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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.
The Southeastern Librarian V. 59, No. 3 (Fall 2011) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian V. 59, No. 3 (Fall 2011) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian
Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 59, No. 3 (Fall 2011).
Best Practices For Hiring Academic Librarians With Faculty Status And Rank, Christopher Shaffer
Best Practices For Hiring Academic Librarians With Faculty Status And Rank, Christopher Shaffer
The Southeastern Librarian
When library school students graduate, their primary goal frequently is to find a job; they may have a preference for a position as a public librarian, academic librarian, or school media specialist, but most important is finding gainful employment in order to put food on the table. The person responsible for hiring academic librarians must attempt to discern, based on a résumé and a relatively brief personal interview whether a candidate is capable of performing the basic tasks of being a librarian, interacting with faculty, guiding students, and performing their duties as a member of the academy. To make the …
One Mississippi Library’S Experience In Opening Up The State Judiciary To Greater Access By The Library Patron, Stephen Parks
One Mississippi Library’S Experience In Opening Up The State Judiciary To Greater Access By The Library Patron, Stephen Parks
The Southeastern Librarian
Legal materials such as case reporters and case digests can be quite expensive and burdensome for libraries to acquire, due to little use for such materials. Online legal sources such as Westlaw and LexisNexis are rarely an option for these libraries because of their tremendous costs. However, most libraries face legal-related questions from patrons, and librarians lack easily accessible materials to provide the patron an answer.
The staff at Mississippi College School of Law Library decided to do something about this problem by creating a program to provide complete access to the appellate courts of the state of Mississippi freely …
People News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent professional developments from SELA members.
The Southeastern Librarian V. 59, No. 2 (Summer 2011) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian V. 59, No. 2 (Summer 2011) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian
Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 59, No. 2 (Summer 2011).
State News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent developments from SELA member institutions.
Sela News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent activities from the Southeastern Library Association. Highlights include: the SELA Summer Conference will be held August 12-13 at the University of Alabama Birmingham; the SELA President asks SELA to provide more help to librarians; the SELA Mentoring Program is looking for participants.
The Southeastern Librarian V. 59, No. 1 (Spring 2011) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian V. 59, No. 1 (Spring 2011) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian
Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 59, No. 1 (Spring 2011).
Of Fairs And Festivals: Librarians Teach Thematic First-Year Seminars, Donna Braquet, Micheline Westfall
Of Fairs And Festivals: Librarians Teach Thematic First-Year Seminars, Donna Braquet, Micheline Westfall
The Southeastern Librarian
For almost a century, library skills instruction by academic librarians has been a vital component of university programs created to help first-year students adapt to the social and academic environment of college life (Walter, 2004). Asretention of first-year students has become a strategic goal for universities, a variety of firstyear experience (FYE) programs have been developed over the last decade to address this goal. For many academic librarians, the FYE programs have resulted in an increased collaboration with faculty (Walter, 2004). This collaboration ranges from assisting faculty with incorporating information literacy skills within classroom instruction to embedding librarians within classes …
From The Editor, Perry Bratcher
From The Editor, Perry Bratcher
The Southeastern Librarian
Column from Perry Bratcher, editor of The Southeastern Librarian.
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
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
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?
From Both Sides Now: A Recently-Hired Librarian And A Library Veteran Respond To The Loss Of A Favorite Database, Harry D. Nuttall, Carley Knight
From Both Sides Now: A Recently-Hired Librarian And A Library Veteran Respond To The Loss Of A Favorite Database, Harry D. Nuttall, Carley Knight
The Southeastern Librarian
The last three decades, and especially the last fifteen years, have seen an expansion in the formats in which library materials are available, as electronic resources have joined the traditional print offerings produced by library suppliers. More and more, the electronic resource is becoming the first stop “go-to” information source, a predominance which can be confirmed by the number of reference and other sources which have shifted from print to electronic format or, not making the change, have simply ceased to exist.
This paradigm shift has affected acquisitions departments and collection development librarians, particularly in academic libraries, as they now …
The Southeastern Librarian V. 58, No. 4 (Winter 2011) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian V. 58, No. 4 (Winter 2011) Complete Issue
The Southeastern Librarian
Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 58, No. 4 (Winter 2011).
Sela News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent activities from the Southeastern Library Association. Highlights include: SELA names the 2010 Outstanding Southeastern Authors for Fiction and Non-fiction; SELA Mentoring program is looking for participants.
Non-Sela News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent news of interest to libraries and librarians. Includes: HBCU Library Alliance awards $70,000 Mellon Foundation Grant; The Informed Librarian Online website now offers premium content from all major library journal publishers; The Academic and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) Scholars at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) will be holding the unconference Un-hushed: Speaking out About the Library and Information Science Profession (or the Really Fun Super Cool Library Conference) March 26, 2011; 20th North Carolina Serial Conference will be held March 10, 2011, in Chapel Hill, NC.
State News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent developments from SELA member institutions.
People News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent professional developments from SELA members.