Volume 55, No. 2 Fall 2012 IN THIS ISSUE Message from the President • Exhibiting Kerouac in Florida: On the Road to Partnership • Fines, Forgiveness and Focus on the Community: How the Manatee County Public Library System is Fostering Relationships In and Outside of the Library • Can You Read One Book This Summer? A Summer Reading Program for Adults • Floridiana with a Twist: Viva Florida! • Florida Digital Newspaper Library: Library and Publisher Partnerships for Access and Preservation • Results from the ACRL Scholarly Communication 101 Road Show, and CoLAB Planning® Session • Empowering Students through Positive Partnerships at Rasmussen College • Florida Reads: Making the Cut • QR Codes & Libraries • Research Rescue: The USF Tampa Library Enhances Library Instruction • The History of Florida’s Four HBCU (Historically Black Colleges & Universities) Libraries • A Marriage Made in Heaven: Supporting the Univer- sity-College Partnership as a UCF Regional Campus Librarian • Message from the Executive Director Volume 55, Issue 2 Fall 2012 T Florida Libraries is published twice a year for the A Message from the President……......................................................3 members of the Florida Library Association. It is A indexed in Library Literature, Wilson OmniFile, By Barbara J. Stites and EBSCO Academic Search Premier. Articles in Exhibiting Kerouac in Florida: On the Road to Partnership.................4 the fall issue of each year are refereed. B By John Venecek Editor & Designer L Fines, Forgiveness and Focus on the Community: How the Manatee Maria Gebhardt, Broward County Libraries County Public Library System is Fostering Relationships In and [email protected] Outside of the Library…...............…...…...............................................9 E By Erin Cartwright Can You Read One Book This Summer? A Summer Reading FLA Executive Board 2012-2013 Program for Adults…..........................................................................11 President – Barbara J. Stites By Dawn S. Bostwick Florida Gulf Coast University Floridiana with a Twist: Viva Florida!.................................................13 Vice President/President-elect By Nancy Pike Gladys Roberts O Polk County Library Cooperative Florida Digital Newspaper Library: Library and Publisher Partnerships for Access and Preservation…................….………...................….....15 Secretary – Ruth O’Donnell F Library Consultant By Lois J. Widmer, Laurie N. Taylor, and Mark V. Sullivan Treasurer – Mary Anne Hodel Results from the ACRL Scholarly Communication 101 Road Show, and CoLAB Planning® Session...……....….……….........................…18 Orange County Library District By Michelle Leonard, Margeaux Johnson, & Dina Benson Past President – Gloria Colvin Empowering Students through Positive Partnerships at Florida State University Libraries C Rasmussen College.....….….….….….…......................................…...22 Director – Sarah Hammill By Debi Cheek Florida International University O Florida Reads: Making the Cut....................….….….………..........…25 Director – Tracy Elliott By Joyce Sparrow State College of Florida N QR Codes & Libraries.............................….….….….….…..............…27 Director – Elizabeth Killingsworth T By Tony Garrett University of Central Florida Libraries Research Rescue: The USF Tampa Library Enhances Library Director – Gene Coppola E Instruction………….............................….….…....….…...…................31 Palm Harbor Library By Matthew Torrence, Audrey Powers, and Laura Owczarek N Director – Elizabeth Curry History of Florida’s Four HBCU (Historically Black Colleges & Universi- College of Central Florida ties) Libraries………….............................….….…....…...…................38 T By Ana Guthrie, Frances Ba, and Cheryl Wilcher Director – Judith Rundel LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library S A Marriage Made in Heaven: Supporting the University-College Part- nership as a UCF Regional Campus Librarian.....….…...…................43 ALA Councilor – Alan Kornblau Delray Beach Public Library By Peggy L. Gunnell Message from the Executive Director............................................48 State Librarian – Judith Ring By Faye C. Roberts FLA Executive Director Faye Roberts, [email protected] Send articles for Florida Libraries to Editor Maria Gebhardt, Broward County Libraries, [email protected] by http://www.flalib.org ISBN 0046-414 January 7 for the Spring issue; July 15 for the Fall issue. Page 2 Florida Libraries I had a friend who once told me that had she been given the the public, and that libraries should be directly responsive to opportunity to draft a script for her life – to write down the story their communities when building collections and services. of what a great life would look like – she would never have been We also emphasized that library leaders in the public sector able to design a life as agreeable and as interesting as her life can be just as responsive to the current financial crisis as a had actually been. She would have never been able to craft a for-profit organization would, and in fact, have been and will story as intricate, as surprising and as fun as the life that she continue to be. Plus we encouraged them to look carefully actually is living. And so, it is with me as FLA President. at what they are being offered by firms that would privatize If you’d ask me to tell you how my year as FLA President public libraries and that their libraries could help them to would begin, what issues I’d be addressing, what would capture answer questions about any proposal’s quality, access and budget. my attention and what would take my time, I would not have imagined that it would start with 50 Shades of Gray and In addition, wound in between and among other interest- concerns about privatizing libraries. I did not expect my year to ing activities that started my year, planning for the One begin that way and was surprised when some of the first things Book One State book discussion groups is well underway I got to do as FLA President was to think about erotic fiction and by the Leadership Development Committee. Do plan to join how to keep public libraries public. These were not the first new us in person or online for great discussions of The Dragonfly partnerships and possibilities I had in mind when I selected that Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways to Use theme! Kudos to Robin Shader (Northwest Regional Library Social Media to Drive Social Change. We know that using System) and the Intellectual Freedom Committee who immedi- social media is more than just the mechanics, so we’ll be ately gathered and shared information about how libraries and talking and learning about how to use its power to create communities were responding, and also to Faye Roberts who new partnerships and possibilities. took a number of calls from the media and reacted quickly and Plus, we are planning a fabulous conference. We are clearly. already deep into plans for the 2013 Conference May 1-3 at You see it has been a long time since I’ve thought about the beautiful new Orlando Hilton which will focus on the banned books and questions about materials. Those kinds of theme “New Partnerships and New Possibilities” and issues are not matters that I face day-to-day as some of you do. includes internationally known keynote speaker, Duane As the associate director of a university library those are simply Bray, Head of Global Digital Business and Partner at IDEO. not our issues on most days. So I found myself thinking about Duane’s work has long focused on interaction design what many of you deal with far more often – media, press, and principals, as well as, the integration of emerging families – all of them focused on what kind of materials libraries technologies into human-centered products and should hold. I was immediately grateful that long ago we all services. developed local policies addressing these issues and set out And finally, FLA’s membership groups and all sixteen of criteria about how to make selections based on our local the FLA committees are very active in numerous projects, communities’ needs. including preparing for Library Day in Tallahassee (March Then following close on its heels, if not simultaneously, was 12) and Snapshot Day (January 30). I hope you will be able the issue of keeping public libraries public and the need to help participate in these and many of the other upcoming FLA our city and county managers and local leaders understand why activities – see you soon. that is so important. And to stress that public libraries are the cornerstone of democracy and why the idea of private corpora- tions running our libraries and controlling access to information is simply not a good idea. On May 30-31, four Southwest Florida library leaders (Marilyn Matthes, Tanya Williams, Marilyn Graham, and Margaret Mohundro) joined me at the Florida City and County Manager’s Association Conference in Bonita UtÜutÜt ]A fà|àxá Springs where we had a booth sponsored by the American FLA President, Library Association. This gave us an opportunity to speak to not only city and county managers, but also to vendors about 2012 - 2013 the importance of keeping public libraries public, why we think it is critical to have transparent financial information available for Fall 2012 Page 3 By John Venecek D uring the fall of 2007, The University of Central Florida years of his writing career. This previously neglected side of his life Libraries was just one of many institutions that commemorated