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News - West Georgia Regional Library, John Mack Freeman Apr 2017

News - West Georgia Regional Library, John Mack Freeman

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Editorial Staff & State Representatives Feb 2017

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 Feb 2017

Guidelines For Submission And Author Instructions

The Southeastern Librarian

Guidelines for article submission to The Southeastern Librarian.


Mark Twain At Home: How Family Shaped Twain's Fiction, Carol Walker Jordan Feb 2017

Mark Twain At Home: How Family Shaped Twain's Fiction, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Mark Twain at Home How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction by Michael J. Kiskis. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8173-1915-1 (cloth); 978-0-8173-8990-1 (ebook). $44.95. 128 p.


Creating Citizens: Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, And The Land-Grant Tradition, Carol Walker Jordan Feb 2017

Creating Citizens: Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, And The Land-Grant Tradition, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Creating Citizens: Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, and the Land-Grant Tradition, edited by Brigitta R. Brunner. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8173-1907-6 (cloth); 978-0-8173-8960-4 (ebook). $49.95. 192 p.


From Revolution To Reunion: The Reintegration Of The South Carolina Loyalists, Rita Spisak Feb 2017

From Revolution To Reunion: The Reintegration Of The South Carolina Loyalists, Rita Spisak

The Southeastern Librarian

From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists by Rebecca Brannon. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61117-668-1 (hard); 978-1-61117-669-8 (epub). $49. 99. 232 p.


Southern Religion And Christian Diversity In The Twentieth Century, Carol Walker Jordan Feb 2017

Southern Religion And Christian Diversity In The Twentieth Century, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century by Wayne Flynt. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8173-1908-3 (cloth); 978-0-1873-8971-0 (ebook). $39.95. 400 p.


Proud To Be A Librarian, Ying Chen Feb 2017

Proud To Be A Librarian, Ying Chen

The Southeastern Librarian

Years have passed since that day. I left the college and assumed a new position in a different city. Yet the memory of his visit and our conversation replays in my mind often. This experience granted me a better understanding of my job: I am not just an information keeper, I am a life transformer. And so are you. Be proud to be a librarian!


Field Guide To The Wildflowers Of Georgia And Surrounding States, Melinda F. Matthews Feb 2017

Field Guide To The Wildflowers Of Georgia And Surrounding States, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia and Surrounding States by Chafin, Linda G. Hugh and Carol Nourse, Photographers. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8203-4868-1. $32.95 paperback. 488 p.


South Carolina In The Civil War And Reconstruction Eras: Essays From The Proceedings Of The South Carolina Historical Association, Tim Dodge Feb 2017

South Carolina In The Civil War And Reconstruction Eras: Essays From The Proceedings Of The South Carolina Historical Association, Tim Dodge

The Southeastern Librarian

South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras: Essays from the Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association by Michael Brem Bonner and Fritz Hamer, editors. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-61117-664-3 (cloth); 978-61117-665-0 (paperback); and 978-61117-666-7 (ebook). $49.99 (hard); $29.99 (pbk); $29.99 (ebook). 177p.


Family Of Earth: A Southern Mountain Childhood, Melanie J. Dunn Feb 2017

Family Of Earth: A Southern Mountain Childhood, Melanie J. Dunn

The Southeastern Librarian

Family of Earth: A Southern Mountain Childhood by Wilma Dykeman. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-46962-914-8. $75.00 (hard), $18.00 (pbk.). 177p.


The Ides Of War: George Washington And The Newburgh Crisis, Carol Walker Jordan Feb 2017

The Ides Of War: George Washington And The Newburgh Crisis, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

The Ides of War : George Washington and the Newburgh Crisis by Stephen Howard Brown Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61117-659-9 (hard); 978-1-61117-660-5 (ebook). $44.99. 168 p.


The Egret's Plumes, Carol Walker Jordan Feb 2017

The Egret's Plumes, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

The Egret’s Plumes by Archibald Rutledge ; introduction by Jim Casada ; afterword by Jacob F. Rivers III and illustrations by Stephen Chesley. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61117-672-8 (hard); 978-1-61117-673-5 (ebook). $24.99. 56 p.


North Carolina's Roadside Eateries: A Traveler's Guide To Local Restaurants, Diners, And Barbecue Joints, Melinda F. Matthews Feb 2017

North Carolina's Roadside Eateries: A Traveler's Guide To Local Restaurants, Diners, And Barbecue Joints, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

North Carolina’s Roadside Eateries: A Traveler’s Guide to Local Restaurants, Diners, and Barbecue Joints by D.G. Martin. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN: 9781469630144 (pbk.alk. paper) $11.85. 176 p.


Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles Of Cynthiana And Harrison County, Carol Walker Jordan Feb 2017

Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles Of Cynthiana And Harrison County, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles of Cynthiana and Harrison County by William A. Penn. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8131-6771-8 (cloth); 978-0-8131-6772-5 (epub). $45.00. 400 p.


Censorship: Filtering Content On The Web, Lizabeth Elaine Stem Feb 2017

Censorship: Filtering Content On The Web, Lizabeth Elaine Stem

The Southeastern Librarian

The World Wide Web has become a vehicle of free expression for millions of people around the world. It also represents a type of international library with no geographical or physical boundaries, bringing a vast array of information into private homes, schools and businesses. Because the Web allows anyone to post anything at any time, many believe some sort of censorship should be imposed. Censorship of the Web comes in the form of software which filters Web sites, blocking those which publish content deemed unsuitable by those administering the filtering software. Most content filtering software is used on computers in …


News Articles Feb 2017

News Articles

The Southeastern Librarian

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


Customizations Of Web-Scale Discovery Tools In Alabama's Public & Independent College And University Libraries: A Longitudinal Study, Harry Nuttall, Hanrong Wang Feb 2017

Customizations Of Web-Scale Discovery Tools In Alabama's Public & Independent College And University Libraries: A Longitudinal Study, Harry Nuttall, Hanrong Wang

The Southeastern Librarian

As digital technology developed to a point that electronic searching for information became practical, librarians began a quest for the Holy Grail of a single-search option that had the potential to harvest search results from the entirety of a library’s holdings. Initially it was hoped that federated searching might be this option, but federated searching was found unequal to the task. Response time was slow and could skew relevance rankings (Thompson, 2013). Further, the first generation of federated search engines proved not nearly capable of searching the totality of a library’s holdings. Something more was needed. That something more was …


The Southeastern Librarian V 64, No. 4 (Winter 2017) Complete Issue Feb 2017

The Southeastern Librarian V 64, No. 4 (Winter 2017) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.


The Austin Archives Bazaar: A Collaborative Outreach Event, Daniel Alonzo, Amy Rushing, Kristy Sorensen Jan 2017

The Austin Archives Bazaar: A Collaborative Outreach Event, Daniel Alonzo, Amy Rushing, Kristy Sorensen

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

The Austin Archives Bazaar (AAB) is a biennial, multi-institutional, community outreach event organized by the Archivists of Central Texas (ACT), an all-volunteer group of archivists in Austin, Texas. It is designed to be free, fun, and appealing to the general public, including folks who may not even know exactly what an archives is. This paper looks at the planning and execution of the 2016 Bazaar and reflects back on how it built on lessons learned in 2014 with a focus on issues of governance, fundraising, publicity, logistics, and the participating repository perspective. This case study of a creative, multi-institutional outreach …


Winter 2017, Gla Glq Jan 2017

Winter 2017, Gla Glq

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Georgia Library Spotlight - Gordon State College, Hightower Library, Sonya S. Gaither Jan 2017

Georgia Library Spotlight - Gordon State College, Hightower Library, Sonya S. Gaither

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Georgia Library Spotlight - Max Brown Family Resource Library, Children's Healthcare Of Atlanta At Scottish Rite, Laura Sinclair Jan 2017

Georgia Library Spotlight - Max Brown Family Resource Library, Children's Healthcare Of Atlanta At Scottish Rite, Laura Sinclair

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Georgia Library Spotlight - Odum Library's New Media Center, Valdosta State University, Laura Bell Wright Jan 2017

Georgia Library Spotlight - Odum Library's New Media Center, Valdosta State University, Laura Bell Wright

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.


My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Jessica Hudson Jan 2017

My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Jessica Hudson

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Utilizing Student Workers At The Digital Library Of Georgia, Mandy L. Mastrovita, Donnie Summerlin Jan 2017

Utilizing Student Workers At The Digital Library Of Georgia, Mandy L. Mastrovita, Donnie Summerlin

Georgia Library Quarterly

Libraries and archives have become increasingly reliant on student employees to perform duties essential to the daily work of making cultural heritage materials accessible to patrons. This article details how students are recruited, trained, managed, and mentored from the perspective of supervisors at the Digital Library of Georgia. Topics discussed include hiring procedures, training techniques, work assigned to undergraduate and graduate students, the handling of archival materials, digital imaging, metadata, and social media. The article will also examine methods for creating a rewarding and educational work environment for students that promotes the library profession.


Georgia Library Association - Academic Library Division Call For Papers, Jennifer Townes Jan 2017

Georgia Library Association - Academic Library Division Call For Papers, Jennifer Townes

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Georgia Library Association - Atlanta Emerging Librarians, Lydia M. Hofstetter, Rosemary B. Humphrey, Ashley R. Day Jan 2017

Georgia Library Association - Atlanta Emerging Librarians, Lydia M. Hofstetter, Rosemary B. Humphrey, Ashley R. Day

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Georgia Library Association - Interlibrary Loan Interest Group, Susan D. Morris, Rosemary B. Humphrey Jan 2017

Georgia Library Association - Interlibrary Loan Interest Group, Susan D. Morris, Rosemary B. Humphrey

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.


News - Georgia State University, Katherine Wilson Jan 2017

News - Georgia State University, Katherine Wilson

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.