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The Effect Of Smart Cards On Library Use: The Griffin Technical College Case, Wendy S. Wilmoth
The Effect Of Smart Cards On Library Use: The Griffin Technical College Case, Wendy S. Wilmoth
Georgia Library Quarterly
The article examines the effect of AxisCard smart card at Griffin Technical College on the use of the library services and resources. AxisCard is a technology designed to facilitate ease of use of library resources, solve the problem of multiple passwords and save important personal information repeatedly entered into online forms. The study found that students desire to use other services that are not currently provided at Griffin such as access to their BANNER accounts, use in vending machines, access to photocopies and customized desktop.
Library Journal Names Five Georgians To Annual List Of 'Movers & Shakers'
Library Journal Names Five Georgians To Annual List Of 'Movers & Shakers'
Georgia Library Quarterly
The article reports on five individuals in the library industry in Georgia who are noted in the list of fifty 2007 Movers & Shakers of the "Library Journal." Among them are Michael Casey of the Gwinnett County Public Library, Dustin Holland of library vendor Better World Books and Brian S. Mathews of the Georgia Tech Library and Information Center.
Review: Hell’S Broke Loose In Georgia: Survival In A Civil War Regiment, Carolyn M. Brown
Review: Hell’S Broke Loose In Georgia: Survival In A Civil War Regiment, Carolyn M. Brown
Georgia Library Quarterly
Review of the non-fiction book "Hell’s Broke Loose in Georgia: Survival in a Civil War Regiment," by Scott Walker.
Review: Touching The Web Of Southern Novelists, Melanie C. Duncan
Review: Touching The Web Of Southern Novelists, Melanie C. Duncan
Georgia Library Quarterly
Review of the non-fiction book "Touching the Web of Southern Novelists," by David Madden.
Three Rivers Regional News And Notes
Three Rivers Regional News And Notes
Georgia Library Quarterly
Recent news from the Three Rivers Regional Library System.
Review: The Southern Railway: Further Recollections, Lonnie Roberts
Review: The Southern Railway: Further Recollections, Lonnie Roberts
Georgia Library Quarterly
Reviews the non-fiction book "The Southern Railway: Further Recollections," by C. Pat Cates, Dick Hillman, and Sallie Loy.
Review: The Yumion Series, Sandy Hester
Review: The Yumion Series, Sandy Hester
Georgia Library Quarterly
Reviews the Yumion children's book series by Rhonda Frost Petty. Includes "The Onion Ambassador," "Yumion Goes to the City" and "Yumion's Mountain Holidays."
From The President, Joellen Ostendorf
From The President, Joellen Ostendorf
Georgia Library Quarterly
The article focuses on legislative issues concerning libraries in Georgia. The author stated the need for vigilance regarding pending legislation and its effects on librarians. It is mentioned that the HB 226 replacement bill for the obscenity code that was struck down by the court has added lending to its wording.
Paper Recycling And Academic Libraries, Jack R. Fisher, Elaine Yontz
Paper Recycling And Academic Libraries, Jack R. Fisher, Elaine Yontz
Georgia Library Quarterly
Paper recycling is a fitting endeavor for an academic library. A literature review and a feasibility study revealed that the benefits can include reduced costs to the university, librarians' involvement in a cooperative campus-wide project and improved staff morale throughout the library.
Library Tools For Connecting With The Curriculum: How To Create A Professional Development Workshop For Teaching Faculty, Sonya S. Shepherd, Debra Skinner, Robert W. Fernekes
Library Tools For Connecting With The Curriculum: How To Create A Professional Development Workshop For Teaching Faculty, Sonya S. Shepherd, Debra Skinner, Robert W. Fernekes
Georgia Library Quarterly
The article focuses on ways taken by librarians in linking library tools with the faculty curriculum in Georgia. It states that librarians Sonya Shepherd, Debra Skinner and Bob Fernekes from Zach S. Henderson Library have formed a team that would push students into library resources required by their faculty. It also mentions the creation of linking tools tutorials to improve student and faculty use of the resources.
Rfid Technology In The Library Environment, Linda Howard, Max Anderson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Chestatee Regional Library News And Notes
Georgia Library Quarterly
Recent news from the Chestatee Regional Library System.
Georgia Southern News And Notes
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
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
East Central Georgia News And Notes
Georgia Library Quarterly
Recent news from East Central Georgia libraries.
Review: Warm Springs, Mary-Frances Panettiere
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
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
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
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
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.
My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Dusty Gres
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
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.