The Southeastern Librarian Volume 57, Number 2 Summer 2009 SELA ACTIVITIES: Treasurer 2009 – 2010 Southeastern Library Gordon Baker Association Officers: Clayton State Univ. (GA) 678-466-4325 President [email protected] Kathleen R. T. Imhoff Lexington Public Library (KY) Immediate Past President 859-231-5599 Faith A. Line [email protected] Anderson County Library (SC) 864/260-4500 President-Elect [email protected] Michael Seigler Smyrna Public Library (GA) 770-431-2860 SELA Mentoring Program [email protected] Have you ever considered participating in a Secretary mentoring program either as a mentee or Elizabeth Doolittle mentor? SELA has developed a mentoring Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Gulf program to serve its members (librarians, Park library science students and library 228-214-3455 paraprofessionals) and is interested in your [email protected] participation. 1 platform. These publishers include the Goals of the mentoring program: following: • to aid SELA members in becoming familiar with the SELA • C.H. Beck organization • Migration Letters • to help mentees understand • Pavilion Journals librarianship by pairing them with • Transaction Publishers established library professionals In business since 2000, MetaPress Benefits of the mentoring program: became the industry’s first content • networking with professionals management system with dimensional • learning how different SELA navigation across a variety of content committees work types with the release of MetaPress 2.0 • attending workshops in August 2006. A primary source • developing leadership skills online hosting platform for more than 35,821 scholarly publications across the The mentoring program normally runs for globe, MetaPress provides a one year with the possibility of a second comprehensive solution to Web year. publishing needs and offers an established way to publish titles For more about the SELA Mentoring electronically, regardless of existing Program, go to content format. Currently, MetaPress http://selaonline.org/membership/mentorin provides services and support to more g.htm and browse the different aspects of than 200 publishers. the mentoring program. If you have any questions or care to sign up as either a mentee or mentor, please contact Hal LYRASIS PRODUCT NEWS Mendelsohn, Chair, Membership and Mentoring Committee Lyrasis Announces NextGen ([email protected]) or Gordon Librarian Award Winners Baker, Administrative Services ([email protected]). Lyrasis announces the winners of the first annual 2009 NextGen Librarian EBSCO PRODUCT NEWS Award, created to identify and celebrate rising leaders in the library community. Four Additional Publishers Choose Winners attended SAMM09 (formerly MetaPress® as Their SOLINET Annual Membership E-content Hosting Provider Meeting) on May 14 -15 in Atlanta, GA, where they shared their MetaPress®, the world’s largest primary innovations and activities in a breakout hosting service for scientific, technical session. The NextGen Librarian Award and medical content, announces the is a legacy SOLINET program, which latest publishers to launch their will be open to all Lyrasis members in electronic content management and 2010. LexisNexis sponsored the 2009 hosting services via the MetaPress award. The following award winners 2 are from the Southeastern United Libraries Association, she has States: been accepted to the Frye Leadership Institute. • Outreach: Sarah Steiner, Georgia State University STATE NEWS Nominated as “a great role model” and a “strong leader” ALABAMA who is “already focused on the generation that is following The Hoover Public Library was one her.” She is the organizer of the of three runners-up for Library overwhelming popular Atlanta Journal's 2009 Library of the Year Emerging Librarians Group and Award. The theme of the library's 2008 chair of the Georgia application was "The Third Place," Library Association’s New detailing how the Hoover Public Members Round Table. Library has become the third destination for its community, after • Technology: Emily Gore, home and the work place. As Director Clemson University (SC) Linda Andrews stated in the application: "The commitment, hard Nominated for “amazing work and caring of the entire leadership” and for combining community has created a spirit of “innovative ideas with humor success and has been a force in literally and a willingness to do what it catapulting the library to its position as takes to get the task the heart and soul of the city." Hoover accomplished” in the area of extends its congratulations to The digital initiatives. She is the Queens Public Library (NY) which former director of North received the 2009 Library of the Year Carolina ECHO (Exploring Award. Cultural Heritage Online) and current partner in the South The fifth annual Children’s Service Carolina Digital Library. Mini-Conference will be held at Hoover Public Library on August th • Leadership: Stacey 18 . This event is geared specifically Greenwell, University of for Children's Librarians, Storytellers, Kentucky Media Specialists, and Teachers. More information can be found at Nominated as “a true blended http://www.hooverlibrary.org/adults/5t librarian” and “technology h-annual-childrens-services-mini- innovator.” As part of a training conference. program on social networking, she made “house calls” to library staff to expose them to new tools and is part of the Second Life campus-wide group. A leader in the Special 3 GEORGIA On Wednesday, February 25th, the James Earl Carter Library on the campus of Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Georgia, presented the documentary Briars in the Cotton Patch in celebration of Black History Month. Briars in the Cotton Patch was produced and directed by Faith Fuller, Director of Communications of The Fuller Center of Housing and daughter of Habitat for Humanity and The Fuller Center for Housing founders Millard and Linda Fuller. The documentary, narrated by On Wednesday, April 15th, the Library former Atlanta Mayor and UN held the Spring 2009 Sirocco Literary Ambassador Andrew Young, explores & Visual Arts Magazine Publication the individuals and events of Koinonia Party. Two of the Library’s employees, Farm in Americus, GA, from its Ru Story-Huffman and John Wilson, founding in 1942 through the were copy editors for the publication. challenges the community faced in the Ru also chose the winner of the late 1950’s and the Civil Rights Proofer’s Award. The GSW struggles of the 1960’s. These included community came out and listened to bombings, shootings and beatings as a people read their submissions to the result of Koinonia’s radical belief in the magazine and saw the Dolores Capitan equality of all people. Whites and Writing across the Curriculum winners blacks were working and living receive their award. together as equals on the farm. Following the viewing of the KENTUCKY documentary, a panel discussion was held with people associated with Northern Kentucky University Koinonia Farm, and the audience was treated to a surprise viewing of never Northern Kentucky University before seen footage of a 1965 Americus collaborated with Bluegrass High School reunion in which former Community and Technical College to classmates of a Koinonia resident extend academic programs in library discussed with him and sought his studies. Based upon Bluegrass’ forgiveness for their mistreatment of successful certification program for him and their ensuing reconciliation. public library staff, the library faculty The event was successful with a turnout at Northern have designed a parallel of over seventy people from the GSW certification for staff in academic campus and community. libraries. Course work is offered through Bluegrass College’s Library Information Technology program where the staff of Northern’s Steely 4 Library may undertake a 21-credit Almquist, NKU associate provost for program of study. The certification is library services. anchored by a new Academic Libraries course. Upon completion of this course The grant will enhance existing work, the academic staff member associate and bachelor's degree participates in a redesign of his/her job programs and provide scholarships responsibilities and receives a which will increase the level of commiserate salary increase. Bluegrass education and leadership among library welcomes library staff members in staff in 50 targeted counties in eastern other universities to consider career and far western Kentucky. The development through enrollment in programs will include Kentucky's these courses as well. All courses are compulsory online certification web-based and therefore are not limited program, the online associate's degree to specific geographic locations or at Bluegrass Community and Technical specific class meeting schedules. For College and a new bachelor's completer more information about the certification program in library informatics at NKU. program and/or to sign up for information regarding the Fall 09 The programs are designed to provide a Academic Libraries course, contact progression from basic certification Threasa Wesley (mailto: through an undergraduate degree, both [email protected] ). Ms. Wesley will improving skills and knowledge on the respond to questions regarding Steely job and readying students for pursuit of Library’s career ladder based upon this a master's degree in library science. certification as well. Associate degrees in Library Information Technology are The federal Institute of Museum and also offered