-0002-08-
take a small collection, process it, organize it, ead.xmlU31T, and for the Mac Collins papers,
file it away, and write an appropriate finding aid Miscellany, see 31Thttp://uwg.galileo.usg.edu/
to provide researchers access to it. My uwg/view?docId=ead/POL-0022-07-ead.xml31T. internship also gave me a glimpse into the larger responsibilities Michael and the other Anne Kristen Hunter is Library Paraprofessional I archivists undertake. I saw Michael scheduling at University of West Georgia oral history interviews, corresponding with potential donors—not financial donors, but rather donors of documents and artifacts—and References I saw him bring in newly acquired collections that his solicitations had secured. I helped Gentry, S. (2014). A gentle approach to “Gentle Michael install an exhibition of archival Ren”: Processing the papers of former materials about immigration, and attended a College President Renwick Jackson. reception for the opening of the exhibit, Provenance, Journal of the Society of Borders Real and Imagined: Georgia Georgia Archivists, 32(1), 63-77. Immigration Politics in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Thomas B. Murphy Greene, M. A. & Meissner, D. (2005). More Reading Room, Ingram Library, UWG, January product, less process: Revamping 24 to May 10, 2019, curated by W. Michael traditional archival processing. American Camp with Lalah Manly and Anne Hunter. I saw Archivist, 68(2), 208-263. the other archivists supervising their own interns, student workers, and volunteers. And I Ham, G. (1984). Archival choices: Managing the saw all the work that goes into helping people historical record in an age of abundance. access the archive—pulling boxes, finding American Archivist, 47(1), 11-22. folders, answering questions. Special collections is a different world than circulation, where I’ve
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Call for Papers!
Academic Library Division of the Georgia Library Association Georgia Chapter of ACRL Georgia Libraries Conference with SELA October 7–9, 2020 Macon, Georgia
The Academic Library Division (ALD) of the Georgia Library Association/Georgia Chapter of ACRL invites Georgia librarians and library science students to submit research papers pertaining to academic libraries for presentation at the 2020 Georgia Libraries Conference (GLC), this year held jointly with SELA. Criteria for selection include purpose, content, organization, scholarship and references. Papers should include research on developments in academic libraries that present challenging opportunities for libraries and librarianship throughout the state, region, or nation. Papers should be approximately 2000–6000 words.
The Georgia Library Quarterly (GLQ) may invite selected authors to submit their papers for possible publication in GLQ.
GLA may award complimentary GLC conference registration and a cash prize for the paper selected as the top entry. Complimentary conference registration may also be awarded to the runner-up entry. The two top papers will be presented at the Georgia Libraries Conference in Macon, Georgia. If no papers are submitted or papers are not deemed scholarly, then ALD reserves the right to not present any awards for the year.
DISCLAIMER: Papers may have multiple authors, but only one author may be awarded complimentary registration, and the cash prize will be shared amongst all authors of the top selected paper.
Notice of Intention: Submit via email a notice of intent and a brief abstract. Send emails with the subject line “ALD Research Papers” to Linh Uong ([email protected]). Your notice of intent should contain your name, address, phone number, email address, a tentative title, and a brief (200 word) abstract by April 3, 2020.
Optional Pre-Submission Peer Review If you would like your paper reviewed by scholarly writing experts prior to your final submission, please email it to Linh Uong ([email protected]) by June 1, 2020.
Paper Submission: The final paper (approximately 2000–6000 words) must be submitted by July 17, 2020. Use the APA (American Psychological Association) as the style guide for the submission.
Notification of Results: August 14, 2020
Send Notice of Intention and Final Paper to: Linh Uong Research Papers Committee Chair [email protected]
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Georgia Library Association Membership Committee
Membership Campaign
The Georgia Library Association (GLA) Membership Committee is pleased to announce the Georgia Library Association’s (GLA) first
41TMembership Campaign, 41Twhich will take place
during 41TNational Library Week, 15T41TApril 19–25, 2020.
The Membership Committee encourages all
GLA members to c41Telebrate National Library
Week15T41T, April 19–25, 2020, 15Tby participating in
the GLA’s 41TMembership Campaign. 41TTell someone (or two) about the benefits of GLA membership and invite them to join.
During National Library Week, the online membership form will include a space for the person you recruit to enter your name. You will earn a chance to win $$! First place wins $50, Georgia statewide courier. To request the GLA second place $30, and third place $20! Membership Case, visit the GLA Membership Committee page and click on Request GLA Marketing Items or contact Janice Shipp, GLA Visit 32TUhttps://gla.georgialibraries.org/member vice-president membership committee chair, by ship/U32T to learn more. phone at 912.358.4339 or email 32Tjanicemshipp Thank you for your participation and support! @gmail.com32T.
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Celebrate by participating in the Georgia Library Association’s (GLA) Membership Campaign by inviting someone (or two) to join GLA and earn a chance to win $$!
The online membership form will have a space for the person you recruit to enter your name. First place wins $50, second place $30, and third place $20! Visit gla.georgialibraries.org/membership today to learn more and sign up!
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Georgia Library Association Collaborative. These sub-groups host meetups in various areas of the state to provide
New Members Round Table opportunities for MLIS students, new graduates,
new and experienced librarians, and those New Members Round Table Division (NMRT) interested in the library profession to attend 2019 Year-End Review networking events and professional
development presentations. As 2020 begins, it is time to recap and reflect
upon the work of the 2019 New Members Meetups Round Table (NMRT) and its subgroups, the
Atlanta Emerging Librarians (AEL) and the In order to fulfill the objective of providing Coastal Georgia Library Collaborative (CGLC). members of the library profession with a
common meeting The New Members ground for Round Table is a connecting with division of the one another and Georgia Library the Georgia library Association (GLA). community as a This division strives whole, NMRT has to support new GLA continued to members and new support its librarians, create subgroups, AEL and mentorship CGLC as they held a opportunities, number of amazing facilitate AEL Crosland Tower Library Tour events in 2019. professional
growth, offer avenues for collaboration In 2019, the AEL Planning Committee consisted between new and veteran library workers, and of Sarah Rodgers, Michelle Lee, Beth Smedley, promote involvement and a sense of Justin Ellis, and Marcie Helms. The AEL Planning responsibility for the development of the library Committee successfully planned and held a profession. The New Members Round Table is number of events in the Atlanta area in 2019. open to Georgia Library Association members AEL held their annual Mingle with the Admins who have served in the profession or state for event in January to kick off the year. They then fewer than five years, are currently enrolled in proceeded to host a Meet and Greet, a tour of library school, or have an interest in working the Crosland Tower Library at the Georgia with newcomers to the profession. The 2019 Institute of Technology, an Oglethorpe NMRT officers consisted of a chair, Holly University Museum of Art Tour, a meetup in the Hampton; vice-chair/chair elect, Autumn park, and a Sip ‘N Serve. The AEL Planning Johnson; secretary, Mary Block; and Committee also planned their annual Mingle programming coordinator, Brittani Sterling. with the Admins event for 2020 and worked on
transitioning their duties to the 2020 AEL co- The New Members Round Table also consists of chairs. two affiliated sub-groups: the Atlanta Emerging Librarians and the Coastal Georgia Library
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In 2019, the CGLC Planning Committee Group Meeting and Social, walking the vendor consisted of Nikki Cannon-Rech, Jennifer Taylor- floor, or going for a lunch or coffee break. The Pack, Sarah Zeigler, buddies are and Autumn connected prior to Johnson. CGLC held the conference and a number of are welcome to amazing events for begin getting to those in the know each other Savannah area in and plan their time 2019. They kicked together prior to off the year with a the conference meet up at the date. Gullah Geechee Exhibit in Hinesville. In order to recruit Throughout the the buddies, NMRT remainder of the put out a call and year, they held two asked interested mix and mingles parties to complete and a collaborative CGLC “Maps, Surveys, and Plans, OH MY!" at the City of Savannah a Google Form. event with the Municipal Archives NMRT asked a Society of Georgia number of Archivists. They also worked on transitioning questions to help match the buddies such as their duties to the 2020 CGLC co-chairs. what day(s) they plan to attend the conference, what type of library they work for, what Georgia Libraries Conference Buddy Program superpower they would most like to have, and what they hope to gain from the NMRT GLC In 2019, NMRT continued to offer the Georgia Buddy Program. When matched, the buddies Libraries Conference (GLC) Buddy Program, first were contacted via email and made aware of implemented by NMRT in 2017. This program their “matching qualities” to help them start up provides an opportunity for new(ish) GLA a conversation and get to know each other members and conference-goers to meet before they met at the conference. NMRT had experienced Georgia Libraries Conference 12 participants this year: 6 mentees and 6 attendees in an effort to share experiences, mentors, and NMRT hopes to see this number gain valuable real-world knowledge, and grow as this program continues to evolve and enhance the conference experience. This improve. program has been specifically for mentorship related to the conference itself. This is so that NMRT Georgia Libraries Conference those who are not familiar with the Georgia Scholarship Libraries Conference have an opportunity to learn how best to navigate the conference and Every year, NMRT provides a scholarship for at learn what some of the traditions and best least one presenter covering the cost of a full- networking opportunities are during the conference registration to attend the Georgia conference, just to name a few of the many Libraries Conference. In order to do this, NMRT takeaways of this program. Buddies (the puts out a call for presentation proposals with a mentee and mentor) are encouraged to meet due date of approximately one month before and mingle at their own pace in a variety of the GLA GLC presentation proposal due date. ways, including attending a session together, NMRT typically looks for presentations that grabbing a bite to eat at the NMRT & Interest contribute to the conference experience for
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new GLA members or new librarians. In 2019, during the interview from the employer to help the guidelines for this presentation included them determine if the organization is the right providing a 45-minute session, with 10 minutes fit for them. The presentation left attendees for questions and answers, focusing on a topic with a wealth of information regarding how to that would be of benefit to new and move forward as they apply and interview for prospective librarians or new attendees of the various positions in the library profession. Georgia Libraries Conference, encouraging members to further their knowledge of the Attendees of “More than Just Updating Your library profession and/or the Georgia Library Nametag: Transitioning from Library Staff to Association. NMRT Faculty,” had the received a number opportunity to hear of superb the diverse submissions, and in experiences of the the end, the NMRT panel as they officers selected reflected on their two presentations transition from staff to put a scholarship to faculty, and in toward: “Hiring some cases, moving Managers Tell All! from a position of a What Job Seekers peer to a Really Want to supervisor. The Know,” presented panel presenters by Mary Ann provided helpful Cullen, Ashley advice for those Dupuy, and who are currently Elizabeth Dill and Presenters of “More than Just Updating Your Nametag: Transitioning experiencing or will “More than Just from Library Staff to Faculty.” Left to Right: Natalie Logue, LaTiffany experience this Updating Your Davis, Chris Morris, Emily Williams, Michelle Lee, and Rosemary transition, and Nametag: Humphrey provided some Transitioning from insight for those Library Staff to Faculty,” presented by who have watched others experience this as Rosemary Humphrey, LaTiffany Davis, Michelle well. The session was reassuring and valuable Lee, Natalie Logue, Chris Morris, and Emily for many who have been or who plan to be Williams. obtaining an MLIS or moving into a supervisory role. By attending “Hiring Managers Tell All! What Job Seekers Really Want to Know,” attendees In addition to sponsoring both presentations had the opportunity to learn valuable tips and that NMRT selected to receive scholarships, tricks to improve their job hunting process as NMRT also chose to sponsor an additional hiring managers from public and academic presentation: “Membership as a Game Changer libraries spoke to what they look for in in Your Professional Career,” presented by applicants as well as what they prefer not to Lamonica Sanford and Shaundra Walker. see. Attendees were provided with helpful Attendees learned how involvement in state, information and handouts that they could regional, national, and international immediately apply to their applications, professional library associations can have a resumes/CVs, interview, and the overall positive impact on their career no matter the application and interview process. They also level. The presenters provided an overview of a spoke to what an applicant should look for
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number of professional associations, including the Georgia Library Association, the committees within the associations, and the benefits associated with being a member. This presentation was very insightful for those who are looking to get the most out of their membership from any library association they may be a part of.
NMRT would like to thank all of the 2019 sponsored presenters for providing such valuable content to the Georgia Libraries Conference and New Members Round Table members!
NMRT & Interest Group Meeting & Social
NMRT worked with the 2019 Interest Group Council to host a meeting and networking event on the Thursday night of the Georgia Libraries Conference at the Ocmulgee Brewpub in Macon, Georgia. Any and all conference goers were invited to this event, and about 47 people 2020 NMRT Officers Left to Right: Kelly Williams (Secretary), Autumn Jonson (Chair), Sarah Rodgers (Vice- were in attendance. They spent the evening Chair, Chair Elect) networking, socializing, learning about NMRT and the Interest Group Council, playing games, and enjoying the catered food. At this event, Vice-Chair, Chair Elect: Sarah Rodgers, the Interest Group chairs elected the 2020 Oglethorpe University Interest Group Council vice chair/chair elect, the NMRT chair announced the 2020 NMRT Secretary: Kelly Williams, Gwinnett County officers, and many of the NMRT Conference Public Library Buddies used this as an opportunity to get to know one another. It was an eventful night and The 2019 NMRT officers would like to say thank NMRT looks forward to hosting this meet-up you for allowing them to serve as your NMRT again next year. officers for 2019. NMRT hopes you enjoyed all that NMRT and the subgroups, AEL and CGLC, 2020 NMRT Officers had to offer and look forward to your continued participation and support in 2020! As 2020 begins, the 2019 NMRT officers hand over their responsibilities to those elected to For More Information... serve as the NMRT officers in 2020. NMRT would like to take a moment to welcome and If you are interested in learning more about congratulate the incoming 2020 NMRT officers: NMRT, please visit the NMRT webpage (Uhttps://gla.georgialibraries.org/divisions/new- Chair: Autumn Johnson, Georgia Southern members-round-table/U) and join the NMRT University Division by checking the box next to New Members Round Table on your GLA profile page
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https://gla.georgialibraries.org/ so you can AEL Facebook: AtlantaEmergingLibrarians receive NMRT emails. AEL Twitter & Instagram: @ATLEmergingLib If you are interested in learning more about the
Atlanta Emerging Librarians or the Coastal CGLC Website: 24Thttps://gla.georgialibraries.org/ Georgia Library Collaborative, please visit their divisions/new-members-round-table/coastal-
website and follow them on social media: georgia-library-collaborative/24T
AEL Website: 24Thttps://gla.georgialibraries.org/ CGLC Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram: divisions/new-members-round-table/atlanta- @GLACoastal
emerging-librarians/24T CGLC Blog: https://glacoastal.wordpress.com/
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Georgia Library Association timed segments. Presenters gave participants one-sheets detailing their programs and how Professional and Continuing they can be recreated in other libraries. Education Interest Group (PACE) The afternoon segments began with a short It’s your library—all grown up. On December 6, presentation from Christopher Evans of the 2019, the third Adult Programming Palooza Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS), providing welcomed over 70 information to help participants hailing libraries prepare for from Savannah to the the 2020 Census. This Tennessee border. was followed by an With the goal of Introduction to sharing information Entrepreneurship about adult Learning Initiative programming and (ELI) presented by learning from one Duncan Smith, another, this event— founder of NoveList sponsored by PACE and EBSCO (Professional and Information Services Continuing Education Chief Strategist for Interest Group) and Public Libraries. Georgia Library Attendees learned Association (GLA)— how the was created and organized by Angela Entrepreneurship Learning Initiative can be Glowcheski of Sequoyah Regional Library used in conjunction with programming. The System and Tracy afternoon came to a Walker of Forsyth close with a County Public Library. marketing session led by Jeanne Peloquin, Gathering in marketing Columbus at the coordinator for Columbus Public Middle Georgia Library, attendees Regional Library. began the day with Attendees got to hear “Speed-Date-a- great marketing tips Program.” and tricks to help Highlighting promote library successfully executed programs and programs from across services. the state, nine presenters shared the Thanks to the ins and outs of their programs, as well as generosity of GLA and GPLS, there was no cost answered questions from attendees during to attend Adult Programming Palooza. Oscar
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Gittemeier, vice president of membership for It was an exuberant program filled with ideas, GLA, spoke about the benefits of joining the learning, and camaraderie. Attendance for the organization and provided information to event reached maximum capacity shortly after attendees throughout the day. GPLS provided registration opened. Due to the number of all attendees with lunch. The host library people on the waiting list and many requests, provided a great learning space and the program will be held again in 2020. refreshments throughout the day.
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Augusta-Richmond County Public they are, you would be able to find them right here on the map.” Library System Wallace Branch Library Map of the Golden Blocks shows historic landmarks such as schools, homes, businesses, Augusta Golden Blocks Project Makes its Way and churches of significance located in the to the Wallace Branch Library Laney-Walker District. It also acknowledges black members of the community who If you have ever found yourself venturing into dedicated their lives to providing opportunities the Laney-Walker District in Augusta, Georgia, for blacks living in Augusta during the Jim you will notice an array of history spread out Crown Era. across the neighborhood. Historical landmarks include the Tabernacle The area known as the Baptist Church, Lucy Golden Blocks was the Craft Laney Museum, core of Augusta’s black and the Augusta- business community. Richmond County Redlining policies Public Library System’s prevented citizens from very own Wallace obtaining bank Branch Library. mortgages within certain areas of The Wallace Branch Augusta that were Library’s sole purpose predominantly black. In was to serve the black the Laney-Walker and community in the South Bethlehem Augusta area during the neighborhoods, black- 1950s. If you take a trip owned banks, insurance down to the library companies, theaters, today, you will run and other businesses worked to counterbalance across a new piece of history called Map of the this discrimination. These neighborhoods Golden Blocks. The tile installation piece, ultimately thrived, and citizens represented in created by ceramic artist Ashley Gray, can be the installation made a difference during this found on the sidewall of the Wallace Branch trying time in Augusta's history. Library (Harrison Lane). Gray's vision depicts the people and places that created the Laney- “This is history on the wall,” said Gray. “It brings Walker district. history out into the neighborhood; it catches people’s eye; it helps them remember.” Now “I thought it would be great to have a map of when you walk by the Wallace Branch, not only the neighborhood, maps can be really will it remind you of the library's past, but it will beautiful,” Gray said. “Some of these old incorporate the vivid history of the area buildings are here, some of these old buildings surrounding the Laney-Walker community. aren’t. If you wanted to know what or where The Golden Blocks Project is sponsored by the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History and
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the Greater Augusta Arts Council. The project For more information see: aims to create new public art that connects
people with the historical and cultural 31TUhttps://opentour.emory.edu/georgia-
significance of these areas. humanities/augusta-s-golden-blocksU31T
This project is supported in part by the National 31Thttps://lucycraftlaneymuseum.com/31T Endowment for the Arts, the Greater Augusta
Arts Council, as well as funding from the City of 31Thttps://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/ Augusta Housing & Community Development. #loc=12/32.813/-83.658&city=macon-
The digital walking tour is supported in part by ga&text=intro31T the Georgia Humanities Council and the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship.
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Digital Library of Georgia waddelU30T. Moses Waddel served as the fifth president of the University of Resources Related to the Historic Role of the Georgia. John Newton Waddel served Presbyterian Church in Georgia Now Freely as president of Presbyterian Synodical Available Online College in LaGrange, Tennessee, and as chancellor of the University of Three new collections featuring historical Mississippi. resources related to the Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian educators, and their role in • Presbyterian Church in the United Georgia history are now available through the States. Presbytery of Hopewell minutes, Digital Library of Georgia (DLG). 1797–1866, the official minutes of the Presbytery of Hopewell, the first Housed at Columbia Theological Seminary, the Presbytery in the state of Georgia. View resources are freely available online thanks, in at 30Tdlg.usg.edu/collection/gcl_hopewell30T. part, to the DLG's competitive digitization grant The Hopewell minutes provide program, a funding opportunity intended to descriptions of early missionary efforts broaden DLG partner participation in statewide among Native Americans, deliberations historic digitization projects. about slavery, and other collective decisions that offer perspectives from The three digital collections are: the state of Georgia between the Revolutionary War through the Civil • Joseph R. Wilson papers, from the late War. Special thanks to the Northeast 1800s, including the sermons of Georgia Presbytery for permitting the Presbyterian minister and educator digitization of these records. Joseph Ruggles Wilson dating 1858 to Erskine Clarke, professor emeritus of US 1893. View at 30TUdlg.usg.edu/collection religious history at Columbia Theological /gcl_wilson. U30TWilson served as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Seminary, described the research significance of Georgia, and at First Presbyterian these three collections: Church in Wilmington, North Carolina. He also taught at Columbia Theological The Wilson sermons will have interest Seminary and Southwestern for anyone wishing to probe the Presbyterian University and was the religious life of Woodrow Wilson. In father of President Woodrow Wilson. addition, they will provide insight into the theological assumptions and • John Newton Waddel papers, 1821– rhetorical and homiletical strategies of 1881, including manuscripts and print an influential nineteenth-century material belonging to John Newton Georgia pastor. Waddel (1812–1895) and Moses Waddel (1770–1840). The father and Presbytery minutes are rich resources son were Presbyterian ministers and for cultural and religious history, and educators in Georgia and Mississippi. the years of the Hopewell minutes (1797–1866) will be of great interest to View at 30TUdlg.usg.edu/collection/gcl_
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historians working in that period of Not only has this ledger been a great Georgia history. resource for those studying steam engines, ship construction, etc. from The links with the University of Georgia the Civil War period, it is largely an presidents are astonishing. The Waddel untapped resource for those studying papers are even more exciting...To have Columbus and the Chattahoochee River these important documents available Valley. Making this ledger known and online will be a great gift to those who available for a wider audience will in the future explore the history of benefit Columbus, as well as making Georgia. this important source more readily accessible for Civil War naval research. Confederate Naval Ledger Now Freely Available Online The National Civil War Naval Museum houses the largest surviving Confederate warship, the A Civil War-era ledger belonging to James H. CSS Jackson, as well as the wreckage of the CSS Warner, commander and superintendent of the Chattahoochee, and the largest collection of Confederate States Naval Iron Works Civil War Naval-related flags on display in the (sometimes referred to as the Columbus Iron country. Their timeline exhibit shows naval Works) is now available through the Digital events and features many of the museum’s
Library of Georgia at 30Tdlg.usg.edu/collection most rare artifacts, such as the uniform coat of
/ncwnm_jhwl30T. Captain Catesby Jones and Admiral Farragut’s two-star hat insignia. The museum hosts a James H. Warner received a commission in the range of events throughout the year with an United States Navy in 1851 as a third assistant emphasis on museum theatre and historic engineer. He became a chief engineer in 1856. character interpretation. Additionally, there are Warner later served the Confederacy, where he living history events, tours, cannon firings, received his assignment in Columbus, Georgia in weapons demonstrations, local history projects,
1862. As a naval engineer, he consulted for a and more. Visit30T portcolumbus.org/ number of projects throughout the South and was instrumental in the construction of the CSS Georgia Civil War and Reconstruction Jackson, built in Columbus. Newspapers Now Freely Available Online
The Confederate States Naval Iron Works As part of a $27,405 grant from the R. J. Taylor, operated from 1862–1865. The ledger also Jr. Foundation, the Digital Library of Georgia has includes entries as late as 1866 as Warner digitized over 100,000 pages of Georgia worked with the United States Navy in turning newspaper titles published from 1861 to 1877 over naval equipment to the United States from microfilm held by the Georgia Newspaper
government. Records surviving the Civil War Project (30Tlibs.uga.edu/gnp/30T). that document the Confederate Navy are limited. This ledger provides information about The project creates full-text searchable versions Columbus, Georgia, ironclad construction, of the newspapers and presents them online for steam engines, and the daily operation and free in its Georgia Historic Newspapers
industrial reach of the Confederate States Naval database at 30Tgahistoricnewspapers.galileo.
Iron Works. usg.edu30T in accordance with technical guidelines developed by the National Endowment for the Robert Holcombe, former director and historian Humanities and the Library of Congress for the
of the Confederate Naval Museum described National Digital Newspaper Program (see 30Tloc.
the significance of the ledger: gov/ndnp/30T).
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The Georgia Historic Newspapers database will request the Foundation is proud to utilize the Library of Congress's open-source fund. Georgia newspapers are a tool, Chronicling America, for the online valuable resource. On the technical delivery of the full-text newspapers. Users will side, the online newspaper images are be able to search the database for geographic, sharp and clear, and the functionality of corporate, family, and personal names. the indexing is excellent.
Vivian Price Saffold, chairman of the R. J. Taylor, One hundred eighty-eight Civil War and Jr. Advisory Committee, stated: Reconstruction-era titles have been digitized from the following Georgia cities: Since 1971 genealogy researchers have depended on publications funded by Alapaha, Americus, Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, grants from the R. J. Taylor, Jr. Bainbridge, Brunswick, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Foundation. The Foundation has funded Carrollton, Cartersville, Columbus, Conyers, the printing of thousands of books in Covington, Crawfordville, Cuthbert, Dallas, traditional format. More recently the Dalton, Darien, Dawson, Eastman, Eatonton, addition of digital projects, such as the Elberton, Ellijay, Fairburn, Florence, Forsyth, Digital Library of Georgia’s newspaper Gainesville, Greensboro, Greenville, Griffin, project, has made possible free online Hamilton, Hartwell, Hawkinsville, Hinesville, access to tens of thousands of Georgia Jesup, LaGrange, Lexington, Louisville, Macon, newspaper pages that previously were Madison, Marietta, Milledgeville, Monroe, difficult to research. The DLG project is Palmetto, Quitman, Ringgold, Rome, a great example of the kind of grant Sandersville, Savannah, Social Circle, Summerville, Talbotton, Thomaston, Thomasville, Thomson, Washington, Waynesboro, and West Point.
Papers of interest include:
Christian Index (1867–1878): Baptist newspaper published in Atlanta after the Civil War that claims the distinction of being the oldest continuously published religious newspaper in the United States.
Atlanta/Augusta Daily Register (1864): Civil War refugee newspaper that fled approaching Union forces in Knoxville and published in Atlanta, and later Augusta, during Sherman’s March to the Sea.
Daily/Weekly Loyal Georgian (1867–1868): Augusta’s first African American newspaper published in the early years of Reconstruction.
Lucy Cobb Institute Messenger (1876): School newspaper covering events at the Lucy Cobb
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Institute, a young women’s secondary school in • Conyers Rockdale Register (1876–1877) Athens. • Marietta Field and Fireside (1877–1879)
Pacificator (1864–1865): Georgia’s first Catholic Middle Georgia: newspaper published in Augusta during the Civil War. The paper advocated for an end to the • Forsyth Monroe Advertiser (1873–1888) fighting in the later years of the conflict. • Macon Georgia/Daily Journal and Messenger (1862–1869) Southern Cultivator (1867–1870): Agricultural • Hawkinsville Dispatch (1867–1877) newspaper established in Augusta in 1843 and published in Athens after the Civil War. North Georgia:
• Athens Georgia Collegian (1870–1872) • Calhoun Weekly/Saturday Times (1870– 1877) • Cartersville Express (1867–1879)
South Georgia:
• Dawson Journal (1866–1882) • Savannah Daily Herald (1866–1867) • Thomasville Southern Enterprise (1867– 1876)
West Georgia:
• Carroll County Times (1872–1880) • Columbus Daily/Weekly Sun (1861– 1873) • Thomaston Herald (1870–1878)
Selected Images:
Newspaper title highlights from Georgia regions Banner of the South, October 15, 1870, page 1:
include: 30Thttps://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lc cn/sn85034229/1870-10-15/ed-1/seq-1/ East Georgia: Burke's weekly for boys and girls, July 30, 1870, • Augusta Weekly Chronicle and Sentinel page 1:
(1861–1881) 30Thttps://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lc • Jefferson/Louisville News and Farmer cn/sn01211919/1870-07-30/ed-1/seq-1/ (1871–1923) • Washington Gazette (1866–1885) Southern Cultivator, April 1, 1867, page 1:
30Thttps://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lc Metro Atlanta: cn/sn83002253/1867-04-01/ed-1/seq-1/
• Atlanta Daily New Era (1866–1871)
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Daily Loyal Georgian, June 1, 1867, page 1 Archival Program Development by a State
30Thttps://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lc Institution by the Georgia Historical Records
cn/sn90052028/1867-06-01/ed-1/seq-1/ 30T Advisory Council (GHRAC).
Pacificator, October 15, 1864, page 1 The recipients and their projects include:
30Thttps://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lc
cn/sn90052038/1864-10-15/ed-1/seq-1/ 30T Chipley Historical Center of Pine Mountain (Pine Mountain, Georgia)
• Digitization of the record book of the Sardis Church of Christ, dated 1828– 1915. The Sardis Church of Christ was associated with the Primitive Baptist Church in Harris County, Georgia.
Kennesaw State University Archives (Kennesaw, Georgia)
• Digitization of drawings created and produced by the architectural firm Gregson and Ellis and its predecessor, Gregson and Associates. These materials include a selection of architectural drawings of facilities that provided public medical and mental health care in various counties in the State of Georgia, from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.
Peachtree City Library (Peachtree City, Georgia)
• Digitization of materials documenting DLG Awards Four Competitive Digitization the conceptual beginnings and history Service Grants to Georgia Cultural Heritage of Peachtree City, Georgia, one of the Institutions Across the State country's most successful post-World War II "new towns." Four institutions are recipients of the sixth set of service grants awarded in a program Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody intended to broaden partner participation in Awards Collection (Athens, Georgia) the DLG. The DLG solicited proposals for historic digitization projects in a statewide call, and • Description of 250 episodes of the applicants submitted proposals for projects Parade of Quartets, the longest with a cost of up to $7,500. The projects will be continuous-running gospel program on administered by DLG staff who will perform television in the United States, which digitization and descriptive services on textual has aired on WJBF in Augusta, Georgia (not including newspapers), graphic, and audio- since 1953, and has featured African visual materials. This subgranting program was American gospel groups. presented the 2018 Award for Excellence in
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Preference in the selection process was given to the state. The projects document early proposals from institutions that had not yet Primitive Baptist life; the interplay collaborated with the DLG. Chipley Historical between architecture and public health; Center of Pine Mountain and the Peachtree City the development of planned Library are both new partners for the DLG. communities; and religious musical Sheila McAlister, director of the Digital Library heritage. We’re happy to add two new of Georgia noted: partners.
This newest set of subgrant awards represents the rich cultural diversity of
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Kennesaw State University Library generates methodologically sound research designs. With the installation of the functional System furniture, technology, and the incorporation of the lab into the Learning Management System, Congrats! curriculum, and instruction, the IRML will stimulate the further development of research Congratulations to Dr. Linda Marie Golian-Lui, at KSU, which became an R2 university last who has received the Albert Nelson Marquis year. Lifetime Achievement Dr. Olga Koz, the graduate education librarian, Award (2019) has worked on the development of the IRML’s for over 20 virtual space, which includes a 360-degree virtual tour, augmented reality technology, and years and 36 replicates the experience that students have in publication the physical lab. As a co-instructor and a listings in their consultant in many research projects, methods reference courses, capstone, and dissertation seminars, materials. Dr. she was a valuable partner in selecting Golian-Lui is the resources, designing instructional aids, and current building the website using the Springshare associate dean platform. and leader of Engagement “The IRML is one of, if not the first, lab in the US and Assessment Services at the Kennesaw State to provide users with personalized instruction University (KSU) Library System. and practical experience in the process and strategies involved in generating research
designs using multimedia and augmented Teamwork Makes the Dream Work! reality contents,” Dr. Jorrín-Abellán, the
When a librarian collaborates with researchers and faculty, extraordinary things happen. The team of the Kennesaw State University (KSU) Bagwell College of Education, including the librarian, has established the Interactive Research Methods Lab (IRML). According to the Bagwell College of Education dean, Dr. Reed, “It is the creation of something absolutely spectacular.”
The lab is already a valuable asset for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and researchers and
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founder of the lab, said. “We will continue to open access resources. For more information improve and enhance the user experience in see the Interactive Research Methods Lab
the lab.” website at: 32TUhttps://libguides.kennesaw.edu/
IRML/ U32T This project highlights the changing role that an academic librarian can play in supporting Library Reorganization research and scholarly communication. In addition to focusing on issues related to the As of July 2019, the Kennesaw State University dissemination and preservation of scholarship, Library System underwent a reorganization to Dr. Koz switched her attention to sometimes become a more effective organization and to “forgotten parts of scholarly communication,” better meet the needs of an R2 institution. To such as the creation of research or do this, two new positions were created: development of a researcher or a scholar- practitioner. department chair of public services and department chair of library resources. Under The IRML is built based on the principles of these two new departments, the KSU Library open science and education, so anybody, System will grow into an efficient organization including librarians, is welcome to use it that will be better able to tend to student, virtually to develop their research project. The faculty, and staff needs. creators made a conscious effort to include
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Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the American life and blues music across the state Mississippi Blues by William Ferris (University of Mississippi. of North Carolina Press, 2016: ISBN 9781469628875, $28.00) The book includes stories from musical legends such as B. B. King and Willie Dixon but more Folklorist and author William Ferris is the importantly covers artists whose names one former chairman of the National Endowment may never have come across. Through the for the Humanities. Along eloquent recollections of with Judy Peiser, he co- some of the lesser known founded the Center for artists, the reader is Southern Folklore in introduced to the rich Memphis, Tennessee; he history of the Mississippi was the founding director blues. Artist Louis Dotson of the Center for the recounts growing up in a Study of Southern Culture rural community and at the University of working in a box factory Mississippi and is the co- and sawmill. He also talks editor of The about some of his Encyclopedia of Southern instruments, including Culture. Ferris grew up on the bottle, the a farm in rural Mississippi harmonica, and the one- surrounded by African strand. American culture. Beyond documenting Throughout the 1960s stories from musicians, and 1970s, Ferris spent Ferris also includes much of his time touring several chapters about his Mississippi, documenting stories and collecting travels, including a trip he took to a prison camp recordings, photographs, and film from a wide to collect work chants, a visit to a church to range of African Americans as they talked about explore sacred tradition, and a wonderful visit the musical traditions that shaped the state. to a radio station. In one section, Ferris covers After many years, Ferris has selected a cross- the tradition of the house party, where section of the stories, photographs, and musicians and the audience participate in a “call recordings he collected and published them in and response” exchange. Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues. Ferris also includes lyrics, transcripts of conservations, and—in this version of the The book is broken down into sections that publication—a CD of many of the actual each relate to a place, with a brief introduction interviews and songs included in the book. Give to that place and why Ferris decided to collect My Poor Heart Ease is an entertaining and there. He includes interviews relating firsthand, educational read and collects some very dramatic, and engaging narratives about African important stories that cannot be found anywhere else. Highly recommended for
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libraries that have music collections, Southern Tim Daniels is Manager of Technical and history collections, or collections on collecting Electronic Services and Assistant Professor at folk culture. University of North Georgia
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Portrait of an American Businessman: One Ware tells of his early days—when he and Generation from Cotton Field to Boardroom by siblings worked beside their sharecropping Carl Ware with Sibley Fleming (Mercer parents—through his time as a community University Press, 2019: ISBN 9780881467154, activist, politician, businessman, board $26.00) member, and, ultimately, philanthropist. Portrait of an American Businessman is a Portrait of an American Businessman is Carl detailed account of Ware’s life and the events Ware’s account of his life’s journey to the and circumstances that shaped his thinking, position of highest-ranking African American commitments, education, and life path. These executive at the Coca-Cola Company, his role in formative circumstances include the Detroit that company’s race riots, police disinvestment from brutality, racism, the apartheid South Africa, 1967 film Malcolm X: and his international Struggle for Freedom, and corporate leadership in the assassination of the following years. The Martin Luther King, Jr. book is also a much These events caused him broader discussion of to struggle with his need background political to “assert a degree of events in the United militancy” while States, Georgia, and balancing his need to abroad. Nearly a quarter continue his education of the book is dedicated and professional to Ware’s early years, development. Ware’s including stories about his educational path, grandparents, parents, combined with these life- siblings, and his own shaping events, allowed childhood growing up in him to bring not only Georgia under oppressive acute business skills but Jim Crow laws. Through also a commitment to very specific anecdotes, equal rights to his work Ware tells a with the Coca-Cola transgenerational story Company. that emphasizes hard work and perseverance, a The Coca-Cola Company’s strong family that builds disinvestment in upon each generation’s successes, an apartheid South Africa is the heart of this book, unwavering belief in God, and a life of humility and the details of how that actually came about and gratitude. By his own admission, however, are fascinating. Carl Ware was instrumental in the most difficult part of his journey was the planning and executing Coca-Cola’s South writing of this book, which began in 2003, African disinvestment strategy and in helping sixteen years prior to its publication. the company fulfill its commitment to black South Africa and black economic inclusion.
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Coca-Cola’s plan after the fall of apartheid whose calling is primarily service to African included building black business infrastructure, Americans. Ware made another important such as bottlers and distributors. Ware was accomplishment in his role as chair of the involved in every level of the plan. For readers Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. The who were coming of age during the end years Chamber was able to convince Governor Sonny of South Africa’s apartheid regime and were Perdue that if Atlanta wanted to build an familiar with the names of the main South international image and attract business, the African players, this book fills enormous gaps official state of Georgia flag, which still had the concerning their roles. Ware describes the nuts Confederate battle emblem on it, had to go. and bolts of the dismantling of some of the Perdue commissioned a redesign of the flag to world’s most insidious race laws, enshrined in a what is now the current state flag. country with a minority white population and government. Ware provides an alternate—and Portrait of an American Businessman is a highly often insider—narrative of some of these detailed memoir in which the reader is privy to historical events. virtually every nuance of Ware’s myriad business and philanthropic dealings. It Beyond his work in South Africa, Ware has a illustrates what Ware calls a fundamental truth: lifetime of accomplishments that are detailed in “No matter where you come from, you can Portrait, including using his clout as chair of the make a difference in your time on this earth.” Coca-Cola Foundation to make a grant that enabled Clark College and Atlanta University to Susan Clay is Map and Government Documents consolidate. This consolidation created a Original Cataloger at the University of Georgia financially strong Clark Atlanta University,
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33TWhen Fiction and Philosophy Meet: A came of age as an Irish Catholic in the Conversation with Flannery O’Connor and Protestant South on the eve of the civil rights Simone Weil by E. Jane Doering and Ruthann movement. The second chapter describes their Knechel Johansen (Mercer University Press, mentors, their central concerns, and how they 2019: ISBN 9780881466966, $35.00) express these concerns. The final four main chapters highlight individual concepts through
33TE. Jane Doering and Ruthann Knechel Johansen Weil’s philosophy and O’Connor’s fiction. of the University of Notre Dame have combined
their expertise on Simone Weil and Flannery 33TDoering and Johansen detail Weil’s rational O’Connor to write a book that examines the argument that, with God and God’s grace, the intersection between moral breakdown of these two writers. modern life can be Doering, director emerita resolved through of the Teachers as understanding and Scholars Program, has surrendering to divine written on the French love, regardless of philosopher Simone Weil. whether that love is Johansen, professor shown through joy or emerita in Notre Dame’s suffering. The authors Program of Liberal connect Weil’s argument Studies, has written on to O’Connor’s fiction, the American fiction which is steeped in the writer Flannery O’Connor, violence and realism that
who was born 33T—33Tand she saw in her secular
spent most of her life33T— society.
33Tin Georgia. While Weil
and O’Connor never met, 33TOne example of this they shared a concern connection is found in about the secular O’Connor’s most direction of their own anthologized short story, societies and felt a duty “A Good Man Is Hard to to demonstrate the Find.” The authors link reality of good and evil Weil’s concept of grace, through their works. which is available only Having read Weil’s when there is a void open philosophy, O’Connor to fill, with O’Connor’s wrote fiction that reflects those responses to narrative. In the story, the grandmother uses modern spiritual concerns. her religion as a shield when confronted with The Misfit. It is only when she accepts her
33TThe first chapter of this book examines the religious doubt while on the brink of death and context of the writers’ intellectual and spiritual reaches out to The Misfit that she opens a formation, which Weil developed during the space for grace to fill. The Misfit confirms this time between the two world wars. O’Connor with his final words over her dead body: “She
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would have been a good woman if it had been the philosophical and fictional responses somebody there to shoot her every minute of intermingled. her life.”
33TThis book will be most useful for the reader
33TDoering and Johansen fill this book with who has a thorough grounding in the works of scholarly details about both writers, sometimes Weil, O’Connor, or both. Readers may also to the detriment of the narrative. The density of appreciate the background and influences of the details can detract from the themes both women in addition to the religious connecting the philosophy of Weil with the influences in their philosophy and fictional narratives of O’Connor. In addition, readers narratives. may have trouble following the connections, as
each theme is written with two sections, one 33TLeslie Drost is First-Year Experience Librarian at for each woman, rather than one section with Kennesaw State University
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