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Hall County Library News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from the Hall County Library System.

Solinet Product News

The Southeastern Librarian

News from SOLINET. Highlights include: Amigos, PALINET, and SOLINET sign agreement to offer ScholarlyStats to membership; SOLINET offering new CQ Press resources; SOLINET awards $365,000 to 19 academic libraries in the Gulf Coast region; SOLINET, bLogistics to help members manage discards; public libraries discuss strategies to rebuild library facilities damaged and destroyed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The Southeastern Librarian V. 54, No. 4 (Winter 2006/2007) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 54, no. 4 (Winter 2006/2007).

Message From The President, Faith Line

The Southeastern Librarian

Column by SELA President, Faith Line.

Sela Activities

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent activities from the Southeastern Library Association. Highlights include: The new 2006 – 2008 Southeastern Library Association Officers; SELA Membership and Mentoring Committee current projects; winners chosen for the 60th annual John Cotton Dana Awards; announcement of the 2008 National Diversity in Libraries Conference; the winners of the 22nd Annual Mary Ellen LoPresti Awards for Excellence in Art Publishing Competition for publications produced in 2005.

Ebsco Product News

The Southeastern Librarian

New products from EBSCO. Highlights include: EBSCO partners with Elsevier to offer individual e-journals through the E-Select E-Journals system; EBSCo offers the Springer Online Archives Collection; enhances functions of EBSCO A-to-Z; EBSCO announces release of updated SUSHI server; EBSCO now provides dimensional navigation through MetaPress 2.0; EBSCO now includes Live Search Academic as OpenURL enabled for LinkSource link resolver.

Ebsco Personnel News

The Southeastern Librarian

EBSCO announces promotion of two publisher relations executives.

State News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent developments from SELA member institutions.

People News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent professional developments from SELA members.

From The President, Judith Gibbons

The Southeastern Librarian

Column by SELA President, Judith Gibbons.

Membership Drive Success: Ala/Alabama's Support Staff Pilot Initiative, Kerry A. Ransel, Jack D. Fitzpatrick, John Chrastka

The Southeastern Librarian

Many professional associations are grappling with membership challenges. Recently, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a strategy they termed the “member-centered” approach (Romano, 2004). One feature of this approach designed to boost membership is teaming with state and specialty societies. The American Medical Association believes that “future cooperation and collaboration with state associations is vital to any membership turnaround” (Romano, 2004, p. 11). This partnership makes good business sense.

The American Library Association considers a cooperative venture with state associations as an important avenue to increase membership as well. Taking to heart the COPE recommendations and incorporating the idea of …

From The Editor, Perry Bratcher

The Southeastern Librarian

Column by Perry Bratcher, editor of The Southeastern Librarian.

The Southeastern Librarian V. 54, No. 3 (Fall 2006) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 54, no. 3 (Fall 2006).

I Have Shoes Older Than You: Generational Diversity In The Library, Jason Martin

The Southeastern Librarian

Generational Conflict is not a new phenomenon. Wherever and whenever different generations interacted, generational conflict existed. The Puritans of New England found each new generation to be less pious and devoted to the concept of the “City on a Hill” than its predecessors. The Flappers of the Jazz Age were considered morally lax and without direction. And the gap that existed between the Flower Children of the 1960’s and their parents was as large as the Grand Canyon. Even the great Socrates met his untimely end inciting the Grecian youth to rebel against their elders. However, today’s generations face some …

Metadata Basics: A Literature Survey And Subject Analysis, Nicole Mitchell

The Southeastern Librarian

Librarians today are wrestling with an everchanging digital environment. In some way oranother, we must all adapt to new technologies, skills, and ways of thinking. What comes to mind when you hear the word “metadata?” Is itintimidating? Do metadatists and catalogers explain the term adequately? While this articleby no means captures all there is about metadata, it is intended to provide librarians with a basic understanding of what is involved in metadatawork.

New Voices: Interactive Cd-Roms For Library Instruction And Discovering A Research Agenda, Jodi Poe, John-Bauer Graham

The Southeastern Librarian

This paper describes the development of an instruction/orientation platform that teaches students, specifically the distance education students, at our university how to access, navigate, and understand the services and resources available to them via the university library. However, there is another purpose to this paper that the authors believe to be just as valuable to other “new voices” in our profession. To that end, this paper examines how two new librarians attempted to better serve their patrons. But it also looks at how, through the instruction project’s development, two new academic librarians discovered that one lone project could benefit the …

Teaching Information Literacy At Delta State University, Michael Mounce

The Southeastern Librarian

LIB 101: Fundamentals of Information Literacy is a one credit hour course which has been designed at Delta State University to provide DSU students with information literacy skills needed for conducting research. Information literacy skills taught in this course include skills such as performing effective searches and evaluating resources. This course is a general education requirement elective. Although it is an elective course, it is highly recommended by DSU reference librarians to students, since information literacy skills are necessary for research.

In the Fall of 2004, the LIB 101 course began to be taught at DSU. During the fall 2004 …

2006-07 Year Of Kenya Reading List, Dewi J. Wilson

Research Guides & Subject Bibliographies

Reading list for Kennesaw State's "Year of Kenya" Celebration.

The Role Of Women’S Alcohol Consumption In Managing Sexual Intimacy And Sexual Safety Motives, Maria Testa, Carol Vanzile-Tamsen, Jennifer A. Livingston, Amy M. Buddie

Faculty Articles

Objective: Two studies, based on an alcohol myopia model, were designed to understand the role of women’s alcohol consumption on vulnerability to sexual assault. We predicted that, in a high-conflict social situation, alcohol would make it more difficult to recognize sexual assault risk, lowering intentions to resist sexual advances.

Method: In Study 1, women (N = 51) were recruited in bars and classified as having a high (.06 or greater) breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) or low BrAC. They were asked to project themselves into a hypothetical scenario that portrayed interest in establishing an intimate relationship and included mild sexual aggression. …

The Southeastern Librarian V. 54, No. 2 (Summer 2006) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 54, no. 2 (Summer 2006).

Message From The President, Judith Gibbons

The Southeastern Librarian

Column by SELA President, Judith Gibbons.

Sela Activities

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent activities from the Southeastern Library Association. Highlights include: recipients of the 2006 Frances Coleman/Thomson Gale Conference Grants, Ginny Frankenthaler Scholarship, and Outstanding Southeastern Author Awards, and the moving of the SELA Archives from Emory University to Valdosta State.

Ala News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent activities from the American Library Association. Highlights include: National Library Week Grants; the ALA Resolution on the Taxpayer Bill of Rights; the Law For Librarians Program; and public libraries in Louisiana and Mississippi to receive major grants to support rebuilding efforts.

Hbcu (Historically Black Colleges And Universities) Library Alliance Launches Redesigned Website

The Southeastern Librarian

The HBCU Library Alliance announced the launch of its redesigned website, found at http://www.hbculibraries.org.

Joint Conference Of Librarians Of Color (Jclc)

The Southeastern Librarian

Announcing the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color to be held October 11-15, 2006 in Dallas, TX. Conference features over 100 Programs for libraries serving diverse communities, including 'Hot Topics' on Recruitment and Retention, Staff Development, Advocacy, Service Delivery, Gender and Identity, Legacy Recognition, and Literature.

Solinet Product News

The Southeastern Librarian

News from SOLINET. Highlights include the release of Emerald Management Xtra College database; the election of the 2006/2007 board of directors, officers, and OCLC members council delegation; and ASERL's adoption of Docutek VRLplus for virtual reference services.

Solinet Personnel News

The Southeastern Librarian

Personnel news from SOLINET.

Ebsco Product News

The Southeastern Librarian

New products from EBSCO. Highlights include addition of new titles to EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service Enhanced; the addition of a medical subject classification scheme to EBSCO A-to-Z; EBSCO's completion of EDI serials claims testing for ALEPH 500 ILS; and EBSCO and OCLC's web deployment of automated delivery of e-holdings data in ONIX Serial Online Holdings format.

State News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent developments from SELA member institutions.

People News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent professional developments from SELA members.