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Reflections - Fall 2013, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Reflections

Contents:

The Jak Smyrl Collection..... p.1
From the Dean of the Libraries..... p.2
New Faces..... p.2
At A Glance: Services..... p.2
Your USC Libraries..... p.3
Fall Literary Festival Welcomes Three Authors in October..... p.3
Fall Literary Panel to Feature Pat Conroy..... p.3
We're Playing a Role in the Digital Public Library of America..... p.4
Events..... p.4
Exhibits..... p.4
Have you Met..... p.5
Exhibits Provide Unique Look at Desegregation..... p.5
Have you Met..... p.6
Increase in Library Sessions Is Dramatic..... p.7
Have you Met..... p.7
W. Graham Arader Gift Creates an Unmatched Teaching Collection..... p.8
Blair Collection Adds to MIRC's Holdings..... …

Caroliniana Columns - Fall 2013, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

University South Caroliniana Society Newsletter - Columns

Contents:

South Caroliniana Library Receives Priceless 19th-Century Law Diploma and License of Richard T. Greener..... p.1
Report from the Director..... p.6
Letter from the Dean of Libraries..... p.6
South Carolina College in the 1870s as Seen by Belton O’Neall Townsend..... p.8
Embracing Change; Fulfilling the Dream Commemorating Fifty Years of USC Desegregation..... p.12
Library Receives Watercolors of Campus Scenes..... p.16
“Everybody that Was a Part of That Was Changed:” Isaac W. “Ike” Williams Talks about the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington..... p.19
Carlisle Floyd Receives Honorary Doctorate at December Commencement..... p.20
Tri-State Archivists Conference Held in Greenville..... p.21
Society …

Cultures Of Access: Differences In Rhetoric Around Open Access Repositories In Africa And The United States And Their Implications For The Open Access Movement, Natalia T. Bowdoin

Faculty Publications

Open Access (OA) refers to free, online access to peer reviewed scholarship. Many OA proponents view OA as a potential mechanism for reversing inequities in information flows between industrialized and non-industrialized nations. The "green road" of OA (self-archiving in an OA institutional repository) has seen substantial growth in African nations where there have historically been chronic problems both with access to scholarly and scientific materials and participation in the larger scholarly and scientific community. For this study I examined the rhetoric used by OA institutional repositories and what this rhetoric may say about different "cultures of OA". I conducted textual …

Dear Repose And Absent Solace: A Classroom Exploration Of U.S. Public Library Lgbt Collecting Behavior, Jennifer Weil Arns, Karen Miller

Faculty Publications

Significant attention has recently been focused on establishing the value of public library services, and in most cases, these efforts have explored their topic using currency-based measures. This paper describes a classroom project that introduces an alternate perspective related to the topic of tolerance as conceptualized by the U.S. Southern Poverty Law Center and UNESCO’s Declaration on Principles on Tolerance. The issue that interested the students was the information needs of people who might be considered different or distinct within some communities, and for this project they focused on children with an interest in LGBT materials, using two related research …

Thomas Cooper Society Newsletter - Summer 2013, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Thomas Cooper Society Newsletter

Contents:

Society Events Bring Literary World to USC..... p.1
Report of the President..... p.2
Board Members Welcomed..... p.2
Fitzgerald's Ledger is Now Online..... p.2
Learning Opportunities Abound During The Summer..... p.3
The W. Graham Arader Collection Is ‘A Transformative Gift’..... p.4
Volunteer Uses Rare Talents To Help Preserve Rare Items..... p.5
Calendar of Events..... p.6
Society’s Friends Live On Through Memorial Gifts..... p.6
David Rembert Remembers the Rise of the Thomas Cooper Society..... p.7
Society Launches High School Initiative..... p.7
Arader Creates Teaching Collection..... p.8

Link Up The Sticks: Access And Barriers To Professional Development For Small And Rural Academic Librarians, Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, Echo Leaver, Deborah Tritt

Faculty Publications

Participation in continuing education and professional development are crucial to the practice of librarianship as a thriving profession. However, increasingly tight budgets, stagnant salaries, small staff, and lack of access to current technologies may prevent active academic librarians who work on small and rural campuses from fully participating in professional development. As the duties of the modern librarian continue to evolve, efforts to ensure access to quality ongoing training for 21st-century information professionals from all areas of the North American landscape remain paramount. This study explores how academic librarians in small or rural library environments keep up with modern library …

Reflections - Spring 2013, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Reflections

Contents:

Business Library is Going Digital..... p.1
From the Dean Of The Libraries..... p.2
New Faces..... p.2
Your USC Libraries..... p.2
South Caroliniana Library Names Henry Fulmer New Director..... p.3
Did You Know..... p.3
American Novelist Elmore Leonard Visits..... p.4
Current and Upcoming Exhibits..... p.4
Have You Met..... p.5
New Digital Collections Are Available..... p.5
Have You Met..... p.6
Digital Public Library of America Launches..... p.6
Have You Met..... p.7
Cooper-Davis Fellow Gets a World of Experience..... p.7
News from Moving Image Research Collections..... p.8
Have You Met..... p.9
NEH To Fund Two-Year MIRC Project..... p.9
Have You Met..... p.10 …

Caroliniana Columns - Spring 2013, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

University South Caroliniana Society Newsletter - Columns

Contents:

"A Few Words About Allen Stokes as He Retires as Director of the South Caroliniana Library"..... p.1
Report from the Director..... p.1
Report from the President..... p.3
Letter from the Dean of Libraries..... p.5
University of South Caroliniana Society Presentation to the South Caroliniana Library in Honor of Allen Stokes..... p.6
Lift Every Voice National Forum Presented in May..... p.7
Getting To Know You..... p.8
In Memorium..... p.10
Lieutenant William E. Johnson, Jr., One of "The Immortal Six Hundred"..... p.11
South Carolina's Everyman Artist: The Oscar Jackson "Jak" Smyrl, Jr. Papers..... p.15
Preston Brooks, Charles Sumner, and "The …

Depictions Of Religion In Children’S Picture Books, Don A. Wicks, Darin Freeburg, Doug Goldsmith

Faculty Publications

How children are introduced to concepts of faith is a sensitive matter. One approach used by both religious and secular organizations is children’s literature, including children’s picture books. Picture books are books primarily for preschoolers. The books tell a story using illustrations and few words. This paper offers an exploratory study of how children are introduced to religion and spirituality through illustrative techniques and textual content in such literature. A content analysis of illustrations from 12 titles sampled from a larger collection of 21,000 picture books published in the past 40 or more years was conducted. The current sample comes …

South Carolina’S Everyman Artist: The Oscar Jackson “Jak” Smyrl, Jr., Papers, Edward Blessing

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Caroliniana Society Annual Gifts Report - April 2013, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

University South Caroliniana Society - Annual Report of Gifts

Contents:

Presidents - The University South Caroliniana Society..... p.1
Address by Dr. William A. Link..... p.2
Report of Gifts to the Library by Members of the Society During the Past Year..... p.17
Papers of the Miller, Furman, and Dabbs Families 1818-2007..... p.17
Papers of the Fickling, Banks, and Edwards Families 1800-1959..... p.34
Oscar Jackson "Jak" Smyrl, Jr., Papers 1923-2007..... p.37
Hardy Family Papers 1808-1981..... p.41
Whitridge Family Papers 1784, 1791, 1814-1919..... p.56
Miscellaneous Items (Manuscripts, Letters, Photographs, Books, etc.)..... p.59
Selected List of Printed South Caroliniana..... p.94
Pictorial South Caroliniana..... p.96
Endowments and Funds to Benefit the South Caroliniana Library..... …

Thomas Cooper Society Newsletter - Winter 2013, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Thomas Cooper Society Newsletter

Contents:

The C. Edgar and Julie Grisson Collection of Ernest Hemingway..... p.1
Current and Upcoming Exhibits..... p.2
Report from the President..... p.2
Students' Book Art is Exquisite — and Collectible..... p.3
Irvin Department Welcomes Two New Employees..... p.4
News from the Irvin Department..... p.4
Naturalist Speaks at Exhibit Opening..... p.5
In Memorium..... p.5
AP Photos Featured..... p.5
Open Gallery Events Held This Spring..... p.5
Fund Celebrates First Recipient..... p.5
Recent Gifts and Acquisitions..... p.6
Student Assistant Fund Has Been Established..... p.6
Mark Your Calendar..... p.8

Informal The New Normal, Dick Kawooya

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Ethical Implications Of Intellectual Property In Africa, Dick Kawooya

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Community Of Practice Assessment Framework: A Typology For Effective Groups, Darin Freeburg

Faculty Publications

This paper outlines a typology for use in the qualitative assessment of communities of practice (COPs). COPs are groups of people who meet together to share knowledge and solve problems around a similar interest, and they are essential to intellectual capital development within organizations. This paper types COPs along two dimensions: trust and risk. These dimensions are used to analyze a COPs capacity for learning and collaboration outcomes. Trust requires an environment that fosters openness toward good and bad ideas, mistakes and accomplishments, and a structure that it is negotiated and agreed upon by the self-initiated membership. Productive inquiry provides …