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Rfid Technology In The Library Environment, Linda Howard, Max Anderson Apr 2007

Rfid Technology In The Library Environment, Linda Howard, Max Anderson

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article focuses on the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in libraries. It states that RFID offers libraries many advantages and disadvantages such as the benefit of saving time and money, nonprovision of fail-safe security, high cost, and lack of standards. It enumerates the factors that must be considered by librarians about RFID including workflow issues and return on investment (ROI).


Dtae Libraries Earn Accreditation Apr 2007

Dtae Libraries Earn Accreditation

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article reports on the accreditation of libraries at the Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education (DTAE) through the Commission on Colleges (COC) Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). It states that this accreditation process has offered advantages such as bringing a working team closer together. Linda Floyd of Coosa Valley Technical College remarks that the library in her school has made progress with the support of the college.


Librarian Publishes Book On Tv Comedies Apr 2007

Librarian Publishes Book On Tv Comedies

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article discusses the book "The Women Who Made Television Funny: Ten Stars of 1950s Sitcoms," by David C. Tucker.


Smyrna Library Celebrates A Life Of Service Apr 2007

Smyrna Library Celebrates A Life Of Service

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article reports on a dedication ceremony for a library meeting room at the Smyrna Public Library in Georgia named after former director Doris Patterson Morris. Her family, friends, library patrons and local political leaders attended the ceremony. During her tenure as director of the library, Morris developed a classic antique book collection and supervised a feasibility study that resulted in a new library on the Village Green.


South Georgia Regional Director To Retire Apr 2007

South Georgia Regional Director To Retire

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article announces that Liza Newsom will resign as director of the South Georgia Regional Library System (SGRL).


Tech Retirees Account For 95 Years Of Service Apr 2007

Tech Retirees Account For 95 Years Of Service

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article announces the resignation of several administrators of Georgia Tech Library including Kathy Sharp Brackney, head of the Architecture Library, Jean Price Hudgins, head of Information Control and Management and Charles Crittendon Stuart, associate director for public services.


Athens Regional Library News And Notes Apr 2007

Athens Regional Library News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from the Athens Regional Library System.


Review: Best Garden Plants For Georgia, Marie Daum Apr 2007

Review: Best Garden Plants For Georgia, Marie Daum

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Best Garden Plants for Georgia," by Tara Dillard and Don Williamson.


Snacking On Candy Apr 2007

Snacking On Candy

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article reports on the demolition of an old candy factory in Augusta, Georgia for the new Augusta-Richmond County library. A photograph of a Komatsu 450 dinosaur and Godzilla clearing the site is provided. According to the article, the new library will have 90,000 square feet of space and is slated to open in the summer of 2009.


Chestatee Regional Library News And Notes Apr 2007

Chestatee Regional Library News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from the Chestatee Regional Library System.


Georgia Southern News And Notes Apr 2007

Georgia Southern News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from Georgia Southern University's library.


Emory’S Woodruff Library Acquires Love Letters Of Ted Hughes And Assia Wevill Apr 2007

Emory’S Woodruff Library Acquires Love Letters Of Ted Hughes And Assia Wevill

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article reports on a collection of letters from British poet Ted Hughes and his lover Assia Wevill acquired by Woodruff Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. It says that this correspondence starts from March 1963 until 1969. These letters include more than 60 letters from the poet to his lover and 6 from her to him, as well as some fragmentary diary entries and photographs of Wevill.


East Central Georgia News And Notes Apr 2007

East Central Georgia News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from East Central Georgia libraries.


Review: Warm Springs, Mary-Frances Panettiere Apr 2007

Review: Warm Springs, Mary-Frances Panettiere

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Warm Springs," by David M. Burke, Jr. and Odie A. Burke.


Getting On Your Community's Leadership Team, Ellen G. Miller, Patricia H. Fisher Apr 2007

Getting On Your Community's Leadership Team, Ellen G. Miller, Patricia H. Fisher

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article focuses on several factors to be considered in getting the director-board team of librarians to be part of the local community's leadership team. It states that economic development is the most important aspect involved in community building that must be taken into account by the librarians. It mentions that partnerships can also serve as a vital factor in positioning a library with decision-makers.


Screven-Jenkins Regional News And Notes Apr 2007

Screven-Jenkins Regional News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from the Screven-Jenkins Regional Library System.


Review: Equiano, The African: Biography Of A Self-Made Man, Shaundra Walker Apr 2007

Review: Equiano, The African: Biography Of A Self-Made Man, Shaundra Walker

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man," by Vincent Carretta.


Review: Sherman’S 1864 Trail Of Battle To Atlanta, Lisa Block Apr 2007

Review: Sherman’S 1864 Trail Of Battle To Atlanta, Lisa Block

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Sherman’s 1864 Trail of Battle to Atlanta," by Philip L. Secrist.


From The Editor, Perry Bratcher Apr 2007

From The Editor, Perry Bratcher

The Southeastern Librarian

Column from Perry Bratcher, editor of The Southeastern Librarian.


Translating The Libraries: A Multilingual Information Page For International Students, Jennifer Mcclure, Mangala Krishnamurthy Apr 2007

Translating The Libraries: A Multilingual Information Page For International Students, Jennifer Mcclure, Mangala Krishnamurthy

The Southeastern Librarian

University libraries have long recognized the special needs of international students on campus, but have struggled to find the best ways to bridge the cultural and linguistic barriers and thereby demystify the library experience. The University of Alabama’s online Information Page for International Students (http://www.lib.ua.edu/international/), which was first mounted on the Libraries’ website in 2004, was an attempt to meet this need; however, only when the page was translated into Spanish and Chinese, two of the campus’s most prominent languages, did the advantages of library information in students’ native languages become fully apparent.


Interlibrary Loan Of Media Materials— The Tennessee Tech Volpe Library Experience: A Model For Change, Patricia B. Mcgee Apr 2007

Interlibrary Loan Of Media Materials— The Tennessee Tech Volpe Library Experience: A Model For Change, Patricia B. Mcgee

The Southeastern Librarian

The sending of media materials via interlibrary loan is a practice in the library world that is fraught with controversy. On the one hand, the American Library Association’s Guidelines for the Interlibrary Loan of Audiovisual Formats makes a clear case for sharing audiovisual material in all formats. The reality, on the other hand, is more in line with the statement posted by the University of Oregon Libraries on their Interlibrary Loan webpage. In some instances libraries have adopted halfway reciprocal measures. They will loan only to those institutions that will also lend to them, or who are members of a …


My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Dusty Gres Apr 2007

My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Dusty Gres

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article focuses on the personal library collection of the author. She states that her first personal library collection included the books "Alice in Wonderland," "Little Women," and "Tom Sawyer." She mentions that her library has grown over the years which now houses reference collection and those from her husband's.


Leebaw Appointed To Post At Emory Library Apr 2007

Leebaw Appointed To Post At Emory Library

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article announces that Danya Leebaw was appointed business research librarian at the Goizueta Business Library of Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library in Atlanta, Georgia.


Chattahoochee Valley News And Notes Apr 2007

Chattahoochee Valley News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from the Chattahoochee Valley Library System.


Hall County Library News And Notes Apr 2007

Hall County Library News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from the Hall County Library System.


South Georgia Regional News And Notes Apr 2007

South Georgia Regional News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from the South Georgia Regional Library System.


Review: Sweetgrass Baskets And The Gullah Tradition, Laura Tartak Apr 2007

Review: Sweetgrass Baskets And The Gullah Tradition, Laura Tartak

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Sweetgrass Baskets and the Gullah Tradition," by Joyce V. Coakley.


Review: Ghosts And Shadows Of Andersonville: Essays On The Secret Social Histories Of America’S Deadliest Prison, Elizabeth White Apr 2007

Review: Ghosts And Shadows Of Andersonville: Essays On The Secret Social Histories Of America’S Deadliest Prison, Elizabeth White

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Ghosts and Shadows of Andersonville: Essays on the Secret Social Histories of America’s Deadliest Prison," by Robert S. Davis.


Review: Remembering Georgia’S Confederates, James A. Taylor Apr 2007

Review: Remembering Georgia’S Confederates, James A. Taylor

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Remembering Georgia’s Confederates," by Dr. David N. Wiggins.


Georgia Library Quarterly, Spring 2007, Susan Cooley Apr 2007

Georgia Library Quarterly, Spring 2007, Susan Cooley

Georgia Library Quarterly

Complete issue of Georgia Library Quarterly, Spring 2007, vol. 44, no. 1.