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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 …

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

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Column by SELA President, Judith Gibbons.

Sela Activities

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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

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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

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

Joint Conference Of Librarians Of Color (Jclc)

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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

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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

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Personnel news from SOLINET.

Ebsco Product News

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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

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Recent developments from SELA member institutions.

People News

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Recent professional developments from SELA members.

From The President, Judith Gibbons

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Column by SELA President, Judith Gibbons.

The Southeastern Librarian V. 54, No. 1 (Spring 2006) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 54, no. 1 (Spring 2006).

From The Editor, Perry Bratcher

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Column by Perry Bratcher, editor of The Southeastern Librarian.

Charles E. Beard Scholarship

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Announcing the formation of the Charles E. Beard Scholarship for graduate studies in library science. An address for donations is provided.

Small Select Library Or Miserable Excuse: Antebellum College Libraries In The American Southeast, Patrick M. Valentine

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What role did antebellum college libraries play in the development of the South? National studies rarely mention southern institutions, while institutional histories neglect the role of the library. Yet the history of southern antebellum college libraries should be of special interest because this was often their initial formative period. There were few college libraries in the South prior to 1800 but many were founded in the following decades. It was in the last decades before the Civil War that the South first became really aware of the need for widespread education. At the same time, southern colleges were in many …

Promoting Federal Depository Libraries: Improving Public Access To U.S. Government Information, Newkirk Barnes

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Since its creation in 1860, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has supplied the nation’s Congress, federal agencies, and citizenry with the information they need to carry out their daily activities (Morehead 1999, 15). Through its Superintendent of Documents programs, the GPO produces and disseminates the largest volume of U.S. government publications in the world (U.S. Government Printing Office 2003).

The most widely publicized of the Superintendent of Documents programs is the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). Authorized by Title 44 of the United States Code, the FDLP provides the American public with information resources from the legislative, executive and …

Bricks, Books, And Metaphor: The Place Of First Libraries In Alabama Communities, Annabel K. Stephens

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While reading various histories of public libraries in Alabama, the writer became fascinated with what they revealed about the place of these communities’ early libraries, in both the literal and the metaphorical sense. These histories include intriguing details about the buildings where libraries were first housed, few of which were originally built to be libraries, and about Alabama citizens’ dedication to creating and maintaining community libraries.

Information And Referral Services: A Brief History, Jodi Poe

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What is information and referral (I&R) service? The most widely accepted definition of I&R is “the active process of linking a person with a need or problem with a service which will meet the need or solve the problem.” For example, this type of service would provide detailed information, including contact information, mailing address, telephone number, etc., about where a person could go to receive childhood immunizations. There are three basic requirements of an I&R service: creation of a resource file, distribution of the information, and updating the file. I&R services were originally created to serve the disadvantaged members of …

Using A Ghrab Grant To Reclaim A University Archives, Anne A. Salter

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College and university archives are rich and dynamic resources of campus history. Without a clear sense of mission and programming, they can be overlooked as research destinations. A well-defined program linked with funding sources is one means of connecting these collections to the campus community. Through the assistance of a GHRAB (Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board) grant, one college archives evolved into a viable research destination. The process is outlined in this paper.

Reference Use Statistics: Statistical Sampling Method Works (University Of Tennessee At Chattanooga), Sarla R. Murgai

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Most reference librarians would like reference statistics to reflect all aspects of reference work. They would also like the task of keeping statistics to be simple. However, there is nothing simple about reference service. While spending more and more time helping individual students at their workstations, away from the reference desk, reference librarians still have to remember to mark statistics when they return to the reference desk. They realize that detailed information as to the type of questions asked at the desk would be helpful in guiding librarians while providing user instruction. Such details would also provide information on the …

University Of South Carolina, Contentdm, And The Ege Leaves, Sara Swain

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Discusses how the University of South Carolina digitized the Oto F. Ege Leaves Special Collection to make the collection more widely available.

Promoting Your School Library’S Services With An E-Mail Newsletter, Roxanne M. Spencer

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In this age of competing services and resources, school libraries constantly look for ways to promote their services and engender excitement among students. From book fairs to literature circles to guest lecturers, the evolving school library media center must continually showcase its services. Librarians have often been hesitant to promote their services, but necessity has forced us all to become more marketing oriented. The library newsletter offers one inexpensive, non-aggressive, but effective way to reach out to fellow teachers, administrators, and students and parents.

The Poor And Homeless: An Opportunity For Libraries To Serve, Sheila Ayers

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Serving the poor and homeless presents one of the greatest challenges America’s public libraries have ever faced. With their numbers increasing every year the poor and homeless need a path out of poverty and help to ease the pain along the way. Public libraries offer new worlds to the poor by providing information in a wide variety of different forms on every subject imaginable. The information is an opportunity which opens the door to other opportunities and can change or save lives. Librarians, as keepers of the keys of knowledge, have an obligation to spread information like a balm over …

Are The Digital Natives Restless? Reaching Out To The Ne(X)T Generation, Laura Botts, Lauren Kata

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Outreach programs are meant to expand archival audiences beyond “traditional” users. In her 1978 article, “Education Programs: Outreach as an Administrative Function,” Elsie Freeman Freivogel argues that the archivist’s first job “is to recognize that we have many publics . . . that include, among others, teachers at all levels of the educational system; elementary, secondary school, college and university students; genealogists, avocational historians, government employees, publicists, media professionals, and the merely curious.” Because Web-based and digital projects address “many publics” in relevant and familiar ways, they are easily integrated into archival outreach activities. Although user groups have not changed …