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Message From The President, Faith Line
Message From The President, Faith Line
The Southeastern Librarian
Column by SELA President, Faith Line.
Solinet Product News
The Southeastern Librarian
News from SOLINET. Highlights include: Amigos, PALINET, and SOLINET sign agreement to offer ScholarlyStats to membership; SOLINET offering new CQ Press resources; SOLINET awards $365,000 to 19 academic libraries in the Gulf Coast region; SOLINET, bLogistics to help members manage discards; public libraries discuss strategies to rebuild library facilities damaged and destroyed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Ebsco Personnel News
The Southeastern Librarian
EBSCO announces promotion of two publisher relations executives.
The Southeastern Librarian V. 54, No. 4 (Winter 2006/2007) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian V. 54, No. 4 (Winter 2006/2007) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian
Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 54, no. 4 (Winter 2006/2007).
Sela Activities
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent activities from the Southeastern Library Association. Highlights include: The new 2006 – 2008 Southeastern Library Association Officers; SELA Membership and Mentoring Committee current projects; winners chosen for the 60th annual John Cotton Dana Awards; announcement of the 2008 National Diversity in Libraries Conference; the winners of the 22nd Annual Mary Ellen LoPresti Awards for Excellence in Art Publishing Competition for publications produced in 2005.
State News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent developments from SELA member institutions.
People News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent professional developments from SELA members.
Ebsco Product News
The Southeastern Librarian
New products from EBSCO. Highlights include: EBSCO partners with Elsevier to offer individual e-journals through the E-Select E-Journals system; EBSCo offers the Springer Online Archives Collection; enhances functions of EBSCO A-to-Z; EBSCO announces release of updated SUSHI server; EBSCO now provides dimensional navigation through MetaPress 2.0; EBSCO now includes Live Search Academic as OpenURL enabled for LinkSource link resolver.
From The Editor, Perry Bratcher
From The Editor, Perry Bratcher
The Southeastern Librarian
Column by Perry Bratcher, editor of The Southeastern Librarian.
Membership Drive Success: Ala/Alabama's Support Staff Pilot Initiative, Kerry A. Ransel, Jack D. Fitzpatrick, John Chrastka
Membership Drive Success: Ala/Alabama's Support Staff Pilot Initiative, Kerry A. Ransel, Jack D. Fitzpatrick, John Chrastka
The Southeastern Librarian
Many professional associations are grappling with membership challenges. Recently, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a strategy they termed the “member-centered” approach (Romano, 2004). One feature of this approach designed to boost membership is teaming with state and specialty societies. The American Medical Association believes that “future cooperation and collaboration with state associations is vital to any membership turnaround” (Romano, 2004, p. 11). This partnership makes good business sense.
The American Library Association considers a cooperative venture with state associations as an important avenue to increase membership as well. Taking to heart the COPE recommendations and incorporating the idea of …
Metadata Basics: A Literature Survey And Subject Analysis, Nicole Mitchell
Metadata Basics: A Literature Survey And Subject Analysis, Nicole Mitchell
The Southeastern Librarian
Librarians today are wrestling with an everchanging digital environment. In some way oranother, we must all adapt to new technologies, skills, and ways of thinking. What comes to mind when you hear the word “metadata?” Is itintimidating? Do metadatists and catalogers explain the term adequately? While this articleby no means captures all there is about metadata, it is intended to provide librarians with a basic understanding of what is involved in metadatawork.
The Southeastern Librarian V. 54, No. 3 (Fall 2006) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian V. 54, No. 3 (Fall 2006) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian
Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 54, no. 3 (Fall 2006).
New Voices: Interactive Cd-Roms For Library Instruction And Discovering A Research Agenda, Jodi Poe, John-Bauer Graham
New Voices: Interactive Cd-Roms For Library Instruction And Discovering A Research Agenda, Jodi Poe, John-Bauer Graham
The Southeastern Librarian
This paper describes the development of an instruction/orientation platform that teaches students, specifically the distance education students, at our university how to access, navigate, and understand the services and resources available to them via the university library. However, there is another purpose to this paper that the authors believe to be just as valuable to other “new voices” in our profession. To that end, this paper examines how two new librarians attempted to better serve their patrons. But it also looks at how, through the instruction project’s development, two new academic librarians discovered that one lone project could benefit the …
From The President, Judith Gibbons
From The President, Judith Gibbons
The Southeastern Librarian
Column by SELA President, Judith Gibbons.
I Have Shoes Older Than You: Generational Diversity In The Library, Jason Martin
I Have Shoes Older Than You: Generational Diversity In The Library, Jason Martin
The Southeastern Librarian
Generational Conflict is not a new phenomenon. Wherever and whenever different generations interacted, generational conflict existed. The Puritans of New England found each new generation to be less pious and devoted to the concept of the “City on a Hill” than its predecessors. The Flappers of the Jazz Age were considered morally lax and without direction. And the gap that existed between the Flower Children of the 1960’s and their parents was as large as the Grand Canyon. Even the great Socrates met his untimely end inciting the Grecian youth to rebel against their elders. However, today’s generations face some …
Teaching Information Literacy At Delta State University, Michael Mounce
Teaching Information Literacy At Delta State University, Michael Mounce
The Southeastern Librarian
LIB 101: Fundamentals of Information Literacy is a one credit hour course which has been designed at Delta State University to provide DSU students with information literacy skills needed for conducting research. Information literacy skills taught in this course include skills such as performing effective searches and evaluating resources. This course is a general education requirement elective. Although it is an elective course, it is highly recommended by DSU reference librarians to students, since information literacy skills are necessary for research.
In the Fall of 2004, the LIB 101 course began to be taught at DSU. During the fall 2004 …
Ebsco Product News
The Southeastern Librarian
New products from EBSCO. Highlights include addition of new titles to EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service Enhanced; the addition of a medical subject classification scheme to EBSCO A-to-Z; EBSCO's completion of EDI serials claims testing for ALEPH 500 ILS; and EBSCO and OCLC's web deployment of automated delivery of e-holdings data in ONIX Serial Online Holdings format.
Sela Activities
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent activities from the Southeastern Library Association. Highlights include: recipients of the 2006 Frances Coleman/Thomson Gale Conference Grants, Ginny Frankenthaler Scholarship, and Outstanding Southeastern Author Awards, and the moving of the SELA Archives from Emory University to Valdosta State.
Ala News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent activities from the American Library Association. Highlights include: National Library Week Grants; the ALA Resolution on the Taxpayer Bill of Rights; the Law For Librarians Program; and public libraries in Louisiana and Mississippi to receive major grants to support rebuilding efforts.
The Southeastern Librarian V. 54, No. 2 (Summer 2006) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian V. 54, No. 2 (Summer 2006) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian
Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 54, no. 2 (Summer 2006).
Joint Conference Of Librarians Of Color (Jclc)
Joint Conference Of Librarians Of Color (Jclc)
The Southeastern Librarian
Announcing the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color to be held October 11-15, 2006 in Dallas, TX. Conference features over 100 Programs for libraries serving diverse communities, including 'Hot Topics' on Recruitment and Retention, Staff Development, Advocacy, Service Delivery, Gender and Identity, Legacy Recognition, and Literature.
State News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent developments from SELA member institutions.
Message From The President, Judith Gibbons
Message From The President, Judith Gibbons
The Southeastern Librarian
Column by SELA President, Judith Gibbons.
Solinet Product News
The Southeastern Librarian
News from SOLINET. Highlights include the release of Emerald Management Xtra College database; the election of the 2006/2007 board of directors, officers, and OCLC members council delegation; and ASERL's adoption of Docutek VRLplus for virtual reference services.
People News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent professional developments from SELA members.
Hbcu (Historically Black Colleges And Universities) Library Alliance Launches Redesigned Website
Hbcu (Historically Black Colleges And Universities) Library Alliance Launches Redesigned Website
The Southeastern Librarian
The HBCU Library Alliance announced the launch of its redesigned website, found at http://www.hbculibraries.org.
Small Select Library Or Miserable Excuse: Antebellum College Libraries In The American Southeast, Patrick M. Valentine
Small Select Library Or Miserable Excuse: Antebellum College Libraries In The American Southeast, Patrick M. Valentine
The Southeastern Librarian
What role did antebellum college libraries play in the development of the South? National studies rarely mention southern institutions, while institutional histories neglect the role of the library. Yet the history of southern antebellum college libraries should be of special interest because this was often their initial formative period. There were few college libraries in the South prior to 1800 but many were founded in the following decades. It was in the last decades before the Civil War that the South first became really aware of the need for widespread education. At the same time, southern colleges were in many …
The Poor And Homeless: An Opportunity For Libraries To Serve, Sheila Ayers
The Poor And Homeless: An Opportunity For Libraries To Serve, Sheila Ayers
The Southeastern Librarian
Serving the poor and homeless presents one of the greatest challenges America’s public libraries have ever faced. With their numbers increasing every year the poor and homeless need a path out of poverty and help to ease the pain along the way. Public libraries offer new worlds to the poor by providing information in a wide variety of different forms on every subject imaginable. The information is an opportunity which opens the door to other opportunities and can change or save lives. Librarians, as keepers of the keys of knowledge, have an obligation to spread information like a balm over …
Reference Use Statistics: Statistical Sampling Method Works (University Of Tennessee At Chattanooga), Sarla R. Murgai
Reference Use Statistics: Statistical Sampling Method Works (University Of Tennessee At Chattanooga), Sarla R. Murgai
The Southeastern Librarian
Most reference librarians would like reference statistics to reflect all aspects of reference work. They would also like the task of keeping statistics to be simple. However, there is nothing simple about reference service. While spending more and more time helping individual students at their workstations, away from the reference desk, reference librarians still have to remember to mark statistics when they return to the reference desk. They realize that detailed information as to the type of questions asked at the desk would be helpful in guiding librarians while providing user instruction. Such details would also provide information on the …