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Before I Was A Library Worker: Past Lives, Emily Rogers Feb 2024

Before I Was A Library Worker: Past Lives, Emily Rogers

Georgia Library Quarterly

Responses include as contributors Jeff Fisher, Amy Shaw, Jonathan Harwell, Kristy Greene, Tera Ray, Linda Bridges, Wendy Wilmoth, Nancy Shore, Allison Robinson, Rachel Schrauben Yeates, Stephanie Burnham, Rebecca Ballard, Aspasia Luster, Sarah Trowbridge, Willis Smith, Anna Cogdill, Richard Coleman, Ben Bryson, Tonya Aumack, Bel Outwater, Lisa Mosley, Szilvia Somodi, Sara Whitaker, Laura Carscaddon, Kevin Reagan, Bridget Smith


Exploring Stakeholder Priorities For Recent Mlis Graduates And Early Career Librarians, Lenese M. Colson, Nicole D. Alemanne, Linda R. Most Aug 2023

Exploring Stakeholder Priorities For Recent Mlis Graduates And Early Career Librarians, Lenese M. Colson, Nicole D. Alemanne, Linda R. Most

Georgia Library Quarterly

A multi-phase research project was conducted to understand the future skills and competencies expected of new MLIS-degreed librarians. Phase one found the two largest categories of challenges include understanding the mission of the library and funding issues, with other categories including staff skills, hiring and retaining staff, technology, operations and policies, and outreach. Phase two explored stakeholder priorities for competences expected of new MLIS graduates and librarians finishing their first five years of employment. The highest priorities for new MLIS graduates are related to skills and basic knowledge, while areas such as management and leadership, lifelong learning, and information resources …


Spotlight On Public Libraries: The Pop-Up Rolling Library, Purl, Meets Patrons Where They Live, Work, And Play, Hollie Stevenson-Parrish Jul 2021

Spotlight On Public Libraries: The Pop-Up Rolling Library, Purl, Meets Patrons Where They Live, Work, And Play, Hollie Stevenson-Parrish

The Southeastern Librarian

How do public libraries remain relevant and top of mind in their communities, all while giving their patrons the resources they need? They take the library to the people, which is just what the Piedmont Regional Library System did in May, 2020. Just as COVID-19 was sweeping the country, this public library system headquartered in Jefferson, Georgia launched PuRL, the (Pop-up Rolling Library). Think bookmobile, but even better.


Georgia Library Association - Coastal Georgia Library Collaborative, Vivian F. Bynoe Jan 2018

Georgia Library Association - Coastal Georgia Library Collaborative, Vivian F. Bynoe

Georgia Library Quarterly

The Coastal Georgia Library Collaborative celebrated the end of a successful year with a Holiday Hoopla at the Learning Commons on the Armstrong campus of Georgia Southern University. Brenda Poku became our chair and Nikki Cannon-Rech was selected as the vice-chair.


Editorial Staff And State Representatives May 2016

Editorial Staff And State Representatives

The Southeastern Librarian

Listing of editorial board for The Southeastern Librarian and current SELA state representatives.


Guidelines For Submission And Author Instructions May 2016

Guidelines For Submission And Author Instructions

The Southeastern Librarian

Guidelines for article submission to The Southeastern Librarian.


Personnel News May 2016

Personnel News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent personnel new from SELA member institutions. Includes Auburn University at Montgomery, University of Louisville, UNC Chapel Hill, UNC Greensboro, and NCSU.


Library News May 2016

Library News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent developments from SELA member institutions. Highlights from Science Boot Camp for Librarians Southeast, Mississippi State University Libraries Scholarly Communication Summit, NCSU Libraries' 2016 IMLS National Medal and exhibit on Horticulturist J. C. Raulston, as well as NCSU's video walls, and Quillen College of Medicine Library's "Pi(e) Day".


Sela/General News May 2016

Sela/General News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent activities from the Southeastern Library Association. Includes information about Georgia COMO (2016) and New Voices Program.


The Southeastern Librarian V 64, No. 1 (Spring 2016) Complete Issue May 2016

The Southeastern Librarian V 64, No. 1 (Spring 2016) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete Issue of The Southeastern Librarian, vol. 64. no. 1.


Editorial Staff And State Representatives Jan 2016

Editorial Staff And State Representatives

The Southeastern Librarian

Listing of editorial board for The Southeastern Librarian and current SELA state representatives.


Guidelines For Submission And Author Instructions Jan 2016

Guidelines For Submission And Author Instructions

The Southeastern Librarian

Guides for article submissions to The Southeastern Librarian.


Personnel News Jan 2016

Personnel News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent professional developments from SELA members.


Library News Jan 2016

Library News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent developments from SELA member institutions. Highlights from the Georgia Library Association, Kennesaw State University, University of West Georgia, University of Southern Mississippi, and North Carolina State University.


Sela/General News Jan 2016

Sela/General News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent activities from the Southeastern Library Association. Includes SELA approved handbook changes.


The Southeastern Librarian V 63, No. 4 (Winter 2016) Complete Issues Jan 2016

The Southeastern Librarian V 63, No. 4 (Winter 2016) Complete Issues

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of the Southeastern Librarian, vol. 63, no. 4.


The Southeastern Librarian V 63, No. 3 (Fall 2015) Complete Issue Oct 2015

The Southeastern Librarian V 63, No. 3 (Fall 2015) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, vol. 63, no. 3.


Written In Light: Creating Access To Photographic Collections, Suellyn Lathrop, Nancy Richey Apr 2015

Written In Light: Creating Access To Photographic Collections, Suellyn Lathrop, Nancy Richey

The Southeastern Librarian

The value in photographs is noted "in our culture because they are inexpensive, easy to acquire, and serve as accurate, detailed records of our environment and activities" (Schmidle, 1996). But, many challenges are presented to the archivist and librarian by the discovered or donated collection of photographs because in their abundance and variety, they can surpass all other forms of information housed in institutions. For a university archives, holdings include photographs culled from manuscript collections, from individual photographers and alumni, but the majority come from in-house production. For the librarian, the provenance of the photographs will be as varied as …


The Embedded Library: Beyond The Course Connection, Sims Kline Apr 2015

The Embedded Library: Beyond The Course Connection, Sims Kline

The Southeastern Librarian

Several hundred articles have been published in the last few years on the role of the “embedded librarian” and the nature of “embedded librarianship” as well as books on the subject, e.g. Embedded Librarianship: What Every Academic Librarian Should Know (Daughtery & Russo, 2013). “The Art and Environment of Embedded Librarianship” (Saunders & Taylor, 2014) is a good example of an article examining the librarian’s role in a specific course. “Embedded librarianship” has been established as a subject heading in Library and Information Science Abstracts.


People News Jul 2013

People News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent professional developments from SELA members.


People News Jan 2013

People News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent professional developments from SELA members.


People News Jul 2012

People News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent professional developments from SELA members.


My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Erin M. Grant Apr 2012

My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Erin M. Grant

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article discusses the personal library of the author. Her collection includes books in three main categories: art and design, folklore and mythology, and vintage mid-twentieth-century books.


People News Jan 2012

People News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent professional developments from SELA members.


People News Jul 2011

People News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent professional developments from SELA members.


Attitudes Towards Library Patrons With Physical Challenges: A Survey Of Members Of The Public Library Division Of The Alabama Library Association, Jackie Brodsky, Muriel K. Wells Apr 2011

Attitudes Towards Library Patrons With Physical Challenges: A Survey Of Members Of The Public Library Division Of The Alabama Library Association, Jackie Brodsky, Muriel K. Wells

The Southeastern Librarian

By surveying members of the Public Library Division of the Alabama Library Association, this study sought to determine attitudes toward patrons with physical challenges. The continued growth in the population of persons over age 65, coupled with the fact that nearly one in five Americans report some level of physical challenge, suggests the need for libraries to provide resources and services to this growing constituency. The advent of new technologies and resources for libraries to provide access to information by persons with physical challenges, allows more users to fulfill a more participatory role within their information-seeking activities. The application of …


Stress And Cataloging Paraprofessionals In Academic And Public Libraries In Florida, Edna Mcclellan Apr 2011

Stress And Cataloging Paraprofessionals In Academic And Public Libraries In Florida, Edna Mcclellan

The Southeastern Librarian

Over the years and particularly with the advent of OCLC, more and more tasks once considered the realm of the professional cataloger area being completed by paraprofessionals. This article confines itself to the cataloging paraprofessional, the cataloging record, workload, and training. Who is creating the cataloging record, or, if not responsible for the record in its entirety, who is responsible for parts of it? Does the assuming these higher level tasks, such as creating the call number and subject headings, cause any undue stress for the paraprofessional? What is the stress from workload and pace?


People News Jan 2011

People News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent professional developments from SELA members.


People News Jul 2010

People News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent professional developments from SELA members.


The Importance Of Being Earnest: A Librarian's Approach To Academic Leadership, Susan G. Broome Apr 2010

The Importance Of Being Earnest: A Librarian's Approach To Academic Leadership, Susan G. Broome

Georgia Library Quarterly

When accepting universitywide leadership roles, academic librarians bring skills in partnering, administration and sharing information that can build trust, lead to informed decisions, promote good will and strengthen the organization. Service in this capacity requires an understanding of and an appreciation for the community that resides within the institution.