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From The Editor, Perry Bratcher
From The Editor, Perry Bratcher
The Southeastern Librarian
Column from Perry Bratcher, editor of The Southeastern Librarian
Library Scavenger Hunts: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Elizabeth G. Rugan, Muriel D. Nero
Library Scavenger Hunts: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Elizabeth G. Rugan, Muriel D. Nero
The Southeastern Librarian
In the past, the library scavenger hunt was thought of as a well-respected and effective method of library or information literacy instruction; however, the scavenger hunt’s glory days are over. Indeed, many academic librarians decry these hunts, often assigned by general education teaching faculty, as a waste of time or worse as a “turn off” for students from the library (Kearns 2006, Miller 2009). These despised scavenger hunts require students to wander around the library recording colors of books, asking inane questions to library staff, and using outdated or often unavailable resources. But are librarians ready to cast off the …
Guidelines For Submission And Author Instructions
Guidelines For Submission And Author Instructions
The Southeastern Librarian
Guidelines for article submissions to The Southeastern Librarian.
Authorship Analysis Of The Southeastern Librarian, 2007-2011, David Sesser
Authorship Analysis Of The Southeastern Librarian, 2007-2011, David Sesser
The Southeastern Librarian
The Southeastern Librarian has served as a voice among librarians in the region for more than 50 years. A publication that focuses on both research articles and news and information from around the region, The Southeastern Librarian continues to fill a niche that state and national publications cannot. The characteristics of the authors published in the journal have also changed over the years. A study of who is published in the journal is essential to understanding how it is currently impacting the field, especially in the southeastern United States. Authorship studies are an important bibliometric tool that examine publishing patterns …
The Southeastern Librarian V. 61, No. 3 (Fall 2013) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian V. 61, No. 3 (Fall 2013) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian
Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 61, no. 3 (Fall 2013)
Book Review: The Booklover's Guide To New Orleans, Jennifer Culley
Book Review: The Booklover's Guide To New Orleans, Jennifer Culley
The Southeastern Librarian
Review of the book The Book Lover's Guide to New Orleans, by Susan Larson. Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 2013.
Freedom's Reading: The Discovery Of Two Alabama Freedom Libraries, Mike Selby
Freedom's Reading: The Discovery Of Two Alabama Freedom Libraries, Mike Selby
The Southeastern Librarian
Freedom Libraries were originally a product of ‘Freedom Summer’—the voting registration campaign launched by various civil rights organizations in Mississippi during the summer of 1964. Information about these libraries has been extremely limited, so much so that their very existence remains “virtually unknown even within the American library community” (Cook 3). This changed in 2008, when Karen Cook’s dissertation provided a comprehensive and exhaustive look at Mississippi Freedom Libraries. She positively identified over 80 different ones. While reading Cook’s work, I began to wonder if something similar had occurred in Alabama. After all, Alabama was ground zero during the Civil …
The Southeastern Librarian Editorial Board And Sela State Representatives
The Southeastern Librarian Editorial Board And Sela State Representatives
The Southeastern Librarian
Listing of editorial board for The Southeastern Librarian and current state SELA representatives.
Sela News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent activities from the Southeastern Library Association. Details on the upcoming SCLA/SELA Joint Conference.
The Southeastern Librarian V. 61, No. 2 (Summer 2013) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian V. 61, No. 2 (Summer 2013) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian
Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 61, No. 2 (Summer 2013).
State News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent developments from SELA member institutions.
People News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent professional developments from SELA members.
Hbcu News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent activities from the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Library Alliance. Details on the Librarian Exchange Program with the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL).
From The Editor, Perry Bratcher
From The Editor, Perry Bratcher
The Southeastern Librarian
Column from Perry Bratcher, editor of The Southeastern Librarian.
Maximizing One-Shot Impact: Using Pre-Test Responses In The Information Literacy Classroom, Andrea Brooks
Maximizing One-Shot Impact: Using Pre-Test Responses In The Information Literacy Classroom, Andrea Brooks
The Southeastern Librarian
New librarians accepting instructional roles in academic libraries inherit classrooms which have evolved beyond the traditional “sage on a stage” model of bibliographic instruction to more active, student-centered information literacy sessions. However, as in the past, these are still primarily one-shot sessions. Assessment is used to make the most of these fifty-minute meetings and might include pre-tests, post-tests, and various classroom assessment techniques (CATs). Assessment provides important benchmark data to measure student information literacy skills, and the results inform and guide instruction librarians. Each assessment method has unique advantages; however, this article will focus specifically on the pre-test and the …
The Journal-Based Publishing Activity Of Tennessee Academic Librarians: 2007-2011, Susan E. Wood, Betsy Park
The Journal-Based Publishing Activity Of Tennessee Academic Librarians: 2007-2011, Susan E. Wood, Betsy Park
The Southeastern Librarian
This study provides a detailed view of the journal publication activities of academic librarians in Tennessee for the five-year period from 2007 through 2011. The authors are interested in developing a picture of the journalbased publication activities of this group of people in order to benchmark against previous studies and to contribute to an understanding of the publication activity of academic librarians. The trends identified will be useful for new professionals entering the field in positions that require publication for continued employment, as well as for those who are interested in a snapshot of recent journal publication activity of Tennessee …
Measuring (The Value Of) Space: A Case Study Of A Collaborative Assessment Of An Academic Library’S Physical Collections, Diana Reid, Margo Smith
Measuring (The Value Of) Space: A Case Study Of A Collaborative Assessment Of An Academic Library’S Physical Collections, Diana Reid, Margo Smith
The Southeastern Librarian
The Ekstrom Library at the University of Louisville decided it would be valuable to obtain a detailed picture of the space usage in the Library’s physical collections, in order to help resolve ongoing space problems, to create a working document for continued maintenance of the Library’s physical collections and to provide data for library administration to use in support of future space planning. To this end, the Physical Collections Task Force (Task Force) was formed. The Task Force’s charge was as follows: “To determine present and future space needs for the Ekstrom Library collections; produce a written statement describing the …
Starting From Scratch: Implementing A Successful, Multifaceted Information Literacy Program For The First-Year Course, Anthony Holderied
Starting From Scratch: Implementing A Successful, Multifaceted Information Literacy Program For The First-Year Course, Anthony Holderied
The Southeastern Librarian
This study describes a program created from scratch in which collaboration is initiated by librarians with teaching faculty in the first-year program to provide information literacy skills to incoming freshmen. The program is not only successful logistically, but is designed with assessment needs and evidence of student learning in mind. Additionally, the program design takes into account the needs of learners through utilization of a variety of learning activities and teaching tools that include group interaction, web-based tutorials, individual assignments, and peer-learning.
Implementing Discovery At The University Of North Alabama, Amy Butler, Leigh Thompson
Implementing Discovery At The University Of North Alabama, Amy Butler, Leigh Thompson
The Southeastern Librarian
Collier Library, the main library at the University of North Alabama (UNA), provides the campus community with access to over 150 electronic resources. With so many available options, our students often overlook valuable databases. Analysis of usage statistics had shown that some of our most expensive databases had the highest cost per retrieval. Therefore, finding a product that would encourage users to utilize the full range of available databases became a top priority. In the summer of 2010, the Collier Library staff began to seriously investigate the discovery tool marketplace. We felt that the “single search box” concept of discovery …
The Southeastern Librarian V. 61, No. 1 (Spring 2013) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian V. 61, No. 1 (Spring 2013) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian
Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 61, No. 1 (Spring 2013).
Sela News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent activities from the Southeastern Library Association. Announcement of the 2012 Southern Book Competition winners.
The Southeastern Librarian V. 60, No. 4 (Winter 2013) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian V. 60, No. 4 (Winter 2013) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian
Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 60, No. 4 (Winter 2013).
State News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent developments from SELA member institutions.
People News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent professional developments from SELA members.