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2008

The Southeastern Librarian

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State News Jul 2008

State News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent developments from SELA member institutions.


Getting To Know You: Hbcu-Aserl Librarian Exchange, Iyanna Sims, Lynn Sorensen Sutton Apr 2008

Getting To Know You: Hbcu-Aserl Librarian Exchange, Iyanna Sims, Lynn Sorensen Sutton

The Southeastern Librarian

In June 2006, two librarians from North Carolina participated in an exchange program sponsored by the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) and the Historically Black College and Universities (HBCU) Alliance. Iyanna Sims, Electronic Resources Librarian from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, spent two weeks on the campus of Wake Forest University in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, at the invitation of Lynn Sutton. Director. The exchange experience is part of a comprehensive leadership initiative of the HBCU Alliance.


Successful Liaison Marketing Strategies For Library Instruction: The Proof Is In The Pudding, Jamie M. Graham Apr 2008

Successful Liaison Marketing Strategies For Library Instruction: The Proof Is In The Pudding, Jamie M. Graham

The Southeastern Librarian

There are many tried and true forms of marketing libraries today. Networking, emailing, calling, and requesting an audience with a department are all common practices. The key to successfully utilizing these practices in your liaison areas is persistence.


Promoting Literacy Initiatives Abroad Through Rotary Partnerships, Carol Walker Jordan Apr 2008

Promoting Literacy Initiatives Abroad Through Rotary Partnerships, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

In the Spring of 2005, on a trip to Atlanta, an article in the US Airways Magazine, August 2005, p. 75, caught my attention, "Universal Literacy: And How Room to Read Contributes To That Goal," by Michael Ybarra. Michael described how John Wood in 1998 quit his job as a marketing director at Microsoft to go trekking in Nepal. Invited by a local teacher to visit a classroom of a village school at Bahundanda, Wood described the conditions to be appalling--80 kids in one grade with 20 books described as backpacker castoffs-for example. Danielle Steel and Lonely Planet's guide to …


State News Jan 2008

State News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent developments from SELA member institutions.