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Chromatic Homes: The Joy Of Color In Historic Places, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

Chromatic Homes: The Joy of Color in Historic Places. John I. “Hans” Gilderbloom. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2018. ISBN: 0-8131-7614-X. $24.95. 132 p.

Frog Pond Philosophy: Essays On The Relationshipbetween Humans And Nature, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Frog Pond Philosophy: Essays on the Relationship Between Humans and Nature. Strachan Donnelley. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2018. ISBN 978-0-8131-6727-5 (cloth); 978-0-8131-6729-9 (epub); all $80. 266 p.

Pie: A Savor The South Cookbook, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

Pie: A Savor the South Cookbook. Sara Foster. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. ISBN: 978- 1-4696-4712-8 (cloth: alk.paper); 978-1-4696-4713-5 (ebook) $21.00. 155 p.

Bound To The Fire: How Virginia’S Enslaved Cookshelped Invent American Cuisine, Kathelene Mccarty Smith

The Southeastern Librarian

Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine. Deetz, Kelley Fanto. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2017. ISBN 978- 0-8131-7473-0 (Hardback); $29.95. 192 p.

Sanctifying Slavery & Politics In South Carolina: Thelife Of The Reverend Alexander Garden, 1685-1756, Tim Dodge

The Southeastern Librarian

Sanctifying Slavery & Politics in South Carolina: The Life of the Reverend Alexander Garden, 1685-1756. Fred E. Witzig. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1-61117-845-6 (cloth), ISBN 978- 1-61117-846-3 (ebook). $39.99 both formats. 235 p.

Make Way For Her And Other Stories, Sandra C. Clariday

The Southeastern Librarian

Make Way for Her and Other Stories. Cortese, Kate. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2018. ISBN 978- 0-8131-7512-6 (hardcover); ISBN 978-0-8131-7512-6 (epub). $24.95. 188 p.

South Carolina’S Turkish People: A History Andethnology, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

South Carolina’s Turkish People: A History and Ethnology. Terri Ann Ognibene and Glen Browder. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1-61117-858-6 (Hardcover); 978-1-61117-859-3 (Ebook); both $49.99. 248 p.

The Trials Of A Scold: The Incredible True Story Ofwriter Anne Royall, Melanie Dunn

The Southeastern Librarian

The Trials of a Scold: The Incredible True Story of Writer Anne Royall. Jeff Biggers. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2017. ISBN: 9781250065124. $26.99. 260 p.

News - Auburn Public Library, Ashley Brooks

Georgia Library Quarterly

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Panel: Serving Different Populations, Nastasha E. Johnson, Samantha Walsh, Moushumi Chakraborty, Mandy Havert, Roman Koshykar

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

Meeting the needs of graduate students systematically and intentionally can be a daunting strategic initiative. The students’ interests, expertise, and career objectives can vary greatly. Understanding and addressing gaps in their knowledge can an insurmountable obstacle, seemingly, as well. Politically there may be silos to contend and barriers to perception of “what libraries can do.” We would like to propose a panel discussion where different institutions discuss the wins and losses of reaching different graduate populations. The objective of the panel discussion is to openly share the strategies that have worked for different populations, as well as strategies that can …

Workshops Toolkit: Tailoring Learning To Schedules And Needs, Zachary W. Elder

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

George Washington University Libraries were tasked with transforming support for graduate students while taking into account increasing numbers of online students, off-campus programs, and students working full-time. In addition, due to librarian turnover and other factors, we needed to accomplish our goal with a reduced workforce and without reducing services and instruction to our undergraduate population. Our solution focuses our graduate instruction on in-person workshops and digital objects (research guides and “How-Do-I?” videos), along with a “toolkit” with scripts, handouts, presentations, and outlines so that, while one librarian may be the expert (e.g. citation management), any librarian can have the …

Etds And The Landscape Of Open Access Publishing, Gail Mcmillan

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

Countering anecdotal evidence and calming fears about publicly accessible ETDs—electronic theses and dissertations, McMillan will present a variety of perspectives based on current data. She has led international surveys and gathered data from publishers and journal editors about their policies regarding ETDs. To these she will add data about ETD initiatives based on graduate school and university library activities.

Make It Happen: How Libraries Can Start A Grassroots Campus-Wide Graduate Writing Initiative, Jen Salvo-Eaton

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

The University of Missouri-Kansas City's University Libraries played a major role in starting a campus-wide Graduate Writing Initiative at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The Graduate Writing Initiative is a campus-wide effort to improve the process, quality, and impact of graduate student writing. Despite the challenges of reaching a graduate student population of commuters, full-time workers, parents, and online learners, UMKC Libraries helped devise ways to extend the reach of the Graduate Writing Initiative to all. Currently, UMKC Libraries remains a core service of the Graduate Writing Initiative and librarians serve on the campus advisory committee. This presentation will describe …

The Grad Commons In The Academic Library: Reimagining Collaborative Learning Spaces And Services For Graduate And Professional Students Through Participatory Design, Michael Courtney, Erika L. Jenns

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

During the Fall 2013 semester, the Indiana University Libraries officially launched the Grad Commons, a flexible, multipurpose space in the heart of the Herman B Wells Library’s research collection stacks to provide graduate and professional students easy access to the information resources and subject librarian expertise vital to their research. As part of a much larger vision that has sought to fulfill user needs by reimagining conjoined library spaces such as the Learning Commons, a 24/7 technology-infused learning center where students work on class assignments from start to finish, and the Scholars’ Commons, designed to stimulate scholarly conversation, interdisciplinary exchange, …

Transforming Services: A Year Of Investigating User-Centered Marketing Strategies And Information Literacy Programming For Graduate Students, Lisa M. Martin, Porcia N. Vaughn

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

The University of Houston (UH) is a Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university that strives to serve more than 7,000 graduate and professional students. Graduate students have been historically underserved by the UH Libraries, however, in recent years the Libraries have made expanding services to graduate students a strategic initiative. UH Library administration has designated targeting specific user groups, including graduate students, with revitalized marketing and innovative programing a high priority.

Two project teams were established within the Liaison Services Department to investigate the role of liaison services in graduate education. Project Team 1 investigated best practices for marketing existing …

Effective Collaborations In Multi-Campus And Online Environments Using Libguides, Rebecca Rose, Mary Ann Cullen, Sofia A. Slutskaya

Georgia Library Quarterly

The paper presents a series of case studies that describe and demonstrate successful collaborations created via partnerships with instructors, departments, and other groups in both multi-campus and online environments at Georgia Perimeter College (GPC) where all three authors worked together as librarians for five years. The case studies illustrate the use of LibGuides in building librarian-librarian and librarian-­faculty partnerships to support teaching and other campus activities. This discussion includes successful strategies for establishing connections and adopting LibGuides as communication tool for collaborative projects.

The Flipped Library Classroom At Georgia State University: A Case Study, M. Leslie Madden, Ida T. Martinez

Georgia Library Quarterly

Although the flipped classroom concept has gained attention in the media and professional literature in the past year, versions of this instructional delivery method have existed for some time. Librarians and other educators have created tutorials and other learning objects as a means of supplementing and supplanting traditional face-to-face instruction. Librarians at Georgia State University are experimenting with using learning objects to teach basic skills, while scheduling face-to-face workshops and instruction sessions to delve deeper into discipline-based research processes. This paper details those efforts, highlights an established “flipped classroom” practice with the Psychology department, and presents evidence of improved student …