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Editorial Staff & State Representatives Nov 2016

Editorial Staff & State Representatives

The Southeastern Librarian

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


Guidelines For Submission And Author Instructions Nov 2016

Guidelines For Submission And Author Instructions

The Southeastern Librarian

Guidelines for article submission to The Southeastern Librarian.


Native American Landscapes, Carol Walker Jordan Nov 2016

Native American Landscapes, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.


The Golden Band From Tigerland: A History Of Lsu's Marching Band, Kathelene Mccarty Smith Nov 2016

The Golden Band From Tigerland: A History Of Lsu's Marching Band, Kathelene Mccarty Smith

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.


The Travelers' Charleston: Accounts Of Charleston And Lowcountry, South Carolina, 1666-1861, Kathelene Mccarty Smith Nov 2016

The Travelers' Charleston: Accounts Of Charleston And Lowcountry, South Carolina, 1666-1861, Kathelene Mccarty Smith

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.


The Risen, Carol Walker Jordan Nov 2016

The Risen, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.


Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide, Melida F. Matthews Nov 2016

Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide, Melida F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.


News Articles Nov 2016

News Articles

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent activities from the Southeastern Library Association, developments from SELA member institutions, and personnel news.


Using "Choice" To Measure The Availability And Use Of E-Books, Amanda L. Scott, Rickey D. Best Nov 2016

Using "Choice" To Measure The Availability And Use Of E-Books, Amanda L. Scott, Rickey D. Best

The Southeastern Librarian

As e-books have come to hold a major impact on library collection building activities, the influence of reviews of titles and the on-going conversion of titles to a digital format have significant potential impacts for libraries. Reviewing tools such as Choice and the lag-time between publication notice of the print edition of a work and its corresponding e-version asks the questions, “How many of the print titles that are reviewed in Choice have a corresponding e-version ready for purchase?” and “How used are those e-versions in comparison with print?”


A Risk Assessment Study At The University Of South Alabama Libraries, Richard J. Wood, Mary Duffy Nov 2016

A Risk Assessment Study At The University Of South Alabama Libraries, Richard J. Wood, Mary Duffy

The Southeastern Librarian

Prior to receiving a memorandum from the Director of Risk Management that the libraries would be included in a university-wide risk assessment study, the authors’ only contacts with the director had to do with art works housed in the library and the amount of money kept on-hand at the service desks. We believed that the Risk Assessment Office was primarily concerned with highly vulnerable programs such as the hospitals, pharmacies, athletics, the bookstore, and laboratories. The challenge for us now would be to develop a comprehensive assessment of risks in library facilities and operations from acquisitions and cataloging to circulation, …


The Southeastern Librarian V 64, No. 3 (Fall 2016) Complete Issue Nov 2016

The Southeastern Librarian V 64, No. 3 (Fall 2016) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.


Editorial Staff & State Representatives Jul 2016

Editorial Staff & State Representatives

The Southeastern Librarian

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


Guidelines For Submission And Author Instructions Jul 2016

Guidelines For Submission And Author Instructions

The Southeastern Librarian

Guidelines for article submission to The Southeastern Librarian.


Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care About Jews, The South, And Civil Rights, Carol Walker Jordan Jul 2016

Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care About Jews, The South, And Civil Rights, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care About Jews, the South and Civil Rights. Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-4696-2103-6. 368 p. $35.


My Brother Slaves: Friendship, Masculinity, And Resistance In Antebellum South, Carol Walker Jordan Jul 2016

My Brother Slaves: Friendship, Masculinity, And Resistance In Antebellum South, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

My Brother Slaves: Friendship, Masculinity, and Resistance in the Antebellum South. Sergio A. Lussana. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8131-6694-0 (Cloth); 978-0-8131-6695-7 (epub); 978-0-8131-6696-4 (Web pdf). 238 p. $50.00


A President In Our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt In Georgia, Melanie J. Dunn Jul 2016

A President In Our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt In Georgia, Melanie J. Dunn

The Southeastern Librarian

A President in Our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Georgia. Kaye Lanning Minchew. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2016. 270 p. ISBN-9780820349183. $34.95, hardcover.


The Birds Of Opulence, Peter R. Dean Jul 2016

The Birds Of Opulence, Peter R. Dean

The Southeastern Librarian

The Birds of Opulence. Crystal Wilkinson. The University Press of Kentucky, 2016. ISBN 9780813166919. 202 p. $24.95


Mommy Goose: Rhymes From The Mountains, Kathelene Mccarty Smith Jul 2016

Mommy Goose: Rhymes From The Mountains, Kathelene Mccarty Smith

The Southeastern Librarian

Mommy Goose: Rhymes from the Mountains, Mike Norris. Carved illustrations by Minnie Adkins. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8131-6614-8. 48 p. $19.95.


Conversations With Classic Film Stars: Interviews From Hollywood's Golden Era, Melinda F. Matthews Jul 2016

Conversations With Classic Film Stars: Interviews From Hollywood's Golden Era, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood’s Golden Era. James Bawden and Ron Miller. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8131-6710-7. 428 pages. $26.98.


Patroons And Periaguas: Enslaved Waterment And Watercraft Of Lowcountry, Carol Walker Jordan Jul 2016

Patroons And Periaguas: Enslaved Waterment And Watercraft Of Lowcountry, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Patroons and Periaguas Enslaved Watermen and Watercraft of Lowcountry. Lynn. B. Harris. The Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-61117-385-7 ($24.95 Hardcover); 978-1-61117-386-4 ($23.99 ebook). 152 p.


Found Anew: Poetry And Prose Inspired By The South Caroliniana Library Digital Collections, Allison Faix Jul 2016

Found Anew: Poetry And Prose Inspired By The South Caroliniana Library Digital Collections, Allison Faix

The Southeastern Librarian

Found Anew: Poetry and Prose Inspired by the South Caroliniana Library Digital Collections. R. Mac Jones and Ray McManus, eds. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-6-1117-564-6 ($39.95, hardcover); ISBN 978-1-61117-565-3 ($24.95, paperback); ISBN 978-1-61117-566-0 ($17.95, ebook). 144 p.


News Articles Jul 2016

News Articles

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent activities from the Southeastern Library Association, developments from SELA member institutions, and personnel news.


"You're Hired!" - An Analysis Of The Perceptions And Behaviors Of Library Job Candidates On Job Offer Negotiations, Leo S. Lo, Jason B. Reed Jul 2016

"You're Hired!" - An Analysis Of The Perceptions And Behaviors Of Library Job Candidates On Job Offer Negotiations, Leo S. Lo, Jason B. Reed

The Southeastern Librarian

Negotiation is a method for people to settle differences and achieve solutions. While formal negotiations can take the forms of conflict resolutions or licensing agreement with vendor negotiations, there are many informal forms of negotiation that take place every day. For example, two co-workers discussing the respective work responsibilities in a project that they are working on is a form of negotiation; a librarian asking for the supervisor’s approval to attend a professional conference is also a form of negotiation; two friend deciding where to go to eat lunch is a form of negotiation. As the purpose of negotiation is …


The Southeastern Librarian V 64, No. 2 (Summer 2016) Complete Issue Jul 2016

The Southeastern Librarian V 64, No. 2 (Summer 2016) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.


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.


James And Esther Cooper Jackson: Love And Courage In The Black Freedom Movement, Tim Dodge May 2016

James And Esther Cooper Jackson: Love And Courage In The Black Freedom Movement, Tim Dodge

The Southeastern Librarian

James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement. Sara Rzeszutek Haviland. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-8131-6625. 359 p. $45.00.


Brown V. Board And The Transformation Of American Culture: Education And The South In The Age Of Desegregation, Melinda F. Matthews May 2016

Brown V. Board And The Transformation Of American Culture: Education And The South In The Age Of Desegregation, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

Brown v. Board and the Transformation of American Culture: Education and the South in the Age of Desegregation. Ben Keppel. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8071-6132-6. 225 p. $41.16.


A Yankee Scholar In Coastal South Carolina: William Francis Allen's Civil War Journals, Carol Walker Jordan May 2016

A Yankee Scholar In Coastal South Carolina: William Francis Allen's Civil War Journals, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina: William Francis Allen’s Civil War Journals. Edited by James Robert Hester. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-61117-496-0. 344 p. $49.95.


Understanding Ron Rash, Carol Walker Jordan May 2016

Understanding Ron Rash, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Understanding Ron Rash. John Lang. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-61117-411-3. 152 p. $39.95